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12:15 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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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 …
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 …
HuffPost:
Rush Limbaugh, Bigoted King Of Talk Radio, Dies At 70  —  Limbaugh saturated America's airwaves with cruelty and conspiracies, amassing millions of listeners and transforming the Republican Party.  —  Rush Limbaugh, a talk radio pioneer who saturated America's airwaves with cruel bigotries …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio's Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70
Charles Sykes / Washington Post:
We're living in the world Rush Limbaugh created
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
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:   Rush's Place  —  Rush's program, beamed into cars sitting in traffic across the nation …
Joe Walsh / TIME:
Rush Limbaugh Leaves Behind a Conservative Movement No Longer Interested in Truth. That Alarms Me as a Conservative
Discussion: spectator.us and The Hill
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The Texas Tribune:
Texas leaders failed to heed warnings that left state's power grid vulnerable to winter extremes, experts say  —  Texas officials knew winter storms could leave the state's power grid vulnerable, but they left the choice to prepare for harsh weather up to the power companies — many of which opted against the costly upgrades.
Discussion: USA Today, KXAN-TV, CNN, Slate and The Hill
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 …
Politico:
Trump-McConnell rift threatens GOP's Senate hopes  —  Republicans are starting their life in the Senate minority mired in a civil war over the future of the GOP and former President Donald Trump's role in the party.  —  Trump's scathing attack on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday exposed rifts …
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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 …
National Review:
Trump v. McConnell
Discussion: Political Wire and The Federalist
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.
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Politico:
DeSantis defends opening vaccine pop-up site in affluent, mostly white community
Discussion: Axios
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.
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.
New York Times:
Promotions for Female Generals Were Delayed Over Fears of Trump's Reaction  —  Under a Biden administration, the nominations are expected to go from the Pentagon to the White House within weeks and then to the Senate for approval.  —  WASHINGTON — Last fall, the Pentagon's most senior leaders agreed …
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.
Dionne Searcey / New York Times:
What Caused the Blackouts in Texas?  —  The state's widespread electricity failure was largely caused by freezing natural gas pipelines.  That didn't stop advocates for fossil fuels from trying to shift blame.  —  As his state was racked by an electricity crisis that left millions …
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Bloomberg:
Texas Clamps Down on Out-of-State Gas Sales as Crisis Deepens
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
News Analysis: The tragedy of Dianne Feinstein  —  If Dianne Feinstein hadn't lived the life she had, her story might be the product of a screenwriter's over-fertile imagination.  —  The synopsis: After surviving an abusive childhood, Feinstein overcomes personal loss — she is widowed at age 45 …
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Sean Hannity's private plane and the Wake Forest tennis team: A morality fable  —  But Hannity's own jet has an intriguing history  —  During a broadcast about two weeks ago, Fox News personality Sean Hannity seized on a favorite trope, saying that former Secretary of State John Kerry …
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 …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
QU Poll:
Half Of Americans Approve Of The Job President Biden Is Doing, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Most Say Conspiracy Theories In The U.S. Are Out Of Control  —  Four weeks after being sworn into office, President Joe Biden receives a positive job approval rating as Americans approve 50 …
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 and Joe.My.God.
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.
Pete Souza / Jewish Insider:
Ben Rhodes cites ‘very aggressive, pro-Likud media’ in the U.S. for intensity on Israel  —  PODCAST PLAYBACK  —  Rhodes joined Peter Beinart on his podcast, Occupied Thoughts  —  Peter Beinart, a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace and editor-at-large of Jewish Currents …
Discussion: Twitchy
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 …
About Facebook:
Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia  —  In response to Australia's proposed new Media Bargaining law, Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content.  —  The proposed law fundamentally misunderstands …
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
UCLA student with extremist views who FBI says sat in Pence's chair is charged in Capitol riot  —  A UCLA student who posted white supremacist views online and founded an ultra-right campus organization has been charged with federal crimes for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection.
Filip Stojanovski / Global Voices:
Serbia expels US neo-Nazi after investigative website Bellingcat outed his location  —  Robert Rondo believed to have been living in Serbia since early 2020  —  Serbia has expelled Robert Rundo, the “American neo-Nazi and founder of the notorious right-wing extremist Rise Above Movement,” …
Washington Post:
As millions remain without power amid more snow and ice, blame and questions mount  —  SAN ANTONIO — A second winter storm swept through the southern United States on Wednesday, another blow to a region where at least 18 people have died and millions remain without power …
 
 
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USA Today:
To honor Jamal Khashoggi, punish countries that target journalists: Schiff and Klobuchar
Adrian Wojnarowski / ESPN:
Sources: Many top NBA players hesitant to promote coronavirus vaccines
Discussion: The Hill
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
A ‘freer’ de Blasio convenes labor leaders for private meeting on mayor's race
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate Dems take a page from GOP in judicial nominee battles
Discussion: Jacobin, Bulwark+ and Washington Post
Eliza Relman / Insider:
Fox News hosts didn't correct Trump's lie that he won the election in his first interview post-insurrection
Discussion: The Hill and TVNewser
Bloomberg:
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold
Tom Steele / Dallas Morning News:
Texas mayor says he had already resigned after writing ‘only the strong will survive’ amid cold, power outages
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
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