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New York Times:
9 Top N.Y. Health Officials Have Quit as Cuomo Scorns Expertise — “When I say ‘experts’ in air quotes, it sounds like I'm saying I don't really trust the experts,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, referring to pandemic policies. “Because I don't.” — The deputy commissioner for public health …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The buzzword you need to know to understand Biden — DRIVING THE DAY — Republicans counter (low-ball?) President JOE BIDEN'S Covid relief package: Will he play ball with them to get a bipartisan deal? — Democrats face a major test of unity on reconciliation.
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
One of Trump's new lawyers declined to charge Bill Cosby. The other maintains Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.
One of Trump's new lawyers declined to charge Bill Cosby. The other maintains Jeffrey Epstein was murdered.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, HotAir and New York Magazine
New York Times:
Trump Names Two Members of Impeachment Defense Team
Trump Names Two Members of Impeachment Defense Team
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The Guardian, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, Axios, EA WorldView, The Week, Al Jazeera, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit and Althouse
Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘She is weighing us down’: Georgia GOP cringes at Marjorie Taylor Greene spectacle
‘She is weighing us down’: Georgia GOP cringes at Marjorie Taylor Greene spectacle
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The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog, Crooks and Liars, The Week, HuffPost, Daily Kos, NBC News, Talking Points Memo, CNN, IJR and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Trump's legal team exited after he insisted impeachment defense focus on false claims of election fraud
Trump's legal team exited after he insisted impeachment defense focus on false claims of election fraud
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HotAir, Outside the Beltway, CNN, Bloomberg, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, UPI, USA Today, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Election Law Blog, Kevin Drum and Press Herald
Matt London / Fox News:
Prominent lawyer with Epstein days before death speaks out: 'I don't believe it was suicide'
Prominent lawyer with Epstein days before death speaks out: 'I don't believe it was suicide'
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Mediaite, Law & Crime and Forbes
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
House Republicans brace for party clash over Cheney and Greene
House Republicans brace for party clash over Cheney and Greene
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Crooks and Liars and New York Times
New York Times:
77 Days: Trump's Campaign to Subvert the Election — Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a sham — putting himself at the center of a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power.
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New York Magazine, HuffPost, The Week and Raw Story
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Associated Press:
Myanmar military says it is taking control of the country — NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar military television says the military has taken control of the country for one year. — An announcer on military-owned Myawaddy TV made the announcement Monday morning.
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Wall Street Journal:
Myanmar Military Seizes Power in Coup — Civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi detained with other members of her party — Myanmar's military leader has taken charge of the country from its civilian-run government, according to a statement broadcast on an army-run television station …
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United States Department …, National Review, Conservative News Today, MyNorthwest.com, The Week and Al Jazeera
BBC:
Myanmar military takes control of country after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi — Myanmar's military has confirmed it has taken control of the country after Aung San Suu Kyi and other political leaders were arrested in the early hours. — The coup comes after tensions rose between …
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NPR, The Guardian, Al Arabiya, Common Dreams, Foreign Policy, TechCrunch, Deadline, Al Jazeera, Reuters, Raw Story and Axios
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
U.S. warns Myanmar's military it'll be punished for coup
U.S. warns Myanmar's military it'll be punished for coup
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Politico, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg and Malaysiakini
NBC News:
Aung San Suu Kyi urges people to resist Myanmar military coup
Aung San Suu Kyi urges people to resist Myanmar military coup
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HotAir, New York Post and UPI
Washington Post:
Myanmar military seizes power in coup after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar military seizes power in coup after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi
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NetBlocks, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, The White House and New York Times, more at Techmeme »
Hannah Beech / New York Times:
Myanmar's Leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Is Detained Amid Coup
Myanmar's Leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Is Detained Amid Coup
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Townhall, Outside the Beltway, Al Jazeera, ABC News and Fox News
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Survey Says: Never Tweet — The tensions in newsrooms over reporters' social media presence are not just about politics. — David Carr, the legendary Timesman who made this column a destination, told me back in 2012 that he kept a “helicopter on the roof” of The New York Times Building in case he needed to escape.
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Kushner, Berkowitz nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Israel deals — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his deputy, Avi Berkowitz, were nominated on Sunday for the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in negotiating four normalization deals between Israel …
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Tim Reid / Reuters:
Exclusive: Dozens of former Bush officials leave Republican Party, calling it ‘Trump cult’ — (Reuters) - Dozens of Republicans in former President George W. Bush's administration are leaving the party, dismayed by a failure of many elected Republicans to disown Donald Trump after his false claims …
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill and Forbes
The White House:
Statement from White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki … The President spoke to Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer today; he is grateful that Congress is prepared to begin action on the American Rescue Plan in just his second full week in office. — As has been widely reported …
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HuffPost, Letters from an American and Senator Susan Collins
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A.B. Stoddard / The Bulwark:
Kevin McCarthy Is a Disaster — Have you ever read a poem called “The Snake”? — It's a dark time for Kevin McCarthy. In the space of four years, his party lost the White House, House, and Senate—a trifecta of #Losing unseen since Herbert Hoover presided over the onset of the Great Depression.
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New York Times
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New York Times:
As Trump Raked In Cash Denying His Loss, Little Went to Actual Legal Fight — The picture that emerged in new campaign finance reports was of Donald J. Trump waging a public relations effort to falsely argue that he had won the election rather than mounting a serious legal push.
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
The president has changed, but Washington hasn't — Only a fortnight ago, with Donald Trump in eclipse and Joe Biden's celebrated inaugural, there was optimism that reasonable achievements, bipartisan ones, were possible. — It may have been a Prague spring.
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Liz Peek / Fox News:
Biden's first 10 days - here's how he infuriated half the nation in record time
Biden's first 10 days - here's how he infuriated half the nation in record time
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ABC News, Common Dreams and American Prospect
NBC News:
Blinken criticizes Putin for crackdown on Navalny protesters … WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that he was “deeply disturbed by the violent crackdown” on Russian protesters and the arrests of thousands of people throughout the country demanding the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
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Bari Weiss / New York Post:
10 ways to fight back against woke culture — I realize the faddish thing to say these days is that we live in the worst, most broken and backward country in the world and maybe in the history of civilization. It's utter nonsense. — I have a few basic litmus tests in my own life: Can I wear a tank top in public?
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Althouse
CNN:
They stormed the Capitol to overturn the results of an election they didn't vote in — (CNN)They were there to “Stop the Steal” and to keep the President they revered in office, yet records show that some of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol did not vote in the very election they were protesting.
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Raw Story
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Knew Calls for Violence Plagued ‘Groups’, Now Plans Overhaul — The giant struggled to balance Mark Zuckerberg's free-expression mantra against findings that rabid partisanship had overrun a feature central to its future — Facebook Inc. in 2019 redesigned its flagship product …
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Nicole Hong / New York Times:
Rochester Police Pepper-Sprayed 9-Year-Old Girl, Footage Shows — The incident brought renewed scrutiny to a department whose officers had placed a hood on Daniel Prude, a Black man, before he died from suffocation. — The police department in Rochester, N.Y., released body-camera footage …
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CNN, Raw Story, Fox News and New York Post
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
The Remote-Work Revolution Will Be Bigger Than We Think — Some evenings, when pandemic cabin fever reaches critical levels, I relieve my claustrophobia by escaping into the dreamworld of Zillow, the real-estate website. From the familiar confines of my Washington, D.C., apartment …