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11:40 AM ET, March 22, 2021

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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 …
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 …
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.
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Roger Stone faces fresh scrutiny as Capitol attack investigation expands
Discussion: Raw Story
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% …
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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   Anti-Tax Lobby Seeks to Purge Democracy Supporters From the Republican Party
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:   Club for Growth takes aim at impeachment backers Cheney, Anthony Gonzalez
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: CBS News and The Hill
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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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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump: Ending the filibuster would be ‘catastrophic’ for Republican Party  —  Former President Trump is warning Republicans that any effort to abolish the Senate filibuster would cause irreparable damage to the party.  —  During an interview on the podcast “The Truth with Lisa Boothe,” …
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Douglas Schoen / The Hill:
The progressive takeover of Democratic Party continues
Discussion: Bloomberg
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 …
Discussion: Al Jazeera, IJR and UPI
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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: Wall Street Journal and RedState
fmprc.gov.cn:
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Announces Sanctions on Relevant EU Entities and Personnel  —  The European Union (EU) imposed unilateral sanctions on relevant Chinese individuals and entity on March 22, citing the so-called human rights issues in Xinjiang.  This move, based on nothing but lies …
Discussion: Politico
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Politico:
EU imposes sanctions on four Chinese officials
Discussion: Politico
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.”
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.
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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Fox News:
McCarthy hires Trump's White House political director to lead operation
Discussion: Axios and Deadline
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
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.  —  Data Suggests Dark Days Ahead For American Democracy.  —  The closing months of the 2020 election and the fiasco …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and Axios
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
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: Talking Points Memo
Shelly Banjo / Bloomberg:
N.J. Will Pause Further Reopenings as Covid Case Counts Rise  —  New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said the state will pause further rollbacks of pandemic restrictions as its case count surges to the highest in the nation.  —  Capacity at New Jersey's restaurants, gyms, salons …
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
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Pro-impeachment House Republicans object to Democratic probe of narrow Iowa race  —  House Republicans who supported impeaching former president Donald Trump have banded together for the first time since that episode to express their “extreme dismay” over Democrats challenging a race in Iowa …
 
 
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Competitive state legislative races gave Biden a boost in 2020, Democratic group finds
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Jim Clyburn is ticking off some in the White House. He's perfectly fine with that.
Discussion: New York Times
New York Times:
Biden's $1.9 Trillion Challenge: End the Coronavirus Crisis Faster
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Islands in the Stream  —  Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
Dustin Gardiner / San Francisco Chronicle:
Campaign to recall Newsom criticized for ‘Chinese’ virus rhetoric
Discussion: New York Times
Eric Kleefeld / Media Matters for America:
NBC and Fox Sunday shows featured no Asian American voices to discuss attacks on Asian Americans
Discussion: CBS Chicago and CBS News
 Earlier Items: 
Joshua Sharpe / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
What we know about the spa shooting victims
Discussion: The Hill, TheGrio and The Sun
American Greatness:
Follow The ‘Science,’ They Said  —  As a general rule, the next time an official, a politician …
Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:
Leon Black Steps Down as Apollo Chairman in Unexpected Move
Patrick Reis / Rolling Stone:
Why Obama's Climate Plan Failed. And How Biden's Could Succeed
Washington Examiner:
When does it end?  —  Sen. Rand Paul and top Biden adviser Anthony Fauci had a spat on Thursday …
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Biden's next challenge: Vaccine diplomacy
The Economist:
China is not just shackling Hong Kong, it is remaking it
Discussion: The Atlantic
Sudhi Ranjan Sen / Bloomberg:
Secret India-Pakistan Peace Roadmap Brokered by Top UAE Royals
Discussion: The Diplomat
 

 
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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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