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10:40 AM ET, February 28, 2023

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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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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Fox could be on the hook for campaign finance violations after new court docs drop: former FBI agent
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox chief Rupert Murdoch said network aired 2020 election conspiracies for the money: court documents
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Trump Flips Out At ‘Fake’ Fox News For ‘Promoting’ Ron DeSantis
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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Peter Laffin / Washington Examiner:
Will the media finally apologize for getting the COVID lab leak theory wrong?
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
The Journalists Who Smeared Tom Cotton and Tarnished Their Own Reputations Over the Lab Leak Theory
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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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Jonathan Capehart quits WaPo editorial board, leaving no people of color  —  Jonathan Capehart quit the Washington Post editorial board after a dispute over an editorial about 2024 politics, leaving the paper with an all-white editorial board, Axios has learned.
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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Olivia Rubin / ABC News:
Judge overseeing Trump Georgia grand jury speaks after foreperson's controversial interviews  —  The jurors “can talk about” their final report, the judge told ABC News.  —  After the foreperson of the Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury  —  investigating former President Donald Trump
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Julia Shapero / The Hill:   Georgia judge: Trump grand jury panelists ‘can talk about the final report’
CNN:
Top Republicans question McCarthy over release of January 6 footage as speaker vows deliberate approach  —  Speaker Kevin McCarthy faced questions from his leadership team Monday night over his plans to publicly release security footage from January 6, 2021, multiple sources told CNN …
Discussion: emptywheel
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Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
As CPAC's head faces sexual assault claim, other leadership concerns emerge  —  Matt Schlapp, who runs the Conservative Political Action Conference, has been backed by prominent Republicans but some staffers complain of a ‘toxic’ culture  —  For nearly a decade, Matt Schlapp has captained …
Don Van Natta Jr / ESPN:
How a disputed $55M loan plays into feds' probe of Commanders  —  DANIEL SNYDER'S FINAL breakup from his longtime minority partners in Washington's NFL franchise began with a footnote in an April 2020 financial report.  —  The note revealed a $55 million credit line the team had taken …
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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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Matt Lavietes / NBC News:
Tennessee governor appears to have dressed in drag, an art form he wants to restrict  —  By the time Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee confirmed Monday that he would sign a recently passed bill criminalizing drag performances in public and in front of children, a photo that appears to show him dressed …
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Josh Keefe / The Tennessean:
Gov. Bill Lee will sign drag bill, reacts to yearbook photo showing him dressed as a woman
Discussion: Washington Post and ibtimes.sg
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Calling the Police: Lightfoot Needs A Lifeline  —  CHICAGO — In grave danger of becoming the first Chicago mayor defeated in 40 years, Lori Lightfoot stood before an audience of mostly her fellow Black women at a union hall here Saturday and issued a warning about the left-wing challenger who's threatening …
Jon Victor / The Information:
Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival  —  Elon Musk has approached artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, the high-profile chatbot made by the startup OpenAI, according to two people …
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 …
Matt Young / The Daily Beast:
MTG Couldn't Care Less About Those Who Died in Turkey's Earthquake  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was just one of two of a total 414 members of the House to vote against a bipartisan resolution to mourn the 50,000 lives lost during the earthquake crisis in Syria and Turkey.
Discussion: HuffPost, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Josh Hawley's False Choice  —  For a guy who says we should do less for Ukraine and more for America's working people, he sure doesn't support policies that help the working people.  —  Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has been trending, sadly, for presenting a false and dangerous choice …
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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court weighs Biden student loan plan worth billions  —  1 of 3  —  The Supreme Court is taking up a partisan legal fight over President Joe Biden's plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans.  The high court, with its 6-3 conservative majority …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Feds Inadvertently Reveal They're Looking Into Trump's Shady ‘Recount’ Campaign  —  It started with a FOIA looking for answers about Trump's recount efforts.  It revealed that the FEC is looking into these questions itself. … When the Federal Elections Commission rejected a recent Freedom …
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Just how big is the Always Trump component of the Republican Party?  —  Chris Sununu, the New Hampshire governor and potential presidential candidate who once joked that former President Donald Trump is “fucking crazy,” backpedaled and pledged recently to support Trump if he's the nominee in 2024.
Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
Slotkin raises $1.2M on first day of Senate campaign  —  Washington ― U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin raised over $1.2 million on the first day of her campaign for U.S. Senate on Monday, her campaign said.  —  It's a significant show of support that the Lansing Democrat hopes will help propel …
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
The conservative battle against ‘woke’ banks is backfiring  —  States and cities fear that blacklisting financial giants for their climate policies will hurt their bottom line, because of reduced competition  —  Conservatives have long held that the government should avoid interfering with private business decisions.
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden's new deficit hawk persona has some progressives feeling some bad deja vu  —  Joe Biden spent the last two years pursuing and enacting massive domestic programs meant to remake the U.S. economy.  But as he prepares a run for reelection, Biden is trying out a new economic persona: deficit hawk.
Discussion: Axios and New Republic
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 …
Discussion: The Corsair and The Honest Broker
Allie Morris / Dallas Morning News:
Texan young adults can now get licensed to carry handguns at college campuses, businesses  —  The change in handgun policy comes after a federal judge toppled the state's age restrictions.  —  AUSTIN — A new kind of student is showing up in handgun instructor Michael Cargill's classroom: teenagers.
Discussion: Fox News
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.”
Discussion: PinkNews, Alternet.org and Mediaite
 
 
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Politico:
The Trump vs. DeSantis proxy battle shapes up with dueling CPAC vs. Club for Growth events
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
How Biden's ‘Green Energy Economy’ is Benefiting Left-Wing Billionaires
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
The Shocking, Sickening Reality of Child Labor in America
Chelsey Cox / CNBC:
Top Senate Democrats press Chamber of Commerce on threat to sue FTC over noncompete clause ban
Discussion: Monopoly in Minnesota
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
National Poll: 71% of Democratic Voters Think Biden Should Be 2024 Nominee
Discussion: The Hill
Punchbowl News AM:
Senate plots AUMF repeal
Discussion: Fox News and NPR
 Earlier Items: 
Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
Old Racist Gun Laws Enter Modern-Day Legal Battles
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Pelosi, Hoyer and Clyburn have stepped down — but not aside
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Regulatory Deluge
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Netanyahu Is Shattering Israeli Society
Discussion: Associated Press
Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
Hamstrung by ‘golden handcuffs’: Diversity roles disappear 3 years after George Floyd's murder inspired them
Discussion: The Daily Caller and HotAir
NBC News:
U.S. Marshals Service suffers ‘major’ security breach that compromises sensitive information, senior law enforcement officials say
 

 
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Athena Stavrou / The Independent:
More than 230 media industry professionals, including anonymous BBC staff, sign a letter accusing the BBC of bias favoring Israel in coverage of Gaza

Devin Gordon / New York Times:
AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs

Ben Jacobs / Slate:
A profile of John Avlon, former CNN anchor, former Daily Beast EIC, former speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani, and now a congressional candidate running in New York

 
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