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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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Washington Post, HuffPost, CNN, IJR, Talking Points Memo, The Guardian, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, Forbes, USA Today and Insider
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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The Hill, National Review, Townhall and Florida Politics
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
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 to retire from House ahead of Texas redistricting
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The Texas Tribune, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire
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
Club for Growth takes aim at impeachment backers Cheney, Anthony Gonzalez
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The Hill
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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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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Nandita Bose / Reuters:
Biden aides had ties to large tech companies, disclosures show
Biden aides had ties to large tech companies, disclosures show
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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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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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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court will consider restoring the Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence
Supreme Court will consider restoring the Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence
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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.”
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.
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Wall Street Journal and RedState
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
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
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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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Talking Points Memo
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 …
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The Daily Caller
Shelly Banjo / Bloomberg:
De Blasio Urges N.Y. to Follow N.J. in Pausing Reopenings — Murphy to will ease restrictions ‘safely and responsibly’ — NYC Mayor says Cuomo should also stop easing restrictions — New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said he's holding off on easing more pandemic restrictions …
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 …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Democrats' Immigration Problem — We explain the Biden administration's early struggles on immigration policy. — For most of the past few decades, the Democratic Party had a pretty clear stance on immigration. It favored a mix of enforcement (like border security and the deportation …
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POLITICUSUSA, TheBlaze, The Lid, The Federalist, Louder With Crowder and NPR
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Cuomo trying to interfere with AG's sexual harassment probe, lawyer for accuser says — A lawyer for one of the women who have accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment charged Monday that he is trying to interfere with a state attorney general's office investigation of the womens' claims.
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Islands in the Stream — Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work. — As soon as they crossed into Serbia, the map on his phone went blank. — Damon Krukowski was driving with his wife, Naomi Yang. They were two-thirds of the late-'80s indie …
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Competitive state legislative races gave Biden a boost in 2020, Democratic group finds — Good Monday morning. Happy (belated) Nowruz and never doubt Sister Jean. This is the Power Up newsletter - thanks for waking up with us. — 🚨: “Oxford University and AstraZeneca reported …
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The Federalist and Washington Examiner
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 …
Eric Kleefeld / Media Matters for America:
NBC and Fox Sunday shows featured no Asian American voices to discuss attacks on Asian Americans — NBC's Chuck Todd admitted that the “collective political intelligentsia” hadn't been listening to Asian American voices — even while he didn't bring any on Meet the Press
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