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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Inquiry Into Matt Gaetz Said to Be Focused on Cash Paid to Women — The congressman and a former official in Florida sent money to the women using cash apps, receipts showed. — WASHINGTON — A Justice Department investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz …
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CNN:
Gaetz showed nude photos of women he said he'd slept with to lawmakers, sources tell CNN — (CNN)Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican being investigated by the Justice Department over sex trafficking allegations, made a name for himself when he arrived on Capitol Hill as a conservative firebrand …
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
These Text Messages Pointed the Feds to Matt Gaetz — Rep. Matt Gaetz, now facing a reported probe into a pay-for-sex scheme, came to investigators' attention after an alleged off-hours visit to a Florida tax agency. — In late January 2020, U.S. Secret Service agents received information …
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Orlando Sentinel:
Joel Greenberg, Matt Gaetz visited closed Seminole tax office together on weekend, source says
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Matt Gaetz paid prostitutes using Cash App and Apple Pay — and there are receipts: NYT bombshell
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Florida Politics, POLITICUSUSA and The Daily Beast
John Boehner / Politico:
Panic Rooms, Birth Certificates and the Birth of GOP Paranoia — In the 2010 midterm election, voters from all over the place gave President Obama what he himself called “a shellacking.” And oh boy, was it ever. You could be a total moron and get elected just by having an R next to your name …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Boehner unloads — DRIVING THE DAY — The absolute must-read of the day is POLITICO Mag's 2,300-word exclusive excerpt of JOHN BOEHNER'S scorching new book, “ON THE HOUSE,” which will be out April 13 from St. Martin's Press. — We knew this was going to be juicy ever since we saw the cover last month.
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Axios:
John Boehner unloads on Republican “crazy caucus” in new book excerpt — Former House Speaker John Boehner tore into right-wing media and what he called the GOP's “crazy caucus” in a book excerpt published by Politico Friday, targeting Sen. Ted Cruz, Fox News' Sean Hannity and the late Roger Ailes, and former Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Border crossings in March jumped to highest level in 15 years, data show — More than 171,000 migrants were taken into custody along the U.S. southern border in March, the highest monthly total since 2006, according to preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection data reviewed by The Washington Post.
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Border officials say more people are sneaking past them as crossings soar and agents are overwhelmed — Nearly 1,000 people per day are sneaking into the United States without being identified or taken into custody because U.S. border agents are busy attending to migrant families …
Emily Jacobs / New York Post:
Hunter Biden says laptop at center of Post exposé could ‘absolutely’ belong to him — Hunter Biden said the laptop at the center of The Post's explosive exposé last year “absolutely” could belong to him, he revealed in an interview Friday. — In a sit-down with CBS This Morning …
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CBS News:
Hunter Biden opens up about family intervention and addresses laptop reports — President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden is opening up in his first TV interviews since making headlines over his work in Ukraine, his finances and his struggle with addiction. In separate interviews with …
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, New York Post, JONATHAN TURLEY, IJR, The Gateway Pundit and Deadline
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
No Federal Taxes for Dozens of Big, Profitable Companies — FedEx and Nike are among those found to have avoided U.S. tax liability for three straight years. — Just as the Biden administration is pushing to raise taxes on corporations, a new study finds that at least 55 of America's largest paid …
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March as recovery gains steam again — The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March, the highest level in months, as vaccine distribution and declining caseloads helped accelerate a recovery in the labor market. — The unemployment rate edged …
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Lucy Bayly / NBC News:
U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March, as vaccinations spur return to normal
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HotAir
New York Times:
What Georgia's Voting Law Really Does — The New York Times analyzed the state's new 98-page voting law and identified 16 key provisions that will limit ballot access, potentially confuse voters and give more power to Republican lawmakers. — Go page by page through Georgia's new voting law …
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Noah Bookbinder / USA Today:
I'm finally done with the Senate filibuster. We're running out of time to save democracy. — This sounds apocalyptic and maybe a little crazy. It is not. The Trump presidency showed how quickly and completely our foundations can be shaken. — I worked as a counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee for eight years.
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New York Daily News, Victory Girls Blog and Michigan Advance
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Fresh data reveal how Trump made inroads with Latinos — A new analysis of U.S. voters suggests — counterintuitively — that the coronavirus pandemic may have helped drive former President Donald Trump's surprising increase in support from Latinos last November.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Is Biden Really the Second Coming of F.D.R. and L.B.J.? — Proposing historic legislation is not transformative; passing it is. — Early in their Presidencies, when their Administrations are all about potential and the disappointments of political reality have not yet set in …
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Wall Street Journal:
Iran Nuclear Deal Participants to Meet in Vienna Next Week — President Biden has said he wants the U.S. to return to the deal that U.S. exited in 2018 — Negotiations to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will take place among all parties in Vienna next week, senior western diplomats said Friday …
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
U.S. and Iran Agree to Indirect Talks on Returning to Nuclear Deal
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The Times of Israel, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and UPI
Wall Street Journal:
Woke and Weak CEOs — They're denouncing Georgia's election law, but have they read it? — By The Editorial Board — The public debate on Georgia's new voting law has become a stew of falsehood, propaganda and panic. Part of the blame lies with the partisan distortion of Democrats …
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Scott McKay / The American Spectator:
Ed Bastian Keeps Digging
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Eric Umansky / ProPublica:
My Kids' School Closed Again. So I Started Calling Experts. — Many New York City public schools have been repeatedly closed because of two positive COVID-19 tests, even without evidence of in-school spread. Experts call it “crazy.” And it's driving me nuts. … Coronavirus
Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz / The Cut:
Catching Up With NYC's “Vaccine Daddy” Huge Ma helped thousands of New Yorkers get vaccinated. Now he's using his platform to combat anti-Asian racism. — It's the first warm day of the year in New York, one of those where the air smells of daffodils and everything feels stickier and a bit sexier than it ought to.
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Can Vaccinated People Spread the Virus? We Don't Know, Scientists Say. — Researchers pushed back after the C.D.C. director asserted that vaccinated people “do not carry the virus.” — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday walked back controversial comments made by its director …
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HotAir, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and RedState
Brendan Cole / Newsweek:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Promises Avalanche of Election Fraud Evidence — Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, who has repeatedly promoted unfounded and disproven claims of election fraud and interference, has said he will reveal “piles” of evidence showing his ally President Donald Trump won the 2020 ballot.
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Washington Examiner and Washington Times
San Diego Union-Tribune:
A USD law professor is under investigation. Instead, his right to free speech must be protected. — Volokh is a professor of law at UCLA School of Law. He lives in Los Angeles. Goldstein is a lawyer at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. He lives in Virginia.
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
A global aid program championed by Ivanka Trump has serious problems, a report finds. — One of Ivanka Trump's top initiatives — a legislative overhaul of programs assisting small businesses run by women around the world — was so haphazardly managed by a federal agency that an independent watchdog …
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Breitbart, Daily Kos, Insider and Vanity Fair
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump Calls On Biden to Let Global Capital Dictate U.S. Tax Policy — Donald Trump believes that tailoring U.S. tax policy to the preferences of the American people — rather than to those of multinational corporations and their lobbyists — constitutes a “globalist betrayal” …
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CNN, Climate Depot, Boston Herald and Politico
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Oath Keepers founder, associates exchanged 19 calls from start of Jan. 6 riot through breach, prosecutors allege — Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, his deputy and three members who guarded Roger Stone exchanged nearly 20 phone calls over three hours on Jan. 6, coinciding with the first assault …
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
GOP's Post-Filibuster Wish List: Keystone XL Pipeline, Abortion Rules, Border Wall — Republican senators' comments on desired legislation come as many Democrats push to eliminate Senate's 60-vote threshold — WASHINGTON—Republicans are publicly airing a wish list of bills they could pass …
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