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12:55 PM ET, February 7, 2021

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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Majority of Americans say Trump should be convicted, barred from holding federal office in impeachment trial: POLL  —  The Senate is set to begin Trump's second impeachment trial on Tuesday.  —  2nd Impeachment Trial: What this could mean for Trump  —  Donald Trump will be the first president …
Discussion: The Hill, Bloomberg and Political Wire
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Dante Chinni / NBC News:
GOP registration drop after Capitol attack is part of larger trend … WASHINGTON — In the weeks since the January riot at the Capitol, there has been a raft of stories about voters across the country leaving the Republican Party.  Some of the numbers are eye-catching and suggest that the GOP …
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Two-thirds of Americans approve of Biden's COVID-19 response: POLL
Discussion: Ipsos
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Virus Variant First Found in Britain Now Spreading Rapidly in U.S.  —  A new study bolsters the prediction by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the so-called B.1.1.7 variant will dominate Covid-19 cases by March.  —  A more contagious variant of the coronavirus first found …
Discussion: Gothamist
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
U.K. coronavirus variant spreading rapidly through United States, study finds … The coronavirus variant that shut down much of the United Kingdom is spreading rapidly across the United States, outcompeting other mutant strains and doubling its prevalence among confirmed infections every week and a half …
Discussion: CBS News and ProPublica
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Liz Cheney Says GOP Shouldn't Be ‘Embracing’ Trump: ‘Does Not Have a Role as the Leader of Our Party Going Forward’  —  As Liz Cheney defended her impeachment vote on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace asked her about the current state of the Republican party.  —  Wallace brought up the two issues …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Democrats' big shift in Trump's second impeachment  —  Democrats made a push for witnesses central to President Donald Trump's first impeachment trial.  But not this time.  —  Senate Democrats are making it clear they're taking a different approach than they did for Trump's infamous Ukraine call.
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New York Times:
Trump Lawyer Asks to Pause Impeachment Trial if It Runs Into Sabbath  —  David Schoen, one of former President Donald J. Trump's lawyers, has requested that the Senate suspend the impeachment trial at sundown on Friday and on Saturday, potentially upending plans for a fast trial.
Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Trump impeachment is ‘partisan farce,’ Schumer would deserve to be impeached too: Rand Paul
Discussion: Townhall and Crooks and Liars
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Analysis: The end of the road for Lou Dobbs  —  (CNN)Nothing unusual happened when Lou Dobbs hosted his Fox Business show on Thursday evening.  His hour was full of Fox's usual themes about “radical Dims” (Democrats) and Big Tech “abusing their power.”  —  “Join us here tomorrow,” he said at the end of the show.
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Washington Post:
‘An easy choice’: Inside Biden's decision to go it alone with Democrats on coronavirus relief … Partway through a two-hour Oval Office meeting with President Biden about his coronavirus relief package, several Republican senators thought they might have finally reached a breakthrough.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘The Democratic version of John McCain’
Discussion: HuffPost, Washington Examiner and NPR
Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC:
Biden says $15 minimum wage won't survive Covid relief talks, promises to push for pay hike later
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Hoover Institution:
Distinguished American Statesman, 60th US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Dies at 100  —  Hoover Institution, Stanford University  —  Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) - One of the most consequential policymakers of all time, having served three American presidents, George P. Shultz died Feb. 6 at age 100.
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Jake Dima / Washington Examiner:
George Shultz, Reagan's secretary of state, dies at 100
Discussion: Instapundit
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
WATCH: Mike Lindell Has Sudden ‘Epiphany’ And Says He Will Sue Dominion And Smartmatic  —  MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell pledged on Saturday to take legal action against voting technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic if they don't agree to meet with him about his Absolute Proof documentary …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
How San Francisco Renamed Its Schools  —  Last month, San Francisco's Board of Education voted, 6-1, to change the names of forty-four schools, including schools named after Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.  A committee formed by the board in 2018, in the wake of the white-supremacist rally …
Lawrence Summers / Washington Post:
My column on the stimulus sparked a lot of questions.  Here are my answers.  —  My recent Post column — admiring the ambition of the Biden stimulus bill, while identifying some possible risks — generated discussion and a number of questions that I did not directly answer in the piece itself …
Discussion: Politico and Forbes
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
I Spent 11 Hours Inside the MAGA Bubble  —  Last Monday in Washington, the news was President Joe Biden's attempt to pass a massive $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package through Congress, the agita over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's old Facebook posts calling for the assassination of Democratic leaders, the coup in Myanmar.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Senior Democrats to unveil new $3,000-per-child benefit as Biden stimulus gains steam  —  Under the proposal, the Internal Revenue Service would begin sending $250 per month to millions of families in July  —  Senior Democrats on Monday will unveil legislation to provide $3,000 per child …
Discussion: Politico
The Guardian:
Revealed: Queen lobbied for change in law to hide her private wealth  —  Monarch dispatched private solicitor to secure exemption from transparency law  —  The Queen successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public …
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
How Lindsey Graham's Petty Partisan Decision Stalled the DOJ  —  At the center of the imbroglio is a figure who is accustomed to being collateral damage of partisan warfare on Capitol Hill: Merrick Garland.  —  What first seemed like a petty partisan power play in the U.S. Senate has escalated …
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
How Donald Trump's hand-holding led to panicky call home by Theresa May  —  A remarkable BBC documentary reveals the startling reality of meeting the president  —  For the former prime minister Theresa May, one of the most pressing matters she confronted during her encounter with Donald Trump …
Discussion: Insider
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Twitter permanently suspends Gateway Pundit founder's account  —  Twitter on Saturday issued a permanent suspension for the account run by Jim Hoft, founder and editor-in-chief of far-right news website Gateway Pundit, for violations of its “civic integrity policy.”
Wall Street Journal:
As Covid-19 Vaccines Raise Hope, Cold Reality Dawns That Illness Is Likely Here to Stay  —  Ease of transmission, new strains, limits of vaccination programs all mean Covid-19 will be around for years—and a big business  —  Vaccination drives hold out the promise of curbing Covid-19 …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
They may be at odds now.  But Trump and CNN's Jeff Zucker have always had one thing in common.  —  Just a few years ago, CNN seemed intent on giving Donald Trump as much help as possible for his presidential run.  —  The network obsessively covered the candidate's raucous speeches in the Republican presidential primary.
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Says U.S. Won't Lift Iran Sanctions to Bring Tehran Back to Negotiating Table  —  Iran must stop enriching uranium before sanctions will be lifted, president says in CBS News interview  —  President Biden said the U.S. won't lift sanctions on Iran in order to get the country …
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Times
New York Times:
60 Black Health Experts Urge Black Americans to Get Vaccinated  —  Disinformation has pervaded social media and is an assault on our people.  —  Dr. LaVeist is a medical sociologist and the dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University.
John Harwood / CNN:
Biden needs to figure out what kind of GOP opposition he's facing  —  Ex-GOP gubernatorial candidate: I can't be a Republican anymore  —  (CNN)The collision of the new President's agenda with the old one's impeachment trial this week sharpens the question: Just what kind of Republican opposition does …
 
 
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Stefani Reynolds / ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 2-7-21: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Roger Wicker
Discussion: Politico
Martin Arnold / Financial Times:
Christine Lagarde warns stimulus must be removed only ‘gradually’
Kate Davidson / Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19's Hit to State and Local Revenues Is Smaller Than Many Feared
Discussion: USA Today
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Hispanics or coups  —  2020 proved the GOP can win lots of Hispanic votes...but not if they turn to violence.
Claire Anderson / The College Fix:
Facebook censors Catholic professor's book on ‘toxic femininity’
Discussion: Breitbart
Wall Street Journal:
Wisconsin Expected a Bad Year for Tax Revenue. It Was Wrong.
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NYC's COVID vaccine hubs are ghost towns as DOH mum on distribution
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
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