The Fed may have no choice but to tip the US into recession, economist says businessinsider.com/next-us-recess… via @businessinsider

Six shot, one fatally, in Northeast D.C. neighborhood with violent past wapo.st/3Q0X4Df

St. Louis is desperately trying to reverse its real estate “doom loop”—but the downtown is empty, with boarded up office towers, copper thieves and failing retail. wsj.com/real-estate/co… via The Wall Street Journal

Cellphone video shows girls fatally beating man in Northwest D.C. wapo.st/3VR0FYk One girl is 12 and two are 13. All three girls were charged as juveniles.

Two 14-year-olds killed within 33 hours in separate D.C. shootings wapo.st/3vLdAQP

Looking into Jared #Kushner 's plan to invest in Serbia, Reuters found that he was collaborating with Mohamed Alabbar, the UAE mogul behind Dubai's Burj Khalifa skyscraper.

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Trump is leading Biden in six of the seven most competitive states in the 2024 election, a new Wall Street Journal poll finds wsj.com/politics/elect… via The Wall Street Journal

Hectic day of robberies and police chases in DC's Navy Yard fuel mounting safety concerns wjla.com/news/local/hec…

From Jonathan Landay: the al Qaeda plot to kill Bill Clinton that history nearly forgot reuters.com/world/al-qaeda…

Senators Revive Caterpillar Tax Probe Inquiry tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/senators-…

Donald Trump’s stake in his social-media company could soon be worth nearly $3.5 billion, giving the former president a potential windfall that could ease his financial pressure and boost his political campaign
wsj.com/finance/stocks… via The Wall Street Journal

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'We're all dirty. We all moved boxes,' one of Trump's co-defendants told Brian Butler, previously only known as Trump Employee 5, who says he felt pressured to get a Trump attorney but refused.

Caterpillar hired well-connected lawyers, including Bill Barr, to thwart a probe into its avoidance of billions in taxes.

It worked.

Caterpillar paid <25% of back taxes & didn’t face charges.

A case study on how big biz dodges taxes, by Jesse Drucker. nytimes.com/2024/03/09/bus…

This statement by the Northeast Cartel shows the surreal situation of Mexico.

The commander denies narcos funded AMLO's campaigns quoting Donald Trump and saying it's 'fake news.'

They also say their rivals of the Gulf Cartel commit acts that should be classified as terrorism.

Some Democrats turn toward Trump in Texas border city hit by immigration, from Ted Hesson Reuters reuters.com/world/us/some-…

“If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you. So tread lightly, bitch.”

Judges in Trump-related cases face an unprecedented wave of threats, report my colleagues Joe Tanfani Ned Parker Peter Eisler

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'The belief that software can solve problems of human conflict has a long history in U.S. war-making.' Andrew Cockburn @harpers on the military AI, and 'hallucinations.' harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

more brilliant reporting here from Craig Whitlock, on the UAE and General Mattis.
Mattis secretly advised Arab monarch on Yemen war, records show wapo.st/49ocKYj