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“The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians,” the Washington Post reports.
“As the Biden campaign touted Thursday night’s $25 million fundraiser as a political record, word leaked about a Trump campaign event that organizers say will raise even more — at least $33 million,” Axios reports.
“Trump will host donors on April 6 at Mar-a-Lago for a fundraiser hosted by New York hedge fund billionaire John Paulson, who has been floated by Trump as a possible Treasury secretary.”
Stephen Wolf: “Now that congressional maps are likely finalized for the 2024 elections, we know that the House battlefield will be even more tilted toward Republicans this year than it was in 2022.”
“This state of affairs is a direct result of Republicans in Congress and the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority repeatedly blocking efforts to end gerrymandering nationwide.”
“Donald Trump and the GOP’s campaign presence in the must-win state of Arizona is a shadow of what it was at the same time in 2020,” the Arizona Republic reports.
“In February 2020, the Arizona Republican Party had upwards of 60 people on its payroll, according to federal campaign finance records.
It’s easy to see the glaring hypocrisy of Brian Pritchard, the Republican official in Georgia and outspoken election denier, who was found guilty this week of voting illegally nine times. A judge apparently did not buy Pritchard’s claims that he had been unaware that his probation from felony forgery charges had not ended when he illegally cast his vote.
Today marks one year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on what American officials say are false charges of espionage. He has been held in jail ever since.
Members of Russia’s Federal Security Service—the country’s intelligence agency, also known as the FSB—detained Gershkovich while he was on a reporting assignment in the city of Yekaterinburg, according to the Journal.