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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
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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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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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.
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, New Republic, Mediaite and Sputnik News
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox could be on the hook for campaign finance violations after new court docs drop: former FBI agent — The lawsuit between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News came to a head in a pair of contrasting court filings on Monday that revealed several details previously unknown about the defamation lawsuit …
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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Washington Post, Forbes, Newsbusters, RADAR, Rolling Stone, The Hill, Raw Story, Sputnik News, NBC News, Breitbart, Mediaite and Fox News
Politico:
Murdoch and other Fox execs agreed 2020 election was fair but feared losing viewers, court filing shows
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Rupert Murdoch admits he knew Fox News hosts endorsed false election fraud claims, deposition shows
Rupert Murdoch admits he knew Fox News hosts endorsed false election fraud claims, deposition shows
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Associated Press and Media Matters for America
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, Fox News, Page Six, New Jersey Online, New York Post and The Western Journal
Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
DeSantis takes over Disney district, punishing company — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that gives him control of Walt Disney World's self-governing district, punishing the company over its opposition to the so-called “Don't Say Gay” law.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Jeb! Loves! DeSantis!
Jeb! Loves! DeSantis!
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NBC News, RedState, Big League Politics, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Hill, HotAir, Politics Extra, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, CNN and Twitchy
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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Washington Times, CNN, Fox News and Vanity Fair
Washington Post:
Little-known scientific team behind new assessment on covid-19 origins — Small shift in favor of ‘lab leak’ theory was prompted by new data and group of weapons-lab scientists — The theory that covid-19 started with a lab accident in central China received a modest boost …
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, National Review, RedState, The Hill, Ars Technica, Washington Examiner, TAK thought and Who is Robert Malone
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Despite latest reports, there's still not a speck of evidence that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab
Despite latest reports, there's still not a speck of evidence that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab
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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.
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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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The Times of Israel, Sputnik News, UPI, CNN, Melanie Phillips, middleeastmonitor.com, New York Times and Washington Post
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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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The Times of Israel, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and middleeastmonitor.com
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Dropping the creator of ‘Dilbert’ is free speech at work — Scott Adams, creator of the once-funny comic strip “Dilbert,” had the right to advise White people to “get the hell away from Black people” — just as the media companies that published Adams's work had the right to get the hell away from him.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Scott Adams and the right-wing insistence on White victimhood
Scott Adams and the right-wing insistence on White victimhood
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Sox's Substack, The American Spectator, The Intercept, Mediaite and Not the Bee
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
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
DeSantis's ‘Apocalyptic’ Attack on Higher Education — In 2017, the government of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban passed a law intended to drive Central European University, a prestigious school founded by a Hungarian refugee, George Soros, out of the country.
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The Daily Caller and Popular Information
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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 …
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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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, Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit and New Republic
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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The Hill, UPI, New Scientist, New York Post and The Sun
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.”
Media Matters for America:
Daily Wire host: “You have to ban transgenderism entirely” — Michael Knowles: “I love this bill [in Kansas] because it is so much more aggressive than the other bills we've seen.”
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Alternet.org and Mediaite
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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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
Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
Hamstrung by ‘golden handcuffs’: Diversity roles disappear 3 years after George Floyd's murder inspired them — Diversity, equity and inclusion leaders, who were hired in waves to help companies achieve an ethnically balanced workforce after George Floyd's murder in 2020, are being phased out …
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HotAir
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
Cary Clack / San Antonio Express-News:
Rep. Joaquin Castro diagnosed with cancer, undergoes surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center — U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro underwent surgery in Houston on Monday morning for cancer found in his small intestine. — The type of cancer he has is serious but treatable, his staff said.
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Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles didn't want you to see his college transcript! We got it anyway — Transcript shows self-proclaimed economist took only one community college Economics course, which he barely passed — and did not major in International Relations, as claimed
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New Republic, Tennessee Star, Washington Post, Insider, Jezebel, The Hill and Just The News
Deepa Parent / The Guardian:
Iranian officials to investigate ‘revenge’ poisoning of schoolgirls — The attacks on female students - called an act of ‘biological terrorism’ - are thought to be retaliation for protests against hijabs in the country — Iranian authorities have confirmed they are investigating reports …
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The National, Semafor, Fox News, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and CBS News
New York Times:
Biden's Semiconductor Plan Flexes the Power of the Federal Government — In return for vast subsidies, the Biden administration is asking the chip industry to make promises about its workers and finances. — WASHINGTON — Semiconductor manufacturers seeking a slice of nearly $40 billion …
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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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UPI, Fox News, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, New York Post, Forbes, National Review, The Daily Caller, The Western Journal, The Hill, Politico, Raw Story and IJR