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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Evidence in Capitol Attack Most Likely Supports Sedition Charges, Prosecutor Says — “I personally believe the evidence is trending toward that, and probably meets those elements,” said Michael Sherwin, who had led the Justice Department's inquiry into the riot.
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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Inside the prosecution of the Capitol rioters — Scott Pelley speaks with Michael Sherwin, the federal prosecutor who was leading the criminal investigation, the largest in U.S. history, into the assault on the Capitol. — Until this past Friday, federal prosecutor Michael Sherwin was leading …
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Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Roger Stone faces fresh scrutiny as Capitol attack investigation expands — Trump ally was not part of the 6 January riot but he had numerous contacts with key far-right groups and figures involved — As the federal investigation of the 6 January Capitol insurrection expands …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Assaulting the Truth, Ron Johnson Helps Erode Confidence in Government — Pushing false theories on the virus, the vaccine and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Mr. Johnson, the Republican senator from Wisconsin, has absorbed his party's transformation under Donald Trump.
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The New Civil Rights Movement
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Democrats are dead serious about taking back that Iowa seat — DRIVING THE DAY — Big vaccine news overnight ... CNN: “AstraZeneca vaccine is 79% effective against symptomatic Covid-19, company says” — Just weeks after blasting DONALD TRUMP for trying to overturn …
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Washington Post, HotAir, Arkansas Online and Florida Politics
David Siders / Politico:
GOP hopefuls crank up the 'if-Trump-doesn't-run' primary
GOP hopefuls crank up the 'if-Trump-doesn't-run' primary
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NBC News and The Republican Party of Iowa
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Pro-impeachment House Republicans object to Democratic probe of narrow Iowa race
Pro-impeachment House Republicans object to Democratic probe of narrow Iowa race
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and New Republic
Politico:
Trump looks to take down Raffensperger in Georgia — Former President Donald Trump is expected to endorse Rep. Jody Hice in a campaign to unseat Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in next year's Republican primary, according to three people familiar with Trump's decision.
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Fox News:
McCarthy hires Trump's White House political director to lead operation
McCarthy hires Trump's White House political director to lead operation
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump hints at launching his own social media platform
Trump hints at launching his own social media platform
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The Hill, New York Post and National Review
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Inside a crowded border patrol tent in Donna, Texas — Exclusive photos from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas, reveal the crowded, makeshift conditions at the border as the government's longer-term child shelters and family detention centers fill up.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Nearly 1,000 kids held by border patrol for more than 10 days
Scoop: Nearly 1,000 kids held by border patrol for more than 10 days
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New York Post, The Hill, Chicks On The Right, The National Pulse, Fox News and Newsy
New York Times:
AstraZeneca's Covid-19 Vaccine Is Found to Be 79% Effective in U.S. Study — The company is preparing to apply for emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. But the shot may not be needed in the United States. — The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca …
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Adrian Kemp / AstraZeneca:
AZD1222 US Phase III trial met primary efficacy endpoint in preventing COVID-19 at interim analysis — 79% vaccine efficacy at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 — 100% efficacy against severe or critical disease and hospitalisation — Comparable efficacy result across ethnicity and age,
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Jonathan Cohn / The Atlantic:
The Real Reason Republicans Couldn't Kill Obamacare — Adapted from The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage, St. Martin's Press 2021. — The Affordable Care Act, the health-care law also known as Obamacare, turns 11 years old this week.
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Tami Luhby / CNN:
Biden moves rapidly to shore up Obamacare and erase Trump's changes
Biden moves rapidly to shore up Obamacare and erase Trump's changes
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Katie Dowd / SFGATE:
SF couple who ran trendy poop-testing startup charged with fraud — Accused Atlanta gunman was a patient at evangelical treatment center... Asian woman shoved to ground, robbed in daytime Bay Area attack — Cost to vaccinate Calif soars as counties refuse Blue Shield deal
Ben Smith / New York Times:
He Redefined ‘Racist.’ Now He's Trying to Build a Newsroom. — The author Ibram Kendi and The Boston Globe team up to cover racism, inspired by Boston's 19th century abolitionist newspapers. — BOSTON — Ibram X. Kendi and Bina Venkataraman met last summer when their big Boston institutions …
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
High-Income Tax Avoidance Far Larger Than Thought, New Paper Estimates — The very top sliver of high-income Americans may underreport their income at levels far beyond what was suggested by prior IRS research, according to a new paper — WASHINGTON—The top sliver of high-income Americans …
American Greatness:
Follow The ‘Science,’ They Said — As a general rule, the next time an official, a politician, or an expert lectures us on the “science,” make sure that he is not projecting his own unscientific biases onto others. — Throughout the Trump years and in particular during the 2020 COVID pandemic crisis …
Politico:
EU imposes sanctions on four Chinese officials — The European Union Monday approved sanctions against four Chinese officials involved in running internment camps for hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs in the region of Xinjiang. — The list conspicuously avoided targeting the top Communist Party boss …
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Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:
Leon Black Steps Down as Apollo Chairman in Unexpected Move — Former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton to succeed Black as the investment giant continues governance overhaul — Leon Black, the billionaire co-founder of Apollo Global Management Inc., is stepping down as chairman of the investment giant …
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Biden's next challenge: Vaccine diplomacy — The U.S. accounts for 27% of the world's coronavirus vaccine production, but 0% of the global supply beyond its own borders. Critics and allies alike say it's time for that to change. — Why it matters: China has gotten a head start on vaccine diplomacy …
Alison Young / USA Today:
Could an accident have caused COVID-19? Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory shouldn't be dismissed — I have reported on safety lapses at elite U.S. labs. There is no reason to believe they aren't happening at labs in other countries as well. … On a warm summer evening in July 2014 …
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
How Biden quietly created a huge social program — Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo.) tapped out the longest text messages he'd ever written one night last January, urging Susan Rice, a top Biden aide and a friend, to include a full-scale anti-child poverty measure in the coronavirus rescue plan to be unveiled within days.
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John Frank / Axios:
Colorado prepares to lift its COVID mask mandate — Colorado will lift its statewide mask mandate April 4 and ease coronavirus protocols even as experts say it's not yet safe to do so. — Driving the news: Gov. Jared Polis' administration released a draft plan that takes a two-pronged approach …
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A presidential first: Biden will hold fundraiser for Bottoms this week — President Joe Biden is rewarding Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, one of his staunchest allies, with the first campaign fundraiser he's headlined since he was sworn into office two months ago.
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The Hill
Washington Examiner:
When does it end? — Sen. Rand Paul and top Biden adviser Anthony Fauci had a spat on Thursday over masks, vaccination, and reinfection. Partisans of both sides claimed victory, but the public lost because they never addressed the underlying question: — When does this all end?
Peter Beinart / The Beinart Notebook:
Stop Fueling Panic About China — In The Best and The Brightest, David Halberstam tells the story of a lunch between two Kennedy administration officials and the sociologist David Riesman in 1961. The Kennedy men boasted that their administration was both escalating and regulating the cold war.
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Responsible Statecraft
Sudhi Ranjan Sen / Bloomberg:
Secret India-Pakistan Peace Roadmap Brokered by Top UAE Royals — UAE last month helped forge deal to respect 2003 cease-fire — Reinstating envoys next step of broader peace plan: official — About 24 hours after military chiefs from India and Pakistan surprised the world …
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The Diplomat
Patrick Reis / Rolling Stone:
Why Obama's Climate Plan Failed. And How Biden's Could Succeed — Barbara Boxer was in Greenland in July 2007, watching chunks of ice slide off glaciers into the rising ocean. She had brought Republican senators there with her, hoping a first-person confrontation with climate change would persuade them to take action.
The Economist:
China is not just shackling Hong Kong, it is remaking it — And it does not think global finance will object — For most of its modern history, Hong Kong had no time for nostalgia. Little remains of the Victorian mansions or art-deco towers that once flanked its harbour.