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2:25 PM ET, February 16, 2023

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CNN:
Special counsel is locked in at least 8 secret court battles in Trump investigations  —  Special counsel Jack Smith is locked in at least eight secret court battles that aim to unearth some of the most closely held details about Donald Trump's actions after the 2020 election and handling …
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Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
Judge to release parts of Georgia special grand jury report  —  A Georgia judge on Thursday released parts of a report produced by an Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss in Georgia …
David Wickert / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Jan. 6 documents: Georgia legislators answered Trump's call to overturn election  —  Some legislators say the documents are not accurate  —  With his chances of winning Georgia slipping away in December 2020, then-President Donald Trump hit upon a novel scheme to stay in power: State legislators would name him the winner.
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Shell Spending Scheme Comes Under DOJ Scrutiny  —  Special counsel Jack Smith appears to have set his sights on a number of Trump's vendors.  And there's plenty to look into.  —  Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding.  Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Georgia grand jury report on Trump election probe says ‘one or more witnesses’ may have committed perjury
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows subpoenaed by special counsel in Jan. 6 investigation
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Senior Democrats' Private Take on Biden: He's Too Old  —  High-level Democrats are rallying to President Biden's reelection, not because they think it's in the best interest of the country to have an 82-year-old start a second term but because they fear the potential alternative …
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CNN:
Biden's age is a hot topic as he looks to extend his time in the Oval Office until he is 86  —  When President Joe Biden went for his annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Thursday morning, he set a new record - as he does every morning - as the oldest US president ever.
Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Biden appeals court nominee faces questions for role in school sexual assault case
Discussion: Raw Story
Snejana Farberov / New York Post:
Top Putin war official plunges 160 feet to her death from high-rise building  —  A high-ranking Russian defense official in the war against Ukraine was found dead Wednesday after falling from a 16th-floor window in an apartment building.  —  Marina Yankina, 58, was discovered by a passerby …
Discussion: Fox News and Political Wire
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Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Top Russian Military Official Dead After Fall From 16th Floor  —  ANOTHER ONE...  Marina Yankina handled cash flows for the Western Military District.  —  A Russian military official in charge of financial provisions for the military district blamed for the Kremlin's worst losses in Ukraine …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Republicans take aim at food stamps in growing fight over federal debt  —  Some GOP lawmakers are eyeing work requirements and other changes to the SNAP program in a bid to reduce the deficit  —  Top House Republicans are exploring significant changes to the nation's food stamps program …
Discussion: The Hill, Reuters and Insider
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans worry as self-inflicted wounds pile up
James Vincent / The Verge:
Microsoft's Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar, and people love it … Microsoft's Bing chatbot has been unleashed on the world, and people are discovering what it means to beta test an unpredictable AI tool.  —  Specifically, they're finding out that Bing's AI personality is not as poised or polished as you might expect.
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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A Conversation With Bing's Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says Full Self-Driving Beta software may cause crashes  — Tesla is recalling 362,758 vehicles and warns that its experimental driver-assistance software, marketed as Full Self-Driving Beta, may cause crashes.  — The recall notice was posted on the website …
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Et Tu, Kayleigh?  Trump-Die Hard McEnany Calls for DeSantis to Jump in the 2024 Race Immediately: ‘Hottest Governor in Republican Politics’  —  This doesn't figure to sit well with former President Donald Trump.  —  Speaking Wednesday on Outnumbered, Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany …
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Pamela Paul / New York Times:
In Defense of J.K. Rowling  —  “Trans people need and deserve protection.”  —  “I believe the majority of trans-identified people not only pose zero threat to others but are vulnerable.”  —  “I respect every trans person's right to live any way that feels authentic and comfortable to them.”
FIRE:
New FIRE model legislation takes on DEI bureaucracy's chilling effect on campus  —  FIRE has criticized the ever-increasing bureaucratization of our nation's colleges for years.  As Greg Lukianoff and Adam Goldstein put it a few years back: “The further a university drifts from its academic purpose …
Discussion: Reason
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John Sailer / Minding The Campus:   Research, Teaching, and DEI
Steve Trimble / Aviation Week Network:
Hobby Club's Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down By USAF  —  A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10.
Peter Kafka / Vox:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down  —  One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company.  —  YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who has led the world's largest video site for the last nine years, is stepping down from her role.
OH Predictive Insights:
AZ Senate: Gallego Leads in All Head-To-Head Matchups  —  Sinema's Independent Status is the Real Wild Card  —  Toplines and crosstabs can be found here  —  PHOENIX (February 16th, 2023)- The 2024 Senate election is inching closer and the race for Arizona's Senate seat is wide open.
Richard Hall / The Independent:
George Santos barricaded in district office as local residents are refused meeting with embattled congressman  —  Residents were reportedly told by a staffer that the congressman would not speak to the ‘mob’ … The office of embattled Republican congressman George Santos was surrounded …
Washington Post:
As Russians inch forward near Bakhmut, Ukrainians dig fallback defenses  —  ORIKHOVO-VASYLIVKA, Ukraine — The closest Ukrainian artillery position to the raging battle for Bakhmut is tucked into a leafless tree line about 13,000 feet from the enemy.  The fighters here have been hanging on for weeks …
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Howard Altman / The Drive:
Ukraine Bought ‘All The Gas Trucks Available In Europe’ To Keep Fueled (Updated)
Discussion: The Atlantic and Financial Times
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Virginia governor blocks bill banning police from seeking menstrual histories  —  Glenn Youngkin essentially kills bill passed in Democratic-led state senate to ban search warrants for menstrual data on tracking apps  —  The Republican governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
FEC presses Santos to identify campaign treasurer  —  The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is demanding Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to name a new treasurer for his campaign and several affiliated political committees, warning that a failure to do so will bar the groups from raising or spending any money.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Don Lemon Annoys Female Colleagues Again With ‘Completely Offensive’ Remarks  —  In what is becoming a habit, the CNN anchor drew the ire of his female colleagues over tone-deaf remarks related to gender—this time, about Nikki Haley being in her “prime.”  —  Don Lemon just can't help himself, it seems.
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Tesla Just Terminated Dozens in Response to New Union Campaign, Complaint Alleges  —  Tesla Inc. terminated dozens of employees Wednesday at its plant in Buffalo, New York, one day after Autopilot workers at the facility announced a union campaign, organizers said in a complaint.
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Kari Lake's lawyers hit with bar complaints  —  A legal group plans to file bar complaints Thursday against four lawyers representing Kari Lake in voter fraud litigation, NBC News has learned.  —  Lake, a Donald Trump acolyte who has refused to accept that she lost the governor's race in Arizona last year …
Discussion: Raw Story
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Alex Jones is ‘holding firearms’ for Jan. 6 rioters, bankruptcy docs show  —  As Infowars founder Alex Jones is facing bankruptcy for damages he owes to the families of victims of the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a new filing shows the right-wing conspiracy theorist has been …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
This Christian ‘Prophet’ Backed Trump in 2020. Now He Says God Favors DeSantis
Discussion: Alternet.org
Jen Smith / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Doctors from St Louis transgender clinic told teachers to ‘affirm’ an entire group of fifth graders - despite fears they were being influenced by their friends
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Discussion: WebMD Health
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Exclusive: British intel caught FBI spy chief secretly meeting a Russian in London