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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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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 …
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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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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio provocateur and cultural phenomenon, dies at 70 — Rush Limbaugh, who deployed comic bombast and relentless bashing of liberals, feminists and environmentalists to become the nation's most popular radio talk-show host and lead the Republican Party into a politics …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio's Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70 — A longtime favorite of the right, he was a furious critic of Barack Obama and a full-throated cheerleader for Donald J. Trump. — Rush Limbaugh, the relentlessly provocative voice of conservative America who dominated talk radio …
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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Mark Steyn / Steyn Online:
The Indispensable Man — It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Rush Limbaugh, a giant of American broadcasting, a uniquely talented performer, and a hugely generous man to whom I owe almost everything. — Rush died this morning, after a year-long struggle with lung cancer.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Rush Limbaugh Taught Republicans to Love an Angry, Racist Bully
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Charles Sykes / Washington Post:
We're living in the world Rush Limbaugh created
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National Review:
Remembering Rush — a Conservative Messenger Who Changed the Dialogue
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Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Trump to appear on conservative networks in wake of Limbaugh's death
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Joe Walsh / TIME:
Rush Limbaugh Leaves Behind a Conservative Movement No Longer Interested in Truth. That Alarms Me as a Conservative
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Rush Limbaugh, conservative media icon, dead at 70 following battle with cancer
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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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Dionne Searcey / New York Times:
What Caused the Blackouts in Texas?
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Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
I'm Freezing Cold and Burning Mad in Texas
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Bloomberg:
Texas Clamps Down on Out-of-State Gas Sales as Crisis Deepens
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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 …
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Manu Raju / CNN:
McConnell's plan to deal with Trump: Ignore him
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Eliza Relman / Insider:
Fox News hosts didn't correct Trump's lie that he won the election in his first interview post-insurrection
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump 'won't say yet' if he's running in 2024
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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 …
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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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Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
Texas mayor tells residents to fend for themselves during power outage: ‘Only the strong will survive’ — By Tuesday morning, the residents of Colorado City, Tex., were getting anxious. More than 24 hours had passed since a deadly Arctic blast knocked out power across the state …
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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.
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 …
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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Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Watch the Trump Era in Atlantic City End With 3,000 Sticks of Dynamite — The implosion of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, the last vestige of the former president's once-dominant brand in Atlantic City, N.J., took place Wednesday morning. — ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — It was not the biggest or the best implosion ever.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate Dems take a page from GOP in judicial nominee battles — Senate Democrats are planning to continue the GOP's approach to giving home-state senators veto power over lower court nominees — while granting freer rein to President Joe Biden's circuit court nominees.
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Alex Samuels / The Texas Tribune:
Stop dripping your faucets: Texas officials say the state's water supply is at risk — After enduring multiple days of freezing temperatures and Texans dripping faucets to prevent frozen pipes from bursting, cities across the state warned Wednesday that water levels are dangerously low, and it may be unsafe to drink.
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Charlie Sykes / Bulwark+:
Crenshaw Reloaded — The Texas Congressman wants it both ways — Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw has some deep thoughts about what ails right-wing politics these days. — There is, he says, way too much “performance,” rather than persuasion. Too much much grift; too much talking about …
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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.
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