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10:10 AM ET, February 26, 2023

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Wall Street Journal:
Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Agency Now Says  —  Energy Department's revised assessment is based on new intelligence  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according …
Washington Post:
‘Dilbert’ dropped by The Post, other papers, after cartoonist's racist rant  —  Newspapers across the United States have pulled Scott Adams's long-running “Dilbert” comic strip after the cartoonist called Black Americans a “hate group” and said White people should “get the hell away from” them.
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Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
Newspapers Drop ‘Dilbert’ Comic After Creator's Rant About Black ‘Hate Groups’  —  Scott Adams, who created the syndicated comic strip, also said that white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” prompting criticism from editors across the country.
Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles Times ceases publication of ‘Dilbert’  —  The Times has decided to cease publication of “Dilbert.”  Cartoonist Scott Adams made racist comments in a YouTube livestream Feb. 22, offensive remarks that The Times rejects.  Further, in the last nine months The Times has on four occasions printed …
Kimberlee Speakman / People.com:
Jessa Duggar Reveals She Suffered a Miscarriage: ‘I Just Immediately Started Crying’  —  The “19 Kids and Counting” alum said she plans to “take a break” from social media and focus on recovering  —  Jessa Duggar Seewald revealed that she suffered a miscarriage over the holidays.
Discussion: Fox News
CNN:
Ron DeSantis wanted to send weapons to Ukraine when he was a congressman — as a presidential hopeful he questions US involvement  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis once strongly supported arming Ukraine to fight Russia, urging then-President Barack Obama to do so as a deterrent to Russian aggression …
Shawna Chen / Axios:
Judge: Jan. 6 probe unable to review 2,000 records due to fight over Perry's phone  —  A judge ordered Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) to turn over more than 2,000 phone records after ruling that they are not shielded under the Constitution, according to newly unsealed court documents.
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
'That's my neighbour': Mariupol residents' shock at Putin's parade line-up  —  Survivors' disgust as children thank ‘rescuers’ in a lavish Moscow celebration  —  At the climax of the pageantry in Moscow to mark the first anniversary of the start of Vladimir Putin's full-scale war in Ukraine …
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
FL Democrat on MSNBC Says DeSantis Wants ‘More People to Live in Their Bigoted Extremisms Like He Has Been Doing’  —  Florida Democrat Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick told MSNBC's Al Sharpton that Gov. Ron DeSantis's education policies are designed for the express purpose of encouraging …
David Smith / The Guardian:
What to expect from this year's CPAC: Biden bashing, 2024 Republican primary chatter and lawsuit gossip  —  The gathering of conservatives returns to Washington and could prove to be a crystal ball into the GOP's 2024 outlook  —  ts impresario is facing allegations of sexual assault.
Discussion: Raw Story
Stephen Neukam / The Hill:
‘Saturday Night Live’ mocks Trump visit to East Palestine  —  “Saturday Night Live” targeted former President Trump's visit to the town in Ohio where a train derailment has sparked environmental and public health concerns in its latest cold open, mocking Trump's off-the-cuff public speaking style.
David Gura / NPR:
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has another big problem: He won't shut up  —  Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, isn't doing himself any favors.  —  Despite being charged with orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in history …
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Pence Is the Reagan Republican No One Wants Anymore  —  The former vice president was right to break ranks with Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis in recent days but it makes him out of touch with today's GOP. … If you want to get a sense of how prolonged exposure to MAGA has shifted …
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Putin pitches the American right with an ungodly invocation of God  —  Here's a scoop for you: Vladimir Putin is sounding like someone who wants to enter the 2024 Republican presidential primaries.  —  How else do you explain that in the middle of his bellicose speech Tuesday promising success …
Discussion: Ukraine War Truth
Washington Post:
From Palm Beach to Staten Island, DeSantis makes 2024 moves on Trump's turf  —  The Florida governor's show of force this weekend was part of his increasingly open encroachments into the former president's longtime support base and ideological terrain  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Bloomberg
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Emily Langer / Washington Post:
Zandra Flemister, first Black woman in Secret Service, dies at 71
Discussion: The Guardian
Dana Kennedy / New York Post:
‘Sound like Mickey Mouse’: East Palestine residents' shock illnesses after derailment
Reuters:
Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market
Discussion: Breitbart and AppleInsider
Carey Gillam / The Guardian:
Revealed: the US is averaging one chemical accident every two days
Discussion: Raw Story and Vox
Anumita Kaur / Washington Post:
News outlets demand release of Jan. 6 footage given to Tucker Carlson
 Earlier Items: 
Bruce Y. Lee / Forbes:
Lee County, Florida, Republican Party Passes Resolution To Ban Covid-19 Vaccines
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Watching Tucker Carlson for Work
ProPublica:
A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports Q3 digital subscribers hit 260K, for 11.9M in total, digital ad revenue rose 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic turned its first profit

Porter Anderson / Publishing Perspectives:
PEN America: 10,046 school books bans across 29 states were recorded from July 2023 to June 2024, up ~200% YoY; Florida had 4,500+ bans and Iowa had 3,600+ bans

Ross Raihala / Twin Cities:
Q&A with Aaron Rupar on leaving Vox to start Public Notice on Substack, watching ~400 Trump rallies to share clips with his 989K followers on X, and more

 
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