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12:15 PM ET, February 14, 2023

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Detroit News:
MSU shooter Anthony McRae pleaded guilty to gun charge in 2019  —  Lansing — State officials Tuesday identified 43-year-old Anthony McRae, who was charged with multiple gun-related crimes in 2019, as the attacker who shot and killed three people and wounded five others at Michigan State University.
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CNN:
Suspect has died of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after mass shooting at Michigan State University left 3 dead and 5 injured, police say  —  A suspect appears to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a shooting at Michigan State University left 3 people dead and injured 5 others Monday evening, police said.
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Oxford student relives horror at MSU: ‘Mom — get me out of here’  —  After more than a year of grieving the loss of her high school classmates, a former Oxford High School student was retraumatized Monday evening at Michigan State University, when gun violence would once again shatter her sense of security.
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post
Morgan Russ / WDIV-TV:
Oxford school shooting survivor on campus during mass shooting at Michigan State University
Discussion: The Guardian, MLive.com and NPR
NBC News:
White House says a leading explanation for the 3 downed unidentified objects is that they were commercial or benign  —  WASHINGTON — The White House said Tuesday that the U.S. intelligence community is considering that three most recent unidentified objects shot down over North America were being used for commercial or benign purposes.
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Max Matza / BBC:
Chinese balloon sensors recovered from ocean, says US
Punchbowl News:   A briefing unlike any other  —  Senators will walk into a classified briefing …
Rolling Stone:
Trump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White House  —  The former president wants to expand the use of the death penalty, and expand the federal government's options for carrying out death sentences … That's the question Donald Trump repeatedly asked …
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Dylan Wells / Washington Post:
Nikki Haley announces she is running for president  —  Haley released a video Tuesday saying, “It's time for a new generation of leadership”  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Nikki Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador and governor of South Carolina, announced Tuesday that she is running for president …
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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Haley announces presidential campaign, challenging Trump
Reuters:
Nikki Haley takes on Donald Trump for 2024 U.S. Republican nomination
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
'They Didn't Understand Anything, but Just Spoiled People's Lives'  —  This article is based on interviews and research by the Reckoning Project, a multinational group of journalists and researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Ukraine.  —  On the night of February 24, 2022, the sound of missiles jolted Viktor Marunyak awake.
Discussion: globalnews.ca and UPI
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New York Times:
Guided Missile Killed U.S. Aid Worker in Ukraine, Video Shows  —  A Times analysis suggests that an intentional strike, not an indiscriminate attack, most likely killed Pete Reed.  It is unclear whether the attackers knew he was with a group of aid workers.
Politico:
Pence to fight special counsel subpoena on Trump's 2020 election denial  —  Mike Pence is preparing to resist a grand jury subpoena for testimony about former President Donald Trump's push to overturn the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the former vice president's thinking.
Washington Post:
Indian government raids BBC offices after documentary critical of Modi  —  NEW DELHI — Indian tax authorities raided the BBC and seized its journalists' phones in a stunning — and apparently retaliatory — move Tuesday against the British broadcaster weeks after it aired …
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Real Reason Trump Is Calling DeSantis ‘Meatball Ron’  —  It's no joke. … For Donald Trump, the first step is always to label his victim.  Indeed, assigning a good bad nickname appears to be a sine qua non in the Trump playbook.  Once he gets that part right, the job is half-done.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Biden poised to secure landmark 100th judge in the Democratic-led Senate  —  WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led Senate is poised to confirm President Joe Biden's 100th federal judge on Tuesday, marking a milestone for the president and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Discussion: The Dispatch
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Bloomberg:
Biden Will Name Fed's Lael Brainard as His Top Economic Adviser
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Ron Klain Looks Back on Biden's First Two Years as President  —  “We have been declared dead, dead, dead many times,” the White House's departing chief of staff says, of the Administration.  “You just have to keep after it.”  —  The mood at the Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Fox News
Dean Obeidallah / CNN:
The GOP can't ignore the blockbuster report on Trump, Kushner and Saudi funds  —  Editor's Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show.”  Follow him @DeanObeidallah@masto.ai.  The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Three-Quarters of House GOPs Endorsed Social Security Cuts Last Year  —  Start your day with TPM.  —  With Republicans telling us, collectively, ‘Who are you going to believe?  Us or your lyin’ eyes?' the work of de-bamboozling is never done.  Don't thank me now.  Just remember to sign up to become a member.
Discussion: The Hill
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Bloomberg:
How Ben & Jerry's Ended Up at War With Itself  —  Anuradha Mittal was the kind of person large corporations tend to avoid at all costs.  She'd been politically awakened as a college student in India, working as a volunteer in Bhopal, where a leak at a Union Carbine Corp. pesticide plant …
NBC News:
Worried residents near Ohio train derailment report dead fish and chickens as authorities say it's safe to return  —  For days, authorities have been telling residents of the area around East Palestine, Ohio, that it is safe to return home after a 150-car train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed Feb. 3.
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren cultivates anti-crypto coalition  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren is branding herself as the scourge of crypto.  And she's not doing it alone.  —  The progressive Massachusetts Democrat is starting to recruit conservative Senate Republicans to her anti-crypto cause and getting …
Akiva Eldar / Haaretz:
Bring on the Sanctions Against Israel  —  How will the West explain why Israel is developing nuclear weapons (according to foreign sources)?  That Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East?  —  Zen Read  —  The chutzpah of the Americans!  How does their Secretary …
Discussion: The Hill
Jason Stanley / The Guardian:
Banning ideas and authors is not a ‘culture war’ - it's fascism  —  The media's framing of measures like Florida's African American studies ban is a dangerous falsification of reality  —  wave of Republican enthusiasm for banning concepts, authors and books is sweeping across the United States.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants  —  As the companies have shed jobs recently, many teams assigned to combat false and misleading information have taken a hit.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube, like other social media platforms, spent years expanding its efforts to tackle misinformation after the 2016 election.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Politico:
Playbook: Plan B talks on debt limit go underground  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TRAGEDY AT MICHIGAN STATE — “MSU shooting suspect dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound,” by the Detroit News' Craig Mauger, Jakkar Aimery and Beth LeBlanc …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Inflation rose 0.5% in January, more than expected and up 6.4% from a year ago  — Inflation rose in January by 0.5% following a 0.1% increase in December, according to the consumer price index report released Tuesday.  — The CPI was up 6.4% from the same period in 2022.
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Republicans can choose the judge who hears their lawsuits.  DOJ wants to stop that.  —  The Justice Department hopes to neutralize Trump's worst judge.  —  Last week, the Justice Department decided to confront one of the most pernicious and exploited glitches in America's courts.
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
Get Me Risa Heller!  —  If you're Jeff Zucker or Mario Batali or Jared Kushner and you're trying to survive a bout of very bad press, she's who you call.  —  It was the last Monday in January 2022 when Jeff Zucker realized his world was about to come crashing down.
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Democrat who nearly unseated Boebert launches 2024 bid against her  —  Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came within half a percentage point of unseating Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) in last year's midterm election, is launching a 2024 bid against the congresswoman.
 
 
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Dave Ress / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Senate panel kills House crime bills, including Youngkin priority
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Associated Press:
California will try to enshrine right to same-sex marriage
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New York Magazine:
Ron DeSantis Has a Glaring Vulnerability
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