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Trump's Republican Hit List at CPAC Is a Warning Shot to His Party — In his first public appearance since leaving office, Donald Trump went through, by name, every Republican who supported his second impeachment and called for them to be ousted. — ORLANDO, Fla. — After days of insisting …
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Is Donald Trump a declining parody or a terrifying threat? Mastio & Lawrence on CPAC 2021 — Can we agree with Trump? Yes, we are 'in the middle of a historic struggle for America's future, America's culture, and America's institutions, borders and most cherished principles.'
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New York Times:
Trump Wins CPAC Straw Poll, but Only 68 Percent Want Him to Run Again
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump stages GOP comeback at CPAC by refusing to concede 2020 defeat
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David Siders / Politico:
Trump teases 2024 run in CPAC remarks, as he looks to keep his grip on GOP
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Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
The New Foreign Flavor of CPAC's Red Meat
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Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Trump wins CPAC straw poll with 55 percent
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Rick Scott: GOP is ‘voters’ party,' not Trump's
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Carly Roman / Washington Examiner:
Trump vows to CPAC crowd not to start a new party
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Cassidy: Trump won't be GOP nominee in 2024
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Alex Marquardt / CNN:
Three names mysteriously removed from Khashoggi intelligence report after initial publication — U.S. intel report: Saudi Crown Prince approved operation to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi — (CNN)Shortly after the US intelligence community published its long-awaited report on Friday afternoon …
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Neera Tanden's confirmation fight is the first morality play of post-Trump Washington — All the fighting must be exhausting, really. — The fights over her reputation, over how she ran her liberal think tank. The battles with journalists who published her stolen emails.
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Josefa Velasquez / THE CITY:
Cuomo Sexual Harassment Claims Follow Years of Public Warning Signs — and Anti-Misconduct Training He Mandated — Even as the governor advocated a Women's Equality Act that promised to “ban” workplace sexual harassment, female Albany reporters and employees heard a very different message.
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Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Clinton, Harris, Warren all silent on Cuomo after second woman brings sexual misconduct allegations
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Arya Hodjat / The Daily Beast:
Cuomo Says He's Sorry His ‘Playful’ Banter Was ‘Misinterpreted’ by Harassment Accusers
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
New York AG says Cuomo statement is not sufficient for independent investigation
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data — The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists. — WHEN TWITTER BANNED Donald Trump and a slew of other far-right users …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Senior Democrats abandon backup plan on $15 per hour minimum wage hike — Lawmakers are backing off a Plan B to raise pay for workers through tax penalties on corporations — Senior Democrats are abandoning a backup plan to increase the minimum wage through a corporate tax penalty …
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Litigation Tracker: Pending Criminal and Civil Cases Against Donald Trump — On both the criminal and civil litigation fronts, former President Donald Trump faces a bevy of lawsuits and investigations, with more cases likely to follow. Some are civil suits stemming from his pre-presidential business dealings.
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez / KQED:
After Leading School Closures, Berkeley Teachers' Union President Spotted Dropping Daughter Off at In-Person Preschool … Parent groups are crying “hypocrisy” after a video surfaced showing the president of the Berkeley teachers union dropping off his two-year-old daughter at an in-person preschool.
John McWhorter / It Bears Mentioning:
Is it racist to expect black kids to do math for real? — Yes, serious people are arguing this. Make sure they don't infect your school district. — 1 hr ago — There is a document getting around called Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction, a guide put together by a group of educators.
Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Disinformation experts aren't happy about the trailer for HBO's QAnon series — It teases what looks like a Hollywood blockbuster rather than a serious documentary — The teaser video for Q: Into the Storm, an upcoming documentary series from HBO about the QAnon conspiracy movement has a lot …
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Gets MUTED During Live Interview at CPAC as He Spews Vaccine Conspiracy Theories — The conservative pro-Trump YouTube channel Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) cut off MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell during an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference …
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Washington Post:
Two of Biden's top DOJ nominees are subjected to baseless smear campaigns — Opinion by Editorial Board — VANITA GUPTA is among the nation's most esteemed civil rights lawyers, revered by liberals for her decades of effective, levelheaded advocacy, and by many of the nation's biggest police …
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The Hill:
Ex-Trump aide Pierson planning run for Congress — A former top strategist for Donald Trump's presidential campaigns is taking steps to run for a U.S. House seat left vacant by the late Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas), who succumbed to the coronavirus earlier this year.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Border Democrat warns Biden about immigrant fallout — A Democratic lawmaker representing a border district warned the Biden administration against easing up too much on unauthorized immigrants, citing their impact on his constituents, local hospitals and their potential to spread the coronavirus.
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Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
‘Three percenters’ truck at Capitol belongs to husband of congresswoman who said, ‘Hitler got one thing right’ — An Illinois lawmaker married to a member of Congress, who was herself recently criticized for quoting Hitler, is facing his own rebuke for displaying the logo of an extremist movement …
CNN:
Goya Foods CEO falsely says election was illegitimate, Trump is ‘the real, the legitimate, and the still actual president’ — Washington (CNN)The chief executive officer of Goya Foods, Robert Unanue, made a series of false claims about the 2020 election at the Conservative Political Action Conference …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Forget ‘Succession.’ You Can Watch ‘90 Day Fiancé’ for 100 Hours Straight. — Discovery's new app has taken off largely because viewers love watching people fix houses, tour diners and bicker about their relationships. — “Ninety Day Fiancé” is, on some Sunday nights, the most-watched show on television.
Hua Hsu / New Yorker:
The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence — On the evening of April 28, 1997, Kuan Chung Kao, a thirty-three-year-old Taiwan-born engineer, went to the Cotati Yacht Club near Rohnert Park, a quiet suburb in Sonoma County, California, where he lived with his wife and three children.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
‘Frightening’: Devin Nunes Says FBI Informant ‘Made Up A Bunch Of Lies’ About Michael Flynn — California Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that newly declassified FBI documents show that a confidential source for the bureau lied …
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