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8:35 PM ET, March 4, 2023

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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Inside the Panic at Fox News After the 2020 Election  —  “If we hadn't called Arizona,” said Suzanne Scott, the network's chief executive, according to a recording reviewed by The New York Times, “our ratings would have been bigger.”  —  WASHINGTON — A little more than a week …
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Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Fox News Is Trapped by Its Own Zealotry  —  The HBO drama “Succession” might be a fictional corollary to the machinations of Rupert Murdoch's Fox empire.  But when it comes specifically to Fox News, “The Righteous Gemstones,” an HBO show about a family managing its skeevy, sprawling, megachurch business may be a more apt model.
Laura Jedeed / New Republic:
The Sad, Desolate Scenes of CPAC 2023  —  “It's so great to see everyone here, and it's so great to see a packed house, too!”  —  It is approximately 11:15 AM in Washington DC, and investigative reporter Sara Carter is lying.  The house is never crowded this early on the first day of CPAC …
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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 …
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 …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump easily wins CPAC straw poll  —  Former President Donald Trump easily won the Conservative Political Action Conference's (CPAC) closely watched straw poll on Saturday, notching a symbolic win among the Republican grassroots as he seeks to reclaim the White House in 2024.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Asks Judge to Block Pence's Testimony to Grand Jury
Discussion: USA Today and Mediaite
Bar Peleg / Haaretz:
‘Good Evening, Anarchists and Terrorists’ |  Record Number of Israelis Protest Against Netanyahu's Judicial Coup  —  Despite the force used by police against protesters on Wednesday, up to 150,000 people arrived to the central Tel Aviv demonstration ■ Police use water cannons against Tel Aviv protesters who blocked highway
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Josh Breiner / Haaretz:
Israeli Pro-democracy Protests Enter Ninth Week as Police Ramp Up Forces in Tel Aviv
Discussion: The Times of Israel
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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Wall Street Journal:
Twitter's Revenue, Adjusted Earnings Fell About 40% in Month of December
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 …
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.
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Publishers Weekly
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 …
Katie Hawkinson / The Daily Beast:
Michael Knowles Says Transgenderism Must Be ‘Eradicated’ at CPAC  —  The transphobic tirade at the Conservative Political Action Conference prompted horror from a variety of people, with many calling the comment ‘genocidal.’  —  Michael Knowles—right-wing political commentator associated …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Nicky Robertson / CNN:
Texas GOP censures Republican congressman for ‘lack of fidelity’ to party principles and priorities  —  Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas was censured Saturday by the state GOP for “for lack of fidelity to Republican principles and priorities,” the party announced.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, Politico and Reuters
 
 
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