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New York Times:
New analyses show Johnson & Johnson's one-dose vaccine works well. — Johnson and Johnson's vaccine has a lower efficacy rate than the vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, which are both around 95 percent. … But in South Africa, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is so far the clear winner.
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Washington Post:
FDA review confirms safety and efficacy of single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, especially against severe cases — A Food and Drug Administration review released Wednesday of the single-shot coronavirus vaccine made by pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson found it was safe …
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Fox News
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
FDA staff endorses Johnson & Johnson's single-shot Covid vaccine for emergency use — The FDA's staff endorsed Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, a critical step in bringing a third shot to the U.S. marketplace. — The staff report is meant to brief the FDA's Vaccines …
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Bloomberg, The Guardian, Denver Post, Orange County Register, IJR, Cyprus Mail, STAT and New York Post
Sarah Owermohle / Politico:
FDA confirms J&J vaccine is safe and effective — Johnson & Johnson's single-dose Covid-19 vaccine appears safe and effective, particularly against severe disease, though questions remain about how well it works in older people, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
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Washington Examiner, CBS News, ABC News, The Hill, National Review and UPI
Sarah Mucha / Axios:
Scoop: Senate committee postpones hearing for imperiled Tanden — The Senate Homeland Security Committee is postponing a confirmation hearing scheduled Wednesday for Neera Tanden, Axios has learned, a potential death knell for President Biden's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
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USA Today, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Washington Post, Breitbart, Talking Points Memo, ABC News and Raw Story
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Politico:
How the White House botched the Neera Tanden nomination — Just about everyone in Washington, D.C., could see that Neera Tanden's nomination to head the Office of Management and Budget was beleaguered from the beginning — everyone, that is, except the White House.
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CNN, HotAir, Washington Times, Bangor Daily News and Washington Post
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The people concerned about Neera Tanden's incivility sure didn't seem to mind the Trump era's
The people concerned about Neera Tanden's incivility sure didn't seem to mind the Trump era's
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The American Independent, Althouse, Roll Call, CNN, Forbes, HuffPost, Raw Story, Vanity Fair and The Daily Caller
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The opposition to confirming Neera Tanden is based on a lie
The opposition to confirming Neera Tanden is based on a lie
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Vox and The Intellectualist
Alex Pareene / New Republic:
The Andrew Cuomo Show Has Lost the Plot — Halfway through a recent New York Times story about Governor Andrew Cuomo's long (but perhaps not widely known) history of governance-by-bullying, an ally tried to defend his signature political style. He didn't say that Cuomo's behavior was ethical, or reasonable, or even responsible.
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YouGov, Washington Examiner, Sean Hannity and IJR
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Karen Hinton / New York Daily News:
How to counter penis politics: What it's like to work for Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Progressives see N.Y. AG as potential Cuomo challenger
Janice Dean / Newsweek:
My In-Laws Died in a Nursing Home. I Took on Cuomo in Their Names
My In-Laws Died in a Nursing Home. I Took on Cuomo in Their Names
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HotAir, Gothamist, Breitbart and New York Post
Politico:
What we know — and still don't — as Congress starts its Jan. 6 investigation — Congress is taking its first steps toward a potentially massive investigation into the failures that contributed to the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. But its initial foray only underscored how little lawmakers …
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Washington Post and CBS News
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
It wasn't an ‘intelligence failure’ that left the Capitol Police unprepared - it was racism
It wasn't an ‘intelligence failure’ that left the Capitol Police unprepared - it was racism
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BizPac Review, The Intellectualist, CNN, The Week and Becker News
NBC News:
Retired NYPD cop charged in Capitol riot, accused of attacking officer with flagpole — A retired New York police officer faces charges for participating in the U.S. Capitol riot last month, accused of having attacked a Capitol Police officer. — Federal prosecutors alleged Tuesday in court that the man …
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New Republic, The Week, CNBC and Raw Story
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The Daily Beast:
NY Prosecutors Are Looking at Don Jr. in Trump Biz Probe — The Daily Beast has learned that investigators have been asking questions in recent days about Trump's eldest son as they expand their criminal probe into Trump's business empire. … For months, some of Donald Trump's top advisers …
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Insider, New York Times, Raw Story, Palmer Report and Political Wire
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: 9/11 Commission leaders issue a warning to Pelosi — DRIVING THE DAY — When Republican TOM KEAN became head of the 9/11 Commission, he got a call from TIM RUSSERT asking him to come on “Meet the Press.” Kean said he'd only appear if his Democratic counterpart on the commission, LEE HAMILTON, were invited too.
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Washington Post, Just Security, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Federalist and Morning Consult
Rachel Lerman / Washington Post:
Major Trump backer Rebekah Mercer orchestrates Parler's second act — Mercer, whose family also invested in right-wing news site Breitbart, controls two of the three board seats at the company — When social media website Parler's founding CEO John Matze was pushed out last month …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden will call Saudi king ahead of damning report — President Biden plans to call Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday, ahead of the public release of a potentially damning intelligence report about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a source briefed on the call told Axios.
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Foreign Policy, Middle East Monitor, Al Jazeera and The New Arab
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
One America News clashes again with White House correspondents over Trump-approved camera tent — One America News, the upstart right-wing cable channel that was granted special status by the Trump White House, is clashing again with its mainstream colleagues on the presidential beat.
Washington Post:
Life amid the ruins of QAnon: ‘I wanted my family back’ — An epidemic of conspiracy theories, fanned by social media and self-serving politicians, is tearing families apart. … She bought ammunition, camping gear, a water purifier and boxes of canned food.
Politico:
Stephen Miller set to brief House conservatives — Donald Trump and his allies are putting President Joe Biden's sweeping immigration overhaul in their crosshairs. — The main salvo will be delivered this weekend when Trump is set to address the Conservative Political Action Conference and devote part of his speech to the topic.
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Big League Politics, CNN, Breitbart, Forbes and TheBlaze
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Pence speaks highly of Trump in meeting and plans to launch a political group
Pence speaks highly of Trump in meeting and plans to launch a political group
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National Review, Talking Points Memo, The Hill and Political Wire
Des Moines Register:
It violates free press rights to bring to trial a Des Moines Register reporter arrested while covering a protest — Editorial: The pending charges against a Register reporter who was arrested while covering a social justice protest last spring are a clear infringement on the freedom of the press.
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
A Simple Rule of Thumb for Knowing When the Pandemic Is Over — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — In the middle of January, the deadliest month of the pandemic, one day after inauguration …
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HuffPost and MarketWatch
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
LGBT Identification Rises to 5.6% in Latest U.S. Estimate — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gallup's latest update on lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender identification finds 5.6% of U.S. adults identifying as LGBT. The current estimate is up from 4.5% in Gallup's previous update based on 2017 data.
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USA Today, Washington Examiner, The Hill, The 19th, NBC News and National Review
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Romney predicts Trump would win the 2024 G.O.P. nomination if he ran for president. — Senator Mitt Romney of Utah said on Tuesday that he believed Donald J. Trump would win the Republican nomination for president if he ran for his former office in 2024, another indication of Mr. Trump's perceived strength in the party.
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Washington Examiner, NBC News, Politico, CBS News, HuffPost, Bloomberg, TheBlaze, National Review, IJR, The Hill, Washington Times and New York Post
Mitt Romney / Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Stimulus Bill Is a $1.9 Trillion Clunker — Senate Republicans are eager to get aid where it's needed, reopen schools and encourage work. — Democrats are anxious for any excuse to blow up the Senate filibuster, the last procedural hurdle to one-party government.
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Insider, Deseret News and Fox News
Washington Free Beacon:
Lincoln Project Received $32 Million in Free Media from CNN, MSNBC Since Weaver Scandal Broke — Allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior against Lincoln Project cofounder John Weaver were first reported in the American Conservative on Jan. 11. Since then, the embattled super PAC …
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Salon
Phil Mattingly / CNN:
First on CNN: Biden's Covid plan gets backing from more than 150 top business leaders — What Biden said he would do for the Covid-19 economy — (CNN)More than 150 senior executives from some of the largest American companies across several major industries have lined …
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The Hill, Partnership for New York City and Insider
Johnny Diaz / New York Times:
Arizona Man Is Accused of Faking Own Kidnapping to Evade Work — When the police arrived, they found the man with his hands bound behind his back by a belt and a bandanna “stuffed in his mouth” in Coolidge, Ariz. — The authorities in Arizona accused a man of going to extreme lengths …
John Gizzi / Newsmax:
Will Ex-Sen. Perdue's Exit Mean Sen. Herschel Walker, R-Ga.? — Not since Aug. 20, 1956, when former Sen. Millard Tydings, D-Md., suddenly withdrew from a bid for the seat he lost six years earlier, has the abandonment of a former U.S. senator from a comeback campaign had such an impact …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Joel Kotkin / The American Mind:
Economic Civil War — Inside the bitter battle over America's new geography. — Our national divide is usually cast in terms of ideology, race, climate, and gender. But it might be more accurate to see our national conflict as regional and riven by economic function.
David Siders / Politico:
Texas disaster puts Beto O'Rourke back in business — While Ted Cruz was getting clobbered for fleeing Texas amid its historic winter storm, the Democrat he defeated in 2018, Beto O'Rourke, was already deep into disaster relief mode — soliciting donations for storm victims …
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El Paso Times and HuffPost
NBC News:
Democrats' biggest gains from 2008-2020 came in these Georgia counties — WASHINGTON — When former Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., announced this week that he will pass on a 2022 Senate comeback bid, he went out of his way to suggest that Georgia “is not a blue state.”
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New York Times and HotAir
CBS News:
Federal judge indefinitely blocks Biden administration's 100-day moratorium on most deportations — Houston — A federal judge late Tuesday indefinitely banned President Joe Biden's administration from enforcing a 100-day moratorium on most deportations. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton issued …
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Politico, HotAir, CNN, Washington Times, New York Times, Mother Jones, Forbes and Fox News
ProPublica:
Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company's Business — Amid a 2018 Turkish military campaign, Facebook ultimately sided with Turkey's demand to block the page of a mostly Kurdish militia. “I am fine with this,” Sandberg wrote.
Steven Lemongello / Orlando Sentinel:
Buckley would weep at the CPAC circus coming to Orlando … If the political descendants of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan and Antonin Scalia were coming to town, that would be exciting. — But that's not what CPAC is bringing to Orlando starting Thursday.
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ABC News, The American Independent and TheBlaze
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Conservatives use new tack to target voting machines — Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) joined a group of conservatives last week at a training session for activists readying to combat the continued use of the voting technology that propelled Trumpworld's 2020 election-theft conspiracy theories.
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Raw Story
Patrick Wilson / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
State GOP leaders opt for drive-up convention at Liberty University to nominate candidates — After months of disagreement, the Virginia Republican Party's governing body agreed Tuesday night on a method to nominate statewide candidates for the November election.
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Virginia Mercury and Twitchy