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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century  —  On a leaked conference call, leaders of dark-money groups and an aide to Mitch McConnell expressed frustration with the popularity of the legislation—even among Republican voters.
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Ali Zaslav / CNN:
Mitch McConnell: ‘I would encourage all Republican men’ to get vaccinated  —  See how vaccine-hesitant GOP participants react to Covid-19 focus group  —  (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday encouraged “all Republican men” to get the Covid-19 vaccine, as new polls indicate …
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:   A Leaked Call Catches Mitch McConnell And The Kochs Freaking Out Over Election Reform
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
White House dramatically increased tax proposal as it sought to address tensions over next big spending plan  —  Biden aides see next major legislative effort as comparable to LBJ's Great Society but face divisions among key allies  —  When President Biden's team began putting together …
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Politico:
Biden's white privilege  —  Welcome to POLITICO's 2021 Transition Playbook, your guide to the first 100 days of the Biden administration  —  JOE BIDEN has talked more explicitly about racism in America in his opening weeks than any president in recent memory.  —  He pledged to defeat “white supremacy” in his Inaugural address.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Chuck Schumer's 51-vote gambit
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
New York business leaders push Biden, Schumer to ditch the cap on SALT deductions
Discussion: Bloomberg
Associated Press:
Biden wants $4T infrastructure package approved over summer
Discussion: New York Times, CNN and Vox
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Ghislaine Maxwell Charged With Sex Trafficking of 14-Year-Old Girl  —  A new indictment accuses Ms. Maxwell of paying a victim of her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein.  —  Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was charged on Monday for the first time with sex-trafficking …
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Axios:
Scoop: Substack is raising $65 million amid newsletter boom  —  Substack is raising $65 million in new venture capital funding that would value the company at around $650 million, Axios has learned.  Existing investor Andreessen Horowitz is leading the round.
more at Mediagazer »
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump targets Fauci, Birx in lengthy diatribe  —  Former President Trump on Monday went on a tirade against Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, two of his former top medical advisers on the COVID-19 pandemic, excoriating their decisionmaking during his administration on the day after CNN aired previews …
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Gina Kolata / New York Times:
The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are very effective in real-world conditions at preventing infections, the C.D.C. reported.  —  The coronavirus vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are proving highly effective at preventing symptomatic and asymptomatic infections under real-world conditions …
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Pfizer, Moderna vaccines are 90% effective after two doses in study of real-life conditions, CDC confirms
Discussion: HotAir
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Capitol riot suspect wore ‘I Was There’ shirt when arrested  —  Garret Miller didn't speak to the law enforcement officers who arrested him on charges he stormed the U.S. Capitol in January, but the T-shirt he was wearing at his Dallas home that day sent a clear and possibly incriminating message.
Washington Post:
New accounts detail how New York health officials were told to prioritize coronavirus testing of people connected to Andrew Cuomo  —  New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's relatives and other well-connected New Yorkers were among those given preferential treatment at state coronavirus testing centers.
Discussion: The Guardian
Amy Sherman / The latest factchecks PolitiFact.com …:
The facts about Georgia's ban on food, water giveaways to voters  —  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a sweeping elections bill into law.  It includes some controversial provisions about absentee and in-person voting.  —  One provision of the new law includes a ban on giving away water or food …
Discussion: Fox News
David Gelles / New York Times:
Corporations, Vocal About Racial Justice, Go Quiet on Voting Rights  —  “They are complicit in their silence,” one activist said, as bills that would disproportionately affect Black citizens across the country stir public debate.  —  As Black Lives Matter protesters filled the streets last summer …
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Japan's Kyoto cherry blossoms peak on earliest date in 1,200 years, a sign of climate change  —  Amid an exceptionally warm March in Japan, the cherry blossoms in Kyoto peaked Friday, the earliest in more than 1,200 years of records.  The record bloom fits into a long-term pattern toward …
New York Times:
The Biden administration makes a swath of ocean between New York and New Jersey an offshore wind zone.  —  The Biden administration on Monday announced it will designate an area between the South Shore of Long Island and the New Jersey coast as a priority offshore wind zone …
Discussion: Common Dreams
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Ben Geman / Axios:   Biden plans to dramatically increase offshore wind energy development
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trooper who arrested Ga. lawmaker says he was wary of a Jan. 6-type of attack  —  A Georgia State Patrol lieutenant said memories of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol were on his mind when he arrested a Democratic legislator after she knocked repeatedly on the door …
Discussion: Raw Story
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
64 percent view ‘cancel culture’ as threat to freedom: poll  —  A majority of Americans say they view “cancel culture” as a threat to their freedom, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill on Monday.  —  Sixty-four percent of respondents said that there is …
Discussion: National Review, IJR and RedState
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Poll: Biden approval remains steady amid struggles with immigration, foreign affairs
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Newsbusters
Bloomberg:
CDC Chief Warns of ‘Impending Doom’ as Covid Cases, Deaths Rise  — Walensky says she's scared by uptick that hints at fourth wave  — U.S. doesn't have ‘luxury of inaction’ amid spike, she says  —  The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pleaded with Americans …
Discussion: CNN, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and KRDO
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STAT:   'Right now I'm scared': CDC director warns of a coming spike in Covid-19 case counts
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend.  In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church …
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
NSA Opens Door to Domestic Internet Spying, Privacy Advocates Say  —  The establishment of the NSA's twin, Cyber Command, also created a Chekhov's gun: broad access to the American internet.  Now the SolarWinds hack has NSA's finger on the trigger.  —  The latest king-sized …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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James David Dickson / Detroit News:
Judge tosses terrorism threat charge against 3 accused in alleged Whitmer plot  —  Three men accused in an alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will not face false report or threat of terrorism charges, a Jackson County judge ruled Monday.  —  Judge Michael Klaeren of 12th District Court …
Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
Mafia fugitive caught after posting YouTube cooking video  —  Marc Feren Claude Biart was betrayed by failing to hide his distinctive tattoos in the clip  —  A mafia fugitive has been caught in the Caribbean after appearing on YouTube cooking videos in which he hid his face but inadvertently showed his distinctive tattoos.
Discussion: Raw Story
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
The Dumbest Tweet I Have Ever Seen  —  Not Really, but C'mon  —  I usually defend a high degree of license verging on irresponsibility when it comes to Tweets—I think its fine for them to be half-baked, ironical, whimsical, the first drafts of ideas, or one's most cranky and maybe not most-well-informed opinions.
Discussion: Althouse
Bethany Rodgers / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said he will not vote for new federal gun laws  —  The Utah senator argues that firearm policies should be developed at the state level.  —  (Brandon Bell |  The New York Times file photo) Sen. Mitt Romney walks through the Senate Reception Room at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021.
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Biden task force to probe science manipulation under Trump  —  WASHINGTON — A new White House task force will examine instances where the Trump administration may have distorted or suppressed science in critical government decisions, with an eye toward creating fail-safes to prevent it from happening again, the White House said Monday.
Discussion: Newsweek
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
White House announces ‘expert’ review of WHO-China COVID-19 origins report  —  The Biden administration announced that “experts” from a range of federal agencies and scientific fields would review the controversial WHO-China report on COVID-19's origins as the Biden team continues expressing its …
Vianney Gomez / Pew Research Center:
A partisan chasm in views of Trump's legacy  —  Two months after President Donald Trump left office, 38% of Americans say he made progress toward solving major problems facing the country during his administration - while a nearly identical share (37%) say he made these problems worse.
The Daily Beast:
Dominion Builds Legal Behemoth To Drain Trumpland of Billions  —  Dominion Voting Systems is adding a new team of lawyers as they prepare for their current lawsuits—and another potential round.  —  With billions of dollars in lawsuits now in the balance, Dominion Voting Systems …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Jay Busbee / Yahoo Sports:
Nearly half of Americans changed sports viewing habits because of social justice
Discussion: Breitbart, OutKick and The Daily Caller
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
New York Lawmakers Weigh Raising Taxes as Budget Deadline Looms
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pennsylvania's 2022 U.S. Senate race: Who's in, who's out and what comes next
Discussion: New York Magazine
Saladin Ambar / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell once knew all about the filibuster's racist history. What changed?
Troy Closson / New York Times:
New York Must Offer Vaccine to All Prisoners Immediately, Judge Rules
Discussion: The Hill and New York Magazine
 Earlier Items: 
The Frontier:
In pro-Trump Oklahoma, a challenge to an incumbent senator taps into election anger
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
How Larry Summers went from Obama's top economic adviser to one of Biden's loudest critics
Discussion: New York Post and Political Wire
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Remote Work Is Here to Stay. Manhattan May Never Be the Same.
Discussion: Kevin Drum and Balloon Juice
 

 
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OpenAI:
OpenAI says its board of directors is evaluating its corporate structure, including a plan to turn its for-profit arm into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation

Bloomberg:
Montenegro says Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will be extradited to the US, potentially ending a standoff over competing demands by the US and South Korea

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
An undisclosed 2023 agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI defines achieving AGI as the point when OpenAI develops AI systems that generate $100B+ in profits
 
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