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10:25 AM ET, February 18, 2021

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KSAT-TV:
Did Ted Cruz fly to Cancun during Texas' winter disaster?  —  Cruz hasn't commented but some Twitter sleuths believe they have proof  —  Kolten Parker, Digital Executive Producer  —  Photos circulating on Twitter late Wednesday purport to show Texas Senator Ted Cruz on a flight to Cancun …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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Fox News:
Ted Cruz flew to Cancun with his family amid power crisis in Texas: source  —  Millions in Texas without power, at least 20 dead  —  Texas outages is proof we need to expand energy options: Wesley Hunt  —  Sen. Ted Cruz flew to Cancun, Mexico, with his family this week as Texas dealt …
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.
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Barbs fly at Ted Cruz for heading to Cancun as millions in Texas freeze without power  —  Fellow vacationers spotted the well-known Texas Republican and his family on flight from Houston  —  WASHINGTON — With 3 million Texans shivering in the dark, Sen. Ted Cruz jetted off to Cancun with his family …
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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Joe Concha / The Hill:   Simply the best: Why Rush Limbaugh was the GOAT of talk radio
Ben Domenech / New York Post:
Appreciation: Rush Limbaugh remade talk radio — and modern conservatism
Andrew Klavan / City Journal:   On the Ground … Rush's Monument  —  Let us all speak, and fearlessly.  —  Other
Wall Street Journal:   Rush Limbaugh  —  The talk-radio host popularized conservative ideas and policies.  —  By The Editorial Board
Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Rush Limbaugh Spent His Lifetime Speaking Ill of the Dead
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
CNN:
Cuomo said ‘he can destroy me’: NY assemblyman alleges governor threatened him over nursing homes scandal
Wall Street Journal:
Texas Spins Into the Wind  —  An electricity grid that relies on renewables also needs nuclear or coal power.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  While millions of Texans remain without power for a third day, the wind industry and its advocates are spinning a fable that gas, coal and nuclear plants …
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Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
It's time to bury the myth of Texas exceptionalism  —  Leave it to a blackout to shine a big, bright spotlight on the problems lying deep in the heart of Texas.  —  I grew up in a suburb south of Dallas, and even though my parents were immigrants from West Africa, I was conditioned to believe in Texan exceptionalism.
Joseph Guzman / The Hill:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Texas Gov Abbott fire at each other over deadly winter storm, Green New Deal  —  More than 3 million Texans were without power as of Wednesday afternoon.  —  Story at a glance  — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) criticized the Green New Deal Tuesday as his state …
Discussion: CNN, CBS News and IJR
Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal:
In Frigid Texas, Desperate Families Take Risks to Stay Warm
Discussion: Insider and The Week
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: Slate and Outside the Beltway
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Marilynn Marchione / Associated Press:
US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII  —  Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths, health officials are reporting.  —  Minorities suffered the biggest impact …
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
Pandemic cut U.S. life expectancy by a year during the first half of 2020
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 …
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Democrats to formally introduce Biden's citizenship bill
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Roll Call
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden-blessed immigration bill drops today — but even he's not sold
CNN:
The Supreme Court is still sitting on Trump's tax returns, and justices aren't saying why  —  (CNN)Lawsuits involving Donald Trump tore apart the Supreme Court while he was president, and the justices apparently remain riven by him.  —  For nearly four months, the court has refused to act …
Discussion: Raw Story
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
US jobless claims rise to 861,000 as layoffs stay high  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week to 861,000, evidence that layoffs remain painfully high despite a steady drop in the number of confirmed viral infections.
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Hannah Lang / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Unemployment Claims Rise, Pausing Recent Downward Trend
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
Vince Bielski / RealClearInvestigations:
Why Biden's New Dawn of Net-Zero Is Looking Like a Dark Day for Labor  —  Last Labor Day, candidate Joe Biden made an impassioned pitch to leaders and members of the AFL-CIO, America's largest labor federation.  Stressing that “the great American middle class was built by unions,” …
Discussion: Associated Press
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 …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Frets Foes Will Be ‘Suing Me for the Rest of My Life’  —  Though the riot was the culmination of Trump's months of attempts to overturn the election, it's hardly the only incident that may have left the ex-president legally exposed.  —  A criminal investigation in the state of Georgia.
Politico:
It might just be game over for the Iowa caucus  —  The siege of Iowa and New Hampshire has begun.  —  The two states with privileged places on the presidential primary calendar are finding their roles more threatened than ever before — most recently in the form of a bill introduced in Nevada …
Discussion: CNN
Nicholas Quah / Vulture:
Reply All Is Having Its Own Reckoning Now  —  Oh, you like podcasts?  Sign up for Vulture's new recommendation newsletter 1.5x Speed here.  —  Earlier this month, Reply All kicked off an ambitious miniseries, “The Test Kitchen,” which sought to take on one of the bigger stories …
Julia Duin / Politico:
The Christian Prophets Who Say Trump Is Coming Again  —  Perched on a cream-colored armchair, Johnny Enlow, a 61-year-old, California-based Pentecostal pastor with short-cropped gray hair, a trim beard and Tom Selleck-style mustache, looked into the camera and prophesied that Donald Trump would become president again.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
New York Times:
How a Liberal Lawyer in Georgia Took an Extreme Right Turn  —  W. McCall Calhoun Jr., who ran for office in Georgia as a Democrat, is a walking embodiment of his state's political contradictions.  —  AMERICUS, Ga.— Over the past three decades, as the state around him turned ever more resolutely Republican …
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.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Former Ohio GOP chair Jane Timken launches Senate bid  —  Former Ohio GOP Chair Jane Timken is joining the race to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).  —  Timken was widely expected to make a run for Portman's seat.  Prior to launching her campaign, she resigned from her role …
 
 
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