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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Texas to end all coronavirus restrictions  —  Texas will end its coronavirus restrictions next week with an upcoming executive order, Gov. Greg Abbot (R) announced Tuesday during a press conference in Lubbock.  —  Why it matters: After Abbott signs the new order, which rescinds previous orders …
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Benjamin Din / Politico:
Texas, Mississippi to lift mask mandates, let all businesses reopen at full capacity
Discussion: Fox News and NPR
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Watch live: Gov. Greg Abbott to make a “statewide announcement” at 1:30 p.m. Central
Washington Post:
Biden to announce ‘historic partnership’: Merck will help make Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, officials say  —  The administration brokered the arrangement amid concerns about Johnson & Johnson's production delays  —  President Biden will announce Tuesday that pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co …
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
U.S. announces sanctions on Russia over poisoning and jailing of opposition leader Navalny
CNN:
6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published anymore because they portray people in ‘hurtful and wrong’ ways  —  (CNN)Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” the business that preserves the author's legacy said.  —  The titles are:
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Mark Pratt / Associated Press:
6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published for racist images  —  BOSTON (AP) — Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author's legacy said Tuesday.
Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
Biden removes mention of Dr. Seuss from ‘Read Across America Day’
The Daily Beast:
Fox News Insiders Rage Against Hiring ‘Mini Goebbels’ Kayleigh McEnany  —  The network announced Tuesday that McEnany, a career liar, is now a paid contributor.  Newsroom staffers, who've faced “purges” in recent months, are none too pleased.  —  Fox News officially announced on Tuesday …
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Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany joins Fox News
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Cuomo Is Facing a Political Extinction Event  —  Governor Andrew Cuomo sounded defeated, senior officials who had spoken with him said.  It seemed to be getting to him that the usual strategic plays were suddenly no longer working.  “Like an old man who just didn't have the fight in him anymore,” said one.
Discussion: WCDC-TV, New Republic and The Root
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
‘Obviously’  —  Chris Cuomo says that he can't possibly cover the accusations that have been leveled against Andrew Cuomo, “because he is my brother”: … Question for Cuomo (and for Brian Stelter, who is selectively interested in media ethics): Why did this logic not obtain during the pandemic?
Entertainment Tonight:
Chris Cuomo Addresses Brother Andrew's Sexual Harassment Allegations
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Alex Jones on Leaked Video: ‘I Wish I Never Met Trump’  —  Before multimillionaire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones riled up Donald Trump's fans with lies about a stolen election, he privately expressed revulsion over the 45th president, a video leaked to Hatewatch reveals.  —  “It's the truth and I'm just going to say it.
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Ted Nesi / WPRI-TV:
Raimondo wins US Senate confirmation; will soon resign as governor  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Gov. Gina Raimondo on Tuesday secured U.S. Senate confirmation as the nation's next commerce secretary, becoming the first Rhode Island politician elevated to the president's cabinet in more than 70 years.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Senate confirms Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo as commerce secretary
Discussion: NPR, Politico and UPI
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Senate confirms Raimondo as Biden commerce secretary
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Senate panel advances Biden's Commerce secretary pick in 21-3 vote
Discussion: Bloomberg
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Murkowski weighs Tanden's fate with Alaska on her mind  —  Neera Tanden's been in Senate purgatory for a week now as she and the Biden administration fight to convince Sen. Lisa Murkowski to back her bid to be White House budget chief.  And Murkowski isn't making any sudden moves.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Liberals on fire over failure on $15 minimum wage  —  Liberal senators and outside pressure groups are steaming over the Senate's seeming failure to move a COVID-19 relief package with a provision hiking the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.  —  An adverse decision from the Senate …
Discussion: HotAir, BizPac Review and Twitchy
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Greg Allen / NPR:   The Florida Democratic Party Has A Problem: It's Broke And Disorganized
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Biden briefing calls for 20,000 child migrant beds  —  A briefing scheduled for President Biden this afternoon outlines the need for 20,000 beds to shelter an expected crush of child migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: The rapid influx …
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Why Republicans Don't Fear An Electoral Backlash For Opposing Really Popular Parts Of Biden's Agenda  —  Republicans in the U.S. House last week unanimously opposed President Biden's economic stimulus bill, even though polls show that the legislation is popular with the public.
John Keefe / New York Times:
Should Your School Be Fully Open?  Here's What the C.D.C. Says  —  Only 4 percent of the nation's schoolchildren live in counties where coronavirus transmission is low enough for full-time in-person learning without additional restrictions, according to the guidelines established by the Centers …
Karl Evers-Hillstrom / OpenSecrets.org:
Consultants repping Saudi, UAE interests partner with Blinken's old firm  —  A well-connected firm that represents Saudi and Emirati interests is partnering with a consulting firm launched by top Biden administration aides as the U.S. tackles foreign policy dilemmas in the Middle East.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Biden's next big move could deliver a crippling blow to Trumpism  —  In a revealing moment at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida — a Republican who is a leading inheritor of the mantle of Trumpism — unintentionally displayed one of that inchoate ideology's most serious weaknesses.
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
New book: Cuomo angered Biden team with convention address  —  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) angered now-President Biden's campaign in 2020 over his speech at the Democratic National Convention, which aides considered to be self-aggrandizing.  —  According to the new book “Lucky …
Rachel Cohrs / STAT:
The Trump administration quietly spent billions in hospital funds on Operation Warp Speed  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration quietly took around $10 billion from a fund meant to help hospitals and health care providers affected by Covid-19 and used the money to bankroll Operation Warp Speed contracts …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Biden's Future Has Two Parts  —  There are going to be two different Biden administrations.  —  1 hr ago  —  1. AC: After COVID  —  More than any president since Truman, Joe Biden's administration is going to have a clear delineation between two distinct periods: COVID and After COVID.
Discussion: National Review
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
MAGA-Obsessed State Rep. Accused of Being the Boss From Hell  —  Wendy Rogers fat-shamed an aide, threw away his belongings, berated him, and forced him to work while sick with COVID, an ethics report concluded.  —  A Trump-obsessed state representative from Arizona is under fire …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Kriston Capps / Bloomberg:
Trump Homelessness Czar Toured Shelters Uninvited, Despite Covid Concerns
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
US Officials Say Haitian Immigrants May Face Danger In Their Own Country. They're Deporting Them Anyway.
Fox News:
GOP group details recipe for Republicans to retake House majority
Discussion: Politico
Anna Gustafson / Michigan Advance:
How the anti-COVID vaccine movement mobilized in Michigan before anyone ever got their first shot
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia's center of political gravity shifting toward Atlanta
Discussion: Political Wire
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Vernon Jordan: an American legend, and a good friend
Discussion: New York Times and The Root
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Lee / Washington Examiner:
SCOTUS sides with churches in California fight over in-person service ban
Discussion: National Review
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
DeSantis approval ticks upward in new poll
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Sen. Martin Heinrich to introduce plan for Puerto Rico statehood
Discussion: NBC News and The Hill
The New York Times Company:
A New Role for Lisa Lerer
Arielle Mitropoulos / ABC News:
Thousands of students reported ‘missing’ from school systems nationwide amid COVID-19 pandemic
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Navarro penned 15-page memo falsely accusing Coates of being Anonymous
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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