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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 …
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Washington Post, Fox News, The Hill and Florida Politics
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
Roger Stone faces fresh scrutiny as Capitol attack investigation expands
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Raw Story
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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IJR, New Republic and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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% …
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The Hill, The Texas Tribune, Breitbart, CNN, New York Post, National Review and Political Wire
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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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden Team Preparing Up to $3 Trillion in New Spending for the Economy — A pair of proposals would invest in infrastructure, education, work force development and fighting climate change, with the aim of making the economy more productive. — WASHINGTON — President Biden's economic advisers …
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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Washington Post, NBC News, Outside the Beltway and The Republican Party of Iowa
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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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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.
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USA Today, NBC4 Washington, HotAir, Business Wire and CBS Denver
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 …
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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.
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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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump: Ending the filibuster would be ‘catastrophic’ for Republican Party
Trump: Ending the filibuster would be ‘catastrophic’ for Republican Party
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Axios, HillReporter.com, Mediaite and POLITICUSUSA
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Boston bomber Tsarnaev's death sentence appeal to be heard by Supreme Court — The death penalty had originally been sought by the Obama administration — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeals his death sentence — The Supreme Court announced Monday that they will hear federal …
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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).
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.
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump returning to social media with ‘his own platform’ in 2-3 months: adviser — Jason Miller tells Fox News' ‘#MediaBuzz’ the platform will ‘completely redefine the game’ — Trump adviser Jason Miller says former president starting social media platform
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
The Technology 202: Trump plans to launch his own social network in two to three months
The Technology 202: Trump plans to launch his own social network in two to three months
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The Daily Caller, Chicks On The Right, Forbes and The Verge
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 …
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
U.S., allies announce sanctions on China over Uyghur ‘genocide’ — The United States and its allies in Canada, Britain and the European Union on Monday announced sanctions on several Chinese officials alleged to have links to what U.S. officials say is a genocidal campaign against Uyghur Muslims.
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Government of Canada, Associated Press, euronews and CNBC
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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 …
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.”
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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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Republican Dan Crenshaw goes down in flames during debate with MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan — MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan went after Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on Twitter this week after a Fox News appearance in which he twisted data about border crossings to score points.
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New York Post, Crooks and Liars and The Wrap
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.
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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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.
Politico:
Vaccine mystery: Why J&J's shots aren't reaching more arms — Johnson & Johnson's single-shot Covid vaccine was supposed to be the catalyst for the country's return to normal. Instead, it's sparking confusion and finger-pointing between the states and the Biden administration over why millions of doses are sitting unused.
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National Review and HotAir
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 …
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Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars and New York Times
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 …
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HotAir and Washington Post
Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
Biden Determined to Tax the Rich After Windfalls From Covid Crisis — Key aides have worked on proposals to tax wealthy for years — Impetus for revamping tax regime grew with ‘K-shaped’ recovery — President Joe Biden's economic team at the White House is determined …
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Insider, The Hill, Wall Street Journal and POLITICUSUSA
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Meet Wyoming's New Black Sheriff, the First in State History — The appointment is symbolic for both Wyoming and the Mountain West, which has been insulated from much of the national reckoning over race and policing. — LARAMIE, Wyo. — Ask Aaron Appelhans if he ever wanted to be a sheriff, and he'll say no.
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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