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Manhattan DA Gets Trump's Tax Returns — Manhattan's District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. now has possession of the tax records of former President Donald Trump. — The records from 2011-2018 arrived at the DA's office as a result of the Supreme Court refusing to intervene in the DA's subpoena for the documents.
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Trump's tax returns and related records turned over to Manhattan district attorney — (CNN)Tax records that former President Donald Trump tried to keep secret for years are now in the hands of the New York district attorney. — Prosecutors obtained the records on Monday, according to a source …
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Washington Post:
Trump's tax returns have been turned over to Manhattan district attorney
Trump's tax returns have been turned over to Manhattan district attorney
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New York Times, Daily Kos and Above the Law
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Trump plots future — and revenge — from sunny Florida links
Trump plots future — and revenge — from sunny Florida links
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Raw Story
Erica Werner / Washington Post:
Minimum wage increase imperiled in covid relief bill by Senate official's ruling — Parliamentarian says the $15 hourly minimum wage, a liberal priority, not allowed in relief bill under Senate rules — President Biden's proposed $15-an-hour minimum wage increase cannot remain …
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Minimum wage hike runs aground in Senate during Covid aid debate — Democrats for weeks have argued that the minimum wage hike could be included in the package through the so-called reconciliation process. — The ruling is a major blow to Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and progressives.
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Washington Examiner and Mediaite
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
Costco raises its minimum wage above rivals like Amazon, Target and Best Buy
Costco raises its minimum wage above rivals like Amazon, Target and Best Buy
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Daniel Villarreal / Newsweek:
Sen. John Thune, Opposing $15 Min Wage, Says He Earned $6 As a Kid—That's $24 With Inflation
Sen. John Thune, Opposing $15 Min Wage, Says He Earned $6 As a Kid—That's $24 With Inflation
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New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and Mock Paper Scissors
Alina Selyukh / NPR:
Costco To Raise Minimum Wage To $16 An Hour: 'This Isn't Altruism'
Costco To Raise Minimum Wage To $16 An Hour: 'This Isn't Altruism'
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The Hill, Daily Kos, Al Jazeera, CBS News and The Daily Caller
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets — It's also planning a groups feature — Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge their followers for access to additional content, and the ability to create and join groups based around specific interests.
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Ann Logue / Yahoo Finance:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Final Financial Disclosures Show Where They Made Their Money — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have filed their final financial disclosure forms (known as OGE 278e), covering their non-governmental income for 2020 and the first few weeks of 2021.
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POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and The Intellectualist
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Capitol Police chief: Security will remain high due to State of the Union threat — The Capitol Police is keeping its security posture high in response to intelligence that indicates some extremists who joined the Jan. 6 insurrection have discussed plans to attack the building during the State of the Union …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Capitol law enforcement heads to detail intelligence failures leading up to Jan. 6 riot
Capitol law enforcement heads to detail intelligence failures leading up to Jan. 6 riot
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Capitol Police head cites Biden speech threat for keeping security high
Capitol Police head cites Biden speech threat for keeping security high
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RedState and The Intellectualist
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Kennedy: I'm sorry for calling Haaland a ‘whack job’ — Sen. John Kennedy apologized on Thursday for calling President Joe Biden's Interior Department nominee, Deb Haaland, a “whack job.” — The Louisiana Republican said he regretted the remark about Haaland, explaining that he was searching …
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The Hill, The Daily Caller, Washington Post and Power Line
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House votes to pass Equality Act, prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity — The House on Thursday voted to pass the Equality Act, a far-reaching measure that has been decades in the making and would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
House passes Equality Act to boost LGBTQ protections
House passes Equality Act to boost LGBTQ protections
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted for attacking colleague's transgender daughter: ‘Sickening, pathetic, unimaginably cruel’
Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted for attacking colleague's transgender daughter: ‘Sickening, pathetic, unimaginably cruel’
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Washington Post:
Biden's chief of staff at center of controversy over White House budget pick — White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain has adamantly defended Neera Tanden, both in public and internally — White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is at the center of the controversy over President Biden's choice …
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
A Capitol rioter texted his ex during the insurrection to call her a ‘moron,’ feds say. She turned him in. — Standing on the Capitol steps on Jan. 6, Richard Michetti allegedly took a break from the rioting to argue with his ex-girlfriend over text message.
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Liat Kaplan / New York Times:
My Year of Grief and Cancellation — What was I trying to accomplish with my anonymous Tumblr? — If you were on Tumblr in the early 2010s, you may remember a blog called Your Fave Is Problematic. If not, its content should still sound familiar to you.
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Chip Roy Is A Cowardly Goldfish — Butching up with MAGA by condemning people who hold the same position you did six weeks ago. — Here's a take on Donald Trump that sounds like something you might've read here in The Bulwark or heard on MSNBC: … Hard to argue with, right?
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Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
Conservatives go after Cheney for Trump CPAC remarks
Conservatives go after Cheney for Trump CPAC remarks
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Andrew Kaczynski / Washington Post:
My baby daughter died of brain cancer. Here's what we can do to save other kids. — Opinion by Andrew Kaczynski — Andrew Kaczynski is an investigative reporter and founder of CNN's KFile Team. — It was a beautiful September day that began with a long, relaxing walk across Brooklyn …
wusa9.com:
Dozens of Capitol rioters have been granted public defenders. Their trials could cost us millions — The majority of suspects in the January 6 insurrection could wind up with court-appointed attorneys. That's the cost of our justice system, experts say.
Washington Post:
Ex-Olympic gymnastics coach dies by suicide hours after being charged with human trafficking, sex crimes — Former U.S. Olympic gymnastics coach John Geddert, who led the women's team to a gold medal in the 2012 Olympics, killed himself Thursday after he was charged with sexual assault …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“You've Made the Post Swashbuckling Once Again”: Marty Baron Receives a Star-Studded Farewell and Dishes in a Wide-Ranging Exit Interview — Stars from Hollywood (Spielberg, Schreiber) and the news biz (Baquet, Blitzer) toasted the legendary editor, who recalls angry calls from Trump …
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Republican Senators Haven't Represented a Majority of Voters Since 1996 — As we wait for the Senate parliamentarian to let us know if 41 senators will be able to block a minimum wage increase that a comfortable majority of Americans supports, it's as good a time as any to be reminded …
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Nursing Homes, Once Hotspots, Far Outpace U.S. in Covid Declines — 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 120% of weekly deaths compared with start of vaccinations July Sept. Nov. Jan. 2021 Feb. 7Vaccinationrollout begins — Deaths among nursing home residents have dropped significantly since vaccinations began.
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The Atlantic, HotAir, Forbes, KYMA-TV and KFF
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The GOP is not even trying to disguise its racism anymore — This week, Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) played up White victim mentality during the confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Merrick Garland. Kennedy took issue with Garland's use of the term “implicit bias,” …
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Raw Story, EXPOSEDbyCMD and Forbes
Harriet Alexander / Daily Mail:
Student was not victim of racism for ‘eating while black’ at $80k Smith College and made up details that ruined the lives of four campus workers and led to controversial anti-bias training that employee resigned over — Oumou Kanoute claimed she was targeted in July 2018 for ‘eating while black’
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John McCormack / National Review:
Sasse Blasts Becerra: ‘Hell of a Lot More Dangerous Than Tanden’ — While Democratic senator Joe Manchin and most moderate GOP senators are opposing the nomination of Neera Tanden to serve as Joe Biden's OMB director because of insulting tweets she posted about various senators …
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Maura Judkis / Washington Post:
The joy of vax: The people giving the shots are seeing hope, and it's contagious — The happiest place in medicine right now is a basketball arena in New Mexico. Or maybe it's the parking lot of a baseball stadium in Los Angeles, or a Six Flags in Maryland, or a shopping mall in South Dakota.
Alex Paterson / Media Matters for America:
Sen. Rand Paul parrots right-wing media lies about trans youth during Dr. Rachel Levine's confirmation hearing — Paul lied that kids are undergoing “genital mutilation” and cited junk science from discredited anti-LGBTQ group American College of Pediatricians
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ABC News, VICE, National Review, PinkNews and LGBTQ Nation
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Biden stood up for Jamal Khashoggi. What happened to him should never happen again. — President Biden has decided to “name and shame” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, by disclosing a CIA report that says the crown prince knew about and probably ordered the operation that killed Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
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NBC News:
Lawyers have found the parents of 105 separated migrant children in past month … WASHINGTON — The lawyers working to reunite immigrant parents and children separated by the Trump administration reported Wednesday that they have found the parents of 105 children in the past month.
Maria Langholz / Demand Progress:
Demand Progress and Revolving Door Project Release Personnel Report Card on the Biden Administration's Appointments (So Far) — For Immediate Release — After four years of Donald Trump deploying the government to serve powerful corporations - at the expense of everyday Americans …
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Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, CBS New York and Crooked Media