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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Inside the 3 Months That Could Cost Fox $1.6 Billion — The decision by Fox News executives in November 2020 to treat the more hard-right Newsmax as a mortal threat spawned a possibly more serious danger. — Since 2002, when Fox News first overtook CNN as the most-watched cable news channel …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News producer files explosive lawsuits against the network, alleging she was coerced into providing misleading Dominion testimony — New York CNN — A Fox News producer on Monday filed a pair of explosive lawsuits against the right-wing talk channel, alleging that the network's lawyers coerced …
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Media Matters for America, Wall Street Journal, Joe.My.God., Raw Story, The Hollywood Reporter and The Wrap
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
‘An indictment would help Trump!’ is wholly premature — With a decision looming from a New York grand jury and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) regarding an indictment of Donald Trump, possibly for keeping false business records, media coverage has repeated ad nauseam speculation …
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Miami Herald, AM New York, USA Today, Raw Story, IJR, New York Post, The Atlantic and American Greatness
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Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Rachel Maddow Obliterates The Right's Trump Indictment Hysteria — Rachel Maddow shot down the idea that Trump is anything special and that the country will fall into violence if he is indicted. — Video of Maddow: — Video — Rachel Maddow put Trump's indictment into context:
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New York Times:
Make No Mistake, the Investigation of Donald Trump and the Stormy Daniels Scheme Is Serious — Though it may be tempting to do so, it is a mistake to assess the Manhattan district attorney's investigation of Donald Trump by comparing its relative severity with those of myriad other crimes possibly committed by him.
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The Independent, Fox News, NBC News, The Hill, PBS NewsHour, USA Today, CNN, The Guardian and The American Spectator
Jeffrey Blehar / National Review:
Just Shut It, Donny — Donald Trump's penchant for verbal intemperance is nothing new …
Erica Orden / Politico:
By-the-book DA confronts unpredictable opponent in Trump Progressive policies pushed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg have made him a convenient target …
By-the-book DA confronts unpredictable opponent in Trump Progressive policies pushed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg have made him a convenient target …
CBS News:
“Significant increase” in threats online ahead of possible Trump indictment
“Significant increase” in threats online ahead of possible Trump indictment
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The Guardian, The Dean's Report, Twitchy, Washington Post, Raw Story, Forbes, Mercury News and Insider
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
March 20, 2023 — As rumors swirl about what may be an upcoming indictment …
March 20, 2023 — As rumors swirl about what may be an upcoming indictment …
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Twitchy
Peter Laffin / Washington Examiner:
Keeping Trump in the spotlight benefits Democrats the most
Keeping Trump in the spotlight benefits Democrats the most
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Washington Times, The Daily Caller, IJR, Commentary Magazine, PJ Media, BizPac Review, CNN and RedState
The Hill:
Trump overshadows House GOP celebration of wins at annual retreat
Trump overshadows House GOP celebration of wins at annual retreat
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NBC News and Washington Examiner
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Stop Overthinking It: An Indictment Would Be Bad For Trump
Stop Overthinking It: An Indictment Would Be Bad For Trump
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Morning Shots, The Hill, HotAir, Politico, Digby's Hullabaloo, Raw Story, Washington Post and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
TikTok Trackers Embedded in U.S. State-Government Websites, Review Finds — State governments might be inadvertently helping Chinese-owned app in data collection — WASHINGTON—More than two dozen state government websites contain web-tracking code made by TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. …
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Washington Post:
Video shows Va. deputies pile on top of Irvo Otieno before his death — Seven sheriff's deputies and three hospital workers have been charged with murder in the case. — As many as 10 sheriff's deputies and medical staff at Virginia's Central State Hospital can be seen piling on top …
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New York Times:
Comer, Republicans' Investigative Chief, Embraces Role of Biden Antagonist — The fourth-term Kentuckian and chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee has become an aggressive promoter of sinister-sounding claims about the president and his family.
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American Thinker, Joe.My.God., Power Line, Yahoo Entertainment and New York Post
Washington Post:
Drone strikes, sabotage, shelling: Russia's war on Ukraine comes to Russia — Three drones buzzed through the night sky on Feb. 27 over Belgorod, a Russian city just a couple dozen miles from the Ukrainian border. One drone smashed through the window of a sixth-floor apartment, startling a couple who were watching television.
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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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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
‘We Were Helpless’: Despair at the C.D.C. as the Pandemic Erupted — Current and former employees recall rising desperation as Trump administration officials squelched research into the new coronavirus. — In early March 2020, as the nation succumbed to a pandemic, a group of young scientists walked …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The war on drag shows — On February 3, the State of Florida filed an administrative complaint against the operators of the Plaza Live theater in Orlando for hosting a drag show. According to the complaint, the drag show performed on December 28, 2022, at Plaza Live included …
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Tampa Bay Times, Washington Press, New Republic, Jezebel and VICE
Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:
Last-minute talks fail, massive LAUSD strike and school shutdowns set for Tuesday — Last-minute efforts failed to avert a Tuesday strike that will shut down Los Angeles public schools and lead to a disruption of learning, vital meal services and the daily lives of some 420,000 children …
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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.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Bush Doesn't Second-Guess Himself on Iraq. Even if Everyone Else Does.
Bush Doesn't Second-Guess Himself on Iraq. Even if Everyone Else Does.
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Al Jazeera, Defense One, The Atlantic, Daily News, CBS News and Jacobin
Anya Zoledziowski / VICE:
‘Under His Wings’: Leaked Emails Reveal an Anti-Trans ‘Holy War’ — Leaked emails from anti-trans lobbyists and state lawmakers read, at times, like scripts from The Handmaid's Tale. — Anya Zoledziowski — “Under His wings,” one lobbyist wrote in an email.
Brendan Pierson / Reuters:
Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns — A federal judge on Monday blocked California from enforcing a state law requiring new semiautomatic handguns to have certain safety features, finding it violates the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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Associated Press:
Trump loses last bid to keep key evidence out of rape trial — NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump's effort to keep key evidence out of his civil rape trial next month was rejected by a federal judge Monday. — Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in Manhattan ruled that key witnesses will be allowed …
KAMR:
WTAMU President provides reasoning on canceling on-campus drag show in letter to students, staff, faculty — CANYON, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) - According to a social media post from Open and Affirming Congregations of the Texas Panhandle, which phrased Wendler's letter as “disappointing and infuriating …
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Nobody Likes Mike Pence — Mike Pence is making little secret of his presidential ambitions. He's written his book, he's assembling his team, he's mastered the art of the coy non-denial when somebody asks (in between trips to Iowa) if he's running. In early Republican-primary polls …
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New York Times and NewsNation
Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
Here's more evidence Alvin Bragg's crusade against Donald Trump is political … As has been widely observed, the New York State crime of falsification of business records, which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is expected to charge against former President Donald Trump, is a misdemeanor.
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The Daily Caller, Just The News, The American Conservative, Washington Times and FOX News Radio