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7:45 AM ET, March 16, 2021

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Washington Post:
Capitol Police officer suspended after antisemitic document found at checkpoint  —  U.S. Capitol Police suspended an officer Monday after a copy of an infamous antisemitic tract was found near a Capitol Hill security post Sunday, alarming a congressional aide who viewed the document in plain sight at the checkpoint.
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Washington Post:
Two arrested in assault on police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died after Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Kathy Hochul, Cuomo's Loyal Lieutenant, Is Tested as Crisis Engulfs Him  —  Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul would become New York's first female governor if Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns or is removed from office amid sexual harassment allegations.  —  BUFFALO — On the day that embattled Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo lost …
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Paul Berger / Wall Street Journal:
Congressman Urges Safety Probe of Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge
Discussion: New York Post and Fox News
New York Times:
Can Biden Stay on the Sidelines of the Andrew Cuomo Saga?
Discussion: Associated Press and NBC News
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:   Gov. Andrew Cuomo Should Not Resign, Say Half of New Yorkers in a Poll
Jacques Billeaud / Associated Press:
Judge: Arizona GOP must pay $18K in groundless election suit  —  PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Republican Party and its lawyers must pay $18,000 in attorneys' fees that taxpayers were forced to pick up late last year to defend government officials against one of the party's failed lawsuits …
Discussion: Forbes and Washington Examiner
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Judge orders Arizona GOP to pay $18K in failed presidential election lawsuits
Discussion: Law & Crime
Rep. Debbie Lesko / Washington Examiner:
The Biden-made border crisis  —  There is a crisis at our southern border, and President Biden's immigration policies are responsible.  Biden has halted border wall construction, released illegal immigrants into our communities, and promised amnesty for millions more.
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Washington Post:
Biden faces growing political threat from border upheaval
Associated Press:
US to house up to 3,000 immigrant teens at Dallas site
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Marjorie Taylor Greene tours Orthodox spots in Brooklyn  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was stripped of her House committee assignments last month for antisemitic and other incendiary comments, toured Orthodox areas of Brooklyn and Long Island on Monday, according to a community leader who hosted her.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Progressives: Dems must choose between Black voters and the filibuster  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Get rid of the filibuster, or allow Republicans to disenfranchise millions of Black and brown voters who put President JOE BIDEN in office.  —  Senate Democrats may or may not agree …
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Coca-Cola, Home Depot come out in opposition to Georgia voting restrictions  —  Civil liberties groups are ratcheting up pressure on major corporations based in Georgia — including Coca-Cola, Aflac, Delta Air Lines, Home Depot and UPS — to oppose a Republican-led effort to make it harder to vote in the Peach State.
Ron Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
I Won't Be Silenced by the Left  —  They twisted what I said about Jan. 6 because they want Americans to forget last summer's violence and destruction.  —  I'm amazed but not surprised.  Those who seek political advantage by dividing the nation hurl the worst possible accusations …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Vindman twin set for promotion after bad evaluations from Trump appointees  —  Army Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman is set to be promoted to full colonel, despite attempts by loyalists to former President Donald Trump to derail his career following his bit role in the president's first impeachment …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Manu Raju / CNN:
Manchin signals he'll support Gupta as No. 3 at DOJ, bolstering her chance at confirmation  —  (CNN)Sen. Joe Manchin, the key Democratic swing vote, said Monday that he will likely support Vanita Gupta as the No. 3 at the Justice Department, taking a stance that is expected to pave …
Jacob Shamsian / Yahoo News:
Trump's CFO's ex-daughter-in-law is cooperating with prosecutors and ‘refuses to be silenced,’ her lawyer says  — Jennifer Weisselberg is cooperating with an investigation into Trump's finances, her lawyer says.  — She's the ex-daughter-in-law of Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Org CFO the DA wants to “flip.”
Discussion: Raw Story
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
An unlikely Trump turncoat shows the GOP way to resist his influence  —  Jaime Herrera Beutler is not one to make waves on Capitol Hill.  But during Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, she almost created a tsunami.  —  After she publicly revealed damaging details about Trump's phone call …
Politico:
Biden under pressure to tap fewer political ambassadors than Trump, Obama  —  Donald Trump named more of his political allies to serve as ambassadors than any president in modern history.  Now the pressure is on Joe Biden to reverse that trend — and set a new standard.
Deena Winter / Minnesota Reformer:
Chauvin attorney seeks delay, prospective juror dismissed after city settles with Floyd family  —  The defense lawyer for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin made a flurry of motions Monday morning in response to an unprecedented $27 million settlement agreement announced Friday …
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Susan Du / Star Tribune:
In Minneapolis, business owners in George Floyd Square plead for safety
Discussion: Raw Story, HotAir, TheBlaze and CNN
MSNBC:
Gavin Newsom commits to nominating an African American woman to Senate if Dianne Feinstein retires  —  Asked if he would consider nominating an African American woman to restore the seat left by Vice President Kamala Harris in the Senate if Dianne Feinstein were to retire, Governor Gavin Newsom said …
Discussion: HuffPost and The Hill
Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Steve Bannon loses bid to start right-wing political academy in Italy  —  ROME (Reuters) - Steve Bannon, the former adviser to ex-U.S. President Donald Trump, has lost a legal battle to set up a right-wing Catholic political academy in an abbey in Italy.  —  The Council of State on Monday ruled …
Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
Shot Chasers: How Officials in Trump's Lame-Duck White House Scrambled to Score COVID-19 Vaccinations  —  In late December and early January, as COVID-19 vaccines were just beginning their chaotic rollout to the states, a secretive scramble took place inside the Trump White House.
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Insider and Raw Story
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Jared Kushner Says Farewell to U.S. Taxpayers With $24,000 Hotel Tab  —  THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES  —  About four weeks before Donald Trump vacated the White House to make way for President Joe Biden, presidential adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner jetted off on his last official trip to Israel …
Discussion: HuffPost
Damon Linker / The Week:
What the woke revolution is — and isn't  —  The Great Awokening is gathering speed.  —  Hardly a week — and sometimes barely a day or an hour — goes by without a fresh incident of “cancel culture” or another “woke” scandal breaking in the news.  —  Whether you think the trend a good thing …
JW Mason / J. W. Mason:
The American Rescue Plan as Economic Theory  —  So, this happened.  —  Some people are frustrated about the surrender on the minimum wage, the scaled-back unemployment insurance, the child tax credit that should have been a universal child allowance, the fact that most of the good things phase out over the nest year or two.
Discussion: Salon
Renée DiResta / The Atlantic:
The Misinformation Campaign Was Distinctly One-Sided  —  On the morning of September 21, 2020, three trays of United States mail were discovered in a ditch in Greenville, Wisconsin.  The local sheriff's office reported that the mail dump included several absentee ballots.
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Audio shows the media got the Trump-Georgia story all wrong  —  It's one thing if a single news outlet botches an anonymously sourced “scoop.”  It's another thing entirely if multiple newsrooms claim to have independently “confirmed” the botched “scoop” with anonymous sources of their own.
Jessie Balmert / Cincinnati.com:
Super PAC supporting potential Senate candidate J.D. Vance gets $10M donation from PayPal cofounder  —  COLUMBUS - PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel donated $10 million to a super PAC supporting Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance, a show of support for the possible Ohio Senate contender.
Politico:
Rage against the ‘gaffe machine’  —  Presented by the Bipartisan Policy Center & U.S. Chamber of Commerce  —  Welcome to POLITICO's 2021 Transition Playbook, your guide to the first 100 days of the Biden administration  —  JOE BIDEN, disciplined messenger?  —  Two and a half months in, that's undoubtedly the case.
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Catholic Order Pledges $100 Million to Atone for Slave Labor and Sales  —  The move by Jesuit priests is the largest such effort by the Roman Catholic Church and comes amid growing calls for reparations across the United States.  —  [To read more stories on race from The New York Times, sign up here for our Race/Related newsletter.]
Discussion: The Week
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
Needing to sell the Covid bill, the White House calls in Dr. Jill  —  BURLINGTON, N.J. — A rubber-floored playground outside an elementary school in a small city in central New Jersey may not seem like the most traditional of political settings.  But on a windy, cold afternoon on Monday …
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Hammer / The National Interest:
Israel's New Election: No One Else but Bibi … The oft-cited philosophical principle of “Occam's razor” translates to the notion that the simplest explanation for a causal phenomenon is, more often than not, the correct one.  In the context of electoral politics, a natural corollary of …
The National Pulse:
EXC: Teen Vogue's New Editor Alexi McCammond Ranted About “Blacks”, Dressed As Native American.  —  The National Pulse has uncovered additional historical tweets from Teen Vogue's new editor - Alexi McCammond, already under fire for a host of old anti-Asian, homophobic posts.
 
 
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Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
Cap on Trident nuclear warhead stockpile to rise by more than 40%
Discussion: Politico
Thomas Chatterton Williams / Law & Liberty:
Encountering Thomas Sowell
Joshua Goodman / Associated Press:
African court orders release of ally of Maduro wanted by US
Mustafa Khalifa / Newlines Magazine:
After 13 Years in Syrian Prisons, I Knew Assad Would Win
Grant Schulte / Associated Press:
Nebraska declares pro-meat day on Colorado meatless day
Bart Barnes / Washington Post:
Brian Barger, journalist who helped unravel Iran-contra scandal, dies at 68
 Earlier Items: 
Rod Dreher:
US Military: Social Justice Warriors
Discussion: pjmedia.com and Instapundit
Associated Press:
'I don't need the vaccine': GOP worries threaten virus fight
Discussion: The Week and Washington Post
Politico:
Capitol riot suspect ordered detained after a hearing featuring daughter's testimony
Discussion: CNN
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
CNN Anchor Brianna Keilar Slams Fox News' Vaccine Skepticism Bullshit
Discussion: HuffPost and CNN
Joseph Cox / VICE:
A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16
CNN:
Vatican says it will not bless same-sex unions, calling them a ‘sin’