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Erin Snodgrass / Insider:
Donald Trump, who rolled back rail safety regulations and slashed environmental protections, donates Trump-branded water to East Palestine residents — Donald Trump visited East Palestine, Ohio, on Wednesday, following a disastrous train derailment. — The 2024 Republican candidate donated pallets …
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Prem Thakker / New Republic:
Trump, Who Deregulated the Railroad Industry, Lies to the People of Ohio in His Visit
Trump, Who Deregulated the Railroad Industry, Lies to the People of Ohio in His Visit
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The Guardian:
Trump's environmental rollbacks in focus on visit to Ohio toxic train site
Trump's environmental rollbacks in focus on visit to Ohio toxic train site
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W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
Ohio train derailment: Trump shows signs of life — can he bottle it for 2024?
Ohio train derailment: Trump shows signs of life — can he bottle it for 2024?
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PRRI:
Abortion Attitudes in a Post-Roe World: Findings From the 50-State 2022 American Values Atlas — The End of Roe — In late June 2022, the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson overturned Roe v. Wade, reversing nearly five decades of precedent that had established a national right to abortion access.
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James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal:
Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson Arrested After a Former Executive Pleads Guilty to Fraud — Samir Rao, company's former chief operating officer, appeared in court as John Doe and admitted wrongdoing in probe of the company's practices — Ozy Media Chief Executive Carlos Watson …
ProPublica:
A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts — In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that caused it to derail miles later in Sandusky, Ohio.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy's Jan. 6 footage stunt demands a real response — Democrats have loudly expressed outrage about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to grant Fox News's Tucker Carlson exclusive access to surveillance footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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New York Times:
Giving Jan. 6 Tapes to Carlson, McCarthy Keeps a Promise to the Hard Right
Giving Jan. 6 Tapes to Carlson, McCarthy Keeps a Promise to the Hard Right
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New York Times:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Subpoenaed in Jan. 6 Investigation — The special counsel overseeing the inquiry into Donald Trump's efforts to retain power after the 2020 election wants the former president's daughter and son-in-law to testify to a grand jury.
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Rep. Scott Perry fights to keep phone from team probing Jan. 6 attack
Rep. Scott Perry fights to keep phone from team probing Jan. 6 attack
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Stephen McDonell / BBC:
Ukraine war: China's claim to neutrality fades with Moscow visit — Vladimir Putin loves a really long table. Images of his meetings are famous, with the Russian leader at one end and the person he is speaking to so far away that you wonder if it is hard for them to hear one another.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Considers Release of Intelligence on China's Potential Arms Transfer to Russia
U.S. Considers Release of Intelligence on China's Potential Arms Transfer to Russia
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Close-up photo of Chinese spy balloon in flight released by US military
Close-up photo of Chinese spy balloon in flight released by US military
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Washington Post:
Trump's grip on the Republican base is slipping — even among his fans — More than 150 interviews in pivotal electoral states show the former president maintains a bond with his GOP voters, but faces rising interest in a new standard-bearer — One recent snowy evening at a gun range …
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Spectrum News 13:
Remembering Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons — Dylan Lyons was born and raised in Philadelphia but made Central Florida his home, when he enrolled in, thrived in and graduated from UCF. — That's when he began his journey up the ladder of career success.
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Brian Faler / Politico:
House GOP's top tax man throws K Street in a tizzy — Rep. Jason Smith hasn't been chair of the House Ways and Means Committee very long, but he's already done something rare for a Republican: He's struck fear into the heart of corporate tax lobbyists. — The Missouri lawmaker is making …
Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis wants to roll back press freedoms — with an eye toward overturning Supreme Court ruling — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' broken relationship with the mainstream media could get even worse. — At the governor's urging, Florida's Republican-dominated Legislature …
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Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
Schiff, Porter in tight race to replace Sen. Feinstein, poll shows; others trail far behind — The race to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein is shaping up to be a close contest between two congressional colleagues who have built national profiles and potent fundraising operations but appeal …
Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Republicans call opioids No. 1 health threat — Republicans see fentanyl and other opioids as the biggest threat to Americans' public health, while Democrats say it's guns, according to a new Axios-Ipsos survey. … - The survey also found that Americans overwhelmingly …
Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk's Twitter Goes Dark on Government Data Grabs — “That shit went out the window right after Elon came in,” one former staffer says of Twitter's previously routine transparency reports — TWITTER BOSS ELON Musk has railed against what he sees as U.S. government attempts to “censor” the social media company.
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
A global divide on the Ukraine war is deepening — Russia capitalizes on disillusionment with the United States to win sympathy in the Global South.
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Spectrum News 13:
Spectrum News 13 crew member, 9-year-old girl killed in Pine Hills shootings — According to Orange County Sheriff John Mina, two members of a Spectrum News 13 crew at the scene of a homicide investigation were shot Wednesday afternoon. — One of the two has died, he said. — What You Need To Know
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Financial Times:
How Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled down — The decision to invade was taken after consulting only a tiny circle. The Russian leader has since become even more isolated — At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, received a troubling phone call.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Why This Democratic Strategist Walked Away — Simon Rosenberg delivered a major surprise last week when he announced that he was shutting down NDN, the Democratic advocacy and research group he has led since the mid-1990s. — After working for three decades as an operative in the upper reaches …
Marilyn Singleton / Washington Post:
I'm a Black physician, and I'm appalled by mandated implicit bias training — Marilyn Singleton is a board-certified anesthesiologist and a visiting fellow at the medical advocacy organization Do No Harm. — I'll never forget my parents' reaction when I was accepted to the University of California at San Francisco's medical school.
Sharon Lerner / The Guardian:
This ‘climate-friendly’ fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk — Almost half of products cleared so far under a new US federal ‘biofuels’ program are not, in fact, biofuels — This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power
The Daily Beast:
Ron DeSantis' Press Secretary Throws Hissy Fit at NBC, MSNBC — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' office has announced it would be boycotting both NBC News and MSNBC after pushing back on a report by the network's Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Kyrsten Sinema's $300,000 Security Expert Is Tulsi Gabbard's Sister — The Arizona senator has a security arrangement that raises several ethical red flags, according to campaign law experts. … Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) spends more of her campaign funds on security than nearly every …
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
GOP group of 16 complicates McCarthy's debt ceiling leverage … - As it stands, Republicans are already divided over which government programs to cut — handing Democrats an opening to accuse them of wanting to axe Social Security and Medicare. — The Biden administration, meanwhile …
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CNN:
First on CNN: Former Trump national security advisers among witnesses testifying at House hearing on China — The House select committee on China will feature four high-profile witnesses during its first hearing Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET, including former President Donald Trump's national security adviser …
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Matt Lamb / Washington Examiner:
Leave pregnancy resource centers alone — While some abortion activists physically attack pregnancy resource centers by committing arson and vandalism , other less violent methods are being used to hinder the work of these pro-life nonprofit organizations. — Pregnancy resource centers …
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Former Arizona attorney general failed to release report disproving election fraud claims — Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich did not release to the public findings from his office that showed a series of 2020 election fraud claims were not backed up by evidence, according to documents released Wednesday by his successor.
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha / Detroit Free Press:
We're waging war on our children. It has to stop. — After swinging the stethoscope around my neck, my hand soberly rested on the Michigan State University Spartan logo on my white coat. Another mass shooting, this time at my university, with three undergrads dead, several critically injured, and an entire state traumatized.