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7:45 AM ET, February 18, 2021

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Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
FBI, U.S. attorney in Brooklyn probing Cuomo administration on nursing homes  —  Investigation is in its early stages; no allegations of wrongdoing have been made  —  ALBANY — The FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn have launched an investigation that is examining, at least in part …
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo Faces Revolt After Handling of Nursing Home Deaths  —  Democratic lawmakers have begun to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of virus-related nursing home deaths, and the governor also faces a federal inquiry.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — The Democratic leaders of the New York State Senate …
CNN:
Cuomo said ‘he can destroy me’: NY assemblyman alleges governor threatened him over nursing homes scandal  —  (CNN)New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been pleading with lawmakers for support and even threatening political retribution against Democrats who have criticized him in an aggressive effort …
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo Attacks a Fellow Democrat Over Nursing Home Criticism  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo lashed out at Assemblyman Ron Kim, both publicly and in a private phone call, as a war intensified over the state's handling of nursing home deaths during the pandemic.  —  For months, Assemblyman Ron Kim …
New York Times:
Covid-19: U.S. Officials Pledge Almost $200 Million to Track Variants as Lawmakers Push for More
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Limbaugh obituaries show the mainstream media still fawning over the people who poisoned politics  —  The leaders of our elite newsrooms had a whole year to figure out how they were going to frame Rush Limbaugh's life.  —  He announced he was dying of lung cancer last February …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Rush Limbaugh's Legacy of Weaponizing Radio Commentary
HuffPost:
Rush Limbaugh, Bigoted King Of Talk Radio, Dies At 70
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
Rush's Place  —  Rush's program, beamed into cars sitting in traffic across the nation …
Discussion: RedState
Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Rush Limbaugh Spent His Lifetime Speaking Ill of the Dead
Ben Domenech / New York Post:
Appreciation: Rush Limbaugh remade talk radio — and modern conservatism
Charles Sykes / Washington Post:
We're living in the world Rush Limbaugh created
Joe Walsh / TIME:
Rush Limbaugh Leaves Behind a Conservative Movement No Longer Interested in Truth. That Alarms Me as a Conservative
Discussion: spectator.us, ABC News and The Hill
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Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal:
In Frigid Texas, Desperate Families Take Risks to Stay Warm  —  Parents resort to gas stoves or build fires inside their homes during power outages, with no relief in sight  —  AUSTIN, Texas—The children played in front of four lighted gas burners in East Austin on Tuesday night …
Discussion: Insider and The Week
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Washington Post:
Trump-McConnell clash threatens to settle into a cold war as GOP eyes midterms  —  Were it up to former president Donald Trump, Republicans would spend the next two years purging their ranks and reshaping themselves in his own image — a process he moved to jump-start Tuesday with a searing attack …
New York Times:
McConnell's Strategy Has Party in Turmoil and Trump on Attack  —  The Republican leader's calculus was simple: Don't stoke a full-on revolt by Trump supporters by voting to convict the former president, but demonstrate to anti-Trump Republicans that he recognized Mr. Trump's failings.  It didn't work.
New York Times:
A Grim Measure of Covid's Toll: Life Expectancy Drops Sharply in U.S.  —  American life expectancy fell by one year, to 77.8 years, in the first half of 2020.  It may rebound as the pandemic's end approaches.  —  Life expectancy in the United States fell by a full year in the first six months of 2020 …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
Pandemic cut U.S. life expectancy by a year during the first half of 2020
Discussion: The Week and Lawyers, Guns & Money
James Osborne / Houston Chronicle:
Perry says Texans willing to suffer blackouts to keep feds out of power market  —  WASHINGTON - Former Texas governor Rick Perry suggests that going days without power is a sacrifice Texans should be willing to make if it means keeping federal regulators out of the state's power grid.
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Bloomberg:
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The ‘audacious lie’ behind a hedge fund's promise to sustain local journalism  —  When Alden Global Capital announced Tuesday that it was positioned to buy the Chicago Tribune and several other major newspapers, its statement might have sounded promising.  —  But only if you knew nothing …
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Washington Post:   The Baltimore Sun was spared a hedge-fund owner. Now it will try to survive as a nonprofit.
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Can This Man Save The Baltimore Sun?
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Bronson Stocking / Townhall:
Here's What Trump Said When Asked If He's Running for President  —  On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump gave his first interviews since leaving the White House.  While the former president discussed the remarkable life of radio legend and conservative icon Rush Limbaugh …
CNN:
White House announces sweeping immigration bill  —  What Biden has said he'll do about immigration  —  (CNN)The White House announced a sweeping immigration bill Thursday that would create an eight-year path to citizenship for millions of immigrants already in the country and provide …
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Allegations of sexist cyberstalking by Trump's top advisor roils secretive paternity case  —  The key advisor in Donald Trump's post-presidency is an often-deadbeat dad who just sent a grave threat to opposing counsel, upending the extraordinarily lengthy Florida paternity case he's spending a fortune to fight.
Fran Spielman / Chicago Sun-Times:
Statues of four U.S. presidents among 41 under the microscope by Chicago committee  —  Mayor Lori Lightfoot is confronting the “hard truths of Chicago's racial history,” launching a public process to review the fate of 41 statues and other monuments, including some of former presidents Abraham Lincoln …
Sara Randazzo / Wall Street Journal:
Theranos Lab Chief Says He Found Blood-Testing Technology Didn't Work  —  Kingshuk Das is expected to testify at Elizabeth Holmes's fraud trial that he faced pushback over concerns he raised  —  Theranos Inc.'s laboratory director in the company's final years is expected to testify …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Australia's bad bargain with platforms  —  Google and Facebook should support journalism — but not like this  —  Today let's talk about a conflict threatening to accelerate the splintering of the internet in profound new ways: Australia's plan to force Google and Facebook to pay news publishers millions …
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About Facebook:
Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia
Skyler Swisher / Sun-Sentinel:
'I wouldn't be complaining.' Gov. DeSantis threatens to pull coronavirus vaccine from communities that criticize distribution  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested Wednesday that he would divert COVID-19 vaccines from communities that criticize his distribution methods, sparking complaints that he is playing politics with lifesaving medicine.
Rick Moran / pjmedia.com:
Study: Biden's $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill Will Devastate the Economy  —  Conventional wisdom dictates that if the government pumps a lot of money into the economy it will bloom and blossom like a flower getting water and grow and grow and grow.  —  It's the basis of modern liberal economic thinking and has been since the New Deal.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Avoids Mentioning Dominion, Smartmatic During Right-Wing Media Whinefest  —  Trump has recently been reminded that he shouldn't mention Dominion Voting Systems or Smartmatic during new media interviews, according to a source familiar with the matter.  —  Former President Donald Trump kicked off …
Discussion: Raw Story
Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Dismisses Devin Nunes Aide's Lawsuit Against CNN  —  A federal judge the District of Maryland on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit that Rep. Devin Nunes's senior aide Derek Harvey filed against CNN, former Rudy Giuliani business associate Lev Parnas, and Parnas's lawyer Joseph Bondy.
Washington Post:
Biden picks another Obama veteran to oversee Medicare, Medicaid  —  If confirmed, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure would lead $1 trillion agency in second-most powerful post at Health and Human Services Department  —  President Biden has selected Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to lead the Centers for Medicare …
Discussion: CNN, WTOP and Politico
 
 
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Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
Lies About Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick Ominously Foreshadow Democrats' ‘Truth Commission’
Rory Linnane / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Superintendent candidate Deborah Kerr deletes account after tweets about her experience with the N-word
USA Today:
To honor Jamal Khashoggi, punish countries that target journalists: Schiff and Klobuchar
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Feds investigated Roger Stone ties to Proud Boys as part of possible threat to judge
Discussion: emptywheel and Raw Story
Nikki R. Haley / Wall Street Journal:
The Media Tries to Divide Republicans
Discussion: Mediaite
Adrian Wojnarowski / ESPN:
Sources: Many top NBA players hesitant to promote coronavirus vaccines
Discussion: The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
As millions remain without power amid more snow and ice, blame and questions mount
Discussion: NPR, HuffPost and UPROXX
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
A ‘freer’ de Blasio convenes labor leaders for private meeting on mayor's race
Filip Stojanovski / Global Voices:
Serbia expels US neo-Nazi after investigative website Bellingcat outed his location
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Sean Hannity's private plane and the Wake Forest tennis team: A morality fable
Discussion: Politico
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Netanyahu allies with Jewish supremacists ahead of Israeli election
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate Dems take a page from GOP in judicial nominee battles
Discussion: Bulwark+, Jacobin and Washington Post
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
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