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10:55 PM ET, April 4, 2021

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Wall Street Journal:
Rival Group Makes Fully Financed, Roughly $680 Million Bid for Tribune  —  Tribune likely to deem new bid superior to agreement with Alden, according to sources  —  A Maryland hotel magnate and a Swiss billionaire have made a bid for Tribune Publishing Co. that the newspaper chain is expected …
Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
How the wealthy cut the line during Florida's frenzied vaccine rollout  —  Sharyn Alfonsi reports on corruption allegations clouding Florida's efforts to vaccinate its residents.  —  This past week, President Biden said 90% of U.S. adults will be eligible for the COVID vaccine by April 19 …
Discussion: The Hill and Florida Politics
Tampa Bay Times:
Live updates on Manatee plant potential collapse: What you need to know Sunday  —  Gov. DeSantis, state, local officials addressed the situation at Piney Point.  —  Published Earlier today  —  At a Sunday afternoon press conference, Manatee County officials reported “no news was good news” from the Piney Point reservoir leak.
Discussion: The Hill
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KOKI-TV:
Collapse ‘imminent’ at Florida phosphate mine leaking millions of gallons of contaminated water  —  MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — A cracked reservoir at a former Florida phosphate mine is leaking millions of gallons of contaminated water into the Gulf of Mexico.  —  Update 1:13 p.m. EDT April 4 …
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Inside the Teen Vogue mess — which is really a Condé Nast mess  —  From the start, Alexi McCammond seemed an unlikely candidate to become a top boss within the storied Vogue empire — at least on paper.  —  Only 27, she had little editing experience and had never managed a staff …
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Some Georgia GOP legislators want Coca-Cola products removed from offices  —  A group of GOP state legislators in Georgia are seeking removal of Coca-Cola products from their offices after the company's CEO criticized the state's recently passed voting law.  —  The legislators signed onto a letter …
Discussion: Washington Times
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Ryan Dezember / Wall Street Journal:
If You Sell a House These Days, the Buyer Might Be a Pension Fund  —  Yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family homes, competing with ordinary Americans and driving up prices  —  A bidding war broke out this winter at a new subdivision north of Houston.
Washington Post:
Will school be back to normal this fall?  Kind of, sort of, maybe.  —  Parents, students and teachers, exhausted by the false starts, union battles, quarantines and remote learning that have upended this school year, are looking around the bend with an urgent, fretful question: Come fall, will school at last be back to normal?
Discussion: Twitchy
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The Lawyer Behind the Throne at Fox  —  Even before the company's C.E.O., Lachlan Murdoch, moved to Australia, Viet Dinh was seen as Fox's power center.  —  LOS ANGELES — In early 2019, as the Murdoch family completed the $71 billion sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney …
CBS News:
Hunter Biden on his memoir “Beautiful Things” and his struggles with substance abuse  —  Hunter Biden was asked by correspondent Tracy Smith, “You've said your dad always saw the good in you through all of this.  Was there ever a time when you thought, Okay, there's no way, he's gonna give up on me, I've done it now?”
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Maureen Callahan / New York Post:   Hunter Biden whitewashes just about everything in new tell-all
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Hunter Biden ‘cooperating completely’ with federal investigators
Discussion: New York Post and Fox News
American Greatness:
The Appeal of the New Totalitarians  —  It's easy to understand and reject the horrors of totalitarianism.  It is much less easy to grasp its inexorable logic or its seemingly implacable attractions.  —  I am not a follower or a fan of baseball.  But I understand that it is, or has been …
Discussion: National Review
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Military Closes Failing Facility at Guantánamo Bay to Consolidate Prisoners  —  The move, which took place in a secret operation over the weekend, was conceived during the Trump administration to save on costs and troops at the remote base in Cuba.  —  U.S. military guards …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
New York Lawmakers Near Budget Deal to Raise Income, Corporate Taxes by $4.3 Billion  —  Under the agreement, top earners in New York City would pay the highest combined local tax rate in the country  —  ALBANY, N.Y.— New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers are nearing a budget agreement …
Discussion: New York Post
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What Americans will get from Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan  —  Since President Biden unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, he and his advisers have been making the case that this “once in a generation” bill will be “transformational.”  They have embraced the size of the plan, calling it “bold.”
Discussion: Gothamist
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New York Times:
Biden Steps Up Federal Efforts to Combat Domestic Extremism  —  The administration has taken a series of steps to prioritize dealing with white supremacists and militias, especially after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
Biden Effort to Combat Hunger Marks ‘a Profound Change’  —  As millions of Americans lack enough to eat, the administration is rapidly increasing aid — with an eye toward a permanent safety net expansion.  —  WASHINGTON — With more than one in 10 households reporting that they lack enough to eat …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
NBC News:
Capitol Police union warns of potential exodus after latest attack, urges security increases  —  The Capitol Police Union's head pushed Congress on Sunday to ramp up security after a second attack at the complex this year left another officer dead and also warned of a possible thinning of the department's ranks.
Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story and CNBC
Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
Vaccine Cheat Days Are Adding Up  —  A few weeks ago, my partially vaccinated partner and my wholly unvaccinated self got an invitation to a group dinner, held unmasked and indoors.  There'd be Thai food for 10, we were promised, and two über-immunized hosts, more than two weeks out from their last Moderna doses.
Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Americans ‘want to see us get it done’: Buttigieg on Biden's infrastructure plan  —  “One way or the other, we've got to get it done,” Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.  —  ‘Time is of the essence’ to pass COVID-19 relief: Buttigieg  —  Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is interviewed on “This Week.”
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Cameron Cawthorne / Fox News:
Buttigieg says AOC demand for ‘even bolder’ spending than $2T proposal ‘natural part’ of talks on jobs plan
Discussion: RedState
Kate Brown / The Hill:
True democracy stands on the heels of vote by mail expansion  —  We got a small glimpse at what is possible for the future of voting in the U.S. In 2020, 46 percent of voters voted by mail.  It was a monumental habit change as the pandemic made it unsafe for people to congregate at polling places to cast ballots.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jazmine Hughes / New York Times:
‘Battle for the Soul of SoHo’: A Debate on Gentrification, Race and Wealth  —  The Manhattan neighborhood is locked in a contentious battle with city officials over whether, and how, it should change.  —  As a child growing up in SoHo, Akeela Azcuy remembers seeing her father …
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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Rogerlsimon / theepochtimes.com:
Virtue Signaling Replaces Baseball as America's National Pastime
Discussion: Power Line
Virginia Chamlee / People.com:
Ariz. Lawmaker's Estranged Siblings Denounce Him (Again) — This Time for Spreading Misinformation
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Israel, in first comment, says troubled by US position ahead of Iran talks
Discussion: Fox News and The National Interest
Washington Post:
Jordan accuses former crown prince and high-ranking officials of ‘promoting sedition,’ with foreign backing
Discussion: UPI
 Earlier Items: 
Glenn Greenwald:
The Enduring Terror of Violent Crime Victimhood
Discussion: Mediaite
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
A paralyzed democracy can't protect us
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Punched, Kicked, Shoved: Documenting the Anti-Asian Violence
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Bidenomics, explained  —  It's the end of the Age of Reagan, but it's much more than that
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
CDC director walks tightrope on pandemic messaging
Christina Maxouris / CNN:
These are the two key things that can help curb another Covid-19 surge, Fauci says
Discussion: Gothamist, CBS News and CNBC
New York Times:
Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say
Discussion: CNN
Jason Farago / New York Times:
What a Tiny Masterpiece Reveals About Power and Beauty
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast plans to announce Wednesday that it will be spinning off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks including MSNBC and CNBC, with Mark Lazarus as CEO

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky has 20M+ users after hitting 15M on November 13, and according to Appfigures, has been #1 in the US App Store since November 13

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Brendan Carr says Trump's complaint over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris is “likely to arise” in the FCC's review of the Skydance-Paramount deal

 
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