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Washington Post:
Biden announces 2024 reelection bid, saying he wants to ‘finish the job’  —  President formalizes his intent to seek another term, setting the stage for a tumultuous election  —  President Biden officially announced his bid for reelection Tuesday morning, saying in a solemn launch video that he wants to …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Announces Re-election Bid, Defying Trump and History  —  While the president once pitched himself as “a bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders, he has decided that he is not ready to turn the torch over yet.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden formally announced on Tuesday …
NBC News:
Biden announces he is running for re-election, framing 2024 as a choice between ‘more rights or fewer’  —  Biden, who at 80 is already the oldest commander-in-chief, said “MAGA extremists are lining up” to take away the social safety net and personal freedoms.
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden's never-Trump campaign for '24 … But Biden sees Trump as a lethal threat to America — the reason to run and the issue to build his campaign around. … - “When I ran for president four years ago, I said we are in a battle for the soul of America - and we still are,” Biden says in the video announcing his reelection.
Alex Thompson / Axios:
First look: RNC slams Biden in AI-generated ad … - The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party, followed by a series of imagined reports about international and domestic crises that the ad suggests would follow a Biden victory in 2024.
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden names Julie Chávez Rodríguez as his campaign manager.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Yes, Biden negotiated over the debt limit before. He's learned his lesson.
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
No cakewalk for Biden against Trump
American Prospect:
The Smuggest Man On Air  —  Goodbye for now to Tucker Carlson, who punctured the lazy pieties of the media class.  —  Tucker Carlson poses in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York.  —  Tucker Carlson has left Fox News, just days after the network settled a historic defamation lawsuit …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Tucker Carlson's Prayer Talk May Have Led to Fox News Ouster: “That Stuff Freaks Rupert Out”  —  Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch is said to have balked at Carlson's remarks in a Friday night speech, driving another theory about the prime-time star's abrupt exit.  “He doesn't like all the spiritual talk,” said a source.
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News' sudden firing of Tucker Carlson may have come down to one simple calculation  —  Editor's Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter.  Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here.  —  New York CNN —  Why?
Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property  —  The Supreme Court justice did not report the identity of the purchaser, whose firm has had numerous cases before the court.  —  For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:   Head of a Major Law Firm Bought Real Estate From Gorsuch
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Neil Gorsuch Has Joined the Supreme Court Ethics Scandal Party
Discussion: Twitchy and PoliticusUSA
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nate Silver Out at ABC News as Disney Layoffs Once Again Hit News Division  —  ABC News is expected to retain the FiveThirtyEight brand, with plans to streamline the data-driven site.  —  The second round of Disney layoffs once again hit ABC News on Tuesday, with Nate Silver's data-driven politics …
The Intercept:
Clarence Thomas Billionaire Benefactor Harlan Crow Bought Citizenship in Island Tax Haven … In partnership with  —  Harlan Crow, the billionaire GOP donor who paid for luxury travel on his private jet and yacht for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was a dual citizen of the U.S …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Major G.O.P. Donor's Commitment to DeSantis Is Murkier Than Thought  —  The hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin, who seemed set to be a powerful financial backer of the Florida governor, is said to still be evaluating the Republican primary race.  —  Nearly six months ago, Kenneth Griffin …
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Ben Goggin / NBC News:
A 13-year-old boy was groomed publicly on Twitter and kidnapped, despite numerous chances to stop it  —  The abduction came after a series of missed opportunities where Twitter and law enforcement failed to effectively intervene.  —  The 13-year-old Utah boy hung out in the typical online spaces …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and HotAir
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Tucker Carlson's Long Con  —  Was his long, strange trip a put-up job?  —  Washington, DC, Bureau Chief  —  Tucker Carlson wasn't always Tucker Carlson.  Or maybe he was.  —  When I met the recently defenestrated Fox host in the late 1990s, he was stylizing himself as a facts-driven reporter …
Discussion: The Guardian
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’ … It was, perhaps, an impossible job.  Make one man the face of public health amid an unprecedented pandemic, in a country as fractious as the United States, and there were bound to be disappointments and frustrations, and they were bound to get personal.
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
DeSantis' Surgeon General Doctored Covid Vaccine Study  —  Joseph Ladapo personally rewrote the language of a study to support his anti-vax crusade, Politico reported … A previous version of the draft indicated that the mRNA vaccine posed no significant risks to young men.
Wesley Lowery / Columbia Journalism Review:
A Test of the News  —  Objectivity, democracy, and the American mosaic  —  We find ourselves in a perilous moment.  Democracy is under withering assault.  Technological advances have empowered propagandists to profit through discontent and disinformation.
Kelly Bauer / Block Club Chicago:
Kim Foxx Won't Run For Reelection — And Fires Back At Those Blaming Her For Crime Spike  —  Foxx has been backed by progressive activists who saw her leadership as a turning point for the prosecutor's office.  But she's also faced intense criticism as crime has surged in Chicago.  —  Original Reporting
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Washington Post:
Retired NSA director won lucrative consulting deals with Saudis, Japan  —  Retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who led the National Security Agency under Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, secured $2 million in consulting deals with foreign governments after leaving office …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist  —  In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic.  But his primary focus was civil rights.  —  By Peter Keepnews  —  Harry Belafonte …
David Samuels / Tablet Magazine:
The RFK Jr. Tapes  —  The Democratic presidential candidate and America's most prominent ‘conspiracy theorist’ talks about his family, the military-pharmaceutical complex, and our new system of social control  —  I first met Bobby Kennedy Jr. when he showed up one summer afternoon in 1976 …
Washington Post:
Mallory McMorrow has a ‘bench’ warning for Democrats  —  Welcome to The Daily 202!  Tell your friends to sign up here.  On this day in 1983, the U.S.S.R. made public a reply from Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov to 10-year-old Samantha Smith of Maine, inviting her to visit his country.
Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
WA bans sale of AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles, effective immediately  —  Washington has become the 10th state to prohibit sales of AR-15s and dozens of other semiautomatic rifles, as Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed the ban into law, effective immediately.
 
 
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NBC News:
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Gallup:
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Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

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Al Jazeera source and Israeli official: police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office, following a government shutdown order

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Swiss public broadcasters RTS and SRF plan to drastically reduce their communications on X, saying they aren't reaching their target audience on the platform
 
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