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Todd Frankel / Washington Post:
More than a hundred corporate executives hold call to discuss halting donations and investments to fight controversial voting bills — More than 100 chief executives and corporate leaders gathered online Saturday to discuss taking new action to combat the controversial state voting bills …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: GOP donors privately pan Trump's ‘horrible’ RNC speech — DRIVING THE DAY — A slew of well-heeled Republican National Committee donors descended on Palm Beach this weekend, excited to be schmoozed, eager for access to DONALD TRUMP and other potential 2024 nominees …
Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
How Trump Unleashed a Domestic Terrorism Movement—And What Experts Say Must Be Done to Defeat It — “He tells them what to do. He tells them why they're angry.” — Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.
Charles Sykes / Politico:
No, the GOP and the Dems Haven't Actually Swapped Brains — Even after the lunacy of the past four years, the GOP's recent behavior is jaw-dropping, an extraordinary transformation that feels like the Republican Party has experienced some sort of bizarre brain swap.
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump slashes at McConnell as he reiterates election falsehoods at Republican event — Former president Donald Trump called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell a “dumb son of a bitch” as he used a Saturday night speech to Republicans to blame him for not helping overturn the 2020 election …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Dumb son of a bitch’: Trump rips McConnell at Mar-a-Lago
‘Dumb son of a bitch’: Trump rips McConnell at Mar-a-Lago
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Associated Press:
‘Suspicious’ blackout strikes Iran's Natanz nuclear site — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's underground Natanz nuclear facility lost power Sunday just hours after starting up new advanced centrifuges capable of enriching uranium faster, the latest incident to strike …
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Jerusalem Post:
'Mossad behind cyber attack against Iran's Natanz nuclear facility' — Security cabinet set to meet next week amid growing tensions between Israel and Iran. — The Mossad was reportedly behind the cyberattack at the Natanz nuclear plant on Sunday that caused extensive damage to Iran's main uranium enrichment facility.
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CNN:
Incident at Iran's Natanz facility a ‘terrorist action,’ nuclear chief says — Tehran (CNN)Iran's Atomic Energy Organization condemned an incident at the Natanz nuclear facility on Sunday, calling it a “terrorist action,” according to the Iranian telegram channel of the Revolution Guard Corps, or IRGC.
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pentagon chief declares ‘ironclad’ US commitment to Israel
Pentagon chief declares ‘ironclad’ US commitment to Israel
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Associated Press:
China admits that it's COVID-19 vaccine isn't very effective: official — BEIJING — In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to give them a boost.
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New York Times:
‘Like the Tiger King Got Elected Tax Collector’: Inside the Case That Ensnared Matt Gaetz — Joel Greenberg, a onetime local official in Florida, is accused of an array of crimes, including bribery, stalking and corruption. — LAKE MARY, Fla. — Long before the F.B.I. began to scrutinize …
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
Twitter Censors Criticism of BLM Founder Buying $1.4 Million Home In Predominantly White Neighborhood — We have been discussing the expanding censorship on Twitter and social media. The latest example involves the story of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, 37 …
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Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors' million-dollar real-estate buying binge
Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors' million-dollar real-estate buying binge
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
NY Times beclowns itself by normalizing court-packing ‘to balance the conservative majority’ — “Breaking News: President Biden will create a panel to study expanding the Supreme Court in an effort to balance the conservative majority created by Donald Trump.”
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Respectfully, Justice Breyer, court enlargers aren't the problem
Respectfully, Justice Breyer, court enlargers aren't the problem
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Lateshia Beachum / Washington Post:
Maskless Florida woman who coughed on Pier 1 customer gets 30 days in jail — A Florida woman who, without wearing a mask, purposefully coughed on another customer in a Pier 1 store last year has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. — Debra Hunter, 53, will serve time in Duval County jail …
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Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Cheney calls Gaetz allegations ‘sickening,’ stays mum on calls for resignation — Cheney declines to say if she was surprised by the allegations — Gaetz slams ‘lying’ media — U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney said Sunday she found the sexual misconduct allegations against fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz …
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida Republicans see opening as Gaetz's legal peril rises
Florida Republicans see opening as Gaetz's legal peril rises
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Washington Post:
Congress should stop attacking DeJoy and consider his plan to fix the Postal Service — LAST YEAR was a rough one for the U.S. Postal Service. Relentlessly bashed by then-President Donald Trump, the Postal Service landed in election-year controversy when Mr. Trump's choice for postmaster general …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Joe Manchin beats his chest for D.C. elites while struggling W. Va. waits for help | Will Bunch — Jeanne Peters moved to Wood County, W. Va., from Atlanta more than two decades ago seeking to launch an e-commerce business while breathing in some of what has kept families in the isolated Mountain State …
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Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
Of hate, crimes and hate crimes: Anti-Asian violence is not quite what city pols want it to be — Flipping through the paper on Friday, you could read about: — A young Asian man who was at the Home Depot in East New York when a man brandished a two-by-four and asked his girlfriend, “Why you with that little d—k Asian n—
David Cohen / Politico:
China hasn't been forthright on Covid, Blinken says — The world still needs “to get to the bottom of” the origins of Covid-19, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday, and that means China still owes the world some answers. — “I think China knows that in the early stages of Covid …
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Blinken: China's early ‘failure’ on Covid cooperation helped speed pandemic
Blinken: China's early ‘failure’ on Covid cooperation helped speed pandemic
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Sandee LaMotte / CNN:
Case count, masks and ventilation are key — “There are three factors to consider,” said Linsey Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, who studies the airborne transmission of Covid-19. — “How prevalent is the virus in the population?
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CNN:
‘We cannot go back to normal’: Boston's Mayor Kim Janey sees a mandate for racial equity in post-Covid era — Boston (CNN)For 200 years, Boston has been led by an unbroken string of White men — until now. Kim Janey, a Black woman who traces her roots in the city back generations …
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New York Times:
Biden's Infrastructure Push Spurs a Flurry of Lobbying in Congress — Lawmakers in both parties are lining up to get their pet projects and policy priorities included in the expansive package. — WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have begun a frenzy of lobbying to ensure that their pet projects …
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John Harwood / CNN:
Biden strengthens Obama's legacy while seeking his own — How Biden promised to change health care on the campaign trail — (CNN)With sweeping economic recovery plans, President Joe Biden seeks his own legacy like the New Deal or Great Society. But he's also bolstering Barack Obama's.
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Pui-Wing Tam / New York Times:
My Family's Global Vaccine Journey — We were spread across three continents, at the mercy of vaccine geopolitics. Which of us would be inoculated last? — In early February, my sister posted a video in our family's WhatsApp group. — It was a seven-minute CNN report on Malawi …