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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Off the air, Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims they peddled — In the days and weeks after the 2020 elections, the Fox News Channel repeatedly broadcast false claims that then-President Donald Trump had been cheated of victory. — Off the air, the network's stars …
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New York Times:
Fox Stars Privately Expressed Disbelief About Election Fraud Claims. ‘Crazy Stuff.’ — The comments, by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others, were released as part of a defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voter Systems. — Newly disclosed messages and testimony …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News stars and executives privately trashed Trump's election fraud claims, court document reveals — New York CNN — The most prominent stars and highest-ranking executives at Fox News privately ridiculed claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, despite the right-wing channel allowing lies …
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Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, Insider, Deadline, Media Matters for America, Bloomberg, Breaking911, PBS NewsHour and Political Wire
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
In private, Fox News stars, staff blasted election fraud claims as bogus, court filing shows — Employees at Fox News knew that claims blaming election fraud for Donald Trump's 2020 loss were outlandish and false, even as the network continued to promote them as credible, a newly unsealed court filing appears to show.
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Associated Press, Insider, PoliticusUSA and Media Matters for America
Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair:
Ron DeSantis Shouldn't Be Covered Like Just Another Republican — Florida's wannabe autocrat and possible 2024 contender isn't Trump, but he's as dangerous to democracy. — Trumpism without Donald Trump has long been a fantasy of the GOP donor class. Plenty of things about the Trump …
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HotAir, BizPac Review and Mediaite
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Contradictions of Ron DeSantis
The Contradictions of Ron DeSantis
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Florida Politics, Bloomberg, The Hill and Twitchy
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The ‘Wicked Wisdom’ of Ron DeSantis
Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Grand jury report recommends perjury charges — Bulk of document remains redacted for now, including names — For nearly eight months, 23 Fulton County residents met in secret to investigate a hotly contested question: did former President Donald Trump and his allies break Georgia laws by meddling in the 2020 election?
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Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
Judge to release parts of Georgia special grand jury report
Judge to release parts of Georgia special grand jury report
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Fetterman Checks In to Hospital for Treatment of Clinical Depression — A spokesman for the first-term senator from Pennsylvania, who had a near-fatal stroke last year, said his depression had grown severe in recent weeks, as he has worked to adjust to life in the Senate.
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Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Fetterman Joins Countless Other Lawmakers Who Have Sought Treatment at Hospital
Fetterman Joins Countless Other Lawmakers Who Have Sought Treatment at Hospital
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Murray Waas / Rule of Law:
EXCLUSIVE: FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP LEAKED CLASSIFIED RUSSIA PAPERS TO CONSERVATIVE JOURNALIST — Trump's leak of the records raises new questions regarding his handling of classified information as the special counsel's probe of Trump's removal of classified documents to Mar-a-Lago intensifies.
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Reuters and National Memo
CNN:
Biden says objects shot down over North America last week appear to not be part of China's spy balloon operation — President Joe Biden on Thursday said that the United States has no indication that the three objects shot down in North American air space are tied to China's spy balloon program and are likely from private entities.
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Alex Jones is ‘holding firearms’ for Jan. 6 rioters, bankruptcy docs show — As Infowars founder Alex Jones is facing bankruptcy for damages he owes to the families of victims of the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a new filing shows the right-wing conspiracy theorist has been …
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Daniel Barnes / NBC News:
Proud Boys' lawyers plan to subpoena Donald Trump in seditious conspiracy trial
Proud Boys' lawyers plan to subpoena Donald Trump in seditious conspiracy trial
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Politico, Washington Post, CBS News, National Memo, Insider, New York Times, Raw Story and NBC4 Washington
Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Biden remains ‘healthy, vigorous,’ doctor says after physical exam — The upcoming contest could again raise questions on the president's age and health. — By Toluse Olorunnipa and Yasmeen Abutaleb — President Biden remains “a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male who is fit …
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Biden remains ‘healthy’ and ‘vigorous,’ his physician says
Biden remains ‘healthy’ and ‘vigorous,’ his physician says
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Alexandra Duggan / KTFT:
Idaho lawmakers introduce legislation to criminalize those who administer COVID vaccines — The bill would make administering an mRNA vaccine — a COVID vaccine — a misdemeanor. — IDAHO, USA — Two Idaho lawmakers have introduced a bill to charge those who administer mRNA vaccines with a misdemeanor.
Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
Businessman, economist, cop, international sex crimes expert? The stories of Congressman Andy Ogles — Congressman places block on confirmation of educational credentials, but NewsChannel 5 digs up an old résumé — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — If you believe Middle Tennessee's …
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
‘Chernobyl 2.0’? Ohio Train Derailment Spurs Wild Speculation. — For many influencers across the political spectrum, claims about the environmental effects of the train derailment have gone far beyond known facts. — Stuart Thompson writes about online information flows.
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down — One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company. — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who has led the world's largest video site for the last nine years, is stepping down from her role.
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Financial Times:
Jes Staley's emails with Jeffrey Epstein revealed in New York — Filing includes details from 1,200 emails exchanged between late sex offender and former Barclays boss — Emails exchanged by former Barclays chief executive Jes Staley and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein …
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David Benoit / Wall Street Journal:
Emails Reveal Deep Ties Between Jeffrey Epstein, Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley
Emails Reveal Deep Ties Between Jeffrey Epstein, Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley
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Politico:
The senator Biden loves to hate — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. With help from Allie Bice. — Over his 36 years in the Senate, JOE BIDEN took pride in establishing friendships across the aisle.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Fight the Anti-Trans Backlash With Accountability, Not Silence — A new book by Hannah Barnes describes how the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock clinic in London, the United Kingdom's only dedicated gender-identity clinic, routinely put children on puberty blockers with inadequate assessment.
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UPI, Just The News, Jezebel and Tampa Bay Times
Tara Palmeri / Puck:
The Chris Christie '24 Chaos Theory — A number of ambitious and peripheral Republicans are increasingly betting on the likelihood of Trump-DeSantis mutually assured destruction. Will a Florida wipeout open a lane for... Chris Christie? — In politics, of course, timing is everything …
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Washington Examiner and The Post Millennial
New York Times:
Tesla Fired Buffalo Workers Seeking to Organize, Union Says — Workers backing a push for better wages and working conditions were among those illegally dismissed, members told the National Labor Relations Board. — Tesla fired at least 18 employees, including several leaders of a unionization campaign …
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NBC News:
Ron DeSantis to address powerful police union in Chicago — CHICAGO — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to make a trip up to Illinois on Monday to speak before local law enforcement, according to the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police. — “Chicago Lodge 7 Members …
Jacques Billeaud / Associated Press:
Kari Lake loses appeal of loss in Arizona governor's race — An Arizona appeals court has rejected Republican Kari Lake's challenge of her defeat in the Arizona governor's race to Democrat Katie Hobbs, denying her request to throw out election results in the state's most populous county and hold the election again.
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Associated Press:
Justice Dept. in DC taking over Texas AG corruption probe — Justice Department officials in Washington have taken over the corruption investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, removing the case from the hands of the federal prosecutors in Texas who'd long been leading the probe, according to state prosecutors.
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CNN and The Texas Tribune
Snejana Farberov / New York Post:
Top Putin war official plunges 160 feet to her death from high-rise building — A high-ranking Russian defense official in the war against Ukraine was found dead Wednesday after falling from a 16th-floor window in an apartment building. — Marina Yankina, 58, was discovered by a passerby …
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Daily Mail, NewsNation, HotAir, The Daily Beast and Crooks and Liars
WNYW-TV:
Rep. George Santos responds to questions about his finances … NEW YORK - Rep. George Santos gave an exclusive interview to FOX 5 News on Thursday to answer questions about his finances and an ethics investigation. — When asked by Jodi Goldberg to comment on a recent report claiming …
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Forbes, New York Post, The Daily Beast and Political Wire
Musa al-Gharbi / Heterodox Academy:
The “Great Awokening” of Scholarship May Be Ending — Data show that there was a significant uptick in research focused on various forms of bias and discrimination starting in 2011, but the rate of production of scholarly papers exploring these topics seems to have slowed in recent years.
AFTD:
A Statement from the Willis Family — As a family, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for the outpouring of love and compassion for Bruce over the past ten months. Your generosity of spirit has been overwhelming, and we are tremendously grateful for it.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Cancels Arguments in Title 42 Immigration Case — The justices, who had been set to hear arguments on March 1, acted after the Biden administration filed a brief saying that the measure would soon be moot. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday canceled arguments …