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11:30 AM ET, April 2, 2021

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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 …
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 …
Orlando Sentinel:
Joel Greenberg, Matt Gaetz visited closed Seminole tax office together on weekend, source says  —  Joel Greenberg and U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz on at least one occasion several years ago were recorded together entering the Seminole County Tax Collector's Office when it was closed on a weekend night …
Discussion: Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
ABC News:   Feds looking at alleged payments Rep. Matt Gaetz made to women and online solicitation: Sources
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 …
Discussion: Insider, The Hill, CNN, Forbes, Mediaite and Raw Story
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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.
Axios:
John Boehner unloads on Republican “crazy caucus” in new book excerpt
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
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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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 …
Discussion: New York Times and CBS News
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Lucy Bayly / NBC News:
U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March, as vaccinations spur return to normal
Discussion: HotAir
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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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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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee / The Hill:   Georgia election law prevents African American, Latinx, others from exercising the right to vote
New York Times:
Virginia, the Old Confederacy's Heart, Becomes a Voting Rights Bastion
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 …
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.
Discussion: Washington Post
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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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 …
Discussion: Just The News
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 …
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
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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.
Discussion: VTDigger
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 …
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 …
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.
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Staff Fret Over China's Ads Portraying Happy Muslims in Xinjiang  —  Workers express concerns internally about advertisements and content by Beijing promoting message that mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in the region are thriving  —  HONG KONG— Facebook Inc. is blocked in China …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Hill
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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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Will vaccine passports be biggest campaign issue of 2022?
Discussion: HotAir, CNN and Florida Politics
Brendan Cole / Newsweek:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Promises Avalanche of Election Fraud Evidence
Lev Facher / STAT:
Resistance from health experts and business owners could doom ‘vaccine passports’ even before they launch
Discussion: HotAir
Eric Morath / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Added 916,000 Jobs in March as Economy Recovers
Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
Maria Butina, Russian who conspired to infiltrate U.S. groups, visits Navalny in jail, with video cameras in tow
Discussion: New York Post
Marty Makary / Wall Street Journal:
U.K. Vaccination Puts U.S. to Shame
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Washington Examiner:
HHS isn't up to handling the border surge
 Earlier Items: 
Elizabeth Simons / Canadian Anti-Hate Network:
EXCLUSIVE: Suspect In Three Vancouver Masonic Lodge Fires Shared Antisemitic, QAnon-Related Content On Facebook
Phil Prazan / NBC 6 South Florida:
Thousands of South Florida Voters Changed Parties After Capitol Attack
THE CITY:
Embattled Cuomo Pushes Skyline-Altering Penn Station Real Estate Plan as Critics Mobilize
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Oath Keepers founder, associates exchanged 19 calls from start of Jan. 6 riot through breach, prosecutors allege
Christopher Hooks / Texas Monthly:
Meet “Big Dan” Rodimer, the Jersey Guy Who Wants to Be a Texas Cowboy (and Congressman)
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
A Man Found 15,000 Bees in His Car After Grocery Shopping
Discussion: Politico, CBS News and UPI
Will Wilkinson / Model Citizen:
Vaccine Passports and the Categorical Impermissibility of Inconveniencing Republicans
Discussion: Michael-In-Norfolk and HotAir
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs

 
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