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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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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 …
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New York Daily News, Insider, CBS News, Semafor, National Review, The Federalist, CNBC, No More Mister Nice Blog, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Mediaite and Rolling Stone
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Footage shows Capitol cop Brian Sicknick uninjured on Jan. 6 — Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick still is described as a victim of January 6, murdered by President Donald Trump supporters rioting at the Capitol, despite an autopsy report which shows he died of a stroke the following day.
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Elon Musk Goes All In On Jan. 6 Denial — The Twitter owner reacted credulously to Tucker Carlson's selectively edited segments of Capitol security footage from the 2021 riot. — Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday joined the right-wing chorus denying that a violent riot took place …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell says Fox News made ‘a mistake’ by underplaying violence of Jan. 6
McConnell says Fox News made ‘a mistake’ by underplaying violence of Jan. 6
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Washington Examiner, HuffPost, CBS News, USA Today, NBC News, The Gateway Pundit, Just The News, Twitchy, The Post Millennial and Fox 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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USA Today, RedState, PoliticusUSA, Alternet.org and Timothy's Newsletter
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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HuffPost, Washington Examiner, CBS News, Media Matters for America and Mediaite
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Tucker Carlson, with help from Kevin McCarthy, tries to sanitize the very real violence of the January 6 attack
Tucker Carlson, with help from Kevin McCarthy, tries to sanitize the very real violence of the January 6 attack
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Tucker Carlson ripped by Capitol Police, GOP senators for mischaracterizing Jan. 6
Tucker Carlson ripped by Capitol Police, GOP senators for mischaracterizing Jan. 6
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, Deadline, Just The News, Mediaite, VICE and NBC4 Washington
ABC News:
Capitol Police chief slams Carlson's comments about Jan. 6 video as ‘offensive and misleading’ in internal memo
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP backlash on Tucker Carlson
The GOP backlash on Tucker Carlson
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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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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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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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Politico, HotAir, The Hill, GZERO, Newsvandal, The Guardian, New York Post, Washington Examiner, Lawyers, Guns & Money, TASS, Semafor, The Daily Caller, Fox News and RedState
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
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 …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Kari Lake among 4 women Trump's considering for VP pick — Former President Trump is strongly considering picking a female running mate — and sees Kari Lake as a model for his vice-presidential pick, according to people who discussed the topic with him.
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ABC News, Arizona Republic, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, New York Daily News, The Gateway Pundit, New York Post, RedState, Forbes, Mediaite, Washington Examiner and Twitchy
Joseph R. Biden Jr / New York Times:
Joe Biden: My Plan to Extend Medicare for Another Generation — Millions of Americans work their whole life, paying into Medicare with every working day — starting with their first job, even as teenagers. Medicare is more than a government program. It's the rock-solid guarantee …
NBC News:
Conflict with China is inevitable unless U.S. changes course, Beijing's new foreign minister warns — BEIJING — The United States and China are hurtling toward inevitable “confrontation and conflict” unless Washington changes course, Beijing's new foreign minister warned Tuesday.
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Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
China's Leader, With Rare Bluntness, Blames U.S. Containment for Troubles
China's Leader, With Rare Bluntness, Blames U.S. Containment for Troubles
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Breitbart, Wall Street Journal and Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Christina Buttons / Reality's Last Stand:
Why I'm Leaving The Daily Wire — There is a critical distinction between speaking truth and being tactless, between sticking to the facts and sticking it to the libs. — Writes Breaking the Spell of Social Justice · Subscribe — After much consideration …
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Erin In The Morning and Mediaite
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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Mary Kekatos / ABC News:
Gavin Newsom announces California is ‘done’ with Walgreens due to abortion pill
Gavin Newsom announces California is ‘done’ with Walgreens due to abortion pill
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CNBC, NBC News, WKBN-TV, New York Post and Just The News
Michael Laris / Washington Post:
Former White House official dies of injuries after jet turbulence — Dana Hyde, who served at the State Department and as an international aid official, was remembered as a ‘brilliant and generous colleague’ and a wonderful mother — A former White House and international development official died …
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WKBN-TV, The Hill, The Guardian, IJR, New York Daily News and Raw Story
Molly Ball / TIME:
The Most Interesting Think Tank In American Politics — Samuel Hammond sits at a cluttered desk in his Washington office, holding up the pamphlet that changed the world. “It's a giant space fetus,” the think-tank staffer says with a grin. “You're never going to get that from a liberal child-welfare organization.”
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Mollyesque
Summer Ballentine / Associated Press:
US judge strikes down Missouri gun law as unconstitutional — A Missouri law banning local police form enforcing federal gun laws is unconstitutional and void, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes ruled the 2021 law is preempted by the federal government under the U.S. Constitution's supremacy clause.
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, New Republic and Missouri Independent
Leslie Josephs / CNBC:
Justice Department sues to block JetBlue's acquisition of Spirit Airlines — The Justice Department on Tuesday sued to block JetBlue Airways' $3.8 billion proposed takeover of budget carrier Spirit Airlines — Spirit agreed to sell itself to JetBlue Airways last summer.
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Weekly Briefing, Washington Examiner, JetBlue Airways Corporation, New York Daily News, Axios, WWLP-TV, Common Dreams, Simple Flying, Wall Street Journal, Roll Call, Albuquerque Journal, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, CBS News, ABC News, Framingham SOURCE, Politico, Semafor, HuffPost, Bloomberg, New York Times, The Hill, Law & Crime, The Daily Caller and WKBN-TV
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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Alternet.org
Darrell Ehrlick / Daily Montanan:
Rosendale poses for photo op with white nationalists, denies meeting, condemns hate groups — A photo of Congressman Matt Rosendale posing alongside Greyson Arnold, standing next (left) to Rosendale, and Ryan Sanchez to Arnold's left. It is not known who the other two are (Photo via Pure Politics on Telegram).
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Billings Gazette, Washington Post and HuffPost
Andrew Kerr / Washington Free Beacon:
Meet the Anti-Semitic Spiritual Guru on Cori Bush's Payroll — He claims he can summon tornadoes at will, cause earthquakes with his hate, and conduct blood rituals to bring ruin upon his enemies. An intergalactic master of psychic self-defense born 109 trillion years ago, his days …
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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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Politico, Washington Examiner, RedState and The Daily Caller
Laura King / Los Angeles Times:
Lots of Russian soldiers want to surrender. Ukraine makes it easier with a high-tech hotline — Bound for the battlefield, sounding harried and anxious, the Russian soldier placed a hasty phone call — to a Ukrainian military hotline. — “They say you can help me surrender voluntarily …
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New York Post, Washington Post, Albuquerque Journal and Balloon Juice
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
New York Republicans go to all-out war against Santos — New York's House Republicans are racing away from the walking political grenade known as George Santos. — Six of Santos' New York colleagues, particularly the four who flipped tight battleground districts last fall, are working …
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ABC News, Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo, Newsday and Raw Story
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
U.S. to lift covid testing requirements on travelers from China — The requirements could be rolled back as soon as Friday. — U.S. officials are set to relax coronavirus testing requirements on travelers from China as soon as Friday, a decision that comes amid declining covid cases in that country …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Q: Who's unsurprised by shocking Fox News revelations? A: Ex-Fox journalists — The $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News over lies about the 2020 election has brought shocking revelations to light. — Among those who say they aren't shocked: former journalists at Fox News …
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Jerome Powell Says Interest Rate Raises Likely to Be Higher Than Expected — In light of recent strong data, Jerome H. Powell said that the Federal Reserve is likely to raise rates higher than expected. — Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, made clear on Tuesday that the central bank …
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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 …
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
How the higher education outrage sausage is made — I was exposed by Campus Reform and lived to tell the tale — I'd like to tell you a story. At one level, its a story about how a certain type of media content is made. This content is intended to show how out-of-touch and radical students and faculty are.
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Outside the Beltway
Paul Adams / BBC:
Up to 30,000 Russian casualties claimed in Bakhmut — Between 20,000 and 30,000 Russian troops have been killed and wounded in the battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut since it began last summer, Western officials say. — The epic nature of the battle is out of all proportion to Bakhmut's strategic significance, they add.
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CBS News and The Guardian
New York Times:
Spying by Mexico's Armed Forces Brings Fears of a ‘Military State’ — This is the first time a paper trail has emerged to prove definitively that the Mexican military spied on citizens who were trying to expose its misdeeds. — MEXICO CITY — Mexico's armed forces spied on a human rights defender …
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The Hill