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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Judge Calls Barr's Handling of Mueller Report ‘Distorted’ and ‘Misleading’ — The judge said the attorney general lacked credibility on the matter and said he would review the report to decide whether to make its redacted portions public. — WASHINGTON — A federal judge …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Federal Judge Says He Needs to Review Every Mueller Report Redaction Because Barr Can't Be Trusted — Attorney General William Barr's wildly inappropriate campaign to spin the Mueller report in Donald Trump's favor last year may have finally backfired. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge …
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Judge cites Barr's ‘misleading’ statements in ordering review of Mueller report redactions
Judge cites Barr's ‘misleading’ statements in ordering review of Mueller report redactions
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Mother Jones
emptywheel:
Questioning Bill Barr's “No Collusion” Propaganda, Reggie Walton Orders an In Camera Review of Mueller Report
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Judge demands unredacted Mueller report, questions Barr's ‘credibility’
Judge demands unredacted Mueller report, questions Barr's ‘credibility’
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Politico, Associated Press, Fox News and The Intellectualist
TIME:
‘Doomed from the Start.’ Experts Say the Trump Administration's Coronavirus Response Was Never Going to Work — The Trump Administration's strategy to combat COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, began with a relatively simple focus: keep it out of the United States.
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Daily Kos and Rolling Stone
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
The Trump administration's greatest obstacle to sending a clear message on coronavirus may be Trump himself
The Trump administration's greatest obstacle to sending a clear message on coronavirus may be Trump himself
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NBC News, The American Independent, PJ Media Home, POLITICUSUSA and Vanity Fair
Richard E. Besser / Washington Post:
As coronavirus spreads, the bill for our public health failures is due
As coronavirus spreads, the bill for our public health failures is due
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americamagazine.org and The Atlantic
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity — Previously unseen documents from a Soviet archive show how hard Mr. Sanders worked to find a sister city in Russia when he was a mayor in the 1980s. Moscow saw a chance for propaganda.
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The Daily Dot, PREVAIL, Slate, Outside the Beltway and Twitchy
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump's trip to CDC in flux after coronavirus scare — President Donald Trump abruptly canceled his scheduled Friday visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta even as the coronavirus outbreak escalates. — Trump's schedule Friday, which was released publicly at nearly midnight …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's Calamitous Coronavirus Response — A whole-of-government mobilization to protect the president's ego. — Last month, after analyzing figures on epidemics since 1960, The Economist concluded that people die at a higher rate from such disease outbreaks in authoritarian countries …
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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Cases Surge in U.S. and Europe, Thousands Quarantined in N.Y.C. — Congress approved an $8.3 billion emergency spending bill to fight the virus, but officials in several countries say the virus will keep spreading fast for some time.
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HuffPost and The Wrap, more at Techmeme »
Mara Gay / New York Times:
Why Southern Democrats Saved Biden — For those who live in the shadow of segregation and racial terror, the election is not about policy or personality. It's about something much darker. — Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board. — At the Lorraine Motel in Memphis …
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Black voters just rescued the Democratic Party
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job growth smashes expectations for February as unemployment falls back to 3.5% — By Jeff Cox@JEFF.COX.7528@JEFFCOXCNBCCOM — Nonfarm payrolls rose by 273,000 in February vs. a 175,000 estimate, while the unemployment rate edged lower to 3.5%. — Job gains were widespread, with health care adding 57,000 to lead the way.
ABC News:
Controversial execution carried out despite pleas from advocates — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey refused to step in and stop the lethal injection. — The controversial execution of Nathaniel Woods was carried out late Thursday in Alabama just minutes after the Supreme Court denied a temporary stay, issued only hours earlier.
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Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Nathaniel Woods executed as accomplice in 2004 police murders — A Birmingham man was executed Thursday evening on a 2005 conviction of being an accomplice to the murder of three police officers. — Nathaniel Woods, 43, was pronounced dead at 9:01 p.m. after an execution that lasted 15 minutes.
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Common Dreams, UPI, Associated Press and The Daily Beast
Los Angeles Times:
Another campaign, another disappointment for women as Elizabeth Warren bows out — Just a few days ago, Vanessa Jackson marked the spot beside Elizabeth Warren's name on her Georgia ballot, hopeful she was casting her vote for the first female president of the United States.
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Warren calls out Sanders for ‘organized nastiness’ and ‘bullying’ by his supporters — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called out Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for not taking steps to control the “organized nastiness” of some of his supporters during the presidential campaign.
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POLITICUSUSA, The Sun and The Week
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May Warren / Toronto Star:
Person who travelled to Vegas tests positive for coronavirus; Toronto Public Health monitoring — A person who travelled to Las Vegas for an international conference has tested positive for COVID-19. This brings the total number of infections in Ontario to 24.
New York Times:
'It's Pure Panic': A Wrenching Wait at Nursing Home Where Coronavirus Took Hold — Cut off from their relatives inside a virus-stricken nursing center, families are frantically searching for help and basic information. — KIRKLAND, Wash. — The hardest day of Debbie de los Angeles's life …
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The Nevada Independent
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Romney may vote against Trump again — this time with some bite — Mitt Romney became persona non grata in certain parts of the conservative movement last month by becoming the first senator of a president's own party to ever vote to remove them from office.
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Romney could derail Republican subpoena targeting Bidens
Romney could derail Republican subpoena targeting Bidens
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POLITICUSUSA, Fox News, One America News Network, Breitbart and The Daily Beast
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Romney: Biden, Burisma probe ‘appears political’
Romney: Biden, Burisma probe ‘appears political’
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Vanity Fair and Fox News
Washington Examiner:
Elizabeth Warren's pandering and dishonesty brought her campaign to an end — “Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy.” — This embarrassing, obsequious, pandering line, tweeted by Elizabeth Warren in November as her campaign began …
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Had a Problem With MSNBC. Then Came Super Tuesday. — After a string of primary losses, the Vermont senator turned to a news network his allies love to criticize. — Two weeks ago, in the bowels of a Las Vegas casino, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont confronted the president of MSNBC …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The ‘Million Dollars Per Person’ Affair Is Telling — Herewith, a good example of why the Democratic Party is stuck in its current mode. … Obviously, the math here is spectacularly off. If Michael Bloomberg had divided the money he spent on his presidential run evenly among Americans, we would each have got $1.53, not $1 million.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The next coronavirus crisis — DRIVING THE DAY — THINK ABOUT THIS: What if this is only the beginning of the coronavirus economic downturn? Imagine if stocks keep on slipping and, even more concerning, if Americans truly stop traveling domestically and internationally over the spring and summer.
Washington Post:
Tens of thousands of political ads on Facebook lacked key details about who paid for them, new report finds — Researchers discovered major gaps in Facebook's ad archive that could “enable a malicious advertiser to avoid accurate disclosure of their political ads,” they wrote
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Why Americans should care about Syria — The situation in Syria is catastrophic. The Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies are bombarding the rebel-held enclave of Idlib, continuing their wholesale slaughter of civilians. Turkey, drawn into the conflict by the chaos along its border …
Tamara Keith / NPR:
Trump's Gut Collides With Science On Coronavirus Messaging — President Trump is known to say what's on his mind, to go with his gut and accentuate the positive. That approach is now colliding with a public health emergency in the form of coronavirus. — The challenge posed …
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Informed Comment
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Bill Clinton Explains Monica Lewinsky Affair as ‘Managing My Anxieties’ — Mr. Clinton was asked about the scandal for the Hulu documentary series “Hillary.” — Former President Bill Clinton, recalling the sex scandal that led to his impeachment in 1998, says in a new documentary series …
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Althouse
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Gun found inside Epstein jail during lockdown — WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators found a loaded gun Thursday that had been smuggled into the jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself last summer, following a weeklong lockdown that turned up other contraband and led …
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National Review, Twitchy, KRON4 and New York Post