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Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
MLB requires photo ID to pick up tickets from Will Call, but boycotts Georgia for voter ID law — South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace called the league out on Twitte — Beating Up on Georgia — Major League Baseball responded to calls to boycott the state of Georgia over a controversial …
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Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit, RedState and Fox Business
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Kemp Lashes M.L.B. as Republicans Defend Georgia's Voting Law
Kemp Lashes M.L.B. as Republicans Defend Georgia's Voting Law
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CNN, Digby's Hullabaloo, Slate, Axios, One America News Network and Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Georgia political fallout of MLB's decision to move the All-Star Game
The Georgia political fallout of MLB's decision to move the All-Star Game
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New York Magazine, NBC New York, Fox News, Page Array and Crooks and Liars
James Wagner / New York Times:
Baseball Joins Other Sports in Flexing Its Activist Muscles
Baseball Joins Other Sports in Flexing Its Activist Muscles
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The Hill
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
America's Losing Faith, and That Makes the Next Trump All But Inevitable — GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY … Yes, Americans are losing faith in almost all institutions these days, but the decline in church attendance has reverberations that will last a long time.
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Salena Zito / New York Post:
Why Christian voters want more politicians like Donald Trump — Hannah Chan is eagerly anticipating Easter Sunday, the most important date in the Christian calendar. — She, her husband Leo and their 16-year-old daughter plan to dress up, go to church and have an afternoon supper with friends.
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Fox News
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Bidenomics, explained — It's the end of the Age of Reagan, but it's much more than that — “When the formula stops working, you change the formula.” — Arin Hanson — “The era of ‘big government is over’ is over.” — James Medlock — I know this post has a very Vox-like title …
Hannah Beech / New York Times:
Myanmar's Military Has Killed Over 40 Children Since the Coup. Here's One Child's Story. — Myanmar's security forces have killed more than 40 children since February. Here is the story of one, Aye Myat Thu. She was 10. — In the swelter of the hot season, U Soe Oo cracked open the coconut with practiced blows of his machete.
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Reality catches up with propaganda channel — Eleven Fox programs whine about press conference treatment as Dominion lawsuit drops — Ask not for whom the world's tiniest violin plays — it plays for Fox News. Three months ago the network's hosts enjoyed unprecedented political power …
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New York Magazine and littlegreenfootballs.com
Agence France-Presse:
China launches musical in bid to counter Uyghur abuse allegations — Beijing is attempting to draw attention away from reports it is holding at least one million in Xinjiang internment camps — A new state-produced musical set in Xinjiang inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster “La La Land” …
New York Times:
Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say — Declining infection rates over all masked a rise in more contagious forms of the coronavirus. Vaccines will stop the spread, if Americans postpone celebration just a bit longer. — For weeks, the mood in much of the United States has been buoyant.
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.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
U.S. Taps Johnson & Johnson to Run Troubled Vaccine Plant
U.S. Taps Johnson & Johnson to Run Troubled Vaccine Plant
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CNN
Washington Post:
Police crackdowns on illicit massage businesses pose harms to the women they aim to help — Undercover officers sometimes engage in sexual contact with spa workers during stings, records show, which trafficking experts say dehumanizes the women and has spurred calls to set limits on police
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Forbes and Outside the Beltway
Christina Maxouris / CNN:
These are the two key things that can help curb another Covid-19 surge, Fauci says — (CNN)Health experts warn the US may be on the cusp of another Covid-19 surge if Americans aren't careful — just as the country races to vaccinate more people. — There are two key things the US …
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CBS News, CNBC and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Jason Farago / New York Times:
What a Tiny Masterpiece Reveals About Power and Beauty — Images: Chitarman, “Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait,” recto: 1627-28 and verso: circa 1530-50/Metropolitan Museum of Art; “Uttaradhyayanasutra,” circa 1460/Victoria and Albert Museum; Bhairavi Ragini …
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Marginal REVOLUTION
Joe Concha / The Hill:
WokeWorld comes for ‘oppressor’ Obama: Activists rip school being named after ‘deporter in chief’ — They came for Washington. Then Jefferson. Then Lincoln. Then (checks notes) Dianne Feinstein. — So, it's no surprise that the woke mob would eventually come for the nation's …
David Cohen / Politico:
Sen. Blunt sees ‘easy win’ if infrastructure plan scaled back — Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said Sunday the Biden White House could score “an easy win” on infrastructure if it would just reduce its new plan to focus solely on infrastructure. — Speaking to host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday …
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Mike Huckabee Posts Anti-Asian Tweet Amid Spike in Racist Attacks — 'AIN'T AMERICA GREAT?' — Mike Huckabee joked on Saturday that he would now “identify” as Chinese, mocking both LGBTQ people and Asian-Americans simultaneously. The Fox News contributor wrote, “I've decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese.
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Washington Examiner, POLITICUSUSA, Daily Kos, Mediaite and HuffPost
New York Times:
Punched, Kicked, Shoved: Documenting the Anti-Asian Violence — Over the last year, in an unrelenting series of episodes with clear racial animus, people of Asian descent have been pushed, beaten, kicked, spit on and called slurs. Homes and businesses have been vandalized.
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 …
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Associated Press, New York Times, Al Jazeera, NPR and Bloomberg
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Jordanian royal detained in alleged plot against King Abdullah II
Jordanian royal detained in alleged plot against King Abdullah II
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The Guardian, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Los Angeles Times and The National Interest