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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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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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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
CNN's Dana Bash 'Can't Repeat' on TV All the Nasty Things GOP Members of Congress Are Privately Texting Her About Matt Gaetz — CNN's Dana Bash revealed that she received several texts from some of Rep. Matt Gaetz's current and former Republican colleagues in Congress.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
A spokesman for Matt Gaetz quits, as the Justice Dept. investigates whether his boss violated sex trafficking laws. — The spokesman for Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican under federal investigation into whether he violated laws against sex trafficking, has abruptly resigned …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: 'His friend has been singing to the feds …
EXCLUSIVE: 'His friend has been singing to the feds …
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Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
Gaetz says he won't resign — Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told The Hill on Friday he has no plans …
Gaetz says he won't resign — Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told The Hill on Friday he has no plans …
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Kadia Goba / Axios:
Freshman lawmaker donates Gaetz campaign contributions to victims of abuse
Freshman lawmaker donates Gaetz campaign contributions to victims of abuse
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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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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
John Boehner's I-Was-Just-a-Feather-in-the-Gales-of- Crazy Act Doesn't Work on Those of Us Who Were There — from John Boehner's upcoming memoir in which the former speaker explains that wrangling maniacs became too overwhelming a job for him as the American people repeatedly elected Congresses full of maniacs, one after another.
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United States Capitol Police:
Loss of USCP Colleague Officer William F. Evans — “It is with profound sadness that I share the news of the passing of Officer William ‘Billy’ Evans this afternoon from injuries he sustained following an attack at the North Barricade by a lone assailant. Officer Evans had been a member …
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Associated Press:
Car rams Capitol barricade, injuring 2 officers; driver shot — WASHINGTON (AP) — A car rammed a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday afternoon, injuring two Capitol Police officers and leading to the driver being shot, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
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ABC News:
Officer dead after suspect rammed car into police at US Capitol barricade: Police — Two officers are said to be injured, one critically, the sources said. — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. — J. Scott Applewhite/AP — One of two injured U.S. Capitol Police officers …
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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 …
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Stephanie Clegg / ITEP:
55 Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Taxes on 2020 Profits
55 Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Taxes on 2020 Profits
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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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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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Ruth Bloomfield / Wall Street Journal:
Scottish Castles Are Rare, Huge and Very Expensive — Owners share the ups and downs of living in, and selling, these pieces of history — PORTRAITS OF James Ramsay's forebears line the walls of his Scottish castle, and although it is 36 times the size of a typical British home, there are plenty of ancestors to fill the space.
Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
Biden Administration Lifts Trump Sanctions on ICC Officials — The move comes nearly one month after ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced the decision to open a formal investigation into war crimes in the Palestinian Territories, which will examine both sides in the conflict
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Antony J. Blinken / United States Department of State:
Ending Sanctions and Visa Restrictions against Personnel of the International Criminal Court
Ending Sanctions and Visa Restrictions against Personnel of the International Criminal Court
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Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
MLB moving 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia voting law — Major League Baseball announced Friday that it is moving the 2021 All-Star Game and 2021 draft out of Atlanta in protest of a new Georgia law that has raised concerns about its potential to disproportionately disenfranchise minority voters.
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Ben Leonard / Politico:
MLB moves All-Star Game from Georgia over new voting law
MLB moves All-Star Game from Georgia over new voting law
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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 …
Politico:
Vulnerable Dems fret after getting a shock: AOC's campaign cash — As the midterm campaign's first fundraising deadline approached this week, several vulnerable House Democrats got an unwelcome surprise in their accounts: $5,000 from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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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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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Phil Mattingly / CNN:
White House tells Democratic investigators it no longer has Trump White House Capitol attack documents — (CNN)The White House says it no longer has custody of the documents House Democratic investigators sought to shed light on the inner workings of then President Donald Trump's top aides in the lead up to …
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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
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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Wall Street Journal:
When Online Conspiracies Turn Deadly: A Custody Battle and a Killing — Christopher Hallett's unorthodox legal theories gave Neely Petrie-Blanchard hope, and his online community of QAnon believers gave her a way to make sense of her disordered life — Christopher Hallett spent years …
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Washington Post:
Giant holds off on ordering vaccine as D.C. residents cancel appointments — 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.
Hugo Gurdon / Washington Examiner:
Never let truth get in the way of a good woke story — Last month's Atlanta shooting spree that killed eight people helped out the left-wing media. Six victims were Asian, which let news organizations stoke alarm about white racism. If you squint hard enough, set aside the two victims who weren't Asian …
Brad Bannon / The Hill:
The devil went down to Georgia to suppress the vote — Voter turnout hit record levels last year, which should have made everybody who is part of our democratic process happy. — Not only was turnout high but there was little voter fraud. In a failed bid to overturn President Trump's defeat …
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Charles Sykes / MSNBC:
Trump immigration architect Stephen Miller wants the media to rehab his image — Stephen Miller, the arch-white nationalist of the Trump administration, has launched his post-White House career with a flurry of media interviews, cable television hits and what amounts to a full-fledged shadow war against the Biden administration.