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9:55 AM ET, February 24, 2021

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New York Times:
New analyses show Johnson & Johnson's one-dose vaccine works well.  —  Johnson and Johnson's vaccine has a lower efficacy rate than the vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, which are both around 95 percent. … But in South Africa, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is so far the clear winner.
Discussion: HotAir
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Washington Post:
FDA review confirms safety and efficacy of single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, especially against severe cases  —  A Food and Drug Administration review released Wednesday of the single-shot coronavirus vaccine made by pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson found it was safe …
Discussion: CBS News, UPI and Fox News
Associated Press:
FDA says J&J single-dose shot prevents Covid  —  Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine protects against Covid-19, according to an analysis by U.S. regulators Wednesday that sets the stage for a final decision on a new and easier-to-use shot to help tame the pandemic.
Wall Street Journal:
FDA to Release Review of J&J's Single-Dose Vaccine
Discussion: Grand Forks Herald
Sarah Mucha / Axios:
Scoop: Senate committee postpones hearing for imperiled Tanden  —  The Senate Homeland Security Committee is postponing a confirmation hearing scheduled Wednesday for Neera Tanden, Axios has learned, a potential death knell for President Biden's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget.
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Politico:
How the White House botched the Neera Tanden nomination  —  Just about everyone in Washington, D.C., could see that Neera Tanden's nomination to head the Office of Management and Budget was beleaguered from the beginning — everyone, that is, except the White House.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The people concerned about Neera Tanden's incivility sure didn't seem to mind the Trump era's
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Exclusive: Bernie ready to roll on roads
Discussion: Townhall
Washington Post:   Live updates: An array of Biden Cabinet nominees face scrutiny on Capitol Hill
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The opposition to confirming Neera Tanden is based on a lie
Discussion: Vox and The Intellectualist
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: 9/11 Commission leaders issue a warning to Pelosi  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  When Republican TOM KEAN became head of the 9/11 Commission, he got a call from TIM RUSSERT asking him to come on “Meet the Press.”  Kean said he'd only appear if his Democratic counterpart on the commission, LEE HAMILTON, were invited too.
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NBC News:
Retired NYPD cop charged in Capitol riot, accused of attacking officer with flagpole  —  A retired New York police officer faces charges for participating in the U.S. Capitol riot last month, accused of having attacked a Capitol Police officer.  —  Federal prosecutors alleged Tuesday in court that the man …
Discussion: New Republic, The Week, CNBC and Raw Story
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Politico:
What we know — and still don't — as Congress starts its Jan. 6 investigation  —  Congress is taking its first steps toward a potentially massive investigation into the failures that contributed to the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6.  But its initial foray only underscored how little lawmakers …
Discussion: Washington Post and CBS News
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The Daily Beast:
NY Prosecutors Are Looking at Don Jr. in Trump Biz Probe  —  The Daily Beast has learned that investigators have been asking questions in recent days about Trump's eldest son as they expand their criminal probe into Trump's business empire. … For months, some of Donald Trump's top advisers …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden will call Saudi king ahead of damning report  —  President Biden plans to call Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday, ahead of the public release of a potentially damning intelligence report about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a source briefed on the call told Axios.
Washington Post:
Life amid the ruins of QAnon: ‘I wanted my family back’  —  An epidemic of conspiracy theories, fanned by social media and self-serving politicians, is tearing families apart. … She bought ammunition, camping gear, a water purifier and boxes of canned food.
Rachel Lerman / Washington Post:
Major Trump backer Rebekah Mercer orchestrates Parler's second act  —  Mercer, whose family also invested in right-wing news site Breitbart, controls two of the three board seats at the company  —  When social media website Parler's founding CEO John Matze was pushed out last month …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
One America News clashes again with White House correspondents over Trump-approved camera tent  —  One America News, the upstart right-wing cable channel that was granted special status by the Trump White House, is clashing again with its mainstream colleagues on the presidential beat.
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
A Simple Rule of Thumb for Knowing When the Pandemic Is Over  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  In the middle of January, the deadliest month of the pandemic, one day after inauguration …
Discussion: HuffPost and MarketWatch
Washington Post:
Trump's politics hurt his businesses.  Will he sell as he looks to a potential 2024 campaign?  —  Donald Trump's new office is the Mar-a-Lago Club's old bridal suite.  There — exiled from Washington, avoiding New York, working from a repurposed dressing room in Florida — the former president faces a choice.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
LGBT Identification Rises to 5.6% in Latest U.S. Estimate  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gallup's latest update on lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender identification finds 5.6% of U.S. adults identifying as LGBT.  The current estimate is up from 4.5% in Gallup's previous update based on 2017 data.
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Republican voter suppression kicks into high gear  —  Voter suppression has long been a Republican interest, but now they're getting really serious about it.  —  So serious, in fact, that they're starting entire organizations dedicated to finding ways to keep Democrats from the polls.
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Stephen Gruber-Miller / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Senate passes bill shortening early voting period, creating stricter cutoff for absentee ballots
Mitt Romney / Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Stimulus Bill Is a $1.9 Trillion Clunker  —  Senate Republicans are eager to get aid where it's needed, reopen schools and encourage work.  —  Democrats are anxious for any excuse to blow up the Senate filibuster, the last procedural hurdle to one-party government.
Discussion: Insider, Deseret News and Fox News
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Romney predicts Trump would win the 2024 G.O.P. nomination if he ran for president.  —  Senator Mitt Romney of Utah said on Tuesday that he believed Donald J. Trump would win the Republican nomination for president if he ran for his former office in 2024, another indication of Mr. Trump's perceived strength in the party.
Johnny Diaz / New York Times:
Arizona Man Is Accused of Faking Own Kidnapping to Evade Work  —  When the police arrived, they found the man with his hands bound behind his back by a belt and a bandanna “stuffed in his mouth” in Coolidge, Ariz.  —  The authorities in Arizona accused a man of going to extreme lengths …
Discussion: Insider, The Hill and TheBlaze
Washington Free Beacon:
Lincoln Project Received $32 Million in Free Media from CNN, MSNBC Since Weaver Scandal Broke  —  Allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior against Lincoln Project cofounder John Weaver were first reported in the American Conservative on Jan. 11.  Since then, the embattled super PAC …
Discussion: Salon
Des Moines Register:
It violates free press rights to bring to trial a Des Moines Register reporter arrested while covering a protest  —  Editorial: The pending charges against a Register reporter who was arrested while covering a social justice protest last spring are a clear infringement on the freedom of the press.
John Gizzi / Newsmax:
Will Ex-Sen. Perdue's Exit Mean Sen. Herschel Walker, R-Ga.?  —  Not since Aug. 20, 1956, when former Sen. Millard Tydings, D-Md., suddenly withdrew from a bid for the seat he lost six years earlier, has the abandonment of a former U.S. senator from a comeback campaign had such an impact …
Joel Kotkin / The American Mind:
Economic Civil War  —  Inside the bitter battle over America's new geography.  —  Our national divide is usually cast in terms of ideology, race, climate, and gender.  But it might be more accurate to see our national conflict as regional and riven by economic function.
NBC News:
Democrats' biggest gains from 2008-2020 came in these Georgia counties  —  WASHINGTON — When former Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., announced this week that he will pass on a 2022 Senate comeback bid, he went out of his way to suggest that Georgia “is not a blue state.”
Discussion: New York Times and HotAir
David Siders / Politico:
Texas disaster puts Beto O'Rourke back in business  —  While Ted Cruz was getting clobbered for fleeing Texas amid its historic winter storm, the Democrat he defeated in 2018, Beto O'Rourke, was already deep into disaster relief mode — soliciting donations for storm victims …
Discussion: El Paso Times and HuffPost
Steven Lemongello / Orlando Sentinel:
Buckley would weep at the CPAC circus coming to Orlando … If the political descendants of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan and Antonin Scalia were coming to town, that would be exciting.  —  But that's not what CPAC is bringing to Orlando starting Thursday.
Phil Mattingly / CNN:
First on CNN: Biden's Covid plan gets backing from more than 150 top business leaders  —  What Biden said he would do for the Covid-19 economy  —  (CNN)More than 150 senior executives from some of the largest American companies across several major industries have lined …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Conservatives use new tack to target voting machines  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) joined a group of conservatives last week at a training session for activists readying to combat the continued use of the voting technology that propelled Trumpworld's 2020 election-theft conspiracy theories.
Discussion: Raw Story
Meduza.io:
Amnesty International rescinds Alexey Navalny's ‘prisoner of conscience’ status because of past ‘hate speech,’ following rumored ‘campaign’ by individuals tied to Russia Today  —  The international human rights organization Amnesty International has rescinded its decision to grant …
 
 
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Sarah McCammon / NPR:
Evangelical Leaders Condemn ‘Radicalized Christian Nationalism’
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Biden is leaving Amazon workers out in the cold
Discussion: The Guardian and HuffPost
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
How Judges' Work Experience Can Impact Court Rulings — And Legal Precedent
ProPublica:
Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company's Business
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Merrick Garland Misleads on ‘Equity’ and ‘Equality’
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Becerra in 1997 refused to call for free elections in Cuba
 Earlier Items: 
Patrick Wilson / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
State GOP leaders opt for drive-up convention at Liberty University to nominate candidates
Discussion: Virginia Mercury
The Stanford Review:
Atlas, Ferguson, and Hanson: On Free Speech at Stanford
Discussion: Power Line
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
A Bristling Standoff Rattles Gun-Friendly Vermont
U.S. Department of Justice:
One of the Nation's Largest Chicken Producers Pleads Guilty to Price Fixing and is Sentenced to a $107 Million Criminal Fine
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Will Wilkinson / Model Citizen:
Climbing the Bell Curve to the Cathedral