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11:40 AM ET, April 25, 2021

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Rebecca Robbins / New York Times:
Millions Are Skipping Their Second Doses of Covid Vaccines  —  Nearly 8 percent of those who got initial Pfizer or Moderna shots missed their second doses.  State officials want to prevent the numbers from rising.  —  Millions of Americans are not getting the second doses of their Covid-19 vaccines, and their ranks are growing.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Slate
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New York Times:
Michigan's Covid Wards Are Filling Up With Younger Patients  —  Even as vaccines roll out, more younger people in Michigan are being hospitalized than at any other point in the pandemic.  And they're coming in sicker.  —  ROYAL OAK, Mich. — At Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak …
Discussion: CNN
Washington Post:
Americans give Biden mostly positive marks for first 100 days, Post-ABC poll finds  —  President Biden nears the end of his first 100 days in office with a slight majority of Americans approving of his performance and supporting his major policy initiatives, but his approval rating is lower …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: At 100 days, Biden's approval remains strong.  Can the honeymoon last? … WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden nears his 100th day in office, slightly more than half of Americans say they approve of his job performance.  Biden gets his highest marks on handling the Covid-19 pandemic …
Discussion: The Hill and Insider
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Joe Biden's hundred days at the kitchen table  —  The political core of Bidenism rests on his answers to two questions: What accounted for the setbacks experienced by recent Democratic presidencies?  And how can his party ease the discontents that led to the rise of Donald Trump?
Associated Press:
More action, less talk, distinguish Biden's 100-day sprint  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The card tucked in President Joe Biden's right jacket pocket must weigh a ton.  You can see the weight of it on his face when he digs it out, squints and ever-so-slowly reads aloud the latest tally of COVID-19 dead.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden approaches 100-day milestone
Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News:
Even after being fully vaccinated, many still wrestle with a fear of catching Covid  —  Since the start of the pandemic, Kit Breshears has been terrified of catching the coronavirus.  Getting vaccinated did not magically change that.  —  For the past 13 months, Breshears, 44, of Buffalo …
David Cohen / Politico:
Michigan GOP congressman: ‘I would say my goal is to not be a hypocrite’  —  Three months after voting to impeach President Donald Trump, freshman Rep. Peter Meijer sees plenty to be critical of on both sides of the aisle in Washington.  —  Speaking Sunday on CNN's “Inside Politics With Abby Phillip …
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Half a Year After Trump's Defeat, Arizona Republicans Are Recounting the Vote  —  An audit of the vote in Arizona's most populous county was meant to mollify angry Trump voters.  But it is being criticized as a partisan exercise more than a fact-finding one.  —  PHOENIX — It seemed so simple back in December.
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Raw Story, Daily Kos and CNN
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Los Angeles Times:
Armenian American activists welcome U.S. recognition of genocide but say fight isn't over
American Greatness:
Slow-Motion Suicide of the West  —  Some people thought James Burnham's identification of liberalism with civilization's suicide was hyperbolic.  In light of American institutions' embrace of anti-Americanism, what would they say now?  —  I have been thinking a good deal recently …
Discussion: New York Post
New York Times:
The Slander Industry  —  I wanted to slander someone.  —  My colleague Kashmir Hill and I were trying to learn who is responsible for — and profiting from — the growing ecosystem of websites whose primary purpose is destroying reputations.  —  So I wrote a nasty post.  About myself.
Ian Birrell / Daily Mail:
Worrying new clues about the origins of Covid: How scientists at Wuhan lab helped Chinese army in secret project to find animal viruses, writes IAN BIRRELL  — Scientists at Wuhan lab were on massive project investigating animal viruses  — Documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday have revealed a nationwide scheme
David Gelles / New York Times:
C.E.O. Pay Remains Stratospheric, Even at Companies Battered by Pandemic  —  While millions of people struggled to make ends meet, many of the companies hit hardest in 2020 showered their executives with riches.  —  Boeing had a historically bad 2020.  Its 737 Max was grounded for most of the year …
Discussion: Hackwhackers
Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved  —  BOSTON (AP) — A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in.  A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world's computer networks that it was now managing …
CNN:
Kamala Harris cements her place in Biden's inner circle during a consequential week  —  Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down with CNN's Dana Bash for her exclusive first one-on-one interview with the network airing on CNN's “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash” at 9 a.m. ET Sunday and again at noon ET.
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and New York Post
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
After death of baby, S.F. domestic violence victim advocates ask whether Chesa Boudin is doing enough  —  The news itself was crushing.  A 7-month-old baby boy named Synciere Williams died Tuesday.  The man charged with taking care of him that day, Joseph Williams, 26, was booked by police for allegedly murdering the child.
Discussion: HuffPost and Breitbart
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
The difficult realities of lethal force  —  The shooting of 16-year-old Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio, has produced a torrent of objections to how police respond to armed suspects.  Some, like MSNBC host Joy Reid, simply declare that the use of lethal force to stop a knife attack is “murder.”
Discussion: The Western Journal
Martyn McLaughlin / Scotsman:
Revealed: Donald Trump's firms charges Secret Service more than £17,000 for 2017 trips  —  Donald Trump's golf resorts in Scotland and Ireland charged the US Secret Service more than £17,000 for a series of previously undisclosed trips during his first full year in office.
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Anti-vaxxers are wearing Yellow Stars of David to protest coronavirus vaccines: report  —  Anti-vaccine protesters likening themselves to Jews during the holocaust were harshly criticized on Saturday.  —  Nazis required Jews to wear yellow Jewish stars and other holocaust badges to the lands they controlled during World War II.
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
India asks Twitter to take down some tweets critical of its COVID-19 handling  —  The Indian government asked social media platform Twitter (TWTR.N) to take down dozens of tweets, including some by local lawmakers, that were critical of India's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, as cases of COVID-19 again hit a world record.
Discussion: New York Post
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Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Twitter censored tweets critical of India's handling of the pandemic at its government's request
Ashish K. Jha / Washington Post:
India's coronavirus surge could collapse its health system.  The U.S. can help.  —  Ashish K. Jha is dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.  —  India, the world's largest democracy, is now the epicenter of the pandemic and on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe.
 
 
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Dr. Steven E. Koonin / New York Post:
Obama administration scientist says climate ‘emergency’ is based on fallacy
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Biden voters in Pennsylvania see promises kept on Covid. They're watching for what's next.
Discussion: Raw Story
Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
What accountability doesn't look like: Compare Derek Chauvin and Daniel Pantaleo
Ray Brescia / The Hill:
Corporations can - and must - fight for voting rights
Zachary D. Carter / New York Times:
The Woman Who Shattered the Myth of the Free Market
Esteban Castellanos / Air Force Times:
Enough about ‘not picking sides.’ The only right position is against white supremacy and extremism
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
The World Needs Many More Coronavirus Vaccines
CNN:
Trump supporters could be incited to future violence by his continued promotion of 2020 election lies, DOJ and judges say
Discussion: Twitchy
Matthew Stolle / Bemidji Pioneer:
Minnesota county's GOP event featured far-right conspiracy theorist
Montgomery County Police Reporter:
STATE REPRESENTATIVE BUSTED ON SUSPICION OF DWI FOLLOWING CRASH
Associated Press:
1 verdict, then 6 police killings across America in 24 hours
Discussion: Slate
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Tucker Carlson: US journalists are ‘cowards’ and ‘cringing animals’
Discussion: HuffPost
 

 
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