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Washington Post:
New York's vaccine czar called county officials to gauge their loyalty to Cuomo amid sexual harassment investigation — New York's “vaccine czar” — a longtime adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo — phoned county officials in the past two weeks in attempts to gauge their loyalty …
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New York Times:
As Cuomo Reels, Pleas for Political Support Come From His Vaccine Czar — Larry Schwartz, whom Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo put in charge of the state's vaccination efforts, called some county executives about support for the governor. — At the height of the pandemic, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called upon …
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Politico:
Trump was supposed to be a political Godzilla in exile. Instead, he's adrift. — He backed away from creating a third party and has soured on the costly prospect of launching his own TV empire or social media startup. — His vow to target disloyal Republicans with personally-recruited primary challengers …
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Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, The Week, Mock Paper Scissors and Eschaton
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Massive Facebook study on users' doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role in pushing the skepticism — Internal study finds a QAnon connection and that content that doesn't break the rules may be causing ‘substantial’ harm — Facebook is conducting a vast behind …
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Raw Story, Washington Monthly and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
House Democrats draw the line: No bipartisan cooperation with Republicans who questioned the election — WASHINGTON - Freshman Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a Democrat, has begun turning to an unusual source when trying to decide whether he wants to work with a Republican he thinks makes a good point during committee hearings: Google.
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RedState, CNN and Los Angeles Times
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
Democrat Abrams urges lifting filibuster for U.S. election reform bill
Democrat Abrams urges lifting filibuster for U.S. election reform bill
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Fox News, NBC News, HotAir, The Guardian and IJR
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Backlog of migrant children in Border Patrol custody soars to 4,200, with 3,000 held past legal limit — As of Sunday morning, U.S. Border Patrol was holding more than 4,200 unaccompanied migrant children in short-term holding facilities, including jail-like stations unfit to house minors …
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RedState, Political Wire, The Hill and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Nicole Narea / Vox:
The growing number of children in custody on the US-Mexico border, explained
The growing number of children in custody on the US-Mexico border, explained
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New York Times, CNBC, Fox News, Forbes and Breitbart
Jeremy Fassler / Kansas Reflector:
Kobach teamed up with Wichita businessman to sell COVID-killing device. An investigation found no validity to their claims. — NEW YORK CITY — In early October, Kris Kobach, Kansas' former Secretary of State, and Daniel Drake, a Wichita-based venture capitalist-turned-CEO, made a sales pitch to Kansas legislators.
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Raw Story
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Piers Morgan Can't Wait to Bring the Worst of America Home — British TV executives see opportunity — and money to be made — in bringing American cable-style clashes to their screens. — When Piers Morgan stormed off the set of “Good Morning Britain” last week as a Black colleague chided him for …
Victoria Guida / Politico:
How Trump's team amassed a $1 trillion war chest for Biden to deploy — Republicans are bashing the new $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package for further ballooning the federal debt, but it's the Trump administration that greased the path for a smooth federal spending spree.
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Raw Story
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Pentagon may reverse gender-neutral physical fitness test for US army soldiers — A new test has been scoring men and women on the same basis - but more than half of women are failing — The US Army is considering a reversal of its new gender-neutral physical test to instead include different evaluation categories for men and women.
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New York Times:
Police Shrugged Off the Proud Boys, Until They Attacked the Capitol — Two Proud Boys accused of leading a mob to Congress followed a bloody path to get there. Law enforcement did little to stop them. — A protester was burning an American flag outside the 2016 Republican convention in Cleveland when Joseph Biggs rushed to attack.
Kadia Goba / Axios:
Vaccine brawl riles House — Uncertainty about why only 75% of the House is confirmed as vaccinated against the coronavirus is fueling a debate about when the chamber can return to its normal rules of operation. — Between the lines: The other 25% of members have either refused to get the vaccine …
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Navy probe finds contractor charged in Capitol insurrection was well-known Nazi sympathizer — (CNN)An Army reservist charged with storming the US Capitol was a well-known White supremacist and Nazi sympathizer at the Navy base where he worked as a contractor, and was even rebuked for sporting a distinctive …
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The Times of Israel
Jason Morris / CNN:
Officials located December recording of Trump call in a trash folder on Georgia investigator's device — (CNN)Officials in the Georgia Secretary of State's Office located a recently released recording of former President Donald Trump's call to a state investigator in a trash folder on her device …
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Raw Story and Washington Post
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Online harassment of female journalists is real, and it's increasingly hard to endure — Julia Carrie Wong remembers a time, years ago, when she felt that being a part of digital culture was fun. — “I used to really enjoy online spaces, having a personality and a voice,” …
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The Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
Jared Kushner / Wall Street Journal:
Opportunity Beckons in the Mideast — The Biden administration called Iran's bluff early. It should continue to play the strong hand it was dealt. — The geopolitical earthquake that began with the Abraham Accords hasn't ended. More than 130,000 Israelis have visited Dubai since President Trump hosted …
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Breitbart and Just The News
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
As Gov. Cuomo Faces Calls to Resign, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul Treads Lightly — New York's lieutenant governor has focused on representing the administration at public events around the state — As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo fights for his political life, the woman in line to succeed …
Hannah Miao / CNBC:
Georgia voting rights activists pressure big corporations to oppose GOP-backed ballot restrictions — Civil rights and activist groups are turning up the pressure on large Georgia companies like Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines to oppose sweeping voting restrictions proposed by Republican state legislators.
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Daily Kos, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Political Wire
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Gov. Abbott Suggests Election Reform Bill Could Allow Use of ‘Cocaine to Buy Votes’ — ‘ABSOLUTELY EXTRAORDINARY!’ — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suggested on Sunday that H.R. 1, the sweeping election-reform bill recently passed by the House of Representatives, could eventually result in Democrats “using cocaine to buy votes.”
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Mock Paper Scissors
Washington Post:
What used cars tell us about the risk of too much inflation hitting the economy — Nationwide, used car prices soared 17 percent nationally in seven months last year — the most of any product. — When the coronavirus pandemic upended automobile supply chains last year …
Financial Times:
Stripe valuation soars to $95bn after latest fundraising — Payments provider becomes Silicon Valley's most valuable private company — Stripe has become the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced, after investors struck a deal valuing the online payments processor at $95bn.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Capitol rioter boasted he could access powerful weapons to ‘take back’ country, prosecutors say — A Texas man who joined a mob at the Capitol on Jan. 6 told two rioters he had set up a security company as a front to access law enforcement-grade weaponry that could be used to “take back our country …
Fox News:
Biden breaks his silence on Cuomo sexual harassment scandal, declines to call for his resignation — Eric Shawn: Gov. Andrew Cuomo is friendless and ‘no one has ever liked him’ — President Joe Biden broke his silence on Governor Andrew Cuomo's sexual harassment scandal on Sunday …
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Associated Press and Washington Examiner
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden stiffs the Sunday shows — DRIVING THE DAY — President JOE BIDEN just signed the first BFD of his administration — a massive Covid relief bill to boost the fortunes of everyday Americans. But you barely heard a peep about it from his own administration on the Sunday shows.
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Mock Paper Scissors, Washington Post and The Week