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CNN:
Embattled Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is denied a meeting with Trump — (CNN)Rep. Matt Gaetz, who's facing a federal investigation into sex trafficking allegations, was recently denied a meeting with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate as the ex-President and his allies continue to distance themselves from the Florida congressman.
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Talking Points Memo, Fox News, Raw Story, The Hill, Insider, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, Vox and Vanity Fair
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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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Mitch McConnell's Threat Backfires As Big Business Meets To Cut Off GOP Cash — More than 100 corporate and business leaders responded to Mitch McConnell's threat by meeting to discuss cutting off the GOP. — The Washington Post reported: … The companies on the call included Delta …
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The Week
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Cindy McCain set to land Biden ambassadorship — DRIVING THE DAY — President JOE BIDEN is preparing to name Republican CINDY MCCAIN to a coveted ambassador post in Western Europe in what would be his administration's first Republican appointee to a Senate-confirmed position.
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The Hill, Washington Post, CNN, Foreign Policy, The Federalist, The Week and Political Wire
New York Times:
Blackout Hits Iran Nuclear Site in What Appears to Be Israeli Sabotage — The power failure comes at a delicate time, with talks underway in Vienna to restore the 2015 nuclear deal. — The Natanz nuclear facility in Iran mysteriously lost power on Sunday in what Iranian officials called …
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Sune Engel Rasmussen / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Says Its Foes Targeted Nuclear Plant to Derail Potential Talks With U.S.
Iran Says Its Foes Targeted Nuclear Plant to Derail Potential Talks With U.S.
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Al Arabiya, The Times of Israel, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg and The Guardian
BBC:
Iran says key Natanz nuclear facility hit by ‘sabotage’
Iran says key Natanz nuclear facility hit by ‘sabotage’
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tippinsights, KDFX-TV, The Gateway Pundit, Informed Comment, The Times of Israel, Reuters and East Bay Times
Martin Chulov / The Guardian:
Israel appears to confirm it carried out cyberattack on Iran nuclear facility
Israel appears to confirm it carried out cyberattack on Iran nuclear facility
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NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Associated Press and The Times of Israel
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Why We're Freaking Out About Substack — A company that makes it easy to charge for newsletters has captivated an anxious industry because it embodies larger forces and contradictions. — Danny Lavery had just agreed to a two-year, $430,000 contract with the newsletter platform Substack …
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Ace of Spades HQ, more at Mediagazer »
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Biden administration plans to name former senior NSA officials to White House cyber position and head of CISA — The Biden administration plans on Monday to name a former senior National Security Agency official as the first national cyber director and another former NSA official to head …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Major Biden to get training after two biting incidents — First dog Major Biden bites second person in White House — (CNN)President Joe Biden's German shepherd, Major, will receive training after two biting incidents involving workers at the White House, according to first lady Jill Biden's spokesman.
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
The Biden White House media doctrine: Less can be more
New York Times:
Minnesota Officer Shoots Driver, and Protesters Clash With Police — A young Black man died after an officer shot him during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, near where Derek Chauvin is on trial in the death of George Floyd — BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — A 20-year-old Black man died …
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Star Tribune:
Violence flares after Brooklyn Center police fatally shoot man, 20, inflaming tensions during the Derek Chauvin trial — Man, 20, killed after being pulled over for traffic violation in Brooklyn Center — A Brooklyn Center police officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon …
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The Hill, The Daily Beast, Heavy.com, CBS News, Newsweek, New York Post, WCCO | CBS Minnesota, The Week, Power Line, Insider, MPR News, WAVY-TV and Al Jazeera
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
‘White Lives Matter’ rallies flop as hardly anyone shows up — In semi-private, encrypted chats, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists planned rallies in dozens of cities on Sunday to promote their racist movements and spread their ideologies to larger audiences.
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Los Angeles Times, Washington Examiner, Insider, TheGrio, Mercury News and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, more at Mediagazer »
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Biden Republicans? Some in GOP open to president's agenda — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jay Copan doesn't hide his disregard for the modern Republican Party. — A solid Republican voter for the past four decades, the 69-year-old quickly regretted casting his 2016 ballot for Donald Trump.
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Washington Post, Juanita Jean's, pjmedia.com, Big Bad Bald Bastard and Newsbusters
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Polls show majority of Republicans mistakenly think the 2020 election wasn't legitimate
Polls show majority of Republicans mistakenly think the 2020 election wasn't legitimate
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Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight and The Week
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Chamber of Commerce getting squeezed on all sides
Chamber of Commerce getting squeezed on all sides
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Real Clear Politics
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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Washington Post, Tallahassee Democrat, Orlando Sentinel, Florida Politics, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money and HuffPost
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: Trump campaign boosted by unsuspecting state GOPs — Federal regulators are probing financial reporting discrepancies stemming from an effort to funnel $75 million through state Republican parties to the national GOP effort to reelect Donald Trump, Axios has learned.
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
Welcome to Galaxy Brain — Why I'm leaving (The) New York (Times). — Hello! Hi! I have a new job — you're looking at it. Welcome to Galaxy Brain, my humble internet outpost. I am terribly excited. Before I arrived here, I spent a few great years as a writer at large for the New York Times Opinion section.
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
I Thought My Job Was To Report On Technology In India. Instead, I Got A Front-Row Seat To The Decline Of My Democracy. — I love writing about tech. But covering how a Hindu nationalist government is using it to destroy a secular democracy isn't what I signed up for. — Copy
Jing Yang / Wall Street Journal:
Jack Ma's Ant Group Bows to Beijing With Company Overhaul — People's Bank of China said Ant representatives were summoned to a meeting Monday — Ant Group Co., the financial-technology giant controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, will apply to become a financial holding company overseen …
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Facing GOP opposition, Biden seeks to redefine bipartisanship — To hear President Biden and his team tell it, a successful bipartisan bill need not attract a single Republican vote. — Biden pushed his $1.9 trillion covid relief bill through the Senate with the support of all 50 Democrats …
Rachel Chason / Washington Post:
Virginia governor calls for investigation into police pepper-spraying of Black Army officer — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Sunday he is directing Virginia State Police to investigate a traffic stop during which two police officers held an Army second lieutenant at gunpoint in the southeast part of the state.
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HuffPost, WAVY-TV, Virginian-Pilot, Insider, Hampton Roads Daily Press, KRON4, NPR, The Hill, The Week, Occupy Democrats and Politico
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Hawley hauls in $3M after attempt to block election results — The Missouri senator collected more than 10 times what some of his colleagues have raised at a similar point in their terms. — Sen. Josh Hawley drew widespread attention for leading the Jan. 6 effort to block the acceptance of the Electoral College results.
Jonathan Alter / New York Times:
Can Biden Be Our F.D.R.? — President Biden wants to change the trajectory of the country. He's off to a good start. — Mr. Alter is a journalist and the author of “The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.” — “History doesn't repeat itself, but it sometimes rhymes,” Mark Twain (supposedly) said.
Chris Bragg / Albany Times Union:
Cuomo's government staff did work on 'super PAC's' poll — NY Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's government staff did work on 'super PAC's' poll — ALBANY - Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's lucrative book deal is not the only instance where the governor's office mixed private activities and government staff.
American Greatness:
Can the Great ‘Awokening’ Succeed? — Wokeism is creating a future group of politically incorrect Trotskyites on a proverbial rendezvous with a Mexican ice pick, given that by birth they will never be woke enough for the new Stalinism. — We all know that we are living in revolutionary times.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Biden pollster urges blunt tax talk — The top pollster for Joe Biden's presidential campaign is advising the White House to do something that often makes Democrats nervous: Talk loudly and proudly about raising taxes on the rich. — Why it matters: John Anzalone tells Axios his extensive polling …
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New York Post:
Never Trump conservatives are complicit with Team Biden's moral outrages and norm-breaking — Remember Never Trump? — For four years, an influential clique of think tankers, Republican operatives and talking heads claimed that any conservative who supported Donald Trump was complicit with a uniquely malevolent presidency.