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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 …
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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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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.
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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 — Patrick Freyne: After Harry and Meghan, the monarchy looks archaic and racist. Well duh — Video — Images — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have hit out at the British monarchy …
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Karen Attiah / Washington Post:
How two Black women took down whatever fantasies remained about the British monarchy
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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 …
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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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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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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The white to vote — Georgia has allowed no-excuse absentee voting for all elections since 2005.
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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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David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Republicans call the COVID-19 relief bill a ‘liberal wish list.’ Democrats are owning that
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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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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.
CNN:
First independent report into Xinjiang genocide allegations claims evidence of Beijing's ‘intent to destroy’ Uyghur people — Hong Kong (CNN)The Chinese government's alleged actions in Xinjiang have violated every single provision in the United Nations' Genocide Convention …
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
House Democrats end controversial consultant ban — House Democrats' campaign arm is officially ending its controversial ban on political consultants who work with candidates challenging sitting Democratic incumbents in primaries, clinching a major victory for progressives.
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Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
Identity-obsessed liberals and social justice are the roots of ‘cancel culture’ — “Cancel culture” is the popular phrase of the times, with everything from Dr. Seuss books to cartoon characters being forced out of circulation. But cancel culture is simply the next logical point in the brain rot …
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.
Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times:
Maker of Dove Soap Will Drop the Word ‘Normal’ From Beauty Products — Unilever, which owns brands like Dove and Sunsilk, said a study had found that the word “normal” makes most people feel excluded. A spokeswoman said it would remove it from more than 200 products.
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
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Ben Montgomery / Axios:
DeSantis faces deepening controversy over vaccines for ultra-rich Florida community — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said “the state was not involved” in helping to vaccinate 1,200 residents of the super-rich Ocean Reef community in January. — But both the hospital system that supplied …
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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 …
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.
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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.
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Paul Gowder / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Humanists, Want to Attack Originalism? Learn About Law. — A recent effort to debunk the legal theory misses badly. — THE REVIEW … Originalism Has Many Problems. Its Imagined Religious Origin Is Not Among Them. — By Paul Gowder — A — dam Shapiro's unfortunate effort …
Rachel Cohrs / STAT:
With the ear of Joe Manchin, West Virginia hospitals helped secure billions in new Covid relief funds — WASHINGTON — West Virginia University Health System doesn't have the name recognition of the Mayo Clinic or Massachusetts General Hospital. It doesn't have the lobbying firepower in Washington, either.
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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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.
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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 …
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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Leana Wen / Washington Post:
The CDC is missing a critical opportunity to get Americans vaccinated — After much delay, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued interim guidance on Monday for what fully vaccinated people can do. While some guidance is better than no guidance, the guidelines are too timid and too limited …
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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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New York Times:
Publisher Halts Promotion of Cuomo Book, Citing Nursing Homes Inquiry — “American Crisis” was supposed to be a triumphant account of New York's coronavirus fight. But as scandals swirl, sales have dramatically slowed. — The publisher of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's book on his leadership during …
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Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Cornel West Leaves Harvard for Union Theological Seminary — The public intellectual and professor of African-American studies will head to Union Theological Seminary in New York. — Cornel West is abandoning his quest for tenure at Harvard and going back to Union Theological Seminary …
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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.
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