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Reuters:
Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot: Reuters/Ipsos poll — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event …
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Political Wire
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Shock Poll: Half of Republicans Believe False Accounts of January 6th Capitol Riots — A new poll out by Reuters and Ipsos reveals that half of all Republicans believe false accounts of the deadly insurrection on the Capitol building led by Trump supporters on January 6th.
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 …
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HuffPost, Insider, The Daily Wire, RedState, PRESS RUN, Florida Politics, Balloon Juice, The Hill and Breitbart
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Andrea Widburg / American Thinker:
CBS lies by omission about Governor Ron DeSantis — There are two loci of corruption in America: Academia and the media. Academia churns out legions of indoctrinated young people, and the media churn out lies. The latest example is the way that CBS edited a press conference …
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The Federalist, The Daily Wire, Louder With Crowder and Townhall
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Florida governor clashes with “60 Minutes” over COVID vaccine rollout
Florida governor clashes with “60 Minutes” over COVID vaccine rollout
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USA Today, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, RedState and CBS News
Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Is the Model GOP Representative: A Creep No One's Surprised About — If so many of his colleagues knew about his dirtiness, why are they only speaking up now and on background? … Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, a spoiled 38-year-old adult child of a wealthy Floridian …
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Cheney snags victories ahead of her next battle with Trumpworld — Rep. Liz Cheney took on the Trump wing of her party and survived its attempt to politically kneecap her. But it's only the beginning of what looks like a yearslong fight for her place in the GOP.
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Progressives target Jim Cooper for primary challenge — Justice Democrats, the left-wing group that recruited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for Congress, has its eyes set on ousting another Democratic incumbent. — The organization will announce Monday that it is backing Democrat Odessa Kelly …
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HuffPost, CNN and BuzzFeed News
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Stephen Elliott / Nashville Scene:
Odessa Kelly Takes Aim at Cooper ‘Dynasty’ in Congressional Primary Bid
Odessa Kelly Takes Aim at Cooper ‘Dynasty’ in Congressional Primary Bid
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The Hill and American Prospect
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
‘The 45th’: Why Trump is abandoning his iconic brand for a number — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump spent a lifetime putting his name on steaks to skyscrapers to stimulus checks, but now, the former president appears to be replacing the gold-plated surname with a number: 45.
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Raw Story
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive: Janet Yellen to call for global minimum tax rate — Janet Yellen will use her first major address as Treasury secretary to argue for a global minimum corporate tax rate, Axios has learned, as she makes the case for President Biden's plan to raise U.S. corporate taxes to fund his $2 trillion+ infrastructure plan.
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Bloomberg
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Reuters:
Biden will push through infrastructure plan if no Republican support - energy secretary says
Biden will push through infrastructure plan if no Republican support - energy secretary says
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Politico, CNN, NBC News, Washington Post, Raw Story, Fortune, HuffPost, Wall Street Journal and New York Post
Andrew Duehren / Wall Street Journal:
Some Democrats Cool to Biden's Plan to Boost Corporate Tax Rate
Some Democrats Cool to Biden's Plan to Boost Corporate Tax Rate
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National Review, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, Al Jazeera and ABC News
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Facebook pledged to suspend political donations, then quietly funneled $50,000 to GOP group pushing voter suppression laws — On January 11, Facebook announced that “following last week's awful violence” it was suspending donations from its political committee “for at least the current quarter, while we review our policies.”
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Raw Story and Media Matters for America
Nick Paton Walsh / CNN:
Satellite images show huge Russian military buildup in the Arctic — (CNN)Russia is amassing unprecedented military might in the Arctic and testing its newest weapons in a region freshly ice-free due to the climate emergency, in a bid to secure its northern coast and open up a key shipping route from Asia to Europe.
David Gelles / New York Times:
Inside Corporate America's Frantic Response to the Georgia Voting Law — Companies like Delta are caught between Democrats focused on social justice and populist Republicans. They face major political consequences no matter what they do. — On March 11, Delta Air Lines dedicated a building …
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Some Georgia GOP legislators want Coca-Cola products removed from offices
Some Georgia GOP legislators want Coca-Cola products removed from offices
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Washington Times
Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden's border crisis — Democrats and the liberal media are policing the words we should use to describe the absolute catastrophe we're witnessing each day at the southern border. They don't like “crisis” or “surge.” — So, let us propose this description: Joe Biden's fault.
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American Greatness and Informed Comment
Bevan Hurley / Daily Mail:
NYC's top earners to pay the HIGHEST tax rates in the country under Gov Cuomo plan for $4.3BILLION of tax hikes to cover pandemic shortfall — Under the so-called 'millionaire's tax', individuals earning more than $1 million or couples over $2 million will pay 9.65% state tax, up from 8.82%
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Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
New York Lawmakers Near Budget Deal to Raise Income, Corporate Taxes by $4.3 Billion
New York Lawmakers Near Budget Deal to Raise Income, Corporate Taxes by $4.3 Billion
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New York Post
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 …
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Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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BBC, One America News Network, The Daily Caller, New York Post and UPI
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Washington Post:
Time back home with voters only emboldens Republicans to oppose Biden's agenda — A lifelong railroad aficionado, 74-year-old retiree Tony Benz has volunteered for nearly two decades helping passengers at the Amtrak station in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood, Mo.
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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 …
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The Week, Chicago Sun-Times and Nieman Lab, more at Mediagazer »
Karen Weise / New York Times:
Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds — The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers. — SEATTLE — Amazon illegally retaliated against two of its most prominent internal critics …
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The Week, more at Techmeme »
New York Times:
How White Evangelicals' Vaccine Refusal Could Prolong the Pandemic — Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Tenets of faith and mistrust of science play a role; so does politics. — Stephanie Nana, an evangelical Christian in Edmond …
Meredith Conroy / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part Of The GOP Identity — There's little question that the media is one of the least trusted institutions in Republican circles. — In the past two decades, trust in traditional media has plummeted — especially among Republicans.
Jack Beyrer / Washington Free Beacon:
US Allies Threatened By Russian Nukes Under Biden — Allies in Europe want American nukes to defend against Russia, Republicans and defense experts say — Russia's growing nuclear arsenal and President Biden's inaction on nuclear weapons may put American allies in grave danger, Republicans and defense experts say.
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?
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