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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Can Cyrus Vance, Jr., Nail Trump? — Insiders say that the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation has dramatically intensified since the former President left office. “It's like night and day,” says one. According to another, “They mean business.” — On February 22nd …
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Sonia Moghe / CNN:
New York prosecutor investigating Trump announces he won't seek reelection — What Trump's released tax records mean for DA's criminal case — New York (CNN)The New York prosecutor leading the most significant criminal probe against Donald Trump and his business announced Friday …
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Cyrus Vance Will Not Run Again for Manhattan D.A. — The decision by Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the district attorney since 2010, sets off a scramble for the office and makes it likely a new prosecutor will inherit an investigation into the former president's business.
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Trump's time in White House could end up benefiting New York prosecutors — Legal analyst: NY prosecutors signal a Trump fraud probe (2020) — New York (CNN)Former President Donald Trump's time in the White House helped shield him from investigations and some lawsuits but it might open …
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
The Political Weapon Biden Didn't Deploy — Perhaps the most surprising element of President Joe Biden's first presidential speech on Thursday night was what it did not include. — A day after the passage of the most far-reaching domestic piece of legislation in decades …
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Joe Biden Knew He Was Onto Something Long Before We Did
Joe Biden Knew He Was Onto Something Long Before We Did
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Nikki Schwab / Daily Mail:
So much for unity, Joe: Biden's Rose Garden ceremony to mark passage of $1.9T COVID bill will feature NO Republicans: Psaki insists ‘Oval Office door remains open’
So much for unity, Joe: Biden's Rose Garden ceremony to mark passage of $1.9T COVID bill will feature NO Republicans: Psaki insists ‘Oval Office door remains open’
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Next Biden agenda items on immigration and infrastructure already running into trouble
Next Biden agenda items on immigration and infrastructure already running into trouble
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Dan Merica / CNN:
DNC launches new ad campaign as Biden and Democrats seek to sell Covid bill to Americans
DNC launches new ad campaign as Biden and Democrats seek to sell Covid bill to Americans
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Conrad Black / The National Interest:
Joe Biden's Stimulus Speech Was a Complete and Total Failure — President Biden demonstrated his and his party's dependence upon the coronavirus pandemic for the achievement of office and their conduct in office. — President Joe Biden's first address to the nation was at least coherent …
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CNN:
Biden leaves Trump's dystopia in the dust — Frida Ghitis, (@fridaghitis) a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. She is a frequent opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a columnist for World Politics Review.
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
7 takeaways from Joe Biden's prime-time Covid-19 speech
7 takeaways from Joe Biden's prime-time Covid-19 speech
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
3 takeaways from Biden's first prime-time address to the nation
3 takeaways from Biden's first prime-time address to the nation
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
How Biden Pushes Both Unity and Partisanship
How Biden Pushes Both Unity and Partisanship
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Marco Rubio / USA Today:
Sen. Marco Rubio: Amazon should face unionization drive without Republican support — Amazon is waging a culture war against working-class values and is not helping workers or our economy. — For the past several years, Amazon has waged a war against working-class values.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Rubio sides with Alabama warehouse workers in Amazon union battle
Rubio sides with Alabama warehouse workers in Amazon union battle
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Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and National Review
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Prosecutors seek a slowdown in Capitol attack cases, calling probe the ‘most complex’ in history — Federal prosecutors have begun seeking 60-day delays across a series of Capitol riot cases, calling the probe “likely the most complex investigation ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.”
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Jim Garamone / U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Press Secretary Smites Fox Host That Dissed Diversity in U.S. Military — The United States military is the greatest the world has ever seen because of its diversity, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said during a news briefing this morning. — Kirby addressed this because a Fox …
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American Greatness:
One Year Later, Vindication for Lockdown Skeptics — The overwhelming majority of Americans last March acted in good faith to do what we were told was in the best interest of our country. That faith has been abused and squandered. … They want people stripped of wealth, isolated, and terrified.
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Wall Street Journal
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick won't seek reelection: 'I'm sort of term-limiting myself' — Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick says her fifth term in Congress will be her last. — Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., is expected to announce Friday that she will not seek another term representing the Tucson area …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Parliamentary Politics Has Killed Bipartisanship — Much of the conversation around bipartisanship (or the lack thereof) is rooted in the belief that it is a product of personal relationships. During the Obama-era, many GOPers blamed the president's aloofness for the lack of Republican-buy in to his policies.
New York Times:
The U.S. Is Sitting on Tens of Millions of Vaccine Doses the World Needs — Those tens of millions of doses from AstraZeneca are waiting for trial results, while countries that authorized the vaccine beg to have them. — WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of doses of the coronavirus vaccine …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Last night is why Joe Biden won the presidency — DRIVING THE DAY — Every president is eventually called upon to help us collectively grieve. — JOE BIDEN may be the first president elected to do so. — His speech Thursday night had some important policy promises …
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Washington Examiner, The Philadelphia Inquirer, NBC News and Florida Politics
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Won't Sell Books Framing LGBTQ+ Identities as Mental Illnesses — Company states policy in response to several Republican senators' inquiry over recent removal of book by conservative author — Amazon.com Inc. said it recently removed a three-year-old book about transgender issues …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
It's Morning (and Mourning) in Biden's America — Fifty-one days into his Presidency, on the first anniversary of our collective quarantine, Joe Biden pivoted to optimism. He spoke of “finding light in the darkness,” vaccines for everyone by the end of May, and a country open for barbecues by the Fourth of July.
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The American Mind:
Dear Conservative, Inc.: Follow or Get Out of the Way — The New Right is the captain now. — When the old guard goes out of its way to crush a new endeavor, you have to wonder what's at stake. Nick Solheim and Saurabh Sharma of American Moment are young, devoted, and driven to …
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National Review
David Brooks / New York Times:
Joe Biden Is a Transformational President — We're seeing a policy realignment without a partisan realignment. — This has been one of the most quietly consequential weeks in recent American politics. — The Covid-19 relief law that was just enacted is one of the most important pieces of legislation of our lifetimes.
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Bloomberg:
Want to Get Vaccinated in NYC? Try Living on the Upper East Side — A third of Upper East Side residents are vaccinated against Covid-19; a 10th in parts of Harlem — In New York City, location is everything. It matters for schools, homes and hot-dog carts. Now, it defines access to Covid-19 vaccines.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Lauren Boebert's tall tale about a man's death that led her to pack heat — “When I became a business owner, I needed to protect myself. There was an altercation outside of my restaurant where a man was physically beat to death. There were no weapons involved. He was beat to death by another man's hands.”
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Wall Street Journal:
Andrew Cuomo Aides Called Former Staffers to Discredit Accuser — Some recipients of the calls said that the outreach felt like attempts to intimidate them — In the days after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was first accused of sexual harassment by a former aide, the governor's office called …
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Madeleine Ngo / New York Times:
Biden condemns ‘vicious’ hate crimes against Asian-Americans. — President Biden on Thursday evening condemned “vicious” hate crimes against Asian-Americans, who he said have been “attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated” during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Here's a fact-check of Biden's first prime-time White House address.
Here's a fact-check of Biden's first prime-time White House address.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox News Airs ‘Live Tucker Reaction’ Box Onscreen During Biden's Major Address on Covid Pandemic — President Joe Biden spoke earlier tonight about the coronavirus pandemic and encouraging signs about the ongoing vaccine rollout. — He spoke in the 8 pm hour, during Tucker Carlson's program …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
States with Republican governors had highest Covid incidence and death rates, study finds — States with Democratic governors had the highest incidence and death rates from Covid-19 in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, but states with Republican governors surpassed those rates …
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Forbes and Political Wire
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Biden has options for the border. They're just politically painful. — President Joe Biden has a plan to tackle the rush of migrants at the southern border. But the White House knows implementing it will be political torture, sparking anger from left, told-ya-sos from the right, and endangering any slim hope for immigration reform.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 aftershocks worsen as ‘Cold War’ in the House escalates — When a catastrophic tech failure delayed the start of a hearing Thursday on the House's ability to punish its own members for misconduct, it wasn't immediately clear that it would be the high point of the afternoon session.
Glenn H. Reynolds / New York Post:
To defeat woke tyrants, the rest of us must treat them like the monsters they are — Most Americans hate woke politics — and most minorities don't share “woke” priorities. Indeed, according to pollster David Shor, woke excesses are causing black voters to flee the Democratic Party.
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Stephanie K. Baer / BuzzFeed News:
Mississippi Is Banning Trans Girls And Women From School Sports — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed into law Thursday a ban on transgender student-athletes playing girls' and women's sports, part of a wave of Republican-led efforts to exclude trans people from athletics.
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