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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to hear major new gun-control case next term on carrying weapons outside the home  —  The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a major new gun-control case next term, accepting a National Rifle Association-backed challenge that asks the court to declare there is a constitutional right …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court to take up right to carry gun for self-defense
Discussion: Mic, Townhall and Raw Story
Juliegrace Brufke / New York Post:
Rep. Liz Cheney not ruling out 2024 presidential run  —  ORLANDO — House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney is not ruling out a potential presidential bid, The Post has learned.  —  “I'm not ruling anything in or out — I've been here a long time,” she told The Post when asked if she would ever consider running in the future.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Cheney breaks with McCarthy on scope of Jan. 6 panel  —  House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) broke Monday with Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), telling reporters that a proposed 9/11-style independent commission should narrowly focus on the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Clare Foran / CNN:
Anti-Trump conservative group to grade GOP lawmakers on whether they uphold (or undermine) democracy  —  (CNN)An anti-Trump conservative group is launching an effort to track and evaluate whether Republicans in Congress, in the group's view, have acted to either undermine or uphold democracy …
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The GOP Is a Grave Threat to American Democracy  —  The hope of many conservative critics of Donald Trump was that soon after his defeat, and especially in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection, the Republican Party would snap back into its former shape.  The Trump presidency would end up being no more than an ugly parenthesis.
Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
Iran's Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies  —  Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military leader, Qassim Suleimani.  —  In a leaked audiotape that offers a glimpse into the behind …
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Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Iran's foreign minister says John Kerry told him about Israeli covert operations in Syria
Discussion: HotAir
Foreign Affairs:
Israel and Iran Are Pulling the United States Toward Conflict
Discussion: Townhall
Iran International:
Exclusive: Zarif Claims Soleimani Intervened In Diplomacy, Russia Wanted To Destroy JCPOA
Discussion: NPR, Al-Monitor and Al Jazeera
New York Times:
‘Nomadland’ Makes History, and Chadwick Boseman Is Upset at the Oscars  —  Chloé Zhao's film about the damaged American dream won best picture, best director and best actress.  In a surprise, Anthony Hopkins ("The Father") won best actor.  —  LOS ANGELES — “Nomadland,” …
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Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal:
China Censors ‘Nomadland’ Director Chloe Zhao's Oscar Win  —  After filmmaker becomes first Chinese woman to win top honor at Academy Awards, news disappears from search engines, social media and state outlets  —  “Nomadland” director Chloe Zhao made history on Sunday by becoming the first woman …
Marco Rubio / New York Post:
Corporations that undermine American values don't deserve GOP support  —  'What's good for General Motors is good for the country.  " This was a defining American adage in the last century, because it was true: US corporations helped to make our country the most prosperous in the history of the world.
Discussion: Raw Story
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Alaska lawmaker blasted airline for ‘mask tyranny.’ Now she's banned from the only flights to the capital.  —  Last week, a police officer responded to an Alaska Airlines terminal in Juneau as state Sen. Lora Reinbold clashed with staffers over mask rules.  It was a familiar battle …
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James Brooks / Anchorage Daily News:
Alaska Airlines bans Eagle River lawmaker for violating COVID-19 mask policy
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Peter Thiel makes $10M bet on associate in Arizona Senate race  —  Libertarian tech titan Peter Thiel is spending $10 million to boost one of his closest allies in next year's Arizona Senate race, a contest crucial to the fight for the majority.  —  The billionaire is coming out in support …
Discussion: Breitbart, Joe.My.God. and The Verge
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J.B. Shurk / American Thinker:
Bush Republicanism Must Go Away  —  The Democratic Party is actively trying to start a race war in the United States, and George Bush thinks it's Republican voters who need lessons in humanity and fellowship.  —  Bush is on the media circuit these days pushing amnesty (while calling it anything but! …
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Glenn C. Altschuler / The Hill:   The Republicans' deep dive into nativism
CNN:
Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan launches campaign of US Senate seat in Ohio
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: No, Biden is not trying to force Americans to eat less red meat  —  Washington (CNN)Republican members of Congress, Fox News personalities and other prominent right-wing figures are falsely claiming that President Joe Biden is trying to force Americans to eat far less red meat.
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Biden will announce new CDC mask guidance Tuesday, sources say  —  Poll shows slight majority approve of Biden's performance  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden is expected to announce Tuesday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance for wearing masks outdoors …
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Scott Gottlieb / Wall Street Journal:
Time to End Outdoor Mask Edicts
Axios:
Biden's next 100 days  —  President Biden spent his first 100 days trying to engineer the end of the coronavirus and start of a job boom.  The next 100 are more audacious and risky: Try to re-engineer the very fundamentals of America — inequality, voting rights and government's role in directing economic growth.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
How Biden anchored his first 100 days on two simple principles
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Census numbers expected to shift House power to the South, West  —  The U.S. Census Bureau will release the first results of its decennial survey on Monday after a decade of explosive growth in Sun Belt states that will shift power in the House of Representatives.
Discussion: CNN and Political Wire
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Aram Roston / Reuters:
Exclusive-Before Jan. 6, FBI collected information from at least 4 Proud Boys  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Among the far-right groups whose members are suspected of planning the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are the Proud Boys.  In March, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's director told …
Discussion: Insider
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Biden's First 100 Days Reshaped America  —  During the first hundred days of Joe Biden's presidency, it has dawned on Republicans that the man their standard-bearer once mocked as “Sleepy Joe” is a formidable adversary.  And the quality that has made him so effective up to this point is, well, his sleepiness.
New York Times:
Breaking Point: How Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook Became Foes  —  The chief executives of Facebook and Apple have opposing visions for the future of the internet.  Their differences are set to escalate this week.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — At a confab for tech and media moguls in Sun Valley …
Discussion: Vox, more at Techmeme »
Dan Margolies / KCUR 89.3:
KCUR Reporter And Beloved Colleague Aviva Okeson-Haberman Dies At 24  —  Aviva joined KCUR in 2019, impressing her colleagues with her work ethic and strength of purpose.  —  Aviva Okeson-Haberman, an accomplished KCUR reporter known for her thoughtful, aggressive and compassionate reporting …
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
President Biden will promote unions through a White House task force.  —  President Biden will sign an executive order on Monday creating a task force to promote labor organizing, according to a White House fact sheet.  —  The task force, to be led by Vice President Kamala Harris and populated …
Washington Post:
The public's concerns over the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine are widespread, Post-ABC poll finds  —  Fewer than 1 in 4 Americans not yet immunized against the coronavirus say they would be willing to get the vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll …
 
 
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Bobby Burack / OutKick:
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
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Discussion: Fox News and USA Today
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Simon & Schuster Employees Submit Petition Demanding No Deals With Trump Administration Authors
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Karen Townsend / Newsbusters:
OscarsSoWoke Bludgeoned Viewers With BLM Propaganda
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: Biden's quiet immigration move
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Just Security:
A Jan. 6 Commission is Crucial to Understand the Reality of the Attack, and the Alternate Reality of the Attackers
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