SCOOP: An NYPD officer fired their gun inside Hamilton Hall during the Columbia raid on Tuesday, Manhattan DA confirms.

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.Donald J. Trump arrives for a campaign rally at the Waukesha County Expo Center in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Riveting radio reporting from Columbia's student radio station tonight. Recommend listening: cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/#

Romney says his dog Seamus story is different from Kristi Noem:

“I didn’t eat my dog. I didn’t shoot my dog. I loved my dog and my dog loved me.”

A beautiful, evocative look into life in the Arctic on a Navy submarine by ⁦Kenny Holston⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/…

Great story that includes Emmer giving Comer a talking to after he slightly bloodied himself taking a wrong turn on an advanced motorbiking trail

““I suggested that maybe you don’t want to do that kind of stuff,” Emmer told Comer.”

I spoke with Michael Barbaro for an episode of The New York Times’ “The Daily” about “The Crackdown on Student Protesters” at Columbia University:
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I spoke with Speaker Mike Johnson to express my sincere gratitude for his leadership that ensured true bipartisan support for aid to Ukraine. I specifically highlighted the inclusion of long-range ATACMS systems in the bill, which are greatly needed on the battlefield. I also extended…

Good story from Andrea Ho here, with striking stats: DC’s Chinatown in the 1970s was home to 3,000 Chinese residents. Only 361 were recorded in the 2020 census. The last full-service Chinese grocery store closed in 2005

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Everyone’s focused on the stumble but for me it’s the pitch-perfect pronunciation of “flag” 🤌🏼🧀

Fun chatting with Santi Ruiz and even more fun getting a chance to see the great archive photos he pulled

In 1944, Congress authorized ~$12 billion for the Manhattan Project (in today’s dollars).

But only 8 congressmen knew they were funding the bomb.

New Statecraft with reporter Catie Edmondson, on hiding big secrets from Congress.
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“Friends still get a kick out of a story about how Johnson once told Trump that he was praying for him, to which the then-president responded: ‘Thank you, Mike. Tell God I said hi.’” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Trump on Mike Johnson: 'Well, look, we have a majority of one, OK? It's not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do. I think he's a very good person. You know, he stood very strongly with me on NATO...I think he's trying very hard.'

You could look at this and wonder why they didn't just do it on suspension--but adoption of the rule liberated Rs from the politics of being the climactic ~100th vote. Much easier to pile on in garbage time.

I am grateful to the United States House of Representatives, both parties, and personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track.

Democracy and freedom will always have global significance and will never fail as long as America helps to…

House votes resoundingly to approve $95 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as Johnson puts his job on the line to advance the long-stalled aid package by marshaling support from mainstream Republicans and Democrats. ⁦Catie Edmondson⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/20/us/…

“I am grateful to the United States House of Representatives, both parties, and personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track,” President Zelensky says on Telegram after the House passed the foreign aid package.

Dems are passing out Ukrainian flags on the House floor ahead of the expected passage of a fresh round of aid