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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 …
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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 …
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 …
Associated Press:
AP source: Sen. Cruz went to Mexico on vacation amid storm — DALLAS (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has traveled to Mexico for a family vacation as his home state struggles with a weather crisis that has left much of Texas without power. — The high-profile Republican lawmaker went with his family …
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Talking Points Memo and CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
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 …
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Mock Paper Scissors, The Daily Caller, LGBTQ Nation, Mediaite and Crooks and Liars
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.
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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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Instapundit and Media Matters for America
Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
It's time to bury the myth of Texas exceptionalism
It's time to bury the myth of Texas exceptionalism
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The Nation, Bloomberg, The Hill, The Federalist and Raw Story
CNN:
Cruz travels to Cancun, Mexico, as millions of Texans remain without power amid historic winter storm
Cruz travels to Cancun, Mexico, as millions of Texans remain without power amid historic winter storm
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The Hill and New York Times
Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal:
In Frigid Texas, Desperate Families Take Risks to Stay Warm
In Frigid Texas, Desperate Families Take Risks to Stay Warm
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 …
Erin Durkin / Politico:
De Blasio rips ‘bullying’ Cuomo over nursing home controversy
De Blasio rips ‘bullying’ Cuomo over nursing home controversy
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Washington Examiner, POLITICUSUSA and Sean Hannity
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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Slate and Outside the Beltway
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Marilynn Marchione / Associated Press:
US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII
US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Forbes and Hackwhackers
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
Pandemic cut U.S. life expectancy by a year during the first half of 2020
Pandemic cut U.S. life expectancy by a year during the first half of 2020
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NBC News, The Week and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Life Expectancy Fell in First Half of 2020 as Covid-19 Deaths Surged
U.S. Life Expectancy Fell in First Half of 2020 as Covid-19 Deaths Surged
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National Review
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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Live Updates: Biden's Immigration Plan to Be Introduced in House
Live Updates: Biden's Immigration Plan to Be Introduced in House
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Politico, The Western Journal and National Review
Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press:
Biden and congressional Democrats to unveil immigration bill
Biden and congressional Democrats to unveil immigration bill
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Wall Street Journal, Fox News, HotAir, Reason, Townhall, USA Today, NBC News, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and The Hill
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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Ben Domenech / New York Post:
Appreciation: Rush Limbaugh remade talk radio — and modern conservatism
Appreciation: Rush Limbaugh remade talk radio — and modern conservatism
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Politico, House Republican Leader and Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Rush Limbaugh's Legacy of Weaponizing Radio Commentary
Rush Limbaugh's Legacy of Weaponizing Radio Commentary
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UPROXX, New Republic, Mediaite, Slate and Mother Jones
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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New York Times:
McConnell's Strategy Has Party in Turmoil and Trump on Attack
McConnell's Strategy Has Party in Turmoil and Trump on Attack
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Courier-Journal, Wall Street Journal, Newsbusters, Big League Politics, TheBlaze and Political Wire
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 …
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The Wrap, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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.
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Raw Story, Associated Press, ABC News, Los Angeles Times and Political Wire
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.
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Raw Story
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 …
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National Review and Washington Examiner
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Bob Dole announces stage four lung cancer diagnosis — Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has been diagnosed with lung cancer. — The 97-year-old Republican, a war hero who ran unsuccessfully as the 1996 Republican presidential nominee, announced he was “recently” …
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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 …
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 …
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Nearly 5,000 National Guard troops to stay in DC over concerns of potential violence in March — Thousands of National Guard troops will remain in Washington, D.C., in early March amid concerns over followers of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory, some of whom hold out hope former President Trump will be returned to office March 4.
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CNN
Mara Hvistendahl / The Intercept:
How Oracle Sells Repression in China … Police in China's Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means: financial records, travel information, vehicle registrations, social media, and surveillance camera footage. To make sense of it all, they needed sophisticated analytic software.
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,” …
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Associated Press
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 …
Yue Stella Yu / The Tennessean:
Tennessee bill would grant fathers veto power over abortion, allow establishment of paternity without a woman's consent — In an effort to further restrict abortion in Tennessee, two Tennessee lawmakers have introduced legislation that would allow a father to deny an abortion without the pregnant woman's consent.
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POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Caller and CNN
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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Associated Press, Washington Times and Fox 8 Cleveland Closings …
Associated Press:
Thousands of service members saying no to Covid vaccine — WASHINGTON — By the thousands, U.S. service members are refusing or putting off the Covid-19 vaccine as frustrated commanders scramble to knock down internet rumors and find the right pitch that will persuade troops to get the shot.
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