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2:15 PM ET, March 10, 2021

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Scott Wong / The Hill:
40 Republicans vote against Greene motion  —  Forty House Republicans on Wednesday voted against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest motion to adjourn, yet another sign her party is growing increasingly frustrated with the Georgia Republican's procedural delay tactics.
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Washington Post:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been gunking up the works. She says she's not backing down.
Discussion: Fox News, VICE and Insider
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.
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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Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Roger Stone's Latest Mess: His Oath Keeper Bodyguards Arrested in Capitol Attack  —  Roger Stone has an Oath Keeper problem.  —  In recent days the FBI arrested two men, Joshua James, the owner of a cleaning services company in Alabama, and Roberto Minuta, a Newburgh, New York, tattoo artist …
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Associated Press:   US narrows in on organized extremists in Capitol siege probe
NBC News:
Susan Collins fires back at ‘bizarre’ Schumer remarks blaming her for 2009 stimulus  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, fired back at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after he pointedly said it was a “big mistake” to shrink the 2009 economic stimulus package in order to win her vote.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest explosion of rage against the GOP bodes badly for our future  —  Opinion by  —  In recent days, a few die-hard Republicans have struggled to concoct a way for the GOP to purge itself of Trumpism's worst excesses while retaining its political benefits.
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New York Times:
Trump, Hungry for Power, Tries to Wrestle Away G.O.P. Fund-Raising
United States Department of State:
Restarting the Central American Minors Program  —  As another concrete step in implementing our comprehensive regional migration management strategy, we are expanding legal pathways to enter the United States by reopening the Central American Minors (CAM) program.
Discussion: BuzzFeed News, Bloomberg and Twitchy
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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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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William Morris / Des Moines Register:
‘This is my job!’: Register reporter Andrea Sahouri testifies in her own defense in her second day on trial
Discussion: FOREIGN PRESS USA and Techdirt
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Marcia Fudge confirmed as Biden's HUD secretary  —  Fudge first woman to lead HUD in more than 40 years  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for March 10  —  The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Marcia Fudge to be President Biden's new secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by a vote of 66-34.
Discussion: CNN and ABC News
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Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
Marcia Fudge confirmed as first Black woman to lead HUD in more than 40 years
Shadi Hamid / The Atlantic:
America Without God  —  The United States had long been a holdout among Western democracies, uniquely and perhaps even suspiciously devout.  From 1937 to 1998, church membership remained relatively constant, hovering at about 70 percent.  Then something happened.
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 …
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.
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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.
Joseph Spector / USA Today:
Gillibrand: Calling for Cuomo to resign 'isn't the conversation we should be having'  —  ALBANY - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand continued this week to urge for an investigation to be concluded before making any decision on whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo should stay in office amid sexual harassment allegations.
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Politico:
New York GOP's bet to take down Cuomo: Do nothing
Discussion: CNBC, Newsday, HotAir and The Daily Beast
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.
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
House set for final passage Wednesday of Biden's $1.9T Covid aid plan  —  The House is on track to approve a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package by Wednesday afternoon, delivering President Joe Biden's first legislative achievement after a frenzied eight-week sprint in Congress.
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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
House poised to vote on $1.9 trillion COVID-19 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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Insider, BizPac Review and TheGrio
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 …
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 …
Raf Sanchez / NBC News:
As U.K. strips citizenship from ISIS members, other children of immigrants decry ‘two tier’ citizenship  —  LONDON — Shamima Begum was 15 when she and two friends left their home in east London to join the Islamic State in Syria.  —  She was 19 when she emerged from the terrorist group's collapsing …
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Vaccinated lives: 5 health experts revel in simple pleasures  —  They talk about navigating risk and the joys of hugging friends, dining out and even getting their hair cut by professionals  —  Millions of Americans wonder how they can emerge safely from their pandemic cocoons after getting coronavirus vaccines.
Associated Press:
Governor Newsom says 'we're not going back to normal' after pandemic  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will say during his State of the State address that the pandemic will end soon.  But when it does, Newsom will say that “we're not going back to normal” because “normal accepts inequity.”
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.
Discussion: TheBlaze
 
 
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Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:
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The Warped Vision of “Anti-Racism”
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
What has gotten into Ron Johnson?
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Bill Baxley / Washington Post:
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