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Washington Post:
‘Just a lie’: Senate Republicans blast Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 narrative — Speaker McCarthy, meanwhile, said he didn't regret allowing Carlson exclusive access to security footage and claimed it as a victory for transparency — Senate Republicans blasted Fox News on Tuesday for airing …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP backlash on Tucker Carlson — When some in the conservative movement baselessly pitched Jan. 6, 2021, as being fomented by antifa, Kevin McCarthy rebuked them. “There is absolutely no evidence of that,” he said. “Conservatives should be the first to say so.”
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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 …
Politico:
House GOP faces a new Jan. 6 headache, courtesy of Tucker Carlson — House Republicans arrived in the Capitol on Tuesday facing a torrent of questions about the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. — This time it was a headache of their own making. — Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision …
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Mediaite, Civil Discourse …, Raw Story, National Review, Forbes, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Fox News, ABC News, HuffPost, Rolling Stone, The Gateway Pundit and Common Dreams
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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HuffPost, Media Matters for America, The Hill, Roll Call, Washington Examiner and RedState
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
US Senator Schumer condemns Speaker McCarthy for supplying Jan.6 videos to Fox
US Senator Schumer condemns Speaker McCarthy for supplying Jan.6 videos to Fox
Noah Rothman / National Review:
Tucker Carlson's January 6 Revisionist History
Tucker Carlson's January 6 Revisionist History
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Mediaite, The Daily Beast, The American Conservative, The Gateway Pundit, CBS News and Washington Examiner
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 and NBC News
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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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.
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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 …
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HuffPost, Reuters, Today's Edition Newsletter, The Daily Beast and Mediaite
NBC News:
‘I hate him passionately’: Tucker Carlson was fed up with Trump after the 2020 election — On Jan. 4, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson was done with Donald Trump. — “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can't wait,” he texted an unidentified person.
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Mediaite, Raw Story, Insider, Rolling Stone and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
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, CNN, ABC News and New York Post
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Capitol Police chief blasts Tucker Carlson over ‘misleading’ Jan. 6 footage — Video aired by Carlson showed “QAnon shaman” Jacob Chansley accompanied by police, but not violence on the day rioters stormed the Capitol — After watching the first installment of Fox News host Tucker Carlson's look …
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NBC News:
Capitol Police chief tears into Tucker Carlson for claims about Officer Brian Sicknick — The Fox News host said that Democrats lied about Sicknick's death. In a letter to Capitol Police officers, Chief Manger called Carlson's portrayal “offensive and misleading.”
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PoliticusUSA, Alternet.org, USA Today, The Western Journal, New York Post, Twitchy, The Daily Caller, Timothy's Newsletter and Breitbart
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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Raw Story, PolitiFact, HuffPost, New York Post, Just The News, Townhall, The Daily Caller, New Republic, Mediaite and Breitbart
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
F.T.C. Intensifies Investigation of Twitter's Privacy Practices
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House Committee … and Engadget
James Clayton / BBC:
Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?
Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?
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NBC News, Bloomberg, New York Post, Associated Press, CBS News, BizPac Review, The Register, The Hill, Breitbart and Metro.co.uk, more at Techmeme »
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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Ars Technica, Breitbart, Common Dreams, Politico and The Hill
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
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TASS and The Guardian
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New York Times:
Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say
Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say
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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 …
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HuffPost and The Daily Caller
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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” …
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
TikTok Asks Creators to Help Win Over Lawmakers — TikTok sent a message to some creators this week inviting them to join top company executives in Washington D.C. in late March as the ByteDance-owned company continues to fight calls for a ban of the app in the U.S.
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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 …
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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Fox News, Washington Examiner, Balloon Juice, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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 …
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Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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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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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 …
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Mississippi Senate OKs bill affecting majority-Black city — The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Senate voted Tuesday to pass its version of a bill that would allow an expanded role for state police and appointed judges inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, which is led by Democrats.
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USA Today and Mississippi Today
Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
Oklahoma Voters Overwhelmingly 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 sharply rejected a ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana Tuesday …
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
House Republicans are taking steps to prepare for a possible debt ceiling default — The House Ways and Means Committee is soon taking up a bill that would require the government to keep making certain payments if it breaches the debt ceiling, three people familiar with the matter told Semafor.
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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Washington Examiner and The Hill