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7:45 AM ET, April 5, 2021

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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 …
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Cheney snags victories ahead of her next battle with Trumpworld  —  Just two months after she survived an ouster attempt, the No. 3 House GOP leader has racked up a string of wins.  —  This is only the beginning of what looks like a years-long fight for Rep. Liz Cheney's 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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
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 …
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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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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Tampa Bay Times:
Live updates on Manatee plant potential collapse: What you need to know Sunday
Discussion: Fox News, Florida Politics and The Hill
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
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 …
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
Politico:
Inside the White House plan to sell its massive infrastructure proposal  —  A core part of the sales pitch will be an appeal to suburban women, who have been particularly battered by the coronavirus pandemic.  —  U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo speaks during a television interview outside the White House.
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Military Closes Failing Facility at Guantánamo Bay to Consolidate Prisoners  —  The move, which took place in a secret operation over the weekend, was conceived during the Trump administration to save on costs and troops at the remote base in Cuba.  —  U.S. military guards …
Discussion: Raw Story and UPI
Amos Harel / Haaretz:
Analysis |  Israel Returns to Sanity, but Ignores Rising COVID Infection in the West Bank and Gaza  —  While Israel has vaccinated tens of thousands of Palestinians, the vast majority remain unvaccinated at a time when Israel has surplus coronavirus vaccines.  It could all come back to haunt it
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Inside the Teen Vogue mess — which is really a Condé Nast mess  —  From the start, Alexi McCammond seemed an unlikely candidate to become a top boss within the storied Vogue empire — at least on paper.  —  Only 27, she had little editing experience and had never managed a staff …
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
New York Lawmakers Near Budget Deal to Raise Income, Corporate Taxes by $4.3 Billion  —  Under the agreement, top earners in New York City would pay the highest combined local tax rate in the country  —  ALBANY, N.Y.— New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers are nearing a budget agreement …
Discussion: New York Post
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.
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
Biden Effort to Combat Hunger Marks ‘a Profound Change’  —  As millions of Americans lack enough to eat, the administration is rapidly increasing aid — with an eye toward a permanent safety net expansion.  —  WASHINGTON — With more than one in 10 households reporting that they lack enough to eat …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
American Greatness:
The Appeal of the New Totalitarians  —  It's easy to understand and reject the horrors of totalitarianism.  It is much less easy to grasp its inexorable logic or its seemingly implacable attractions.  —  I am not a follower or a fan of baseball.  But I understand that it is, or has been …
Jun Mai / South China Morning Post:
China says decades of terrorism justify tough Xinjiang measures  —  In 2014, President Xi Jinping launched strict new measures - ‘nets above and snares below’ - following a string of violent incidents Beijing's narrative has been hampered by past downplaying of terrorist events for fear …
New York Times:
Biden Steps Up Federal Efforts to Combat Domestic Extremism  —  The administration has taken a series of steps to prioritize dealing with white supremacists and militias, especially after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Hunter Biden whitewashes just about everything in new tell-all  —  As addiction memoirs go, Hunter Biden's “Beautiful Things” is remarkable in one great sense: As poorly as he comes across, it's his father, President Biden, whose character takes a hit.  The Joe Biden depicted here is an absentee father …
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David Cohen / Politico:
Sen. Blunt sees ‘easy win’ if infrastructure plan scaled back  —  Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said Sunday the Biden White House could score “an easy win” on infrastructure if it would just reduce its new plan to focus solely on infrastructure.  —  Speaking to host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What Americans will get from Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan
Discussion: thedispatch.com and Gothamist
 
 
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Ruben Navarrette Jr / The Daily Beast:
The Real Presidential Immigration Villain Is Bill Clinton
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
What happened in Wuhan? Why questions still linger on the origin of the coronavirus
Rogerlsimon / theepochtimes.com:
Virtue Signaling Replaces Baseball as America's National Pastime
Discussion: Power Line
NBC News:
Capitol Police union warns of potential exodus after latest attack, urges security increases
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Some Georgia GOP legislators want Coca-Cola products removed from offices
Discussion: Washington Times
Kate Brown / The Hill:
True democracy stands on the heels of vote by mail expansion
Discussion: Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
Vaccine Cheat Days Are Adding Up
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Israel, in first comment, says troubled by US position ahead of Iran talks
Discussion: The National Interest and Fox News
Jazmine Hughes / New York Times:
‘Battle for the Soul of SoHo’: A Debate on Gentrification, Race and Wealth
Ryan Dezember / Wall Street Journal:
If You Sell a House These Days, the Buyer Might Be a Pension Fund
Washington Post:
Jordan accuses former crown prince and high-ranking officials of ‘promoting sedition,’ with foreign backing
Discussion: UPI
Glenn Greenwald:
The Enduring Terror of Violent Crime Victimhood
Discussion: Fox News and Mediaite
 

 
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast plans to announce Wednesday that it will be spinning off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks including MSNBC and CNBC, with Mark Lazarus as CEO

Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The Economist, The Week, ITV News, and others have joined Bluesky in the past week, while Politico, Semafor, Tortoise have resumed their activity on the site

Kanis Leung / Associated Press:
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai testifies for the first time in his years-long national security trial; he is already serving a jail term for a fraud conviction

 
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