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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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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.
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.
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Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Gaetz Under Investigation for Alleged Sexual Relationship With 17-Year-Old Girl: NYT
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Republican politics and right-wing media continue to fuse
Republican politics and right-wing media continue to fuse
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Forbes, Raw Story, The Hill and Media Matters for America
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 …
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden's true tax priorities
Biden's true tax priorities
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ABC News:
Biden to unveil massive infrastructure plan, with proposed tax hikes to pay for it
Biden to unveil massive infrastructure plan, with proposed tax hikes to pay for it
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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.
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CNN:
I work at a Texas coffee shop. This is what it's been like trying to enforce our mask policy — Emma Andrews is a graduate student in Texas State University's MFA Poetry program. As a native Texan, she has lived and worked in the Austin area all her life. The views expressed here are hers.
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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 …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Biden falsely claims the new Georgia law ‘ends voting hours early’ — “What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It's sick. It's sick ... deciding that you're going to end voting at five o'clock when working people are just getting off work.”
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Voter-Suppression Lie — It's not ‘Jim Crow’ to require ID, to expand weekend voting …
The Voter-Suppression Lie — It's not ‘Jim Crow’ to require ID, to expand weekend voting …
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Graham Piro / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Puts Susan Rice in Charge of Effort to Expand Vote by Mail
Biden Puts Susan Rice in Charge of Effort to Expand Vote by Mail
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New York Times:
Biden's Judicial Nominees Have Diverse Backgrounds — The president's first choices for district and appeals court openings reflected his campaign promise to choose judges from outside of traditional backgrounds. — WASHINGTON — President Biden began a drive to reshape the federal courts …
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The White House:
President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate 11 Judicial Candidates … WASHINGTON - President Biden today announced his intent to nominate 10 individuals to serve as Federal Circuit and District Court judges, and one individual to serve as a Superior Court Judge for the District of Columbia.
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Blasts ‘Orwellian’ Covid Vaccine Passport Idea Because it Will Fuel Bill Gates Conspiracy Theorists — In a rare appearance on the morning show he used to co-host, Fox News' prime time host Tucker Carlson made clear his position on a government-managed Covid-19 vaccine passport …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Dominion lawsuit outs Fox News' disinformation campaign
Dominion lawsuit outs Fox News' disinformation campaign
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Dan Primack / Axios:
Dominion lawyer: We're looking at media lawsuits beyond Fox News
Dominion lawyer: We're looking at media lawsuits beyond Fox News
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Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Attack on Asian Woman in Midtown Prompts Another Hate Crime Investigation — The New York Police Department said it was searching for a man who kicked a 65-year-old woman, stomped on her and made anti-Asian statements. Building staff members who witnessed the attack and did not intervene have been suspended.
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Zachary Petrizzo / Salon:
Former Parler CEO says Dan Bongino owns no shares, got hustled by Rebekah Mercer — Fox News contributor Dan Bongino claims to be a Parler investor — but former CEO John Matze says he was duped — Pro-Trump pundit, conservative media tycoon and self-proclaimed Parler investor Dan Bongino …
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 …
The Guardian:
US court sentences Honduran president's brother to life in drug case — Juan Antonio ‘Tony’ Hernández was sentenced in Manhattan federal court and ordered to forfeit $138m — Guardian staff and agencies in New York — The brother of the Honduras president, Juan Orlando Hernández …
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Associated Press
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.
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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.
Politico:
Many Capitol rioters unlikely to serve jail time — Americans outraged by the storming of Capitol Hill are in for a jarring reality check: Many of those who invaded the halls of Congress on Jan. 6 are likely to get little or no jail time. — While public and media attention in recent weeks …
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Blinken announces plans to roll back Trump-era human rights initiatives — Some conservatives fear ‘human rights’ are now less about fundamental rights and more about economic or social rights — Fox News Flash top headlines for March 30 — Secretary of State Antony Blinken diverted …
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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.
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Lawmakers anxious over lack of Pentagon picks — President Joe Biden hasn't yet tapped nominees for some of the Pentagon's most senior posts — and lawmakers are taking note. — The White House hasn't sent any defense nominees to the Senate since January, when Biden tapped the Pentagon's top three leaders.
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Washington Examiner
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.
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S.E. Cupp / New York Daily News:
To cover or not to cover Trump? Unfortunately, the choice is easy — “Please stop covering the crazy stuff out Trump's mouth [sic]. The nightmare is over. Please #CNN, #NBC, #CBS, #ABC.” — That's just one of probably thousands of similar tweets in recent months imploring the media …
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump's heir? Pence reemerges, lays groundwork for 2024 run — WASHINGTON (AP) — When former President Donald Trump was asked to list those he considers the future leaders of the Republican Party, he quickly rattled off a list of names, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP is facing a sickness deeper than the coronavirus — It is the sign of a sickness deeper than covid-19 that the defiance of public health guidance has become a political selling point in the Republican Party. — Consider the case of South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Elizabeth Warren unloads on Archegos meltdown: ‘All the makings of a dangerous situation’ — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a member of the powerful Senate banking and finance committees, is one of the first lawmakers to respond to what turned out to be disastrous trades by Archegos.
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Washington Post:
New U.S. coronavirus cases rise by 12 percent; nation braces for fourth pandemic wave — The Washington Post is providing this important information about the coronavirus for free. For more free coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter where all stories are free to read.
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United States Department of State:
Joint Statement on the WHO-Convened COVID-19 Origins Study — The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, Australia, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom.
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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.
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
Immigration Officials Plan To Cut The Term “Alien” From A Policy Manual After The Trump Administration Added It — United States Citizenship and Immigration Services officials are planning to remove references to immigrants as “aliens” in the agency's policy manual more than a year after the term …
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Twitchy
Rachel Aviv / New Yorker:
How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory — The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment. — Elizabeth Loftus was in Argentina, giving talks about the malleability of memory …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The WHO covid report is fatally flawed, and a real investigation has yet to take place — Determining the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus should have nothing to do with politics. It is a forensic question, one that requires thorough investigation of all possible theories …
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Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
Rep. Gohmert's $5K metal detector fine upheld by House ethics committee — Gohmert was one of the first House lawmakers to be fined under the policy — Fox News Flash top headlines for March 30 — The House Ethics Committee voted Tuesday to uphold a $5,000 fine issued to Rep. Louie Gohmert …
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Biden's Weakness On The World Stage Is Dangerous — The new administration should take Mike Pompeo's advice: Strength deters bad actors and weakness begets war. — A series of embarrassing incidents in recent days shows that while the left may control the media narrative …
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