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1:35 AM ET, March 8, 2023

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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  —  Fox was a hotbed of backbiting, and its vaunted news division wasn't as neutral as it claimed to be  —  Tuesday brought yet more documents in Dominion Voting Systems' high-stakes lawsuit against Fox News over Fox's handling …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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.
NBC News:
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 …
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.
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Rupert Murdoch: Hannity, Ingraham ‘went too far’ in promoting Trump's false claims about 2020 election
Discussion: Insider
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Tucker Carlson Exposed: Says He Hates Trump ‘Passionately’ In Private Texts
Discussion: Insider and Rolling Stone
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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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 …
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 …
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
US Senator Schumer condemns Speaker McCarthy for supplying Jan.6 videos to Fox
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Elon Musk Goes All In On Jan. 6 Denial
Washington Post:   ‘Just a lie’: Senate Republicans blast Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 narrative
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Intelligence contractor who praised Nazis found guilty in Jan. 6 riot
Discussion: CNN
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP backlash on Tucker Carlson
Politico:
House GOP faces a new Jan. 6 headache, courtesy of Tucker Carlson
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
Washington Post:
5 women denied abortions sue Texas in landmark post-Roe case  —  Five women have filed a lawsuit against Texas over the state's near-total abortion ban in the first case of its kind since the Supreme Court overturned Roe last year.  —  The women say the Republican-led state's abortion law has denied them …
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Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
‘Sick and Twisted’: Women Describe Losing Pregnancies, Nearly Dying Because of Texas Laws
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
more at Techmeme »
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” …
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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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
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.
Discussion: The Diplomat
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NBC News:
Conflict with China is inevitable unless U.S. changes course, Beijing's new foreign minister warns
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 …
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.
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: The Hill and Washington Examiner
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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Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
House Republicans are taking steps to prepare for a possible debt ceiling default
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
Bill Chappell / NPR:
NYC Mayor Eric Adams is telling stores to have customers remove their face masks
Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Jennifer McClellan sworn in as first Black congresswoman to represent Virginia
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
The Real Danger Isn't Trump or DeSantis
 Earlier Items: 
Kadia Goba / Semafor:
‘Our staff is working their tail off’: Jim Jordan responds to critics of his probe's slow start
Discussion: Fox News
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Edits Out Trump Saying He Might've Let Russia ‘Take Over’ Parts of Ukraine
Axios:
Semafor's China problem
Alfred Ng / Politico:
The privacy loophole in your doorbell
Discussion: Alternet.org
Laura King / Los Angeles Times:
Lots of Russian soldiers want to surrender. Ukraine makes it easier with a high-tech hotline
Discussion: BBC and New York Post
Alfredo Peña / Associated Press:
2 kidnapped Americans found dead in Mexico, 2 are alive
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
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The Hollywood Reporter:
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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo
 
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