Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
Fox News, NBC News, CNN, Washington Free Beacon, Build Back Better, Washington Examiner, Who is Robert Malone, TMZ.com, Icant Tellu's Substack, WKRG-TV, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, New York Post, Twitchy, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, Instapundit, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Western Journal, The Post Millennial, Alternet.org, National Review, Mediaite, Fortune, Bloomberg, Not the Bee, The Hilltop Herald, Just The News, Power Line, Washington Times, The Hill and Progress Pond
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
The Hill, UPI, Rolling Stone, Althouse and Washington Examiner
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:
Wall Street Journal, RedState 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
RELATED:
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.
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.
Discussion:
The Daily Beast
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Press, Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
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.
Discussion:
RADAR, HotAir, Chicago Sun-Times, Reuters, Axios, UPI, National Review, The Hill, Al Jazeera, New York Daily News, Outside the Beltway, Rolling Stone, PennLive, Associated Press, CBS News, ABC7, Oregonian and Lawyers, Guns & Money
RELATED:
Mandalit Del Barco / NPR:
Newspapers have dropped the ‘Dilbert’ comic strip after a racist rant by its creator — The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and other newspapers across the country say they will no longer carry the syndicated “Dilbert” comic strip after cartoonist Scott Adams urged white people “to get the hell away from Black people.”
Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
After warnings, no evidence China is supplying arms to Russia, U.S. officials say — Russian stumbles on the battlefield as well as the solidarity of Ukraine's allies have continued to pressure Putin — Top administration officials said Sunday there is no evidence that China …
Discussion:
The Hill, The Daily Caller, Voice of America, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Fox News, TASS and CBS News
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
PoliticusUSA, Washington Examiner, Political Wire and Breitbart
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
The Independent, Insider, The Sun, National Review, The Post Millennial, The Western Journal, Rolling Stone, New York Post, Breitbart, The A.V. Club, Fox News, Variety and Deadline
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 …
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:
Lawyers, Guns & Money and Fox News
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 …
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.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, WFLA-TV and Washington Times
John L. Dorman / Insider:
Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who'll likely face a tough reelection fight in 2024, says he won't ‘run from Biden’: ‘I run my own race, and my own brand’ — Sen. Sherrod Brown told Politico he was “fine” with Biden running on the same ballot as him in 2024.
Discussion:
The Hill and New York Post
Trey Yingst / USA Today:
‘Hell on earth’: I reported from the war in Ukraine. What I witnessed still haunts me. — We don't talk about the nightmares, the survivors' guilt or the loss of identity from getting too consumed by the story. That needs to change. — View Comments — The past year …
Discussion:
Mediaite
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?
Discussion:
Associated Press
Kelly Garrity / Politico:
GOP primary candidates must agree to loyalty pledge in order to debate, RNC chair says — Any candidate who wants to take part in the GOP's first primary debate in Milwaukee later this year will have to sign a pledge promising to support whoever wins the nomination, Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel said Sunday.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Access to abortion is a unifying issue — Who could have guessed that preserving access to abortion would be such a unifying position? — Given how divided our country is, and how loud voices seeking to criminalize the procedure have become, one might not expect abortion bans to be so unpopular.
NBC News:
With Trump running, nearly all Republican senators say no to a presidential bid — WASHINGTON — There's an old joke that senators look in the mirror and see a president. These days, a whole lot of mirrors in the chamber seem to be broken. — Republicans have an open presidential primary in 2024 …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Jury awards Va. teacher $5 million over wrongful sex abuse case — The teacher was accused of sexually abusing a 17-year-old student, though she denies his claims — The first clue that Kimberly Winters, a high school English teacher, had that a former student had accused her of sexually abusing …
Associated Press:
Failing at polls, election deniers focus on state GOP posts — 1 of 16 — In a basement event space in the Denver suburb of Parker, Tina Peters surveyed a crowd of Colorado Republicans last week and made an unusual pitch for why she should become chair of their beleaguered party …
Discussion:
Denver Post and Raw Story
Joe Hernandez / NPR:
EPA tells Norfolk Southern to temporarily stop shipping toxic train derailment waste — The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered shipments of hazardous waste out of East Palestine, Ohio, to stop after complaints from residents and officials in other states where the toxic material was headed.
Discussion:
Insider, RedState, HotAir, The Hill, Fox News, Just The News, MLive.com, CNN, NBC New York, New York Post, Associated Press, NewsNation, The Detroit News and The Guardian
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 …
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Big League Politics, The Hill and Washington Post