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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Forced to Choose Between Trump's “Big Lie” and Liz Cheney, the House G.O.P. Chooses the Lie — “Liz is a living reproach to all these cowards,” a friend of Cheney's said, but the cowards have the votes. — On January 11, 2017, Donald Trump held his first Presidential press conference following …
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Tina Nguyen / Politico:
MAGAworld pans Stefanik — Donald Trump has called Elise Stefanik “a new Republican star,” a “smart communicator” and — perhaps his highest praise — “tough.” — But the MAGA faithful aren't so sure. — Within minutes of Trump's endorsement of the New York congresswoman for GOP conference chair …
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden once asserted Republicans would have an ‘epiphany.’ Now he admits he doesn't understand them. — Joe Biden was speaking in a barn to a sparse campaign crowd in Iowa when he offered a prediction. “If we defeat Donald Trump,” he said that summer day in 2019, “you're going to see, as we say in southern Delaware, an altar call.
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ABC News:
‘Trumpy, Trumpier and Trumpiest’: Virginia GOP to vote on nominee for governor in post-Trump era
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
When Trump's Next Coup Happens, the Republican Party Will Fully Support It
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Auditioning to replace Cheney, Stefanik calls Trump ‘the strongest supporter’ of the Constitution.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Liz Cheney Has Only Herself to Blame
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Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Ignoring Trump Is the Least-Bad Republican Approach
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms won't run for reelection — By J.D. Capelouto - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wilborn P. Nobles III - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — In a stunning announcement Thursday night …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Twitter suspends account that was posting Trump statements — Twitter suspended an account on Thursday that appeared to be circumventing their ban on former President Donald Trump by posting messages he shared on his own website. — The move was more evidence that the social media behemoth …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Facebook told to investigate its role in insurrection
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Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on Batsh** Vaccine Fearmongering, Blames Biden For His Inability to Understand Facts — Fox News' Tucker Carlson gets great ratings, frequently beating the competition in his timeslot. You'd think that he would have a vested interest in keeping his audience members alive …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Sean Hannity used to rule Fox. But in the post-Trump era, Tucker Carlson is king
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The Daily Beast:
Melinda Gates Warned Bill About Jeffrey Epstein — After a secret meeting between the couple and the wealthy sex offender, Melinda was furious and told friends she wanted nothing to do with Epstein, The Daily Beast has learned. … Melinda Gates met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein alongside …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
F.E.C. Drops Case Reviewing Trump Hush-Money Payments to Women — The case had examined whether Donald Trump violated election law with a $130,000 payment shortly before the 2016 election to a pornographic-film actress by his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
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Jordan Williams / The Hill:
FEC drops investigation into Trump hush money payments
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Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Jenner has hangar pains after Hannity interview — OAKLAND — Move over French Laundry, there's a new social media obsession: Hangar Guy. — GOP recall candidate Caitlyn Jenner may have played right into Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's hands when she lamented on Fox News …
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Insider:
Scientists have taught bees to smell the coronavirus. They can identify a case within seconds. — Dutch scientists have trained bees to smell COVID-19. — Every time the bees were exposed to an infected sample, they stuck out their tongues. — The animals could be a low-tech solution for identifying COVID-19 cases.
David Scheer / Bloomberg:
Dimon on Raising Taxes: 'Just Throwing Money, It Doesn't Work' — JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon urged lawmakers to spell out — very specifically — targets for building roads, funding college degrees and creating jobs if they embark on a massive spending spree to bolster the economy.
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David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
‘We Build The Wall’ Co-Founder Kolfage Indicted in Tax Case — Kolfage charged in Florida after facing New York indictment — Trump pardoned Bannon in ‘We Build the Wall’ fraud case — Brian Kolfage, whose work with Stephen Bannon to raise money for a U.S.-Mexico border wall resulted …
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BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Is Worried Starbucks May Delete Its Page Over Hateful Comments — Facebook is scrambling to prevent Starbucks from leaving its platform after the world's largest coffee company said it was dismayed by hateful comments left on its posts about racial and social justice issues.
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Texas Democrats waging all-night fight against restrictive election bill — Texas Democrats are waging an all-night fight against a restrictive election bill, vowing to file more than 100 amendments in an effort to derail or limit the impact of legislation that would create criminal penalties …
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New York Times, Fox News, Dallas Morning News, FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth and NBC New York
Olivia Messer / Study Hall:
The COVID Reporters Are Not Okay. Extremely Not Okay. — An underprepared industry is losing a generation of journalists to despair, trauma and moral injury as they cover the story of a lifetime. — When I told my editors at The Daily Beast that I needed to quit my job …
New York Times:
Long March 5B, a Chinese Rocket, Expected to Tumble Back to Earth — The chances of it hitting a populated area are small, but not zero. That has raised questions about how the country's space program designs its missions. — No, you are almost certainly not going to be hit by a 10-story …
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater, Who Invented the Scurrilous Tactics That Trump Normalized — An infamous Republican political operative's unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost. — It's a Washington axiom …
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Becky Sullivan / NPR:
New Study Estimates More Than 900,000 People Have Died Of COVID-19 In U.S. — A new study estimates that the number of people who have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is more than 900,000, a number 57% higher than official figures. — Worldwide, the study's authors say …
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BBC:
Covid: Putin says Sputnik vaccines ‘reliable as Kalashnikovs’ — President Vladimir Putin has heralded Russia's vaccine offering as “reliable as a Kalashnikov assault rifle”. — The comment was made during a video conference on Thursday with Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.
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Maria Cramer / New York Times:
The Pandemic Has Changed Their Shower Habits. How About Yours? — Some people said they started bathing less during the pandemic. As long as no one complains, they say they plan to keep the new habit. — Robin Harper, an administrative assistant at a preschool on Martha's Vineyard, grew up showering every day.
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Cathy Merrill / Washington Post:
As a CEO, I want my employees to understand the risks of not returning to work in the office … Cathy Merrill is chief executive of Washingtonian Media. — Like many of my fellow small-business owners, I am excited about the prospect of returning to in-person work but am struggling …
Taylor Dolven / Miami Herald:
DeSantis ban on vaccine proof may send one company's cruise ships out of Florida — If Florida won't allow Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination for passengers and crew, the company's CEO says it will take its ships elsewhere.
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Arizona Review of 2020 Vote Is Riddled With Flaws, Says Secretary of State — Arizona's top election official said the effort ordered by Republican state senators leaves ballots unattended and lacks basic safeguards to protect the process from manipulation.
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Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
The Washington Post's ‘Toy Weapons’ vs. Cops — Can you tell which of the pistols above is the “toy,” in the usage of the Washington Post's Pulitzer-winning “Fatal Force” database on killings by police, and which is the real deal? Answers below. — On Monday, April 19 …
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WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
Gov. Walz Says Politicization Around Masks 'One Of The Worst Things That's Happened To This Country' And ‘It Cost Lives’ — MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — During a press conference outlining his plan to end most COVID-19 restrictions, Gov. Tim Walz spoke out about the politicization around masks, saying “it cost lives.”
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Tampa Bay Times:
Recording a cop in Florida? One woman got arrested for it. — The decision in a Boynton Beach case comes amid the nation's racial justice awakening. — By Marc Freeman South Florida Sun-Sentinel (TNS) — FORT LAUDERDALE — Taking smartphone videos of cops in public could shine a light …
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Associated Press:
1 in custody, 3 injured after active shooter incident at Rigby Middle School — WATCH NOW: KIFI LOCAL NEWS 8 — RIGBY, Idaho (KIFI) - UPDATE 5:30 p.m. Idaho Falls Police and the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office are assisting the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office serving a search warrant …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
FBI still after ‘worst of the worst’ in Capitol riot as new arrests come at steady pace — Four months after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, FBI agents maintain a steady pace of arresting people accused of taking part, as one of the largest criminal investigations in American history keeps growing.
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Kristin Tate / The Hill:
Census results show White House doubling down on failure — Share to Facebook Share to Twitter — Following new census numbers, mostly red states are due to gain seats in Congress while mostly blue states will lose representation. The model of states such as California …
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