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Liz Hoffman / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Weighs Poison Pill to Prevent Musk From Increasing Stake Significantly — Tesla CEO's $43 billion offer contains as many questions as answers — Twitter is weighing a poison pill that would prevent Elon Musk from increasing his stake in the company significantly, a person familiar with the situation said.
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Elon Musk Makes $43 Billion Unsolicited Bid to Take Twitter Private — Elon Musk has made a “best and final” offer to buy Twitter Inc., saying the company has extraordinary potential and he is the person to unlock it. — The world's richest person will offer $54.20 per share in cash …
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Felix Salmon / Axios:
Elon Musk goes into full goblin mode — The goblin is serious. … - In a 138-word offer letter to Twitter board chair Bret Taylor that includes the words “I” or “my” 11 different times, Musk writes that “Twitter has extraordinary potential. … - You're going to hear much more about this bid …
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Eshe Nelson / New York Times:
Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter: Live Updates — Here's what you need to know: — Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share. — Elon Musk has launched a takeover bid for Twitter, offering to buy it for $54.20 a share, just weeks after he became the social media company's largest shareholder.
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Bloomberg:
Musk Hints at Twitter Plan B, Lambastes SEC Over Settlement
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George Stahl / Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk Offers to Buy Rest of Twitter at a Valuation of More Than $43 Billion
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Shant Mesrobian / INQUIRE:
One suggestion I have for Twitter's possible future owner, Elon Musk
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Axios: Elon Musk has transformed from climate-change hero to movie supervillain for Twitter buyout
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Colleagues worry Dianne Feinstein is now mentally unfit to serve, citing recent interactions — WASHINGTON — When a California Democrat in Congress recently engaged in an extended conversation with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, they prepared for a rigorous policy discussion like those they'd had with her many times over the last 15 years.
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David Averre / Daily Mail:
Putin's defence minister Sergei Shoigu has had a ‘massive heart attack not from natural causes’ and TWENTY generals ‘have been arrested’ over bungled invasion — Shoigu is thought to have suffered a heart attack possibly caused by foul play — Russia's defence minister, 66, has been a close ally of Putin ever since 2012
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Cora Engelbrecht / New York Times:
Ukraine Live Updates: Russian Warship ‘Seriously Damaged,’ in Setback to Moscow's Forces — Ukraine said it had struck the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet with missiles, while Russia claimed that the damage was caused by a fire. As Moscow moves to escalate its offensive in the east and south …
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Russian warship Moskva on fire but afloat, Pentagon says — US defence officials say it is unclear what caused blast which Ukraine claims to be result of missile strikes — Russia's flagship cruiser Moskva is on fire but still afloat and moving across the Black Sea, the Pentagon has confirmed …
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Russia warns of nuclear, hypersonic deployment if Sweden and Finland join NATO
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
As two U.S. lawmakers visit Kyiv, the trip's organizer says he hopes more officials, and weapons, will follow.
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Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Trump plans J.D. Vance endorsement in crowded Ohio senate race, sources say — Former President Trump is planning to endorse J.D. Vance in Ohio's crowded senate GOP primary, according to three sources with knowledge of his decision. — In recent days, Trump began calling donors and advisers …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Does Trump's endorsement matter in Georgia? It depends, says UGA poll
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Elie Mystal / The Nation:
The Herschel Walker Senate Campaign Is an Insult to Black People
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John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
RNC to Require GOP Presidential Candidates to Sign Debate Pledge — Party has long complained about the Commission on Presidential Debates handling of general election debates — The Republican National Committee voted Thursday to require GOP presidential candidates to attest in writing …
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
RNC votes to withdraw from presidential debates commission
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RNC Unanimously Votes to Withdraw from Commission on Presidential Debates
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Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
RNC votes to withdraw from Commission on Presidential Debates
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Aaron Sanderford / Nebraska Examiner:
GOP state senator, seven other women say Charles Herbster groped them; he denies allegations — Charles Herbster, a Nebraska Republican gubernatorial candidate, speaks to a crowd Wednesday at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in North Platte. Donald Trump Jr. was his guest at the event.
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
US says three Russians offered congressman a free trip as part of a propaganda and disinformation campaign — (CNN)Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday unsealed an indictment charging a member of Russia's legislature and two of his staffers with orchestrating a propaganda and disinformation campaign targeting US lawmakers.
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Does the mainstream media want Trump to run again and win? — The obvious answer to the question in the headline is no. Reporters and editors at establishment news organizations are mostly reality-based, generally anti-totalitarian, quite fond of the First Amendment, reasonably tolerant …
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CNN:
US Capitol rioter who said he believed he was following Trump's orders found guilty on all charges — (CNN)A January 6 rioter who claimed he was following “presidential orders” when he stormed the US Capitol and stole liquor and a coat rack was convicted Thursday on all charges by a jury in Washington, DC.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jury convicts Jan. 6 defendant who blamed Trump for Capitol breach
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
DeSantis Has A Plan To Cram Much Of Florida Into New GOP Districts — Two days after Florida's Republican legislative leaders publicly announced that they would let Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) draw the state's new congressional map — an unprecedented move in its own right …
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Todd Bensman / CIS.org:
Texas Governor's Unprecedented Trade Disruption Strategy Yields First Fruit — Mexican State of Nuevo Leon will ‘prevent illegal immigration’ on its side of the border, but details are scant — AUSTIN, Texas - Gov. Greg Abbott's week-old “enhanced safety inspections” operation at border bridges …
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
New Pa. U.S. Senate poll: John Fetterman pulling ahead as Democratic favorite, GOP race still wide open — Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has pulled ahead as the Democratic U.S. Senate frontrunner over U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, while the GOP primary for the country's most-watched Senate …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
If Trump Was Still President, Ukraine Would Be So Screwed Right Now … Counterfactuals always involve guessing. But one counterfactual proposition that seems increasingly obvious is that if Donald Trump had secured a second term in office, Ukraine would be losing the war right now.
Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy planning to step down -sources — White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy is planning to step down, according to two sources familiar with the deliberations, likely ending a tenure marked by ambitious emissions targets but failure in securing major U.S. carbon-cutting legislation.
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Kabc / ABC7:
Ed Buck sentenced to 30 years in prison in overdose deaths of 2 men at his West Hollywood apartment — Ed Buck to be sentenced in West Hollywood meth overdose case — WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KABC) — Former Democratic donor Ed Buck was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in federal prison …
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