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ProPublica:
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax — The Secret IRS Files — In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011.
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ProPublica:
Why We Are Publishing the Tax Secrets of the .001% — We are disclosing the tax details of the richest Americans because we believe the public interest in an informed debate outweighs privacy considerations. — Today, ProPublica is launching the first in a series of stories based …
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HotAir, Twitchy and National Review
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Capitol Police had intelligence indicating an armed invasion weeks before Jan. 6 riot, Senate probe finds — The U.S. Capitol Police had specific intelligence that supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mount an armed invasion of the Capitol at least two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot …
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Wall Street Journal and National Review
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New York Times:
‘Does Anybody Have a Plan?’ Senate Report Details Jan. 6 Security Failures. — A 127-page joint report is the most comprehensive and detailed account to date on the intelligence, communications and policing failures around the Capitol riot. — WASHINGTON — Top federal intelligence agencies failed …
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The Crime Report, The US Sun, Washingtonian, CNN, ABC News and Associated Press
CNN:
Senate report reveals new details about security failures ahead of January 6 attack but omits Trump's role — (CNN)A new Senate report reveals previously unknown details about the stunning security breakdowns ahead of the January 6 US Capitol attack, adding an authoritative emphasis …
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USA Today, Washington Post, Deadline, Raw Story, The American Independent and The Hill
NBC News:
Capitol Police didn't act on warnings Trump backers would breach Capitol, target Democrats, report says … WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police leaders learned that Trump supporters were discussing ways to infiltrate tunnels around the complex and target Democratic members of Congress on Jan. 6 …
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Senate report details sweeping failures around Jan. 6 attack
Senate report details sweeping failures around Jan. 6 attack
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CBS News, Sacramento Bee, Al Jazeera, KTLA, Associated Press and Daily Kos
U.S. Senate Committee on Rules & Administration:
Peters, Portman, Klobuchar, Blunt Release Bipartisan Report Investigating January 6th Capitol Attack
Peters, Portman, Klobuchar, Blunt Release Bipartisan Report Investigating January 6th Capitol Attack
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Washington Examiner, The Dispatch, New York Post and Roll Call
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Senators reveal further Capitol riot security failures in bipartisan report
Senators reveal further Capitol riot security failures in bipartisan report
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Washington Examiner, Insider, Wall Street Journal, National Review, Fox News, Roll Call, NPR and Mother Jones
New York Times:
Biden Justice Department Seeks to Defend Trump in Suit Over Rape Denial — Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll, who has accused Mr. Trump of raping her. — During the presidential campaign, Joseph R. Biden Jr., then the Democratic candidate …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Biden Justice Department defends Trump in suit over rape denial — The Biden administration is pressing on with a controversial Justice Department defense of President Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit brought by a writer who accused him of raping her at a New York City department store in the 1990s.
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Washington Examiner, RedState, Twitchy, The Daily Caller and Insider
The Daily Beast:
What if This Is Just the Tip of Trumpworld's Iceberg of Crazy? — We're only starting to find out now just how much influence the conspiracy-peddlers wielded in Trump's White House—and how much they'll wield in his future. — It was unhinged, even by Trumpworld standards.
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Raw Story, The Time of Monsters and Media Matters for America
Erica Orden / CNN:
DOJ argues it should substitute for Trump as defendant in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit
DOJ argues it should substitute for Trump as defendant in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit
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HotAir, Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine
Justin Haskins / The Hill:
By rejecting Democrats' election overhaul bill, Joe Manchin may have saved America — On Sunday, the Charleston Gazette-Mail published an op-ed by Sen. Joe Manchin in which the West Virginia Democrat announced his opposition of the For the People Act, a bill that aims to impose a variety …
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CNBC, Washington Examiner, CBS News, Columbia Journalism Review and POLITICUSUSA
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Joe Manchin's focus on West Virginia could doom voting rights
Joe Manchin's focus on West Virginia could doom voting rights
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POLITICUSUSA, CBS News, Politico, The Hill and The Guardian
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Some Democrats wonder when Schumer will get tough with Manchin
Some Democrats wonder when Schumer will get tough with Manchin
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Politico and Political Wire
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How Joe Manchin Survives as a Democrat in West Virginia
How Joe Manchin Survives as a Democrat in West Virginia
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Politico, The Hill, The Nation, HuffPost, Opinion Today and Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Report Concluded Covid-19 May Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab — The 2020 lab report was used by the State Department in its own inquiry during Trump administration — WASHINGTON—A report on the origins of Covid-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming …
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The Times of Israel, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, New York Post and The Daily Caller
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Tom Cotton / National Review:
Coronavirus Lab-Leak-Theory Proponents Have Been Vindicated
Coronavirus Lab-Leak-Theory Proponents Have Been Vindicated
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RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE, AMAC, Melanie Phillips, RedState and Quillette
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Illegal border crossings most in over decade — with four months to go — The number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border this fiscal year is already the most since 2006 — with four months left to go, according to preliminary Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data obtained by Axios.
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HotAir, New York Post and The Floridian
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Harris border-czar flop: Guatemala president blames Biden, AOC objects
Harris border-czar flop: Guatemala president blames Biden, AOC objects
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Fox News, Politico, TODAY.com, New York Post, Insider, Associated Press and The Daily Caller
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Kamala Harris' plan for the border crisis is bribery
Kamala Harris' plan for the border crisis is bribery
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Metro.co.uk
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Newsmax turned down embattled Republican Matt Gaetz for a job -spokesperson — Conservative media outlet Newsmax, a favorite of former President Donald Trump's, rejected embattled Republican U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz's request for a job, a spokesperson for the website said on Monday.
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Insider, Mock Paper Scissors, Alternet.org, Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God., Florida Politics, Raw Story, The Hill, Mediaite and Townhall
Amanda Coletta / Washington Post:
Muslim family in Canada killed in ‘targeted’ attack, police say — TORONTO — A man accused of mowing down five members of the same family with a black pickup truck in an Ontario city on Sunday, killing four and seriously injuring a 9-year-old boy, targeted them because they were Muslim …
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Hundreds Arrested After FBI Reveals It Secretly Ran Encrypted Messaging App for Criminals — ‘TROJAN SHIELD’ — Hundreds of alleged criminal underworld figures have been arrested around the globe after using an encrypted messaging app that was secretly being controlled by the FBI and Australian intelligence.
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Department of Homeland Security:
Family Reunification Task Force Provides Initial Progress Report and Announces Upcoming Reunification of 29 Families — WASHINGTON - The Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families (Task Force) submitted to President Biden its Initial Progress Report, which details ongoing efforts …
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Washington Examiner and The Daily Caller
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force to Address Short-Term Supply Chain Discontinuities — 100-Day Review Outlines Steps to Strengthen Critical Supply Chains — Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing key findings …
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Gavin Bade / Politico:
Biden to shore up supply chains for four sectors after 100-day reviews
Biden to shore up supply chains for four sectors after 100-day reviews
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Washington Examiner
Bryan Metzger / Politico:
Why the GOP Just Got Blown Out in a Congressional Race — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Two weeks before the GOP had its first chance to pick up a seat in Congress since Joe Biden became president, the Republican Party of New Mexico hosted a three-day event dubbed “Operation Freedom.”
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Raw Story
R.R. Reno / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates — Even those who aren't woke seem damaged by the experience, and they're deprived of role models. — I'm not inclined to hire a graduate from one of America's elite universities. That marks a change. A decade ago I relished the opportunity …
CNN:
Exclusive: New audio of 2019 phone call reveals how Giuliani pressured Ukraine to investigate baseless Biden conspiracies — (CNN)Never-before-heard audio, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows how former President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed …
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David Harsanyi / National Review:
The 1619 Project Comes for the Second Amendment — If the right to bear arms was intended to preserve slavery, why did civil-rights leaders insist that black Americans should be armed to protect themselves? — Left-wing academic Carol Anderson's new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, is all over the news.
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The Bulwark
Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama criticizes Republicans for embracing 2020 falsehoods — (CNN)Former President Barack Obama said Republicans have been “cowed into accepting” a series of positions that “would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago,” telling CNN's Anderson Cooper he is worried …
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The Hill, The Guardian, The Wrap, Talking Points Memo, New York Post, Raw Story, Washington Times and Breitbart
Ron Johnson Senator from Wisconsin:
Sen. Johnson and Colleagues Request Answers from DOJ on Unequal Application of Justice to Protestors — WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), along with senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), sent a letter on Monday …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Gripped by ‘Dinner Party-gate,’ Yale Law Confronts a Venomous Divide — A dispute centering on the celebrity professor Amy Chua exposes a culture pitting student against student, professor against professor. — NEW HAVEN, Conn. — On March 26, a group of students at Yale Law School approached …
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Althouse, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Instapundit and New York Magazine
Paul Brandus / USA Today:
The four best ways Team Biden can show America the Donald Trump era is really over — Trump treated our Constitution and laws as doormats. Biden must reassert the primacy of the law and the importance of transparency in our democracy. — Tame the COVID-19 pandemic? Check.
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Associated Press and NBC News
The Texas Tribune:
An anti-abortion program will receive $100 million in the next Texas budget, but there's little data on what's being done with the money — Critics say the fast-growing Alternatives to Abortion program is secretive and a “waste” of money. But the program has strong supporters …