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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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PRESS RUN, The Hill, RedState, Florida Politics and Breitbart
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 …
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 …
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Chicago Sun-Times and Nieman Lab, more at Mediagazer »
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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Reuters:
Biden will push through infrastructure plan if no Republican support - energy secretary says
Biden will push through infrastructure plan if no Republican support - energy secretary says
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CNN, Politico, Washington Post, New York Times, Raw Story, Bloomberg, Fortune, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, HuffPost and New York Post
Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Americans ‘want to see us get it done’: Buttigieg on Biden's infrastructure plan
Americans ‘want to see us get it done’: Buttigieg on Biden's infrastructure plan
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Washington Times, Talking Points Memo, Insider and The Week
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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BBC, One America News Network, The Daily Caller, New York Post and UPI
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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?
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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 …
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Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Slate, Fox News, National Review and Mock Paper Scissors
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What Americans will get from Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan
What Americans will get from Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan
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thedispatch.com and Gothamist