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Stephanie K. Baer / BuzzFeed News:
The Cop Who Said The Spa Shooter Had “A Bad Day” Previously Posted A Racist Shirt Blaming China For The Pandemic  —  The Georgia sheriff's official who said the man accused of killing six Asian women and two others in shootings at spas in the Atlanta area had “a bad day” previously shared a photo of racist T-shirts on social media.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Week
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Shaddi Abusaid / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Cops: Shooting suspect says he targeted spas because of sexual addiction  —  Cherokee sheriff says 21-year-old bought gun hours earlier  —  Cherokee County Sheriff Frank Reynolds said Wednesday the suspect in a metro Atlanta spa shooting spree that killed eight people bought the gun he used hours earlier.
The Daily Beast:
Georgia Sheriff Spokesman Posted Racist COVID Shirts on Facebook  —  Jay Baker incited outrage on Wednesday when he said the 21-year-old who admitted to murdering eight people at Asian massage parlors was having “a really bad day.” … A Cherokee County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office spokesperson …
NBC News:
7 killed in 3 shootings at Georgia massage parlor, spas
WTTG-TV:
DC police say Texas man arrested at VP's mansion had rifle, large capacity clip  —  Police: Armed man arrested near VP residence  —  WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - D.C. police say a man they arrested outside of the Vice President's residence on Wednesday afternoon had a rifle and a large capacity clip.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Capitol attacker arrested outside of vice presidential residence had car full of weapons to ‘take care of his problem’  —  NBC 4 News reporter Scott MacFarlane reported Wednesday that another attacker of the U.S. Capitol was arrested, but the man appears to have been outside the residence …
CNBC:
Man wanted by police arrested near residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, gun and ammo found in car  — A Texas man wanted by the police was stopped by the U.S. Secret Service and arrested Wednesday afternoon near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Bloomberg:
IRS Delays U.S. Tax Deadline to May 17 After Disruptive Year  — Tax law changes, late start contributed to filing-season chaos  — The IRS also delayed the due date last year amid pandemic  —  The Internal Revenue Service is delaying the April 15 tax-filing deadline to May 17 …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Biden just fired a warning shot at Mitch McConnell and Republicans  —  Mark it down.  President Biden has now declared in his most explicit terms yet that Democrats may soon face a stark choice: reform the filibuster or accept that their agenda is a dead letter.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans: End the Filibuster, and We'll Punish America By Enacting Our Agenda  —  A spectre is haunting the Republican party.  And that spectre, oddly enough, is a future world in which Republicans control government and pass bills that they campaigned on.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Raw Story
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Kentucky legislature limits governor's Senate appointment power
Discussion: Political Wire
Houston Keene / Fox News:
DHS Sec. Mayorkas, in tense exchange, calls GOP congresswoman's question ‘extraordinarily disrespectful’  —  Mayorkas in hot seat as Biden admin faces migrant surge at US-Mexico border  —  Rep. McCaul grills DHS Sec Mayorkas about characterization of border situation
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Biden administration limits what Border Patrol can share with media about migrant surge at border
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Border Patrol agents are ‘working to sabotage the Biden administration’, according to insiders
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Biden talks Cuomo, Putin, migrants, vaccine in ABC News exclusive interview  —  He even gave an update on whether Major Biden is out of the dog house.  —  EXCLUSIVE: Biden says Cuomo should resign if investigation confirms women's claims  —  Biden stopped short of calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to step down immediately.
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David Lat / Original Jurisdiction:
Is Viet Dinh The Most Powerful Lawyer In America?  —  Reports of his power are greatly exaggerated, says Fox's top lawyer - but there's no denying that he's had a most interesting and impressive career.  —  6 hr ago … Who is the most powerful lawyer in America?
Discussion: Variety
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The Trump-Tucker cold war has begun
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Raw Story and New Republic
Politico:
Republicans on Biden's Covid bill: We bungled this one  —  As President Joe Biden embarks on an ambitious plan to sell his massive coronavirus relief package to the public, conservatives are starting to ask: Did we botch this?  —  The overwhelming sentiment within the Republican Party …
Politico:
‘Behave like grown-ups’: Conservative rebellion boils over in House  —  A leading Republican hard-liner clashed behind closed doors with House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday, exposing a rift in the Republican conference and suggesting that a chamber-rattling floor protest by the far right isn't fading anytime soon.
Discussion: Washington Post
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
The Princeton Historian Mugged by Reality  —  On December 7, 2019, an American graduate student named Xiyue Wang was freed after 40 months in an Iranian prison.  His captors roused him in his cell early that morning and put him on a plane to Zurich.  The Swiss had offered to mediate a trade …
Discussion: HotAir, National Review and Instapundit
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
John Magufuli, Tanzanian president elected as an agent of reform, dies at 61  —  John Magufuli, who presided over an increasingly authoritarian regime as president of Tanzania and, during the final year of his reign, rejected scientific evidence of the coronavirus pandemic …
New York Times:
Proud Boys Leaders in Four States Are Charged in Capitol Riot  —  Prosecutors accused prominent members of the far-right nationalist group of conspiring together in connection with the Jan. 6 attack.  —  WASHINGTON — F.B.I. agents have arrested two organizers for the Proud Boys in Philadelphia …
HuffPost:
Florida Man Charged For Attacking Cops During Capitol Riot While Wearing ‘Trump’ Flag Jacket  —  Robert Scott Palmer, known to online sleuths as #FloridaFlagJacket, was arrested by the FBI following a HuffPost investigation revealing his identity.  —  Federal authorities have charged …
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
CNN:
US intelligence report says election fraud claims ‘will almost certainly’ spur more violence by domestic extremists  —  He warned about right-wing extremism in 2009.  Hear his analysis now  —  (CNN)US intelligence agencies believe that “narratives of fraud in the recent general election” …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
ODNI, DOJ and DHS Release Unclassified Summary of Assessment on Domestic Violent Extremism
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
House passes bill reviving the Equal Rights Amendment  —  The House approved legislation on Wednesday that would revive the Equal Rights Amendment by repealing the 1982 deadline imposed on states to ratify it.  —  The bill passed 222-204 with four GOP votes but faces an uncertain fate in the Senate …
Discussion: NBC News and National Review
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Washington Post:
House votes to reauthorize landmark Violence Against Women Act
Associated Press:
A good boy again: Biden's dog will return to the White House  —  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — There is Major breaking news: President Joe Biden's wayward pup is no longer in the doghouse.  —  Biden, in an interview that aired Wednesday, said that his dog Major, who had been involved …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Omarosa Manigault Newman can't force Trump to testify in lawsuit, judge rules
Discussion: Raw Story
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Republicans seize on immigration as border crossings surge  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Delegation trips to the border.  Apocalyptic warnings.  A flurry of press conferences.  —  Republicans still divided over former President Donald Trump's legacy are seizing on his signature campaign issue …
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Fox News Says Washington Post Story Published After Georgia Runoffs Could Have Swayed Georgia Runoffs  —  Fox News hosts raised a disturbing prospect on Wednesday: The false Washington Post story on Donald Trump's call with a Georgia elections official, which was corrected this week …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Army denies medals, Special Forces insignia, to soldier Trump pardoned for alleged murder  —  WASHINGTON - The Army has rejected an appeal to return medals for valor to retired Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, a Special Forces soldier former President Trump pardoned for alleged murder in Afghanistan.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
How a new government report strongly implicates Giuliani in a Russian interference effort  —  By early May 2019, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani must have looked like the international espionage equivalent of a wide-eyed tourist walking around with his wallet hanging out his back pocket.
Substack Blog:
Substack is for independent writers  —  In recent days, we've heard from some people who are concerned that we might have been using Substack Pro, a program that funds writers to start publications on Substack, to support anti-trans writers.  These feelings have been fueled by some misunderstandings …
Wall Street Journal:
China Plans to Ask U.S. to Roll Back Trump Policies in Alaska Meeting  —  For the first high-level session with Biden's team, Beijing brings an agenda far apart from Washington's  —  Beijing plans to press Washington to reverse many of the policies targeting China introduced during …
Discussion: National Review and Foreign Policy
OpenSecrets.org:
‘Dark money’ topped $1 billion in 2020, largely boosting Democrats  —  March 15-21 is Sunshine Week, a national initiative celebrating open government and access to public records.  Undisclosed spending by political actors undermines transparency and voters' ability to make informed decisions.
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
J.D. Vance Joins the Jackals  —  How the path-breaking writer became a Trumpist troll.  —  The question of what will become of the Republican party in the post-Trump era seems to be on everyone's lips.  A New York Times survey found that Republicans themselves have five distinct views of Trump …
Kurt Bardella / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed: Trump and the GOP put a bull's-eye on the backs of Asian Americans  —  A new report released by Stop AAPI Hate revealed that since March 19, 2020, there have been 3,795 hate incidents targeting Asian Americans.  That figure barely scratches the surface as most hate crimes go unreported.
Neil W. McCabe / Tennessee Star:
Exclusive: Maskless Climate Envoy Kerry Endangers Passengers on Boston to DC Flight  —  John Forbes Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, while sitting in first-class, took off his mask today as he settled into his book moments before his American Airlines flight from Boston to Washington took off.
Kelly Bauer / Block Club Chicago:
Chicago Hospital Executive Bragged About Vaccinating Eric Trump On Day His Hospital Vaccinated Workers At Trump Tower  —  Hospital officials said their doctor's relationship with Trump and his owning a condo in Trump Tower had nothing to do with the improper vaccine event.
 
 
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Jeremy Duda / Arizona Mirror:
Redistricting Commission chooses city council aide as executive director
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Wall Street Journal:
Bernie Sanders Targets CEO Pay in Effort to Keep Spotlight on Workers
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Inside the U.S.-Israel talks on Iran
Hen Mazzig / Newsweek:
The Grammys Proved You Can't Get Canceled for Anti-Semitism
Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
White Supremacists, Conspiracy Theorists Are Targeting Cell Towers, Police Warn
Darius Tahir / Politico:
Vaccine passports pose ethical thicket for Biden administration
Discussion: HotAir
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
The former Trump official advising House Republicans on immigration
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