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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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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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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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The Times of Israel, UPI and Associated Press
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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.
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Reuters, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Haaretz, CBS News, CNN, Jerusalem Post, middleeastmonitor.com, The Times of Israel and Financial Times
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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middleeastmonitor.com, USA Today and Political Wire
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, TMZ.com, Washington Press 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 — On a Saturday when dark clouds and even killer tornadoes were wending their way over huge swathes of the United States, the sun rose brightly over Waco. On a dusty patch of land in a central Texas town tagged by historic infamy …
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New York Times and Washington Press
Mike Copeland / Waco Tribune-Herald:
Trump draws thousands to Waco rally, sticks with familiar themes
Trump draws thousands to Waco rally, sticks with familiar themes
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Fox News, The Western Journal, Crooks and Liars, Japan Times, Al Jazeera, San Antonio Current, New York Post, PIX11 and New York Times
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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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Why we're still stuck in Trump's world — There is a madness running through our nation's public life. Our country seems nearly powerless to counteract it because it's built into the structure of American politics, the belief system of Republican voters and the polarization of opinion in Congress.
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Boston Herald
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump suggests DA “dropped” Stormy case
Trump suggests DA “dropped” Stormy case
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The Daily Beast, Breitbart, New York Post, Rolling Stone, Washington Press, Mediaite, Fox News, BizPac Review, Real News Now and New York Daily News
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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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
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
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 …
WBRZ:
Two BRPD officers dead after police helicopter crashed in Erwinville while pursuing vehicle — ERWINVILLE - Two pilots were killed when a police helicopter crashed into a cane field in rural West Baton Rouge Parish. — Authorities say the BRPD helicopter crashed into a cane field off North Winterville Road, just off U.S. 190.
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Washington Examiner, Unfiltered with Kiran, WAFB-TV, ABC News and The Daily Caller
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 …
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.
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.