News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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Biden chooses a hammer over an olive branch https://t.co/4iIWgspzbo
— POLITICO (@politico) March 8, 2024
Former White House aide turned CNN pundit Alyssa Farah Griffin called the staging for a response given by Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) to President Biden’s State of the Union address “bizarre.” https://t.co/Vvv8Zui4Uu pic.twitter.com/7EfaUgm4A9
— The Hill (@thehill) March 8, 2024
US employers add a surprisingly strong 275,000 jobs in sign of continued economic strength https://t.co/fTJRT9RZq4
— POLITICO (@politico) March 8, 2024
The Senate inches toward a final vote to fund part of the government through September, but the possibility of a brief shutdown lingers. https://t.co/pcfNAlm7Ez
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 8, 2024
BREAKING: Donald Trump posts a $91.6 million bond to appeal the verdict in a defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll. https://t.co/y2KC1bVbKS
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 8, 2024
A judge in Trump's hush money case ordered that jurors' identities must remain secret.
— Axios (@axios) March 8, 2024
Judge Juan Merchan said there would be "a likelihood of bribery, jury tampering, or of physical injury or harassment of juror(s)" if they didn't remain anonymous. https://t.co/iHVjhztlAL
Donald Trump will cement his grip on the Republican National Committee when his daughter-in-law and another ally assume top leadership posts amid a debate among members over whether the organization should help pay his legal bills https://t.co/SJDwiQuKSu
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 8, 2024
As millions of dollars in fentanyl scanning equipment intended for the southern border sits unused, Sen. Jon Tester is blaming Republicans and asking congressional appropriators to approve the money needed to install the machines. https://t.co/m7rxHFwIM8
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 8, 2024
Embattled former Rep. George Santos, who was expelled from Congress in December, has announced that he's once again running for the House — but GOP leadership in the district he's eyeing say there is "no appetite" for him. https://t.co/rsZDPvjA2p
— ABC News (@ABC) March 8, 2024
BREAKING: Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández is convicted in the U.S. of working with drug traffickers. https://t.co/E12JOWE1VW
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 8, 2024
Chicago health officials have confirmed the city's first measles cases since 2019 amid a rising number of infections across the U.S. https://t.co/QwRqtbEL1Z
— ABC News (@ABC) March 8, 2024
Third-party movement No Labels says it will field a 2024 presidential ticket https://t.co/Juc9MAMZrL
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 8, 2024
A lengthy Defense Department review of U.S. government activities related to “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” has found no evidence that extraterrestrial intelligence has visited Earth or that authorities have recovered crashed alien spacecraft. https://t.co/Bz0bBJnpn9
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 8, 2024
