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Donald Trump Jr. is on the search for a "fighter" to run alongside his father, former President Donald Trump , in the 2024 race for the White House. Highlighting the importance of the vice presidential role, Trump Jr., who is lobbying his father to choose a running mate who is willing to take on distinct challenges, told the New York Post that the position needs someone who can take the political attacks — and hit back. "What I want in that role is, I want a fighter," said Trump Jr., 46. "I understand what they are going to throw at us." "In 2016 you needed someone to balance out [the ticket] — that’s where Mike Pence made sense, sort of the yin and yang, but [given] the vicious nature of the swamp and the insanity we see on a daily basis, you need someone who can take those hits," said Trump Jr., the former president's eldest child. BILL MAHER PANICS OVER TRUMP'S GAIN WITH YOUNG VOTERS: BIDEN MIGHT LOSE 'BECAUSE HOT DOGS COST MO...

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Florida on Saturday where she will tout a Biden administration effort to provide "training and technical assistance" to individuals "responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others." The new program drew immediate backlash from some Republicans who called the effort a "massive Red Flag Operation." The National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center, according to a Saturday Department of Justice press release , will specifically provide assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations and behavioral health professionals. "ERPO laws, which are modeled off domestic violence protection orders, create a civil process allowing law enforcement, family members (in most states), and medical professionals or other groups...

Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company : Q&A with ex-CEO of CrowdTangle Brandon Silverman about the founding principle of the research tool, Meta's decision to close it in an election year, and more   —  Meta announced this month that in August it will be closing CrowdTangle, the platform monitoring tool the company bought in 2016.

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land : Google is testing AI overviews in the main Google Search results with some users, even if they do not opt in to the Search Generative Experience labs feature   —  Some users who do not opt in to the Google Search labs SGE feature may see AI overview answers in the search results.  —  Chat with SearchBot

Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., chairman of the House select committee on China, announced he's leaving Congress on April 19, which will temporarily leave House Republicans with just a one-seat majority. Gallagher revealed in February that he would not be running for a fifth term in the House, a shocking announcement for someone long considered a rising star within the Republican Party.  His early departure will mean that Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can only afford to lose one GOP lawmaker on any vote that falls along party lines. That will likely remain the case until June, when there's a special election to replace ex-Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio. HOUSE PASSES $460 BILLION GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL BLASTED BY GOP HARDLINERS A special election to replace ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. , is set to take place in May. McCarthy's former seat in California's 20th Congressional District is a safe red seat, so it's likely going to give Johnson a GOP win. Before that, ...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is adding live scores for NBA games, and plans to add support for additional leagues in the future   —  Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is adding live scores for sports games.  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that Threads …

Jason Snell / Six Colors : A look at DOJ's case against Apple, which has some strong points but also includes some silly arguments like Apple affecting “the flow of speech” via Apple TV+   —  The U.S. Department of Justice, 15 states, and the District of Columbia sued Apple on Thursday.

A case at the Supreme Court alleging "collusion" between  President Biden's  administration and Big Tech companies to silence specific speech on social media platforms is the "most important First Amendment suit in this nation's history," Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey told Fox News Digital. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard  oral arguments  in Murthy v. Missouri. The case originated from a lawsuit filed by state attorneys general from Missouri and Louisiana accusing senior government officials of colluding with major social media companies to counter misinformation.  The lawsuit alleged that this collaboration ultimately led to the censorship of speech on various topics, including Hunter Biden's laptop, the origins of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of face masks. "This is the most important First Amendment suit in this nation's history," Bailey told Fox News Digital in an interview in late February. "We've uncovered a...

Niamh Rowe / Fortune : Morph, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that uses a combination of optimistic and zero-knowledge rollup technologies, raised a $19M seed led by DragonFly Capital   —  Morph, a layer-2 Ethereum Virtual Machine, today announced a $19 million seed round led by DragonFly Capital.

The Gold Star father who was arrested after shouting at President Biden while he was delivering the State of the Union address earlier this month told Fox News on Tuesday that the charges against him have not been dropped.  Steve Nikoui said he was "not very much" surprised that the Biden administration hadn’t intervened on his behalf following the incident on March 7.  "No charges have been dropped," Nikoui told Fox News outside a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the president’s chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan . U.S. Capitol Police told Fox News on Tuesday that the charges leveled against Nikoui are being handled by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — which is under the direct supervision of Attorney General Merrick Garland.  MARK MILLEY AND FORMER CENTCOM COMMANDER TO FACE GRILLING IN CONGRESS OVER BIDEN’S AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL   Nikoui, 51, is the father of a U.S. Marine who was killed during that botched with...

Tripp Mickle / New York Times : After losing two complaints before the US ITC, Apple steps up lobbying to help rewrite ITC rules, asking for public interest to be considered before import bans   —  After losing two complaints before the U.S. International Trade Commission, Apple has stepped up its lobbying to change the agency's practices.

The ability of people to sue insurance companies directly after trucking crashes would be limited under a bill receiving final passage in the Georgia legislature . The House voted 172-0 on Monday to pass Senate Bill 426, sending it to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature or veto. The measure says someone could only sue an insurance company directly if the trucking company involved has gone bankrupt or when the plaintiff can't find the company or the driver. GEORGIA LAWMAKER DEMANDS FANI WILLIS STEP ASIDE IN TRUMP ELECTION CASE: 'HER CREDIBILITY IS SHOT' Supporters say the change would result in lower insurance rates for truckers, arguing current rates inhibit trucking companies' ability to do business. House Majority Whip James Burchett, a Waycross Republican, said Monday that it was a balancing act between business groups and lawyers. Several Democrats also spoke to praise the bill. Rep. Teddy Reese, a Columbus Democrat, called it "a great compromise that lawy...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says, on his channel, that the company raised $330M through bond sales last week, and that the offering was oversubscribed   —  Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov said on his channel today that the company secured $330 million in investment through bond sales last week.

Wall Street Journal : A profile of server maker Supermicro, whose flexibility in offering custom servers has been an advantage in the AI boom, as the company joins S&P 500 on Monday   —  Super Micro Computer has gone from an obscure server maker to a $60 billion company set to join the S&P 500 Monday

x.ai : xAI open sources the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a 314B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, under the Apache 2.0 license   —  We are releasing the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, our large language model.  Grok-1 is a 314 billion parameter Mixture …

Echo Wang / Reuters : Sources: Reddit's IPO is currently between four and five times oversubscribed, making it more likely the company will reach its targeted $6.5B valuation   —  Reddit's (RDDT.N) initial public offering is currently between four and five times oversubscribed, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday …

Rachel Graf / Bloomberg : A US judge rules Apple must face a class-action suit over AirTag stalking, as three plaintiffs made sufficient negligence and liability claims under CA law   —  - Judge says three plaintiffs made sufficient negligence claims  — Apple had argued it couldn't be held responsible for misuse