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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Home COVID tests to be covered by insurers starting Saturday — WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans. The Biden administration announced the change Monday as it looks …
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Washington Post:
U.S. poised to break record 142,000 covid-19 hospitalizations … The United States is poised to surpass its record for covid-19 hospitalizations as soon as Tuesday, with no end in sight to skyrocketing case loads, falling staff levels and the struggles of a medical system trying to provide care amid …
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CMS:
Biden-Harris Administration Requires Insurance Companies and Group Health Plans to Cover the Cost of At-Home COVID-19 Tests, Increasing Access to Free Tests — As part of its ongoing efforts across many channels to expand Americans' access to free testing, the Biden-Harris Administration …
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Amy Graff / SFGATE:
Head of UCSF's ER dept.: Hospital surge isn't what you may think — Tahoe man who went missing during storm found dead near homes — Why Klay Thompson's biggest sponsor barely recognized his return — The weird reason Draymond was only in for one play on Klay Day
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
No, the CDC chief didn't say that 75% of all COVID deaths involved four comorbidities
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Davey Alba / New York Times:
Covid Test Misinformation Spikes Along With Spread of Omicron
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
West Virginia's coal miners just made Joe Manchin's life a lot harder — For months, Sen. Joe Manchin III has sold his opposition to the Build Back Better proposal as driven uniformly by a brave and hardheaded assessment of the national interest. He has warned that BBB will fuel inflation …
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Jeff Goodell / Rolling Stone:
Manchin's Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew — The senator from West Virginia is bought and paid for by Big Coal. With his help the dying industry is pulling one final heist — and the entire planet may pay the price — One of the hardest things to grasp about the climate crisis is the connectedness of all things.
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Mocking anti-vaxxers' deaths is ghoulish, yes — but necessary — Among all the ways that COVID-19 affects our lives, the pandemic confronts us with a profound moral dilemma: — How should we react to the deaths of the unvaccinated? — On the one hand, a hallmark of civilized thought is the sense that every life is precious.
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New York Times:
Mike Pence Seen as Key Witness in Jan. 6 Investigation — Getting the former vice president to answer questions under oath could be crucial as the House panel focuses on Donald Trump's responsibility for the Capitol riot. — As the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault …
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New York Times:
Voting Rights Groups Skipping Biden's Speech in Georgia Over Inaction — Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, also will not be there, but she cited a scheduling conflict. — When President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris deliver major speeches on voting rights …
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Associated Press:
Speaker: Nashville US House seat to split in redistricting — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republicans plan to carve fast-growing Nashville into multiple congressional seats, making it potentially easier for the state's Republican-dominated congressional delegation to flip …
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Melissa Brown / The Tennessean:
Tennessee Republicans plan to split Nashville congressional seat
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Mitch McConnell's Electoral Count Act offer is a poison pill for voting rights — Fate of voting rights legislation rests on pressure from ‘spotlight of history’ — The Electoral Count Act, the law governing how Congress certifies presidential elections, is filled with gaps and ambiguities.
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
McConnell Issues Threat to Democrats on Filibuster Changes
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Politico:
Dems' filibuster conundrum: It's not just Manchin and Sinema — A Democratic senator from Arizona is still not sold on changes to the filibuster. And it's not Kyrsten Sinema. — Mark Kelly is not yet committed to a change in the Senate rules that would allow elections reform legislation to pass by a simple majority.
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Steven Greenhouse / The Guardian:
Bernie Sanders says Democrats are failing: ‘The party has turned its back on the working class’
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Houston Keene / Fox News:
RNC calls out Senate Democrats on filibuster hypocrisy in new memo
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Fox, MSNBC and CNN show differing directions with new hosts and shows — New York (CNN Business)On Monday morning CNN, MSNBC and Fox all made programming announcements that doubled as statements about each network's positioning in the news and talk marketplace.
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Gary D. Robertson / Associated Press:
North Carolina voters dispute Cawthorn candidacy over Jan. 6 — A group of North Carolina voters want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified as a congressional candidate — RALEIGH, N.C. — A group of North Carolina voters told state officials on Monday they want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified …
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Jeff Asher / The Atlantic:
The Data Are Pointing to One Major Driver of America's Murder Spike — After murders in the United States soared to more than 21,000 in 2020, researchers began searching for a definitive explanation why. Many factors may have contributed, such as a pandemic-driven loss of social programs …
Washington Post:
More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. — The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
GOP steps up bid to convince Hogan to run for Senate in Md. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans are stepping up a personal campaign to persuade Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to run for the Senate and help the party's chances of regaining control of the chamber.
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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
How do we know Trump's election fraud claims are bogus? Take a look at Pennsylvania. — Former president Donald Trump, like a tone-deaf musician, used the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot last week to once again allege, without evidence, that the 2020 election was rigged.
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Trump calls GOP senator a ‘jerk’ after he rejects former president's false claims of widespread election fraud
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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Greg Gutfeld has risen to the top at Fox News — and that's no joke — NEW YORK — Greg Gutfeld is picking through a long, narrow closet. He wrenches a painting from the depth of the clutter. A painting of himself. That familiar arched right eyebrow. That sideways grin.
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Media Matters for America
Nic Newman / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2022 — 1. The business of journalism is looking up for some | 2. Audience strategies and publisher innovation | 3. The practice of journalism: hybrid newsrooms, generational change, and new agendas | 4. Government regulation, privacy, and the future of platforms |
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
Fed vice chair to resign over stock trading controversy — Richard Clarida is the third Federal Reserve official to quit over questionable behavior during the coronavirus pandemic — Richard Clarida, the Federal Reserve's vice chair, announced Monday that he will resign …
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Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Two coups and no election later, West Africa cuts off Mali — DAKAR, Senegal — Eighteen months ago, military officers in Mali ousted the president and seized power in a coup d'etat. Seven months ago, they did it again. The West African nation of 20 million was supposed to hold a new election …
Jacob Holmes / Alabama Political Reporter:
Doug Jones calls for building “pro-democracy coalition” — Although Jones placed the events of Jan. 6 on the radical right, he called for voters to avoid electing extreme candidates on either side. — Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones is calling on citizens to “build a pro-democracy coalition” …
Adam Beam / Associated Press:
California's Newsom wants health coverage for all immigrants — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Backed by soaring revenues amid the pandemic, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday proposed a budget that would pay for the health care of all the state's low-income residents living in the country illegally …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Kevin McCarthy Plans to Strip Ilhan Omar off Foreign Affairs, Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff off Intelligence Committee — House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News that as speaker of the House he would strip Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) …
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John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
America has rejected fascism before — The 2020s are similar to the 1940s. — Editorial Board readers are familiar with my obsession with political time - or how one party and its ideas prevail with a majority of Americans for four or five decades before falling into a period of transition …
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