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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge — (CNN)A federal judge in Florida struck down on Monday the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transport methods. — US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the mandate was unlawful …
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Federal judge orders end to CDC, White House mask mandates on airlines, transit
BREAKING: Federal judge orders end to CDC, White House mask mandates on airlines, transit
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Washington Free Beacon, Politico, BuzzFeed News, Washington Examiner and POLITICUSUSA
Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
Florida judge overturns CDC mask mandate for planes and public transit
Florida judge overturns CDC mask mandate for planes and public transit
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Reuters:
Alex Jones' InfoWars files for bankruptcy in U.S. court — Far-right wing website InfoWars on Sunday filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas in the face of multiple defamation lawsuits.
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Cory Vaillancourt / Smoky Mountain News:
Complaint filed against Cawthorn by fired staffer — Saying in a leaked recording that “we all want the ultimate goal of him never serving again,” Lisa Wiggins, a former caseworker and campaign aide to Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-Henderson) has filed an employment-related campaign against the embattled congressman.
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Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Florida's vile ‘groomer’ law may soon blow up in DeSantis's face — One of the more repulsive features of Florida's new law restricting classroom discussion of sex and gender is its vagueness. This may be a feature, not a bug: It could encourage conservative parents to sniff …
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Raw Story
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Mike Lee's Role in Trump's Attempted Coup — What would have happened if his plan worked? — Senator Mike Lee's defenders insist his repeated texts to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows offering his guidance on the proper constitutional process to overturn the 2020 election results prove his honor.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Mike Lee has some explaining to do — CNN released nearly 100 texts from Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the wake of the 2020 election. The two sets of texts, coming on the heels of the 2020 election …
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Public Notice and Mediaite
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pa. Senate candidate David McCormick made a whopping $22.5 million last year — In his TV ads, Republican Senate candidate David McCormick portrays himself as a red-blooded Pennsylvanian who hunts, bales hay, and drinks pints with his old buddies at wood-paneled bars.But a new financial …
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Patricia Murphy / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Marjorie Taylor Greene outraised by Democratic challenger in 2022 — News and analysis from the politics team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Friday's deadline to report fundraising for the first three months of 2022 has given us more information to sift through in some of Georgia's most contested federal races.
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The Hill, New York Times and Political Wire
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell-tied super PAC makes early $141M play for the Senate
McConnell-tied super PAC makes early $141M play for the Senate
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The Transom, NBC News, CBS News, The Hill, HotAir and The Daily Caller
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Lethal darts were fired into a Ukrainian neighborhood by the thousands — BUCHA, Ukraine — At Svitlana Chmut's house outside Kyiv, there are carrots in her garden and deadly Russian mini-arrows in her yard. — A pile of the sharp, finned projectiles rounded up by Chmut are now gathering rust in the spring's fine mist.
Gizmodo:
We're Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here's What They Say About Donald Trump, the 2020 Election, and Jan. 6. — Gizmodo has reviewed, redacted, and published more than two dozen leaked Facebook documents, the first of hundreds to come. — Alerts — In the hours following the Jan. 6 attack …
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Media Matters for America
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Peltz draws GOP megadonors to $5,000-a-plate fundraiser for Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin — Billionaire and Wall Street veteran Nelson Peltz hosted a fundraiser for conservative Democrat Joe Manchin at his massive Florida estate last month. — Peltz hosted Manchin along …
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Raw Story
Sarah Longwell / The Atlantic:
Trump Supporters Explain Why They Believe the Big Lie — Some 35 percent of Americans—including 68 percent of Republicans—believe the Big Lie, pushed relentlessly by former President Donald Trump and amplified by conservative media, that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:
After a valiant 53-day defense compared to the Alamo and Stalingrad, Mariupol appears about to fall — MARIUPOL'S LAST STAND: Low on food and ammo, Mariupol's last defenders are surrounded and confined to a small area of the city in and around the Azovstal iron and steelworks …
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New York Times, Washington Free Beacon, The White House, Popular Information, New York Times, New York Times and Haaretz
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Natasha Turak / CNBC:
Ukraine's major western city of Lviv hit by missiles; Mariupol resistance holds out despite heavy losses
Ukraine's major western city of Lviv hit by missiles; Mariupol resistance holds out despite heavy losses
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New York Times, The Hill, Vanity Fair and Denver Post
Zachary Halaschak / Washington Examiner:
What late filers should know on Tax Day — It's Tax Day, and here is what people who still haven't filed their returns with the IRS should know. — Tax Day falls on April 18 this year. Typically, the tax filing deadline is April 15, but Washington, D.C., observed Emancipation Day on that Friday …
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Brian Faler / Politico:
Tax refund whiplash: Pandemic perks give some a windfall, others a bill
Tax refund whiplash: Pandemic perks give some a windfall, others a bill
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Townhall
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Democrats are now fighting over how Biden's agenda imploded — We recently looked at a few articles from the Associated Press that took an uncharacteristically critical view of some of the Biden administration's recent misadventures. I wondered at the time if the mainstream media was beginning …
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Richard Cowan / Reuters:
Trump attempt at a coup to be a focus of U.S. House hearings, lawmaker Raskin says — Then-President Donald Trump attempted a coup on Jan. 6, 2021, and that will be a centerpiece of committee hearings in Congress next month, said Democrat Jamie Raskin, a committee member who led the prosecution of Trump's second impeachment.
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Politico, The Hill, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Elizabeth Warren / New York Times:
Democrats Can Avoid Disaster in November — Ms. Warren is a U.S. senator from Massachusetts — Democrats are the party of working people. Ahead of the 2020 election, we advanced ideas and plans that we believed would, in ways big and small, make our democracy and our economy work better for all Americans.
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Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Jon Stewart's new show on AppleTV+ is reportedly a flop — Jon Stewart is struggling to gain traction on his new talk show, according to a report. — “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” which launched on AppleTV+ in September, appears to be a flop, as it trails far behind its competitors …
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BloombergQuint, Mediaite and OutKick
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Trump Jr. to campaign with J.D. Vance in Ohio following father's endorsement — CLEVELAND — Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance — fresh off an endorsement from Donald Trump — is scheduled to campaign this week with the former president's namesake son. — Donald Trump Jr. will headline …
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
We Regret to Inform You That Tucker Carlson's New Special Does In Fact Promote ‘Testicle Tanning’ — The promo for the new season of Tucker Carlson Originals incurred a veritable tsunami of mockery online for its montage of mostly shirtless men firing guns, wrestling, doing push-ups …
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Rolling Stone, Morning Shots, Vanity Fair and Snopes.com
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens — The inside story of the world's most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it. — NSO Group's software has been linked to repressive regimes, but now “all types of governments” use it, an observer said.
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Andrew M. Cuomo / New York Daily News:
There's a better way forward for New York State — These are perilous times and the ship of state must maneuver quickly, but smartly. — The problems are mounting and public skepticism about the future of New York is at frightening levels. — The legislative session is still ongoing in Albany and the priorities are clear.
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Washington Examiner, Twitchy and Political Wire