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12:30 AM ET, February 27, 2023

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Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Musk defends ‘Dilbert’ creator, says media is ‘racist against whites’  —  The Tesla and Twitter chief blasted media outlets for dropping Scott Adams's comic strip after the cartoonist's rant against Black people  —  Twitter and Tesla chief Elon Musk defended Scott Adams, the under-fire creator of …
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Steve Mollman / Fortune:
Elon Musk lays off more Twitter employees, including hard-core loyalists: 'Looks like I'm let go'  —  MARLENA SLOSS—BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES  —  Twitter conducted an unexpected round of layoffs this weekend as the company struggles with plunging revenue and aggressive cost-cutting under CEO Elon Musk.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter … Crawford headed up various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter's forthcoming payments platform.  —  Alex Heath of The Verge confirmed Crawford and most of the remaining product team …
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Elon Musk accuses media of racism after newspapers drop ‘Dilbert’ cartoon  —  Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday accused the media of being racist against whites and Asians after U.S. newspapers dropped a white comic strip author who made derogatory comments about Black Americans.
Mandalit Del Barco / NPR:
Newspapers have dropped the ‘Dilbert’ comic strip after a racist rant by its creator
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 …
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Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Lab Leak Most Likely Caused Pandemic, Energy Dept. Says  —  The conclusion, which was made with “low confidence,” came as America's intelligence agencies remained divided over the origins of the coronavirus.  —  WASHINGTON — New intelligence has prompted the Energy Department to conclude …
Jonathan Turley / New York Post:
COVID lab leak is a scandal of media and government censorship  —  The Wall Street Journal reports that the Energy Department has concluded that the COVID pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak.  —  The conclusion is reportedly based on a classified intelligence report recently provided …
Discussion: RedState, Twitchy and Fox News
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Fox News Host Speaks Out Against Network's Decision to Stop Him from Covering Dominion Lawsuit: ‘I Strongly Disagree’  —  A Fox News host said the network is not allowing him to cover the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News by Dominion voting systems.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘I strongly disagree’: Fox News host speaks out after company bans reporting on Dominion lawsuit  —  Fox News host Howard Kurtz revealed on Sunday that his employer had forbidden him from reporting on a lawsuit brought against the company by Dominion Voting Systems.
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 …
Associated Press:
Tens of thousands protest Mexico electoral reforms  —  1 of 9  —  Tens of thousands of people filled Mexico City's vast main plaza Sunday to protest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's electoral law reforms that they say threaten democracy and could mark a return to the past.
Discussion: Reuters, Bloomberg and Vox
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Mary Beth Sheridan / Washington Post:   Mexicans hold mass protests over law weakening electoral authority
Natalie Kitroeff / New York Times:
Large Crowds Across Mexico Protest Overhaul of Election Watchdog
Discussion: Financial Times and Reuters
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Putin casts war as a battle for Russia's survival  —  President Vladimir Putin cast the confrontation with the West over the Ukraine war as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian people - and said he was forced to take into account NATO's nuclear capabilities.
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Josh Boak / Associated Press:
GOP lawmaker assails Biden for not sending F-16s to Ukraine
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Joe Manchin Declines to Describe Himself as a Democrat  —  The moderate West Virginia senator hasn't said whether he will run for re-election in 2024  —  WASHINGTON—West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin declined to describe himself as a Democrat during a television interview on Sunday …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Craig Simpson / Telegraph:
James Bond books edited to remove racist references  —  Reissued versions of Ian Fleming's classic works will feature a disclaimer following a review by sensitivity readers  —  James Bond novels have been rewritten to remove a number of racial references from Ian Fleming's work, The Telegraph can reveal.
Lauren Weber / Washington Post:
Doctors who touted ivermectin as covid fix now pushing it for flu, RSV  —  First, the group of doctors championed ivermectin as a covid panacea.  It failed to live up to the hype.  Now, they're promoting the anti-parasitic to prevent and treat the flu and RSV.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Biden's student loan forgiveness program comes before Supreme Court  —  Tuesday's oral arguments will focus on the limits of executive power — and who has standing to challenge the $430 billion loan initiative  —  By Robert Barnes and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
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Wall Street Journal:   Supreme Court's Student-Loan Case Will Test Limits of Presidential Power
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump, DeSantis top 2024 Republican preference … Ron DeSantis 2024 rumors ramp up  —  One year out from the 2024 primaries, here is the debut Fox News national survey on the presidential nomination races.  Spoiler alert, former President Donald Trump looks formidable, while President Biden faces doubt.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:   The GOP's Addiction to Culture War May Cost It in 2024
Associated Press:
Contaminated waste shipments from Ohio derailment to resume  —  Shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment earlier this month in eastern Ohio near the Pennsylvania state line will resume Monday to two approved sites in Ohio, according to federal environmental authorities.
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Joe Hernandez / NPR:
EPA tells Norfolk Southern to temporarily stop shipping toxic train derailment waste
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Texas asks a Trump judge to declare most of the federal government unconstitutional  —  Ordinarily, this lawsuit would be laughed out of court.  But you never can tell with Trump's judges.  —  Earlier this month, Texas's Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit claiming …
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
How the Fed Opened Pandora's Box  —  Jerome H. Powell's no-holds-barred response to the pandemic was made possible by history.  It raises questions about the future.  —  It was July 2019 when Representative Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, asked Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve …
Mark Maxwell / KSDK-TV:
Congresswoman Cori Bush marries campaign security guard in secret wedding  —  Marriage records filed St. Louis show U.S. Rep. Cori Bush tied the knot in a private ceremony earlier this month.  —  ST. LOUIS — Congresswoman Cori Bush, the progressive Democrat who has long described herself as a single mom, is no longer single.
 
 
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Decca Muldowney / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Unholy Sex Scandal Rocking Trump's Ex-Adviser
Discussion: Raw Story
Mary Papenfuss / Raw Story:
Lutheran Church official calls for white nationalists to be excommunicated
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Rural Hospitals Are Shuttering Their Maternity Units
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Mississippi GOP governor now backs longer Medicaid for moms
New York Times:
What Layoffs? Many Employers Are Eager to Hang On to Workers.
Discussion: Financial Times
CNN:
A new bipartisan push for paid family and medical leave
Discussion: Politico
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Trey Yingst / USA Today:
‘Hell on earth’: I reported from the war in Ukraine. What I witnessed still haunts me.
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Jury awards Va. teacher $5 million over wrongful sex abuse case
Discussion: New York Post
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 2-26-23: Jake Sullivan & Rep. Michael McCaul
Kelly Garrity / Politico:
GOP primary candidates must agree to loyalty pledge in order to debate, RNC chair says
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Access to abortion is a unifying issue
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Bloomberg:
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