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Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
Cuomo faces new sexual harassment allegation, this time at Executive Mansion — Female aide claims governor touched her inappropriately; complaint reported to AG — ALBANY — A sixth woman has come forward and leveled allegations of sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo …
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Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
BuzzFeed Announces Deep Cuts To HuffPost Staff After Acquisition — BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost from Verizon Media in February. — BuzzFeed announced layoffs for the HuffPost newsroom on Tuesday, three weeks after acquiring HuffPost from Verizon Media in February.
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Laura Wagner / Defector:
Jonah Peretti Lays Off 47 HuffPost Staffers In Latest “Bloodbath” — BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, who acquired HuffPost from Verizon in a deal that was announced last year with the promise that HuffPost would thrive in partnership with BuzzFeed, announced in an all-hands meeting today …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Biden's COVID-Relief Bill Is a Big F**king Deal — Joe Biden won, but progressives lost. — For weeks after the 2020 election, this was the conventional wisdom about its outcome. As Politico wrote on November 5, “During Barack Obama's presidency, Biden's propensity for cutting deals …
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Hidden provisions in Biden's rescue bill make this a bigger deal than you thought — Some time in the next few days, President Biden will sign the American Rescue Plan, the first major legislation of his presidency. It has gotten a large amount of press coverage, especially the $1,400 checks that will be going to most Americans.
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Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Manchin promised to back his ‘Republican friends.’ Instead, he betrayed them.
Manchin promised to back his ‘Republican friends.’ Instead, he betrayed them.
Jon Walker / American Prospect:
The Almost Big F*cking Deal in the COVID Relief Bill
The Almost Big F*cking Deal in the COVID Relief Bill
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Piers Morgan's Meghan Markle Comments Being Investigated by U.K. Media Regulator Ofcom … U.K. media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation after more than 41,000 people wrote in to complain about ITV's “Good Morning Britain” host Piers Morgan's comments on Meghan Markle.
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Patrick Freyne / The Irish Times:
Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete
Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete
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The Carter Center:
President Carter Statement on Efforts to Restrict Voting Access — In 1962, I ran to represent the 14th Senate District in the Georgia legislature. I won my Senate seat, but only after the courts ruled that a ballot box had been illegally “stuffed” with votes for my opponent.
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ABC News:
FBI releases new images of DC pipe bomb suspect — A reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect stands at $100,000. — FBI releases new video of Capitol Hill pipe bomb suspect — Just one night before the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill breach, pipe bombs were placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters.
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
FBI releases new video of suspect planting bombs before Capitol riot … The FBI released new videos Tuesday that investigators said show the person suspected of planting two pipe bombs the night before the January Capitol riot. — “These pipe bombs were viable devices that could have been detonated, resulting in injury or death.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
What the GOP voting restrictions actually do vs. what proponents claim — “The ultimate voter suppression is a very large swath of the electorate not having faith in our election systems,” Iowa state Rep. Bobby Kaufmann (R) said recently, as his state joined many others in taking up new voting restrictions.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why the GOP's awful new voter suppression effort is so alarming
Why the GOP's awful new voter suppression effort is so alarming
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The new Republican war on voting rights, explained
The new Republican war on voting rights, explained
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Doug Mainwaring / LifeSiteNews:
Activist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. Joseph — Salvation can only be achieved through devotion to Christ and the works of the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.' … Milo Yiannopoulos, the gay man whose conservative messaging and willingness to speak …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Making Senators Orate Won't Blunt the Filibuster — Can obstructionism be deterred by forcing politicians to give long speeches? The question answers itself. — Oy, Frank Capra. We're back to chattering about the “talking” filibuster — the idea that filibusters should be performed …
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Bob Smietana / Religion News Service:
Bible teacher Beth Moore, splitting with Lifeway, says, ‘I am no longer a Southern Baptist’ — Author and speaker Beth Moore speaks during a panel on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 10, 2019.
Bari Weiss / City Journal:
The Miseducation of America's Elites — Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children's private schools, organize in secret. — Education — The Social Order — The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Fox Cancel Culture Segment Completely Deflates When Guest Agrees Pepe LePew is Pretty Messed Up — A Fox Business segment on cancel culture deflated after a guest pointed out that Pepé LePew, a Looney Tunes cartoon character who was scrubbed from the upcoming Space Jam sequel, is actually kind of a creep.
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Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
Identity-obsessed liberals and social justice are the roots of ‘cancel culture’
Identity-obsessed liberals and social justice are the roots of ‘cancel culture’
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Axios:
Scoop: McCarthy leading GOP delegation to southern border — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will travel to Texas on Monday with roughly a dozen Republican members to assess the growing crisis at the southern border, his office confirmed to Axios. — Why it matters: The visit comes …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Good News about the Pfizer Vaccine — In Your Face, Variants! — In the tug of war between pandemic optimism and pandemic pessimism, one of the recurring arguments from the side of pessimism is that the virus is always mutating, mutated versions have in some cases become more contagious and more virulent …
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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Brood X cicadas are about to put on one of the wildest shows in nature. And D.C. is the main stage. — “We are at the epicenter of an event that happens nowhere else on the planet,” an entomologist said. “It blows your mind.” — They've been buried — alive — for 17 years.
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Roger Mudd, probing TV journalist and network news anchor, dies at 93 — Roger Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent who reported on the Pentagon's profligate spending, whose interview with Edward M. Kennedy ended the senator's White House prospects and who briefly shared …
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Washington Post:
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was in direct contact with rioters before and during Capitol breach, U.S. alleges — U.S. prosecutors alleged Monday that Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was in direct contact before, during and immediately after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
‘Bad news’: Wave of GOP retirements signals battles ahead — This is not the way Republicans wanted to begin the year. — Missouri's Roy Blunt on Monday became the fifth Republican senator to announce he will not seek reelection, a retirement wave that portends an ugly campaign season next year …
Washington Post:
Biden's dogs to return to White House after younger pet causes a ‘minor injury’ to an ‘unfamiliar person’ — President Biden and first lady Jill Biden's two dogs will return to the White House from Delaware, the White House press secretary said Tuesday after confirming that the younger dog …
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Eileen Reslen / Page Six:
Dana Perino reveals why George W. Bush once kicked her out of Oval Office — Dana Perino's first visit to the Oval Office was memorable — since it's not often you witness the leader of the free world get upset. — The 48-year-old said her new job as White House press secretary under …
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Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Dismisses Immigrant Public-Charge Cases — Court acts on Justice Department request signaling end to Trump administration rule penalizing immigrants — WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court dismissed several pending appeals over a Trump administration rule penalizing immigrants …
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Reuters:
Republican donations surge despite corporate boycott after Capitol riots — (Reuters) - Right after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, dozens of U.S. companies announced they would halt political donations to the 147 Republican lawmakers who voted to overturn Donald Trump's presidential election loss.
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
How to Put Out Democracy's Dumpster Fire — This article was published online on March 8, 2021. — To read the diary of Gustave de Beaumont, the traveling companion of Alexis de Tocqueville, is to understand just how primitive the American wilderness once seemed to visiting Frenchmen.
Bloomberg:
Republican Senator Sees ‘Day of Reckoning’ on Debt After Biden Stimulus — Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida said Tuesday he's worried that interest rates and inflation will rise as a result of greater government borrowing once President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus package becomes law.
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Bush and Clinton portraits are back on display in White House's Grand Foyer — Washington (CNN)The White House has rehung the official presidential portraits of former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton after they were removed last July during the Trump administration, an official tells CNN.
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Some GOPers Want To Run An Old Playbook On Vanita Gupta. It May Not Work This Time. — The civil rights leader has a ton of support from law enforcement organizations. Some Republicans want to paint her as anti-cop anyway. — Two decades ago, a former rodeo cowboy went undercover in Tulia, Texas.
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USA Today:
CDC misinterpreted our research on opening schools. It should loosen the rules now — Keeping schools closed or even partially closed, based on what we know now is harming children. — “The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror …
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Donald Trump is attempting a hostile takeover of the Republican Party — Trump's one-sided feud with the RNC, explained. — SHARE All sharing options — Donald Trump isn't happy the Republican Party won't purge members who haven't been totally loyal to him.
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Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Politico's Eugene Daniels: ‘We Are Changing Who Is Allowed To Talk About Politics And Who Is Allowed At The Table’ — Eugene Daniels says he's a “big, huge history nerd and a big news nerd,” and last fall he told his bosses at Politico what he wanted to do after the 2020 election.
David Zweig / New York Magazine:
The Problem With the CDC's Six-Foot Rule for Schools — At the end of last month, Jeffrey Riley, the Massachusetts commissioner of education, announced that his goal was “to bring all elementary-school students back to in-person learning five days a week this April.”
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Joanne Jacobs and National Review
Bloomberg:
Trump's Next Challenge Is to Turn 74 Million Believers Into Buyers — They backed Donald Trump in November, and now they aren't buying what he's selling. — A quarry owner in the heart of Texas Trump country says she has little interest in staying at one of his hotels.
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