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Politico:
‘Something Was Badly Wrong’: When Washington Realized Russia Was Actually Invading Ukraine  —  This oral history was compiled and woven together by writer and historian Garrett M. Graff, based on dozens of hours of interviews by POLITICO national security reporters Erin Banco, Lara Seligman …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S., Allies Issue Fresh Sanctions Against Russia  —  Washington, alongside G-7 partners, sanctions more than 200 additional individuals and entities  —  How Ukraine's Growing Military Has Changed Over One Year of War  —  Created with sketchtool. … 1x
Associated Press:
US commits $2 billion in drones, ammunition, aid to Ukraine
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Republican elites fear the monster they created  —  On screen, Fox News personalities paint a world of clear heroes and villains, where conservatives are always strong and right and liberals are weak and wrong.  But the extraordinary private communications revealed in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Will a $1.6bn defamation lawsuit finally stop Fox News from spreading lies?  —  Advertising boycotts don't restrain the rightwing network, but the Dominion lawsuit may succeed in holding them to account  —  If you've paid even the slightest attention to how Fox News operates …
Discussion: Politico
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Classified Trump schedules were moved to Mar-a-Lago after FBI search - sources  —  Exclusive: Junior aide took the box, including some classified documents, from a government-leased office in Palm Beach to Mar-a-Lago  —  Donald Trump's lawyers found a box of White House schedules …
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
GOP Ex-Sen. Inhofe Retired Due To Long COVID After Opposing COVID Aid  —  The longtime senator from Oklahoma said complications from the virus contributed to his stepping aside.  —  Former Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) attributed his decision to retire due to the long-term effects of COVID-19 …
Discussion: Political Wire
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
The AP Interview: Biden ready to run, US first lady says  —  1 of 5  —  U.S. first lady Jill Biden gave one of the clearest indications yet that President Joe Biden will run for a second term, telling The Associated Press in an exclusive interview on Friday that there's “pretty much” …
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Rep. Judy Chu hits back at Texas Republican over ‘racist’ remarks questioning her loyalty to U.S.  —  Rep. Judy Chu, the chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, blasted GOP Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas on Thursday over his comments this week questioning her loyalty to the U.S.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:   Democrats erupt with fury after Republican questions ‘loyalty’ of Rep. Chu
Derek Willis / ProPublica:
After a Decade of Tracking Politicians' Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More  —  Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all.  But service changes made after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter have rendered it impossible for us to continue tracking these tweets.
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Kathryn Varn / Tallahassee Democrat:
Strapped to a gurney, death row inmate Donald Dillbeck saves his last words for DeSantis  —  RAIFORD — Donald Dillbeck didn't mince words in the minutes before the state executed him Thursday night.  —  “I know I hurt people when I was young.  I really messed up,” Dillbeck, 59, said …
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Nikki Haley heads to fundraiser hosted by Wall Street executives  — Nikki Haley, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, is set to attend a fundraiser for her campaign hosted by Wall Street executives.  — The fundraiser invitation shows the hosts for the event include executives from private equity giant TPG and Barclays.
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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Nikki Haley keeping early 2024 fundraising numbers quiet
Discussion: Fox News and Common Dreams
Axios:
GOP to donors: Top-of-ticket quality matters
David Gilbert / VICE:
The QAnon ‘Meme Queen’ Wants Trump To Help Her Convicted Pedophile Son  —  A woman who has devoted the last five years of her life fighting a non-existent secret cabal of pedophiles, says her convicted child sex abuser son needs protection.  —  David Gilbert
Jacqueline Sweet / Politico:
George Santos lied to a judge in 2017 bid to help a ‘family friend’ charged with fraud  —  NEW YORK — George Santos lied to a Seattle judge about working for Goldman Sachs while speaking at a 2017 bail hearing for a “family friend” who later pleaded guilty to fraud in an ATM skimming scheme …
Discussion: Vox
New York Post:
Billionaire financier Thomas H. Lee found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound in NYC office: sources  —  Billionaire financier and investor Thomas H. Lee was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Manhattan office Thursday morning, police sources said.
Justice News:
Civil Forfeiture Complaint Filed Against Six Luxury Real Estate Properties Involved In Sanctions Evasion And Money Laundering  —  Complaint Seeks Forfeiture of Properties Worth Approximately $75 Million Owned by Viktor Vekselberg and Maintained by Fugitive Vladimir Voronchenko
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NBC New York:
DOJ Seizing Luxury Hamptons, NYC Pads in $75M Real-Estate Raid on Russian Oligarch
Discussion: The Hill
J. Michael Luttig / New York Times:
Mike Pence Should Drop His Grand Jury Subpoena Gambit  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence recently announced he would challenge Special Counsel Jack Smith's subpoena for him to appear before a grand jury in Washington as part of the investigation into former President Donald Trump's efforts …
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Key US inflation measure surges at fastest rate since June  —  1 of 2  —  The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge rose last month at its fastest pace since June, an alarming sign that price pressures remain entrenched in the U.S. economy and could lead the Fed to keep raising interest rates well into this year.
Justine McDaniel / Washington Post:
Harris calls challenges to abortion pills an attack on public health system  —  Vice President Harris called efforts to restrict access to medication abortion pills an attack by “extremists” on fundamental rights to health care, saying attempts to revoke approval for the drug threaten the public health system.
Washington Post:
The right's new culture-war target: ‘Woke AI’  —  ChatGPT and Bing are trying to stay out of politics — and failing  —  Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led campaigns against critical race theory and gender identity in schools, this week pointed his half-million Twitter followers toward …
Discussion: Semafor, Slate, New York Times and Wired
Margaret Coker / The Current:
TitleMax fined $15 million for predatory lending to soldiers, families  —  Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says Savannah-based company purposely violated Military Lending Act  —  This article was produced for ProPublica's Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Current.
Adam Kotsko / An und für sich:
Rebuilding the Closet  —  Gender and sexuality are a spectrum.  In common discourse, we lose sight of what that means.  Very Online approaches to gender and sexuality seem to say that gender and sexuality are a spectrum, but everyone is at a very specific and static spot on that spectrum.
Andrew Ferguson / Washington Free Beacon:
‘A Great, Great, Great Man’: The Cringey Gushing Over Jimmy Carter … Is it the very unseemliness of the death watch over poor Jimmy Carter that has forced everyone to talk balls?  —  We human beings often react this way when we catch ourselves doing something that's in poor taste or otherwise undignified.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Has a Dream  —  Marjorie Taylor Greene, now one of the most influential Republicans in the House of Representatives, says it is time for Americans to consider a national divorce.  —  “Tragically, I think we, the left and right, have reached irreconcilable differences,” Greene wrote a few days ago on Twitter.
Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
The Real Reason Nick Fuentes Was Put on the No Fly List  —  Nick Fuentes presented his addition to the No Fly List as political persecution.  In truth, it was because he allegedly threatened a flight attendant. … White nationalist Nick Fuentes claimed in 2021 that he was put on the TSA's …
Discussion: Raw Story
Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
GOP Rep. John James won't seek Michigan's open Senate seat  —  Republican Rep. John James filed paperwork Friday to run for reelection to his Detroit-area House seat, opting against a campaign for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Debbie Stabenow in 2024.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Don't Let Politics Cloud Your View of What's Going On With Teens and Depression  —  Last year, a study came out showing that left-leaning adolescents were experiencing a greater increase in depression than their more conservative peers.  Indeed, while girls are more likely to be depressed than boys …
NBC News:
McCarthy and Jeffries are creating a bipartisan task force that will set a process for booting lawmakers off committees  —  WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have agreed to create a bipartisan task force that will establish a process to remove members …
 
 
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John Leland / New York Times:
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Kassy Dillon / Fox News:
Massachusetts Democrat told to step down after abortion comments leave parents irate
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Scott Dance / Washington Post:
Toxic air pollutants in East Palestine could pose long-term risks, researchers say
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Judicial Nom Argued for Outlawing Offensive Speech, Suggested ‘Microaggressions’ Can ‘Kill You’
Discussion: Twitchy and The Daily Caller
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
Mike Lindell says he will sue McCarthy for sharing Jan. 6 footage only with Tucker Carlson
 Earlier Items: 
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
U.S. has admitted 271,000 Ukrainian refugees since Russian invasion, far above Biden's goal of 100,000
Discussion: USA Today, CBS News and Political Wire
Laura Benshoff / NPR:
This group gets left-leaning policies passed in red states. How? Ballot measures
Discussion: Missoulian
Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
Florida surgeon general fudged data for dubious COVID analysis, tipster says
Platformer:
New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter
David Smith / The Guardian:
'Biden's the most impressive president of my lifetime': Mehdi Hasan on Fox News, tough questions and post-Trump politics
Discussion: HuffPost and Commonwealth Club
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
The music industry is entering a cycle of consolidation, driven by a slowdown at the major labels, the growing market for independents, and the rapacity of PE

Financial Times:
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