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Sam Sachs / WFLA-TV:
Florida bill would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state — TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Sen. Jason Brodeur (R-Lake Mary) wants bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, and other members of the Florida executive cabinet …
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Deadline, Washington Press and City & State Florida
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Trump can be sued by police over Jan. 6 riot, Justice Department says — Two U.S. Capitol Police officers and 11 Democratic House members are seeking to hold Donald Trump liable for injuries they suffered during the riot. — Former president Donald Trump can be held liable in court …
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Jacqueline Thomsen / Reuters:
US Justice Dept seeks rejection of Trump immunity claim in Jan. 6 lawsuits
US Justice Dept seeks rejection of Trump immunity claim in Jan. 6 lawsuits
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New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, Roll Call and Slate
Associated Press:
Justice Dept: Trump can be sued by police for Jan. 6 actions
Justice Dept: Trump can be sued by police for Jan. 6 actions
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Justice Department pushes back on Trump's sweeping claims of presidential immunity for January 6 speech
Justice Department pushes back on Trump's sweeping claims of presidential immunity for January 6 speech
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UPI, USA Today, Washington Examiner, ABC News, Law & Crime, The Hill, emptywheel, Alternet.org, Mediaite and New Republic
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Pence won't say whether he'd support Trump as 2024 nominee
Pence won't say whether he'd support Trump as 2024 nominee
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The Guardian, Politics Extra and Fox News
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Biden says he will sign resolution blocking D.C. crime law — President Biden said Thursday he would sign a GOP-led resolution to block changes to Washington, D.C.'s local criminal code that reduce maximum penalties for some violent crimes. … “If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did - I'll sign it.”
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Colleen Long / Associated Press:
AP sources: Biden not expected to veto GOP effort on DC laws
AP sources: Biden not expected to veto GOP effort on DC laws
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Washington Post:
Biden says he would sign GOP-led resolution blocking D.C. crime bill
Biden says he would sign GOP-led resolution blocking D.C. crime bill
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Representative Eleanor …, Breitbart and The Hill
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Biden tells Democratic senators he won't veto effort to rescind DC crime law
Biden tells Democratic senators he won't veto effort to rescind DC crime law
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House Committee on Ethics:
Statement of the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics Regarding Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Pursuant to Committee Rule 7, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics (Committee) determined to release the following statement:
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Zach Everson / Forbes:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Likely Violated Ethics Laws With Met Gala Appearance, Says House Ethics Office — The House Office of Congressional Ethics found “substantial reason to believe” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) “may have accepted impermissible gifts associated with her attendance …
Associated Press:
Alex Murdaugh convicted of murder in shootings of wife, son — 1 of 18 — Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murder Thursday in the shooting deaths of his wife and son in a case that chronicled the unraveling of a powerful Southern family with tales of privilege, greed and addiction.
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Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Jury reaches verdict in Alex Murdaugh double murder trial
Jury reaches verdict in Alex Murdaugh double murder trial
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Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:
Jury Finds Murdaugh Guilty of Murdering Wife and Son: Live Updates
Jury Finds Murdaugh Guilty of Murdering Wife and Son: Live Updates
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Semafor, Just The News, Forbes and CBS News
Dan Barry / New York Times:
Once the World's Largest, a Hotel Goes ‘Poof!’ Before Our Eyes — The Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan was a virtual city within a city. But in the end, nothing could save it. — Bit by bit, floor by floor, the building that once rose 22 stories over Penn Station is shrinking before the city's very eyes.
Fox News:
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein hospitalized in San Francisco … Sen. Feinstein thanks Sen. Graham for ‘one of the best set of hearings’ — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is receiving treatment for shingles in a California hospital, Fox News Digital has confirmed.
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Shira Stein / San Francisco Chronicle:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is hospitalized in San Francisco amid ongoing health matter — Sen. Dianne Feinstein is receiving treatment for shingles in a San Francisco hospital, her spokesperson told The Chronicle Thursday. — Feinstein was diagnosed with the virus in late February and is expected to make a full recovery.
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Mitchell Schmidt / Wisconsin State Journal:
Trump attorney reappointed to state Supreme Court judicial conduct advisory committee — Attorney Jim Troupis, who was involved in the 2020 scheme to put Republican electors in place in several states, including Wisconsin, to deliver Electoral College votes for former President Donald Trump …
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Andrea Drusch / San Antonio Report:
U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales faces censure vote by Republican Party of Texas — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) — This story has been updated. — The Republican Party of Texas is expected to vote on whether to censure U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-San Antonio) …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Texas Republicans to vote on resolution that would censure Rep. Tony Gonzales
Texas Republicans to vote on resolution that would censure Rep. Tony Gonzales
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Vivek Saxena / American Wire News:
Teacher with prosthetic Z-cups placed on leave from class, accused of dressing like a man outside work — Kayla Lemieux, the biological male high school teacher who became famous for strutting around school dressed as a woman with z-size prosthetic breasts, has reportedly been placed on leave from Oakville Trafalgar High School.
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Daily Mail, Toronto Sun, New York Post, The Post Millennial, Louder With Crowder, Not the Bee, National Review, Fox News, The Daily Caller and PJ Media
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Finally, Democrats appear ready to wage war on Fox News — For years, Democrats have been deeply conflicted about Fox News. At times, they've shunned the network as an irredeemable source of disinformation, boycotting it or banning it from covering Democratic presidential primary debates.
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Politico, TVNewser, Alternet.org and Media Matters for America
New York Times:
House Ethics Committee Opens Inquiry Into George Santos — The House Ethics Committee unanimously voted to authorize an investigation into whether Mr. Santos broke various laws or engaged in sexual misconduct. — The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday that it had opened an investigation …
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
House Ethics Committee launches George Santos investigation
House Ethics Committee launches George Santos investigation
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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
The Useful Idiots Fueling the Right-Wing Transphobia Panic — Today on TAP: Prominent center-left journalists were swindled by obvious nonsense about a St. Louis gender clinic. — A child holds trans pride flags at a gathering on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson to protest House Bill 1125 …
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New York Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Missouri Independent
College Park, MD:
City Statement on Mayor Wojahn's Resignation — Statement on Mayor Wojahn's Resignation — College Park, MD, March 2, 2023 - Last night, after business hours, Mayor Patrick L. Wojahn submitted his letter of resignation as Mayor of the City of College Park, effective immediately on March 2.
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Reuters:
U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk's bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks — Musk has said his brain implant company, Neuralink, will make the paralyzed walk, the blind see and eventually turn people into cyborgs. But the firm still struggles to secure clinical-trial approval …
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Walgreens won't distribute abortion pills in some states where they remain legal — The nation's second-largest pharmacy chain confirmed Thursday that it will not dispense abortion pills in several states where they remain legal — acting out of an abundance of caution amid a shifting policy landscape …
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KXAN-TV and LifeNews.com
Lane Brown / Vulture:
Bad Projection Is Ruining the Movie Theater Experience — Multiplexes are failing at their most basic function: delivering a bright, sharp image. — Michelle Pfeiffer and Jonathan Majors look like crap. Usually, they're two of the most radiant, dermatologically exceptional people in the world.
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Kansas Reflector
Murray Waas / Rule of Law:
EXCLUSIVE: After he left office, Donald Trump ordered his chief of staff to leak classified information to the press about an FBI agent and other adversaries. Experts believe that may be a felony. — Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Getty — Earlier stories on the Russia papers: Part 2, Part 1.
Scott Dance / Washington Post:
EPA orders testing for highly toxic dioxins at Ohio derailment site — The agency ordered rail company Norfolk Southern to test the Ohio derailment area for dioxins, a dangerous and persistent class of pollutants — After weeks of questions about contamination associated with a train derailment …
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New York Times, American Prospect, WKBN-TV, EPA News Releases, The Guardian, The Daily Caller and Breitbart
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
How Gisele Fetterman became the right wing's favorite super villain — Tucker Carlson and others use a familiar blame-women tactic. — I started my twice-a-decade rereading of “The Handmaid's Tale” a few nights ago, and one scene that sticks out every time I pick up the book …
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RedState
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Please Lie to Me, Tucker — Fox News isn't news at all. — Oh, how conservatives loved to hate the media. I witnessed it firsthand for decades. In any speech before a conservative audience, the jokes about media bias got the loudest laughs and heartiest applause.
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Chicago Sun-Times, Raw Story and Alternet.org
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Hasan Minhaj Quits Twitter ‘Hellscape’ Live on ‘Daily Show’ — “What happened to the mass exodus when Elon took over?” the guest host asked before deciding to lead the charge himself. — In his 2022 Netflix special The King's Jester, comedian Hasan Minhaj confessed that the pursuit …
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Fox News
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
FBI's Christopher Wray excuses armed raid against cooperative pro-lifer — Add FBI Director Christopher Wray to the list of major officials justifying a dangerously armed arrest of a peaceful pro-life activist. And Wray, like Attorney General Merrick Garland, refused to explain why a pre-dawn SWAT raid was necessary.
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PJ Media, RedState, The Post Millennial, Liberty Nation, Fox News, Slate, American Greatness, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and New York Post
CNN:
Jim Jordan's first FBI whistleblowers face scrutiny from skeptical Democrats — In his quest to prove the federal government has been “weaponized” against conservatives, Republican House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has touted the allegations of what he claims are “dozens” …
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Obama praises woman behind ‘Fired up’ chant as she retires — 1 of 2 — Former President Barack Obama, marking the retirement of the woman credited with popularizing the chant “Fired up, ready to go!” that epitomized his campaigns, says her energy played a key role in lifting his spirits and his candidacy.
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Obama Foundation, NBC News and The Hill
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
DeSantis Cronies Force College to Close Diversity Office — If Ron DeSantis has his way, what his board did at New College will happen at every public university in Florida. — Cameron Joseph — WASHINGTON, US — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' handpicked board of trustees voted to shutter …
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HotAir, The Daily Beast and The Root