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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 …
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New York Magazine, POLITICUSUSA, Vox, The Hill, Fox News, The Daily Beast, Hackwhackers 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 …
Brittany Shammas / Washington Post:
Majority of Americans approve of Biden's coronavirus response, poll finds
Chris Jackson / Ipsos:
American public approves Administration's first steps on coronavirus
American public approves Administration's first steps on coronavirus
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Washington Examiner, ABC News, Slate and HotAir
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: McCarthy told Cheney to apologize for voting to impeach Trump — Kevin McCarthy tried to get Liz Cheney to apologize for voting to impeach former President Trump before last week's highly anticipated House GOP conference meeting — a request she refused, two people with direct knowledge told Axios.
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HuffPost, New York Times, Rolling Stone, LGBTQ Nation, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, NPR, The Hill, Raw Story, Crooks and Liars and Forbes
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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 …
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medRxiv, New York Post, Gothamist and Mother Jones
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
U.K. coronavirus variant spreading rapidly through United States, study finds
U.K. coronavirus variant spreading rapidly through United States, study finds
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Slate, Forbes, CBS News, ProPublica and KTLA
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 …
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Chuck Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
The Constitution Doesn't Bar Trump's Impeachment Trial — Removal from office is best understood as akin to a ‘mandatory minimum’ sentence for a crime. — During the impeachment of Bill Clinton, his defenders argued that his misconduct was ultimately private and didn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Breaking With G.O.P., Top Conservative Lawyer Says Trump Can Stand Trial
Breaking With G.O.P., Top Conservative Lawyer Says Trump Can Stand Trial
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Boston Herald and Political Wire
PEN America:
PEN America Responds to Resignation of New York Times Reporter McNeil — The word McNeil uttered has uniquely cruel, painful, and dangerous associations; still, Times' reversal in this instance sends worrying signal — (New York, NY) — New York Times science reporter Donald McNeil Jr. resigned Friday …
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John McWhorter / It Bears Mentioning:
The N-word as slur vs. the N-word as a sequence of sounds — What makes the New York Times so comfortable making black people look dim? — 5 hr ago — On what Black History Month and the racial reckoning mean at the New York Times ... Over the past week, the Times' crossword puzzles …
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
George P. Shultz, counsel and Cabinet member for two Republican presidents, dies at 100 — George P. Shultz, one of only two people to serve the United States in four Cabinet-level posts and a major force in economic and foreign policy in two Republican administrations, died Feb. 6 at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 100.
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Associated Press, Bloomberg and The Week
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Hoover Institution:
Distinguished American Statesman, 60th US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Dies at 100
Distinguished American Statesman, 60th US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Dies at 100
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NPR, New Republic, Stanford News, National Review, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, TMZ.com, Washington Examiner, The Wrap, Politico, The Daily Caller, Jacobin, Townhall, New York Post, KRON4 and Instapundit
Glenn Greenwald:
The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows — The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.
Jackie Salo / New York Post:
Trump ‘happier’ now that he's off social media: former aide — Former President Trump “feels happier” since leaving the White House — partly because he's off social media, his former campaign aide says. — “The president has said he feels happier now than he's been in some time,” …
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The Sunday Times, The Sun, Insider and Gothamist
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Sheryl Sandberg Downplayed Facebook's Role In The Capitol Hill Siege—Justice Department Files Tell A Very Different Story — Just after the Capitol Hill riots on January 6, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook chief operating officer admitted the company's ability to enforce its own rules was “never perfect.”
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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Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Insider, Washington Examiner and Boston Herald
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘The Democratic version of John McCain’
‘The Democratic version of John McCain’
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HuffPost, The Week, National Review and Washington Examiner
Ronald G. Shafer / Washington Post:
He became the nation's ninth vice president. She was his enslaved wife. — Her name was Julia Chinn — She was born enslaved and remained that way her entire life, even after she became Richard Mentor Johnson's “bride.” — Johnson, a Kentucky congressman who eventually became …
Harry Enten / CNN:
Less than 10% of Americans like QAnon — (CNN)QAnon has been in the news a lot in recent weeks. Polling shows that many people at least partially blame it for the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, and it's a scary and dangerous conspiracy theory. — But we should be clear that it truly is a fringe movement.
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Raw Story
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Marcy Kaptur's warning — Marcy Kaptur is the longest-serving woman in the current Congress. — She has also been in the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any woman has served there, in all of U.S. history. — She came to the Congress in 1983. — She is 74 and has been a Democrat her entire voting life.
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Instapundit
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Big Publishing Pushes Out Trump's Last Fan — Top editors at Hachette have told employees that they've learned the lessons of the Capitol siege of Jan. 6: no hate speech, no incitement to violence, no false narratives. — If you were a certain kind of distinctly Trumpy public figure …
Washington Post:
New Biden rules for ICE point to fewer arrests and deportations, and a more restrained agency — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to issue new guidelines to agents this week that could sharply curb arrests and deportations, as the Biden administration attempts to assert …
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Joshua Zitser / Insider:
Trump's DC hotel is hiking prices for March 4 - the day QAnon followers think the former president will be sworn in … - QAnon followers believe that Trump will be sworn in on March 4, 2021. — This belief is rooted in a conspiracy theory that all presidents post-1871 are illegitimate.
Michael J. Stern / USA Today:
Impeachment trial: The Senate is unlikely to convict Trump. Can we count on the courts? — The Justice Department may decide to prosecute Trump, but it's a tough call. Whatever the evidence, one Trump fan on a jury could prevent a conviction. — Ask any die-hard Democrat …
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New York Times, Raw Story and HotAir
Stacey Abrams / Washington Post:
Our democracy faced a near-death experience. Here's how to revive it. — Stacey Abrams, a Democrat, is a former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives and founder of the group Fair Fight. — The violent Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, coupled with ongoing threats …
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National Journal, Raw Story, New York Magazine and Daily Kos
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 …
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.
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MyNorthwest.com, Raw Story, CNN and Fox News
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and the criminal conspiracy case of U.S. v. Donald Trump — Roger Stone has been here before. Exactly two decades earlier, when a Florida recount threatened to undo Republican George W. Bush's less-than-1,000-vote lead in the Sunshine State and hand …
Ofer Aderet / Haaretz:
Polish Journalist Quizzed by Police for Writing That Poles Were Involved in the Holocaust — ‘How can you be offended by the truth?’ asks Katarzyna Markusz, after being asked by Warsaw police if an article she wrote last October was intended to slander the good name of the nation