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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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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 …
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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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Ryan Saavedra / The Daily Wire:
Publix, Democrat State Official Blast ‘Absolutely False And Offensive’ CBS ‘60 Minutes’ Smear Of DeSantis
Publix, Democrat State Official Blast ‘Absolutely False And Offensive’ CBS ‘60 Minutes’ Smear Of DeSantis
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Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Corporations gave over $50M to voting restriction backers — WASHINGTON (AP) — When executives from Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines spoke out against Georgia's new voting law as unduly restrictive last week, it seemed to signal a new activism springing from corporate America.
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republicanleader.senate.gov:
McConnell: Corporations Shouldn't Fall for Absurd Disinformation on Voting Laws — 'There is no consistent or factual standard being applied here. It's just a fake narrative gaining speed by its own momentum... Businesses must not use economic blackmail to spread disinformation and push bad ideas …
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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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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
McConnell Criticizes ‘Outrage-Industrial Complex’ on Voting Laws
McConnell Criticizes ‘Outrage-Industrial Complex’ on Voting Laws
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Google wins big in Supreme Court clash with Oracle — The dispute was called the “copyright case of the century.” — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. — Shwan Thew/EPA via Shutterstock — In the multi-billion Supreme Court clash between two titans of tech, Google emerged as the victor on Monday.
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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court dismisses case challenging Trump Twitter blocks — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case challenging former President Donald Trump for blocking people on Twitter. — The court sent the case back to an appeals court and ordered it be dismissed as moot.
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USA Today:
Supreme Court dismisses as moot case questioning Donald Trump's blocking of critics on Twitter
Supreme Court dismisses as moot case questioning Donald Trump's blocking of critics on Twitter
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court dismisses case over Trump and Twitter critics
Supreme Court dismisses case over Trump and Twitter critics
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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.
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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 …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive: Soros group pledges $20 million to pass Biden plan — The Open Society Foundations are pledging $20 million to jumpstart as much as $100 million for a campaign to rally progressives around President Biden's infrastructure and social welfare proposals.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive: Janet Yellen to call for global minimum tax rate
Exclusive: Janet Yellen to call for global minimum tax rate
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
In video, Biden thanks new US citizens for ‘choosing us’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is thanking naturalized Americans for “choosing us” in his official video message to the nation's newest citizens. — In the brief remarks, Biden references the “courage” …
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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.”
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Raw Story and Media Matters for America
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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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 …
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.
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Study: Republican control of state government is bad for democracy — New research quantifies the health of democracy at the state level — and Republican-governed states tend to perform much worse. — SHARE All sharing options — In late March, Georgia passed a restrictive new voting law that …
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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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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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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.
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Why Is Major League Baseball Expected to Boycott Georgia, While Other Businesses Aren't? — This Thursday, the PGA Tour and Masters Tournament will begin in Augusta, Ga., despite the National Black Justice Coalition calling upon the PGA Tour and Masters Tournament to pull the upcoming event …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
An Extraordinary Winning Streak for Religion at the Supreme Court — More broadly, one new study found, “the politicization of religious freedom has infiltrated every level of the federal judiciary.” — WASHINGTON — “For many today, religious liberty is not a cherished freedom,” …
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