RIP: Allman Brothers Band's Dickey Betts Dead at 80 rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

Want to understand jury selection in Donald Trump's first criminal trial? My colleague Jonah Bromwich offers a riveting account of the first two days to Michael Barbaro on today's Daily podcast. Follow The New York Times coverage with Jonah, Maggie Haberman and others. nytimes.com/2024/04/18/pod…

'Lively chatter and especially fun for Springsteen fans in particular and rock fans in general.' kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/n…

'Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr. (D-Newark) remains unconscious after suffering a heart attack on April 6, indicating that the congressman’s medical condition is substantially more severe than had been initially revealed.' newjerseyglobe.com/congress/donal…

BREAKING: Motion to consider repealing Arizona's territorial era abortion law FAILS in a vote of 30-30.

getting important files sent to you on a CD is a form of torture

“Yeah, your sins will be your own” youtube.com/watch?v=_eehLP…

These things have fueled every trial I've ever covered in courts across NY and NJ
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The NYT's live coverage of a Trump trial that isn't playing on television is the place to go

Jonah Bromwich Maggie Haberman Alan Feuer and others —>
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NEW: A recently-formed Trump super PAC says it’s got $27 million in cash on hand, including a $10 million donation from Ike Perlmutter. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/…

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Hear from the Nebraska legislators whose last two weeks have been turned upside down — as Trump allies try to undo the state’s proportional vote system, and give Trump a free electoral vote in the process. (Also why does NE have this system anyway?”)

The Michigan criminal trial of Stefanie Lambert, a lawyer who's advanced dubious claims of voter fraud across an array of battleground states, will take place in the months ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election, a judge indicated Thursday. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

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Can’t wait for Nick Corasaniti’s opus! I just pre-ordered. Now you.

Gov. Phil Murphy on WNYC 🎙 criticizes the amount of attention the county line has gotten, saying that it's a 'flyspeck issue that people have conflated with Donald Trump.'

'I think it's ridiculous the amount of airtime it's gotten,' he tells Nancy Solomon.

EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING:

Ohtani's former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara is in negotiations to plead guilty in connection with the purported theft of Ohtani's money. Ohtani has been interviewed by the feds as part of the investigation.

w/Tim Arango

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Inside the efforts to try to elevate third-party candidates from the right, to boost Trump Jonathan Swan Shane Goldmacher Rebecca O'Brien me nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/…

Jill Stein's vote share is widely viewed as having taken from Hillary Clinton's in 2016. For context, Danny Hakim Nick Corasaniti and I reported that Bernie Marcus, a 2016 Trump supporter, had helped support Stein efforts that year nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/…