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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
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump hints at launching his own social media platform — Former President Donald Trump teased the launch of his own social media platform in a new interview, but did not provide a timeline or offer any further details regarding the potential business venture.
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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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NBC News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Hill
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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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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Financial Times, Associated Press, National Review, The Verge and NBC 6 South Florida
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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?
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.
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
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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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 …
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 …
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.
Yuichiro Kakutani / Washington Free Beacon:
Cornell University, Pursuing Partnership with China, Can't Say Whether Beijing is Guilty of Genocide — Struggling to tamp down a faculty revolt over a joint degree program funded by the Chinese government, Cornell University won't say whether that government is committing genocide against a Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region.