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New York Times:
Federal Investigators Execute Search Warrant at Rudy Giuliani's Apartment — Prosecutors obtained the warrant as part of an investigation into whether Mr. Giuliani broke lobbying laws as President Trump's personal lawyer. — Federal investigators in Manhattan executed a search warrant …
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Wall Street Journal:
Rudy Giuliani's New York Apartment Searched by Federal Investigators — Authorities seize the former New York City mayor's electronic devices in investigation into possible violation of foreign-lobbying rules — Federal investigators executed a search warrant Wednesday morning …
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Associated Press:
AP source: Feds execute warrant at Rudy Giuliani's NYC home
AP source: Feds execute warrant at Rudy Giuliani's NYC home
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Erica Orden / CNN:
Federal agents execute search warrants on Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan home and office
Federal agents execute search warrants on Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan home and office
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Meredith Newman / delawareonline:
Delaware man to deliver first joint address to Congress Wednesday night — President Joe Biden, just before his 100th day in office, will deliver his first speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night. — After decades of watching these speeches as a U.S. senator and vice president, Biden will deliver one of his own.
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Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
Biden to pitch progressive agenda in centrist language during first joint address
Biden to pitch progressive agenda in centrist language during first joint address
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Washington Free Beacon, Politico, Washington Post, CNN and The Verge
Sen. Ted Cruz / Fox News:
Biden's State of the Union update - here's the truth you won't hear from the president
Biden's State of the Union update - here's the truth you won't hear from the president
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IJR
Bloomberg:
Biden Disappoints SALT Democrats, Setting Up Headache for Pelosi
Biden Disappoints SALT Democrats, Setting Up Headache for Pelosi
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Raw Story, The Rush Limbaugh Show, Los Angeles Times, New York Sun and Political Wire
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Sen. Joni Ernst to lead GOP ‘prebuttal’ to Biden's joint address to Congress
Sen. Joni Ernst to lead GOP ‘prebuttal’ to Biden's joint address to Congress
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The Hill, Politico, The Daily Caller, Bloomberg, Cowboy State Daily and Vox
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell accuses Biden of breaking promise to unify
McConnell accuses Biden of breaking promise to unify
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The White House:
Fact Sheet: The American Families Plan … Today, President Biden announced the American Families Plan, an investment in our kids, our families, and our economic future. — In March, the President signed into law the American Rescue Plan, which continues to provide immediate relief to American families and communities.
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Washington Post:
White House proposes $1.8 trillion package that would dramatically expand education, safety net programs — Universal preschool and free community college are among a plethora of initiatives that would be paid for by tax increases and IRS changes. — The White House on Wednesday unveiled …
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New York Times:
Cuomo Aides Spent Months Hiding Nursing Home Death Toll — Aides to the New York governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, repeatedly prevented state health officials from releasing the number of nursing home deaths in the pandemic. — The effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office to obscure the pandemic death toll …
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Gabby Orr / CNN:
‘Not an easy transition’: Inside Trump's unconventional first months out of office — Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)Most Mondays and Tuesdays, former President Donald Trump skips golf to confer with aides about the week ahead. — Together they decide which Republican candidates he will meet …
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New York Times:
Scott Stringer, New York Mayoral Candidate, Is Accused of Sexual Assault — Jean Kim said Mr. Stringer assaulted her when she was an unpaid intern on his campaign 20 years ago and warned her not to tell anyone. He denied the allegation. — A woman who said she worked as an unpaid intern …
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Amanda Eisenberg / Politico:
Leading NYC mayoral candidate accused of sexual assault, harassment
Leading NYC mayoral candidate accused of sexual assault, harassment
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David Crary / Associated Press:
US Catholic bishops may press Biden to stop taking Communion — When U.S. Catholic bishops hold their next national meeting in June, they'll be deciding whether to send a tougher-than-ever message to President Joe Biden and other Catholic politicians: Don't receive Communion if you persist in public advocacy of abortion rights.
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The Hill, IJR and The Daily Caller
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Fauci: Joe Rogan's COVID-19 comments ‘incorrect’ — Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease doctor, early Wednesday shot down recent comments from Joe Rogan after the popular podcaster suggested young, health Americans do not need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
White House blasts Joe Rogan for discouraging vaccination on his podcast
White House blasts Joe Rogan for discouraging vaccination on his podcast
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Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Michael Collins, ‘Third Man’ of the Moon Landing, Dies at 90 — Orbiting dozens of miles above the lunar surface, he kept solitary watch of the Apollo command module as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin embarked for the moon. — Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia …
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Russell Lewis / NPR:
Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Dies
Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Dies
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Laurie McGinley / Washington Post:
Biden administration expected to announce plan to ban menthol cigarettes — A prohibition on menthol cigarettes is a priority for Black health advocates and anti-tobacco groups, which note that African Americans have been disproportionately harmed by the product
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Ten Years Ago, Ed Balls Tweeted ‘Ed Balls.’ How Is It Still Funny? — A decade is an eternity in internet years. But people still haven't forgotten the British politician's errant tweet, and he's still playing along. — LONDON — Ten years ago on Wednesday, a politician who was a significant figure …
Liz Peek / The Hill:
Border crisis torches Kamala Harris's presidential prospects — The odds of Kamala Harris ever being elected president are shrinking faster than a Creamsicle in August. — As she likely anticipated, tying her to the border disaster was almost sure to be a losing proposition for the vice president.
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
The Fascist Face Of Charlottesville Joined The Military. Then He Got Kicked Out. — A rare example of the military taking proactive steps to keep an extremist — the man in a viral photo from the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally — out of its ranks. — The white nationalist featured …
William Saletan / Slate:
What We Know About the People Who Don't Want to Get Vaccinated — Over the past three weeks, the U.S. rate of vaccination against the coronavirus has slowed. That's because many people who wanted to get their shots have gotten them, and many people who remain unvaccinated are reluctant.
BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Is Hiding Posts With #ResignModi — Facebook is hiding posts calling for the resignation of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marking the platform's latest foray in a series of controversial decisions affecting free speech in a country experiencing a full-blown COVID-19 crisis.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Federal Grand Jury Returns a Superseding Indictment Adding New Charges in the Conspiracy to Kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer — Three Defendants Charged with Conspiracy to Use a Weapon of Mass Destruction and Two Defendants Charged with Federal Firearms Violations
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
ABC wonders: Why haven't we seen a dramatic drop in COVID-19 cases yet? Update: What about deaths? — Er ... what? It's true that cases have yet to drop to the zero line yet, but this take from ABC News ignores reality: … This is utter nonsense. It's true that the seven-day average sits at just over 55,000 cases a day.
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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Loeffler calls for investigation into Raffensperger — Former Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler asked the state's attorney general to investigate Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. — The call for an investigation, made in a letter from Loeffler to Attorney General Chris Carr …
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters:
As tech faces a reckoning, what you do offline can get you banned — Earlier this month, Twitch announced it would start banning users for behavior away from its site. — The move by Amazon Inc's (AMZN.O) live-streaming platform involved hiring a law firm to conduct investigations into users' misconduct …
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David Gilbert / VICE:
This Crossfit Chiropractor Is Secretly One of QAnon's Leading Influencers — IET, a leading and hugely antisemitic voice in the Q community, has gone to great lengths to conceal his identity, which VICE News can now reveal. — DG — Under his pseudonym of InevitableET, or IET …
Jack Hunter / Washington Examiner:
Tim Scott is doing something on police reform few others will: leading — As Sen. Tim Scott prepares to give the GOP response to President Joe Biden's address, the Senate's only black Republican finds himself integral to a most intense and important debate.
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CNN
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Fox's Bill Hemmer on Anchoring From the Studio During Covid, the Cable News Landscape, and Why He's ‘Bearish’ on New York — “It's an experience I'll never forget,” says Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer, when I ask about what it was like working from the network's barren headquarters …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
🚨 What really happened at Basecamp — How a list of “funny” customer names triggered an internal reckoning — The controversy that embroiled enterprise software maker Basecamp this week began more than a decade ago, with a simple list of customers.
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Sun-Sentinel:
Democratic chaos: Florida Senate Leader Gary Farmer resigns amid vote of no confidence — Sen. Gary Farmer resigned as leader of Florida Senate Democrats Wednesday with his colleagues voting no confidence in him, plunging his caucus into chaos with just a few days left in the legislative session.
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The Capitolist
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Are Democrats Too Woke for Voters? — Possibly. But the reality is that slogans and rhetoric make very little difference in elections. — Tuesday's big flap was an interview at Vox with James Carville, who accused Democrats of being too “woke” and using “faculty lounge” language instead of rhetoric voters like.
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Will Wright / New York Times:
California Man Dies After Officers Pin Him to Ground for 5 Minutes — The death of Mario Arenales Gonzalez came one day before a former Minneapolis officer was convicted of murdering George Floyd. Body camera footage was released on Tuesday. — Body camera footage was released on Tuesday …
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