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💥In Jerusalem, angry protestors call for Netanyahu's immediate ouster outside one of his private Jerusalem residences. (Reuven Gafni Shechtman)

Publishers of The Reporter, a weekly newspaper in the Catskills, are suing county officials for revoking its designation as the official newspaper of record because some officials didn’t like the coverage. timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/n… via @TimesUnion

Tesla recalls 2 mln cars to fix safety issues in Autopilot, add more driver monitoring nytimes.com/2023/12/13/bus…

2/Brett Murphy & Kirsten Berg uncovered the secret history of that "probe." Turns out it wasn't anything of the sort. The committee never gathered any evidence. Asked what they did, one judge told us: "I'm telling you: nothing."

This is another example of the GOP making up a fake problem & focusing people on it instead of real issues like gun violence or climate change. People who aren't citizens can't vote. There's no need for Alabama's Senator to introduce a bill because it's already the law.

Following up on Sen. Ron Johnson’s claims made on The Source Monday night:

A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intel officials that some of the most closely guarded nat’l security secrets could be exposed. cnn.com/interactive/20…

Huh, binder of highly classified intel on Russia, including agent identities disappeared at the end of Trump's term. Any guesses where it might have gone? cnn.com/interactive/20…

I wrote last night about how Republicans’ perceived vulnerability will make them more and more susceptible to fact checking and investigative journalism. Here is another important example of that. Honestly, it’s very cool as a historian to see this information shift:

A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that closely guarded national security secrets could be exposed. cnn.com/interactive/20…

Remember when we thought there were 251 bodies behind the jail in MS? Well…that’s now 671 bodies. They call it a “pauper’s grave.” It’s not that. It’s a criminal malfeasance cover up lot.

It's hard to overstate how consensus a recession was for ppl back in 2022 No way anyone could have imagined we would still have low unemployment and high economic growth by now but here we are

Elon Musk "Within moments of my inauguration, we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history." - President Trump in Las Vegas, Nevada

Jared Kushner and Ric Grenell are closing in on major deals in Albania and Serbia, benefiting in part from relationships built while President Trump was in office. w Eric Lipton Maggie Haberman nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/…

CNN's Shimon Prokupecz tracked down the North Carolina Republicans' nominee to run the state's public school system to ask her about her calls online for former President Obama and then-President-elect Biden to be executed.

Breaking news: The US is on track to grow at double the rate of any other G7 country this year, according to IMF forecasts. on.ft.com/49GI3x8