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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Trump Loses It Over Murdoch's Admission About Fox Hosts Endorsing Big Lie — ‘KILLING HIS CASE’ — Donald Trump is furious with his former ally Rupert Murdoch after the media mogul made astonishing admissions that some of his Fox News hosts “endorsed” lies that the 2020 election had been “stolen.”
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Feds Inadvertently Reveal They're Looking Into Trump's Shady ‘Recount’ Campaign
Feds Inadvertently Reveal They're Looking Into Trump's Shady ‘Recount’ Campaign
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Raw Story
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Rupert Murdoch says Fox stars ‘endorsed’ lies about 2020. He chose not to stop them
Rupert Murdoch says Fox stars ‘endorsed’ lies about 2020. He chose not to stop them
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Media Matters for America, Raw Story and Washington Post
New York Times:
Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods
Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods
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Tom Porter / Insider:
A Murdoch advisor said the ‘booze’ had got to Giuliani following his ‘unhinged’ rants about the 2020 election
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch's big admission about Fox News
Rupert Murdoch's big admission about Fox News
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Raw Story and emptywheel
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Fox could be on the hook for campaign finance violations after new court docs drop: former FBI agent
Fox could be on the hook for campaign finance violations after new court docs drop: former FBI agent
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Politico:
House GOP moving to let Jan. 6 defendants access Capitol security footage — House Republicans are moving to provide defendants in Jan. 6-related cases access to thousands of hours of internal Capitol security footage, a move that could influence many of the ongoing prosecutions stemming from 2021's violent attack.
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Politico:
Biden to tap Julie Su as next Labor secretary — President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he would nominate Julie Su to be his next Labor secretary, moving swiftly to fill a coming vacancy within his cabinet. — “It is my honor to nominate Julie Su to be our country's next Secretary of Labor,” Biden said in a statement.
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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.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Live Updates: Supreme Court Skeptical of Biden's Student Loan Cancellation Plan — The Biden administration wants to wipe out $400 billion in student debt by forgiving up to $20,000 per borrower. Six Republican-dominated states — Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina …
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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 …
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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
Gov. Bill Lee will sign drag bill, reacts to yearbook photo showing him dressed as a woman
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Washington Post and ibtimes.sg
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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Kimberly Leonard / Insider:
DeSantis' new memoir skips juicy details about his life that could emerge in a presidential bid. Here's what he left out. — DeSantis published his first memoir, “The Courage to Be Free,” on Tuesday — The book is widely viewed as laying the groundwork for a presidential run.
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Newsbusters, HuffPost, Hackwhackers, Orlando Sentinel, RedState, Florida's Voice, Raw Story and New York Times
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
DeSantis to Visit Early Primary States, Selling His Florida Record
DeSantis to Visit Early Primary States, Selling His Florida Record
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Axios
Mother Jones:
Another Santos Scandal? He Diverted Voter Registration Money to a GOP-Allied Gay Rights Site — Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. — During Rep. George Santos' second run for a congressional seat on Long Island …
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Joe Manchin will oppose DC crime law, signaling GOP efforts to rescind it will likely prevail — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia told CNN Monday he will vote to rescind a controversial Washington, DC, crime law - which critics argue is soft on violent criminals - when it comes up for a vote in the Senate, likely next week.
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Politico, Fox News, Washington Times and The Daily Caller
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden's new deficit hawk persona has some progressives feeling some bad deja vu
Biden's new deficit hawk persona has some progressives feeling some bad deja vu
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CNBC, Axios and New Republic
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Biden Could Face Veto Test Over Contentious D.C. Crime Bill
Biden Could Face Veto Test Over Contentious D.C. Crime Bill
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E&E, Breitbart, The Hill, One America News Network and Fox News
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 …
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Raw Story, New York Daily News, Washington Times, Mediaite, The Daily Beast and Just The News
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.
Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
Smith and Wesson Forced to Clarify It's Not Advertising With the Proud Boys — The gun manufacturer came under fire for tweeting out a photo of a man wearing a black T-shirt with the letters “PB” in yellow. — Mack Lamoureux — Gun manufacturer Smith and Wesson is under fire for promoting …
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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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Washington Examiner, The Hill, National Review, Talking Points Memo, Just The News, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire
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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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
More think COVID came from Chinese lab than occurred naturally: poll
More think COVID came from Chinese lab than occurred naturally: poll
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Tangle, Morning Consult, Associated Press, WWLP-TV and Twitchy
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 …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
ACLU urges US lawmakers not to ban TikTok, citing free speech — The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday urged Congress not to ban the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, saying it would violate the free speech rights of millions of Americans, a day before a U.S. House of Representatives committee is to take up legislation.
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Laurence Norman / Wall Street Journal:
U.N. Agency Confirms Iran Produced Enriched Uranium Close to Weapons Grade — Agency says discussions with Iran are under way to ‘clarify the matter’ — The United Nations atomic agency confirmed Tuesday that its inspectors had found traces of near weapons-grade nuclear material …
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Susie Blann / Associated Press:
Flurry of drone strikes hits Russia as TV, radio are hacked — 1 of 2 — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered officials to tighten control of the border with Ukraine after a spate of drone attacks that Russian authorities blamed on Kyiv delivered a new challenge to Moscow …
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Anil Dash:
The tech tycoon martyrdom charade — I've been saying this for a few years now, but it's worth recording here for the record: It's impossible to overstate the degree to which many big tech CEOs and venture capitalists are being radicalized by living within their own cultural and social bubble.
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Eschaton
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
National Poll: 71% of Democratic Voters Think Biden Should Be 2024 Nominee — Home Polls National Poll: 71% of Democratic Voters Think Biden Should Be 2024 Nominee — Trump Maintains Lead While DeSantis Makes Inroads In the Midwest & with Hispanics in GOP Primary
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The Hill, The Daily Caller and Althouse
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 …
Danielle Allen / Washington Post:
The House was supposed to grow with population. It didn't. Let's fix that. — What if we increased the size of the House? — Given that most of us are pretty frustrated with Congress, this might sound crazy. But growing the House of Representatives is the key to unlocking …
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Administration Urges Congress to Renew Spy Law — Officials say controversial surveillance power once used chiefly to stymie terrorists is vital to combating hackers and rivals like China — WASHINGTON—Top Biden administration officials urged Congress to renew an expiring surveillance law …
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New York Times, Department of Justice, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Politico and Political Wire
Mike DeForest / WKMG:
DeSantis ‘review’ of public records can add months of delays, newly uncovered log reveals — State agencies sent hundreds of records to governor's legal team for review before release, documents show — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' practice of “reviewing” …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pa. has its own ‘East Palestine.’ It's not a train. — After weeks of encouraging bans and restrictions that literally emptied shelves in a few school libraries, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has decided to try something very different on the book front: He wrote one.
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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