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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
At Biden's first news conference, it wasn't the president who was out of touch  —  The White House press corps' abysmal failure to ask important questions about pressing issues during President Biden's first news conference on Thursday was the clearest demonstration yet of the contrast between …
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Biden meets the press and the pandemic disappears  —  During the first news conference of his presidency, Joe Biden was never asked about the issue that likely got him elected and, in all likelihood, will be the defining crisis of his time in office.  —  Over the course of 62 minutes on Thursday …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden excels at his first news conference.  The media embarrass themselves.  —  After weeks of whining, the White House press corps got its first official Biden presidential news conference on Thursday.  President Biden used the event to pledge that 200 million covid-19 vaccinations …
Reuters:
Biden compares Xi to Putin, Republican voting plans to Jim Crow laws
Discussion: Bloomberg and AFP
CBS News:
Live Updates: Biden reveals 2024 plans, doubles vaccine goals and more in first press conference
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Biden makes ‘no apologies’ at news conference for ending Trump-era migrant protocols
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Sweeping changes to Georgia elections signed into law  —  Absentee and runoff voting targeted after 2020 elections  —  Gov. Brian Kemp quickly signed a vast rewrite of Georgia's election rules into law Thursday, imposing voter ID requirements, limiting drop boxes and allowing state takeovers …
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Bill changing Georgia voting rules passes state House  —  Proposals target absentee and runoff voting after 2020 elections  —  The Georgia House passed an overhaul of election laws Thursday after last year's close presidential election, including new absentee voter ID requirements …
Rich McKay / Reuters:
Georgia bans giving water to voters in line under sweeping restrictions  —  ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia on Thursday enacted broad voting restrictions championed by Republicans that activists said aimed to curtail the influence of Black voters who were instrumental in state elections …
Washington Post:
Georgia governor signs into law sweeping voting bill that curtails the use of drop boxes and allows challenges to voting eligibility  —  Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law a sweeping voting measure that proponents said is necessary to shore up confidence in the state's elections …
Jay Willis / Slate:
How the Supreme Court Could Supercharge the GOP's Voter Suppression Agenda
Discussion: The Guardian
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Voting rights advocates plan economic boycott to pressure Georgia firms
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump's secret sit-down with Ohio candidates turns into ‘Hunger Games’  —  It was a scene right out of “The Apprentice.”  —  Donald Trump was headlining a fundraiser on Wednesday night at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla. But before the dinner began, the former president had some business …
Tom Tapp / Deadline:
Jessica Walter Dies: Emmy-Winning ‘Arrested Development’, ‘Archer’ Actress Was 80  —  Jessica Walter, the award-winning actress whose career spanned five decades, passed away in her sleep at home in New York City on Wednesday, March 24.  She was 80.  —  Walter's career included everything …
Houston Chronicle:
Texas AG Ken Paxton refuses to release texts, emails sent during pro-Trump rally and Capitol riot  —  The Texas attorney general's office is attempting to withhold all messages Ken Paxton sent or received while in Washington for the pro-Donald Trump rally that devolved into a riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Kadia Goba / Axios:
Scoop: House chamber hardened with bulletproof doors  —  The House chamber is being transformed into a massive safe room for members with the addition of bulletproof doors.  —  Why it matters: One of the most dramatic images from the Jan. 6 attack was Capitol Police officers inside …
Murray Waas / The Guardian:
Trump aide concealed work for PR firm and misled court to dodge child support  —  Jason Miller signed secret deal to stay with DC-based Teneo after ‘resigning’ and then appeared to misrepresent employment status  —  A top aide to Donald Trump was secretly re-engaged by a leading political strategy firm …
Politico:
‘They are, in effect, supporting racism’: Black leaders zero in on Dems' filibuster holdouts  —  Black civil rights leaders, voting rights advocates and elected officials are ramping up their lobbying of Senate Democrats to nix the filibuster, arguing that they can keep the rule in place or pass voting rights legislation, but not both.
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Politico:
Sources: Secret Service inserted itself into case of Hunter Biden's gun  —  On Oct. 23, 2018, President Joe Biden's son Hunter and daughter in law Hallie were involved in a bizarre incident in which Hallie took Hunter's gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The New Republic names a new top editor and will return to Washington.  —  The New Republic named a new editor on Thursday and announced that it was moving back to Washington, its home city for most of its 107-year existence.  —  Michael Tomasky, who has edited the policy journal Democracy …
Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Exclusive Video: Watch Roger Stone's Oath Keeper Bodyguards Practice Headshots to “#Stopantifa”  —  Federal prosecutors have charged 10 members of the far-right Oath Keepers with conspiring to storm the US Capitol on January 6 and allege that militia members prepared for the “operation” by …
Discussion: CNN, The Root and Politico
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Not getting along: Pelosi calls McConnell 'Senator what's-his-name'  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi has grown increasingly frustrated with a lack of cooperation from Senate Republicans on forming a commission to examine the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.  —  Her angst on Thursday apparently …
Discussion: Politico and HotAir
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Alex Rogers / CNN:
Wyoming Senate kills bill backed by Donald Trump Jr. in attempt to defeat Liz Cheney  —  (CNN)A Wyoming Senate bill to create election runoffs failed on Wednesday, despite Donald Trump Jr.'s campaign to pass it in an attempt to defeat Republican Rep. Liz Cheney in 2022.  The vote was 14-15 with one lawmaker excused.
Howard Schneider / Reuters:
U.S. COVID response could have avoided hundreds of thousand of deaths - research  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States squandered both money and lives in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it could have avoided nearly 400,000 deaths with a more effective health strategy …
Mark Hemingway / Real Clear Politics:
NYT's Libel Defense: No Need for Opinion/Fact Labeling  —  In 1964, the New York Times was party to a landmark Supreme Court case that bore its name.  New York Times v. Sullivan was an important victory for civil rights and it established broad protections against libel lawsuits that have protected generations of journalists.
New York Times:
New York Reaches a Deal to Legalize Recreational Marijuana  —  The move paves the way for a potential $4.2 billion industry, with millions of dollars in sales tax revenue reinvested in minority communities each year.  —  New York State officials finalized a deal on Thursday …
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Trump health officials prep for battle over their Covid legacies  —  A small group of top Trump health officials recently held a series of discussions to coordinate their accounts of the administration's troubled Covid-19 response, worried they will be scapegoated by old colleagues …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House panel votes to repeal 19-year-old Iraq war authorization  —  The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday advanced a measure to repeal a nearly two-decade-old authorization for the use of military force in Iraq, lawmakers' first effort to claw back their war-making powers under President Joe Biden.
Discussion: KRDO
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Netanyahu has no clear path to remain prime minister, official Israeli election results show  —  JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fallen short of securing the parliamentary majority he needs to stay in office, according to the official election count announced Thursday …
Jacob Shamsian / Insider:
The Manhattan DA's office picked up the pace of its investigation into Trump's finances after he left office, a cooperating witness says  — Manhattan's DA boosted the Trump finances inquiry after he left office, a cooperating witness said.  — Jennifer Weisselberg said she'd talked …
Ben Makuch / VICE:
U.S. Man Deported From Ukraine Was Marine Dropout Linked to Neo-Nazi Terror Group  —  VICE World News has identified an ex-Marine recruit that Ukraine's intelligence service allegedly booted in October for what they said were links to neo-Nazi terrorism.  —  TORONTO, CA
Freda Moon / SFGATE:
Pilot who went on vulgar, anti-Bay Area rant works at Southwest  —  Calif. is in a historic drought, and water restrictions are here  —  Two more Bay Area restaurants offer freebies for vaccinated folks  —  California makes it easier for family members to get vaccinated
Bloomberg:
Cuomo's Top Aide Defends Her Boss and Herself: 'I'm a Human Being'  — Melissa DeRosa says the pandemic has taken an emotional toll  — Aide is among a group of powerful women pushing Cuomo's agenda  —  On a ranking of New York power brokers last year, the most influential person …
Discussion: The Intercept
John Dickerson / The Atlantic:
A Better Way to Judge Joe Biden  —  Some of the qualities that produce a successful presidency don't receive the attention they should.  —  Contributing writer at The Atlantic  —  Soon, we will be pelted by 100-day assessments of the Biden administration, sweeping claims spurred by the arrival of a round number.
Discussion: Bulwark+
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
The gun implicated in Boulder uses the same ammunition as an AR-15.  It's legally a pistol.  —  In a promotional video for the Ruger AR-556, a company product manager gushed that the weapon, legally designated as a pistol but closer to an AR-15 rifle in design, offered much more than a typical handgun.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Inside Biden's private chat with historians  —  Hosting historians around a long table in the East Room earlier this month, President Biden took notes in a black book as they discussed some of his most admired predecessors.  Then he said to Doris Kearns Goodwin: “I'm no FDR, but ... ”
 
 
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Politico:
Top Obama lawyer being vetted for antitrust post
Discussion: The Hill
Noah Manskar / New York Post:
Jack Dorsey says blocking Post's Hunter Biden story was ‘total mistake’ — but won't say who made it
Bangor Daily News:
Stop telling Stephen Breyer to retire
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Lawmakers Investigate State Department Over $1 Billion Ransom Payment to Iran
Discussion: Jihad Watch
THE CITY:
One in 10 Local COVID Victims Destined for Hart Island, NYC's Potter's Field
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Arjun Makhijani / EWG:
Why Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Won't Help Counter the Climate Crisis
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jonathan Guyer / American Prospect:
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Stephanie Ramirez / WTTG-TV:
Teen girls, 13 and 15, charged in deadly botched carjacking, taser attack near Nats Park
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News