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Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Between Rounds of Golf, Trump's Searching for the Perfect DeSantis Diss — Holed up at his resort in Palm Beach, Florida, former President Donald Trump spends many mornings golfing and then, in the afternoons, plots his political comeback. — Maybe he'll shoot videos on policy proposals for his latest presidential campaign.
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New York Times:
Eyeing DeSantis, Trump Readies for a Long Primary Battle — Donald Trump will be basking in affection from activists at CPAC on Saturday. But his campaign is preparing for an ugly, protracted primary fight for the nomination. — OXON HILL, Md. — Inside the MAGA-clad corridors …
CNN:
Trump seeks to block Pence's grand jury testimony in 2020 election interference probe — Former President Donald Trump has asked a federal court to block former Vice President Mike Pence from speaking to a grand jury about certain matters covered by executive privilege as part …
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Mediaite, National Review, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Twitter's Revenue, Adjusted Earnings Fell About 40% in Month of December — The company recently made a first interest payment to banks that lent $13 billion to help pay for Elon Musk's buyout, people familiar with the matter said — Twitter Inc. reported a drop in revenue and adjusted earnings …
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Erin Woo / The Information:
Musk Delayed Paying Twitter's Amazon Cloud Bill, Sparking Ad Threat — Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter is squeezing to save money are also its advertising clients. — As recently as last month …
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
The last New Jersey reporter on Capitol Hill just got laid off — Jonathan Salant covered Washington on behalf of Newark's Star-Ledger for a decade. Now, the same elected officials he scrutinized are protesting the decision to eliminate his job. — Anyone elected to Congress from New Jersey …
Ruby Cramer / Washington Post:
A life in Congress: Lauren Underwood learns what it costs — As a single Black woman in the House, the 36-year-old Illinois Democrat tries to balance who she is versus what she does. — Was this what she signed up for? — Not exactly. But Lauren Underwood was here to do the job …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi untethered: The former speaker revels in newfound freedom — The former speaker isn't in charge of anything now but is doing exactly what she wants in what some call ‘Pelosi 3.0’ — BALTIMORE — Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) felt that sense of tension, or agita as her Italian family might say …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Former Trump Adviser Kellyanne Conway and George Conway Are Planning to Divorce — The political odd couple had bewildered Washington when Ms. Conway was serving as an adviser to President Donald J. Trump and her husband was one of his fiercest critics. — WASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway …
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Kellyanne Conway and George Conway to divorce after 22 years of marriage
Kellyanne Conway and George Conway to divorce after 22 years of marriage
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Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway's Hubby Shades Trump After Divorce Reports
Kellyanne Conway's Hubby Shades Trump After Divorce Reports
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
At CPAC, A Call For Trans People To Be ‘Eradicated’ Gets Big Cheers — The conservative movement's annual confab was creepily obsessed with trans kids and showcased the GOP's alarming and intensifying anti-trans rhetoric. — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Thousands of conservatives …
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Mother Jones, RedState, Rolling Stone, Jezebel, Washington Examiner and Just The News
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Dems want to cut Fox off after lawsuit revelations — The thunderclap of stories showing Fox News' role in pushing 2020 election fraud conspiracies and aiding Donald Trump's campaign has intensified calls among Democrats to black out the network. — The revelations, made public as part …
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Political Wire and New Republic
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Republicans at CPAC make false claims about Biden, Zelensky, the FBI and children — The Conservative Political Action Conference is underway in Maryland. And the members of Congress, former government officials and conservative personalities who spoke at the conference on Thursday …
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Alternet.org, Mediaite, Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Syria mission worth the risk, top U.S. general says after rare visit — The nearly eight-year-old U.S. deployment to Syria to combat Islamic State is still worth the risk, the top U.S. military officer said on Saturday, after a rare, unannounced visit to a dusty base in the country's northeast to meet U.S. troops.
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New York Times, Associated Press, nationalinterest.org and The New Arab
NBC News:
Biden bucks liberals and tells Democrats to get tough on crime — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's decision Thursday on a local crime law is sending a national message to fellow Democrats about how he thinks they should address Republican criticism of the nation's rising crime rates.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Use Arcane Political Tactic to Thwart Democrats
Republicans Use Arcane Political Tactic to Thwart Democrats
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Axios, The Hill, Roll Call, Washington Examiner, New Republic, Becker Brief, The Western Journal, New York Magazine, DCist and Fox News
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
Former Army Private Sentenced to 45 Years in Neo-Nazi Plot to Kill Soldiers — Prosecutors said he planned an attack on his own U.S. Army unit, sharing sensitive details about it with a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and pro-jihadist group. — A former U.S. Army private was sentenced on Friday …
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Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
Race to get last children out of Bakhmut as city becomes ‘hell on earth’ — With Russian forces closing in, police try to persuade remaining citizens to get out and access routes come under fire — War breeds euphemism and metaphor. In the battle for the Donbas city of Bakhmut …
NBC News:
Marianne Williamson announces another longshot presidential bid — Marianne Williamson, the self-help author and spiritual adviser, launched her 2024 presidential campaign Saturday in an unlikely space: Union Station, the Washington, D.C., transportation hub where commuters catch Amtrak and metro trains.
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Susannah George / Washington Post:
Divorced and remarried, these Afghan women are outlaws under Taliban rule — Taliban law has voided thousands of divorces, experts say, and many remarried women are now considered adulterers — KABUL — After her stepfather sold her into marriage at the age of 13 to support his drug habit …
Hayden Vernon / The Guardian:
Russian minister's claim Ukraine war ‘launched against us’ met with laughter — Sergei Lavrov says Moscow ‘trying to stop’ war in remarks at India's Raisina Dialogue conference — Comments by Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, were met with laughter at an international conference in India …
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NPR, Washington Examiner, Insider, Washington Post and Talking Points Memo
iaea.org:
Joint Statement by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) — Video Video of (2023-03-04) Press Conference with IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi — IAEA Director General H. E. Mr. Rafael Mariano Grossi visited the Islamic Republic of Iran on 3 and 4 March 2023.
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Politico, Al Jazeera, Sputnik News, The Times of Israel, Reuters, El País and TASS
Washington Post:
In a crowded place, a face mask or respirator keeps the virus away — The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, a respected biomedical journal, surprised the public recently with a peer-reviewed article raising doubts about the effectiveness of wearing face masks and respirators during the pandemic.
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Outside the Beltway, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, Bridge Michigan and The Atlantic
Fox News:
Former Vice President Mike Pence reveals his potential 2024 advantage if he launches a White House run … Mike Pence on his potential 2024 presidential advantage: ‘The American people love competition’ — PALM BEACH, Fla. - EXCLUSIVE: Former Vice President Mike Pence says Republican voters' familiarity …
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Washington Examiner and CBS News
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
A man dies of a brain-eating amoeba, possibly from rinsing his sinuses with tap water — A man in southwest Florida died after becoming infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba, which state health officials say was “possibly as a result of sinus rinse practices utilizing tap water.”
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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
U.S. court says French, Swiss groups cannot restrict ‘gruyere’ cheese label — The name “gruyere” can be used to label cheeses from outside of the Gruyère region of Switzerland and France, a U.S. appeals court said on Friday, in a victory for U.S. dairy groups and others.
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert / Insider:
Florida courts could take ‘emergency’ custody of kids with trans parents or siblings — even if they live in another state — Florida Senate Bill 254 would grant courts emergency custody of kids who receive gender-affirming care. — The bill, introduced Friday, would also allow …