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New York Times:
Cuomo Accused of Unwanted Advance at a Wedding: ‘Can I Kiss You?’ — The young woman's account follows two separate accusations that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed two female state employees. — Anna Ruch had never met Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo before encountering him at a crowded New York City wedding reception in September 2019.
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Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Andrew Cuomo Was a ‘Resistance’ Icon. Now There's ‘Blood in the Water’
Andrew Cuomo Was a ‘Resistance’ Icon. Now There's ‘Blood in the Water’
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Cuomo backers pause and reevaluate fundraising as he faces sexual harassment probe
Cuomo backers pause and reevaluate fundraising as he faces sexual harassment probe
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Washington Post:
Biden to announce ‘historic partnership’: Merck will help make Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, officials say — The administration brokered the arrangement amid concerns about Johnson & Johnson's production delays — President Biden will announce Tuesday that pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co …
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New York Times:
Prosecutors Investigating Trump Focus on His Finance Chief — Manhattan district attorney investigators who are examining possible financial fraud have asked witnesses about Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer at the Trump Organization. — State prosecutors in Manhattan …
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Suzanne Rowan Kelleher / Forbes:
How A Nazi Symbol At CPAC Turned Into A Massive Hyatt Public Relations Disaster — In a highly unusual step for a major hotel group, Hyatt felt compelled to issue multiple news releases rejecting Nazi symbolism after a politically charged conference was held in one of its hotels.
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Mr. Thomas J. Pritzker / ACU:
A Response to Hyatt Hotels: We Will Not Be Canceled
A Response to Hyatt Hotels: We Will Not Be Canceled
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BizPac Review, HotAir, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Hyatt Newsroom
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
McConnell asks the Supreme Court to obliterate the Voting Rights Act — There is an avalanche of new voting restrictions being imposed by Republican legislators across the country. When Popular Information covered this issue in February, the Brennan Center had identified 165 bills to restrict voting rights across 33 states.
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David H. Gans / Slate:
SCOTUS Will Consider Another Way to Gut the Voting Rights Act
SCOTUS Will Consider Another Way to Gut the Voting Rights Act
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Marie Fazio / New York Times:
Frontier Cancels Flight, Citing Maskless Passengers — The airline's treatment of the passengers, all Orthodox Jews, drew condemnation and accusations of anti-Semitism from Jewish groups. — A Frontier Airlines flight from Miami to La Guardia Airport in New York was canceled on Sunday night …
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Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Variant Found in Brazil Can Cause Reinfection, Study Shows — Some who had immunity from previous bouts of the coronavirus contracted it again as the P.1 variant spread in the Amazonian city of Manaus. And one Arizona county has opened vaccines to all residents.
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BizPac Review and Fox News
Washington Post:
Inside the Biden team's deliberations over punishing the Saudi crown prince — Even before President Biden took office, his top advisers began examining how to make good on his campaign promise to treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah” for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi without …
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Peter Beinart / The Beinart Notebook:
Want to Fight “Cancel Culture?” Start with the Israel Debate — The theme of this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was “uncancel America.” But when news broke that one of the speakers, a hip hop artist named Young Pharoah, had called Judaism “a complete lie,” CPAC cancelled him.
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Melissa Weiss / Jewish Insider:
Biden admin ‘enthusiastically embraces’ full IHRA definition of antisemitism
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Majority says cancel culture poses ‘threat to freedom’
Majority says cancel culture poses ‘threat to freedom’
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Breitbart
Mark Pratt / Associated Press:
6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published for racist images — BOSTON (AP) — Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author's legacy said Tuesday.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
David Muir's new role at ABC News leads to drama with George Stephanopoulos and a visit from Bob Iger — New York (CNN Business)Earlier this year tensions between ABC News anchors George Stephanopoulos and David Muir boiled over to the point that Stephanopoulos threatened to walk to a rival network …
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
U.S. announces sanctions on Russia over poisoning and jailing of opposition leader Navalny — The Biden administration on Tuesday announced punitive sanctions on senior Russian government figures over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and reiterated a demand that Navalny be released from detention.
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Politico, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Raw Story and KYMA-TV
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
A Capitol rioter said he posed as ‘Antifa,’ feds say, then boasted he beat police who ‘got exactly what they deserved’ — The day before a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, William Robert Norwood III texted a group of friends and family to boast that he had traveled to D.C. with a plan to fool the police.
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Christian Boone / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Fulton DA's investigation into Trump heads to grand jury — Fulton County prosecutors are expected to appear before a grand jury this week seeking subpoenas for documents and witnesses related to their investigation of former President Donald Trump and some of his top associates for possible election fraud …
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Mediaite and Political Wire
Sergiu Klainerman / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
There Is No Such Thing as “White” Math — I naively believed that STEM would be spared from the ideological takeover. I was wrong, says Princeton professor Sergiu Klainerman. — 6 hr ago … In my position as a professor of mathematics at Princeton, I have witnessed the decline …
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ABC News:
FBI director testifies for first time since Capitol assault — An expected focus is whether the FBI adequately shared intelligence beforehand. — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. — Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images, FILE — FBI Director Christopher Wray will testify …
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Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times:
New lawsuit alleges L.A., Santa Monica, Beverly Hills used curfews to crush legitimate protest — More than 40 people arrested in Los Angeles County for curfew violations during last summer's mass protests have alleged in a new lawsuit that the curfews were an unconstitutional and coordinated tactic …
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Breitbart and CBS Los Angeles
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Navarro penned 15-page memo falsely accusing Coates of being Anonymous — Former President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro penned a 15-page dossier falsely accusing his colleague Victoria Coates of being Anonymous, according to a copy of the document that was obtained by POLITICO …
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Raw Story
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Trumpism Grips a Post-Policy G.O.P. as Traditional Conservatism Fades — Despite falling from power in Washington, the Republican Party has done little soul-searching or reflection on a new agenda, instead focusing on attacking Democrats and the news media.
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Bloomberg, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Alexandra Garrett / Newsweek:
Ted Cruz's Approval Rating Sees Double-Digit Decline Following Cancun Fiasco: Poll — Texas Senator Ted Cruz's approval rating saw a significant decline following his Cancun trip fiasco in February, according to a Monday Morning Consult poll released Monday.
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Rachel Cohrs / STAT:
The Trump administration quietly spent billions in hospital funds on Operation Warp Speed — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration quietly took around $10 billion from a fund meant to help hospitals and health care providers affected by Covid-19 and used the money to bankroll Operation Warp Speed contracts …
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
20-Year-Old MAGA Pol's War on Antifa Backfires Horribly — A Turning Point USA alum and Trump diehard-turned-state rep. has a new project. But even his fellow Republicans have doubts. — Chaos. Incivility. Lack of respect for authority. — Those are the things …
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Raw Story and The Western Journal
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Fauci: U.S. must stick with two-shot strategy for Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna vaccines — Delaying a second dose to inoculate more Americans creates risks, infectious-disease expert says — The government's top infectious-disease expert on Monday reiterated that the United States will stick …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP is now just the party of white grievance — One of the poisonous legacies of Donald Trump's presidency has been to expand the boundaries of expressible prejudice. Through the explicit practice of White-identity politics, Trump has obviated the need for code words and dog whistles.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Fox News once banned its hosts from speaking at partisan events. Then it went all in on CPAC. — The network's streaming service laid out $250,000 to sponsor CPAC and some of its personalities gave speeches in an unusual arrangement. — Fox News host Pete Hegseth gave a rousing speech …
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Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
U.S. alleges Proud Boys planned to break into Capitol on Jan. 6 from many different points — U.S. prosecutors alleged for the first time that a Washington state leader of the Proud Boys was nominated by members of the group to take charge of the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6 and carried …
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Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
The Grievances of Trump Past — If he was so great politically for the GOP, why is the party now out of power? — By The Editorial Board — That great sigh of relief you heard on Sunday was the sound of Democrats and the media welcoming Donald Trump's return to public attention …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Hypocrisy runs riot in GOP — We all know about the big lie. — Now we face the big hypocrisy. — Let's begin with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) incredible announcement last week that if former President Trump is the GOP nominee for president in 2024, he will endorse him.
Washington Post:
Why the GOP can't quit Trump — Here's what we learned when we surveyed MAGA supporters — The Republican Party appears to be at war with itself, split between ex-president Donald Trump's supporters and establishment Republicans. Consider what happened to Rep. Liz Cheney after she voted …
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Raw Story and Rolling Stone
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Fans Rage at Trumpy Channel for Censoring Conspiracies — Even random interviews in a crowd of MAGA supporters could cost RSBN their YouTube platform if they are not careful to counter or censor conspiracy theories from the broadcast. — BEAST INSIDE
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Raw Story
ARLnow.com:
EXCLUSIVE: While the Capitol Was Stormed, A Group of Men Gathered Near the Marine Corps War Memorial — On Jan. 6, a group of ten or so men — at least one of whom was wearing a tactical earpiece — watched the storming of the U.S. Capitol from across the Potomac in Arlington.
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Daily Kos
Kate McGee / The Texas Tribune:
“UT needs rich donors”: Emails show wealthy alumni supporting “Eyes of Texas” threatened to pull donations — Emails obtained by The Texas Tribune show alumni and donors threatened to stop supporting the university financially and demanded that the university president take a stronger stance supporting “The Eyes of Texas.”
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New York Times:
Virus Did Not Bring Financial Rout That Many States Feared — Grim forecasts held up for a few states, but many took in about as much tax revenue as before the pandemic — sometimes a lot more. — Change in state tax revenue —42.5% —10.0% — +10.5% — +2.5% — +2.5% —14.8%