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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.
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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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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The Week, The Daily Caller, HuffPost, Slate, 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 …
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The Week
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, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, 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, Reuters 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
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.
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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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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BuzzFeed News, Star Tribune, CNN, WCCO | CBS Minnesota, The Guardian, CBS News, Washington Post, Insider, Mediaite, Raw Story, KTLO, KDFX-TV, Al Jazeera, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, ABC News, Associated Press, TheGrio, UPI and REVOLT
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 …
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.
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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WAVY-TV, Virginian-Pilot, 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
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 and Bloomberg
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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.
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, Alternet.org, The Hill, Washington Times, One America News Network, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Maryland Matters and New York Times
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.
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.
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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Boston Herald and RealClearMarkets
Harry Enten / CNN:
Polls show majority of Republicans mistakenly think the 2020 election wasn't legitimate — (CNN)Poll of the week: A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 55% of Republicans falsely believe Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election was the result of illegal voting or rigging.
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Washington Post, Associated Press and FiveThirtyEight
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.
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Why big-spending Biden can shrug off GOP warnings of inflation — If persistently rising inflation is coming to the U.S., history suggests it won't happen until after Biden is out of office. — President Joe Biden, accompanied by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, speaks as he gets …
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Washington Examiner
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Old Trump health team rivalries resurface in Texas House race — “It ticks off the entire Trump network,” said a former White House official. “The president would not be able to pick him out of a room.” — The campaign has prompted one top Trump HHS official, Roger Severino …
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 …