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Hannah Dreier / New York Times:
Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. — Arriving in record numbers, they're ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make some of the country's best-known products. — Hannah traveled to Alabama, Florida …
ProPublica:
A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline — Despite a history of fraud, one family has thrived in the regulatory no man's land of health care sharing ministries, where insurance commissioners can't investigate …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Longtime Trump backers flock to DeSantis event — The group of Ron DeSantis' top donors and supporters gathering in Palm Beach, Fla., this weekend includes some longtime backers of former President Donald Trump. — The Florida governor's three-day retreat at the Four Seasons hotel …
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From Palm Beach to Staten Island, DeSantis makes 2024 moves on Trump's turf
From Palm Beach to Staten Island, DeSantis makes 2024 moves on Trump's turf
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PoliticusUSA, Outside the Beltway, Bloomberg and Fox News
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Watching Tucker Carlson for Work — According to Kat Abughazaleh, a researcher at Media Matters for America, “You don't know Fox News until you are watching it for a job.” — On a recent episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” a prime-time show on Fox News, Tucker Carlson introduced his first guest …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Fight over Rep. Perry's phone has prevented review of 2,200 documents in Jan. 6 probe — Six months after the FBI seized Perry's phone, a U.S. appeals court is reviewing a judge's order that 90 percent of Perry's messages fall outside the congressman's immunity from criminal investigation
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Judge rejected Perry's bid to shield thousands of emails from Jan. 6 investigators — The chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., secretly rejected Rep. Scott Perry's bid to shield more than 2,000 messages relevant to Justice Department investigators probing efforts …
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A.G. Gancarski / Florida Politics:
Lincoln Project claims Ron DeSantis' presidential hopes are ‘just hype’ … A.G. Gancarski — A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski
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New York Times:
What Fox News Hosts Said Privately vs. Publicly About Voter Fraud — No serious lawyer could believe what they were saying. — Two days after the 2020 election, Tucker Carlson was furious. — Fox News viewers were abandoning the network for Newsmax and One America News, two conservative rivals …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
'It's a major blow': Dominion has uncovered ‘smoking gun’ evidence in case against Fox News, legal experts say
'It's a major blow': Dominion has uncovered ‘smoking gun’ evidence in case against Fox News, legal experts say
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Off the Kuff, Raw Story, Tangle and Mediaite
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders supporters took over the Nevada Democratic Party. It's not going well. — When Bernie Sanders' supporters took over the Nevada Democratic Party two years ago, progressives across the country were thrilled. — Socialists had managed to bring down one of the most powerful establishment forces …
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, RedState, Raw Story and Las Vegas Review-Journal
Washington Post:
Arizona governor seeks ethics review of former attorney general — The complaint to the State Bar of Arizona follows new details about how Mark Brnovich withheld records debunking claims of election fraud — By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Stanley-Becker
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
America's Interests Are Not Necessarily the Same as Ukraine's — We should support Ukraine because Russia is our enemy, but that support can't be unlimited. — Friday marked the one-year anniversary of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. A two-year anniversary is highly likely …
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Ukraine Is the West's War Now
Ukraine Is the West's War Now
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Steve Contorno / CNN:
DeSantis has a new book coming out next week. Here's what his first one said — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday will release his book, “The Courage to be Free,” to much anticipation ahead of his expected plunge into the 2024 presidential race. But it's not the first time DeSantis …
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Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
Feminism taught me all I need to know about men like Trump and Putin — Like all abusive men, dictators seek to control who can speak and which narratives are believed. The only difference is scale — s the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolded, I was reminded over and over again …
Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
The Texas judge who could take down the abortion pill … By Caroline Kitchener and Ann E. Marimow — ABILENE, Tex. — Matthew Kacsmaryk was a 22-year-old law student when he drove to a small city in west Texas to spend a day with a baby he would probably never see again.
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Associated Press:
Feds seek to limit telehealth prescriptions for some drugs — 1 of 3 — The Biden administration moved Friday to require patients see a doctor in person before getting attention deficit disorder medication or addictive painkillers, toughening access to the drugs against the backdrop of a deepening opioid crisis.
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Bruce Y. Lee / Forbes:
Lee County, Florida, Republican Party Passes Resolution To Ban Covid-19 Vaccines — If the Lee County Republican Party has their way, the state of Florida will be banning the use of Covid-19 vaccines. Yes, you heard that correctly. Based on a majority vote, the Party has passed a so-called …
Jared Yates Sexton / Dispatches From A …:
The Attack on Public Education and What We Must Do — We are deep, deep into the war on public education and it's past time we look at history and begin to fight … On Thursday scores of college students in Florida walked out in protest of Governor Ron DeSantis's increasingly aggressive attacks on public education.
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Jones Hayden / Politico:
Zelenskyy open to considering some parts of Beijing's proposals to end Ukraine war — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cautiously welcomed Beijing's efforts toward ending the war in Ukraine and said he would like to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss China's proposals.
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Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:
Robert Hébras, Last Survivor of a 1944 Massacre in France, Dies at 97 — Dead bodies shielded him as the Nazis killed 643 people in Oradour-sur-Glane. He spent his life keeping the memory of the slaughter alive. — Robert Hébras, who, shielded under dead bodies …
Lauren Weber / Wall Street Journal:
Burned Out, More Americans Are Turning to Part-Time Jobs — The number of people working part time rose by 1.2 million in December and January—most were people who chose it. ‘25 hours is the new 35.’ — Part-time work is exploding. — The number of Americans working part time rose …