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NBC News:
‘Bulls—’: GOP senators rebuke Tucker Carlson for downplaying Jan. 6 as ‘mostly peaceful’  —  WASHINGTON — A handful of Senate Republicans on Tuesday pushed back on conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson after he characterized the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as “mostly peaceful chaos …
CNN:
‘They scaled walls, they brought ropes’: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's own words contradict January 6 footage used by Tucker Carlson  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy once spoke about the violence at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, in starkly different terms than the narrative Fox …
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
US Senator Schumer condemns Speaker McCarthy for supplying Jan.6 videos to Fox  —  U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday accused House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy of helping Fox News stoke conspiracy theories by providing videos used by the cable network to portray the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters as peaceful.
Noah Rothman / National Review:
Tucker Carlson's January 6 Revisionist History  —  Those who are ‘just asking questions’ about January 6 don't seem much interested in the answers they're soliciting.  —  The riots in and around the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, might be the most extensively photographed act of mass violence in the nation's history.
CNN:
US Capitol Police chief rips into Tucker Carlson over ‘offensive’ use of January 6 footage
Washington Post:   ‘Just a lie’: Senate Republicans blast Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 narrative
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Elon Musk Goes All In On Jan. 6 Denial
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Intelligence contractor who praised Nazis found guilty in Jan. 6 riot
Discussion: CNN
Politico:
House GOP faces a new Jan. 6 headache, courtesy of Tucker Carlson
Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump ‘passionately’, Fox lawsuit documents show … Among the documents released Tuesday as part of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems was an email from Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott …
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New York Times:
‘The Whole Thing Seems Insane’: New Documents Shed Light on Debate Inside Fox After Election  —  Messages and depositions from the network's stars like Tucker Carlson revealed serious misgivings about claims of election fraud even as some of the hosts told their audiences of millions a very different story.
Discussion: The Wrap and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Murdoch confided Trump was going ‘increasingly mad’ as Fox pushed false claims  —  The media executive's astonishingly candid assessments are found in thousands of pages of internal Fox documents released as part of a lawsuit by Dominion  —  In the weeks after the November 2020 election …
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
‘F—ing b—’: Tucker Carlson unloads on Sidney Powell in jaw-dropping unsealed exhibits  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson savaged conspiracy theorist lawyer Sidney Powell in jaw-dropping unsealed messages released in Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.
Discussion: CNN, Insider, ABC News and New York Post
Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk's Internal Communications, Journalist Names  —  Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter's compliance with settlement  —  Watch: Elon Musk Says a New Twitter CEO Could Be Named by Year-End
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New York Times:
F.T.C. Intensifies Investigation of Twitter's Privacy Practices  —  The commission is seeking an interview with Elon Musk, who has made major cuts at the company since acquiring it last year.  —  The Federal Trade Commission is intensifying an investigation into Twitter's data and privacy practices …
Discussion: House Committee … and Engadget
James Clayton / BBC:
Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?  —  A Twitter employee has appealed to Elon Musk on the platform to ask whether he had been sacked.  —  In a tweet to the firm's chief executive, Halli Thorleifsson said: “Your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am employed or not”.
Financial Times:
EU tells Elon Musk to hire more staff to moderate Twitter
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle  —  Gigi Sohn notified the White House she would drop out after her nomination stalled for 16 months, amid industry opposition  —  Biden's pick to serve as a telecommunications regulator is withdrawing her nomination …
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Washington Post:
Intelligence officials suspect Ukraine partisans behind Nord Stream bombings, rattling Kyiv's allies  —  A senior Western security official said an investigation had uncovered evidence that pro-Ukraine entities had discussed the possibility of carrying out an attack on the pipelines
Discussion: The Guardian
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New York Times:
Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire … Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.  Visiting the Tor-specific onion site address …
Catherine Clifford / CNBC:
A new nuclear reactor in the U.S. starts up.  It's the first in nearly seven years  — On Monday, Georgia Power announced that the Vogtle nuclear reactor Unit 3 has started a nuclear reaction inside the nuclear reactor.  Technically, this is called “initial criticality” …
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
‘Sick and Twisted’: Women Describe Losing Pregnancies, Nearly Dying Because of Texas Laws  —  Five women are suing Texas, asking the state to clarify what constitutes a “medical emergency” under its abortion bans  —  AMANDA ZURAWSKI ENDURED 18 months of “grueling” fertility treatment …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Washington Post:
5 women denied abortions sue Texas in landmark post-Roe case
ntsb.gov:
NTSB to Open a Special Investigation into Norfolk Southern Railway's Safety Practices and Culture  —  The National Transportation Safety Board announced today a special investigation of Norfolk Southern Railway's organization and safety culture.  —  Given the number and significance …
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NBC News:
White House backs bipartisan bill that could be used to ban TikTok  —  A bipartisan group of senators introduced a sweeping bill Tuesday that would allow the federal government to regulate and even ban foreign-produced technology, including TikTok.  —  The bill, the Restricting the Emergence …
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New York Times:
Trump, Vowing ‘Retribution,’ Foretells a Second Term of Spite  —  In a speech before his supporters, the former president charged forward in an uncharted direction, talking openly about leveraging the power of the presidency for political reprisals.  —  Donald J. Trump has for decades trafficked …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Wrap
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
House GOP Chairman Calls It ‘A Mistake’ That Trump Didn't Bomb Meth Labs In Mexico  —  Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) appears to be the only House Republican wishing we had launched a military attack on a longtime U.S. ally.  —  The House Republican chairman with oversight of border issues …
Bill Chappell / NPR:
NYC Mayor Eric Adams is telling stores to have customers remove their face masks  —  Worries about the safety of New York City's deli clerks and bodega workers have Mayor Eric Adams making an unusual request: Members of the public should lower their face masks to reassure store workers they're not criminals …
Giulia Carbonaro / Newsweek:
Walgreens Stock Plummets After Gavin Newsom Vows to Cut Business Ties  —  The shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance, which owns the Walgreens retail pharmacy chain in the U.S., have dropped since California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom announced the state won't deal with the company over its abortion pills stance.
Washington Post:
Available evidence still points to covid originating from spillover  —  Angela Rasmussen is a virologist and principal research scientist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan.  Saskia Popescu is an infectious-disease epidemiologist …
Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
The House Is About To Have 435 Members.  That's Pretty Rare.  —  The House Is About To Have 435 Members.  That's Pretty Rare.  —  By Geoffrey Skelley  —  Mar. 7, 2023, at 6:00 AM  —  When Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan is sworn into the House of Representatives this evening …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
 
 
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Discussion: The Diplomat
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Mississippi Senate OKs bill affecting majority-Black city
Discussion: USA Today and Mississippi Today
Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
Oklahoma Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Effort To Legalize Recreational Marijuana
Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Jennifer McClellan sworn in as first Black congresswoman to represent Virginia
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Discussion: Politico and Florida Phoenix
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The privacy loophole in your doorbell
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