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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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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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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
The Supreme Court vacates ruling that Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking people on Twitter.
The Supreme Court vacates ruling that Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking people on Twitter.
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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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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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
CBS lies by omission about Governor Ron DeSantis
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Seth Abramson / Proof:
BREAKING NEWS: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Awarded Vaccine Sites to Publix Just As Publix Heiress Julie Jenkins Fancelli Was Funding the January 6 Trump Speech That Launched An Insurrection
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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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Vladimir Soldatkin / Reuters:
Putin signs law allowing him to run for two more terms in Kremlin — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law allowing him to run for two more terms in the Kremlin once his current term ends in 2024, a document posted on a government website showed on Monday.
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Jewish Currents:
How Not to Fight Antisemitism — Responsa is an editorial column written by members of the Jewish Currents staff and reflects a collective discussion. This responsa appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. — IN MAY OF 2020, the Jewish social …
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.
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. — In late March, Georgia passed a restrictive new voting law that, in effect …
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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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Tyler Buchanan / Ohio Capital Journal:
Ohio politicians condemned for pandemic comparisons to Nazi Germany — To Ohio lawmaker Kris Jordan, the mask requirement and the roll out of optional COVID-19 vaccines are two steps toward an American genocide like that of the Holocaust during World War II. — “It's just a mask, wear it.
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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