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New York Times:
Indicted Gaetz Associate Is Said to Be Cooperating With Justice Dept. — Joel Greenberg, a former elected official in Florida, has been talking to federal investigators since last year about the conduct of Representative Matt Gaetz and others. — A former local official in Florida indicted …
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CNN:
Women detail drug use, sex and payments after late-night parties with Gaetz and others — ‘Bombastic, antagonistic, unapologetic’: A look at Gaetz's political career — Orlando, FL (CNN)The first thing some of the women were asked to do when they got to the house parties in the gated community …
Politico:
New details shed light on Gaetz's Bahamas trip — MIAMI — The group took off for their Bahamas weekend getaway on three separate flights. Most of the passengers, which included at least five young women, flew out of Orlando on two separate private planes. Matt Gaetz flew commercial.
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Daniel Strauss / The Guardian:
The veteran air force pilot hoping to oust scandal-hit Republican Matt Gaetz — Bryan Jones will challenge the congressman, who is under investigation for alleged sex trafficking, in the next primary — A veteran air force pilot is laying the groundwork to challenge the scandal-hit congressman Matt Gaetz …
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Political Wire
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Capitol Police Told to Hold Back on Riot Response on Jan. 6, Report Finds — Despite being tipped that “Congress itself is the target” on Jan. 6, Capitol Police were ordered not to use their most powerful crowd-control weapons, according to a scathing new watchdog report.
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USA Today:
Pelosi on Jan. 6: ‘They would have had a battle on their hands’ if the mob had caught her — WASHINGTON - On her 100th day as speaker of the 117th Congress, Nancy Pelosi discussed the dramatic events that opened her tenure, when a mob that stormed the Capitol wanted to kill her.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Key Findings of the Inspector General's Report on the Capitol Riot — Intelligence failures, orders to use less aggressive measures and equipment breakdowns contributed to the Capitol Police's botched response, a watchdog found. — A new report by the Capitol Police's internal watchdog found …
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New York Times:
Hundreds of Companies Unite to Oppose Voting Limits, but Others Abstain — Amazon, Google, G.M. and Starbucks were among those joining the biggest show of solidarity by businesses over legislation in numerous states. — Amazon, BlackRock, Google, Warren Buffett and hundreds of other companies …
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Corporations of the World, Unite!
Corporations of the World, Unite!
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
History will cast a shadow over Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan — Afghanistan nagged at Joe Biden 10 years ago. He thought the Pentagon was muscling a new president, Barack Obama, into adding more troops for an unwinnable war. He believed the United States' interests …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Lindsey Graham Claims Biden Is ‘Paving the Way for Another 9/11’
Lindsey Graham Claims Biden Is ‘Paving the Way for Another 9/11’
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: ‘A gaslighting chamber of insanity’: Moderate Republicans seethe at Biden — DRIVING THE DAY — “It's a f—ing nightmare.” — That was the lament of a staffer working for one of the members of the so-called G-10, the group of 10 Republican senators who insist they're itching …
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George Packer / The Atlantic:
Biden Can Redeem His Mistake
Biden Can Redeem His Mistake
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YouGov:
All US states ranked from best to worst, according to Americans — There are endless rankings of the US states: whether they are the best places to live, the best places to do business, how much fun they are. Such judgements are made by economists, companies, and journalists - but what do Americans themselves think?
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Washington Examiner:
Vaccine passports? We'll pass — Sometimes, it seems that under liberal Democratic governments, everything is either illegal or mandatory. So even as the federal government is halting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and slow-walking approval of the AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines …
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Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis wants voters' signatures to match. Would his pass the test? — If the Florida governor gets his way, mail-in ballot signatures would have to match the most recent signature on file with the state. His own signature history shows how autographs evolve. — Updated Just now
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Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
AOC says Daunte Wright death no ‘accident,’ instead part of ‘indefensible system’ — The second-term “Squad” congresswoman described the shooting as part of a “systemic problem” — Fox News Flash top headlines for April 13 — In Twitter posts Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opposed …
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Daunte Wright slaying sparks new ‘defund the police’ push
Daunte Wright slaying sparks new ‘defund the police’ push
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RedState, The Hill and Twin Cities
ProPublica:
“I Felt Hate More Than Anything”: How an Active Duty Airman Tried to Start a Civil War — Steven Carrillo's path to the Boogaloo Bois shows the hate group is far more organized and dangerous than previously known. … Co-published with FRONTLINE. — The Insurrection — The Effort to Overturn the Election
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Defense One
Washington Post:
Trump didn't bring White working-class voters to the Republican Party. The data suggest he kept them away. — White working-class voters had been moving to the Republican Party for years. Trump stopped the trend. — Republican leaders have been hailing a class realignment of the parties.
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Joseph Cox / VICE:
FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks — The FBI obtained court approval to access vulnerable computers across the United States. — Joseph Cox — On Tuesday the Department of Justice announced the FBI was given approval to access hundreds of computers across …
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Anna Peele / Vulture:
The Soul of Bravo A year of national reckonings on race and inequality has tested how real the Housewives should be. — In 2020, Leva Bonaparte considered a job opportunity. Bravo had been pursuing the hospitality executive for years in an attempt to get her to join the cast of Southern Charm.
Debbie Kaminer / New York Daily News:
There's no vaccine for hypocrisy — The latest battle in the COVID-19 culture wars involves “vaccine passports,” with some Republican leaders taking a surprisingly anti-business and pro-regulation stance. Despite the term's ubiquity, there is no one official vaccine passport …
American Greatness:
Get Ready to Rumble With Big Business — Woke corporations aren't our friends and we should stop acting like they are. If they want to play games with our rights, we should beat them like rented mules when it comes to their bottom line. — Serious question: Who died …
Washington Post:
Caron Nazario saw Eric Garner, his ‘uncle,’ die in police hands. Then officers assaulted him six years later. — For a moment, as the video played on his cellphone, Charles Welch thought he was about to watch a White police officer kill one of his family members for the second time.
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Jerusalem Post:
Natanz attack hit 50 meters underground, destroyed most of the facility — The attack was reportedly carried out through a remotely detonated device smuggled into the facility. — The alleged Israeli attack on Iran's Natanz nuclear facility targeted an electrical substation located 40 …
Politico:
Biden moves to leverage corporate America's falling out with GOP — The business community doesn't dislike President Joe Biden's proposal to hike corporate taxes to pay for a massive $2 trillion-plus infrastructure plan. They detest it. — But there are some reasons to think corporate leaders …
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Washington Post and The Week
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Biden's White House communications strategy is driving Republicans insane — In the words of one House Republican campaign operative, 'It's a nightmare' — If there's a cliché that summed up Joe Biden's defeat of an extremely progressive Democratic primary field, it's the pithy maxim that Twitter is not real life.
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Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Biden is making the Trump presidency seem like a golden age of unity — President Biden promised to usher in a golden age of bipartisan cooperation, but instead he is showing a reverse Midas touch — taking issues that once united Republicans and Democrats and making them partisan and divisive.
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Linley Sanders / YouGov:
Americans broadly support the details of President Biden's infrastructure plan
Americans broadly support the details of President Biden's infrastructure plan
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New York Times
Nancy Pelosi / Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Invites President Biden to Address Joint Session of Congress on April 28 — Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the following letter today to President Joseph R. Biden inviting him to address a Joint Session of Congress. — In the letter, the Speaker wrote, “Nearly 100 days ago …
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Tara Golshan / HuffPost:
Democrats Propose Permanent Boost To Unemployment Benefits — With COVID-19 relief for jobless Americans set to expire soon, two Democratic senators propose new national standards for compensation. — While extra federal jobless benefits are set to expire in September …
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Washington Post and POLITICUSUSA
Wesley Morgan / The Atlantic:
America Never Knew Why It Was in Afghanistan … The soldiers living in the concrete maze of Combat Outpost (COP) Michigan treated the Taliban fire that poured in from the mountains as though it were weather: Bursts of machine-gun bullets were akin to drizzle, volleys of rocket-propelled grenades more like heavy rain.
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Court Vindicates Black Officer Fired for Stopping Colleague's Chokehold — Cariol Horne acted to keep a white officer from using what she saw as excessive force. Fifteen years later, a judge said her firing was wrong. — It was a cold November day in Buffalo when Officer Cariol Horne responded …
Paul Matzko / Libertarianism.org:
The Insurrectionary Ideology of National Conservatism — Today's national conservatives, like the Redeemer Democrats of the insurrection of 1876, endorse “herrenvolk democracy.” — Even by the usual dour standards of national conservatism, the months following the failed January 6th insurrection have been an embittered time.