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8:20 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
New York Times:
Covid-19: U.S. Officials Pledge Almost $200 Million to Track Variants as Lawmakers Push for More
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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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
James Osborne / Houston Chronicle:
Perry says Texans willing to suffer blackouts to keep feds out of power market
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Simply the best: Why Rush Limbaugh was the GOAT of talk radio  —  Legendary.  Unique.  The GOAT (greatest of all time) of political talk radio.  And it ain't even close.  —  Rush Limbaugh passed away Wednesday at the age of 70.  He had battled Stage 4 lung cancer for more than a year …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Rush Limbaugh's Legacy of Weaponizing Radio Commentary
Andrew Klavan / City Journal:   On the Ground … Rush's Monument  —  Let us all speak, and fearlessly.  —  Other
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: The Federalist and 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
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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.
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 …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden-blessed immigration bill drops today — but even he's not sold
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 …
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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 …
Discussion: Forbes
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
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Steve Milloy / Washington Examiner:
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's ‘dark money’ hypocrisy  —  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse wants Congress and the Biden administration to investigate the Trump administration for “climate corruption.”  —  “I am confident that a good, hard look at communications between fossil fuel interests and people …
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
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
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.
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.
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
'There's No Natural Dignity in Work'  —  Punishing mothers for needing help cannot be the answer.  A generous child allowance might be.  —  Wanda Lavender lives in Milwaukee.  She's 39, with six children and one grandchild.  She used to be a day care teacher and proud of the work.
Discussion: Foreign Policy
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
 
 
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Claudia Irizarry Aponte / THE CITY:
Brooklyn Council Member Cornegy Misused Office for Borough President Run, Complaint to Council Charges
Greg David / THE CITY:
Business Leaders Warn Tax-the-Rich Bills Will Leave New York Poorer. But Don't Call it a Threat to Pull Up Stakes...
Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
Capitol Police Investigate 2 GOP Lawmakers Over House Metal Detector Incidents
Caroline Spivack / Curbed:
The High-Tech Upgrades of the Pandemic Office Are Mostly for Show
Rory Linnane / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Superintendent candidate Deborah Kerr deletes account after tweets about her experience with the N-word
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Australia's bad bargain with platforms
USA Today:
To honor Jamal Khashoggi, punish countries that target journalists: Schiff and Klobuchar
 Earlier Items: 
Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Dismisses Devin Nunes Aide's Lawsuit Against CNN
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
Washington Post:
As millions remain without power amid more snow and ice, blame and questions mount
Discussion: NPR, HuffPost and UPROXX
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
Bloomberg:
Texas Clamps Down on Out-of-State Gas Sales as Crisis Deepens
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

 
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