Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak has been released from military hospital and returned to his home three weeks after being acquitted on charges of complicity in protesters deaths during the 2011 unrest, Egyptian media reported Tuesday.

The ex-president was accompanied by his son Gamal and wife Suzanne Thabet on his release early Tuesday, the Youm7 daily cited sources close to Mubarak's family as saying.

Mubarak, 88, was reportedly transported on a specially equipped medical service vehicles, while his home in the Heliopolis district in Cairo has also been furnished with medical equipment.

Later in the day, lawyer of the former president Farid Deeb said that Mubarak has not returned home and is staying in the military hospital.

"Mubarak is still at the Maadi military hospital. The information that his son Gamal and his personal doctor accompanied Mubarak to Heliopolis is absolutely false," Deeb said, as quoted by the Egyptian Al Shorouk newspaper.

Tillerson Plans to Skip NATO Meeting, Visit Russia; Media Threatens Mass Suicide

Our friends at Reuters are moments away from sucking on a tailpipe. ... Sweet, heavenly mercy. This story is even more terrifying because it is based on rumors from "four current and former [anonymous] U.S. officials." Since it is a Reuters report based on anonymous U.S. sources, we imagine that Tillerson is actually skipping the April NATO summit so he can visit his dentist.

But take a moment and read the fear and hysteria in this "straight" news report:

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"It feeds this narrative that somehow the Trump administration is playing footsy with Russia," said one former U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Footsy? Did Reuters interview a "former U.S. official", or a third-grader? (Maybe both?)

As usual, our favorite wire service saved the best for last:

Any visit to Russia by a senior Trump administration official will be carefully scrutinized ...

Rex Tillerson is Secretary of State. It's his job to fly to foreign countries and speak to foreign leader. What exactly is there to "scrutinize" here?

Don't stick your head in an oven yet, Reuters. You have so much more lying to do.

An editor at French daily, Le Figaro, has alluded to secret polling data which show the Front National's Marine Le Pen polling close to 34% among those with intentions to vote in the first round of the French presidential election.

Authored by Damien Cowley,

Surveys in the public domain consistently have populist LePen ahead of her rivals in the first round, at 26-28% of intentions to vote but losing to whichever rival she faces in the second.

A score of above 30% in the first round, however, would significantly boost her chances of continuing to victory on May 7th.

In his recent article on the failing efforts of the media and political classes to thwart LePen's continued rise, editorialist Ivan Rioufol cites 'sous le manteau', or hidden surveys in circulation which show LePen likely to score double her father, Jean-Marie LePen's 2002 score of 16.86%.

The politically correct 'Maginot line' of France's elites can no longer hold out against the popular anger of the French public, Rioufol writes, arguing that the threats by leftist intellectuals and celebrities to quit the country in the event of a LePen victory are actually boosting her campaign. Likewise for scare-mongering media warnings on a 'return to the 1930s'.

The French media and political establishment are now openly contemplating a LePen victory, with frequent reference to the Front National 'at the gates of power', an eventuality until recently considered impossible.

Outgoing president, François Hollande, who describes it as his 'final duty' to keep LePen from winning, and who is actively campaigning with government ministers in Front National strongholds to keep LePen from power, has recently admitted that she may win. Privately, Hollande is said to fear that LePen's support is under-estimated in the opinion polls and that the momentum of a high score in the first round could make it difficult for any rival candidate to beat her in the second.