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10:30 AM ET, April 25, 2023

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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Tucker Carlson's Exit Shows Who's the Real Star at Fox  —  No one is irreplaceable at the network.  It was designed that way.  —  If you're wondering did Tucker Carlson jump, was he pushed or were he and Fox News wrestling on the ledge of a skyscraper, and the two of them fell 57 stories …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Tucker Carlson, Fake Populist and Genuine Racist … The most incisive comment ever made about Tucker Carlson was actually made about Bill O'Reilly, and the person who said it was Tucker Carlson, at the time a lesser cable-television personality gazing upward at the reigning giant of his field.
Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News after Dominion lawsuit disclosures  —  The bombastic conservative was the network's most-watched prime-time host.  Private communications made public in a recent lawsuit revealed his sharp criticism of Fox management.  —  Fox News dropped Tucker Carlson …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Rupert Murdoch's management grows erratic  —  The News  —  Tucker Carlson's abrupt firing is a tectonic moment in American media and a crisis for the far right.  —  But it's also the latest in a series of abrupt, erratic decisions that have left 92-year-old, Rupert Murdoch's media empire …
Brian Stelter / Vanity Fair:
Why Tucker Carlson's Exit From Fox News Looks Like an Execution
Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:   Fox Dumps Tucker to Go Woke
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Tucker Carlson departs Fox News, pushed out by Rupert Murdoch
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Tucker has left the building
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Will Tucker Carlson Become Alex Jones?
Discussion: HuffPost, New Republic and RADAR
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Finally, accountability for Tucker Carlson. But it's only a start
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property  —  The Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court.  —  For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.
New York Times:
Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist  —  In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic.  But his primary focus was civil rights.  —  By Peter Keepnews  —  Harry Belafonte …
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
First look: RNC slams Biden in AI-generated ad … - The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party, followed by a series of imagined reports about international and domestic crises that the ad suggests would follow a Biden victory in 2024.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Announces Re-election Bid, Defying Trump and History  —  While the president once pitched himself as “a bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders, he has decided that he is not ready to turn the torch over yet.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden formally announced on Tuesday …
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Joe Biden Announces 2024 Re-Election Campagin
New York Times:
Major G.O.P. Donor's Commitment to DeSantis Is Murkier Than Thought  —  The hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin, who seemed set to be a powerful financial backer of the Florida governor, is said to still be evaluating the Republican primary race.  —  Nearly six months ago, Kenneth Griffin …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
The Ron DeSantis Bubble Deflates  —  You know it's hard out there for a Florida governor...  Remember six months ago?  The Republican Party had just massively underperformed in the midterm elections, and a lot of GOP power brokers were grousing that the blame lay with one Donald J. Trump.
Orlando Sentinel:
Democrats slam DeSantis for taking trip around the world with work at home
Discussion: Florida Politics and New York Post
Ava Sasani / New York Times:
North Dakota Governor Signs Near-Total Abortion Ban  —  The governor approved the state's prohibition on Monday, just a month after the State Supreme Court blocked an earlier ban.  —  North Dakota became the latest state on Monday to enact a near-total ban on abortion …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Trisha Ahmed / Associated Press:
North Dakota governor signs law banning nearly all abortions  —  North Dakota on Monday adopted one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country as Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed legislation banning the procedure throughout pregnancy, with slim exceptions up to six weeks' gestation.
Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump probe: DA urges law enforcement to prep for indictments this summer  —  Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday said she would announce this summer whether former President Donald Trump and his allies would be charged with crimes related to alleged interference in Georgia's 2020 election.
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Losing the E. Jean Carroll Rape Case Even Before It Starts  —  Trump tried to prevent jurors from hearing about another incident when he allegedly forced himself on another journalist.  It didn't work.  —  With the rape trial of former President Donald Trump just days away …
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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Why Fox News Is Going to Get Worse—a Lot Worse  —  What's next at the Fox News Channel?  I don't know, but my bet is this: Whoever ultimately replaces Tucker Carlson will be worse, as David Graham argued at The Atlantic Monday.  He or she will be more trolly, more racist, more pro-Putin …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Raw Story
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’ … It was, perhaps, an impossible job.  Make one man the face of public health amid an unprecedented pandemic, in a country as fractious as the United States, and there were bound to be disappointments and frustrations, and they were bound to get personal.
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Vivek Ramaswamy, the best man at cable's Red Wedding  —  The News  —  “Anti-woke” businessman Vivek Ramaswamy announced his campaign for president on Tucker Carlson's show in February.  He was scheduled to return on Monday night only to find out Carlson had been fired.
Washington Post:
A closer look at the U.S. pandemic response reached an unsettling conclusion  —  Looking back at the U.S. response to the pandemic, many setbacks and mistakes are well-known.  But a closer examination by a team of seasoned experts has brought to the surface a profoundly unsettling conclusion.
Discussion: USA Today
Politico:
An affiliate of House Democrats' top super PAC is launching new TV ads hitting Republicans on their debt ceiling proposal, tying the GOP to the threat of default.  —  News and analysis from Capitol Hill for when you only have a few minutes, from POLITICO.
Discussion: The Hill and ABC News
Chris Geidner / Law Dork with Chris Geidner:
Missouri's appointed attorney general sued over anti-trans “emergency” rule  —  Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was sued in Missouri court on Monday to halt his emergency rule that severely restricts gender-affirming medical care for people of all ages before it is scheduled to go into effect on Thursday.
 
 
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Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
Statue Is Defaced in England After Children Were Given Crayons
Discussion: NDTV
Dylan Byers / Puck:
Black Monday: Inside the Carlson-Lemon Double Shocker
Discussion: CNN
Shania Shelton / CNN:
2024 will be the first presidential election for one in five local election officials, poll finds
Discussion: NBC News, Reuters and El País
Parham Ghobadi / BBC:
Iran protests: Secret committee ‘punished celebrities over dissent’
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Seven arrested in Montana after protesting silencing of trans lawmaker
Mia Ashton / The Post Millennial:
Trans teen died from vaginoplasty complications during landmark Dutch study used to justify child sex changes
 Earlier Items: 
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Wyden asks Texas billionaire for detailed accounting of gifts to Clarence Thomas
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Schumer announces Senate will vote on the Equal Rights Amendment this week
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Trump let trans beauty queen compete in Miss Universe, in a potential 2024 GOP primary liability
Discussion: New York Post and Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Endorsed by Senator Daines of Montana, a Key Republican Fund-Raiser
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
SpaceX Starship explosion spread particulate matter for miles
Arek Sarkissian / Politico:
Florida surgeon general altered key findings in study on Covid-19 vaccine safety
Discussion: Insider
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
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Financial Times:
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