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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.
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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 …
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Tucker Carlson departs Fox News, pushed out by Rupert Murdoch — Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News. — The network announced the departure of its top-rated and most provocative conservative prime-time host Monday with no explanation. His last show was Friday.
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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 …
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Brian Stelter / Vanity Fair:
Why Tucker Carlson's Exit From Fox News Looks Like an Execution — The biggest star in cable news didn't get to give a proper goodbye from his prime-time perch. But will Carlson go quietly into the night? — The last time Tucker Carlson texted me, it was about a Twitter rumor that new management at CNN might toss me overboard.
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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 …
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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Vivek Ramaswamy, the best man at cable's Red Wedding
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson's ouster is another sign that MAGA is shrinking
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Rolling Stone:
Fox News Staffers Celebrate Tucker Carlson's Departure: ‘Pure Joy’
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New York Times:
Don Lemon Ousted From CNN in Move That Left Him ‘Stunned’
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
What Tucker Carlson's Dismissal From Fox News Means for the Network
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
13 Terrible Things Tucker Carlson Said That DIDN'T Get Him Fired
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Finally, accountability for Tucker Carlson. But it's only a start
Joan Walsh / The Nation:
Don't Let the Door Hit You in the Ass, Tucker Carlson!
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Vivek Ramaswamy: Carlson would be ‘good addition’ to GOP presidential field
Tori Otten / New Republic:
The 10 Most Fascist Things Tucker Carlson Said on Air
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
In a Lawsuit, Tucker Carlson Is Accused of Promoting a Hostile Work Environment
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Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
‘It Was a Firing’: Tucker Carlson's Exit from Fox Was NOT Voluntary, Sources Say
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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 …
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Biden announces he is running for re-election, framing 2024 as a choice between ‘more rights or fewer’ — Biden, who at 80 is already the oldest commander-in-chief, said “MAGA extremists are lining up” to take away the social safety net and personal freedoms.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden's never-Trump campaign for '24 … But Biden sees Trump as a lethal threat to America — the reason to run and the issue to build his campaign around. … - “When I ran for president four years ago, I said we are in a battle for the soul of America - and we still are,” Biden says in the video announcing his reelection.
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
First look: RNC slams Biden in AI-generated ad
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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.
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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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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 …
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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.
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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.
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Shania Shelton / CNN:
2024 will be the first presidential election for one in five local election officials, poll finds — More than one in five local election officials will be working their first presidential election in 2024, according to a new poll out Tuesday - a sign of the continued strain on election workers …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Wyden asks Texas billionaire for detailed accounting of gifts to Clarence Thomas — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Monday asked Texas billionaire Harlan Crow to voluntarily provide a detailed accounting of the gifts he has provided to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas …
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Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Clarence Thomas's Billionaire Friend Did Have Business Before the Supreme Court
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Trump Faces Rape Allegation as E. Jean Carroll's Suit Goes to Trial — The writer's case will be heard in Federal District Court starting Tuesday. She says former President Donald J. Trump attacked her in a department store decades ago. — In a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday …
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Losing the E. Jean Carroll Rape Case Even Before It Starts
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New York Times:
The College Board Will Change Its A.P. African American Studies Course — The course had run into criticism from scholars, who accused the board of omitting key concepts and bending to political pressure from Gov. Ron DeSantis. — The College Board said on Monday that it would revise …
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