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New York Times:
Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods — The conservative media mogul made the remarks under oath last month in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems. — Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News …
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Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch admitted some Fox commentators ‘endorsed’ election lies — Rupert Murdoch, chair of Fox News's parent company, acknowledged in a deposition that “some of our commentators were endorsing” the baseless narrative that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that Fox News hosts endorsed false stolen election claims — New York CNN — Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, acknowledged in a deposition taken by Dominion Voting Systems that some Fox News hosts endorsed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
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Politico, Wall Street Journal, Media Matters for America, Mediaite, Bloomberg, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Hill, Financial Times, Deadline, Variety, New Republic, NewsNation and Raw Story
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Sean Hannity ‘had been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks’: court docs — Behind the scenes at Fox News after the 2020 election, it was becoming clear that conservative prime-time hosts were saying one thing to viewers and another thing privately. — According to court filings …
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Dani Anguiano / The Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch testified that Fox News hosts ‘endorsed’ stolen election narrative — Network owner also admitted in $1.6bn defamation lawsuit deposition that Trump's claims were ‘damaging to everybody’ — Newly released court documents reveal that Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of Fox News …
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Raw Story, Mediaite and Sputnik News
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox chief Rupert Murdoch said network aired 2020 election conspiracies for the money: court documents — New court documents from the lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News were released on Monday, revealing even more details about the head of the network allegedly prioritizing money over truth.
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NBC News, Reuters, Media Matters for America, Mediaite, New York Times, Fortune and Law & Crime
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Trump Flips Out At ‘Fake’ Fox News For ‘Promoting’ Ron DeSantis
Trump Flips Out At ‘Fake’ Fox News For ‘Promoting’ Ron DeSantis
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Rejects Ad From Progressive Group Highlighting Stars' Damning Texts
Fox News Rejects Ad From Progressive Group Highlighting Stars' Damning Texts
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Jeb! Loves! DeSantis! — The Swamp endorsement Trump has been waiting for. — 1. Endorsements — I'm sure you've seen it but in case not: — Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski — Jeb Bush endorses Ron Desantis for president.
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Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
DeSantis takes over Disney district, punishing company
DeSantis takes over Disney district, punishing company
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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis's scorn-filled book sets tone for potential campaign
Ron DeSantis's scorn-filled book sets tone for potential campaign
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CNN, Washington Times and Fox News
Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
Preaching Freedom, Ron DeSantis Leads By Cracking Down
Preaching Freedom, Ron DeSantis Leads By Cracking Down
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Vanity Fair, Raw Story, Fox News, Politico, 19FortyFive, The Federalist, RedState, NewsNation, Florida's Voice, Florida Politics, Forbes and The Hill
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Scott Adams and the right-wing insistence on White victimhood — For months it has seemed inevitable that the “Dilbert” comic strip's run as a popular American newspaper cartoon would end precisely as it did: a victim of controversy triggered by its creator, Scott Adams.
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Mediaite and Not the Bee, more at Mediagazer »
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Jordan Valinsky / CNN:
Elon Musk tweets support for ‘Dilbert’ creator after racist tirade
Elon Musk tweets support for ‘Dilbert’ creator after racist tirade
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work
Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work
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Bloomberg, RedState, Axios, The Guardian, Mediaite, American Greatness, New York Post, Variety and National Review
Washington Post:
Daniel Snyder's demands anger NFL owners, renew talk of voting him out — Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder and his attorneys have demanded that fellow NFL franchise owners and the league indemnify him against future legal liability and costs if he sells the team …
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Front Office Sports, Page Six, New Jersey Online, New York Post and The Western Journal
Bethan McKernan / The Guardian:
‘Never like this before’: settler violence in West Bank escalates — Retaliatory rampage in Palestinian village likened to ‘Kristallnacht in Huwara’ with one dead and 350 injured — here is a large rolling gate at the entrance to the small Palestinian village of Za'atara …
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Washington Post:
Israeli settlers rampage through Palestinian towns in revenge for shooting
Israeli settlers rampage through Palestinian towns in revenge for shooting
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Maayan Lubell / Reuters:
Netanyahu's balancing act got harder after post-summit violence
Netanyahu's balancing act got harder after post-summit violence
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, middleeastmonitor.com and The Hill
Madison Hall / Insider:
Freshman Rep. Andy Ogles admits he didn't know what he majored in — Freshman Rep. Andy Ogles claimed he had a degree in “policy and economics” while campaiging. — On Sunday, he said after reviewing his transcript that he graduated with “Liberal Studies” degree.
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Emine Yücel / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep. Ogles Admits He Misrepresented His College Major
GOP Rep. Ogles Admits He Misrepresented His College Major
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Religion Unplugged
Nathan Heller / New Yorker:
The End of the English Major — Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened? — The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first. From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors …
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The Corsair and The Honest Broker
Ian Duncan / Washington Post:
Transportation Department watchdog to audit Buttigieg's use of government jets — The transportation secretary's office says he has followed the rules for use of Federal Aviation Administration planes, often saving taxpayer money — An internal watchdog will audit Transportation Secretary …
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Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
Inspector general investigating Pete Buttigieg's extensive private jet travel after Fox News Digital report
Inspector general investigating Pete Buttigieg's extensive private jet travel after Fox News Digital report
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National Review and The Gateway Pundit
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Despite latest reports, there's still not a speck of evidence that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab — We know that America is fascinated by zombies: “The Walking Dead,” “Fear the Walking Dead,” “Zombieland” and now — even though aficionadoes may split hairs over this — “The Last of Us.”
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Jeffrey Sachs's Great-Power Politics — The economist discusses what the U.S. gets wrong about Putin and the war in Ukraine. — Last week, Jeffrey Sachs, the economist and professor at Columbia known for his work in the fields of poverty alleviation and foreign aid, delivered remarks …
NBC News:
U.S. Marshals Service suffers ‘major’ security breach that compromises sensitive information, senior law enforcement officials say — The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a security breach over a week ago that resulted in the compromise of sensitive information, multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday.
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
A bipartisan group of Senators is talking about raising the retirement age on Social Security — A bipartisan group led by Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, and Bill Cassidy, R-La. is considering gradually raising the retirement age to about 70 as part of their legislation to overhaul Social Security …
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Alternet.org and New Republic
Seung Min Kim / Associated Press:
White House: No more TikTok on gov't devices within 30 days — The White House is giving all federal agencies 30 days to wipe TikTok off all government devices, as the Chinese-owned social media app comes under increasing scrutiny in Washington over security concerns.
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
Exclusive: White House sets deadline for purging TikTok from federal devices
Exclusive: White House sets deadline for purging TikTok from federal devices
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Gabby Miller / Columbia Journalism Review:
Where did Facebook's funding for journalism really go? — b — “People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta (then Facebook) announced its three-year, $300 million commitment to global “news programs, partnerships, and content.”
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
WATCH: Florida Sheriff Goes Nuclear on Neo-Nazi ‘Motherf*ckers’ — Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood fumed that it was an “honor” to be included on the “hit list” of an organization behind a string of disturbing antisemitic incidents. — A week after a neo-Nazi hate group circulated throughout …
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Sandee LaMotte / CNN:
Zero calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds — A sugar replacement called erythritol — used to add bulk or sweeten stevia, monk-fruit, and keto reduced-sugar products — has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study.
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UPI, New York Post, New Scientist and The Sun
Jarrett Renshaw / Reuters:
Explainer: Biden's EV highway takes shape — Armed with billions of dollars, the Biden administration is embarking on the biggest transformation of the U.S. consumer driving landscape in generations, hoping to blanket the nation's highways with electric vehicle chargers.
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Isabel Keane / New York Post:
Prince Harry to unpack struggles with ‘trauma expert’ in livestreamed talk — Prince Harry is set to unpack his experiences with a controversial trauma expert on Saturday, during a virtual event in which attendees can submit questions for the former royal to answer.
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The Western Journal, Vanity Fair and Twitchy
Washington Post:
5 good points the right is making about the Ohio train disaster — The derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in eastern Ohio has led to calls for an examination of the government's disaster response, new regulation to safeguard public health and safety, and better working conditions for railroad workers.
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National Review
Tristan Ahtone / Grist:
Indigenous youth occupy Norwegian energy office to protest illegal wind farm — “We cannot be sacrificed in the name of the green transition.” — Indigenous Sámi youth and dozens of environmental activists in Oslo, Norway shut down the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on Monday, with many chaining themselves to the building.
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Reuters, Fox News, RedState, Associated Press, Financial Times and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
The risk of damage from hurricane winds will shift in coming decades. See the impact by Zip code. — 1 in 3 Americans may face risk by mid-century as winds are projected to reach further inland, northward — Hurricane winds fueled by climate change will reach further inland and put tens …
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The Guardian, Axios, Fortune, The Verge and CBS News