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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News — The bombastic host received the largest audience on the conservative network. — In a shocking announcement on Monday morning, the Fox News Channel announced that prime-time host Tucker Carlson is leaving the network.
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News in wake of Dominion defamation settlement — Fox News announced it parted ways with right wing host Tucker Carlson. His last program aired Friday. — The host is leaving Fox News days after the network reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Tucker Carlson out at Fox News — Fox News and Tucker Carlson, the right-wing extremist who hosted the network's highly rated 8pm hour, have severed ties, the network said in a stunning announcement Monday. — The announcement came one week after Fox News settled a monster defamation lawsuit …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson OUT at Fox News in Shocking Shakeup — Tucker Carlson, the top-rated host at Fox News, is leaving the network. — The abrupt departure of the controversial prime time host comes a week after Fox News reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News Breaks Up With Tucker Carlson In Exit Surprise
Fox News Breaks Up With Tucker Carlson In Exit Surprise
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NBC News, Talking Points Memo, The Wrap and Los Angeles Times
Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Susan Rice to step down as domestic policy adviser — Rice, who also served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, helped the Biden administration with expanding the Affordable Care Act. — Domestic policy adviser Susan Rice is stepping down from her post.
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Carol E. Lee / NBC News:
Susan Rice to step down as Biden's domestic policy chief — Rice's departure next month will bring to a close her prolific, wide-ranging and at times controversial tenure. — President Joe Biden's domestic policy adviser, Susan Rice, is stepping down from her post next month …
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New York Times, Washington Free Beacon, The Hill, Washington Post, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Twitchy, CNN and Eschaton
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Hunter Biden may be living at the White House to evade legal papers from his baby mama — Hunter Biden is believed to be hiding out at the White House while his baby mama goes on the warpath. — Lawyers for former stripper Lunden Roberts asked an Arkansas court Friday to jail the First Son …
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Why Trump Is Beating DeSantis Among D.C. Republicans — A G.O.P. congressman discusses the Florida governor's “electability” problems. — Last year, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, who, in November, was reëlected in a landslide, emerged as the only viable challenger to Donald Trump …
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Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Trump's insane lies on DeSantis trash successful conservative policies
Trump's insane lies on DeSantis trash successful conservative policies
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Raw Story, Instapundit, HotAir and Breitbart
Nicholas Grossman / Bulwark+:
Why the Anti-Anti-Trumpers Need Ron DeSantis
Why the Anti-Anti-Trumpers Need Ron DeSantis
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Some DeSantis allies feel growing urgency to launch 2024 bid
Some DeSantis allies feel growing urgency to launch 2024 bid
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Insider, Florida Politics, Politico, Wide World of News, BizPac Review, Rolling Stone and Semafor
James Downie / MSNBC:
Kevin McCarthy's clown car is headed right into a debt ceiling crisis — The House speaker's tenure has been a kaleidoscope of incompetence. — The clown car that has been Rep. Kevin McCarthy's speakership spluttered to a halting start over 15 long ballots in January and hasn't had a second of a smooth ride since.
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Politico:
'Nobody knows when it's going to happen': Wall Street wakes up to default threat.
'Nobody knows when it's going to happen': Wall Street wakes up to default threat.
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Digby's Hullabaloo
Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
Republicans' Debt-Ceiling Games Threaten National Security
Republicans' Debt-Ceiling Games Threaten National Security
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The Hill and The Daily Caller
Laura Bassett / Jezebel:
Kyrsten Sinema Has a Net Favorability of -23, Per New Statewide Poll — A Public Policy Polling survey of Arizona voters finds that the party-switching senator is deeply unpopular and has virtually no chance of winning re-election. — A new poll out of Arizona by a well-trusted …
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Political Wire
Washington Post:
Democrats reluctant about Biden 2024, but they see no other choice — They are lukewarm about picking Biden as their nominee, but many believe he may be the best hope of preventing a second Trump term and fighting extremism — The leftover pizza was divvied up, the Girl Scout cookies had been exchanged …
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New York Times, Talking Points Memo, HuffPost, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How Democrats Learned to Cast Aside Reservations and Embrace Biden 2024
How Democrats Learned to Cast Aside Reservations and Embrace Biden 2024
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Ben Smith / Semafor:
It's back to the future for a diminished digital news business — What year is it? Consider the following: — The Drudge Report is the biggest political website in the country. — Jonah Peretti, a digital media entrepreneur, is focused on building the homepage traffic of HuffPost.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Israel offers to host warring Sudanese generals for talks — Israel in a proposal given to the warring generals in Sudan offered to host the two sides for Israeli-mediated talks aimed at reaching a cease-fire agreement, three Israeli Foreign Ministry officials told Axios.
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Washington Post:
At U.S. behest, Ukraine held off anniversary attacks on Russia — Kyiv's head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, planned bold strikes deep behind enemy lines that unnerved officials in Washington — In February, with the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine days away …
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The Hill, Human Events and Fox News
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Ray Epps, a Jan. 6 protester now at the center of a far-right conspiracy, says he relives the Capitol riot every day — For millions of consumers of conservative news... Ray Epps is a notorious villain ... a provocateur responsible for turning peaceful protests on January 6th into a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol.
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Salim A. Essaid / Al-Monitor:
Saudi Arabia rises to world's 5th largest military spender: SIPRI — The kingdom has risen from eighth to fifth place since 2021, surpassing the United Kingdom, Germany and France. — DUBAI — Saudi Arabia was ranked the 5th biggest military spender in 2022, jumping from eighth to fifth place …
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New York Times:
Don Lemon, CNN Star Anchor, to Leave the Network — Mr. Lemon, one of the network's most recognizable stars, had been under scrutiny since making remarks about women and aging in February that were widely perceived to be sexist. — Don Lemon is out at CNN.
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John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Nikki Haley's Corporate-Board Slot Delivers Stock Windfall Amid 2024 GOP Bid — Decision to stay in post differs from past choices by Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush — Nikki Haley received stock options worth close to $300,000 roughly six weeks after jumping into the 2024 presidential race as part …
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Harvard University:
SPRING 2023 POLL — Cambridge, MA - A national poll released today by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School indicates that among18-to-29-year-olds, President Biden's approval rating stands at 36%, a drop of three percentage points since last fall (39%) and five percentage points since last spring (41%.)
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New York Post, The Hill, The Daily Caller and Political Wire
Jordain Carney / Politico:
House GOP warns FBI to stay out of controversial surveillance talks — The bureau is at the heart of a fight over a controversial surveillance program. But its toxic relationship with the House GOP means it has to stay far away from reauthorization talks.
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Raw Story
Punchbowl News:
McCarthy's gigantic week — THE TOP … Both the House and Senate come back into session tomorrow. — This is the most important week for Speaker Kevin McCarthy since he won the grueling floor fight in January to get the gavel. — The House is set to vote this week on a $4.5 trillion GOP bill …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Florida school district bans dozens of books based on proposed bill — Schools in Clay County, Florida, are withholding dozens of books from students, citing legislation that has been proposed but not approved by the state legislature or signed into law. — In a spreadsheet published …
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National Review
Jennifer O'mahony / Associated Press:
Spain exhumes fascist party founder from Madrid mausoleum — The body of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spain's fascist Falange movement, was exhumed from a Madrid mausoleum on Monday and transferred to a city cemetery. The fascist political leader was executed …
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Eleni Kounalakis first to launch campaign for California governor in 2026 — The state's lieutenant governor has assembled an A-team of political strategists and fundraisers for her run. — SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis on Monday launched her campaign to become …
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