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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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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Shock Poll: Half of Republicans Believe False Accounts of January 6th Capitol Riots
Shock Poll: Half of Republicans Believe False Accounts of January 6th Capitol Riots
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HotAir
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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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
The Supreme Court vacates ruling that Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking people on Twitter. — The Supreme Court on Monday vacated an appeals court ruling that President Donald J. Trump had violated the First Amendment by blocking people from his Twitter account after they posted critical comments.
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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court dismisses case challenging Trump Twitter blocks
Supreme Court dismisses case challenging Trump Twitter blocks
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Politico, Fox News, Washington Post, Reason, The Federalist and The Gateway Pundit
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court erases ruling against Trump over his Twitter account
Supreme Court erases ruling against Trump over his Twitter account
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CBS News and Outside the Beltway
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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Washington Examiner, Insider, NBC News and Washington Times
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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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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Common Dreams, The Root and Daily Kos
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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Vanity Fair, IJR, Commentary Magazine and Deadline
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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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
‘60 Minutes’ Ignores Democrat Governors' Scandals, Invents One About DeSantis
‘60 Minutes’ Ignores Democrat Governors' Scandals, Invents One About DeSantis
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, OutKick, Breitbart and Townhall
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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Townhall, National Review, Fox News, RedState, Newsbusters and Twitchy
Rep. Matt Gaetz / Washington Examiner:
The swamp is out to drown me with false charges, but I'm not giving up — Washington scandal cycles are predictable, and sex is especially potent in politics. Let me first remind everyone that I am a representative in Congress, not a monk, and certainly not a criminal.
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Yellen calls for a global minimum corporate tax rate. — Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen made the case on Monday for a global minimum tax, kicking off the Biden administration's effort to help raise revenue in the United States and prevent companies from shifting profits overseas to evade taxes.
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Politico, CBS News, National Review, The Hill, Raw Story, IJR, UPI, Bloomberg and POLITICUSUSA
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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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CNN, TheBlaze, Louder With Crowder, Associated Press, The Daily Caller and Digby's Hullabaloo
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Biden and the waning of the ‘neoliberal’ era
Biden and the waning of the ‘neoliberal’ era
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The American Independent and The Guardian
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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Politico, The Federalist and HotAir
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The New York Times Company:
Frank Bruni Stepping Down as Columnist; Named Endowed Chair at Duke University — Frank is joining Duke University as an endowed chair in journalism in June. He will no longer be a columnist but will continue to write his newsletter and will remain a contributing Opinion writer.
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The Hill
Vladimir Isachenkov / Associated Press:
Putin signs law allowing him 2 more terms as Russia's leader — MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a law allowing him to potentially hold onto power until 2036, a move that formalizes constitutional changes endorsed in a vote last year.
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Washington Examiner and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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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
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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Fox News, Nashville Scene, The Hill, HuffPost and CNN
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Alexander Sammon / American Prospect:
The First Progressive Primary Challenge of 2022
The First Progressive Primary Challenge of 2022
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BuzzFeed News
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
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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New York Post and The National Interest
New York Times:
White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort — 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 …
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.
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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Washington Post and Breitbart
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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Fox News, Newsbusters and Breitbart
Washington Post:
A QAnon revelation suggests the truth of Q's identity was right there all along — The extremist movement's leader had purported to be a top-secret government operative. But a possible slip-up in a new documentary about QAnon suggests that Q was actually Ron Watkins, the longtime administrator of the 8kun message board.