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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Tucker Carlson, with new video provided by Speaker McCarthy, falsely depicts Jan. 6 riot as a peaceful gathering — Some Republicans are looking to the tapes for vindication. Others say it's a mistake for the party to look backward to Jan. 6, particularly after election deniers lost many 2022 races.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Tucker Carlson, with help from Kevin McCarthy, tries to sanitize the very real violence of the January 6 attack — New York CNN — The face of Fox News is doing everything in his power to sanitize the horrific violence the nation saw unfold in real-time at the U.S. Capitol in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
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The Post Millennial and Media Matters for America
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Jan. 6 footage shows Capitol cops escorting QAnon Shaman to Senate floor — MORE ON: — Newly revealed surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021, shows two Capitol police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, the be-horned so-called “QAnon Shaman” who has come to symbolize the riot …
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Breitbart, The Post Millennial, HuffPost, Just The News, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, The Daily Caller and Dave's Newsletter
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Feds say Proud Boys associates fanned out to facilitate Jan. 6 breach
Feds say Proud Boys associates fanned out to facilitate Jan. 6 breach
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Washington Post
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Why Democrats are dreading a full Jan. 6 reveal
Why Democrats are dreading a full Jan. 6 reveal
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Digby's Hullabaloo, The Federalist, The Daily Caller, Power Line and Politico
Platformer:
How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday — The high cost of cutting expenses — Twitter's website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed to recover from its latest outage within a couple hours, the story behind how it broke suggests there are likely to be similar problems in the near future.
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Washington Post, CNN, Fortune, The Verge, Transistori, Mediaite, Raw Story, Ars Technica, Voice of America, New Republic, NBC Chicago, Variety and Rolling Stone, more at Techmeme »
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Philippe Naughton / The Daily Beast:
Bodyguards Follow Elon Musk Everywhere at Twitter HQ, Even to Restroom, Says Engineer
Bodyguards Follow Elon Musk Everywhere at Twitter HQ, Even to Restroom, Says Engineer
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Jezebel, New Republic, Breitbart, The Register, Fortune, Eschaton, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Metro.co.uk, middleeastmonitor.com, New York Daily News, Forbes, RedState, WTOP News and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Never Trumpers rally in D.C., trying to find hope and a plan amid despair — Donald Trump used his primetime stage at the CPAC conference this Saturday to taunt the Bush Republicans, globalists and neocons. — A dozen miles away, at a lower-profile gathering in downtown D.C. the remnants …
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Lucian Truscott Newsletter, Liberty Nation and Axios
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Trump Has Become the Thing He Never Wanted to Be
Trump Has Become the Thing He Never Wanted to Be
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The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Vanity Fair, Washingtonian, Raw Story, Semafor, RedState, National Review and Insider
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Donald Trump's Recipe for Electoral Failure
Donald Trump's Recipe for Electoral Failure
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Mediaite, Washington Post and Breitbart
Tyler O'Neil / The Daily Signal:
SPLC Lawyer Arrested in Atlanta Molotov Cocktail Riot, Faces Terrorism Charges — Authorities arrested Sunday a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning civil rights group notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christians nonprofits “hate groups,” …
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Legal Observer Hit with Terrorism Charges After Mass ‘Cop City’ Arrests
Legal Observer Hit with Terrorism Charges After Mass ‘Cop City’ Arrests
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Rolling Stone
New York Times:
U.S. Is Said to Consider Reinstating Detention of Migrant Families — President Biden has turned to increasingly restrictive measures as his administration prepares for the end of Title 42, which has allowed border authorities to swiftly expel migrants. — WASHINGTON — The Biden administration …
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NBC News, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Reuters, The Hill, American Greatness, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Mike Pence asks judge to block subpoena for Jan. 6 testimony — Former Vice President Mike Pence has filed a motion asking a judge to block a federal grand jury subpoena for his testimony related to January 6 on the grounds that he is protected by the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause …
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National Review, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, The Hill and Raw Story
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Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press:
2 Capitol riot defendants sought by FBI after disappearing — The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who was supposed to stand trial Monday on charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack as well as another riot defendant who has also gone missing, officials said.
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CNN, The Daily Beast, Raw Story, Rolling Stone, New York Times, Department of Justice and Plain Dealer
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Five Women Sue Texas Over the State's Abortion Ban — The women, backed by an abortion-rights group, say they were denied abortions under state law despite risks to themselves and their fetuses that made the procedure a medical necessity. — Five women who say they were denied abortions despite grave risks …
New York Times:
Hope Hicks Meets With Manhattan Prosecutors as Trump Inquiry Intensifies — At least seven witnesses have met with prosecutors in what now appears to be a fast-moving investigation into a 2016 hush-money payment to a porn star. — Hope Hicks, a trusted aide to Donald J. Trump during …
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VICE, Alternet.org, New York Daily News and Raw Story
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Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Hope Hicks meets with NY prosecutors investigating Trump
Hope Hicks meets with NY prosecutors investigating Trump
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Raw Story, Chicago Tribune, Insider, PoliticusUSA and Election Law Blog
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Jim Jordan scrambles amid claims “weaponization” probe is a dud — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — facing criticism that his probe of alleged mistreatment of conservatives by “weaponized” U.S. agencies has moved too slowly and found little — is threatening to subpoena 16 more witnesses from the FBI.
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House Committee …, Bloomberg, Breitbart, PoliticusUSA and The Hill
New York Times:
Protests Over Netanyahu's Judiciary Overhaul Spread to Israel's Military — The military leadership is concerned that anger over the government's plan, with some pilots saying they will skip some training sessions and operations, could diminish military capabilities.
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Associated Press, GZERO, CBS News, The Times of Israel, The New Arab, middleeastmonitor.com, Al Jazeera and Forbes
Kevin B. Blackistone / Washington Post:
Baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis's culture wars — There was a time when America's pastime showed a weariness of Florida's hostile approach to inclusiveness, which in some ways is being reconstituted by its current governor, Ron DeSantis. — It was not necessarily coincidental …
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Breitbart
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Vivek Ramaswamy says he received an offer to buy his way into the CPAC straw poll — Shortly after Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur and anti-woke crusader, announced he was seeking the Republican nomination for president, a political consultant with ties to the Conservative Political …
David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Lie Behind Amazon's HQ2 Sweepstakes Becomes Clear — With the company pausing construction on its ‘second headquarters’ in Virginia, we can see the HQ2 bidding war for what it was: a mass intelligence-gathering operation. — Protesters carry anti-Amazon signs during a rally …
Tom Lutey / Billings Gazette:
Rosendale calls neo-Nazi photo op a mistake — U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale said he unwittingly posed for a photo with high profile members of the neo-Nazi movement last week walking between congressional hearings. — The photo taken March 1 in front of the Capitol, shows Rosendale posing with Ryan Sanchez …
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Daily Montanan, Raw Story, The Guardian, HuffPost and The Hill
Reuters:
California to not do business with Walgreens over abortion pills issue, Governor says — California would not do business with Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA.O), state Governor Gavin Newsom said in a tweet on Monday, days after the pharmacy chain said it will not dispense abortion pills in some Republican states.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
What is Fox News hiding in the Dominion lawsuit? — A Feb. 16 filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit in Delaware against Fox News has kicked up a media firestorm: Outlet after outlet described how internal email and text messages quoted in the document …
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Raw Story and Drezner's World, more at Mediagazer »
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Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Walmart to close remaining Portland stores as crime-ridden city battles shoplifting wave — Walmart will close its last two stores in crime-plagued Portland, Ore., as the city contends with a relentless wave of shoplifting that has hammered retailers. — The closures, set for March 24 …
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KOIN-TV, TechStory, HotAir, Washington Examiner, MLive.com, Fortune, American Greatness, RedState and KPTV-TV
Axios:
Utah set to limit minors from using social media without parent's OK — Utah is poised to pass a law restricting children and teens under age 18 from using social media without their parent's consent. — Meanwhile, adults could lose access to their accounts, too, if they refuse to verify their age.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Joe Biden's criminal justice regression — We were promised that Biden had progressed on criminal justice issues from his Senate days. Most recent signs suggest that, if he had, he's now going back to his old ways. — On March 2, President Joe Biden announced that he would be the first president …
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The Daily Caller, WTOP News, Washington Free Beacon, Axios, CBS News, NBC4 Washington, Raw Story, NBC News and Washington Post
Simone Foxman / Bloomberg:
Qatar's Ruler Makes Top Diplomat His New Premier — Qatar's ruler appointed Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani as prime minister on Tuesday, drawing on a diplomat who has helped the Gulf Arab state assert its outsize political influence abroad. — Sheikh Mohammed will continue to hold …
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Associated Press and Al Jazeera
Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points — Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat - but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating — More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed …
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Common Dreams and WTOP News
Wall Street Journal:
China's Xi Jinping Takes Rare Direct Aim at U.S. in Speech — Leader blames Washington-led ‘containment, encirclement and suppression’ for challenges at home — House Committee Warns of Beijing's Threat to U.S. Interests and Values … Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued an unusually blunt rebuke …
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Al Jazeera, Politico, New York Times, New York Post, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
Department of Transportation:
Airline Customer Service Dashboard — Secretary Buttigieg has called upon airlines to improve their customer service commitments to passengers, which all have done to varying degrees. The dashboards below provide information for air travelers on airlines' commitments to families flying …
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Washington Times, Simple Flying, The Hill, CBS News, NBC News, UPI and Associated Press
Julie O'Donoghue / Louisiana Illuminator:
LABI president may enter Louisiana governor's race, sources say — The head of one of Louisiana's most powerful business groups is expected to enter the governor's race Thursday, according to a handful of lobbyists and political operatives who spoke on the condition of anonymity Monday night.