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9:30 AM ET, April 5, 2021

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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 …
Discussion: 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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and The Week
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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 …
Discussion: HuffPost, CNN and BuzzFeed News
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Stephen Elliott / Nashville Scene:
Odessa Kelly Takes Aim at Cooper ‘Dynasty’ in Congressional Primary Bid
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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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.”
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
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.
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
Discussion: 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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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?
Discussion: Twitchy
 
 
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Robert Spencer / Front Page Magazine:
‘Follower of Farrakhan’ Crashes Capitol Barricade, Charges Cops with Knife
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
U.S. Looks to Build on Secret Portions of Taliban Deal to Reduce Violence
Discussion: Slate
Washington Post:
India announces 100,000 new cases a day, first country to do so since United States
Discussion: The Week
Stacey Anderson / New York Magazine:
Can ‘Bystander Intervention Training’ Stop Hate Crimes?
Politico:
Inside the White House plan to sell its massive infrastructure proposal
Discussion: Slate and Mock Paper Scissors
Ruben Navarrette Jr / The Daily Beast:
The Real Presidential Immigration Villain Is Bill Clinton
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Amos Harel / Haaretz:
Analysis | Israel Returns to Sanity, but Ignores Rising COVID Infection in the West Bank and Gaza
Jun Mai / South China Morning Post:
China says decades of terrorism justify tough Xinjiang measures
 Earlier Items: 
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
Biden Effort to Combat Hunger Marks ‘a Profound Change’
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
American Greatness:
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New York Times:
Biden Steps Up Federal Efforts to Combat Domestic Extremism
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Inside the Teen Vogue mess — which is really a Condé Nast mess
Ryan Dezember / Wall Street Journal:
If You Sell a House These Days, the Buyer Might Be a Pension Fund
 

 
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Cablevision founder Charles Dolan, a cable TV industry pioneer who launched HBO and AMC Networks and whose family controls Madison Square Garden, dies at 98

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

CBS News:
Greg Gumbel, a CBS Sports anchor and commentator who covered the NFL and college basketball for more than 20 years, died at 78 of cancer

 
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