Politico reports: Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who chairs the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus to which Cawthorn belongs, said he plans to speak to the North Carolina Republican one-on-one about the incendiary comment. Perry further indicated that Cawthorn should identify the individuals he alleges engaged in that behavior. “I think it is important, if you’re going to say something like that, …

The Washington Post reports: Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok. The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor in major regional news outlets, promoting dubious stories about alleged TikTok trends that actually originated on Facebook, and …

The New York Times reports: Senator Susan Collins of Maine plans to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, ensuring that President Biden’s nominee and the first Black woman to be put forward for the post will receive at least one Republican backer. After a second personal meeting with the judge on Tuesday afternoon, Ms. Collins …

Courthouse News Service reports: On April 5, voters in California’s 22nd Congressional District, located in California’s Central Valley, will head to the polls for a special primary election to determine who replaces longtime congressman Devin Nunes. If no candidate wins a majority of the votes the contest will head to a runoff on June 7, the day of the statewide …

The Washington Post reports: Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut landed in a remote area of Kazakhstan Wednesday after undocking from the International Space Station and flying back to Earth in a historic mission that came amid mounting tensions over the war in Ukraine. The Soyuz spacecraft touched down under a parachute right on time, at 7:28 a.m. Eastern, …

“They are forced to go in front of a federal judge who sits there in a black robe, stares down at them from the bench, and demands that unless they want serve long sentences in a federal gulag, that they confess. “They confess to their political failures, to their — the fact that they endorse Donald Trump, the fact that …

The Wrap reports: Former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social app is seeing a 93% drop in signups and similarly steep decline in traffic after a rocky rollout last month fraught with technical issues and an extensive waiting list for new signups to actually use the service. After going live on President’s Day, the Twitter-lookalike app saw installs decline by more …

Newsweek reports: A Russian state TV host has said that President Joe Biden should be removed from office and replaced by his predecessor Donald Trump, whom he described as a “partner” for Moscow. In a comment suggesting who Russia would prefer in the White House, Popov said on Channel One on Tuesday: “It’s time for us, our people, to call …

CBS News reports: Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday night vetoed the proposed Congressional maps sent by the GOP-led legislature, as part of his push for a more aggressive Republican gerrymander and challenge to a predominantly Black district that covers Jacksonville and Tallahassee, Florida. Legislators will return to the state capital, Tallahassee, from April 19 to April 22 in …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Elliot Page’s character Vanya Hargreeves will come out as transgender in the upcoming third season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, and will be known as Viktor Hargreeves, Page revealed Tuesday on Twitter. “Meet Viktor Hargreeves,” Page wrote, along with a first-look photo. Based on the comic book series by Gerard Way, The Umbrella Academy revolves around a …

Roll Call reports: The Pew Research survey showed registered voters split evenly on the “generic ballot,” with 43 percent planning to vote for the Democratic nominee for Congress in November and the same percentage planning to vote for the Republican nominee. Historically, the generic ballot test has underestimated the GOP vote. The large number of Democratic retirements could also give …

The Verge reports: The latest court filing in Elon Musk’s battle to wrest back control of his Twitter account from the SEC includes a citation of the 2002 song Without Me by rapper Eminem. Yes, really. In the song, the rapper complains that “The FCC won’t let me be or let me be me so let me see/ They tried …

From the Orlando Sentinel editorial board: The scene said it all. Surrounded by students in blue uniform shirts and plaid ties, some of whom had been given “Protect Children” signs to hold, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 1557 — the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation that’s been nationally castigated as cruel, divisive and potentially hazardous to the mental and physical …

Politico reports: The White House said on Tuesday it would not invoke executive privilege over the testimony of Jared Kushner or Ivanka Trump, as former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law is expected to voluntarily appear before the Jan. 6 select committee this week. “The president has spoken to the fact that Jan. 6 was one of the darkest days in our …

Media Matters has the transcript: Here’s the thing — is Disney and Bob Chapek, they’re held hostage by their gay employees. It’s just that simple. They are. They’re in the creative world — and I’m not accusing them of this, it’s just the way it is. They’re in the arts and entertainment, and there’s a disproportionate amount of gay people …

Law & Crime reports: Long before its namesake became president, the Trump Organization calculated the value of rent-stabilized units at more than $49.5 million—more than 66 times higher than the $750,000 that an outside appraiser believed them to be worth, New York’s top prosecutor alleged. New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) office made that allegation in an eye-popping footnote …

PBS NewsHour reports: A Maryland man who waved a Confederate flag attached to a lacrosse stick during the siege at the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty on Tuesday to interfering with a police officer who was trying to disperse a crowd of rioters. David Blair, 27, faces a maximum prison sentence of five years after pleading guilty to a felony charge …

The Washington Post reports: In a statement Monday night, Trump said, “I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term.” One former Trump White House official disputed that. In an interview Tuesday afternoon, former national security adviser John Bolton said that he recalls Trump using the term …

Reuters reports: Britain has detained a Russian-owned $50 million superyacht hours before it was due to leave London where it had docked for a meeting of the superyacht awards, saying the move was part of its sanctions package aimed at punishing Moscow. The 58.5 metre Dutch-built yacht, named Phi, was detained in the Canary Wharf financial district of London under …

The right wing New Jersey Globe reports: A Republican congressional candidate in New Jersey’s 3rd district was arrested on charges that he was driving under the influence early Sunday morning after refusing to take a breathalyzer test. Ian A. Smith, the owner of the Atlis Gym and an outspoken critic of Gov. Phil Murphy, is running for the GOP nod …