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Former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Michael Steele recently offered a bit of hard advice for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) following her controversial remarks about a union leader.

The Georgia lawmaker's remarks came during this week's House Select Subcommittee meeting on the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to one Florida lawmaker, Republican officeholders in Tallahassee are looking forward to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announcing his 2024 presidential campaign and hitting the road because they are growing weary of his act which is causing difficulties for them.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," State Sen. Jason Pizzo (D) was asked by the host why DeSantis -- who looked like a formidable challenger to Donald Trump to head up the GOP's 2024 ticket -- is rapidly falling by the wayside.

Fox Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch faces another potentially costly threat from Prince Harry.

The media conglomerate just agreed to a $787.5 million payout to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over its 2020 election lies, but some observers believe the company faces an existential threat from the lengthy court battle over phone hacking by Murdoch's tabloids in the U.K., reported The Daily Beast.

Although a formal offer cannot be made, recently fired Fox News personality Tucker Carlson is reportedly getting word that Fox News competitor Newsmax would like him to come on board.

Carlson was abruptly and unceremoniously booted from his popular nighttime show on Monday and is still under contract to his former employer and reportedly has a no-compete clause that prevents him from moving elsewhere immediately.

Barack Obama will be back in the public view next month, in a Netflix-produced documentary series whose trailer was released Thursday, in which the former US president explores the role of work in Americans's lives.

"I'm excited to share the trailer for 'Working,'" Obama tweeted.

Egypt's antiquities ministry insisted on Thursday that Cleopatra had "white skin and Hellenistic characteristics" in an ongoing row over a Netflix drama-documentary depicting the famed beauty of antiquity as black.

"Queen Cleopatra", produced by Jada Pinkett Smith and starring Adele James, is due for release on the streaming platform on May 10.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dismissed ethics concerns on Thursday after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was found to have accepted unreported gifts from a wealthy friend.

"There's a question about the credibility of elected officials, but the credibility of the Supreme Court and our legal system is under some question," CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin noted. "Are you concerned about some of the revelations around Justice Thomas and business transactions with Gorsuch and the like? And do you think that they should answer for these things in a public manner?"

Fox News indicated that it would turn over materials about Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and other company executives to voting machine company Smartmatic.

According to a CNN report, New York Supreme Court Judge David Cohen held a hearing on Wednesday after Smartmatic "raised concerns about whether Fox was complying with its pretrial obligations to turn over relevant evidence."

Fox Corp chair Rupert Murdoch may have decided to fire Tucker Carlson because he was put off by the host's calls for prayer.

Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman first reported that Carlson's speech on Friday to the Heritage Foundation may have led to his downfall.

Kandiss Taylor, a failed far-right candidate for governor, declared that God wanted to "take Georgia back" after she was elected to chair a state GOP's district.

After winning the election over the weekend, Taylor made a Tuesday appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast to celebrate.

A $787.5 million defamation payout and the ouster of its most popular host doesn't mean Fox News is changing direction – instead it's about to get a whole lot nastier, a New Republic columnist wrote Tuesday.

The settlement to Dominion Voting Systems came without an apology. The exit of Tucker Carlson was, as far as is known, due to insubordination rather than the extremism he voiced on-air. And that shows Fox News does not feel remorse for what it's done, wrote Michael Tomasky.

Billionaire media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is making "erratic" decisions on the leadership of Fox News amid the network's legal woes, reported Max Tani for Semafor on Monday.

"Last October, Murdoch launched a plan to merge his two public companies, News Corp and Fox Corp," said the report. "In November, Semafor reported that News Corp would oust Matt Murray, the editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, and replace him with Sunday Times editor Emma Tucker. Later that month, the editor of the Australian, Chris Dore, abruptly resigned. In January, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch announced that they had withdrawn their proposal to potentially re-combine Fox Corp and News Corp amid widespread skepticism from shareholders ... On April 18, Murdoch — who had fought to go to trial with Dominion Voting Systems — abruptly reversed course and green lit a massive $787 million settlement with the voting services company."