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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. releases part of internal memo on not charging Trump in Russia probe  —  The Justice Department late Monday night released part of a key internal document used in 2019 to justify not charging President Donald Trump with obstruction, but also signaled it would fight a judge's effort to make the entire document public.
Discussion: CBS News, NBC News and Washington Times
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
McGahn Is Likely to Testify Next Week on Trump's Efforts to Obstruct Russia Inquiry  —  A delay is said to have stemmed from an initial threat by former President Donald J. Trump to intervene, but he apparently reversed course.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump's former White House counsel …
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Biden's DOJ appeals order to release full memo on why Trump wasn't charged with obstruction  —  (CNN)The Justice Department is partially appealing an order to publicly release a pivotal 2019 memo about whether then-President Donald Trump obstructed the Russia investigation.
Discussion: Insider and BuzzFeed News
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Biden Justice Department fights release of legal memo on prosecuting Trump  —  The Justice Department on Monday released more of a key legal memo concluding that former President Donald Trump did not commit obstruction of justice through his alleged attempts to thwart federal investigations …
David McCabe / New York Times:
Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates  —  The new law is a direct response to Facebook's and Twitter's suspensions of former President Donald J. Trump.  —  WASHINGTON — Florida on Monday became the first state to regulate how companies like Facebook …
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Florida governor signs bill barring social media companies from blocking political candidates
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Liberal Media Dismissed the Lab-Leak Theory and Smeared Its Supporters  —  When Nicholson Baker wrote a cover story for New York laying out the evidence that COVID-19 may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, the hypothesis was still highly controversial.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible  —  The source of the coronavirus that has left more than 3 million people dead around the world remains a mystery.  But in recent months the idea that it emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) …
Discussion: Twitchy and spectator.us
Wall Street Journal:
The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage
Politico:
‘Time to move on’: Infrastructure talks near collapse  —  Washington's bipartisan infrastructure talks may soon look a lot like its cicada population: squashed after staggering around haplessly.  —  Senate Republicans negotiating with the White House sounded dour notes on Monday evening …
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Washington Post:
Infrastructure talks hit a wall as Senate GOP and White House exchange blame  —  Republicans allege that Biden's aides reversed course  —  The prospects for a bipartisan infrastructure deal dimmed even further Monday, as Senate Republicans alleged that the White House had agreed to narrow …
BNN:
Republicans Plan New Offer to Biden; Wicker Sees $1 Trillion
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / UnHerd:
How influencers have legitimised anti-Semitism  —  In July 2005, Mohammed Bouyeri stood trial for the murder of Theo van Gogh.  A year earlier, in broad daylight on a street in Amsterdam, he shot Theo eight times, and then attempted to decapitate him.  Theo's crime, for which Bouyeri meted …
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The Dispatch:
How the West Must Handle Lukashenko's Threat to the International Order  —  Designating the Belarusian dictator as a terrorist would be one step.  But leaders must also pressure Vladimir Putin.  —  2 hr ago  —  Alexander Lukashenko's 27 years in power in Belarus have been marked by murder, brutality, and repression.
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Terror vs. the Truth in Belarus
Discussion: The Atlantic, France 24 and Politico
Associated Press:
EU leaders agree on Belarus sanctions after plane diversion
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Suspicious package sent to Rand Paul's home  —  The FBI and Capitol Hill police are investigating a suspicious package containing white powder that was delivered to the home of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday, according to a senior adviser to the senator.  —  A large envelope arrived …
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Moderna, Inc.:
Moderna Announces TeenCOVE Study of its COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents Meets Primary Endpoint and Plans to Submit Data to Regulators in Early June  —  Primary endpoint of non-inferior immunogenicity versus the Phase 3 study adult comparator group was met  —  No cases of COVID-19 observed …
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘The final straw’: How the pandemic pushed restaurant workers over the edge  —  Jim Conway started working in restaurants in 1982, making $2.13 an hour, plus tips.  —  And though the world has changed significantly in the nearly 40 years since then, his hourly wage has not.
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Arrested insurrectionist visited Ted Cruz's house — and brought 11 molotov cocktails to Jan. 6 riot: report  —  Lonnie Coffman of Alabama will remain in a Washington, DC-area jail until his trial, I federal judge ruled on Monday.  —  “A north Alabama man facing multiple charges in connection …
Todd Neikirk / POLITICUSUSA:
Mitt Romney Becomes the First GOP Senator to Publicly Support 1/6 Commission Bill  —  Following the events of Janaury 6th, a number of Republicans said there should be a investigation into the lead up of the insurrection.  But as time has gone by, more and more of them are pulling their support.
Discussion: KEYT-TV and New York Times
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Kevin McCarthy wants to arm his caucus for the 2022 battle  —  For Republicans to win back the majority in the House, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said GOP candidates, whether they are incumbents or challengers, must spend time with voters in their communities and come up with solutions about their concerns.
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Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Support for Israel among young US evangelical Christians drops sharply — survey  —  Since 2018, backing for Israel down from 75% to 33% now; nearly half of evangelicals aged 18-29 say they favor establishment of Palestinian state, voted for Biden over Trump
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Jen Psaki Smashes Peter Doocy As He Tries To Blame Biden For COVID Deaths  —  Video: … Doocy asked, “On the origins of covid, there is a new Wall Street Journal story that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of urology were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with covid-19 and common seasonal illness of November 2019.
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
How Libs Can Stop Owning Themselves Online  —  The Right has mastered trolling as a political communications strategy and Dems have to stop falling for it  —  In the last few weeks, Senator Ted Cruz, no stranger to Twitter controversy, has  — Retweeted a Russian propaganda video while calling the U.S. military “emasculated.”
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Mysterious air base being built on volcanic island off Yemen  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A mysterious air base is being built on a volcanic island off Yemen that sits in one of the world's crucial maritime chokepoints for both energy shipments and commercial cargo.
Discussion: HotAir and Al Jazeera
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
“Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating  —  Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do  —  The news business just can't stop clowning itself.  The latest indignity is an international fact-checking debacle originating …
Matt Dixon / Politico:
How Matt Gaetz helped make Ron DeSantis  —  TALLAHASSEE — Just weeks after he took office as governor, Ron DeSantis held a press conference with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) that left Florida's political class befuddled.  —  Standing with Republicans DeSantis and Gaetz was a major Democratic donor …
Discussion: Raw Story
Dov Lieber / Wall Street Journal:
Blinken Spotlights Plight of Palestinians in Effort to Shore Up Israel-Hamas Truce  —  ‘We have to use the space created to address a larger set of underlying issues and challenges,’ says U.S. secretary of state  —  TEL AVIV—Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jerusalem on Tuesday …
Washington Post:
Rising Democratic star Val Demings wants to challenge Sen. Marco Rubio.  Could she win?  —  Her network of Black women's civic organizations would give her a critical boost  —  Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) is reportedly planning to run for U.S. Senate against incumbent Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
Juliet Macur / New York Times:
Simone Biles Dials Up the Difficulty, ‘Because I Can’  —  The Olympic gold medalist's new vault is so dangerous that gymnastics, for now, limits the scoring rewards for trying it.  Biles says that's unfair.  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history …
Reuters:
53% of Republicans view Trump as true U.S. president -Reuters/Ipsos  —  A combination picture shows U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaking during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate, held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic …
CNN:
American journalist detained in Myanmar while trying to fly out of country  —  (CNN)An American journalist working in Myanmar was detained by local authorities Monday, his family and his news organization told CNN.  —  Danny Fenster, 37, was stopped at the Yangon airport as he tried to board …
Sarah Chemla / Jerusalem Post:
Actor Mark Ruffalo apologizes for suggesting Israel committed ‘genocide’  —  “It's not accurate,” he said.  “It's inflammatory, disrespectful & is being used to justify antisemitism here [in the US] & abroad.”  —  American actor Mark Ruffalo, a frequent critic of Israel …
Discussion: Breitbart, Fox News and Twitchy
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Re-emerging without trust  —  Americans are taking off their masks and re-engaging publicly at levels not seen since the start of the pandemic, with the most dramatic shifts in people over 50 and those who've been vaccinated, according to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
 
 
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Lawrence Summers / Washington Post:
The inflation risk is real
Discussion: Reason
CNBC:
Nine states have 70% of adults at least partially vaccinated against Covid as U.S. cases, deaths fall further
David Bauder / Associated Press:
AP says it is reviewing social media policies after firing
Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
January 6th just the beginning, as ‘second civil war’ is plotted
Discussion: Raw Story
Mary Chastain / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
National Guard Starts Departing D.C. This Week After Four Months
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon Crowd Convinced UFOs Are a Diversion From Voter Fraud
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael E. Kanell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Labor shortages end when wages rise, say some local businesses
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 Earlier Items: 
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
New York City Will End Remote Learning in the Fall
Discussion: NPR and American Oversight
Grady Means / The Hill:
Progressives' push of racial politics prompts a GOP pushback
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Of inmates and asylums: Today's House Republicans make the John Birchers look quaint
Frank Green / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Senators from Virginia recommend three candidates to fill federal appeals court vacancy
Elana Schor / Politico:
The difference between Ilhan Omar and MTG
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Breitbart
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est.

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 19% YoY to $14.33B, vs. $14.25B est., amid its push to insert ads into Prime Video, and subscription sales up 11% YoY to $11.3B

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google

 
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