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11:20 PM ET, February 17, 2021

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Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
FBI, U.S. attorney in Brooklyn probing Cuomo administration on nursing homes  —  Investigation is in its early stages; no allegations of wrongdoing have been made  —  ALBANY — The FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn have launched an investigation that is examining, at least in part …
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CNN:
Cuomo said ‘he can destroy me’: NY assemblyman alleges governor threatened him over nursing homes scandal  —  (CNN)New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been pleading with lawmakers for support and even threatening political retribution against Democrats who have criticized him in an aggressive effort …
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo Attacks a Fellow Democrat Over Nursing Home Criticism  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo lashed out at Assemblyman Ron Kim, both publicly and in a private phone call, as a war intensified over the state's handling of nursing home deaths during the pandemic.  —  For months, Assemblyman Ron Kim …
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo Faces Revolt After Handling of Nursing Home Deaths  —  Democratic lawmakers have begun to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handling of virus-related nursing home deaths, and the governor also faces a federal inquiry.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — The Democratic leaders of the New York State Senate …
HuffPost:
Rush Limbaugh, Bigoted King Of Talk Radio, Dies At 70  —  Limbaugh saturated America's airwaves with cruelty and conspiracies, amassing millions of listeners and transforming the Republican Party.  —  Rush Limbaugh, a talk radio pioneer who saturated America's airwaves with cruel bigotries …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio's Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70
Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Rush Limbaugh Spent His Lifetime Speaking Ill of the Dead
Charles Sykes / Washington Post:
We're living in the world Rush Limbaugh created
Joe Walsh / TIME:
Rush Limbaugh Leaves Behind a Conservative Movement No Longer Interested in Truth. That Alarms Me as a Conservative
Discussion: spectator.us and The Hill
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:   Rush's Place  —  Rush's program, beamed into cars sitting in traffic across the nation …
Politico:
Trump-McConnell rift threatens GOP's Senate hopes  —  Republicans are starting their life in the Senate minority mired in a civil war over the future of the GOP and former President Donald Trump's role in the party.  —  Trump's scathing attack on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday exposed rifts …
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Washington Post:
Trump-McConnell clash threatens to settle into a cold war as GOP eyes midterms  —  Were it up to former president Donald Trump, Republicans would spend the next two years purging their ranks and reshaping themselves in his own image — a process he moved to jump-start Tuesday with a searing attack …
Manu Raju / CNN:
McConnell's plan to deal with Trump: Ignore him  —  Trump goes after McConnell in scathing letter  —  (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had an instant reaction when seeing the lengthy attack he endured from former President Donald Trump.  —  He laughed about it, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Eliza Relman / Insider:
Fox News hosts didn't correct Trump's lie that he won the election in his first interview post-insurrection
Discussion: TVNewser
National Review:
Trump v. McConnell
Discussion: The Federalist and Political Wire
Alex Samuels / The Texas Tribune:
Stop dripping your faucets: Texas officials say the state's water supply is at risk  —  After enduring multiple days of freezing temperatures and Texans dripping faucets to prevent frozen pipes from bursting, cities across the state warned Wednesday that water levels are dangerously low, and it may be unsafe to drink.
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The Texas Tribune:
Texas leaders failed to heed warnings that left state's power grid vulnerable to winter extremes, experts say  —  Texas officials knew winter storms could leave the state's power grid vulnerable, but they left the choice to prepare for harsh weather up to the power companies — many of which opted against the costly upgrades.
Bloomberg:
Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The ‘audacious lie’ behind a hedge fund's promise to sustain local journalism  —  When Alden Global Capital announced Tuesday that it was positioned to buy the Chicago Tribune and several other major newspapers, its statement might have sounded promising.  —  But only if you knew nothing …
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Can This Man Save The Baltimore Sun?
more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:   The Baltimore Sun was spared a hedge-fund owner. Now it will try to survive as a nonprofit.
James Osborne / Houston Chronicle:
Perry says Texans willing to suffer blackouts to keep feds out of power market  —  WASHINGTON - Former Texas governor Rick Perry suggests that going days without power is a sacrifice Texans should be willing to make if it means keeping federal regulators out of the state's power grid.
Skyler Swisher / Sun-Sentinel:
'I wouldn't be complaining.' Gov. DeSantis threatens to pull coronavirus vaccine from communities that criticize distribution  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested Wednesday that he would divert COVID-19 vaccines from communities that criticize his distribution methods, sparking complaints that he is playing politics with lifesaving medicine.
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Politico:
DeSantis defends opening vaccine pop-up site in affluent, mostly white community
Discussion: Sarasota Herald-Tribune and Axios
New York Times:
Promotions for Female Generals Were Delayed Over Fears of Trump's Reaction  —  Under a Biden administration, the nominations are expected to go from the Pentagon to the White House within weeks and then to the Senate for approval.  —  WASHINGTON — Last fall, the Pentagon's most senior leaders agreed …
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Allegations of sexist cyberstalking by Trump's top advisor roils secretive paternity case  —  The key advisor in Donald Trump's post-presidency is an often-deadbeat dad who just sent a grave threat to opposing counsel, upending the extraordinarily lengthy Florida paternity case he's spending a fortune to fight.
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
News Analysis: The tragedy of Dianne Feinstein  —  If Dianne Feinstein hadn't lived the life she had, her story might be the product of a screenwriter's over-fertile imagination.  —  The synopsis: After surviving an abusive childhood, Feinstein overcomes personal loss — she is widowed at age 45 …
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Sean Hannity's private plane and the Wake Forest tennis team: A morality fable  —  But Hannity's own jet has an intriguing history  —  During a broadcast about two weeks ago, Fox News personality Sean Hannity seized on a favorite trope, saying that former Secretary of State John Kerry …
Fran Spielman / Chicago Sun-Times:
Statues of four U.S. presidents among 41 under the microscope by Chicago committee  —  Mayor Lori Lightfoot is confronting the “hard truths of Chicago's racial history,” launching a public process to review the fate of 41 statues and other monuments, including some of former presidents Abraham Lincoln …
QU Poll:
Half Of Americans Approve Of The Job President Biden Is Doing, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Most Say Conspiracy Theories In The U.S. Are Out Of Control  —  Four weeks after being sworn into office, President Joe Biden receives a positive job approval rating as Americans approve 50 …
Pete Souza / Jewish Insider:
Ben Rhodes cites ‘very aggressive, pro-Likud media’ in the U.S. for intensity on Israel  —  PODCAST PLAYBACK  —  Rhodes joined Peter Beinart on his podcast, Occupied Thoughts  —  Peter Beinart, a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace and editor-at-large of Jewish Currents …
Discussion: Twitchy
Washington Post:
As millions remain without power amid more snow and ice, blame and questions mount  —  SAN ANTONIO — A second winter storm swept through the southern United States on Wednesday, another blow to a region where at least 18 people have died and millions remain without power …
About Facebook:
Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia  —  In response to Australia's proposed new Media Bargaining law, Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content.  —  The proposed law fundamentally misunderstands …
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
UCLA student with extremist views who FBI says sat in Pence's chair is charged in Capitol riot  —  A UCLA student who posted white supremacist views online and founded an ultra-right campus organization has been charged with federal crimes for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection.
Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal:
In Frigid Texas, Desperate Families Take Risks to Stay Warm  —  Parents resort to gas stoves or build fires inside their homes during power outages, with no relief in sight  —  AUSTIN, Texas—The children played in front of four lighted gas burners in East Austin on Tuesday night …
Sara Randazzo / Wall Street Journal:
Theranos Lab Chief Says He Found Blood-Testing Technology Didn't Work  —  Kingshuk Das is expected to testify at Elizabeth Holmes's fraud trial that he faced pushback over concerns he raised  —  Theranos Inc.'s laboratory director in the company's final years is expected to testify …
Tom Steele / Dallas Morning News:
Texas mayor says he had already resigned after writing ‘only the strong will survive’ amid cold, power outages  —  Tim Boyd says he wrote the Facebook message as a private citizen, not the mayor of Colorado City.  —  The mayor of a West Texas town said Tuesday that he had already resigned …
USA Today:
To honor Jamal Khashoggi, punish countries that target journalists: Schiff and Klobuchar  —  Ban U.S. foreign aid to government entities that violate journalists' human rights and levy sanctions on individuals and foreign leaders who do the same.  —  More than two years have passed since Jamal Khashoggi …
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Watch the Trump Era in Atlantic City End With 3,000 Sticks of Dynamite  —  The implosion of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, the last vestige of the former president's once-dominant brand in Atlantic City, N.J., took place Wednesday morning.  —  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — It was not the biggest or the best implosion ever.
 
 
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Bronson Stocking / Townhall:
Here's What Trump Said When Asked If He's Running for President
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Law & Crime:
Federal Judge Dismisses Devin Nunes Aide's Lawsuit Against CNN
Nikki R. Haley / Wall Street Journal:
The Media Tries to Divide Republicans
Discussion: Mediaite
The Daily Beast:
Trump Avoids Mentioning Dominion, Smartmatic During Right-Wing Media Whinefest
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Adrian Wojnarowski / ESPN:
Sources: Many top NBA players hesitant to promote coronavirus vaccines
Discussion: The Hill
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
A ‘freer’ de Blasio convenes labor leaders for private meeting on mayor's race
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Filip Stojanovski / Global Voices:
Serbia expels US neo-Nazi after investigative website Bellingcat outed his location
Bloomberg:
Texas Clamps Down on Out-of-State Gas Sales as Crisis Deepens
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Netanyahu allies with Jewish supremacists ahead of Israeli election
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate Dems take a page from GOP in judicial nominee battles
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals
 
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