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11:00 AM ET, April 12, 2021

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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 …
Associated Press:
Man Shot by Minnesota Police in Traffic Stop Dies  —  Brooklyn Center police shooting sparks protests  —  BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn.—Crowds of mourners and protesters gathered in a Minnesota city where the family of a 20-year-old man say he was shot by police before getting back into his car and driving away …
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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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.
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Facing GOP opposition, Biden seeks to redefine bipartisanship
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.
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.
Discussion: Insider
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Biden administration plans to name former senior NSA officials to White House cyber position and head of CISA
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 …
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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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Iran calls Natanz atomic site blackout ‘nuclear terrorism’
NBC4 Washington:
Officer Accused of Force in Stop of Black Army Officer Fired  —  One of two police officers accused of pepper-spraying and pointing their guns at a Black Army officer during a traffic stop has since been fired, a Virginia town announced late Sunday, hours after the governor called for an independent investigation into the case.
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Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed a Black Army Medic Is Fired
Discussion: CBS News
Rachel Chason / Washington Post:
Virginia governor calls for investigation into police pepper-spraying of Black Army officer
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
Discussion: The Week
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
ADL demands Fox News fire Tucker Carlson over anti-Semitic trope: ‘This has deadly significance’  —  Last week on Fox News, Tucker Carlson argued that immigration to the United States would “dilute the political power” of Americans in a segment that also referenced “white replacement theory” …
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Tom Porter / Insider:
Tucker Carlson is repeatedly using his platform to downplay white supremacy and violence, critics say
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Tucker Carlson and White Replacement
Discussion: Raw Story and Eschaton
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Mitch McConnell tends his legacy 8,000 miles away  —  He reshaped the federal judiciary.  He made history as the longest-serving Senate GOP leader.  But Mitch McConnell has unfinished business more than 8,000 miles from the halls of Congress.  —  There's no more consistent or surprising through line …
Discussion: The Week
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Mike Allen / Yahoo News:
“You're not a one-person show”: Pelosi unloads on “The Squad” in new biography
Discussion: IJR
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Biden nominates a critic of Trump's immigration policies to lead Customs and Border Protection.  —  President Biden will nominate Chris Magnus, the police chief of Tucson, Ariz., and a critic of the Trump administration's anti-immigration policies, to lead Customs and Border Protection …
Discussion: CNN and Fox News
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The border is even worse than you think  —  MISSION, Texas — Anyone paying attention to the news knows the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is terrible.  Anyone who actually visits the border discovers it is worse than that.  —  Here is what is most striking about the government's response …
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
VP Harris' response to migrant crisis borders on the absurd
Discussion: HotAir and Chicago Sun-Times
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
How Hunter Biden's Memoir Played in the White House  —  Hunter Biden was careering above Highway 10 in the Sonoran desert.  Eastbound behind the wheel of a rented Lincoln Town Car, exhausted and speeding 80 mph, he'd closed his eyes just long enough to zag off the road and into the air, twirling to land in the opposite lanes.
Discussion: Breitbart
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account  —  The inside story of Sophie Zhang's battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected  —  Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook's systems, she published one final message …
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court's Bridgegate Ruling Casts Shadow on Federal Fraud Cases  —  Court's 2020 decision limiting application of antifraud laws leads prosecutors to urge dismissal of most charges in high-profile insider-trading case  —  A Supreme Court decision that threw out the fraud convictions …
Discussion: Political Wire
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Jim Acosta Mocks Trump's ‘Grievance Groundhog Day’: ‘He Gets Up Every Day, Gripes About the Election, and Wakes Up the Next Day Still a Loser’  —  CNN's Jim Acosta responded to reports of former President Donald Trump's remarks at a Republican donor event at Mar-a-Lago by mocking …
Discussion: HuffPost
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:
Asian American super PAC launches operation to improve understanding of fastest-growing electorate
Adam Jentleson / The Atlantic:
How to Stop the Minority-Rule Doom Loop
Discussion: The Hill, Salon and The Federalist
CNN:
Driver arrested in hit-and-run death of Sandra Feuerstein, New York federal judge
Discussion: The Hill
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Biden White House puts its police oversight commission on ice
Discussion: The Hill and KDFX-TV
Alex McKenna / Washington Examiner:
Ohio State employs 150 diversity officials, to add more professors focused on social and racial justice
Chris Bragg / Albany Times Union:
Cuomo's government staff did work on 'super PAC's' poll
American Greatness:
Can the Great ‘Awokening’ Succeed?
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Alter / New York Times:
Can Biden Be Our F.D.R.?  —  President Biden wants to change the trajectory of the country.
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Why big-spending Biden can shrug off GOP warnings of inflation
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Old Trump health team rivalries resurface in Texas House race
Discussion: NBC News
Kadia Goba / Axios:
House members still reeling from Capitol siege
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Hawley hauls in $3M after attempt to block election results
Discussion: The Hill and National Review
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Online Schools Are Here to Stay, Even After the Pandemic
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.
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

 
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