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Asa Hutchinson Takes TV Gig As Political Analyst

The Hill reports: Former 2024 GOP presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson is joining Scripps News as a political analyst, the news organization announced Monday. Hutchison, a former Arkansas governor who ran in the Republican primary for president this cycle, is set to appear regularly on Mondays on the news outlet’s politics and campaign-oriented evening show, “The Race.” Another presidential candidate who’s …

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Confederate Flag/Pepper Spray Rioter Gets 30 Months

Courthouse News reports: A federal judge on Monday imposed a 30-month prison sentence on a man who brandished a Confederate flag outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and pepper sprayed two Capitol police officers. Israel Easterday, who was 19 years old when he participated in the riot, faced a potential sentence of 12 years and seven months per …

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Bannon: Trump Should Blow Off Court And Risk Jail

“Thursday is also on another topic, the immunity situation. One of the most important arguments in the history of the Supreme Court. Of course, President Trump won’t be there. If I was President Trump, I’d go to the immunity thing and let him put me in a jail cell and I’d go to Barron’s graduation. I’d do both of them …

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Filing: Trump Offered To Pardon Aide For Lying To FBI

Mediaite reports: A new filing in the classified documents case reveals a key witness identified only as “Person 16” says former President Donald Trump offered now-co-defendant Walt Nauta a pardon — in 2024 — “even if he gets charged with lying to the FBI.” That aide is listed as “Person 16” in the partially redacted filing on his witness interview …

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Today: Senate Votes On Advancing Foreign Aid Bills

NBC News reports: The Senate is poised to vote Tuesday to advance the $95 billion aid package to provide critical aid to Ukraine and a provision that could lead to a nationwide ban on TikTok. The package, which passed the House on Saturday, includes $60 billion in aid to Ukraine that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said would give his country “a …

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NH GOP Moves To Erode Polio And Measles Vax Law

Mother Jones reports: New Hampshire could soon beat Florida—known for its anti-vaccine Surgeon General—when it comes to loosening vaccine requirements. A first-in-the-nation bill that’s already passed New Hampshire’s state House, sponsored only by Republican legislators, would end the requirement for parents enrolling kids in child care to provide documentation of polio and measles vaccination. New Hampshire would be the only …

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Even Loomer Gives Up Protesting Outside Courthouse

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump was evidently not happy with what he saw out the window of his chauffeured S.U.V. as he rode through Lower Manhattan on Monday morning for the beginning of opening arguments in his first criminal trial. The scene that confronted him as he approached the dingy courthouse was underwhelming. Across the street, at …

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FBI Filing: Aide Begged Trump To Return Stolen Docs

Axios reports: An associate of former President Trump told the FBI of advising Trump to return documents the National Archives was seeking nearly a year before agents searched his Mar-a-Lago home, according to newly unsealed filings. The summary of the unnamed associate’s FBI interview was among a trove of documents that the judge handling Trump’s classified documents case released with …

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Baltimore Sues Ship Owners In Key Bridge Disaster

CBS News reports: Baltimore City is suing the owners and managers of the Dali, the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, causing it to collapse and killing six construction workers. The lawsuit claims the owners of the Dali were negligent in letting the ship leave the Port of Baltimore without failing to fix …

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