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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 …
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 …
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.
Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Manchin promised to back his ‘Republican friends.’ Instead, he betrayed them.
Discussion: The Hill and Vox
Jon Walker / American Prospect:
The Almost Big F*cking Deal in the COVID Relief Bill
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
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.
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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New York Times:
Trump, Hungry for Power, Tries to Wrestle Away G.O.P. Fund-Raising  —  Angry at his critics in the party and seeking to keep his options for raising money open, the former president is trying to take charge of the online fund-raising juggernaut he helped create.
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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.
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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Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson:
Governor Hutchinson Issues Statement on Signing of SB6  —  “SB6 is a pro-life bill that prohibits abortion in all cases except to save the life of the mother in a medical emergency.  It does not include exceptions for rape and incest.  —  “I will sign SB6 because of overwhelming legislative support …
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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.
David Dayen / American Prospect:
First 100: The Forgotten Bills Biden Can Get Through By Majority Vote  —  The Congressional Review Act allows repeals of certain Trump-era regulations by simple majority.  But so far no CRA resolutions have been introduced.  —  First100-030921  —  Congress can end the practice …
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 …
Ben Weingarten / The American Mind:
Out of His Census  —  Biden's betrayal of citizenship sabotages our republican form of government.  —  Editors' Note  —  This article will be part of a longer forthcoming series regarding President Biden's harmful Executive Orders.  —  President Joe Biden's flurry of initial actions …
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.
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 …
Associated Press:
GOP struggles to define Biden, turns to culture wars instead  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the Democrats were on the brink of pushing through sprawling legislation with an eyepopping, $1.9 trillion price tag.  —  But many Republican politicians and conservative commentators had other priorities in recent days.
Politico:
EconTwitter makes it to the Oval  —  Welcome to POLITICO's 2021 Transition Playbook, your guide to the first 100 days of the Biden administration  —  The Biden administration insists that Twitter isn't real life.  His economic team might beg to differ.  —  Biden's core group …
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Dog days for Biden: A presidential pet causes a ‘minor injury’ — and a public relations challenge  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  President Biden has made them as much a part of his personal brand as his scrappy Scranton roots, his anecdotes of overcoming grief and his folksy demeanor.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Anti-filibuster liberals face a Senate math problem  —  There's a reason Senate Democrats haven't changed the Senate's filibuster rules so far: They don't have the votes yet.  Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his deputies are going to have to work aggressively to get them.
Discussion: Slate, The Week and Forbes
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 …
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
South China Morning Post:
exclusive |  China and US in talks for top-level relationship reset meeting in Alaska  —  Beijing's most senior envoys, Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi, may be sent for face-to-face discussions with their American counterparts in Anchorage Talks could be a chance to find common ground and begin …
Discussion: Bloomberg
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.
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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Politico:
Pentagon chief to urge Manchin to support nominee amid Twitter troubles  —  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday urged Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin to support President Joe Biden's nominee for the top Pentagon policy job amid criticism of his past Twitter posts.  But the moderate senator says he's still undecided.
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
‘QAnon Shaman’ stays in jail as judge slams his arguments: 'So frivolous as to insult the Court's intelligence'  —  Jacob Anthony Chansley, often referred to as the “QAnon Shaman” who donned horns and red-white-and-blue face paint to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, has spent nearly …
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.
Discussion: HillReporter.com and Raw Story
Charlie Cook / National Journal:
OFF TO THE RACES: A historic bill, but at what cost?  —  The $1.9 trillion package does a lot more than simply address the pandemic and the economy.  Which is why Republicans were so reluctant to play ball.  —  On Saturday, on a party-line vote of 50 to 49, Senate Democrats passed H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
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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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wyoming lawmakers weigh runoff legislation that could hurt Liz Cheney.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The Biden administration confirms some but not all of Trump's Wuhan lab claims
Discussion: HotAir
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Candace Owens announces new talk show
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Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Dismisses Immigrant Public-Charge Cases
Chris Sommerfeldt / Yahoo News:
Trump in NYC to ‘look under the hood’ of his businesses as prosecutors probing fraud turn up heat, source says
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