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Brendan J. Lyons / Albany Times Union:
Cuomo faces new sexual harassment allegation, this time at Executive Mansion  —  Female aide claims governor touched her inappropriately; complaint reported to AG  —  ALBANY — A sixth woman has come forward and leveled allegations of sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo …
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
BuzzFeed Announces Deep Cuts To HuffPost Staff After Acquisition  —  BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost from Verizon Media in February.  —  BuzzFeed announced layoffs for the HuffPost newsroom on Tuesday, three weeks after acquiring HuffPost from Verizon Media in February.
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Laura Wagner / Defector:
Jonah Peretti Lays Off 47 HuffPost Staffers In Latest “Bloodbath”  —  BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, who acquired HuffPost from Verizon in a deal that was announced last year with the promise that HuffPost would thrive in partnership with BuzzFeed, announced in an all-hands meeting today …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Biden's COVID-Relief Bill Is a Big F**king Deal  —  Joe Biden won, but progressives lost.  —  For weeks after the 2020 election, this was the conventional wisdom about its outcome.  As Politico wrote on November 5, “During Barack Obama's presidency, Biden's propensity for cutting deals …
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Hidden provisions in Biden's rescue bill make this a bigger deal than you thought  —  Some time in the next few days, President Biden will sign the American Rescue Plan, the first major legislation of his presidency.  It has gotten a large amount of press coverage, especially the $1,400 checks that will be going to most Americans.
Jon Walker / American Prospect:
The Almost Big F*cking Deal in the COVID Relief Bill
ABC News:
FBI releases new images of DC pipe bomb suspect  —  A reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect stands at $100,000.  —  FBI releases new video of Capitol Hill pipe bomb suspect  —  Just one night before the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill breach, pipe bombs were placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters.
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
FBI releases new video of suspect planting bombs before Capitol riot … The FBI released new videos Tuesday that investigators said show the person suspected of planting two pipe bombs the night before the January Capitol riot.  —  “These pipe bombs were viable devices that could have been detonated, resulting in injury or death.
Washington Post:
Biden's dogs to return to White House after younger pet causes a ‘minor injury’ to an ‘unfamiliar person’  —  President Biden and first lady Jill Biden's two dogs will return to the White House from Delaware, the White House press secretary said Tuesday after confirming that the younger dog …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Biden German Shepherd has aggressive incident and is sent back to Delaware  —  Washington (CNN)The two German Shepherds belonging to President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden were returned to the Biden family home in Delaware last week after aggressive behavior at the White House involving Major Biden …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Poised to Pass Labor Rights Bill, but Its Senate Hopes Are Dim
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Anti-filibuster liberals face a Senate math problem  —  There's a reason Senate Democrats haven't changed the Senate's filibuster rules so far: They don't have the votes yet.  Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his deputies are going to have to work aggressively to get them.
Discussion: Slate, HuffPost, The Week, Poynter and Forbes
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Making Senators Orate Won't Blunt the Filibuster
Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Manchin promised to back his ‘Republican friends.’ Instead, he betrayed them.
Discussion: The Hill and Vox
The Carter Center:
President Carter Statement on Efforts to Restrict Voting Access  —  In 1962, I ran to represent the 14th Senate District in the Georgia legislature.  I won my Senate seat, but only after the courts ruled that a ballot box had been illegally “stuffed” with votes for my opponent.
Washington Post:
Immigration arrests have fallen sharply under Biden, ICE data show  —  President Biden's orders to rein in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement led to a sharp drop in arrests by the agency last month, even though a federal judge in Texas has blocked the new administration's 100-day “pause” on deportations.
Discussion: Fox News
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Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:   Supreme Court Dismisses Immigrant Public-Charge Cases
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why the GOP's awful new voter suppression effort is so alarming  —  Opinion by  —  It has become routine to observe that Republicans are responding to their 2020 loss by making it harder to vote wherever they possibly can.  That's ominous: We're getting lulled into treating …
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Some GOPers Want To Run An Old Playbook On Vanita Gupta.  It May Not Work This Time.  —  The civil rights leader has a ton of support from law enforcement organizations.  Some Republicans want to paint her as anti-cop anyway.  —  Two decades ago, a former rodeo cowboy went undercover in Tulia, Texas.
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Biden DOJ nominee Vanita Gupta expresses ‘regret’ over anti-GOP remarks: ‘I apologize’
Discussion: Politico
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Good News about the Pfizer Vaccine  —  In Your Face, Variants!  —  In the tug of war between pandemic optimism and pandemic pessimism, one of the recurring arguments from the side of pessimism is that the virus is always mutating, mutated versions have in some cases become more contagious and more virulent …
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Brood X cicadas are about to put on one of the wildest shows in nature.  And D.C. is the main stage.  —  “We are at the epicenter of an event that happens nowhere else on the planet,” an entomologist said.  “It blows your mind.”  —  They've been buried — alive — for 17 years.
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
‘Bad news’: Wave of GOP retirements signals battles ahead  —  This is not the way Republicans wanted to begin the year.  —  Missouri's Roy Blunt on Monday became the fifth Republican senator to announce he will not seek reelection, a retirement wave that portends an ugly campaign season next year …
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Eileen Reslen / Page Six:
Dana Perino reveals why George W. Bush once kicked her out of Oval Office  —  Dana Perino's first visit to the Oval Office was memorable — since it's not often you witness the leader of the free world get upset.  —  The 48-year-old said her new job as White House press secretary under …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Patrick Freyne / The Irish Times:
Harry and Meghan: The union of two great houses, the Windsors and the Celebrities, is complete  —  Patrick Freyne: After Harry and Meghan, the monarchy looks archaic and racist.  Well duh  — Video  — Images  —  Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have hit out at the British monarchy …
Discussion: spiked and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times:
Maker of Dove Soap Will Drop the Word ‘Normal’ From Beauty Products  —  Unilever, which owns brands like Dove and Sunsilk, said a study had found that the word “normal” makes most people feel excluded.  A spokeswoman said it would remove it from more than 200 products.
Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Politico's Eugene Daniels: ‘We Are Changing Who Is Allowed To Talk About Politics And Who Is Allowed At The Table’  —  Eugene Daniels says he's a “big, huge history nerd and a big news nerd,” and last fall he told his bosses at Politico what he wanted to do after the 2020 election.
USA Today:
CDC misinterpreted our research on opening schools.  It should loosen the rules now  —  Keeping schools closed or even partially closed, based on what we know now is harming children.  —  “The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror …
Reuters:
Republican donations surge despite corporate boycott after Capitol riots  —  (Reuters) - Right after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, dozens of U.S. companies announced they would halt political donations to the 147 Republican lawmakers who voted to overturn Donald Trump's presidential election loss.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Roger Mudd, probing TV journalist and network news anchor, dies at 93  —  Roger Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent who reported on the Pentagon's profligate spending, whose interview with Edward M. Kennedy ended the senator's White House prospects and who briefly shared …
Discussion: Associated Press
Washington Post:
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was in direct contact with rioters before and during Capitol breach, U.S. alleges  —  U.S. prosecutors alleged Monday that Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was in direct contact before, during and immediately after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach …
Politico:
Pentagon chief to urge Manchin to support nominee amid Twitter troubles  —  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin plans to urge Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday to support President Joe Biden's nominee for the top Pentagon policy job amid criticism of his past Twitter posts, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
How to Put Out Democracy's Dumpster Fire  —  This article was published online on March 8, 2021.  —  To read the diary of Gustave de Beaumont, the traveling companion of Alexis de Tocqueville, is to understand just how primitive the American wilderness once seemed to visiting Frenchmen.
Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
Identity-obsessed liberals and social justice are the roots of ‘cancel culture’  —  “Cancel culture” is the popular phrase of the times, with everything from Dr. Seuss books to cartoon characters being forced out of circulation.  But cancel culture is simply the next logical point in the brain rot …
CNN:
3 university professors placed on leave after photos surface of them at campus event wearing and holding racist symbols  —  (CNN)Three professors at the University of South Alabama have been placed on leave after photos surfaced of them wearing and holding racist symbols at a campus event in 2014 …
Discussion: Washington Post, The Root and Raw Story
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Candace Owens announces new talk show  —  Republican firebrand Candace Owens is getting ready to gab — launching a new talk show that she vows will be a “space for conservatives to feel heard.”  —  “Candace,” debuting March 19 on conservative media brand The Daily Wire, will be taped in front of a studio audience in Nashville.
Discussion: The Root and HillReporter.com
Axios:
Scoop: McCarthy leading GOP delegation to southern border  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will travel to Texas on Monday with roughly a dozen Republican members to assess the growing crisis at the southern border, his office confirmed to Axios.  —  Why it matters: The visit comes …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Biden's Nominee For Top Civil Rights Post Hyped The Jussie Smollett Hoax, Criticized Police For Seeking Actor's Cell Phone  — Kristen Clarke, the nominee to lead the Justice Department's civil rights division, fell for the false claims made by actor Jussie Smollett that he was the victim …
Discussion: The Federalist
 
 
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Pentagon set to OK extending Guard deployment at Capitol
David Klion / Jewish Currents:
Progressives Are Losing Patience with Biden's Iran Policy
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David McCabe / New York Times:
Tech's Legal Shield Appears Likely to Survive as Congress Focuses on Details
Discussion: Breitbart
Chris Sommerfeldt / Yahoo News:
Trump in NYC to ‘look under the hood’ of his businesses as prosecutors probing fraud turn up heat, source says
Discussion: HuffPost
James A. Robinson / Project Syndicate:
Why Trumpian Populism Failed
Jay Greene / Washington Post:
Amazon fights aggressively to defeat union drive in Alabama, fearing a coming wave
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Jacobin
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Lawmaker Probes Biden Admin's Role in $1 Billion Ransom Payment to Iran
Discussion: ABC News
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Keith Ridler / Associated Press:
GOP Idaho lawmakers aim to defund party's attorney general
Discussion: Raw Story
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Epoch Media Casts Wider Net to Spread Its Message Online
Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis' political fortunes a focus of Manatee vaccine event, texts show
Discussion: Raw Story
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Biden's Justice Dept. already has split from Trump. Merrick Garland will go even further.
Discussion: Instapundit and NPR
William Turton / Bloomberg:
Ayn Rand Devotee and Never Trumper Drives Parler's Reboot
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
House Democrats end controversial consultant ban
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Hill