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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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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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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Competitive state legislative races gave Biden a boost in 2020, Democratic group finds
Power Up: Competitive state legislative races gave Biden a boost in 2020, Democratic group finds
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Daily Kos, The Federalist and Washington Examiner
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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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.
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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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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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.”
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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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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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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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.
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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Meghana Keshavan / STAT:
What ‘Beans’ taught her parents about pediatric cancer, the need for research, and patient advocacy — On what should have been Francesca Kaczynski's first birthday, her memory was celebrated instead on national television. The ebullient baby girl, “Beans,” as she was fondly called, had died on Christmas Eve from brain cancer.
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
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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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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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New York Times
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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