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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court, paving way for Biden appointment — Live coverage: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire — WASHINGTON — Justice Stephen Breyer will step down from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term, according to people familiar with his thinking.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire, giving Biden a chance to nominate a replacement — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, NBC News reported, giving President Joe Biden a crucial opportunity to replace the liberal justice. — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Vacancy to Give Biden His First Chance to Nominate a Justice
Vacancy to Give Biden His First Chance to Nominate a Justice
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NBC News:
White House ramping up quick selection process for Breyer replacement
White House ramping up quick selection process for Breyer replacement
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is among the leading candidates to succeed Justice Breyer.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is among the leading candidates to succeed Justice Breyer.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Breyer's retirement: What you need to know
POLITICO Playbook PM: Breyer's retirement: What you need to know
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Candice Norwood / The 19th:
Biden poised to nominate first Black woman to Supreme Court
Biden poised to nominate first Black woman to Supreme Court
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify to Take Down Neil Young's Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum — The folk-rock star won't back down after discussions with his record label and Spotify — Spotify Technology SA is in the process of removing Neil Young's music, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Branko Marcetic / Jacobin:
Censoring Joe Rogan Is No Solution to Vaccine Misinformation
Censoring Joe Rogan Is No Solution to Vaccine Misinformation
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Devi Ruia / Data For Progress:
Poll: Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema Set to Be Unseated by Possible Challenger Ruben Gallego in 2024 Primary Landslide — By Ryan O'Donnell, David Guirgis, and Brian Burton — In October 2021, Data for Progress published poll findings that captured the extent of Arizona Democratic primary …
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Mark Kelly ‘does not support the censure’ of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema
Sen. Mark Kelly ‘does not support the censure’ of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema
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Justin Kanew / THE TENNESSEE HOLLER:
MCMINN COUNTY BANS “MAUS”, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING HOLOCAUST BOOK — Continuing the recent spate of conservative book-banning initiatives, The Mcminn County School board just voted to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “MAUS” by Art Spiegelman from all of its schools …
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
YouTube permanently bans Dan Bongino — YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension. — The Fox host uploaded a video to his main channel while his secondary channel …
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Dan Bongino Permanently Banned From YouTube — BONGINO BOUNCED — Fox News host and right-wing radio kingpin Dan Bongino was permanently banned from YouTube on Wednesday after allegedly attempting to evade a previous suspension. “We terminated Dan Bongino's channels for circumventing …
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The Daily Beast:
Florida Shock Jock in Matt Gaetz Circle Pleads Guilty — The feds are closing in on Rep. Matt Gaetz for his alleged underage sex crimes with yet another criminal case, this time against a key witness: his wingman's best friend. … “Big Joe” Ellicott, a former Florida shock jock …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Plea deal for man involved in Gaetz investigation, whose attorney says he witnessed ‘sex, drugs — a whole lot of it’ — Justice Department investigators have reached a cooperation agreement with a man whose attorney says he witnessed Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) attend parties involving …
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Politico:
Will There Be a War Over Ukraine? 13 Putin Watchers Weigh In — Russian President Vladimir Putin sought a confrontation with the West and he got one. So now what? — Diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis appear to have stalled. In the past month, Putin has escalated his long proxy war …
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Kremlin TV Worries Tucker Carlson's Pro-Putin Bias Has Gone Too Far
Kremlin TV Worries Tucker Carlson's Pro-Putin Bias Has Gone Too Far
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Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Where Is Germany in the Ukraine Standoff? Its Allies Wonder.
Where Is Germany in the Ukraine Standoff? Its Allies Wonder.
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Polina Ivanova / Financial Times:
Russian public covers ears as state media heighten Ukraine rhetoric
Russian public covers ears as state media heighten Ukraine rhetoric
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Georgia Potential November Showdowns: They're Already Close, Quinnipiac University Georgia Poll Finds; Only 25% Are Very Confident In Accurate 2022 Election Count — mail_outline — With Georgia in the national spotlight over its election laws along with two high profile contests in November 2022 …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement — Indicators of economic activity and employment have continued to strengthen. The sectors most adversely affected by the pandemic have improved in recent months but are being affected by the recent sharp rise in COVID-19 cases.
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Translating Powell's words: The Fed chair's real message on rate-hike plans
Translating Powell's words: The Fed chair's real message on rate-hike plans
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Tees Up March Interest-Rate Increase
Fed Tees Up March Interest-Rate Increase
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Man Who Sold Pistol Used in Synagogue Hostage Crisis Federally Charged — The man who sold Malik Faisal Akram the gun he used to kidnap hostages in a Texas synagogue earlier this month has been charged with a federal firearm crime, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
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Matthew Impelli / Newsweek:
Man Who Allegedly Sold Gun to Texas Hostage-Taker Was Previous Convicted Felon
Man Who Allegedly Sold Gun to Texas Hostage-Taker Was Previous Convicted Felon
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Aaron Gordon / VICE:
Amazon Paid for a High School Course. Here's What They Teach. — “Brainstorm ways you could motivate your employees other than large bonuses and high salaries.” — In 2019, Cajon High School in San Bernardino, California, started offering the “Amazon Logistics and Business Management Pathway …
Meghan Mccain / Daily Mail:
I finally got Covid and it was so horrible it made me doubt if America will ever recover from this pandemic. It WILL but not with moronic Biden in charge — I knew that I was tempting fate when I reposted a meme on my Instagram Stories joking about dodging golf balls at a driving range.
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
GOP Has Congress Edge by Default — Few say either party is very concerned about ‘average Americans’ — West Long Branch, NJ - Congressional Republicans have a small edge over their Democratic colleagues on a dubious metric - they are slightly less likely to be seen as lacking concern for the average American's financial well-being.
CNN:
This Silicon Valley city just voted to institute first-in-the-nation gun ownership requirements — (CNN)The San Jose, California, city council voted Tuesday night to adopt a first-in-the-nation ordinance requiring most gun owners to pay a fee and carry liability insurance …
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
San Jose approves forced liability insurance for gun owners
San Jose approves forced liability insurance for gun owners
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Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
'It's just plain unconstitutional': Wisconsin GOP leaders again reject resolution to ‘pull back’ 2020 electoral votes — MADISON - Assembly leaders for the second time have rejected a proposal from a Republican lawmaker to pull back Wisconsin's electoral votes cast in the 2020 election, which is illegal.
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
How Senate Dems reaped the benefits from 2 little-known GOP maneuvers — Senate Democrats lost their fight to weaken the filibuster, but they're capitalizing big on another rules change — that the GOP pushed. — After an Obama administration marked by Democratic frustration over the pace …
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Red wave alert for Senate Democrats
Red wave alert for Senate Democrats
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Brookings:
Gender-based online violence spikes after prominent media attacks — On March 9, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson took aim at a favorite target: a New York Times journalist. In the crosshairs was tech reporter Taylor Lorenz, one of the paper's rising stars who had recently described the toll of online harassment.
Kaylee McGhee White / Washington Examiner:
The FDA is wrong to pull life-saving COVID-19 antibody treatments — The Food and Drug Administration suddenly decided to withdraw its emergency use authorization of two COVID-19 antibody treatments this week, leaving hundreds of patients who depend on them in the lurch.
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The Dworkin Report:
Author reveals how Peter Thiel helped Trump cut a deal with Facebook to evade fact checking — Scott talks with author and journalist Max Chafkin, who is a features editor and a tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek. Max is the author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power …
U.S. Embassy Kyiv / U.S. Embassy in Ukraine:
Message to US Citizens: Commercial Air Availability from Ukraine — Home Почат ок | Message to US Citizens: Commercial Air Availability from Ukraine — The security situation in Ukraine continues …
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Natalie O'Neill / New York Post:
Fauci says children younger than 4 will get three doses of COVID vaccines — The White House said Wednesday that the COVID-19 vaccine regime for kids younger than 4 years old will likely be three doses when it's approved — and vowed to make millions more hard-to-find Pfizer anti-viral pills available in coming months.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Canadian man sentenced to federal prison for trafficking stolen identities on the dark web — ATLANTA - Slava Dmitriev has been sentenced for access device fraud in connection with his possession and sale of over seventeen hundred stolen identities on the dark web.