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Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
Thousands Take to Streets After Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister — Supreme Court gives Netanyahu a week to respond to petition — Movement for Quality Government in Israel calls on court to punish Netanyahu — Agriculture Minister plans to vote for overhaul legislation
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Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
Israel Boils as Netanyahu Ousts Minister Who Bucked Court Overhaul — Protests broke out shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired the defense minister, who had called for a halt to efforts to weaken the judiciary. — Reporting from Jerusalem
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The Times of Israel, New York Post, CNN, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Reuters, The Daily Beast and Financial Times
Shira Rubin / Washington Post:
Netanyahu fires defense minister who called for halt to judicial overhaul — TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday, a day after Gallant called for a halt to the judicial reform that has spurred a national crisis.
Haaretz:
Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Gallant for Calling to Stop Judicial Overhaul — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud's Yoav GallantCredit: Avi Ohayon/GPO — Supreme Court gives Netanyahu a week to respond to petition — Movement for Quality Government in Israel calls on court to punish Netanyahu
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The Times of Israel and Washington Post
The Times of Israel:
Tens of thousands take to the streets after Netanyahu fires defense minister
Tens of thousands take to the streets after Netanyahu fires defense minister
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The Forward, Breitbart, middleeastmonitor.com and Washington Examiner
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Netanyahu's political touch eludes him as Israel spirals into chaos
Netanyahu's political touch eludes him as Israel spirals into chaos
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The Times of Israel, middleeastmonitor.com, USA Today and Political Wire
New York Times:
Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online — The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to unmask the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code. — Parts of Twitter's source code, the underlying computer code …
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Associated Press, Bloomberg, Financial Times and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
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New York Times:
Elon Musk Values Twitter at $20 Billion — The billionaire bought the social media company for $44 billion in October and took it private. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk said Twitter is now worth about $20 billion, according to an email he sent the company's employees on Friday …
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David French / New York Times:
At the Waco Rally and Beyond, Trump's Movement Now Commands Him — The most telling exchange in Donald Trump's Waco, Texas, rally on Saturday didn't come from Trump himself. It came at the beginning, when the aging rock star Ted Nugent was warming up the crowd. “I want my money back,” he yelled.
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Raw Story, BizPac Review, CNN, Washington Press, TMZ.com and Twitchy
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Hating the people who hate Trump is the only force that moves GOP voters
Hating the people who hate Trump is the only force that moves GOP voters
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CNBC, Washington Press and New York Times
Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:
The Week Ahead — Today's week ahead first takes a peek behind us at the events of last week …
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
DeSantis shows early state strength in Iowa and N.H. polls — Two new polls from a top Republican polling firm — provided exclusively to Axios — find Florida Gov. DeSantis is running more competitively with former President Trump in Iowa and New Hampshire than he is faring in national surveys.
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The Hill and National Review
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David French / New York Times:
The Potential Trump Indictment Is Unwise — For the first time in American history, a hotly anticipated indictment of a former American president may actually be handed up. Manhattan's district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, seems set to bring charges related to Donald Trump's allegedly paying off …
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Digby's Hullabaloo, CNN, The Hill and Washington Post
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump suggests DA “dropped” Stormy case
Trump suggests DA “dropped” Stormy case
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Breitbart, The Daily Beast, New York Post, Rolling Stone, Washington Press, Mediaite, PIX11, Fox News, BizPac Review, Real News Now and New York Daily News
Craig Simpson / Telegraph:
Agatha Christie classics latest to be rewritten for modern sensitivities — Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have original passages reworked or removed in new editions published by HarperCollins. — Agatha Christie novels have been rewritten for modern sensitivities, The Telegraph can reveal.
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The Guardian, Deadline, Instapundit and Breitbart
The Texas Tribune:
Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staff — The 68-year-old progressive publication, which published Ronnie Dugger, Molly Ivins and Kaye Northcott, hit financial troubles and wasn't able to broaden its audience, board members said.
The White House:
Statement from NSC Spokesperson Adrienne Watson on Developments in Israel — We are deeply concerned by today's developments out of Israel, which further underscore the urgent need for compromise. As the President recently discussed with Prime Minister Netanyahu, democratic values have always been …
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The Hill
John Blake / CNN:
What's ‘digital blackface?’ And why is it wrong when White people use it? — Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain't nobody got time for that!” — Perhaps you posted that meme …
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The Gateway Pundit, TMZ.com, Fox News and RedState
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Hollywood's top Native American producer is a fake, activists claim — One of Hollywood's leading Native American figures is being accused of faking her claims of Cherokee heritage, The Post can reveal. — Award-winning Heather Rae, 56, serves on the Academy of Motion Pictures' Indigenous Alliance …
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Fox News, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
David Smith / The Guardian:
'It's all about trolling': how far-right influencers are shaping Republican narrative — With the old media order losing ground, a new cadre of extreme voices has emerged, precipitating a GOP shift to Maga populism — He has a platform that most politicians would envy.
New York Times:
Steve Cohen's Amazin', Maddening, Money-Losing Bid to Own New York — Once a symbol of Wall Street excess, Cohen has invested lavishly in the Mets, becoming the most beloved billionaire in Queens. Is that enough to reverse team history? — PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Around early 2020 …
The Times of Israel:
Universities announce strike from tomorrow morning over judicial overhaul — A group of universities announces a general strike starting tomorrow morning over the government's judicial overhaul and the ousting of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who called to pause the legislation.
Michael M. Phillips / Wall Street Journal:
Al Qaeda Closes In on a Stalwart U.S. Ally in Africa — In a city in Ghana, a fight between ethnic groups is the kind of bitter local dispute Islamist militants often exploit — BAWKU, Ghana—The good news according to Salifu Bashru, an elder of the Mamprusi people, is that if al Qaeda militants attack …