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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Andrew Cuomo's War Against a Federal Prosecutor — A call to the Obama White House that some legal experts say is impeachable fits a pattern of the Governor smearing those who scrutinize him. — In April, 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo placed a call to the White House and reached Valerie Jarrett …
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Washington Post:
How Cuomo's flexing of political power became his undoing — Hours after the state attorney general released a scorching report last week that found New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women and his staff had unlawfully retaliated against an alleged victim …
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New York Times, USA Today, New Republic and Mother Jones
New York Times:
Cuomo Resigns Amid Scandals, Ending Decade-Long Run in Disgrace
Cuomo Resigns Amid Scandals, Ending Decade-Long Run in Disgrace
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New York Post, The American Spectator, OpenSecrets.org, Snopes.com, TheBlaze, Sputnik News and TalkLeft
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Alec Baldwin responds to Cuomo resignation: ‘This is a tragic day’
Alec Baldwin responds to Cuomo resignation: ‘This is a tragic day’
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UPROXX, The Daily Beast and Mercury News
Jonathan Allen / Washington Free Beacon:
Tainted Gov: Andrew Cuomo, Brother of ‘Fredo,’ Resigns in Disgrace
Tainted Gov: Andrew Cuomo, Brother of ‘Fredo,’ Resigns in Disgrace
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, National Review, The Bulwark, ABC News, Washington Examiner, Politico, The Hill, UPROXX, Power Line and Townhall
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
On CNN, covering one Cuomo while another is on vacation.
On CNN, covering one Cuomo while another is on vacation.
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The Hill, Mediaite, New York Post, Hollywood Reporter, Fox News, Washington Post and RedState
Wall Street Journal:
Most GOP Senators Sign Pledge to Not Help Democrats on Debt Ceiling — Unless Congress steps in, the Treasury could begin to miss payments on its obligations and default — WASHINGTON—Most Republican senators have signed on to a pledge to force Democrats to raise the debt ceiling through procedures …
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Insider and National Review
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Politico:
Trump asked his AG about legal strategy to overturn election, Rosen tells senators — Donald Trump asked the country's top legal official in late December about a conspiratorial draft complaint aimed at overturning the 2020 election results, according to a previously unreported account …
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Raw Story
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Politico:
Rep. Ron Kind announces retirement in boon to GOP's House hopes — Rep. Ron Kind, a senior Democrat in one of the most competitive swing seats, will not seek reelection — a gutting blow to House Democrats in their uphill battle to hang onto their majority next November.
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CBS News, Roll Call, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, National Review, The Hill, The Daily Caller, UPI and CNN
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Washington Post:
Texas judge clears way for San Antonio to mandate masks in blow to Gov. Greg Abbott — A county judge in Texas on Tuesday cleared the way for officials in San Antonio and Bexar County to require masks in public schools and municipal buildings, temporarily overriding an order …
Michael Shellenberger:
Why I Am Not A Progressive — And Why, From Climate Change to Homelessness, Liberal People Are Giving Up — For all of my adult life I have identified as a progressive. To me, being a progressive meant that I believed in empowerment. In 2002, when I co-founded a labor-environmental coalition …
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HotAir
New York Times:
See the Data on Breakthrough Covid Hospitalizations and Deaths by State — Serious coronavirus infections among vaccinated people have been relatively rare since the start of the vaccination campaign, a New York Times analysis of data from 40 states and Washington, D.C., shows.
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
U.S. government sends hundreds of ventilators to Florida as Covid surge continues — WASHINGTON — The federal government has sent hundreds of ventilators and other equipment to Florida this week to help the state respond to a record-breaking number of Covid hospitalizations.
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Joe Hagan / Vanity Fair:
“All Roads Lead to Mar-a-Lago”: Inside the Fury and Fantasy of Donald Trump's Florida — It's late afternoon, and the palms of Fort Lauderdale are swaying as Roger Stone—dirty trickster, convicted felon—glides across the boulevard in short sleeves and a linen jacket, ready for his first cocktail of the day.
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Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The con is winding down — Allow me to present to you the evidence that China stole the 2020 election. Please sit down; I don't want you to be injured when you faint. — So: voilà. — Yes, you're reading that right. Looks like you owe MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell an apology. — Hm?
New York Post:
Biden ‘checking’ if he can overrule states and order universal masks in schools — President Biden said Tuesday that his administration is examining whether he can order universal masking in public schools, overriding Republican governors in states like Florida and Texas.
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Fox News, Washington Post, RedState, Politico, Forbes, The Daily Caller, Florida Politics and Twitchy
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Niara Savage / Atlanta Black Star:
‘It Was Just Disbelief’: Parent Files Complaint Against Atlanta Elementary School After Learning the Principal Segregated Students Based on Race — An Atlanta mom filed a federal complaint against her daughter's Atlanta elementary school after she learned that the school was separating students on the basis of race.
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Twitchy
BBC:
Facebook removes anti-vax influencer campaign — Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts which it says were involved in anti-vax disinformation campaigns operated from Russia. — The company said the network of accounts targeted India, Latin America and the US.
James Barragán / The Texas Tribune:
Gov. Greg Abbott, House Speaker Dade Phelan, ask Texas Supreme Court to overturn ruling blocking arrest of Democrats — The Democrats had left the state to block the passage of a Republican elections bill they say would restrict voting rights in the state. — Copy link
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Jim Abbott / Daytona Beach News-Journal Online:
WNDB official: Radio host Marc Bernier hospitalized with COVID-19 — Jim AbbottThe Daytona Beach News-Journal — DAYTONA BEACH — Longtime radio talk-show host Marc Bernier has been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a top official at WNDB (1150 AM, 93.5 FM).
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The Wrap and Crooks and Liars
Politico:
An inconvenient truth (about weed) — Federal laws bar cannabis from crossing state lines, driving up the cost — and the emissions — of an industry using indoor grow operations. — Nationally, 80 percent of cannabis is cultivated indoors. Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Walker's wife voted in Georgia as couple lives in Texas, records show — Potential U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker and his wife live in Texas, but she voted in Georgia's election for president last fall. — The absentee ballot cast by Julie Blanchard raises questions about whether …
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TheGrio, Joe.My.God., Raw Story, The Intellectualist and Twitchy
Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
‘Reign of Terror’ Brilliantly Traces the Course From 9/11 to President Trump … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. — Spencer Ackerman's barnburner of a new book, “Reign of Terror,” reminded me of that moment in 2015 …
Robert Siegel / NPR:
Neal Conan, Longtime Host Of NPR's ‘Talk Of The Nation,’ Dies At 71 — Neal Conan, who spent 36 years with National Public Radio and 11 years as the host of the network's Talk of the Nation died Tuesday in Hawaii of glioblastoma at the age of 71. — I met Neal almost 50 years ago …
Amanda Mull / The Atlantic:
The Vaccine Cards Are the Wrong Size — This spring, as New York City warmed up and the local vaccination rate surged, I met my best friend for our first restaurant meal together in months. As soon as we sat down, she began rifling through her purse. “I have something for you,” she told me.
Max Boot / Washington Post:
America has a long history of vaccination mandates. Why should the worst plague in a century be any different? — Coronavirus vaccination mandates are spreading. So is resistance to them. A number of red states, including Texas and Florida, not only refuse to mandate vaccinations …
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Digby's Hullabaloo
NK News:
North Korea refuses to answer inter-Korean hotline calls for second straight day — Seoul's unification, defense ministries confirm lack of response as top DPRK officials rail against joint US-ROK drills — North Korea has not responded to calls from South Korea via recently reconnected …
Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
Delta Is Bad News for Kids — Two and a half weeks ago, as the next school year approached, a pediatric cardiologist from Louisiana headed into the Georgia mountains with her husband, their three young children, and their extended family. It was, in many ways, a fairly pandemic-sanctioned vacation …
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Raw Story and New York Times
USA Today:
Infrastructure equals jobs, growth, competitive edge and better lives for millions — From our earliest days, major investments in infrastructure and people sparked the growth spurts that have made us great. We're poised to do it again. — The historic bipartisan infrastructure bill …
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The Atlantic, The Right Scoop, One America News Network, RedState, CBS News, NBC4 Washington, ABC News and The Daily Beast
Aaron Gordon / VICE:
‘Expert Mathematician’ on Election Fraud Actually a Swing Set Installer, Lawsuit Claims — A man posing as a math expert with evidence Trump won the election is actually a convicted drug dealer with no college degree who installs swing sets, according to a lawsuit. — Aaron Gordon
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Insider, Daily Kos, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Tami Luhby / CNN:
Inflation wiped out America's pay raises — New York (CNN Business)Companies big and small are raising wages to attract workers and hold onto employees as the economy revs back into gear. — But those fatter paychecks aren't going as far, thanks to rising inflation.
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Twitchy and Marginal REVOLUTION
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Cheap & Easy Sanctimony of Ben & Jerry — Ben & Jerry's last month announced to controversy and fanfare that it would no longer sell its ice cream in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, though it says it will continue selling it elsewhere in Israel. “Ending the sales of ice cream …
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Dominion Sues Newsmax, One America News Network, Others Over Election Claims — Voting-machine company seeks billions of dollars in damages, citing lost profit and other costs — WASHINGTON—One of the largest voting-machine companies in the U.S. on Tuesday sued two conservative media networks …