Top Items:
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Most people in most states support legal abortion — The Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade last year is perhaps the preeminent modern political example of the dog catching the car. — Republican leaders had pledged for decades to restrict abortion and to challenge the precedent in Roe …
RELATED:
PRRI:
Abortion Attitudes in a Post-Roe World: Findings From the 50-State 2022 American Values Atlas — The End of Roe — In late June 2022, the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson overturned Roe v. Wade, reversing nearly five decades of precedent that had established a national right to abortion access.
Discussion:
Religion News Service
Financial Times:
How Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled down — The decision to invade was taken after consulting only a tiny circle. The Russian leader has since become even more isolated — At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, received a troubling phone call.
RELATED:
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
A global divide on the Ukraine war is deepening
A global divide on the Ukraine war is deepening
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, BBC and Foreign Policy Research …
Stephen McDonell / BBC:
Ukraine war: China's claim to neutrality fades with Moscow visit
Ukraine war: China's claim to neutrality fades with Moscow visit
Discussion:
New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, Just The News, Washington Post, Fox News, The Guardian and Bloomberg
Yoshiaki Nohara / Bloomberg:
G-7 Countries Condemn Russian Aggression, Increase Aid to Ukraine
New York Times:
Trump Visits East Palestine, Seeking to Draw Contrast With Biden — The former president has attacked the administration's handling of the train derailment, even as his own environmental policies while in office have been criticized. — EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — It was evocative …
Discussion:
WKBN-TV, HotAir, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, NBC News, Raw Story, The Western Journal, IJR, Fox 8 Cleveland WJW, BizPac Review, Fox News, The Daily Caller, E&E, USA Today, Daily Mail, Wall Street Journal, KTSM-TV, Washington Times, CBS News, Washington Examiner, Rolling Stone, Louder With Crowder, Washington Post, Washington Press, Sputnik News, Sputnik News, Digby's Hullabaloo, Fox News, New York Post, Breitbart, Al Jazeera, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, The Hill, One America News Network, Twitchy, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Conservative Brief, Mediaite, Insider, ABC News, The Independent and Politico
RELATED:
Prem Thakker / New Republic:
Trump, Who Deregulated the Railroad Industry, Lies to the People of Ohio in His Visit
Trump, Who Deregulated the Railroad Industry, Lies to the People of Ohio in His Visit
Discussion:
Vanity Fair, Raw Story and Bloomberg
The Guardian:
Trump's environmental rollbacks in focus on visit to Ohio toxic train site
Trump's environmental rollbacks in focus on visit to Ohio toxic train site
Discussion:
Associated Press, The Free Press and The Hill
W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
Ohio train derailment: Trump shows signs of life — can he bottle it for 2024?
Ohio train derailment: Trump shows signs of life — can he bottle it for 2024?
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit, Vox, E&E, BizPac Review, 6abc, Becker Brief, CNN, Raw Story, ABC News, Political Wire, ABC7 and Bloomberg
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy's Jan. 6 footage stunt demands a real response — Democrats have loudly expressed outrage about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to grant Fox News's Tucker Carlson exclusive access to surveillance footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Discussion:
New York Post, HuffPost, The Hill, Digby's Hullabaloo and DNyuz
RELATED:
New York Times:
Giving Jan. 6 Tapes to Carlson, McCarthy Keeps a Promise to the Hard Right
Giving Jan. 6 Tapes to Carlson, McCarthy Keeps a Promise to the Hard Right
Discussion:
The Hill, CNN, Punchbowl News, The Guardian, Talking Points Memo, NPR, NBC News, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Louder With Crowder, Twitchy, Washington Times, Raw Story, Breitbart, Ace of Spades HQ, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, Axios, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal and 6abc
Spectrum News 13:
Remembering Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons — Dylan Lyons was born and raised in Philadelphia but made Central Florida his home, when he enrolled in, thrived in and graduated from UCF. — That's when he began his journey up the ladder of career success.
Discussion:
Associated Press, gofundme.com, New York Post, al.com, NPR, New York Daily News, The Free Press, PennLive, NBC 6 South Florida, Florida Politics, Al Jazeera, Fox News, Oregonian and WFLA-TV
RELATED:
Spectrum News 13:
Spectrum News 13 crew member, 9-year-old girl killed in Pine Hills shootings — According to Orange County Sheriff John Mina, two members of a Spectrum News 13 crew at the scene of a homicide investigation were shot Wednesday afternoon. — One of the two has died, he said. — What You Need To Know
Discussion:
NBC News, Washington Post, New York Times, Orlando Sentinel, TIME, FOX 11 Los Angeles, Sun-Sentinel, Mediaite, The Post Millennial, New York Post, 6abc, UPI, Sputnik News, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Sun, CBS News, WPRI-TV, The Daily Beast, NewsNation and Just The News, more at Mediagazer »
James Fanelli / Wall Street Journal:
Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson Arrested After a Former Executive Pleads Guilty to Fraud — Samir Rao, company's former chief operating officer, appeared in court as John Doe and admitted wrongdoing in probe of the company's practices — Ozy Media Chief Executive Carlos Watson …
Discussion:
Semafor and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Subpoenaed in Jan. 6 Investigation — The special counsel overseeing the inquiry into Donald Trump's efforts to retain power after the 2020 election wants the former president's daughter and son-in-law to testify to a grand jury.
Discussion:
Morning Shots, HuffPost, We Love Trump, 19FortyFive, Raw Story, NewsNation, Rolling Stone, emptywheel, CNN, Wide World of News, The Hill, Breitbart, Reuters, Washington Press, Digby's Hullabaloo, New York Post, Talking Points Memo, Fox News, CBS News, New York Daily News, Raw Story, One America News Network, USA Today, Political Wire, Just The News, CNBC, abc7NY, Insider, Washington Examiner and ABC News
RELATED:
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Rep. Scott Perry fights to keep phone from team probing Jan. 6 attack
Rep. Scott Perry fights to keep phone from team probing Jan. 6 attack
Discussion:
NBC News, Talking Points Memo, CNN and The Guardian
Washington Post:
Crew tried to stop Ohio train after alert about overheating wheel bearing, NTSB says — Federal investigators' preliminary report provides clues about the cause of the derailment and the response. — By Ian Duncan and Luz Lazo — The crew of the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit, CBS News, Fox 8 Cleveland WJW and WKBN-TV
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Trump's grip on the Republican base is slipping — even among his fans — More than 150 interviews in pivotal electoral states show the former president maintains a bond with his GOP voters, but faces rising interest in a new standard-bearer — One recent snowy evening at a gun range …
Discussion:
Time's Carcass, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, PJ Media and Puck
Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Republicans call opioids No. 1 health threat — Republicans see fentanyl and other opioids as the biggest threat to Americans' public health, while Democrats say it's guns, according to a new Axios-Ipsos survey. … - The survey also found that Americans overwhelmingly …
Discussion:
The Daily Caller and Political Wire
Brian Faler / Politico:
House GOP's top tax man throws K Street in a tizzy — Rep. Jason Smith hasn't been chair of the House Ways and Means Committee very long, but he's already done something rare for a Republican: He's struck fear into the heart of corporate tax lobbyists. — The Missouri lawmaker is making …
Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis wants to roll back press freedoms — with an eye toward overturning Supreme Court ruling — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' broken relationship with the mainstream media could get even worse. — At the governor's urging, Florida's Republican-dominated Legislature …
Discussion:
Tampa Bay Times, Raw Story, Balkan Insight, Reason, Florida's Voice and PennLive
Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
Schiff, Porter in tight race to replace Sen. Feinstein, poll shows; others trail far behind — The race to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein is shaping up to be a close contest between two congressional colleagues who have built national profiles and potent fundraising operations but appeal …
Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk's Twitter Goes Dark on Government Data Grabs — “That shit went out the window right after Elon came in,” one former staffer says of Twitter's previously routine transparency reports — TWITTER BOSS ELON Musk has railed against what he sees as U.S. government attempts to “censor” the social media company.
CNBC:
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried hit with four new criminal charges — FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried was hit with four new criminal charges in a superseding indictment in New York federal court. — The new charging document lays out in greater detail Bankman-Fried's allegedly fradulent conduct related …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Fortune and The Daily Caller
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Why This Democratic Strategist Walked Away — Simon Rosenberg delivered a major surprise last week when he announced that he was shutting down NDN, the Democratic advocacy and research group he has led since the mid-1990s. — After working for three decades as an operative in the upper reaches …
Marilyn Singleton / Washington Post:
I'm a Black physician, and I'm appalled by mandated implicit bias training — Marilyn Singleton is a board-certified anesthesiologist and a visiting fellow at the medical advocacy organization Do No Harm. — I'll never forget my parents' reaction when I was accepted to the University of California at San Francisco's medical school.
Sharon Lerner / The Guardian:
This ‘climate-friendly’ fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk — Almost half of products cleared so far under a new US federal ‘biofuels’ program are not, in fact, biofuels — This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power
The Daily Beast:
Ron DeSantis' Press Secretary Throws Hissy Fit at NBC, MSNBC — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' office has announced it would be boycotting both NBC News and MSNBC after pushing back on a report by the network's Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
Discussion:
Raw Story, Fox News, Mediaite, Instapundit, Newsbusters, Washington Examiner, Twitchy, TheBlaze, Florida's Voice, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and The Free Press
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Kyrsten Sinema's $300,000 Security Expert Is Tulsi Gabbard's Sister — The Arizona senator has a security arrangement that raises several ethical red flags, according to campaign law experts. … Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) spends more of her campaign funds on security than nearly every …
Discussion:
Raw Story
Washington Post:
‘Incredibly damning:’ Fox News documents stun some legal experts — The disclosure of behind-the-scenes emails and texts greatly increased the chances that Dominion will win its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, experts say. — The disclosure of emails and texts …
Discussion:
Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
GOP group of 16 complicates McCarthy's debt ceiling leverage … - As it stands, Republicans are already divided over which government programs to cut — handing Democrats an opening to accuse them of wanting to axe Social Security and Medicare. — The Biden administration, meanwhile …
Discussion:
Breitbart, NPR, Sputnik News, Washington Examiner and FiveThirtyEight
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Considers Release of Intelligence on China's Potential Arms Transfer to Russia — Western nations have intelligence that Beijing might end its self-imposed restraint on weapons supplies to Moscow — The Biden administration is considering releasing intelligence it believes shows …
Discussion:
Politico, ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, NewsNation, Simplicius76's Battle Room and Episophium
Matt Lamb / Washington Examiner:
Leave pregnancy resource centers alone — While some abortion activists physically attack pregnancy resource centers by committing arson and vandalism , other less violent methods are being used to hinder the work of these pro-life nonprofit organizations. — Pregnancy resource centers …
Discussion:
RedState
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Former Arizona attorney general failed to release report disproving election fraud claims — Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich did not release to the public findings from his office that showed a series of 2020 election fraud claims were not backed up by evidence, according to documents released Wednesday by his successor.