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Katherine Fung / Newsweek:
Audrey Hale Manifesto Release Raises Major Concerns From LGBTQ+ Groups — Calls for police to release the “manifesto” that authorities say was written ahead of Monday's Nashville school shooting has prompted concern among LGBTQ+ groups, who caution against the publication of such a document.
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Fox News, HotAir, Poynter, The Daily Caller, CBS News, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, Ace of Spades HQ, Agence France-Presse and New York Post
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NBC News:
Fear pervades Tennessee's trans community amid focus on Nashville shooter's gender identity — “We were already fearing for our lives. Now, it's even worse,” one transgender advocate in the state said. — Shortly after news broke Monday of a fatal shooting at a private Christian Nashville …
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HotAir, LGBTQ Nation, Vanity Fair, Insider, The Daily Caller, RedState, The Federalist, The Tennessean and The Hill
Sandra Stojanovic / Reuters:
Video shows police storming building, killing Nashville school shooter — Video released on Tuesday showed Nashville, Tennessee, police officers storming a private Christian grade school on Monday before confronting and fatally shooting an attacker who killed three 9-year-old students and three adult staff members.
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Ben Ashford / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Nashville mass school shooter Audrey Hale was rejected by her Christian parents who 'couldn't accept' she was gay and trans - as cops reveal she also planned to shoot relatives
EXCLUSIVE: Nashville mass school shooter Audrey Hale was rejected by her Christian parents who 'couldn't accept' she was gay and trans - as cops reveal she also planned to shoot relatives
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The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Beast
Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Deems Trans People the ‘Natural Enemy’ of Christianity
Tucker Carlson Deems Trans People the ‘Natural Enemy’ of Christianity
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The Daily Beast, HotAir, Rolling Stone, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, Click2Houston.com and Boing Boing
CNN:
Covenant school shooter was under care for emotional disorder and hid guns at home, police say
Covenant school shooter was under care for emotional disorder and hid guns at home, police say
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Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Scoop: Christie pledges never to support Trump again — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is seriously considering a 2024 presidential campaign, told Axios that he will never support Donald Trump for president again — even if he wins the Republican nomination.
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New York Times:
Pence Must Testify to Jan. 6 Grand Jury, Judge Rules — The ruling in Washington was the latest setback to efforts by former President Donald J. Trump's legal team to limit testimony to grand juries investigating him on various matters. — A federal judge has ordered former Vice President Mike Pence …
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The Guardian, CBS News, Politico, Associated Press and Election Law Blog
CNN:
Mike Pence must testify about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, judge rules — A federal judge has decided that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, 2021 …
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Dennis Aftergut / Slate:
Mike Pence Will Testify Against Donald Trump
Mike Pence Will Testify Against Donald Trump
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Raw Story, New York Times, New York Daily News, National Review, Washington Examiner, Associated Press, New Republic, USA Today, ABC News, Mediaite and CBS News
Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Trump makes a big move in the Granite State
Trump makes a big move in the Granite State
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Twitter is dying — It's five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called, Twitter. The platform had punched about its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivalled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available.
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Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, Slate, The Verge, CNBC, Metro.co.uk, Boing Boing, WKBN-TV, spiked, BizPac Review and Al Jazeera, more at Mediagazer »
Kelli María Korducki / The Atlantic:
What Many Americans Misunderstand About Israel's Unrest — Yair Rosenberg on how the country got to this moment, and what coverage of the issue can miss — On Sunday, news broke that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had abruptly fired the country's defense minister, Yoav Gallant …
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Human Events, New York Post, Insider, Al-Monitor, Tangle, spiked, Bloomberg, Politico, Vox, CNBC, The Daily Caller, middleeastmonitor.com and CBS News
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Los Angeles Times:
News Analysis: Israel's protests, Netanyahu and the crisis his government unleashed
News Analysis: Israel's protests, Netanyahu and the crisis his government unleashed
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El País, Associated Press, Vox, Chicago Tribune and HuffPost
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Netanyahu Cannot Be Trusted
Netanyahu Cannot Be Trusted
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Haaretz, Slate, Washington Post and Washington Examiner
Ankush Khardori / New York Magazine:
How Michael Cohen's Big Mouth Could Be Derailing the Trump Prosecution — As we continue week two of the Donald Trump-indictment watch, questions abound. Is it really going to happen? Did last week's testimony from lawyer Robert Costello in defense of Trump successfully throw a wrench in the process?
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Althouse, Los Angeles Times, Patterico's Pontifications, New York Daily News and Page Six
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Fox tries to stop Rupert Murdoch from testifying in person at the Dominion trial — The judge overseeing the trial did not seem sympathetic to the company's argument that it would be an “inconvenience” for the 92-year-old chairman to provide testimony in court.
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Political Wire and Variety
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CNN:
Dominion wants Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and other Fox hosts and executives to take the stand at trial — Dominion Voting Systems said in a court filing Monday that it wants to put some of Fox News' top executives and most well-known hosts on the witness stand when its $1.6 billion defamation case …
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Bloomberg, The Hill, Associated Press, Financial Times, Deadline, Mediaite, Political Wire, The Daily Beast and Washington Post
Alex Burness / Bolts:
“Back to 1902”: Virginia Governor Revives Lifetime Ban on Voting — Governor Glenn Youngkin just gave himself a lot more power to pick and choose Virginia voters. The Republican governor's administration told state lawmakers in a letter last week that he was rescinding his predecessors' policy …
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Political Wire
Thom Hartmann / Raw Story:
Guns don't kill Americans — Republicans do — Yesterday a 28-year old graduate of a Christian school shot up the place, killing three 9-year-old students and three adults. This was almost 2 years to the day that Republican Governor Bill Lee signed a wide-ranging gun deregulation bill allowing Tennesseans …
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The Hill, New York Times, CBS News, NPR and Louder With Crowder
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Robert J. Spitzer / The Hill:
What our past tells us about young people and guns
What our past tells us about young people and guns
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CNN, Associated Press and CounterPunch
Kimberly Wethal / Wisconsin State Journal:
Half-eaten burrito ties suspect to firebombing of anti-abortion group's Madison office — DNA gleaned from a half-eaten burrito led to the arrest in Boston Tuesday of a Madison man charged with the May 2022 firebombing of the Madison headquarters of anti-abortion group Wisconsin Family Action.
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National Review
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Feds arrest man in firebombing of an anti-abortion group using DNA from a partly eaten burrito
Feds arrest man in firebombing of an anti-abortion group using DNA from a partly eaten burrito
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The Daily Beast, Reuters, New York Daily News and Associated Press
Wall Street Journal:
Russia's Economy Is Starting to Come Undone — Investment is down, labor is scarce, budget is squeezed. Oligarch: ‘There will be no money next year’ — MOSCOW—The opening months of Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year drove an increase in oil and natural-gas prices that brought a windfall for Moscow.
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Raw Story
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Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
Idaho Is About To Become The First State To Restrict Interstate Travel For Abortion — A bill would create a whole new crime — dubbed “abortion trafficking” — which aims to limit minors' ability to travel for abortion care without parental consent. — Idaho already has some of the most …
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Boise State Public Radio, Political Wire and Idaho Reports
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Juror in Oath Keepers trial reveals secrets from the deliberation room — In a newly released interview, the juror recounts being disturbed by the tactics of some defense attorneys. — Jurors in the recently concluded trial of six Oath Keeper affiliates were “horrified” …
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Billy Ball / The Atlantic:
My 6-Year-Old Son Died. Then the Anti-vaxxers Found Out. — Opponents of COVID vaccines terrorize grieving families on social media. — My 6-year-old boy died in January. We lost him after a household accident, one likely brought on by a rare cerebral-swelling condition.
NBC News:
Republican senator draws blowback for blocking military promotions over abortion policy — Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is stalling promotions for more than 150 generals and flag officers over a policy that funds travel costs for servicemembers seeking abortions.
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
'It's a powerful effect': Austin fires back at GOP senator's blockade of military promotions
'It's a powerful effect': Austin fires back at GOP senator's blockade of military promotions
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The Hill, Fox News, HotAir, UPI, New York Post, Raw Story, Washington Examiner and al.com
Matt Binder / Mashable:
Half of Twitter Blue subscribers have less than 1,000 followers — And Elon Musk now says he wants to force these users all into your feed. — If Elon Musk was expecting many verified Twitter users to pay to keep their checkmarks, the reality is bound to be disappointing, new data has revealed.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why Donald Trump is talking about parents not loving their kids — A few days ago, a clip of one of the myriad policy-adjacent videos Donald Trump has produced for his 2024 campaign began to circulate on social media. In it, Trump begins by talking about his efforts to end the estate tax …
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Raw Story and The Intersection
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Friend says she contacted authorities after messaging with Nashville shooter Audrey Hale on morning of attack — Paige Patton says Hale messaged her online about “planning to die today.” — A friend of Nashville school shooter — Audrey Hale — told ABC News that she contacted local authorities …
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The Hill, The Daily Caller and The Western Journal
Dan Kaufman / New Yorker:
A High-Stakes Election in the Midwest's “Democracy Desert” — The race for control of Wisconsin's Supreme Court could change the course of the entire country. — Last month, Mary Lynne Donohue drove me along Superior Avenue, a long artery that runs across Sheboygan, Wisconsin, a small industrial city on Lake Michigan.
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Politico, The American Independent, Washington Examiner, National Review and NBC News
Elias Visontay / The Guardian:
Rupert Murdoch has fuelled polarisation of society, Barack Obama says — Former US president tells Sydney audience that media coverage has helped exacerbate divisions and that we no longer have a ‘shared story’ — The former US president Barack Obama has suggested that Rupert Murdoch's media empire …
Andrea Grimes / Home with the Armadillo:
We Can't Afford to Lose the Texas Observer — Staff at Texas' oldest progressive magazine learned from media reports that they'd be losing their jobs in a matter of days. … I once spent most of a Friday night trying to keep a Texas Observer board member from burning my house down.
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The Texas Tribune, Off the Kuff and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Top Fed Officials Criticize Silicon Valley Bank Executives at Senate Hearing — Officials blamed executives at Silicon Valley Bank for its failure on March 10, while adding that Federal Reserve oversight is in for a revamp. — WASHINGTON — A top regulator at the Federal Reserve …
CNN:
Inside the backchannel communications keeping Donald Trump in the loop on Republican investigations — Donald Trump continues to wield enormous power on Capitol Hill as House Republicans seek to curry favor with the former president, pursuing his fixations through their investigations …
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The Hill