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Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey: Indiana roundup

Indiana is holding elections, including for municipal offices, on May 2, 2023. A number of candidates running in these elections completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for office.

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Opec seeks stability via 'quake'

Opec+ defends its surprise supply cut as being aimed at oil market "stability." One can only imagine the glum faces as they realised they had instead teed-up an 8% price spike. Oh well, at least the extra money will offer some small consolation.

Bangkok Post

Trump gloats over Ron DeSantis as polling shows he remains GOP favourite - despite criminal charges

Mr Trump has claimed GOP voters, especially undecideds, are rallying behind his candidacy in the wake of Manhattan criminal case

The Independent UK

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The psychology of chronic stubbornness

We asked experts how to reason with a stubborn colleague or lover... and understand what's going on in their brains

Salon

GOP's stormy 2024 outlook

It's becoming increasingly difficult for the GOP to win outside of deep-red strongholds.

Axios

Trump’s lawyer claims liberal Manhattan will ‘infect’ process of fair criminal trial

Former president wants trial moved to Staten Island

The Independent UK

Home-based workers became younger, more diverse in pandemic

People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Independent UK

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By the numbers: How Johnson won the mayor’s race

Sizable runoff wins in majority-Black precincts allowed Brandon Johnson to erase a 60,000-plus vote deficit from the February general election.

Chicago Sun-Times

Donald Trump in Easter rant accusing opponents of 'dreaming endlessly of destroying US'

Days after his historic indictment, Former US President Donald Trump decried his political opponents in an enraged Easter message on social media

Daily Mirror

Let the jockeying begin for Brandon Johnson’s Cook County Board seat

A replacement for the mayor-elect’s seat on the board will be chosen by a group of elected Democratic committeemen. The new commissioner would serve a little over two years.

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden's digital strategy: an army of social media influencers

The move aims to boost Biden's standing among young voters who are crucial to Democrats.

Axios

Ilhan Omar embarks on new path no longer defined by 'firsts'

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is now in her third term and she's no longer defined by the “firsts” that accompanied her arrival in Congress

The Independent UK

What to know about the Trump-E. Jean Carroll trial that is set to begin this month

In 2019, Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a department store in the mid-1990s and later sued him for battery and defamation for his denials. The first of two trials is set to begin April 25.

WEKU

From Trump to Sarkozy: the political leaders who have been prosecuted

Donald Trump is the first US president to be criminally charged, but across the globe, 78 countries have jailed or prosecuted leaders who left office since 2000

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The American civil war ended on this day. It should be a national holiday

Rather than celebrate this milestone of multiracial democracy, our leaders conspicuously ignore the occasion

The Guardian - UK

May I have a word about… John Bolton and a ham sandwich

The former US statesman came out with a phrase to get everyone licking their lips

The Guardian - UK

It’s the Donald J Trump Show … and the world’s tyrants are its biggest fans

High farce in a Manhattan courtroom has left America’s friends and foes wondering if the US has lost the plot

The Philadelphia Inquirer

More buses from Texas? Philly ready to welcome immigrants as pandemic ban drops

PHILADELPHIA — From shortly before Thanksgiving until after the New Year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent nearly a thousand immigrants to Philadelphia aboard unscheduled, unannounced buses.

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Trump’s indictment and the return of his biggest concern: ‘the women’

The former president made hush-money payments to a porn star and a Playboy model and faces looming trials over a rape allegation

The Independent UK

Is Donald Trump going to jail?

The ex-president appeared for a historic arraingment in New York on 4 April

Tribune News Service

The team prosecuting Donald Trump in the historic ‘hush money’ case

NEW YORK — The Manhattan district attorney’s office made history last week by bringing the first-ever criminal case against a former U.S. president.

Chicago Sun-Times

Here’s the advice Obama just gave Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson

The advice the former president had for the city’s new mayor-elect wasn’t about politics or policy.

Axios

House GOP dysfunction fuels Democrats' hardball budget tactics

Democrats stick to strategy of not negotiating until GOP has a budget plan.

The Guardian - US

Justice Clarence Thomas’s megadonor friend collects Hitler memorabilia – report

Harlan Crow, closely linked to judge, has a signed copy of Mein Kampf and dictator’s paintings

The Independent UK

Matthew Kacsmaryk: Who is the Trump-appointed judge trying to ban abortion pills?

Texas judge presiding over several cases with far-reaching national implications

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