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The Briefing ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story NPR on Tuesday posted and retracted a story that incorrectly reported Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. Veteran journalist Nina Totenberg, who wrote the article, said she mistakenly believed a court announcement about upcoming retirements referred to Alito. The story was published for only a few […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley was fired on Tuesday, a day after a heated meeting in which Pelley criticized CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, accused her of  “murdering” the program, and questioned the qualifications of newly […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Political money is flowing to social media influencers, including in California’s gubernatorial race. Candidates like billionaire Tom Steyer are paying creators to promote their messages online, and recent campaign finance disclosures have revealed […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Google is making major changes to its search experience. Instead of offering the familiar list of links that has existed for decades, queries will sometimes place users into an interactive AI-powered interface where […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story A hantavirus outbreak that recently caused multiple deaths on a cruise ship has captured widespread media attention, even as public health officials say it’s extremely unlikely the virus will spread broadly. This discrepancy […]