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2:20 PM ET, February 13, 2023

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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Biden escalates fight over Social Security and Medicare, frustrating Republicans  —  WASHINGTON — After President Joe Biden pummeled Republicans on Social Security and Medicare during his State of the Union address, drawing shouts of outrage from the party, Republican leaders urged …
BBC:
Mystery surrounds objects shot down by US military  —  The US military is unsure what three flying objects it shot out of the skies over North America were - and how they were able to stay aloft.  —  President Joe Biden ordered another object - the fourth in total this month - to be downed on Sunday.
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Lily Kuo / Washington Post:
China says at least 10 U.S. balloons have flown in its airspace since 2022
Reuters:
Ruling out aliens? Senior U.S. general says not ruling out anything yet
Reuters:
United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately  —  The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies.  —  “U.S. citizens residing or travelling in Russia …
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
US tells citizens to leave Russia immediately  —  The U.S. on Monday issued a top-level advisory telling American citizens to leave Russia immediately and cease travel to the country as Russia's war against neighboring Ukraine continues, citing risks of harassment and wrongful detention for Americans specifically.
CNN:
Kevin McCarthy leans on ‘five families’ as House GOP plots debt-limit tactics  —  The White House and Senate Democrats have calculated that Speaker Kevin McCarthy won't have enough votes to raise the national borrowing limit and will end up caving to their demands to avoid a first-ever debt default …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story, USA Today and ABC News
Politico:
Judge orders partial release of Georgia grand jury report on possible 2020 election crimes  —  A judge in Georgia has ordered public release on Thursday of a special grand jury's report that focuses on whether former President Donald Trump broke state law by pressuring local officials to change the 2020 presidential election results.
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Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
Parts of Ga. grand jury's report on election interference by Trump and allies will be released this week  —  A final report produced by an Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss in Georgia …
Donna St. George / Washington Post:
Teen girls ‘engulfed’ in violence and trauma, CDC finds  —  Teen girls across the United States are “engulfed in a growing wave of violence and trauma,” according to federal researchers who released data Monday showing increases in rape and sexual violence, as well as record levels of feeling sad or hopeless.
Discussion: HotAir and STAT
Max Tani / Semafor:
How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong  —  By 2021, Spotify had paid to sign some of the biggest names in podcasting, and it was ready to start squeezing its competitors.  —  The Swedish audio streaming giant had spent hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase podcast production companies …
New York Times:
George Santos and the Case of the Missing $365,000  —  Representative George Santos's failure to account for hundreds of thousands of dollars in spending is part of a pattern of irregularities in the way his campaign handled its finances.  —  Representative George Santos has spent …
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Ran Up Huge Legal Bills and Stiffed His Lawyers  —  It's not that Steve Bannon doesn't have the money.  But for some reason, he hasn't been willing to pay his lawyers. … Steve Bannon—the nativist American media personality who's backed by a Chinese billionaire …
Discussion: Raw Story
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
US government buying another 1.5M doses of Novavax COVID vaccine  —  The federal government has modified its existing contract with the American biotechnology company Novavax to purchase 1.5 million more doses of its COVID-19 vaccines.  —  The Biden administration purchased 3.2 million doses …
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Wall Street Journal:
Novavax to Sell 1.5 Million More Covid Vaccines to U.S. Government
Discussion: MDPI Publishing
New York Post:
Quebec tells Eric Adams to stop buying NY migrants bus tickets  —  MORE ON:  —  The government of Canada's largest province is demanding that Mayor Eric Adams “immediately” stop helping migrants illegally enter the Great White North, as recently revealed by The Post.
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine Recount ‘Gigantic’ Losses  —  Poorly trained Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine describe being used as cannon fodder by commanders throwing waves of bodies into an assault.  —  LVIV, Ukraine — Creeping forward along a tree line late at night toward …
Discussion: Metro.co.uk
Politico:
Black candidates keep losing winnable races — and say the Democratic Party may be why  —  Few Democratic candidates suffered more heartbreak on election night than Mandela Barnes.  The Wisconsin Democrat, having been largely left for dead politically, came within 1 percentage point of ousting Sen. Ron Johnson.
Bloomberg:
Remote Work Is Costing Manhattan More Than $12 Billion a Year … New York City is bustling with office workers again, at least on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.  It's a different mood on Fridays and Mondays, when subway cars empty out, Sweetgreen salad lines thin and, come happy hour, there are plenty of seats at the bar.
Associated Press:
Moldovan leader outlines Russian ‘plan’ to topple government  —  1 of 2  —  Moldova's president outlined Monday what she described as a plot by Moscow to overthrow her country's government using external saboteurs, put the nation “at the disposal of Russia” and derail its aspirations to one day join the European Union.
Washington Post:
Ted Lerner, real estate magnate and Nationals owner, dies at 97  —  Theodore N.  “Ted” Lerner, a self-made billionaire developer who became principal owner of the Washington Nationals and oversaw the team's rise to prominence, capped by its victory in the 2019 World Series, died Feb. 12 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 97.
Discussion: New York Times and WHTM-TV
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
DeSantis Has Built Early Polling Support  —  His support among Republicans at this early stage of the primary cycle puts him in rare company.  —  Is Ron DeSantis the next Scott Walker?  It's a question I've been hearing a lot lately.  —  The premise is that there's an important similarity between …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Reporter's dismissal exposes political pressures on West Virginia Public Broadcasting  —  Late last fall, West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Amelia Ferrell Knisely reported one story after another about allegations that people with disabilities were abused in facilities run by the state.
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Bobby Harrison / Mississippi Today:
Poll: Reeves trails Presley in 2023 governor's race, welfare scandal a top issue  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) … Incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves trails Democratic challenger Brandon Presley in a new poll, and Reeves scored low marks for his handling of the Mississippi welfare scandal.
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
Former FBI agent's side work puts bureau under new scrutiny  —  Charles McGonigal's alleged illegal dealings in Albania — and for a notorious, U.S.-sanctioned Russian oligarch — have put the FBI in political crosshairs  —  Alexandra Fokina had just wrapped up what she considered …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
They clicked once.  Then came the dark prisons.  —  On Feb. 27, 2022, Danuta Perednya, a 21-year old university student, reposted a message on the social media app Telegram criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for the war in Ukraine.
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The ‘CEO of Anti-Woke Inc.’ Has His Eye on the Presidency  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — At 37 years old, Vivek Ramaswamy has made hundreds of millions of dollars, written a New York Times bestseller and become a fixture on Tucker Carlson's show.  Recently, he was dubbed by the New Yorker as the “CEO of Anti-Woke Inc.”
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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
One More Sign That Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Dead Serious
 
 
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Joshua Zitser / Insider:
Rep. George Santos' press secretary said she fields endless angry calls, gets dirty looks on the Hill, but still thinks her boss is a ‘borderline genius’
Discussion: Raw Story
Susan Kepecs / The Cap Times:
Vote Gloria Reyes for a rational zoning plan
Tommy Craggs / New Republic:
Lyndon LaRouche Was the Godfather of Political Paranoia. His Cult Is Still Alive and Unwell.
NBC News:
Only four more years? GOP primary rivals may take aim at Trump's term limit
Discussion: The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Showing Increased Concern About Immigration
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
NBC News:
Earthquake death toll tops 35,000 as the number of survivors found drops to a handful in devastated Turkey and Syria
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Hopeful freshman lawmakers run up against the reality of a divided House
Victoria Guida / Politico:
While Biden celebrates a soft landing, the Fed's Powell is worrying
Discussion: Jacobin and Wall Street Journal
Liam Kerr / The Bulwark:
Socialism Sux  —  Every time a Democrat says “socialism,” a voter swings to the right.
Mesfin Fekadu / The Hollywood Reporter:
Rihanna Is Pregnant, Rep Confirms Following Super Bowl Halftime Show
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo
 
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