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Ron DeSantis' 2024 campaign emerges from the shadows — WASHINGTON — Ron DeSantis' shadow campaign for the presidency has suddenly become much more visible, even as his advisers insist he's focused on governing Florida. — DeSantis recently launched a tax-exempt organization that sponsored …
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Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
Preaching Freedom, Ron DeSantis Leads By Cracking Down — In his new book, “The Courage to Be Free,” the Florida governor and potential Republican presidential candidate offers a template for governing based on an expansive vision of executive power. — Buy Book ▾
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Fox News, The Hill, Politico, Forbes, RedState, Florida Politics, Florida's Voice and The Guardian
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
DeSantis moves toward GOP presidential bid on his own terms
DeSantis moves toward GOP presidential bid on his own terms
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RedState, The Hill and NewsNation
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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New York Times:
In Latest Round of Job Cuts, Twitter Is Said to Lay Off at Least 200 Employees — The social media platform now has a work force of less than 2,000, down from 7,500 when Elon Musk took it over in October. — Twitter laid off at least 200 of its employees on Saturday night …
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Steve Mollman / Fortune:
Elon Musk lays off more Twitter employees, including hard-core loyalists: 'Looks like I'm let go' — Twitter conducted an unexpected round of layoffs this weekend as the company struggles with plunging revenue and aggressive cost-cutting under CEO Elon Musk.
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The Information, Sputnik News, Al Jazeera, IJR, The Wrap, New York Post and One America News Network
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter
Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
So far, Trump's rollback of regulations can't be blamed for Ohio train wreck — “I had nothing to do with it.” — Former president Donald Trump, asked about criticism of his pulling back rail regulations, in East Palestine, Ohio, Feb. 22 — Trump's comment during his tour of East Palestine …
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Washington Post:
Israeli settlers rampage through Palestinian towns in revenge for shooting — HUWARA, West Bank — Dozens of Israeli settlers rampaged through Palestinian towns, torching cars, homes and killing a man, hours after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israelis. — The scenes from the hours-long …
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Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
West Bank Erupts in Violence as Officials Pledge to Work for Calm
West Bank Erupts in Violence as Officials Pledge to Work for Calm
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Emboldened by its majority, House GOP turns up heat on federal workers — At a House hearing this month on fraud and waste in pandemic aid, some Republicans zeroed in on one group in particular for criticism: the federal employees overseeing the money. — “Fire people if they don't do …
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Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
GOP leaders, stung by losses, plan to wade into Senate races — 1 of 5 — A football legend who held a gun to his ex-wife's head. Rivals who nearly brawled during a televised debate. A venture capitalist who voiced sympathy for the Unabomber. — And that's just to name a few.
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.
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Bloomberg:
UK, EU Seal New Post-Brexit Deal on Northern Ireland Trade — The UK and European Union reached a deal on Northern Ireland's trading arrangements, ending more than a year of often acrimonious wrangling over the post-Brexit settlement for the region, people familiar with the matter said.
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin announces Senate run in Michigan — The U.S. House member abd former CIA analyst is seen by many top Democrats as a formidable Democratic contender in a key battleground — Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin announced her candidacy for U.S. Senate in Michigan on Monday …
Decca Muldowney / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Unholy Sex Scandal Rocking Trump's Ex-Adviser — Frank Pavone once chaired Catholics for Trump. Then he was defrocked by the Vatican. Now, women are coming forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. — Frank Pavone, a defrocked priest who was formerly a Catholic adviser to Donald Trump …
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Raw Story and Alternet.org
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Take Up Case on Fate of Consumer Watchdog — A decision against the bureau could cast doubt on every rule and enforcement action the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case that could hobble …
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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 …
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Fraud hunters challenged 92,000 voter registrations in Georgia last year — Amateur voter fraud hunters challenged 92,000 Georgia voter registrations last year, using voter rolls, public records, door-to-door canvassing and hours of their own time to ferret out the ballot rigging that election workers …
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Ian MacConnell / American Thinker:
Tucker Carlson and the January 6 Tapes — House speaker Kevin McCarthy is finally releasing all the official security tapes and other video evidence showing what really happened during the massive stolen election protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Chicago Sun-Times, DCReport.org and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
G.O.P. Donors in New York Await a Parade of Presidential Hopefuls — Donald Trump's support in the city's wealthy political circles is waning, as 2024 rivals and potential candidates, including Nikki Haley and Mike Pence, make the rounds. — New York City's heavy-hitting Republican-leaning donors …
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Embattled Rep. Ogles acknowledges misrepresenting his college major — Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tenn.), who is facing allegations of embellishing his résumé, acknowledged Monday that he misstated the degree he received from Middle Tennessee State University, claiming he learned …
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Greg Craig / New York Times:
Democratic Voters, Not Biden, Should Choose Vice President — For many months — since the 2020 campaign — Republicans have tried to portray Joe Biden as being too old to be president, as mentally deficient, as one small step away from death or disability.
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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.
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Mary Beth Sheridan / Washington Post:
Mexicans hold mass protests over law weakening electoral authority
Mexicans hold mass protests over law weakening electoral authority
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Politico:
The biggest election of 2023 reaches final sprint — Millions of dollars are flowing into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, as the state rockets toward an election that could decide the future of abortion rights, redistricting and more in the key battleground state.
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Republicans jump on ‘lab leak’ report, call for action against China — Republicans are seizing on a new Energy Department conclusion pointing to a “lab leak” as causing the COVID-19 outbreak to call for swift action against the Chinese government, which has refused to cooperate with global probes into the pandemic's origin.
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Michael Moritz / New York Times:
Even Democrats Like Me Are Fed Up With San Francisco — Few subjects please Tucker Carlson more than sticking a shiv into the city of his birth — San Francisco. Sadly, Mr. Carlson has plenty of reasons for portraying San Francisco as a crippled city, hence his fondness for broadcasting clips of homeless encampments and drug addicts.
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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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
DeSantis pushes ban on gender studies at Florida colleges and universities — The University of Central Florida (UCF), one of the state's public universities, has a robust program in Women's and Gender Studies. More than 170 current students have chosen to minor in Women's and Gender Studies …
Reuters:
Republican war on ‘woke’ policies creeps into U.S. debt-ceiling debate — U.S. House Republicans are eyeing $150 billion in spending cuts that reflect a hardline drive to target education, healthcare and housing - particularly efforts to address racial inequities that conservatives deride as …