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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 …
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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 …
Discussion: UPI, CNN, Rolling Stone, The Hill and Althouse
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 …
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Republicans jump on ‘lab leak’ report, call for action against China
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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.
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.
Mandalit Del Barco / NPR:
Newspapers have dropped the ‘Dilbert’ comic strip after a racist rant by its creator
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.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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.
Discussion: HuffPost and The Hill
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 …
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 …
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Josh Boak / Associated Press:
GOP lawmaker assails Biden for not sending F-16s to Ukraine
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
War in Ukraine Has Changed Europe for Good
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Manchin, on Fox News, Refuses to Call Himself a Democrat  —  The senator preferred to identify as “an American”  —  SENATOR JOE MANCHIN, an alleged Democrat, went on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo — the Sunday morning equivalent of Tucker Carlson — and declined to identify as a member of the Democratic Party.
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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’
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Joe Manchin Declines to Describe Himself as a Democrat
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court's Student-Loan Case Will Test Limits of Presidential Power
Discussion: The Hill
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.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump, Haley to battle for spotlight at CPAC  —  Former President Trump and his ex-United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are set to give dueling addresses at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) next week, putting a sharp focus on the ongoing tug-of-war within the GOP.
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NBC News:
With Trump running, nearly all Republican senators say no to a presidential bid
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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
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
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Mississippi GOP governor now backs longer Medicaid for moms  —  1 of 6  —  Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves did an abrupt about-face Sunday on an issue for which Democrats have been sharply criticizing him this election year, saying for the first time that he wants the state to allow …
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.
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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A new bipartisan push for paid family and medical leave
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