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7:30 AM ET, March 10, 2021

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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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Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Who Ordered a Smear Campaign Against Andrew Cuomo's First Accuser?  —  In early December, Lindsey Boylan responded to a prompt on Twitter for people to share the worst job they'd ever had.  “Most toxic team environment?” she tweeted.  “Working for @NYGovCuomo.”
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.
Discussion: HotAir and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate revs its confirmation engine to fill Biden's Cabinet  —  After slow early progress on approving President Joe Biden's Cabinet nominees, the Senate is finally on track to catch up to its pace of confirmations at the beginning of the Trump and Obama administrations.
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
For Schumer, a Dream Job Comes With Tall Orders  —  After ascending to the top Senate job during the assault on the Capitol, Chuck Schumer faces a different kind of challenge: steering President Biden's agenda with no margin for error.  —  WASHINGTON — The moment Chuck Schumer achieved …
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.
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 …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Decoding Joe Manchin  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WHAT MANCHIN SAID, WHAT HE MEANT — If you're confused right now about where Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) is on the filibuster, you're far from alone.  —  Last week, Manchin literally yelled “Never!” at reporters who asked him whether he'd ever ax the 60-vote threshold.
Chris Sommerfeldt / Yahoo News:
Trump in NYC to ‘look under the hood’ of his businesses as prosecutors probing fraud turn up heat, source says
Discussion: Fox News and HuffPost
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
The House just passed a sweeping and bipartisan bill to boost unions  —  Its chances aren't looking good in the Senate, with the big hurdle of the filibuster.  —  The US House of Representatives has officially passed a sweeping, bipartisan labor bill, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.
Discussion: NBC News, WPRI-TV, Breitbart and Politico
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NBC News:
House passes 'Protect the ‘Right to Organize Act,’ 225-206, sends bill to Senate
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Passes Labor Rights Expansion, but Senate Chances Are Slim
Discussion: Portside
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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CNN:
Trump requests mail-in ballot ahead of local Florida election despite baseless fraud claims  —  Washington (CNN)Former President Donald Trump requested a mail-in ballot ahead of a local municipal election in Florida, according to Palm Beach County records, despite his frequent attacks on voting by mail.
Discussion: Politico, Forbes and Insider
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.
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Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Manchin promised to back his ‘Republican friends.’ Instead, he betrayed them.
Discussion: The Hill
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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Politico:
Another Oath Keeper with links to Roger Stone charged in Capitol riot  —  A second member of the Oath Keepers militia who provided security to longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone has been charged with storming and breaching the Capitol.  —  Joshua James, who has been seen …
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
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Jane Harman / The Hill:
The new doctrine of Joe Biden  —  The interim national security strategy announced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan sketches one exciting new doctrine for President Biden rooted in geopolitics, but also linked to transnational threats like pandemics, terrorism, and climate.
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.
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.
Discussion: The Week and The Tennessean
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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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The Biden administration confirms some but not all of Trump's Wuhan lab claims  —  In its final days, President Donald Trump's State Department made a series of highly controversial claims about the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, and its possible connection to the covid-19 outbreak.
Discussion: HotAir
Alicia Robinson / Orange County Register:
Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley appears set to win OC District 2 supervisor seat  —  Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley looks poised to become the first Democrat in more than a century, and the first Democratic woman, to hold the Second District Orange County Board of Supervisors seat …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Quad nations meeting to announce financing to boost India vaccine output - U.S. official  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A first ever leaders' meeting of the Quad group of countries on Friday plans to announce financing agreements to support an increase in manufacturing capacity …
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 …
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.
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 …
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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Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
Russia Throttles Twitter Access After Dispute Over Protests
Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
Biden Has Few Good Options for the Unaccompanied Children at the Border
Discussion: HotAir and New York Post
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
The nation's capital has asked the Biden administration for help with lagging vaccine rollout, but it hasn't come yet
David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
If Fox News wants to be a political tool, it should be treated as such and not given access meant for journalists | COMMENTARY
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wyoming lawmakers weigh runoff legislation that could hurt Liz Cheney.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
GameStop Saga Prompts SEC to Weigh Review of Payment for Order Flow
Bloomberg:
Trump's Next Challenge Is to Turn 74 Million Believers Into Buyers
Discussion: HillReporter.com and Raw Story
Bloomberg:
Republican Senator Sees ‘Day of Reckoning’ on Debt After Biden Stimulus
Discussion: Political Wire
Doug Mainwaring / LifeSiteNews:
Activist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. Joseph
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Immigration arrests have fallen sharply under Biden, ICE data show
Discussion: Insider, Fox News and BorderReport