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House Republican Leader:
Leader McCarthy Condemns Comparisons to the Holocaust  —  Washington, D.C. - House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) released the following statement:
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Emily Bohatch / The State:
SC's Mace calls Marjorie Taylor Greene's vaccine ID Holocaust comparison ‘appalling’  —  South Carolina's Lowcountry Congresswoman Nancy Mace called a tweet from U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “appalling” in which the Georgia Republican compared vaccination passports or ID cards to Nazis forcing Jews to wear gold stars.
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.
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Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:   CREW statement on DOJ blocking release of Trump obstruction memo
Arizona Republic:
Tech company running Arizona ballot audit backs out: ‘They were done’  —  Jen Fifield Andrew OxfordArizona Republic  —  The Pennsylvania-based IT company that was in charge of running the hand recount of Maricopa County ballots is no longer involved in the audit.
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:   Trump lashes out against possible U.S. Senate candidate Mark Brnovich over election audit
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Should Republican voters be taken literally, or seriously?  —  The latest Ipsos poll finds that 75 percent of Americans think President Biden is the “true” president while 55 percent think he is the “legitimate and accurate” president; 25 percent disagree with each.  That's the good news.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
What Biden Didn't Realize About His Presidency  —  Joe Biden had been president for less than two weeks when he told me something he'd heard from a friend after the election.  Biden was like the dog that caught the car, the friend told him—after a lifetime of dreaming of becoming president, he'd finally done it.
Michael Steele / MSNBC:
Trump's stranglehold on the GOP is a death trap for American democracy
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
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) …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Crisis of Anti-Semitic Violence  —  Violence between Jews and Muslims in the Middle East is often accompanied by spikes in anti-Semitic activity in the United States, but what's happened over the last week or so has been different.  —  As Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director …
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
Trump claims ‘absolute immunity’ from Swalwell lawsuit over Jan. 6 riot  —  Former President Trump on Monday argued that he possesses “absolute immunity” from a lawsuit filed against him by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) over his role in the Jan. 6 riot.  —  In a 49-page court filing …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump responds to insurrection lawsuit by claiming immunity while he was President
Discussion: Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
Kathryn Garcia leads field in new poll, 4 weeks ahead of Election Day  —  Former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia is leading the Democratic field of mayoral contenders, with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hot on her trail, according to a new poll four weeks ahead of Election Day.
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.”
Discussion: Vanity Fair
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Tom Porter / Insider:
How Ted Cruz ended up sharing Russian far-right propaganda to attack the US military
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Republicans plan to send Biden nearly $1 trillion infrastructure counteroffer this week  — A group of Senate Republicans plans to send the Biden administration an infrastructure counteroffer this week.  — Hopes for a bipartisan deal appeared to dim last week after the White House sent …
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NBC News:   In the post-Trump era, Virginia's GOP gubernatorial nominee tries to thread the needle
Doug Glass / Associated Press:
Moment of silence marks year since George Floyd's death  —  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd was honored Tuesday with a moment of silence in the city where he died at the hands of police, a death captured on a wrenching bystander video that galvanized the racial justice movement and continues to ripple a year later.
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Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
Democrats nervous and GOP hopeful that New Mexico election is 2022 bellwether  —  ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — New Mexico's 1st Congressional District special election will test whether warnings over a left-wing approach to policing and crime work without former President Donald Trump topping the ballot.
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Dems fight off ‘defund the police’ attack in New Mexico special election
Discussion: Political Wire
Mark Phillips / KNXV:
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs stripped of roles by Appropriations Committee  —  PHOENIX — Political score-settling is not supposed to be part of the budgeting process, but you will have a hard time convincing Democratic members of the House Appropriations Committee of that.
Discussion: Raw Story
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. wants to reopen Jerusalem consulate, Blinken tells Netanyahu  —  Secretary of State Tony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in their meeting on Tuesday that the Biden administration wants to reopen the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem as soon as possible, Israeli officials tell me.
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South China Morning Post:
WWE's Cena apologises to China after Taiwan country reference  —  John Cena says on Taiwanese TV that it would be ‘the first country to watch the film’ American quickly backtracked on Weibo, saying he made ‘one mistake’ after doing ‘a lot of interviews’ John Cena backtracks comments …
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
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.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: New York Times in talks to buy The Athletic  —  The New York Times is looking into a potential acquisition of The Athletic, three sources familiar with the matter tell Axios.  —  Driving the news: Sources say The Times approached The Athletic following a report about a potential deal between The Athletic and Axios in March.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right  —  One of the strange things about the last year in Western political debate is how rarely the name of the departed philosopher Michel Foucault came up — and not for want of opportunity.  One of Foucault's key concepts, “biopolitics,” …
Donald G. McNeil Jr / Medium:
The End IS Near.  No, Seriously.  —  The tone of some recent writing about this pandemic has seemed — to me, anyway — strangely defeatist.  —  Friends keep asking me questions like: “Is what I'm hearing true?  We'll never reach herd immunity?”  —  The subtext is we'll never really be safe …
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin Republicans to quickly kill Medicaid expansion  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature planned Tuesday to convene then immediately end a special session called by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to expand Medicaid.  —  Rejecting expansion means Wisconsin …
Jim Vertuno / Associated Press:
Texas set to allow unlicensed handgun carry despite outcry  —  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is poised to remove one of its last major gun restrictions after lawmakers approved allowing people to carry handguns without a license, and the background check and training that go with it.
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New York Times:
State Revenues Pour In, Raising Pressure on Biden to Divert Federal Aid  —  Unexpected receipts, driven in part by taxes on high earners riding a hot stock market, have prompted Republicans to push the president to spend on infrastructure instead.  —  WASHINGTON — From California to Virginia …
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Majority Leader Hoyer Pressured Rep. Gottheimer to Vote ‘No’ on Israel Security Funding
Richard Harris / NPR:
Children's Risk Of Serious Illness From COVID-19 Is As Low As It Is For The Flu
Discussion: HotAir and CNN
Keith E. Whittington / Chronicle of Higher Education:
We Are Critics of Nikole Hannah-Jones. Her Tenure Denial Is a Travesty.
Discussion: The Hill and New Republic
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
George P. Bush consults with Donald Trump before his expected challenge against Texas AG Ken Paxton
Perry Bacon / Washington Post:
The progressives are right about foreign policy, too
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden looks abroad for electric vehicle metals, in blow to U.S. miners
Discussion: The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
CNN:
Biden and Putin summit to take place next month in Switzerland
Matt Dixon / Politico:
How Matt Gaetz helped make Ron DeSantis
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘The final straw’: How the pandemic pushed restaurant workers over the edge
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Support for Israel among young US evangelical Christians drops sharply — survey
Discussion: TheBlaze