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Brian Stelter / CNN:
ADL calls on Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson over racist comments about ‘replacement’ theory — New York (CNN Business)The Anti-Defamation League is calling for Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson. — “Given his long record of race-baiting, we believe it is time for Carlson to go,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt says.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
How do the immigrants who run Fox feel about Tucker Carlson's anti-immigrant rants? — Tucker Carlson, the top-rated host on Fox “News” Channel, has been attracting attention for a while with his vile rhetoric against immigrants. Yet now he's reached a new low.
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Media Matters for America
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Media Matters for America:
White nationalists praise Tucker Carlson's full embrace of their “replacement” conspiracy theory — On the April 8 broadcast of Fox News Primetime, Tucker Carlson offered perhaps his most explicit justification yet for the core belief of the so-called “great replacement” conspiracy theory …
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Media Matters for America
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
The Anti-Defamation League calls for Tucker Carlson to be fired over ‘replacement theory’ remarks.
The Anti-Defamation League calls for Tucker Carlson to be fired over ‘replacement theory’ remarks.
Suzanne Scott / Anti-Defamation League:
ADL Letter to Fox News Condemns Tucker Carlson's Impassioned Defense of “Great Replacement Theory”
ADL Letter to Fox News Condemns Tucker Carlson's Impassioned Defense of “Great Replacement Theory”
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HuffPost, The Times of Israel, Forbes, The Hill, Mediaite, Deadline and New York Times
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Tucker Carlson Endorses White Supremacist Theory by Name
Tucker Carlson Endorses White Supremacist Theory by Name
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Vanity Fair, Insider, Fox News and Crooks and Liars
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Jewish Groups Blast Carlson for Openly Endorsing White Supremacist Theory: ‘Tucker Must Go’
Jewish Groups Blast Carlson for Openly Endorsing White Supremacist Theory: ‘Tucker Must Go’
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Informed Comment
House Committee on Ethics:
Statement of the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics Regarding Representative Matt Gaetz — Pursuant to Committee Rule 7, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics (Committee) determined to release the following statement:
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The Sun, KARK-TV, NBC New York, The Daily Caller, CNBC, Insider, Raw Story, Townhall, UPI and USA Today
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The Daily Beast:
Facing New Ethics Investigation, Matt Gaetz Declares He's ‘Not Going Anywhere’ — SCANDAL? WHAT SCANDAL? — Rep. Matt Gaetz resurfaced Friday night to ignore the saga of scandals and deliver MAGA boilerplate. — After 10 days of relentless developments in the Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) …
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New York Times, Fox News, HuffPost, Breitbart, Salon, TheBlaze, Raw Story and Law & Crime
New York Times:
Biden Creating Commission to Study Expanding the Supreme Court — The White House is taking action after progressives pushed to add seats to the court to balance the conservative stamp put on it by President Trump. — WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday will order a 180-day study …
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The White House:
President Biden to Sign Executive Order Creating the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States … President Biden will today issue an executive order forming the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, comprised of a bipartisan group of experts on the Court and the Court reform debate.
The White House:
Executive Order on the Establishment of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
Executive Order on the Establishment of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
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Slate, Reason, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Signal, American Military News, The Hill, The Guardian, Washington Post and HotAir
Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
White House steers clear of pressure campaign calling for Stephen Breyer to retire
White House steers clear of pressure campaign calling for Stephen Breyer to retire
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Washington Post, Townhall, New York Post, ABC News, CNBC, NBC News, Deseret News, CNN, Breitbart and Politico
New York Times:
White House Border Coordinator to Step Down — Roberta S. Jacobson's departure comes amid the administration's efforts to reduce the flow of immigration from Central America. — WASHINGTON — Roberta S. Jacobson, the former ambassador to Mexico whom President Biden chose as his “border czar” …
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Bloomberg, The White House, Breitbart, UPI, The Hill, CNN, Twitchy, TheBlaze and Political Wire
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Tarini Parti / Wall Street Journal:
White House Border Coordinator Roberta Jacobson to Step Down at End of Month
White House Border Coordinator Roberta Jacobson to Step Down at End of Month
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ABC News, Washington Free Beacon, IJR and CNBC
Reuters:
Exclusive-U.S. considering cash payments to Central America to stem migration
Exclusive-U.S. considering cash payments to Central America to stem migration
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New York Post, The Hill, The Western Journal, The Daily Caller and IJR
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Biden Border Coordinator Roberta Jacobson stepping down
Biden Border Coordinator Roberta Jacobson stepping down
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Los Angeles Times, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner and CNN
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
White House considering cash payments to Central Americans to stem migration
White House considering cash payments to Central Americans to stem migration
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RedState
Emma Ockerman / VICE:
Cops Caught on Video Holding a Black Army Lieutenant at Gunpoint, Then Pepper-Spraying Him — When Lt. Caron Nazario said he was afraid to get out of the vehicle, one officer responded, “Yeah, you should be.” — EO — Caron Nazario was driving his newly-purchased Chevy Tahoe home …
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American Military News and MyNorthwest.com
CNN:
Texas GOP chairman Allen West falsely says Texas could secede from the US: ‘We could go back to being our own Republic’ — (CNN)Texas Republican Party chairman Allen West falsely suggested that Texas could secede from the United States and become an independent country, a CNN KFile review of his comments in recent months shows.
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POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite and Mock Paper Scissors
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
How an online ‘Lego’ gamer infiltrated the White House press corps — Four times in recent weeks, members of the White House press corps have relayed questions to press secretary Jen Psaki from someone claiming to be a fellow reporter who was not able to be there in the room due to Covid protocols.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
State Department revokes security clearance for acting chief of staff to UN ambassador — A top aide to the U.S. envoy to the United Nations has stepped aside after her security clearance was revoked, according to two people familiar with the matter. — Jennifer Davis, the de facto chief …
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
When to Reopen — Let's stop pretending that pandemic rules that made sense in April 2020 still make sense a year later. — Contributing writer at The Atlantic — America has entered a confusing stage of the pandemic. It is vaccinating its citizens at an impressively fast clip.
Washington Post:
Putin is slowly murdering Alexei Navalny. Here's how the U.S. can save him. — RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin's regime is slowly but very intentionally murdering his leading political opponent, Alexei Navalny. Mr. Navalny, whom the Russian secret police unsuccessfully sought to kill …
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
America may be close to hitting a vaccine wall — There are growing signs that parts of the country may be close to meeting demand for the coronavirus vaccine — well before the U.S. has reached herd immunity. — Why it matters: For the last few months, the primary focus of the U.S …
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Mission Local, HotAir and KFF
Justice News:
Four Members Of Militia Group Identifying With “Boogaloo” Movement Charged With Conspiracy To Obstruct Justice By Destroying Records And Destruction Of Records — Members of the “Grizzly Scouts” Allegedly Conspired to Obstruct Investigation and Proceedings Involving the Murder of a Federal Officer in Oakland, California
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Associated Press, East Bay Times, CBS San Francisco, Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Kathy Frankovic / YouGov:
Half of vaccine rejectors believe it is safe to travel now, compared to 29% of vaccinated adults — Economist/YouGov Poll Politics & current affairs — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now say it is safe for fully vaccinated Americans to travel.
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HotAir, National Review and Mediaite
Washington Post:
CDC ramps up scrutiny of rare post-vaccination ‘breakthrough infections’ — Experts say the number of people testing positive for the virus after being inoculated is to be expected — As tens of millions of people in the United States reach the coronavirus vaccination finish line …
Forensic News:
Trump Aide Failed to Disclose Lavish Gift from Ukrainian Client — Michael Caputo, a former senior aide to Donald Trump, who spent decades working in Russia and former Soviet states, failed to disclose a lavish painting gifted to him by a Ukrainian lobbying group in 2020.
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
A Truce Proposal In The Trans Wars — There is a compromise available. Here's one version. — 10 hr ago — If we were going to construct a test-case for how dysfunctional our politics have become, it would be hard to beat the transgender issue. It profoundly affects …
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Alternet.org and New York Times
Kim Tingley / New York Times:
A year ago, they infamously demonstrated the dangers of singing in the pandemic. What will it take to get the choir of Washington's Skagit Valley — and the rest of the world's choral musicians — back together again? — The Skagit Valley Chorale last sang together in person on the evening of March 10, 2020.
BBC:
Nikolai Glushkov: Putin critic ‘strangled in London home by third party’ — A Russian exile was strangled in his own home by a third party, a coroner has ruled. — Businessman Nikolai Glushkov, who was critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in New Malden in south-west London in March 2018.
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Republicans draft veteran candidates to reclaim House majority — Republicans blew a chance at winning the House majority in 2020, with a number of weak recruits unable to take advantage of a better-than-expected national environment on Election Day. — To avoid a similar fate in the 2022 midterms …
Washington Post:
Migrant boy found wandering alone in Texas had been deported and kidnapped — Boy was seen by many in viral video as emblematic of desperation of migrant children. — The 10-year-old had been lost for hours — crying and shaking as he wandered a vast scrubland— when he saw the Border Patrol officer.
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
YouTube pulls Florida governor's video, says his panel spread Covid-19 misinformation — Video of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a panel of scientists apparently trading in Covid-19 misinformation has been pulled from YouTube. — The video of DeSantis' roundtable discussion last month …
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Alternet.org, HotAir, Econlib, Cafe Hayek, New York Post, Insider and The Wrap
PR Newswire:
Joe diGenova Apologizes To Former CISA Director Chris Krebs — WASHINGTON, April 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — On November 30, 2020, I appeared on the Howie Carr Show. During the show, I made regrettable statements regarding Christopher Krebs, which many interpreted as a call for violence against him.