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New York Times:
Fox News Producer's Suit Says Network Set Her Up in Dominion Testimony — The producer, Abby Grossberg, said in a pair of lawsuits that the effort to place blame on her and Maria Bartiromo, the Fox Business host, was rooted in rampant misogyny and discrimination at the company.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Stop Overthinking It: An Indictment Would Be Bad For Trump — The widely expected indictment of Donald Trump in Manhattan has all the makings of a political disaster for him. It should be the climactic event in a yearslong saga involving marital infidelity, sleazy financial dealings …
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HotAir, Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy's desperate plea to MAGA reveals a glaring GOP failure — Donald Trump has long possessed a singular talent for humiliating “my Kevin,” as Trump calls House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and now he has done it again. Late Sunday, McCarthy told reporters that Trump supporters should not …
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NBC News:
With possible indictment looming, Trump dominates House Republican retreat — House Republicans are supposed to be huddling in Florida this week to talk about policy and messaging. Instead, once again, they're having to discuss Donald Trump. — ORLANDO, Florida — They came to a sunny …
Politico:
Trump indictment could land soon, sending law enforcement scrambling — NEW YORK — Law enforcement officials met at NYPD headquarters in lower Manhattan on Monday afternoon to plan for a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump on charges stemming from payments to a porn star …
ABC News:
Fulton County prosecutors now seek to question Trump attorney, sources say — Prosecutors are looking to question Trump attorney Christina Bobb, per sources. — Donald Trump attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at Gaylord National Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, March 4, 2023.
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Fox News:
Trump probe: law enforcement don't expect arraignment until next week, virtual option not considered
Trump probe: law enforcement don't expect arraignment until next week, virtual option not considered
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CBS News, Forbes, New York Post, Associated Press, NPR, The Gateway Pundit, The Post Millennial, New York Daily News and WKRG-TV
Gary Fineout / Politico:
DeSantis says he won't get involved with Trump's potential indictment ‘in any way’
DeSantis says he won't get involved with Trump's potential indictment ‘in any way’
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Kimberly Leonard / Insider:
DeSantis breaks his silence on the ‘manufactured circus’ around expected Trump indictment: 'I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star'
DeSantis breaks his silence on the ‘manufactured circus’ around expected Trump indictment: 'I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star'
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Politico:
Trump seeks to stave off another indictment — this time in Georgia
Trump seeks to stave off another indictment — this time in Georgia
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Accountability for elected officials is a common feature of democracy
Accountability for elected officials is a common feature of democracy
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The Gateway Pundit
Linda Carroll / NBC News:
Deadly fungal infection spreading at an alarming rate, CDC says — A drug-resistant and potentially deadly fungus has been spreading rapidly through U.S. health care facilities, a new government study finds. — The fungus, a type of yeast called Candida auris, or C. auris …
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Alexander Tin / CBS News:
CDC warns of “alarming” rise of potentially deadly fungal threat in hospitals — Cases of the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris are now climbing at an “alarming” rate in health care facilities around the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday, after reports of infected patients nearly doubled in 2021.
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New York Daily News, New York Times and Ars Technica
Joseph R. Biden Jr / The White House:
Statement by the President on S. 619, the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 — Today, I am pleased to sign into law S. 619, the “COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023.” I share the Congress's goal of releasing as much information as possible about the origin of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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HuffPost:
Dismal Crowd At NYC Trump Rally Despite Ex-Prez's Call For Action As Arrest Looms — Leaders of the New York Young Republican Club told HuffPost they kept the rally tiny on purpose. — NEW YORK — The leadership of the New York Young Republican Club, a far-right group, wants to be very clear …
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Politico and Washington Times
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Tess Owen / VICE:
The Far-Right Is Scared Trump's Call to Protest Is a Trap
The Far-Right Is Scared Trump's Call to Protest Is a Trap
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New York Times, Raw Story, PoliticusUSA, Washington Post, NewsNation, Daily News, RedState, NBC New York, Washington Times, HotAir and Fox News
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Iowa's sharp right turn: From centrist state to ‘Florida of the North’ — DES MOINES — Republicans in the Iowa legislature, empowered by the state's recent “red wave,” have embarked on an ambitious new agenda that includes a costly school choice bill and legislation targeting the LGBTQ community …
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Iowa Starting Line, Iowa Capital Dispatch and Liberty Nation
Miami Herald:
Undercover agents saw nothing ‘lewd’ at Orlando drag show. Florida is going after venue anyway — When the historic Plaza Live theater in Orlando hosted an event last December called “A Drag Queen Christmas,” the show drew a full house, noisy street demonstrators — and a small squad …
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Washington Press, Insider, Raw Story, New Republic, Jezebel and VICE
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Rupert Murdoch engaged to Ann Lesley Smith — Rupert Murdoch. Professionally, the parent of Earth's media. Personally, the creator of new news himself. Celebrating March, his Nativity month, a new scoop is Mr. Murdoch's getting married — again. — But first, before anything, we discuss the important stuff.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Gadfly Reporter Throws White House Presser Into Chaos With Over-the-Top Tantrum — Ateba, who has gained notoriety during the Biden administration for his outbursts, was back at it on Monday. — Simon Ateba once again made the White House press briefing all about his perceived grievances on Monday.
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Te-Ping Chen / Wall Street Journal:
Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake — In an uncertain economy, companies post ads for jobs they might not really be trying to fill — A mystery permeates the job market: You apply for a job and hear nothing, but the ad stays online for months. If you inquire, the company tells you it isn't really hiring.
CNN:
Six Oath Keepers convicted in connection with January 6 US Capitol riot — Six people affiliated with the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia, were convicted Monday of various charges related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol insurrection. — Four of the defendants were found guilty on all of the charges they faced.
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Geoff Ziezulewicz / Navy Times:
Petty officer died on secret mission after a roof collapse — A Navy cryptologic technician died during a secretive mission to an undisclosed country in 2021 after a freak windstorm caused part of the building in which her team was operating to collapse, according to an internal investigation obtained by Navy Times.
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Washington Examiner
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
George W. Bush misrepresented our work at CIA to sell the Iraq invasion. It's time to call him what he is: ‘A liar.’ … Alice: Nobody in Washington comes out and calls Bush a liar. Everybody is too polite. They use some other term for what he did. But he lied. I want to be clear about what I mean by that.
Bloomberg:
US Studies Ways to Guarantee All Bank Deposits If Crisis Expands — US officials are studying ways they might temporarily expand Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. coverage to all deposits, a move sought by a coalition of banks arguing that it's needed to head off a potential financial crisis.
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The Lever, The Hill, Michigan Advance, Florida Phoenix and Financial Times
Zach Despart / The Texas Tribune:
“He has a battle rifle”: Police feared Uvalde gunman's AR-15 — In previously unreleased interviews, police who responded to the Robb Elementary shooting told investigators they were cowed by the shooter's military-style rifle. This drove their decision to wait for a Border Patrol SWAT team to engage him …
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New Republic and Twitchy
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Bush Doesn't Second-Guess Himself on Iraq. Even if Everyone Else Does. — George W. Bush has told advisers that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein — and he has not changed his mind about that. — Peter Baker reported from inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq before the invasion …
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Brad Plumer / New York Times:
Earth to Hit Critical Global Warming Threshold by Early 2030s — A new report says it is still possible to hold global warming to relatively safe levels, but doing so will require global cooperation, billions of dollars and big changes. — Earth is likely to cross a critical threshold …
New York Times:
Who's Behind the Judicial Overhaul Now Dividing Israel? Two New Yorkers. — Kohelet, the once-obscure think tank that conceived and now champions a revamped court system, is an American import. — Reporting from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv — As part of a recent “national day of resistance …
Bloomberg:
Signature Bank Threw a Fundraiser for the Congressman Now Probing How It Failed — Ten days before Signature Bank collapsed, the House Republican overseeing an inquiry into the bank's failure was inside its boardroom on New York's Fifth Avenue. — Patrick McHenry was there to raise thousands of dollars from bank executives.
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
“Complicit enablers”: 20 years later, the press corps has learned nothing — In a nation that considers itself peaceful and civilized, the case for military action should be overwhelmingly stronger than the case against. It must face, and survive, aggressive questioning.
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Common Dreams, Mother Jones and Foreign Affairs
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Biden tells Bibi he's never seen such anxiety over Israel's political situation — President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in their call on Sunday that he was concerned about the Israeli government's judicial overhaul plan because in all the years he has followed Israel …
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Anna Nemtsova / The Daily Beast:
Ben & Jerry's Founder Is ‘Top Donor’ of Group Campaigning Against U.S. Military Support for Ukraine — Ben Cohen has donated more than $1 million to a group campaigning to turn the U.S. public against President Biden's military support for Ukraine. … A group funded by Ben & Jerry's founder Ben Cohen …
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New York Post, Alternet.org, VTDigger, The Daily Caller and HotAir
Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
US maternal mortality is more than 10 times higher than in Australia. Why? — What do we make of a nation that has made giving birth so dangerous - yet forces more and more women to do it? — merica is in a maternal health crisis. According to new CDC data released this week …
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Jezebel, Heartland Signal, New York Daily News, WGN-TV and Eschaton