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CNN:
Birx recalls ‘very difficult’ phone call from Trump following her Covid-19 warnings — (CNN)Dr. Deborah Birx revealed in a CNN documentary clip released Sunday that she received a “very uncomfortable” and “very difficult” phone call from Donald Trump after speaking publicly about the spread …
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Talking Points Memo and KRDO
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Maeve Reston / CNN:
Birx shares her chilling conclusion as America arrives at a moment of introspection on the coronavirus
Birx shares her chilling conclusion as America arrives at a moment of introspection on the coronavirus
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The Guardian, KRDO, Forbes, Balloon Juice, The Daily Beast, New York Times, Raw Story, Insider and New York Post
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Birx tells CNN most U.S. covid deaths ‘could have been mitigated’ after first 100,000
Birx tells CNN most U.S. covid deaths ‘could have been mitigated’ after first 100,000
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Rolling Stone, The Week and Mediaite
Politico:
'He's toast': GOP leaves Raffensperger twisting in the wind — The former president is obsessed with defeating him next year. He's getting mauled by his own state party. Last week alone, a Republican congressman announced he'd challenge in the primary and the state legislature voted to strip his office of some official powers.
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CNN, HuffPost, Mock Paper Scissors, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Talking Points Memo
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Biden receives high marks on COVID-19, lags on immigration, guns: POLL — There are warning signs for Biden's “long-term” agenda, a new poll finds. — Pressure remains on what to do about crisis at the border — A delegation of Congressional Republicans, who visited a detention center …
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The Hill and New York Post
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Kelly Mena / CNN:
Former Trump chief of staff calls ex-President's Capitol riot claims ‘manifestly false’ — (CNN)The former chief of staff to ex-President Donald Trump on Saturday pushed back against his former boss' recent attempt to whitewash the history of the January 6 Capitol riot.
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Insider, HillReporter.com and The Hill
Washington Post:
‘Vaccine passports’ are on the way, but developing them won't be easy — White House-led effort tries to corral more than a dozen initiatives — The Biden administration and private companies are working to develop a standard way of handling credentials — often referred to as …
New York Post:
Everything Biden and his top people are saying about the border is a bald-faced lie — From President Joe Biden on down, the administration is telling nonstop, bald-faced lies about the border crisis — while trying to stop the media from reporting the truth. — Biden insists the surge is normal, when it's setting records.
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New Yorker, TheBlaze, Fox News and Liberty Unyielding
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Sidney Powell's ‘Just Kidding’ Defense Is Seriously, Literally Nuts — When people enter into the political arena, invent crazy conspiracy theories, and stoke violence and sedition, millions of Americans do take them seriously. … During the 2016 presidential campaign …
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Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Brad Polumbo / Washington Examiner:
We need to stop overlooking one politically incorrect COVID-19 death factor — The United States has the 13th highest COVID-19 death rate relative to population. Many different factors shaped death rates in the pandemic. But there's one uncomfortable reason that the U.S. likely experienced …
Chris Libonati / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Jack Schultz, longest serving DeWitt judge, local lawyer, dies at 93 — DeWitt, N.Y. — Jack Schultz, who was DeWitt town judge for 35 years, died Thursday. He was 93 years old. — Schultz served as judge from 1974 to 2009, the town's longest serving judge.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Dissension inside The Washington Post — DRIVING THE DAY — It was supposed to be an upbeat town hall to rally the newsroom, as Washington Post leaders highlighted their moves to defend reporter SEUNG MIN KIM from internet trolls. But sources tell us the March 16 Zoom meeting …
Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court sits on potentially blockbuster abortion case — The Supreme Court is sitting on a petition in a Mississippi abortion case that could blow the lid off Roe v. Wade. — The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, has been before the court since September without a word from the justices.
David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
Census data delay scrambles plans for state redistricting — Stymied by delayed census data needed for redistricting, some states are considering postponing their 2022 primaries or turning to other population estimates to start the once-a-decade task of redrawing voting districts used for U.S. House and state legislative elections.
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The Hill
Delta News Hub:
Delta statement on SB202 — Delta issued the following statement from CEO Ed Bastian on Friday following passage of election bills by the Georgia General Assembly. — Delta believes that full and equal access to voting is a fundamental right for all citizens.
Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
FBI whiffs again on Colorado mass shooting suspect — So now it turns out that the FBI knew all about the accused Boulder shooter, but paid no attention to the obvious warning signs until police say the rabidly anti-American immigrant from Syria murdered 10 U.S. citizens in the supermarket.
Megan Rapinoe / Washington Post:
Transgender kids should be allowed to play sports like all other children — Opinion by Megan Rapinoe … I remember how I felt when I played soccer for the first time. Long before I was winning World Cup matches, I was trying to keep up with my brother. Soccer has been a part of my life since I was 4 years old.
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The scare-Crow tactics of Democrats — To Democrats and their media megaphones, Jim Crow has risen from history's grave and stalks our land again. President Biden invoked the inflammatory racial imagery twice in his Thursday press conference, saying it described the Senate filibuster as well as GOP-led changes in state election laws.
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Fox News and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Marlene Lenthang / ABC News:
Cuomo's top aide Melissa DeRosa reportedly subpoenaed in sexual misconduct probe — Cuomo accusers were asked about interactions with DeRosa, according to reports. — Timeline: Sexual harassment allegations against Andrew Cuomo — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faces his career's biggest …
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The Hill, Washington Examiner and Gothamist
American Greatness:
Christopher Lasch vs. the Elites of Our Time — One of the most trenchant critics and historians of American culture died more than 25 years ago. What do his writings tell us about the present crisis? Turns out, quite a lot. — Several friends who have been reading the work …
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Swiss Billionaire Joins the Bidding for Tribune Publishing — The philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss has teamed with the Maryland hotel executive Stewart Bainum in a bid to upend Alden Global Capital's plan to acquire the newspaper chain. — An octogenarian Swiss billionaire who makes …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump the X-factor in Virginia governor race — Former President Trump is already deeply involved in the 2022 midterm elections, headlining fundraisers and backing primary challengers, but he has yet to weigh in on one of this November's few races: the vote for Virginia's next governor.
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Michael-In-Norfolk, Daily Kos and Political Wire
Tara Reade / RT:
‘Enemy’ leader or dissident like me, Democrat media's playbook is the same - demonize, dehumanize, delegitimize — Whether you are an American citizen daring to oppose the leadership or the leader of a nation designated ‘adversarial’, the methods of character assassination Washington's PR machine hits you with are not much different.