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Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
Thousands Take to Streets After Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister — Supreme Court gives Netanyahu a week to respond to petition — Movement for Quality Government in Israel calls on court to punish Netanyahu — Agriculture Minister plans to vote for overhaul legislation
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The Times of Israel, Associated Press and Al Jazeera
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Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
Israel Boils as Netanyahu Ousts Minister Who Bucked Court Overhaul — Protests broke out shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired the defense minister, who had called for a halt to efforts to weaken the judiciary. — Reporting from Jerusalem
The Times of Israel:
Tens of thousands take to the streets after Netanyahu fires defense minister — PM said considering halting legislation as vast numbers protest nationwide; Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv blocked; cops use water cannon outside PM's home in Jerusalem — Likud minister, top Religious Zionism rabbi call to freeze legislation
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Breitbart, middleeastmonitor.com and Washington Examiner
Haaretz:
Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Gallant for Calling to Stop Judicial Overhaul — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud's Yoav GallantCredit: Avi Ohayon/GPO — Supreme Court gives Netanyahu a week to respond to petition — Movement for Quality Government in Israel calls on court to punish Netanyahu
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The Times of Israel, Associated Press and Washington Post
Shira Rubin / Washington Post:
Netanyahu fires defense minister who called for halt to judicial overhaul — TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday, a day after Gallant called for a halt to the judicial reform that has spurred a national crisis.
New York Times:
Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online — The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to unmask the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code. — Parts of Twitter's source code, the underlying computer code …
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New York Times:
Elon Musk Values Twitter at $20 Billion — The billionaire bought the social media company for $44 billion in October and took it private. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk said Twitter is now worth about $20 billion, according to an email he sent the company's employees on Friday …
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The Texas Tribune:
Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staff — The 68-year-old progressive publication, which published Ronnie Dugger, Molly Ivins and Kaye Northcott, hit financial troubles and wasn't able to broaden its audience, board members said.
David French / New York Times:
At the Waco Rally and Beyond, Trump's Movement Now Commands Him — The most telling exchange in Donald Trump's Waco, Texas, rally on Saturday didn't come from Trump himself. It came at the beginning, when the aging rock star Ted Nugent was warming up the crowd. “I want my money back,” he yelled.
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Raw Story, BizPac Review, CNN, Washington Press, TMZ.com, Twitchy and Waco Tribune-Herald
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Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
DeSantis shows early state strength in Iowa and N.H. polls — Two new polls from a top Republican polling firm — provided exclusively to Axios — find Florida Gov. DeSantis is running more competitively with former President Trump in Iowa and New Hampshire than he is faring in national surveys.
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The Hill and National Review
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Trump Rally Crowd Eerily Quiet As He Acts Out Ron DeSantis Crying and Begging for His Help
Trump Rally Crowd Eerily Quiet As He Acts Out Ron DeSantis Crying and Begging for His Help
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Fox News, New York Post, BizPac Review, The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog and Politico
Craig Simpson / Telegraph:
Agatha Christie classics latest to be rewritten for modern sensitivities — Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have original passages reworked or removed in new editions published by HarperCollins. — Agatha Christie novels have been rewritten for modern sensitivities, The Telegraph can reveal.
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Rachel Hall / The Guardian:
Agatha Christie novels reworked to remove potentially offensive language
Agatha Christie novels reworked to remove potentially offensive language
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Twitchy and Instapundit
David French / New York Times:
The Potential Trump Indictment Is Unwise — For the first time in American history, a hotly anticipated indictment of a former American president may actually be handed up. Manhattan's district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, seems set to bring charges related to Donald Trump's allegedly paying off …
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Digby's Hullabaloo, CNN, The Hill and Washington Post
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump suggests DA “dropped” Stormy case
Trump suggests DA “dropped” Stormy case
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Rolling Stone, Washington Press, Mediaite, Breitbart, Fox News, New York Post, PIX11, The Daily Beast, Real News Now, BizPac Review and New York Daily News
Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:
Antisemitic incidents surge in Florida, growing more than nationwide. ‘More bold, more egregious and more attention-grabbing.’ — The ugly incidents started early in the year, then metastasized. — In Parkland, a school bus seat was vandalized with a swastika and an expletive directed at “the Jews.”
ProPublica:
A Scammer Tricked Instagram Into Banning Influencers With Millions of Followers. Then He Made Them Pay to Recover Their Accounts. — Just after midnight on Sept. 13, Kristian “Murda” Murphy was watching TV at home in Boca Raton, Florida, when his phone began buzzing.
Thor Benson / Wired:
The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism — The GOP-fueled far right differs from similar movements around the globe, thanks to the country's politics, electoral system, and changing demographics. — The US Republican Party has become increasingly authoritarian and extreme in recent years …
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Brian Klaas / The Atlantic:
Rule By Law in Florida
Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
Israel's Consul General in New York Resigns — 'I'm deeply concerned about the direction the country is going in right now,' Asaf Zamir said in New York — Israel's Consul General in New York Asaf Zamir resigned on Sunday, days after he was summoned by the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem …
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The Forward, The Times of Israel, Breitbart, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Hill
The White House:
Statement from NSC Spokesperson Adrienne Watson on Developments in Israel — We are deeply concerned by today's developments out of Israel, which further underscore the urgent need for compromise. As the President recently discussed with Prime Minister Netanyahu, democratic values have always been …
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Drezner's World and The Hill
David Smith / The Guardian:
'It's all about trolling': how far-right influencers are shaping Republican narrative — With the old media order losing ground, a new cadre of extreme voices has emerged, precipitating a GOP shift to Maga populism — He has a platform that most politicians would envy.
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Hollywood's top Native American producer is a fake, activists claim — One of Hollywood's leading Native American figures is being accused of faking her claims of Cherokee heritage, The Post can reveal. — Award-winning Heather Rae, 56, serves on the Academy of Motion Pictures' Indigenous Alliance …
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Fox News, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit