Variety reports: Over 20 years after Run-DMC DJ Jam Master Jay, born Jason Mizell, was shot to death in his Queens recording studio, two men have been convicted for the murder. On Tuesday, jurors at the U.S. District Court’s Eastern Division of New York in Brooklyn delivered the long-expected decision following weeks of testimonials. Karl Jordan, Jr., identified as Mizell’s …

Politico reports: Senate conservatives are signaling they’ll block Wednesday’s planned Democratic bid to enshrine protections for in-vitro fertilization into federal law – and they’re calling IVF a states-rights issue. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is planning to seek unanimous consent to pass her proposal to federally protect IVF, which means any one senator can easily block its passage. This isn’t the …

Reuters reports: Worries about political extremism or threats to democracy have emerged as a top concern for U.S. voters and an issue where President Joe Biden has a slight advantage over Donald Trump ahead of the November election, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed. Some 21% of respondents in the three-day poll, which closed on Sunday, said “political extremism or threats …

Mediaite reports: Fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson launched an error-filled and expletive-laden attack against former President George W. Bush over his handling of the 9/11 terror attacks. “You know, George W. Bush fled Washington on 9/11,” Carlson claimed at one point during a three-hour conversation with popular podcaster Lex Fridman. Famously, Bush was in a Sarasota, Florida classroom when …

“We’ve seen a rise in antisemitism around the world. This is very concerning – many Jewish people feel unsafe, even in this country where we thought antisemitism would never thrive. But we have also seen a rise in hatred or ‘disdain,’ as Fox News puts it, against Christians. “This is fueled largely by agenda-driven media. They try to demonize Christians …

The Boston Universal Hub reports: Republicans in the First Suffolk district (state Sen. Nick Collins’s district) who vote during the March 5 primary will get to decide who represents them on the Republican State Committee – one man and one woman. On the woman’s side, the candidates are Elizabeth Hinds-Ferrick and Lori Kauffman, both of Dorchester. Kauffman, who grew up …

NBC News reports: An elected member of a Virginia school board —who allegedly bragged about drinking Fireball and Coors Light in the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack and said he was in touch with a member of the far-right Oath Keepers that day — was arrested by federal authorities on Tuesday. Miles Adkins, a member of the Frederick …

“The impeachment inquiry is trucking along quite nicely. Smirnov was irrelevant. This whole indictment is very peculiar if you look at it closely. I think if he isn’t Epstein’d in jail, if he isn’t coerced to have a plea deal and keep his mouth shut, if his lawyers are allowed to mount a defense in court, I think it’ll be …

The Dallas Morning News reports: A Keller high school production of The Laramie Project — a play about the aftermath of the 1998 murder of a gay student in Wyoming — was canceled. Timber Creek High School parents received an email Friday night saying that students would no longer perform the show this spring. The email did not provide an …

Courthouse News reports: Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this week sued a major online porn distributor in an effort to enforce a new state law mandating age verification and purported health warnings on adult websites. The lawsuit, filed in state court in Austin on Monday, accuses the adult-entertainment company Aylo of violating House Bill 1181, a new state content-warning …

Politico reports: Republican Ryan Binkley ended his longshot presidential campaign and endorsed Donald Trump on Tuesday, after failing to gain traction in any of the early nominating states. While the primary became a one-on-one race between Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Binkley, a Texas pastor and businessperson, remained in the race since last April, generating minimal support. It …

The Hill reports: Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday said he is “very optimistic” Congress will avert a shutdown by Friday’s deadline after meeting with President Biden and top congressional leaders at the White House. “We have been working in good faith around the clock every single day for months and weeks, and over the last several days, quite literally …

The Associated Press reports: Wendy’s is looking to test having the prices of its menu items fluctuate throughout the day based on demand, implementing a strategy that has already taken hold with ride-sharing companies and ticket sellers. During a conference call earlier this month, Wendy’s CEO Kirk Tanner said that the Dublin, Ohio-based burger chain will start testing dynamic pricing, …

Axios reports: Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed former President Trump in a Wall Street Journal interview published Tuesday, warning that if he clinches the nomination, the GOP could lose in November. “This may be his survival mode to pay his legal fees and get out of some sort of legal peril, but this is like suicide for our country,” …

“These people want to be stolen from. That’s the long and short of it. The people that give Trump money or the RNC money are begging to be stolen from. And Trump is going to accommodate them. They’re very blunt and very upfront about what they doing. “I know a lot of Republicans, friends of mine from my days in …

“There are people who got into the hotel. It’s a massive hotel. One was wearing a Klan shirt or uniform and was arrested, was handcuffed and removed. There were Nick Fuentes people. They look like little teenagers. They come in and it’s hard to catch them. One of them confronted me. “At the Young Republican mixer Friday evening, a group …

Miami’s NBC affiliate reports: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz held a press conference on school safety measures Tuesday and called for the replacement of Florida’s surgeon general — as the measles outbreak in South Florida continues to expand. She called for the termination of Dr. Joseph Ladapo and for Governor DeSantis to replace him with a public health expert, following the …

Amanda Moore writes for The Nation: On February 23, the third day of the CPAC, Ryan Sanchez, who had been kicked out of the US Marine Corps for his involvement with white nationalists, saddled up to me at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center. After I’d been barred from CPAC the day prior, I had turned a table …

The Birmingham News reports: Alabama soon could legally define what makes someone a man or a woman. “We feel that it needs to be defined because not everyone has the same version of the meaning anymore,” said Rep. Susan DuBose, who sponsored HB111. Bills in both the state House and Senate seek to define the terms “male,” “female,” “boy”, and …

The Associated Press reports: A bill that would largely ban displaying pride flags in public school classrooms was passed by the GOP-led Tennessee House on Monday after Republicans cut a heated debate short. The 70-24 vote sends the legislation to the Senate, where a final vote could happen as early as this week. The motion to cut off debate prompted …