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CNN:
First on CNN: Rep. Ronny Jackson made sexual comments, drank alcohol and took Ambien while working as White House physician, Pentagon watchdog finds — (CNN)The Department of Defense inspector general has issued a scathing review of Rep. Ronny Jackson during his time serving as the top White House physician …
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Washington Post:
White House withdraws Tanden nomination; Biden says U.S. will have enough vaccine doses for every adult by end of May — The White House withdrew the nomination of Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget on Tuesday evening, the first Cabinet-level defeat for the administration.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Tanden withdrawal absolves Murkowski of difficult decision
Tanden withdrawal absolves Murkowski of difficult decision
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Washington Post:
Biden to announce ‘historic partnership’: Merck will help make Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, officials say
Biden to announce ‘historic partnership’: Merck will help make Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, officials say
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Politico:
To tweet or not to tweet? That is the question. — Welcome to POLITICO's 2021 Transition Playbook …
To tweet or not to tweet? That is the question. — Welcome to POLITICO's 2021 Transition Playbook …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Murkowski never told White House she would oppose Tanden
Murkowski never told White House she would oppose Tanden
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Forty Days of Biden: Not so Centrist, Not so Competent
Forty Days of Biden: Not so Centrist, Not so Competent
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Washington Post, Patterico's Pontifications, Politico and Palmer Report
Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press:
Budget nominee Tanden withdraws nomination amid opposition
Budget nominee Tanden withdraws nomination amid opposition
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Clay Jones / The Moderate Voice:
GRAB 'EM BY THE CUOMO (Cartoon and Column) — Goddammit, Andrew Cuomo. Stop making me draw cartoons about you. — When I drew a cartoon on the scandal of Cuomo covering up the number of nursing home deaths from covid, liberals came at me. I got a lot of “but what about Trump?” and “you're drinking the Kool-Aid.”
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John Nolte / Breitbart:
Media's MeTooing of Andrew Cuomo Is Really About Protecting Four Democrat Governors
Media's MeTooing of Andrew Cuomo Is Really About Protecting Four Democrat Governors
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Instapundit
Bernadette Hogan / New York Post:
Andrew Cuomo was quick to tell others to resign over sex harass claims
Andrew Cuomo was quick to tell others to resign over sex harass claims
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HotAir, WCDC-TV, The Week and The Other McCain
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Cuomo Is Facing a Political Extinction Event
Cuomo Is Facing a Political Extinction Event
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WCDC-TV, New Republic and The Root
USA Today:
Mask restrictions lifted by governors in Texas, Mississippi; New Orleans calls J&J vaccine ‘morally compromised’: Live COVID-19 updates — John Bacon Elinor Aspegren Jorge L. OrtizUSA TODAY — Defying warnings from federal health officials about the need to stay vigilant against the coronavirus …
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Texas to end all coronavirus restrictions
Texas to end all coronavirus restrictions
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Dallas Morning News:
Gov. Greg Abbott says it is now time to open Texas 100%, end statewide mask mandate
Gov. Greg Abbott says it is now time to open Texas 100%, end statewide mask mandate
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Newsom blasts Abbott for removing Texas mask mandate: ‘Absolutely reckless’
Newsom blasts Abbott for removing Texas mask mandate: ‘Absolutely reckless’
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Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Alex Jones on Leaked Video: ‘I Wish I Never Met Trump’ — Before multimillionaire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones riled up Donald Trump's fans with lies about a stolen election, he privately expressed revulsion over the 45th president, a video leaked to Hatewatch reveals. — “It's the truth and I'm just going to say it.
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Why Fox News is having a day-long meltdown over Dr. Seuss — Biden didn't mention Dr. Seuss in his Read Across America Day statement. All hell broke loose from there. — Conservative media turned 2021's National Read Across America Day into an epic culture war meltdown.
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Robby Soave / Reason:
Dr. Seuss Is Canceled — The cancel culture bells have tolled for Dr. Seuss …
Dr. Seuss Is Canceled — The cancel culture bells have tolled for Dr. Seuss …
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pjmedia.com, Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, National File and alicublog
CNN:
John Roberts has another chance to diminish the Voting Rights Act — (CNN)Chief Justice John Roberts has singlehandedly slowed a conservative revolution at the Supreme Court in recent years, but he has for even longer — 40 years — opposed racial remedies and narrowly construed the landmark Voting Rights Act.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Seems Ready to Sustain Arizona Voting Limits
Supreme Court Seems Ready to Sustain Arizona Voting Limits
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Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair:
Republicans Are Taking a Sledgehammer to Voting Rights
Republicans Are Taking a Sledgehammer to Voting Rights
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Norman Ornstein / Washington Post:
Democrats can't kill the filibuster. But they can gut it. — Three reforms Manchin and Sinema might consider — Norman Ornstein, an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is a co-author of “One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate and the Not-Yet Deported.”
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Liberals on fire over failure on $15 minimum wage
Liberals on fire over failure on $15 minimum wage
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BizPac Review, HotAir and Twitchy
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Feds Arrest White Supremacist Livestreamer in Dawn Raid, Rattling Supporters — Paul N. Miller, who's amassed more than 40,000 followers on Telegram, was arrested in Florida early Tuesday. Some of his followers fear they could be next. — The FBI arrested a notorious white supremacist livestreamer …
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Washington Post:
FBI director says domestic terrorism ‘metastasizing’ throughout U.S. as cases soar — FBI Director Christopher A. Wray on Tuesday defended the bureau's handling of alarming intelligence leading up to the Jan. 6 mob attack on the U.S. Capitol, saying he has long warned about the rising tide …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
On Jan. 6 came the white supremacists. Now comes the whitewash.
On Jan. 6 came the white supremacists. Now comes the whitewash.
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Washington Examiner, emptywheel, IJR and Reuters
Washington Post:
Donors gave a House candidate more than $8 million. A single firm took nearly half of it. — U.S. House candidate Kim Klacik walked onto Mike Huckabee's cable talk show last August as the latest conservative celebrity, riding high on a viral campaign ad that had attracted 10 million views …
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Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Fox News Insiders Rage Against Hiring ‘Mini Goebbels’ Kayleigh McEnany — The network announced Tuesday that McEnany, a career liar, is now a paid contributor. Newsroom staffers, who've faced “purges” in recent months, are none too pleased. — Fox News officially announced on Tuesday …
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Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany joins Fox News
Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany joins Fox News
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The Wrap:
David Muir Clash With George Stephanopoulos Led to ABC News Chief Ouster (Exclusive) — Tension between ABC News morning anchor George Stephanopoulos and evening star David Muir over the anchor title led to the sudden exit of ABC News chief James Goldston in January, TheWrap has learned.
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John Keefe / New York Times:
Should Your School Be Fully Open? Here's What the C.D.C. Says — Only 4 percent of the nation's schoolchildren live in counties where coronavirus transmission is low enough for full-time in-person learning without additional restrictions, according to the guidelines established by the Centers …
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
Vernon Jordan made being a Black man in America look effortless — Senior critic-at-large — Vernon Jordan came from humble beginnings and grew up in a segregated America, yet he moved through the world in the manner of someone who owned it. He was a Black man who knew what it meant …
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NBC News:
D.C. police, FBI on alert ahead of QAnon's ‘true Inauguration Day’ — Law enforcement agencies around Washington, D.C., are adding extra security out of concern about a coming date — March 4, which is Thursday — that has swirled online among QAnon supporters.
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USA Today
Tom Burt / Microsoft On the Issues:
New nation-state cyberattacks — Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust — Today, we're sharing information about a state-sponsored threat actor identified by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) that we are calling Hafnium.
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Robert Frank / CNBC:
Jeff Bezos would pay over $5 billion a year under Warren's wealth tax — Jeff Bezos would owe $5.7 billion in taxes for 2020 under the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act proposed by a group of Senate and House Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday.
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Sonia Moghe / CNN:
NYC Bar Association joins push to have Giuliani investigated to be disbarred — Hear Giuliani's response to disclaimer running before his radio show — New York (CNN)The New York City Bar Association added its name to the list of groups urging the state court committee that recommends whether …
Meg O'Connor / The Appeal:
Tishaura Jones and Cara Spencer Win St. Louis Mayoral Primary — The two candidates will move on to the April 6 general election after securing the most votes under the city's new approval voting system. — City Treasurer Tishaura Jones and Alderperson Cara Spencer have secured the most votes …
Washington Post:
When U.S. blamed Saudi crown prince for role in Khashoggi killing, fake Twitter accounts went to war — Platform closed thousands of accounts amid online influence campaign to dispute report on assassination — Saudi-based Twitter accounts using fake profile pictures …
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Sam Stein / Politico:
The GOP is the party of half-Trump — Presented by The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) — With help from Daniel Payne, Renuka Rayasam and Myah Ward — BREAKING — President Joe Biden is withdrawing Neera Tanden's nomination to be his budget director …
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New York Times, Fox News, CNN and Newsweek
Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Trump Administration Referred a Record Number of Leaks for Criminal Investigation … The Trump administration referred a record number of classified leaks for criminal investigation, totaling at least 334, according to a Justice Department document obtained by The Intercept under the Freedom of Information Act.
Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal:
Bringing New Money-Laundering Law Into Force Falls to Tiny Treasury Unit — Among other things, FinCEN will have to create a registry of owners of anonymous shell companies, a task that will require a revamp of its creaky technology — Over the next year, a small, relatively obscure bureau …
Baltimore Sun:
Hogan doubles down on Baltimore COVID vaccine comments as data reveals most city doses going to non-city residents — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan doubled down Tuesday on his comment last week that Baltimore received more COVID-19 vaccines than it was “entitled to,” though data released this week …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House fight for Trump's financial records poised to stretch into the summer — Congressional investigators fighting to access former President Donald Trump's financial records are planning for a lengthy battle that stretches deep into 2021, according to a proposed legal schedule unveiled by House counsel Doug Letter on Tuesday.