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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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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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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
FDA staff endorses Johnson & Johnson's single-shot Covid vaccine for emergency use
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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 — I've worked for and with powerful men in and around politics my whole life. From Mississippi, where I grew up, to Washington and New York, I've been a woman in a field where power and ambition drive both sexes …
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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 and Sean Hannity
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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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The people concerned about Neera Tanden's incivility sure didn't seem to mind the Trump era's
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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
1 in 6 Gen Z adults are LGBT. And this number could continue to grow. — Jasper Swartz recently realized that nearly all of their friends are “queer in some way.” — They were 8 years old when same-sex marriage became legal in Maryland, about 12 when they realized they were attracted …
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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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Mary Grace Granados / Dallas Morning News:
Oak Cliff party store has a new political piñata depicting Ted Cruz on his way to Cancún — ABC Party is known for its timely piñatas and humorous take on trends. — ABC Party has added a new political piñata to its display on West Davis Street in Oak Cliff …
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Holley Ford / NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
Sen. Ted Cruz Piñatas Created at Dallas Party Store
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David Siders / Politico:
Texas disaster puts Beto O'Rourke back in business
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El Paso Times and HuffPost
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
It wasn't an ‘intelligence failure’ that left the Capitol Police unprepared - it was racism — Steven Sund, the disgraced former chief of the Capitol Police Department, was explicitly warned in a Jan. 3 memo from his own intelligence unit that thousands of desperate, violence-prone Trump supporters …
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Politico:
What we know — and still don't — as Congress starts its Jan. 6 investigation
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: What senators still want to know about Jan. 6 attack from defense and FBI leaders
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New York Times, Raw Story, Politico and Wall Street Journal
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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Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Says Trump Would Likely Win 2024 GOP Nom: ‘He Has By Far The Largest Voice’
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Washington Examiner, USA Today, NBC News and The Federalist
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, CNN and NBC New York
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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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The Hill, Foreign Policy, Middle East Monitor, Al Jazeera and The New Arab
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.
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, Political Wire and The Intellectualist
Walter Olson / The Dispatch:
House Democrats Go Fox Hunting — There is no ‘fake news’ exception to the First Amendment. — 4 hr ago — When elected officials browbeat the executives of regulated telecom, video, and app companies trying to get them to drop the main news channel of the political opposition …
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TK News, Liberty Unyielding and Instapundit
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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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Argus Leader:
‘His face was in your windshield, Jason.’ Ravnsborg videos provide more details about fatal crash — Danielle Ferguson Joe Sneve Jonathan EllisSioux Falls Argus Leader … North Dakota investigators were skeptical that South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg didn't know he had struck …
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.
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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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
New York Times Calls for Workplace Changes in Diversity Report — “The Times is a difficult environment for many of our colleagues,” the report found. People of color described “unsettling and sometimes painful day-to-day workplace experiences.” — Top executives at The New York Times …
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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 …
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Texas Electric Bills Were $28 Billion Higher Under Deregulation — Competition in the electricity-supply business promised reliable power at a more affordable cost — Texas's deregulated electricity market, which was supposed to provide reliable power at a lower price, left millions in the dark last week.
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The Hill and Kevin Drum
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
‘Keep the schools shut’: Teachers rage against the machine — ROCKVILLE, Maryland — “Enough is enough,” declared Jeremy Levine, a featured speaker at the teachers union rally. “You will not sacrifice our lives, disrupt our communities, and endanger our students, for what? Test scores?
Sarah McCammon / NPR:
Evangelical Leaders Condemn ‘Radicalized Christian Nationalism’ — A coalition of evangelical Christian leaders is condemning the role of “radicalized Christian nationalism” in feeding the political extremism that led to the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by supporters of former President Trump.
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The Guardian and Raw Story
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. and Israel to convene strategic forum on Iran — The United States and Israel have elected to reconvene a strategic working group on Iran, with the first round of talks on intelligence surrounding the Iranian nuclear program expected in the coming days, Axios has learned.
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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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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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, Insider and Partnership for New York City
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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