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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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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, Insider and Vox
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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HuffPost, The Daily Caller, Slate, The Week, HillReporter.com and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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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 …
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Chamber of Commerce getting squeezed on all sides
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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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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CBS News, Associated Press and The Times of Israel
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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Bloomberg and The Times of Israel
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, The Times of Israel, Informed Comment and East Bay Times
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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Tallahassee Democrat, Orlando Sentinel, Florida Politics, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, HuffPost and WKMG
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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Eugene Daniels / Politico:
The Biden White House media doctrine: Less can be more — The president does little press. His Cabinet does a fair bit. Underlying it all is one overarching idea: Do things that feel natural. — Three months in, Joe Biden's White House has settled on a firm press strategy: First, do no self-harm.
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.
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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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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Virginian-Pilot, WAVY-TV, Insider, NPR, UPI, The Hill, The Week, Occupy Democrats and Politico
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
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.
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 …
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The Week, CBS Miami, Insider, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, Raw Story, RedState, Reuters, Fox News, Vanity Fair, CBS News, Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
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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.
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 …
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Politico, CNN, Bloomberg, The Hill, Washington Times, One America News Network, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Maryland Matters and New York Times
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 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.
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Online Schools Are Here to Stay, Even After the Pandemic — Some families have come to prefer stand-alone virtual schools and districts are rushing to accommodate them — though questions about remote learning persist. — Rory Levin, a sixth grader in Bloomington, Minn., used to hate going to school.
Kadia Goba / Axios:
House members still reeling from Capitol siege — House Democrats still reeling from the Jan. 6 Capitol assault have found a new refuge: a group text chain in which they share everything from their anxieties to recipes and other attention-shifters. — What they're saying …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Vox Media to Buy Owner of Preet Bharara's Podcast — Bharara, a former Manhattan U.S. attorney, will join Vox Media as a host and creative director — Vox Media said it is acquiring Cafe Studios Inc., publisher of a popular podcast hosted by former Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara …
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Variety and The Wrap, more at Mediagazer »
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Biden set to accept fewest refugees of any modern president, including Trump, report says — Since his days on the campaign trail, President Biden has tried to cast himself as diametrically opposed to former president Donald Trump when it comes to welcoming refugees into the United States.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Biden's five biggest foreign policy challenges — President Biden's early months in office have been dominated by his domestic agenda as the nation tries to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. — Biden has expended most of his time, energy and political capital on passing …