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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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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 figure comes a week after Fox News reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems …
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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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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Tucker Carlson out at Fox News — “We thank him for his service to the network,” Fox said. — TV host Tucker Carlson and Fox News have “agreed to part ways,” Fox said in a statement Monday. — “We thank him for his service to the network,” Fox said in a statement, noting that Carlson's last show was on Friday.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News Breaks Up With Tucker Carlson In Exit Surprise — Tucker Carlson will no longer be able to carry on his self-generated battle against lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink at Fox News Channel. — Carlson, Fox News Channel's most-watched primetime host, will leave the network …
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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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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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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How Democrats Learned to Cast Aside Reservations and Embrace Biden 2024
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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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Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Susan Rice to step down as domestic policy adviser
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Susan Rice to Step Down as Biden's Domestic Policy Adviser
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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.
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Hillary Clinton / New York Times:
Republicans' Debt-Ceiling Games Threaten National Security
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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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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Hunter Biden lawyer seeks ethics probe of Greene for ‘verbal abuses’ — A lawyer for Hunter Biden called Monday for a congressional ethics investigation into the behavior of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), alleging that she has repeatedly directed “unmoored verbal abuses” at the president's son …
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Sarah Fitzpatrick / NBC News:
Hunter Biden legal team wants Treasury to investigate ex-Trump aide and wants Congress to take action against MTG
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Washington Examiner, CNN and Just The News
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Hunter Biden may be living at the White House to evade legal papers from his baby mama
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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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Nicholas Grossman / Bulwark+:
Why the Anti-Anti-Trumpers Need Ron DeSantis
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Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Trump's insane lies on DeSantis trash successful conservative policies
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Raw Story, Instapundit, HotAir and Breitbart
Kit O'Connell / The Texas Observer:
Ag Commissioner Sid Miller's New Transphobic Dress Code — Transgender and gender nonconforming employees of the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) received an unwelcome surprise last Monday: a new dress code that continues Governor Greg Abbott's campaign of anti-LGBTQ+ oppression.
Washington Post:
Proud Boys saw themselves as 'Trump's army,' U.S. says in trial closings — Closing arguments are underway in the seditious conspiracy trial of five Proud Boys leaders accused of spearheading the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — The far-right Proud Boys saw themselves …
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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.
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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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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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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Joe.My.God.
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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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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