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New York Times:
Matt Gaetz Is Said to Be Investigated Over Possible Sexual Relationship With a Girl, 17  —  An inquiry into the Florida congressman was opened in the final months of the Trump administration, people briefed on it said.  —  Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida and a close ally …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Matt Gaetz says he's under federal investigation for sexual misconduct  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of the nation's rising-star conservative firebrands, told Axios he is under federal investigation for sexual activity with women, and fears being criminally charged.
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Matt Gaetz eyes early retirement to take job at Newsmax  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has privately told confidants he's seriously considering not seeking re-election and possibly leaving Congress early for a job at Newsmax, three sources with direct knowledge of the talks tell Axios.
Orlando Sentinel:
Sex trafficking probe of Rep. Matt Gaetz emerges from Joel Greenberg prosecution: report  —  Federal authorities are investigating potential sex trafficking violations by U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a probe that emerged from the prosecution of former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, according to a report by the New York Times.
Insider:
Republicans are unloading on Rep. Matt Gaetz in gossipy texts and snide asides amid reports of a DOJ sex investigation: 'He's the meanest person in politics'  — Matt Gaetz has a reputation as a showboat among his GOP colleagues in Washington.  — Many of them were gloating about news reports …
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Matt Gaetz Says Teen-Sex Allegation Is Part of Extortion Plot  —  Federal investigators are reportedly investigating an alleged relationship between Gaetz and a 17-year-old.  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) responded to a bombshell report that he is under investigation for an alleged relationship …
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:   Rep. Gaetz Under Investigation for Alleged Sexual Relationship With 17-Year-Old Girl: NYT
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Bidens' dog Major involved in another biting incident  —  (CNN)The Bidens' dog Major has been involved in another biting incident that required medical attention, two people with knowledge of the incident tell CNN.  —  The incident, which involved a National Park Service employee …
Michael Dobbs / Washington Post:
G. Gordon Liddy, undercover operative convicted in Watergate scandal, dies at 90  —  G. Gordon Liddy, the undercover operative whose bungling of the Watergate break-in triggered one of the gravest constitutional crises in American history and led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
G. Gordon Liddy, Mastermind Behind Watergate Burglary, Dies at 90
Discussion: FOX 5 San Diego and UPI
Steve Marble / Los Angeles Times:
G. Gordon Liddy, unrepentant Watergate burglar who became talk show host, dies
Discussion: NPR, The Week and Deadline
Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
Yahoo Story on Florida COVID Study Misrepresented Key Finding, Study's Author Says  —  A Yahoo News story warning that “Florida COVID numbers face new scrutiny” incorrectly framed the key finding of the study it profiled, according to the principal researcher of the study in question …
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Florida COVID numbers face new scrutiny  —  published earlier this month in the American Journal of Public Health argues that Florida is undercounting the number of people who died from COVID-19 by thousands of cases, casting new doubt on claims that Gov. Ron DeSantis navigated the coronavirus pandemic successfully.
CNN:
I work at a Texas coffee shop. This is what it's been like trying to enforce our mask policy
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Brutal Attack on Filipino Woman Sparks Outrage: ‘Everybody Is on Edge’  —  Security guards failed to intervene while a man kicked and stomped on a 65-year-old woman near Times Square, yelling, “You don't belong here.”  —  The security camera video was shocking in its brutality.
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Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Attack on Asian Woman in Midtown Prompts Another Hate Crime Investigation
Tim Balk / New York Daily News:
Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang says woman attacked in Hell's Kitchen ‘could easily have been my mother’
Discussion: UPI, New York Post and Insider
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg:
Trump Sued by Two Capitol Police Officers for Inciting ‘Wild’ Riot  —  Two U.S. Capitol Police veterans who were on duty during the Jan. 6 riot sued Donald Trump accusing the former president of inciting the violent mob that injured scores of officers.  —  The complaint filed Tuesday follows …
Discussion: The Week
Wall Street Journal:
Brazil's Military Chiefs Quit as Covid-19 Pandemic Pressures Government  —  High-level resignations follow months of tensions over Bolsonaro's efforts to garner political support from armed forces  —  SÃO PAULO—The heads of Brazil's army, navy and air force resigned Tuesday …
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Rebecca Onion / Slate:
A Modern Feminist Classic Changed My Life.  Was It Actually Garbage?  —  First, it must be said: Naomi Wolf is a COVID truther.  The bestselling author spent the pandemic doing things like celebrating indoor restaurant meals and declaring that children are losing the reflex to smile because of masks …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court voids Trump campaign's non-disclosure agreement  —  A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a broad non-disclosure agreement that Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign required employees to sign is unenforceable.  —  U.S. District Court Judge Paul Gardephe's ruling generally steered clear …
Christopher Robbins / Gothamist:
“We're Reversing 90 Years Of Prohibition”: New York State Legislature Legalizes Marijuana  —  On Thursday night, New York went from being the marijuana arrest capital of the world to passing one of the most progressive legalized cannabis laws in the country.
Discussion: KRDO
Emily Rauhala / Washington Post:
WHO chief, U.S. and other world leaders criticize China for limiting access of team researching coronavirus origins  —  The head of the World Health Organization, the U.S. government and 13 other countries on Tuesday voiced frustration with the level of access China granted an international mission …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Dominion lawsuit outs Fox News' disinformation campaign  —  Media critic  —  Back in December, Dominion Voting Systems warned Fox News and other spreaders of election-related conspiracy theories that lawsuits were imminent.  For reasons that remain murky, the voting-machine company became …
Discussion: Vox, more at Mediagazer »
Reuters:
U.S. open to discussing wider nuclear deal road map if Iran wishes  —  PARIS (Reuters) - Efforts to sketch out initial U.S. and Iranian steps to resume compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal have stalled and Western officials believe Iran may now wish to discuss a wider road map to revive the pact, something Washington is willing to do.
Sam Stein / Politico:
The one way Biden has broken with Democrats  —  Presented by PL+US and Paid Leave For All  —  TRIANGULATION, R.I.P. — Though his presidency is in its infancy, Joe Biden appears to have brought to an end to the primary governing theory for the past 30 years of Democratic presidential politics.
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Hugo Gurdon / Washington Examiner:
The selfishness at the heart of socialism  —  Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, has commented that he was “enjoying the irony of ...  [Sen. Bernie] Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of socialism and what it really means ... In practice …
Casey Michel / New Republic:
The Republican Poseurs Who Claim to Be True Texans  —  Earlier this week, a campaign video emerged out of Texas showing a brawny bull-rider trying to buck his way into Congress.  The ad, featuring Republican candidate and former professional wrestler Dan Rodimer, checked all the Republican boxes …
Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept:
Amazon's Twitter Army Was Handpicked for “Great Sense of Humor,” Leaked Document Reveals … Amazon's small Twitter army of “ambassadors” was quietly conceived in 2018 under the codename “Veritas,” which sought to train and dispatch select employees to the social media trenches to defend Amazon and its CEO …
Politico:
More potential Biden hires penalized for marijuana use  —  Welcome to POLITICO's 2021 Transition Playbook, your guide to the first 100 days of the Biden administration  —  The Biden administration reiterated today that it wants to end criminal penalties for marijuana use nationally.
Discussion: The Stream and Florida Politics
Yaron Weitzman / GQ:
Celebrating Passover With Amar'e Stoudemire  —  The ex-NBA star and current Brooklyn Nets coach, who recently converted to Orthodox Judaism, heard about the James Harden trade from his rabbi.  —  Editor's note: These photos were taken Friday afternoon before sundown as Amar'e and family prepared for the next night's Seder.
Freddie deBoer:
If You Want to Make It As a Writer, For God's Sakes, Be Weird  —  you're in a market, so sell something other people aren't … Writing is not a hard profession.  Writing is actually an impossibly easy profession.  I could sleep until noon every day if my cat didn't wake me up at 5:30 AM.
Discussion: Progress Pond
Vladimir Kara-Murza / Washington Post:
The Kremlin may be slowly killing Alexei Navalny in prison.  The world must not let it happen.  —  There are many ways to kill an opponent.  Sometimes it's done out in the open, for the whole world to see — as happened with Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned …
Jake Johnson / Common Dreams:
Jayapal Calls on Biden to Fire Trump Social Security Holdovers for ‘Appalling’ Relief Check Sabotage  —  “The American people should be able to trust that the senior leadership of the Social Security Administration will advocate on their behalf—not needlessly and cruelly obstruct the delivery of survival checks.”
Politico:
Russia suspected of stealing thousands of State Department emails  —  Suspected Russian hackers stole thousands of State Department officials' emails last year, according to two Congressional sources familiar with the intrusion, in the second known Kremlin-backed breach on the department's email server in under a decade.
The Butler Collegian:
Letter to the Editor: Students demand answers, action  —  Angela Davis, a renowned activist and author.  Her event at Butler was cancelled without student input.  Photo courtesy of Trident Booksellers and Cafe.  —  On March 29, without warning or discussion, Butler University administration canceled …
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Ethics upholds Gohmert's $5,000 metal detector fine  —  The House Ethics Committee said Tuesday that it is upholding the $5,000 fine levied against Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) for bypassing a security screening to enter the House chamber.  —  Gohmert had appealed the fine issued …
Matt Egan / CNN:
Exclusive: Jamie Dimon speaks out on voting rights even as many CEOs remain silent  —  New York (CNN Business)JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is speaking out in defense of voting rights in the wake of Georgia's restrictive voting law and as other battleground states consider similar actions.
Jim Jones / Washington Post:
People who put themselves in jeopardy to help U.S. forces are dying in red tape  —  Opinion by Jim Jones  —  Jim Jones, a Vietnam combat veteran, is a former Idaho attorney general (1983-1991) and justice of the Idaho Supreme Court (2005-2017).  —  As a U.S. soldier during the Vietnam War …
Luz Lazo / Washington Post:
Virginia seals deal for $3.7 billion rail plan, including new Potomac River bridge  —  Virginia finalized agreements Tuesday with CSX, Amtrak and Virginia Railway Express as part of the state's $3.7 billion passenger rail expansion program that seeks to relieve a rail bottleneck and get more commuters onto trains.
 
 
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John Hendel / Politico:
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
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