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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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The other way Rupert Murdoch tried to tip the scales for Trump  —  Donald Trump couldn't have asked for much more from Fox News over the course of the 2020 presidential election — or, really, over the course of his presidency.  From start to finish, Fox News-viewing Republicans …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch's big admission about Fox News
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
You probably won't get any student loan relief, thanks to a GOP-controlled Supreme Court  —  At the end of the day, the most important question in US law is which political party controls the Supreme Court.  —  If you were hoping that your student loans would be forgiven under a program …
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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 …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Conservative Supreme Court justices seem skeptical of Biden's student loan forgiveness plan
CNN:
Takeaways from the Supreme Court oral arguments in cases challenging Biden's student debt relief plan
New York Times:
‘Sometimes Things Break’: Twitter Outages Are on the Rise  —  Elon Musk's repeated job cuts are stoking new fears that there aren't enough people to triage Twitter's problems.  —  After Elon Musk bought Twitter last year and eliminated thousands of its employees, many users were so alarmed …
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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Associated Press:
Biden to nominate Julie Su as next US labor secretary
The White House:
President Biden Nominates Julie Su for Secretary of the Department of Labor
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Ignore the Noise.  It's Still Trump's Nomination to Lose  —  Start your day with TPM.  —  Every day we see more evidence that Donald Trump has jumped the shark — poor fundraising, deteriorating elite GOP support, mounting criminal legal peril and more.  Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis …
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Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
2024 poll: DeSantis slides as Trump surges to 1st head-to-head lead in months  —  The Florida governor's lead over the former president has evaporated, with Trump now leading DeSantis 47% to 39%.  —  Read full article … 45th President of the United States  —  American politician
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Emily Heil / Washington Post:
The Bidens ordered the same dish at a restaurant.  Who does that?  —  Where and what presidents eat is an enduring fascination.  We love to scrutinize former president Donald Trump's ketchup-doused steaks or the Obamas' penchant for culinary hot spots.  —  And so when President Biden and his wife …
Julia Marsh / Politico:
Eric Adams: ‘When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools’  —  At an interfaith breakfast Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams seemed to regret the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned school-sponsored prayer in 1962.  —  “When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools …
Discussion: Raw Story, Gothamist and The City
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Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
NYC Mayor Adams dismisses separation of church and state principle, declares himself ‘a servant of God’
Discussion: New York Post, Gothamist and PIX11
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Paul Ryan, Fox News, and the Future of the GOP  —  My conversation with the former speaker.  —  David French (quite accurately) calls it “one of the worst media scandals of my lifetime.”  And, indeed, Monday was a helluva day for Fox News, and a certain member of its corporate board.
Juliana Kim / NPR:
Cartoonists say a rebuke of ‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams is long overdue  —  Cartoonists across the country are applauding editors and publishers for condemning Scott Adams, the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, after his recent tirade against Black Americans.
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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 …
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 …
Idrees Ali / Reuters:
Iran can make fissile material for a bomb ‘in about 12 days’ - U.S. official  —  Iran could make enough fissile for one nuclear bomb in “about 12 days,” a top U.S. Defense Department official said on Tuesday, down from the estimated one year it would have taken while the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was in effect.
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.
Alec Karam / The Daily Beast:
GOP Congressman Claimed He's an Economist.  He Took One Class—and Got a C.  —  ‘I WAS MISTAKEN’  —  Freshman Republican Rep. Andy Ogles (TN) says he's a trained economist, but in reality, he only took one community college course on the subject—and he got a C, a transcript obtained by NewsChannel 5 in Nashville revealed.
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 …
Maryam Afshang / BBC:
Iran investigates poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls with toxic gas  —  Almost 700 girls have been poisoned by toxic gas in Iran since November, in what many believe is a deliberate attempt to force their schools to shut.  —  No girls have died, but dozens have suffered respiratory problems, nausea, dizziness and fatigue.
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer to Restructure Its German Business as It Shifts Focus to U.S.  —  The media conglomerate aims to eliminate print editions and become digital-only publisher  —  BERLIN—The German owner of Politico and other U.S. outlets announced a restructuring of its domestic operation …
Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal:
As Americans Work From Home, Europeans and Asians Head Back to the Office  —  Return-to-office rates in Paris and Tokyo have climbed to over 75%, while U.S. often sits around half  —  While U.S. offices are half empty three years into the Covid-19 pandemic, workplaces in Europe and Asia are bustling again.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Underrecognized: Extremist murders are usually from right-wing actors  —  Even before the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, even further back than the Trump administration, federal authorities have been fretting about the threat of violence committed by domestic extremists.
NBC News:
Democrats push to end security exemption on Capitol Hill as Republicans demand the right to carry guns  —  WASHINGTON — Staff Sgt. Aquilino Gonell recently retired from the U.S. Capitol Police after he was injured in the Jan. 6 attack.  But he remains worried about one, seemingly small …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Insider and The Daily Caller
Mike Wright / Florida Politics:
Blaise Ingoglia bill would ‘cancel’ Democratic Party … Mike Wright  —  Mike Wright is a former reporter with the Citrus County Chronicle, where he had covered county government and politics since 1987.  Mike's skills as an investigative reporter earned him first-place awards in investigative writing.
Samuel J. Abrams / Reason:
40 Percent of Liberal Professors Are Afraid They'll Lose Their Jobs Over a Misunderstanding  —  As the academy gets younger it grows more authoritarian, according to a new survey of over 1,400 faculty members conducted by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
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 …
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
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 …
David Edwards / Alternet.org:
'That's weaponization': Dem smacks down Jim Jordan for ignoring Trump DOJ corruption  —  Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) called out House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) because he had no plans to investigate abuses at the Justice Department during the Trump administration.
 
 
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