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CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge — (CNN)A federal judge in Florida struck down on Monday the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transport methods. — US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the mandate was unlawful …
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BREAKING: Federal judge orders end to CDC, White House mask mandates on airlines, transit
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New York Times:
A federal judge strikes down the mask mandate on planes and public transit.
A federal judge strikes down the mask mandate on planes and public transit.
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Michael Laris / Washington Post:
Federal judge voids mask mandate for airplanes, in other transportation settings
Federal judge voids mask mandate for airplanes, in other transportation settings
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Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
Florida judge overturns CDC mask mandate for planes and public transit
Florida judge overturns CDC mask mandate for planes and public transit
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Heather Murphy / New York Times:
A federal judge strikes down the mask mandate on planes and public transit.
A federal judge strikes down the mask mandate on planes and public transit.
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Trump attempt at a coup to be a focus of U.S. House hearings, lawmaker Raskin says — Then-President Donald Trump attempted a coup on Jan. 6, 2021, and that will be a centerpiece of committee hearings in Congress next month, said Democrat Jamie Raskin, a committee member who led the prosecution of Trump's second impeachment.
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Complaint filed against Cawthorn by fired staffer — Saying in a leaked recording that “we all want the ultimate goal of him never serving again,” Lisa Wiggins, a former caseworker and campaign aide to Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-Henderson) has filed an employment-related campaign against the embattled congressman.
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Alex Jones' InfoWars files for bankruptcy in U.S. court — Far-right wing website InfoWars on Sunday filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in the face of multiple defamation lawsuits.
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Florida's vile ‘groomer’ law may soon blow up in DeSantis's face — One of the more repulsive features of Florida's new law restricting classroom discussion of sex and gender is its vagueness. This may be a feature, not a bug: It could encourage conservative parents to sniff …
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Raw Story
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Mike Lee's Role in Trump's Attempted Coup — What would have happened if his plan worked? — Senator Mike Lee's defenders insist his repeated texts to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows offering his guidance on the proper constitutional process to overturn the 2020 election results prove his honor.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Mike Lee has some explaining to do
Mike Lee has some explaining to do
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In Defense of Tucker Carlson Touting ‘Testicle Tanning’ — Here's a sentence I did not expect I would ever type: I'm excited about “testicle tanning.” Or, more specifically, I'm excited about Tucker Carlson getting excited about “testicle tanning.” — For the past few days …
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We Regret to Inform You That Tucker Carlson's New Special Does In Fact Promote ‘Testicle Tanning’
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Given endless resources, Tucker Carlson zeroes in on UFOs and testicles
Given endless resources, Tucker Carlson zeroes in on UFOs and testicles
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Trump Allies Are Still Feeding the False 2020 Election Narrative — Fifteen months after they tried and failed to overturn the 2020 election, the same group of lawyers and associates is continuing efforts to decertify the vote, feeding a false narrative. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Billionaire Peltz draws GOP megadonors to $5,000-a-plate fundraiser for Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin — Billionaire and Wall Street veteran Nelson Peltz hosted a fundraiser for conservative Democrat Joe Manchin at his massive Florida estate last month. — Peltz hosted Manchin along …
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Lethal darts were fired into a Ukrainian neighborhood by the thousands — BUCHA, Ukraine — At Svitlana Chmut's house outside Kyiv, there are carrots in her garden and deadly Russian mini-arrows in her yard. — A pile of the sharp, finned projectiles rounded up by Chmut are now gathering rust in the spring's fine mist.
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Democrats are now fighting over how Biden's agenda imploded — We recently looked at a few articles from the Associated Press that took an uncharacteristically critical view of some of the Biden administration's recent misadventures. I wondered at the time if the mainstream media was beginning …
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We're Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here's What They Say About Donald Trump, the 2020 Election, and Jan. 6. — Gizmodo has reviewed, redacted, and published more than two dozen leaked Facebook documents, the first of hundreds to come. — Alerts — In the hours following the Jan. 6 attack …
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Media Matters for America
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More Dem Senate hopefuls split with Biden on border — Six more Senate candidates have joined growing Democratic calls for the administration to come up with a more detailed plan before revoking pandemic-era border restrictions. — PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. — John Fetterman says he's “100 percent” behind the Biden agenda.
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Beto flips and flops on elimination of Title 42 in election year politics
Beto flips and flops on elimination of Title 42 in election year politics
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Jon Stewart's new show on AppleTV+ is reportedly a flop — Jon Stewart is struggling to gain traction on his new talk show, according to a report. — “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” which launched on AppleTV+ in September, appears to be a flop, as it trails far behind its competitors …
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Redistricting Scorecard: A Partisan Wash, With Far Fewer Competitive Districts — In February, Democrats were on pace to come out modestly ahead in redistricting, defying initial expectations. But in the final stretch, the plot has twisted once again: Ohio's GOP ran out the clock …
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The Jolt: Marjorie Taylor Greene outraised by Democratic challenger in 2022 — News and analysis from the politics team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Friday's deadline to report fundraising for the first three months of 2022 has given us more information to sift through in some of Georgia's most contested federal races.
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Trump Supporters Explain Why They Believe the Big Lie — Some 35 percent of Americans—including 68 percent of Republicans—believe the Big Lie, pushed relentlessly by former President Donald Trump and amplified by conservative media, that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
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Trump Jr. to campaign with J.D. Vance in Ohio following father's endorsement — CLEVELAND — Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance — fresh off an endorsement from Donald Trump — is scheduled to campaign this week with the former president's namesake son. — Donald Trump Jr. will headline …
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Democrats Can Avoid Disaster in November — Ms. Warren is a U.S. senator from Massachusetts — Democrats are the party of working people. Ahead of the 2020 election, we advanced ideas and plans that we believed would, in ways big and small, make our democracy and our economy work better for all Americans.
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How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens — The inside story of the world's most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it. — NSO Group's software has been linked to repressive regimes, but now “all types of governments” use it, an observer said.
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Pa. Senate candidate David McCormick made a whopping $22.5 million last year — In his TV ads, Republican Senate candidate David McCormick portrays himself as a red-blooded Pennsylvanian who hunts, bales hay, and drinks pints with his old buddies at wood-paneled bars.But a new financial …
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Sinking of Russian warship raises tense questions about fate of crew — Some families report sailors dead or missing in Moskva sinking despite defense ministry claim that all were evacuated — RIGA, Latvia — The sinking of the Russian warship Moskva is causing tension back home …
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