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NBC News:
Biden to announce deal for additional 100 million Johnson and Johnson Covid vaccine doses — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will announce plans Wednesday to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, giving the U.S. more than enough supply to vaccinate the entire U.S. population.
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Edgar Sandoval / New York Times:
Covid-19 Latest Updates: Texas Opens for Business, No Masks Required — Here's what you need to know: — In Texas, the mask mandate ends and businesses reopen. — HOUSTON — Orders requiring masks and limiting the occupancy of restaurants and other businesses were lifted across Texas on Wednesday …
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Biden Got the Vaccine Rollout Humming, With Trump's Help — Trump administration officials grumble that they laid the groundwork for surging vaccinations, but some hard work in the trenches has helped pick up the pace of production. — WASHINGTON — When President Biden pledged last week …
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Crooks and Liars
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.
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HotAir and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Stacey Abrams Has a Plan to Dismantle the Filibuster and Protect Voting Rights — 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. — As Republicans in the Georgia state legislature passed a series …
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POLITICUSUSA, Detroit Metro Times, The Week, Slate, New York Magazine and Raw Story
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate revs its confirmation engine to fill Biden's Cabinet
Senate revs its confirmation engine to fill Biden's Cabinet
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The Talbot Spy, Los Angeles Times, The Dispatch and Political Wire
Andrew Cohen / Brennan Center for Justice:
Bring on the Biden Judges Already
Bring on the Biden Judges Already
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Washington Post, New Republic, PRESS RUN, The Gateway Pundit, Inside Climate News and IJR
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.
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
For Schumer, a Dream Job Comes With Tall Orders
For Schumer, a Dream Job Comes With Tall Orders
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Washington Times, HotAir and The Daily Caller
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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Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Manhattan Prosecutors Advance Probe Into Trump's Seven Springs Estate — Subpoenas center on Trump Organization's failed efforts to develop the 213-acre property into a luxury subdivision — Manhattan prosecutors are intensifying their investigation into Donald Trump's businesses …
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Insider, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, TheGrio and New York Magazine
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Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
For Creators, Everything is for Sale — Digital stars are coming up with new ways to make money. Yet fans still hold the power. — A rash of new start-ups are making it easier for digital creators to monetize every aspect of their life — down to what they eat, who they hang out with and who they respond to on TikTok.
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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Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Who Ordered a Smear Campaign Against Andrew Cuomo's First Accuser?
Who Ordered a Smear Campaign Against Andrew Cuomo's First Accuser?
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New York Post, RedState, The Sun, Twitchy, The Daily Caller and Townhall
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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Washington Post, The Hill, Politico, Raw Story, Boston Herald, CNBC, Election Law Blog, NPR, Insider, Political Wire, Daily Kos and Axios
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Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Arrested journalist pleaded with officer: ‘This is my job’ — IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa journalist recounted getting pepper-sprayed and arrested while covering a protest for racial justice last year, testifying in her own defense Tuesday at her trial on charges stemming from the incident.
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Des Moines Register, The Hill, Techdirt, Associated Press, MyNorthwest.com, The Daily Caller and Washington Post
CNN:
Biden and his Covid-relief bill prove popular in new CNN poll — (CNN)The economic relief bill moving rapidly through Congress is broadly popular, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. — The popularity of the bill comes as President Joe Biden's approval rating tilts positive around 50 days after he took the oath of office.
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USA Today, Morning Consult and Daily Kos
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Exclusive: Biden envoy says Iran elections not factor in timetable for nuclear talks — Iran's elections in June are not a factor in the Biden administration's decision-making for how to proceed with nuclear talks, State Department Iran envoy Rob Malley told me in his first interview since taking office.
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Bloomberg:
Wall Street A-Listers Fled to Florida. Many Are Eyeing a Return — USPS data shows few New Yorkers moved to Miami, Palm Beach — New Jersey, California and Connecticut were most popular moves — The “Upper East Side” cocktail at Sant Ambroeus is just the same as in Manhattan …
Biba Adams / Yahoo News:
Sen. Scott: ‘Woke supremacy is as bad as White supremacy’ — The South Carolina Senator is falling in line with his Republican counterparts by taking aim at “cancel culture.” — Republican Senator Tim Scott told Fox News host Trey Gowdy that “woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy.
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TheGrio, Insider and BizPac Review
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Democrats Are Rapidly Evolving On The Filibuster — Key holdouts on nixing the 60-vote threshold include Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin. But the party is definitely warming to an idea that is gaining momentum. — Democrats are quickly coming around to the idea of reforming the Senate's filibuster rules …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Somebody's Taking a Huge Risk on Biden's Bill. It's Not Biden. — Try to imagine we are living in the following hypothetical world: A popular Republican president quickly passes emergency legislation that has the support of two-thirds of the country, while Democrats in Congress refuse to vote for it.
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Fox News, Washington Post, Bloomberg and UPI
Daniel Drezner / Washington Post:
What is the point of Josh Hawley? — What to make of media interest in the junior senator from Missouri. — Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything.
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TheBlaze
Hadley Heath Manning / Washington Examiner:
The danger of reopening too slowly — Nearly one year into the World Health Organization's declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, Texas and Mississippi have announced that they will reopen completely and remove any state restrictions on businesses or mask-wearing.
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Court Dismisses Trump Campaign's Defamation Suit Against New York Times — A New York State judge ruled that the opinion essay at the center of the suit was constitutionally protected speech. — A New York State court on Tuesday dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by the re-election campaign …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
What has gotten into Ron Johnson? — What has gotten into Ron Johnson? — That is a question that mystifies some of those who counted themselves as enthusiastic supporters of Wisconsin's Republican senator back when he entered politics a little more than a decade ago.
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Allan McDonald Dies at 83; Tried to Stop the Challenger Launch — An engineer for the maker of the shuttle's booster rockets, he opposed letting it take off, worried that cold weather might affect them. He was right. — Allan J. McDonald, an engineer who on a chilly January morning …
John Murawski / RealClearInvestigations:
How California Is Embracing Mandatory Racial-Injustice Study for All of Its 1.7 Million High Schoolers — California has struggled for five years to create a politically palatable “ethnic studies” curriculum that would teach high schoolers how systemic racism, predatory capitalism …
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Real Clear Politics
Kimberly Wilson / Essence:
Exclusive: Goldman Sachs Invests $10 Billion In New ‘One Million Black Women’ Initiative — In 1962, Malcolm X said, “The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.” Now, almost 60 years later that statement unfortunately still rings true for millions of Black women across the country.
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Washington Post and New York Times
Ben White / Politico:
Biden's ‘Morning in America’ moment sparks a furious debate — Congress is set to approve the largest injection of federal cash into a growing economy in U.S. history. The nearly $2 trillion stimulus package headed to President Joe Biden's desk Wednesday comes after lawmakers approved nearly $4 trillion …
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KYMA-TV, Sun-Sentinel and Michael-In-Norfolk
Bill Baxley / Washington Post:
As a former Alabama attorney general, I do not say this lightly: An innocent man is on our death row — Opinion by Bill Baxley — Bill Baxley, attorney general of Alabama from 1971 to 1979, is a signatory to an amicus brief filed March 9 requesting the Jefferson County Circuit Court grant Toforest Johnson a new trial.
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Associated Press
CNN:
House to take final vote on Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic plan — Senate sends Covid-19 relief bill back to the House for final vote — (CNN)The House of Representatives is slated to take a final vote Wednesday to approve President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan …
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Jaclyn Diaz / NPR:
Arkansas Passes Near-Total Abortion Ban As Lawmakers Push For Supreme Court Case — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday signed into law one of the country's most restrictive abortion bans, a measure supporters hope will force the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit its 1973 decision sanctioning the procedure.
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Associated Press:
US narrows in on organized extremists in Capitol siege probe — As members of the Oath Keepers paramilitary group shouldered their way through the mob and up the steps to the U.S. Capitol, their plans for Jan. 6 were clear, authorities say. “Arrest this assembly, we have probable cause for acts of treason …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Democrats Are Anxious About 2022 — and 2024 — The fretting starts with the party's declining share of the Hispanic vote, but it doesn't end there. — Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.
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Townhall
Batya Ungar-Sargon / Persuasion:
The Warped Vision of “Anti-Racism” — It's perfect for affluent whites who want to be heroes of a story about justice — What kind of monster doesn't support “anti-racism”? Who would put themselves on the other side of “social justice”? How could you be opposed to the notion of “racial equity”?
Joel Kotkin / RealClearEnergy:
Climate Policy: Covid on Steroids? — For most people around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic seems a great human tragedy, with deaths, bankruptcies, and fractured mental states. Yet for some, especially among the green Twitterati and in some policy shops, the pandemic presents a grand opportunity …