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8:00 AM ET, March 9, 2021

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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Biden German Shepherd has aggressive incident and is sent back to Delaware  —  Washington (CNN)The two German Shepherds belonging to President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were returned to the Biden family home in Delaware last week after aggressive behavior at the White House involving Major Biden …
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Georgia Republicans Pass the Most Restrictive Voting Laws Since Jim Crow  —  Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.  —  Following unexpected Democratic victories in Georgia in November and January …
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Stephen Gruber-Miller / Des Moines Register:
Gov. Kim Reynolds signs law shortening Iowa's early and Election Day voting
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Senate votes to eliminate no-excuse absentee voting
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC brushes back Trump team on cease-and-desist demand  —  The Republican National Committee is denying a cease-and-desist demand from Donald Trump's attorneys, who asked the party organization to stop using the former president's name and likeness in fundraising appeals.
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The Intercept:
Entire Staff of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Democratic Socialist Slate Won Every Seat … Not long after Judith Whitmer won her election on Saturday to become chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, she got an email from the party's executive director, Alana Mounce.
New York Times:
Inside the Lincoln Project's Secrets, Side Deals and Scandals  —  A civil war broke out in the group as it antagonized Donald Trump, with leaders splintering over financial arrangements and revelations of online harassment by a top official.  —  A few days before the presidential election …
New York Times:
Biden Faces Challenge From Surge of Migrants at the Border  —  The president's promise of a more humane policy is being tested as more unaccompanied children seek to enter the United States from Mexico.  —  WASHINGTON — Thousands of migrant children are backed up in United States detention facilities along …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Team Biden offers alternative reality on border crisis with no plan to fix it
Discussion: The Western Journal and Breitbart
Paul Hannon / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Growth Surge Could Unbalance Fragile Global Economy  —  OECD doubles its growth forecast for world's largest economy; warns that surge could suck capital away from faltering emerging markets  —  The U.S. will drive a sharp rebound in the world economy this year, but the strength …
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Chris Giles / Financial Times:
Biden stimulus will boost global recovery from Covid, says OECD
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Rare trial of U.S. journalist arrested on the job begins in Iowa  —  Prosecutors in Iowa began their case Monday against a Des Moines Register reporter arrested during racial justice protests last summer, in a rare trial of a U.S. journalist charged with a crime while reporting.
Washington Post:
Man charged in Capitol riot is linked to Oath Keepers, seen with Roger Stone on Jan. 6, prosecutors say  —  A man linked by prosecutors to the Oath Keepers and Republican strategist Roger Stone was arrested Monday in New York and charged with criminal involvement in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Howard Gleckman / TaxVox:
Pandemic Bill Would Cut Taxes by An Average of $3,000, With Most Relief Going to Low- And Middle-Income Households  —  According to a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center, the Senate version of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) would reduce federal taxes in 2021 by an average of $3,000 and raise after-tax incomes by 3.8 percent.
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw Decided Pandemic Was Perfect Time to Buy and Not Disclose Stocks  —  “Members of Congress should not be actively trading securities in the middle of a crisis,” said Ben Edwards, a securities law expert at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Daily Beast:
Inside Team Trump's New Plot to Suppress the Vote Under Biden  —  Multiple state-level efforts to curb voting have made Democrats' consideration of voting rights legislation in Congress, like H.R. 1, feel even more urgent.  —  Donald Trump has made it clear that he wants election crackdowns …
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Media Matters for America:
Sean Hannity lies about H.R. 1: “What are we going to have, 15-year-olds voting next?”
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:
White House returns portraits of Bill Clinton and George W Bush to prominent place in foyer after Trump hid them in room used for storage  — The White House has returned portraits of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to prominent locations in the Grand Foyer  — Donald Trump hid them in a room used for storage
Discussion: Fox News
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Bush and Clinton portraits are back on display in White House's Grand Foyer
Discussion: Insider and KYMA-TV
Laura Reiley / Washington Post:
Relief bill is most significant legislation for Black farmers since Civil Rights Act, experts say  —  $5 billion would go to farmers of color, who have lost 90 percent of their land over the past century because of systemic discrimination and a cycle of debt
Discussion: Bloomberg, fb.org and Civil Eats
Kara Scannell / CNN:
NYC prosecutors' probe into Trump finances expands to include millions loaned for Chicago skyscraper  —  Five elected investigators are turning their attention to Trump  —  (CNN)The Manhattan district attorney's office subpoenaed documents from an investment company that loaned …
Discussion: Chicago Sun-Times and POLITICUSUSA
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The Internet Doesn't Have to Be Awful  —  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.
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Many ‘Long Covid’ Patients Had No Symptoms From Their Initial Infection  —  An analysis of electronic medical records in California found that 32 percent started with asymptomatic infections but reported troubling aftereffects weeks and months later.  —  Many people who experience long-term symptoms …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Biden taps another Big Tech trustbuster  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — President JOE BIDEN has decided to nominate LINA KHAN, a Columbia University legal scholar championed by anti-Big Tech activists, to the Federal Trade Commission.
Discussion: Washington Post and KYMA-TV
David Litt / The Atlantic:
We Already Got Rid of the Filibuster Once Before  —  Last week the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, a bill that would make voter registration automatic, end partisan gerrymandering, strengthen campaign-finance law, and bolster oversight of lobbyists.  It's the most sweeping package of democracy reforms in generations.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Will Stagnation Follow the Biden Boom?  —  The relief bill is done; infrastructure may be harder.  —  It's morning in America!  People are getting vaccinated at the rate of two million a day and rising, suggesting that the pandemic may be largely behind us in a few months …
ProPublica:
REPUBLISH  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Everything looks the same on either side of the Texas-New Mexico border in the great oil patch of the Permian Basin.
Jim Kiertzner / WXYZ-TV:
Macomb County Prosecutor says criminal charges possible against Governor Whitmer over nursing home deaths  —  (WXYZ) — Criminal charges could be in the works against Governor Gretchen Whitmer over putting COVID patients inside nursing homes used as hubs early in the pandemic.
Helen Warrell / Financial Times:
Johnson set to unnerve allies with ‘Global Britain’ defence review  —  Fears that cuts to army and shift from Europe to Asia risk spreading defence capabilities too thinly  —  Boris Johnson's eagerly awaited new security strategy risks creating tensions with the UK's closest allies if it spreads …
 
 
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Mark Medina / USA Today:
LeBron James talks NBA All-Star Game concerns, COVID-19 vaccine, voting and Lakers' play
Justin George / Washington Post:
Federal covid relief package could lift Metro through pandemic budget problems
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Cornel West Leaves Harvard for Union Theological Seminary
Discussion: The Nation
Nature:
The measurement of partisan sorting for 180 million voters
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Biden's Pick for Justice Dept. No. 3 Wins Backing of Law Enforcement
Discussion: IJR, NPR and Roll Call
Steve Beynon / Military.com:
Task Force Calls for Permanent National Guard Force to Protect DC
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Breitbart
Trisha Thadani / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F's budget will be saved from painful cuts thanks to federal stimulus. What about in the next one?
Discussion: Twitchy
 Earlier Items: 
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Man Threatened to Lynch 2 Congressmen, U.S. Says
New York Times:
Publisher Halts Promotion of Cuomo Book, Citing Nursing Homes Inquiry
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Teen Vogue Staff Rail Against New Editor-in-Chief's Past Tweets Mocking Asians
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Will Kyrsten Sinema Change Her Mind?
Discussion: The Guardian, CNN and Politico
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Maggie Haberman on life after Trump and the one question she regrets not asking
Politico:
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