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2:55 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
Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Grand jury report recommends perjury charges  —  A special grand jury in Fulton County that examined efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia said it believed one or more witnesses it heard from may have committed perjury.
NBC News:
Georgia grand jury report on Trump election probe says ‘one or more witnesses’ may have committed perjury
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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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 …
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 …
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: Insider, The Hill and Reuters
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Mitt Romney warns that Trump is ‘by far the most likely’ GOP nominee in 2024  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitt Romney says former President Donald Trump is best-positioned to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, and that the only way to stop him is to ultimately shrink the field to a one-on-one contest against a viable alternative.
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
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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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.
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.
WXYZ-TV:
Crews on scene of train derailment in Van Buren Township  —  (WXYZ) — The Van Buren Township Fire Department confirms that a train derailed near Huron River Drive this morning.  —  Chopper video shows at least six cars off the track.  —  Officials say only one car in the train …
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Michael Kaplan / CBS News:
Excess size caused train to break down in days before it derailed in Ohio, employees say
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: Raw Story and Political Wire
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.
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
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 …
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.
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 …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Fetterman Checks Into Hospital to Seek Treatment for Clinical Depression  —  A spokesman for the first-term senator from Pennsylvania, who suffered a near-fatal stroke last year, said his depression had grown severe in recent weeks, as he has worked to adjust to life in the Senate.
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.
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
This Christian ‘Prophet’ Backed Trump in 2020.  Now He Says God Favors DeSantis  —  Are Christian visionaries turning on Trump? … And for once, it wasn't about Donald Trump.  “We need to watch Ron DeSantis,” Shamp told the televangelist's audience.  “Because the Lord is going to use him in a powerful way.”
Discussion: Alternet.org and Political Wire
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Exclusive: British intel caught FBI spy chief secretly meeting a Russian in London  — An FBI spy chief's secret meeting with a Russian contact was detected by UK officials.  — Charles McGonigal, the ex-FBI official, is charged with taking money from Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska.
NBC News:
Powerful radars, limited scope: How no one spotted a bunch of ‘objects’ floating in NORAD airspace  —  Radar systems for weather have become so advanced that they can determine the shape of a 6-millimeter raindrop from more than 8 miles away.  —  How, then, did multiple objects recently shot …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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