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‘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 …
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Bret Baier Airs Report Questioning Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Coverage, Features McConnell Saying Fox News Made ‘A Mistake’ — Tuesday's Fox News programs were silent about Tucker Carlson's Monday airing of surveillance footage from the 2021 Capitol riot, which he used to downplay the storming …
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CNN:
US Capitol Police chief rips into Tucker Carlson over ‘offensive’ use of January 6 footage — Fox News airs first clips of exclusive Jan. 6th footage 05:54 — US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger on Tuesday ripped into Fox News host Tucker Carlson over his commentary about footage from the January 6 …
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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 …
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Reuters, Media Matters for America, Roll Call, Washington Examiner, HuffPost and RedState
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Intelligence contractor who praised Nazis found guilty in Jan. 6 riot
Intelligence contractor who praised Nazis found guilty in Jan. 6 riot
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Washington Post:
‘Just a lie’: Senate Republicans blast Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 narrative
‘Just a lie’: Senate Republicans blast Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 narrative
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Washington Examiner, Breitbart and Liberty Nation
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP backlash on Tucker Carlson
The GOP backlash on Tucker Carlson
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
McCarthy says he doesn't regret sharing Jan. 6 footage with Tucker Carlson
McCarthy says he doesn't regret sharing Jan. 6 footage with Tucker Carlson
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Mediaite, Washington Examiner, Leland's Newsletter, NPR, Just The News and NBC News
NBC News:
Capitol Police chief tears into Tucker Carlson for claims about Officer Brian Sicknick
Capitol Police chief tears into Tucker Carlson for claims about Officer Brian Sicknick
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New York Post, The Daily Caller, USA Today, Alternet.org, The Western Journal, Timothy's Newsletter, PoliticusUSA, RedState, CNN, Breitbart and Twitchy
Noah Rothman / National Review:
Tucker Carlson's January 6 Revisionist History
Tucker Carlson's January 6 Revisionist History
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Mediaite, The American Conservative, American Greatness, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, New Republic, CBS News and NBC News
Politico:
House GOP faces a new Jan. 6 headache, courtesy of Tucker Carlson
House GOP faces a new Jan. 6 headache, courtesy of Tucker Carlson
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
GOP Lawmakers Roast Tucker Carlson's ‘Bullshit’ Jan. 6 Narrative
GOP Lawmakers Roast Tucker Carlson's ‘Bullshit’ Jan. 6 Narrative
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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 …
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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”.
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Financial Times:
EU tells Elon Musk to hire more staff to moderate Twitter — Regulators are concerned that platform aims to use more volunteers and artificial intelligence to monitor content — Elon Musk and the EU are in a dispute over the Twitter owner's plan to use more volunteers and artificial intelligence …
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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.
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Private Fox News text messages, testimony and emails released in Dominion suit — Hundreds of pages of testimony, private text messages and emails from top Fox News journalists and executives were made public Thursday, adding to the trove of documents that show a network in crisis …
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Raw Story, CNN and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
‘I Hate Him Passionately’: What Tucker Carlson Says About Trump in Private — More private comments made by Fox News host Tucker Carlson about former President Donald Trump were revealed as part of a trove of new documents released Tuesday as part of Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.
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Media Matters for America, HuffPost and The Hill
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 …
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Associated Press, Insider, The Daily Beast and E&E
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.
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Insider, ABC News, New York Post and Digby's Hullabaloo
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Rupert Murdoch: Hannity, Ingraham ‘went too far’ in promoting Trump's false claims about 2020 election
Rupert Murdoch: Hannity, Ingraham ‘went too far’ in promoting Trump's false claims about 2020 election
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Insider, Financial Times and Associated Press
Washington Post:
Live updates: Rupert Murdoch said Fox's Hannity, Ingraham may have gone ‘too far,’ court documents show — A large cache of documents was released Tuesday as part of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News by Dominion Voting System.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
3 early takeaways from the new Dominion-Fox lawsuit documents
3 early takeaways from the new Dominion-Fox lawsuit documents
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Raw Story
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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Ximena Bustillo / NPR:
Biden's pick for FCC commissioner withdraws after lengthy fight for the job
Biden's pick for FCC commissioner withdraws after lengthy fight for the job
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New York Times:
Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say — New intelligence reporting amounts to the first significant known lead about who was responsible for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines that carried natural gas from Russia to Europe.
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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.
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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” …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S., China Plunge Further Into a Spiral of Hostilities — After tiptoeing toward a rapprochement, any fence-mending now has been postponed — Harsh new verbal attacks on the U.S. by Beijing's top leadership demonstrate just how unsteady relations have become between the world's two major powers.
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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 …
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Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
Oklahoma Voters Reject Effort To Legalize Recreational Marijuana — Opponents seized on problems with existing medical marijuana regulations and crime in the campaign to stop full legalization. — Oklahoma voters on Tuesday turned back an effort to legalize recreational marijuana, defeating a statewide ballot measure.
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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 …
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 …
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Alfred Ng / Politico:
The privacy loophole in your doorbell — The week of last Thanksgiving, Michael Larkin, a business owner in Hamilton, Ohio, picked up his phone and answered a call. It was the local police, and they wanted footage from Larkin's front door camera. — Larkin had a Ring video doorbell …
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Alfredo Peña / Associated Press:
2 kidnapped Americans found dead in Mexico, 2 are alive — Two of four Americans were killed in Mexico when their van was caught in the crossfire of rival cartel groups last week, a top Mexican official said Tuesday. The two others are alive, with one wounded.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Edits Out Trump Saying He Might've Let Russia ‘Take Over’ Parts of Ukraine — While Trump told Hannity on the radio he could've prevented war by negotiating a deal with Russia, that portion was curiously edited out when aired on Fox News. — Donald Trump has long insisted …
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 …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
The Real Danger Isn't Trump or DeSantis — It's the illiberal desires of Republican voters. Plus: Hogan makes his exit. — 1. Shark vs. Alligator vs. Gorilla — I'm back and I have some thoughts on the “who's worse, Trump or DeSantis?” conversation from last week.1
Third Way:
The No Labels Third-Party Bid: A Plan that Will Re-elect Trump — No Labels is planning to field a bipartisan “unity ticket” in 2024. They call it an “insurance policy,” claiming to fear “both major political parties could nominate divisive presidential candidates that a majority of the country finds unacceptable.”
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Kadia Goba / Semafor:
‘Our staff is working their tail off’: Jim Jordan responds to critics of his probe's slow start — Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio has heard the criticisms — including on Fox News — that his subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government has yet to uncover much. He doesn't see it that way.