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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 …
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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.
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‘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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Rolling Stone:
Trump White House Pressured Disney to Censor ... Jimmy Kimmel — The former president was so incensed by the late-night host making fun of him that he had his staff take action — IN EARLY 2018, the American national security apparatus was fixated on reports that North Korea …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: House GOP plans Ohio derailment hearings — Multiple House committees are gaming out aggressive hearings 0n the Biden administration's response to the toxic train wreck in Ohio — including how the government supervises giant rail companies, Axios has learned.
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How a small-town train derailment erupted into a culture battle
How a small-town train derailment erupted into a culture battle
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Dana Kennedy / New York Post:
‘Sound like Mickey Mouse’: East Palestine residents' shock illnesses after derailment
‘Sound like Mickey Mouse’: East Palestine residents' shock illnesses after derailment
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David French / New York Times:
Why Fox News Lied to the Viewers It ‘Respects’ — There are some stories that are important enough to pause the news cycle and linger on them, to explore not just what happened, but why. And so it is with Fox News's role in the events leading up to Jan. 6, 2021.
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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.
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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 …
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.
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.
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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 …
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Bloomberg:
Sunak, Von der Leyen to Meet on N. Ireland Brexit Deal Progress — Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen will meet in the UK on Monday, as expectation builds for an imminent announcement on a post-Brexit settlement for Northern Ireland. — The pair “agreed to continue their work in person towards shared …
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Abraham Josephine Riesman / New York Times:
How the W.W.E. Explains What's Happened to U.S. Politics — Mx. Riesman is a journalist and the author of a biography of Vince McMahon. — What shall we call contemporary Republican ideology? Is it conservatism? Libertarianism? Authoritarianism? Trumpism? Fascism? — How about kayfabe?
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CNN:
US says China will face ‘real costs’ if it provides lethal aid to Russia for war in Ukraine — US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday vowed there would be “real costs” for China if the country went forward with providing lethal aid to Russia in its war on Ukraine.
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