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9:40 PM ET, April 3, 2021

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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations  —  Online donors were guided into weekly recurring contributions.  Demands for refunds spiked.  Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared.  But the money helped keep Donald Trump's struggling campaign afloat.
BBC:
Jordan's Prince Hamzah bin Hussein ‘under house arrest’  —  The former crown prince of Jordan says he has been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics.  —  In a video passed to the BBC by his lawyer, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the half-brother of King Abdullah …
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Georgia political fallout of MLB's decision to move the All-Star Game  —  An AJC analysis  —  Major League Baseball's decision to pull the All-Star game from metro Atlanta in protest of the state's new election law could have profound political implications in Georgia.  Let's unpack some of them here:
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Peter Aitken / Fox News:
Hank Aaron's grandson slams Kelly Loeffler over tweet on All-Star Game  —  Raynal Aaron said his grandfather would be ‘disappointed’  —  Gov. Kemp: ‘Unfortunate’ MLB has caved to ‘cancel culture’ over Georgia voting law  —  Hank Aaron's grandson had some harsh words for Greater Georgia …
Discussion: Raw Story, Fox Business and Insider
Aaron Holmes / Insider:
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online  — The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.  — The data includes phone numbers, full names, location, email address, and biographical information.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The shameless revisionism of the Capitol attack cannot be allowed to take root  —  Come Tuesday, it will be three months since supporters of Donald Trump staged a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.  —  Not much time at all, really.  But the former president and his enablers have been hard …
Discussion: UPI, FOX31 Denver and New York Magazine
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Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
We Have All Hit a Wall  —  Confronting late-stage pandemic burnout, with everything from edibles to Exodus.  —  Like many of us, the writer Susan Orlean is having a hard time concentrating these days.  “Good morning to everyone,” she tweeted recently, “but especially to the sentence I just rewrote for the tenth time.”
Washington Post:
HP, Dow, Under Armour among nearly 200 companies speaking out against voting law changes in Texas, other states  —  After Georgia, voting rights activists call for corporate pushback against proposed voting bills in Texas and dozens of other states.  —  Nearly 200 companies on Friday joined …
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Joann Muller / Axios:
Supersonic travel is about to make a comeback  —  In a few years, it might be possible to fly from Washington, D.C., to Paris in four hours — instead of eight — or from San Francisco to Tokyo in just six hours aboard a new crop of supersonic jets.  —  Why it matters: High-speed air travel promises …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Georgia's Election Law, and Why Turnout Isn't Easy to Turn Off  —  Making voting convenient doesn't necessarily translate into more votes, research shows.  —  There's nothing unusual about exaggeration in politics.  But when it comes to the debate over voting rights, something more than exaggeration is going on.
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Study declares AOC one of the least effective members of Congress  —  She's the queen of Twitter — but less successful at lawmaking.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the least effective members of the last Congress according to a new survey from the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking …
Mike Freeman / USA Today:
The gutless Atlanta Braves put themselves on the wrong side of history  —  If you want to know what courage looks like, look at Major League Baseball right now.  They saw the naked, jingoistic racism of voter suppression in Georgia, and in response, decided to move this year's All-Star game from the state.
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
'The Narrative Is, “You Can't Get Ahead"'  —  In Evanston, Illinois, a Black parent and school-board candidate takes on a curriculum meant to combat racism.  —  Staff writer at The Atlantic  —  Ndona Muboyayi wants to improve the education that public-school children, including her son and daughter …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / Associated Press:
Covid-19 Live Updates: Johnson & Johnson Put in Charge of Plant That Ruined Millions of Vaccine Doses  —  The Baltimore contract plant ruined millions of doses of another vaccine.  The U.S. is averaging over 3 million vaccine doses a day for the first time.  —  RIGHT NOW For 36 minutes on Saturday, Broadway was open.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Biden revokes Trump's sanctions on International Criminal Court  —  President Biden on Friday revoked the sanctions imposed by his predecessor on officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Secretary of State Tony Blinken said in a statement.  —  Why it matters: Biden had promised …
About Amazon:
Our recent response to Representative Pocan  —  On Wednesday last week, the @amazonnews Twitter account tweeted the following back to Representative Mark Pocan: … This was an own-goal, we're unhappy about it, and we owe an apology to Representative Pocan.  —  First, the tweet was incorrect.
BuzzFeed News:
Derek Chauvin's Lawyer Said “Angry” Bystanders Were A Threat To Cops.  Here's What The Videos Actually Show.  —  Eric Nelson has characterized the people who witnessed George Floyd's death, including three teens and a 9-year-old girl, as a threat to officers.  But videos from the scene tell a different story.
Discussion: New York Times
Raya Jalabi / Reuters:
Kerry: U.S. ‘hopeful’ it can work with China to tackle climate change  —  DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said the United States was hopeful it could work with China to tackle climate change, despite longstanding disagreements that have affected the bilateral relationship.
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
 
 
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
How Do We Stop the Parade of Gun Deaths?
Steve Thompson / Washington Post:
Audit criticizes Maryland's $9 million purchase from South Korean company of coronavirus tests that had to be replaced
MSNBC:
Rep. Anna Eskamani on voicemail from Matt Gaetz, Joel Greenberg: ‘Another day as a woman in politics’
Michael A. Cohen / Truth and Consequences:
This Version of the GOP is Here to Stay
Discussion: Daily Kos and CNN
Washington Post:
Why does it feel like the D.C. region is behind on vaccinations?
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Delta, United hail CDC guidance that vaccinated people can safely travel
Discussion: Breitbart
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
One Republican's Lonely Fight Against a Flood of Disinformation
 Earlier Items: 
Priyanka Boghani / FRONTLINE:
Syrian Militant and Former Al Qaeda Leader Seeks Wider Acceptance in First Interview With U.S. Journalist
The Intercept:
Pipeline Company Issues Broad Subpoena to News Site That Covered Protests Against It
MSNBC:
In new book, John Boehner blasts Ted Cruz as ‘dangerous’
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Aiming big, Biden is looking to restore faith in government
Discussion: Fox News
Claire Stern / InStyle:
How CNN's Kaitlan Collins Took an “Apolitical Upbringing” All the Way to the White House
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
CNN's Dana Bash 'Can't Repeat' What GOP Lawmakers Are Texting Her About Matt Gaetz
New York Times:
A Chinese ‘Auntie’ Went on a Solo Road Trip. Now, She's a Feminist Icon.
 

 
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Richard Deitsch / New York Times:
Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”

 
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