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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
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Prosecutors Investigating How Cuomo Administration Handled Covid-19 in Nursing Homes
Discussion: WTOP
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo Attacks a Fellow Democrat Over Nursing Home Criticism
Ben Domenech / New York Post:
Appreciation: Rush Limbaugh remade talk radio — and modern conservatism  —  For more than 30 years, Rush Limbaugh sat down and talked to Americans about America.  Across the country, in pickup trucks, roadside diners and quiet cubicles where his listeners were obliged to wear headphones lest they offend …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:   Simply the best: Why Rush Limbaugh was the GOAT of talk radio
Andrew Klavan / City Journal:   On the Ground … Rush's Monument  —  Let us all speak, and fearlessly.  —  Other
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Limbaugh obituaries show the mainstream media still fawning over the people who poisoned politics
Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Rush Limbaugh Spent His Lifetime Speaking Ill of the Dead
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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
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
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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  —  Life expectancy in the United States fell by a full year during the first half of 2020, a staggering decline that reflects the toll of the covid-19 pandemic as well as a rise in deaths from drug overdoses …
Discussion: The Week and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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 …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden-blessed immigration bill drops today — but even he's not sold
Discussion: Washington Post, Bloomberg and NBC News
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 …
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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.
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 …
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
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 …
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
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.
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 …
Hannah Lang / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Unemployment Claims Rise, Pausing Recent Downward Trend  —  Jobless claims—a proxy for layoffs—increased to 861,000 last week and remained above pre-pandemic peak  —  Worker applications for unemployment benefits rose to 861,000 last week, halting a downward trend that pointed …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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
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 …
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.
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, Mediaite and Insider
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.
Claudia Irizarry Aponte / THE CITY:
Brooklyn Council Member Cornegy Misused Office for Borough President Run, Complaint to Council Charges  —  Employees were asked for campaign work and contributions — both banned under ethics rules — a former staffer alleges.  The complaint also contends that Cornegy planned campaign activities with his top aide while on the job.
 
 
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Julia Duin / Politico:
The Christian Prophets Who Say Trump Is Coming Again
Discussion: Raw Story
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...
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
'There's No Natural Dignity in Work'
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
Capitol Police Investigate 2 GOP Lawmakers Over House Metal Detector Incidents
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
Discussion: Just Security
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
The Baltimore Sun was spared a hedge-fund owner. Now it will try to survive as a nonprofit.
Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Dismisses Devin Nunes Aide's Lawsuit Against CNN
Nikki R. Haley / Wall Street Journal:
The Media Tries to Divide Republicans
Discussion: Mediaite
The Daily Beast:
Trump Avoids Mentioning Dominion, Smartmatic During Right-Wing Media Whinefest
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
As millions remain without power amid more snow and ice, blame and questions mount
Discussion: NPR, Vanity Fair and HuffPost
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
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

 
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