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9:55 AM ET, March 8, 2023

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Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump ‘passionately’, Fox lawsuit documents show … Among the documents released Tuesday as part of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems was an email from Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott …
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Washington Post:
Murdoch confided Trump was going ‘increasingly mad’ as Fox pushed false claims  —  The media executive's astonishingly candid assessments are found in thousands of pages of internal Fox documents released as part of a lawsuit by Dominion  —  In the weeks after the November 2020 election …
New York Times:
‘The Whole Thing Seems Insane’: New Documents Shed Light on Debate Inside Fox After Election  —  Messages and depositions from the network's stars like Tucker Carlson revealed serious misgivings about claims of election fraud even as some of the hosts told their audiences of millions a very different story.
Discussion: The Wrap, Washington Post and ABC News
NBC News:
‘I hate him passionately’: Tucker Carlson was fed up with Trump after the 2020 election  —  On Jan. 4, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson was done with Donald Trump.  —  “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights.  I truly can't wait,” he texted an unidentified person.
Washington Post:
‘Just a lie’: Senate Republicans blast Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 narrative  —  Speaker McCarthy, meanwhile, said he didn't regret allowing Carlson exclusive access to security footage and claimed it as a victory for transparency  —  Senate Republicans blasted Fox News on Tuesday for airing …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP backlash on Tucker Carlson  —  When some in the conservative movement baselessly pitched Jan. 6, 2021, as being fomented by antifa, Kevin McCarthy rebuked them.  “There is absolutely no evidence of that,” he said.  “Conservatives should be the first to say so.”
CNN:
‘They scaled walls, they brought ropes’: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's own words contradict January 6 footage used by Tucker Carlson  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy once spoke about the violence at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, in starkly different terms than the narrative Fox …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The January 6 Whitewash Will Backfire
Politico:
House GOP faces a new Jan. 6 headache, courtesy of Tucker Carlson
NBC News:
‘Bulls—’: GOP senators rebuke Tucker Carlson for downplaying Jan. 6 as ‘mostly peaceful’
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
US Senator Schumer condemns Speaker McCarthy for supplying Jan.6 videos to Fox
Noah Rothman / National Review:
Tucker Carlson's January 6 Revisionist History
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Capitol Police chief blasts Tucker Carlson over ‘misleading’ Jan. 6 footage  —  Video aired by Carlson showed “QAnon shaman” Jacob Chansley accompanied by police, but not violence on the day rioters stormed the Capitol  —  After watching the first installment of Fox News host Tucker Carlson's look …
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NBC News:
Capitol Police chief tears into Tucker Carlson for claims about Officer Brian Sicknick  —  The Fox News host said that Democrats lied about Sicknick's death.  In a letter to Capitol Police officers, Chief Manger called Carlson's portrayal “offensive and misleading.”
CNN:
US Capitol Police chief rips into Tucker Carlson over ‘offensive’ use of January 6 footage
Clare Foran / CNN:
Zelensky invites House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit Ukraine  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is inviting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit Ukraine to see the situation on the ground first hand - an invitation that comes as the Republican Party faces a divide over whether …
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden Is Set to Detail at Least $2 Trillion in Measures to Reduce Deficits  —  The president's proposals, included in the budget he will release on Thursday, are expected to heavily feature tax increases on corporations and high earners.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday …
Discussion: The Hill and Iowa Capital Dispatch
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Walgreens' deceptive damage control  —  Walgreens is facing a public relations crisis after announcing it would not dispense abortion medication in several states where abortion remains legal.  Walgreens' decision came in response to threatening letters from Republican Attorneys General and anti-abortion activists.
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Giulia Carbonaro / Newsweek:
Walgreens Stock Plummets After Gavin Newsom Vows to Cut Business Ties
Axios:
Biden is back in hot water with Dem lawmakers  —  First it was crime, now immigration: For the second time in as many weeks President Biden has inflamed fellow Democrats, who are questioning his tactics and strategy. … - Now cracks in the coalition are emerging as vulnerable Democrats chart …
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle
New York Times:
F.T.C. Intensifies Investigation of Twitter's Privacy Practices  —  The commission is seeking an interview with Elon Musk, who has made major cuts at the company since acquiring it last year.  —  The Federal Trade Commission is intensifying an investigation into Twitter's data and privacy practices …
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Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk's Internal Communications, Journalist Names
Washington Post:
Conservative covid backlash handcuffs public health, pandemic response  —  Lawsuits and legislation have stripped public health officials of their powers in three years  —  When the next pandemic sweeps the United States, health officials in Ohio won't be able to shutter businesses or schools …
Tal Axelrod / ABC News:
Larry Hogan won't close the door on third-party presidential bid in 2024  —  The former governor said, “The question keeps popping up more and more.”  —  Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declined on Tuesday to  —  close the door on a third-party presidential bid in 2024  —  after he said Sunday that
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Alex Roarty / The State:
Haley or Scott?  South Carolina GOP braces for '24 primary with two hometown candidates  —  Mikee Johnson went to high school with Nikki Haley, held a leadership post in her charitable organization and donated early on to her first gubernatorial campaign.  —  And yet, this well-connected GOP donor …
Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Federal judge adds a touch of sanity to Missouri's gun safety debate  —  ST. LOUIS — It's important to remember when Missouri's elected Republicans made the decision to try to crumple up the U.S. Constitution and toss it in the trash bin of history.  —  It was after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire … Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.  Visiting the Tor-specific onion site address …
Washington Post:
Available evidence still points to covid originating from spillover  —  Angela Rasmussen is a virologist and principal research scientist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan.  Saskia Popescu is an infectious-disease epidemiologist …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Ron DeSantis's plan to strip First Amendment rights from the press, explained  —  DeSantis wants to destroy a fundament of American free speech law.  —  Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to eliminate the First Amendment safeguards that prevent lawsuits seeking to strong-arm the press into silence.
Discussion: Alternet.org and New York Times
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Is a Democrat really the favorite in the Kentucky governor race?  —  Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is entering his reelection contest in a rare position for a red state Democrat: the frontrunner.  —  It is a remarkable chain of events for Beshear, the son of a popular former governor who upset …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Kyle Rittenhouse, the MAGA Star That Wasn't  —  Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.  —  Modern conservatives love to own the libs by supporting people who claim they've been “canceled.”
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Bill Chappell / NPR:
NYC Mayor Eric Adams is telling stores to have customers remove their face masks  —  Worries about the safety of New York City's deli clerks and bodega workers have Mayor Eric Adams making an unusual request: Members of the public should lower their face masks to reassure store workers they're not criminals …
 
 
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Ron DeSantis leads charge for more coercive conservative government
Discussion: Orlando Sentinel and The Hill
CBS News:
China likely to be focus of worldwide threats in congressional hearing
Discussion: Washington Examiner and ABC News
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Washington teeters on the brink of a Cold War over Social Security
Discussion: KFOR-TV
Emma Newburger / CNBC:
Treasury Secretary Yellen warns that losses tied to climate change could ‘cascade through the financial system’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
House Republicans are taking steps to prepare for a possible debt ceiling default
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
U.S., China Plunge Further Into a Spiral of Hostilities
Discussion: CNN and The Diplomat
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Mississippi Senate OKs bill affecting majority-Black city
Discussion: USA Today and Mississippi Today
Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
Oklahoma Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Effort To Legalize Recreational Marijuana
Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
The House Is About To Have 435 Members. That's Pretty Rare.
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Catherine Clifford / CNBC:
A new nuclear reactor in the U.S. starts up. It's the first in nearly seven years
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple has been working on its own chip designed to run AI software in data center servers; the project is internally codenamed Project ACDC

Sky News:
Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK's Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed
 
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