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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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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 …
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 …
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.
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
Discussion: Townhall and The Daily Caller
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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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 …
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Vaccinated Americans are free to travel but should still take precautions, the C.D.C. says.  —  Americans who are fully vaccinated can travel “at low risk to themselves,” both within the United States and internationally, but they must continue to take precautions like wearing a mask in public …
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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 …
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.
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Phil Mattingly / CNN:
White House tells Democratic investigators it no longer has Trump White House Capitol attack documents
Discussion: Political Wire and KRDO
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.
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
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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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 …
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
GOP lawmaker's own family wants him investigated for Capitol riot ties and then charged  —  Working in conjunction with the conservative Republican Accountability Project, the sibling of Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) are calling upon the U.S. government to investigate their brother …
Discussion: HuffPost
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
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 …
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.
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” …
Discussion: ITEP and CNN
Joshua Tait / The Bulwark:
The Long History of Fighting Over the Term ‘Conservative’  —  The postwar circle of New Conservatives tried to claim the word—but they lost and were largely forgotten.  —  Late in 1953 Clinton Rossiter cycled through his rolodex.  The Cornell political scientist, known for his books …
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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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Rep. Brendan Boyle decides against Pennsylvania Senate bid
Washington Post:
How America's surveillance networks helped the FBI catch the Capitol mob
Discussion: Raw Story
The Princetonian:
Eight papers, eight women: The leaders of Ivy League journalism reflect on historic milestone
Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
GOP's Post-Filibuster Wish List: Keystone XL Pipeline, Abortion Rules, Border Wall
Discussion: The Hill
Lev Facher / STAT:
Resistance from health experts and business owners could doom ‘vaccine passports’ even before they launch
Discussion: HotAir
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Staff Fret Over China's Ads Portraying Happy Muslims in Xinjiang
 Earlier Items: 
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: NPR and Cafe Hayek
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Is Biden Really the Second Coming of F.D.R. and L.B.J.?
Discussion: Axios, Breitbart, The Week and The Hill
Josefa Velasquez / THE CITY:
Embattled Cuomo Pushes Skyline-Altering Penn Station Real Estate Plan as Critics Mobilize
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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Pew Research Center:
News influencers survey: 21% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right-wing, and more

Bruna Horvath / NBC News:
Social media users criticize Coca-Cola over an AI-generated Christmas video; many creatives say it is distasteful to use AI tech instead of the work of artists

Aditi Agrawal / Hindustan Times:
In a lawsuit, Indian news agency ANI accuses OpenAI of exploiting its news content in an unauthorized manner for commercial gain
 
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