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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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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 …
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 …
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Roger Stone faces fresh scrutiny as Capitol attack investigation expands
Discussion: Raw Story
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Pro-impeachment House Republicans object to Democratic probe of narrow Iowa race
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Competitive state legislative races gave Biden a boost in 2020, Democratic group finds
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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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Rep. Filemon Vela to retire from House ahead of Texas redistricting  —  Rep. Filemon Vela, who represents a southern Texas border district and is vice chair at the Democratic National Committee, will not run for reelection to the House next year.  —  Why it matters: Vela won his seat with 55% …
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 …
David Siders / Politico:
GOP hopefuls crank up the 'if-Trump-doesn't-run' primary  —  Mike Pompeo and Rick Scott are headed to Iowa this week and next, followed by Tim Scott in mid-April.  Mike Pence plans to visit the early primary state of South Carolina, while Ron DeSantis appears to be conducting a soft launch in his home state of Florida.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Club for Growth takes aim at impeachment backers Cheney, Anthony Gonzalez
Discussion: The Hill
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   Anti-Tax Lobby Seeks to Purge Democracy Supporters From the Republican Party
John Fritze / USA Today:
Supreme Court agrees to hear death penalty case against Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev  —  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a government appeal to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, granting review of a lower court's ruling …
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Sovereign Writers and Substack  —  Manage your Stratechery subscription.  —  There has been a bit of controversy around Substack over the last week; I'm not going to get into the specifics of various accusations made about various individuals, or their responses; however …
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
Krispy Kreme will you give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated  —  In case you needed another reason to get your COVID-19 vaccination, Krispy Kreme is sweetening the deal — it's giving free doughnuts to anyone with proof of vaccination, all year long.
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.
Discussion: CNN, CBS News and The Hill
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Trump: Republicans need ‘stronger’ and ‘better’ leadership than McConnell  —  Former President Trump said in a new interview that Republicans need “stronger” and “better” leadership than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).  —  “I think we need better leadership than Mitch McConnell …
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Ben Steverman / Bloomberg:
Richest 1% of Americans Hide a Fifth of Their Income From the IRS  —  A new study found that the IRS can miss earnings hidden in sophisticated ways.  It could support calls to give the agency more funding after years of budget cuts.  —  More than 20% of the wealthiest Americans' income …
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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
High-Income Tax Avoidance Far Larger Than Thought, New Paper Estimates
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and Axios
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Chinese Government Officials in Connection with Serious Human Rights Abuse in Xinjiang  —  WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two current Chinese government officials in connection with serious human rights abuses …
Discussion: CNN and Forbes
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Politico:
Trump looks to take down Raffensperger in Georgia  —  Former President Donald Trump on Monday endorsed Rep. Jody Hice in a campaign to unseat Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in next year's Republican primary, saying that “unlike” the incumbent, “Jody leads out front with integrity.”
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
The Technology 202: Trump plans to launch his own social network in two to three months  —  A top Trump adviser confirmed the former president is building his own social network after major tech companies suspended his accounts in the fallout of the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Trump predicted news ratings would 'tank if I'm not there.' He wasn't wrong.  —  Of all Donald Trump's prophecies and predictions — that Mexico would pay for a border wall, that coronavirus would spontaneously disappear, that he would be easily reelected — at least one wasn't entirely wrong.
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.
Mitch McConnell / Courier-Journal:
The filibuster is Kentucky's veto.  It stops radical ambitions like Yarmuth's  —  Congressman John Yarmuth likes to pretend he knows me.  He talks to reporters and writes in these pages as if he's some sort of “McConnell-whisperer.”  That's a full day's drive from reality.
Discussion: CNN and RedState
Holly Brewer / Backbencher:
The divine right of wingnuts  —  Harvard's Eric Nelson stokes a loopy monarchist movement in America.  —  2 hr ago  —  Holly Brewer is Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland and author of By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (2005).
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.
CNN:
‘He cut my underwear.  Then he did what he did’  —  Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) — Sergei stood on a small sheet of ice in the Dnieper River and breathed in the icy air hard.  He had escaped, but that relief was overwhelmed by both the pain of leaving his homeland and the fear he might not survive the rest of his perilous journey.
Lindsay Peoples Wagner / The Cut:
Abby Phillip Asks the Right Questions Media's voice of sanity and clarity, in conversation with Gayle King.  —  As the new editor-in-chief of any publication, the first cover is always a big decision.  But especially for the Cut, a place where I was an editor years ago and have such a deep love for …
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.
Discussion: Twitchy and Talking Points Memo
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Jim Clyburn is ticking off some in the White House.  He's perfectly fine with that.  —  Jim Clyburn isn't one to stick to a script.  —  The House Majority Whip from South Carolina is credited with single-handedly transforming the presidential race by endorsing Joe Biden …
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
The rioter next door: How the Dallas suburbs spawned domestic extremists  —  FRISCO, Tex. — Sunlight gleamed off the tiled roofs of the taupe mini-mansions and walkable shopping centers as March 4 dawned in this corner of North Texas.  According to specious speculations online …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
 
 
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Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Biden Determined to Tax the Rich After Windfalls From Covid Crisis
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Politico:
Vaccine mystery: Why J&J's shots aren't reaching more arms
Discussion: National Review and HotAir
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Cuomo trying to interfere with AG's sexual harassment probe, lawyer for accuser says
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Islands in the Stream  —  Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
 Earlier Items: 
Shelly Banjo / Bloomberg:
De Blasio Urges N.Y. to Follow N.J. in Pausing Reopenings
Discussion: Breitbart
Rachel / The Cycle:
Survey Finds Republican Voters' Views On Democratic “Fragility” May Contribute to Rise in Radicalism Within Party-Increased Support of Anti-Democratic Attitudes/Policies.
John Frank / Axios:
Colorado prepares to lift its COVID mask mandate
Alison Young / USA Today:
Could an accident have caused COVID-19? Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
Discussion: HotAir and Washington Post
American Greatness:
Follow The ‘Science,’ They Said  —  As a general rule, the next time an official, a politician …
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
If you're worried that journalists have learned nothing from the Trump years.
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SF couple who ran trendy poop-testing startup charged with fraud
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Prime Video users will be able to watch local PBS stations and PBS Kids for free in coming months, and two new free PBS channels with ads starting November 26

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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