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1:45 PM ET, March 26, 2021

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Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Dominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election.
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Fox News sued by Dominion Voting for $1.6 billion over election fraud claims  —  It's the second voting-systems company to file suit against Fox over the bogus allegations aired by President Donald Trump's allies after the 2020 election.  —  Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed …
New York Times:
Fox News Faces Second Defamation Suit Over Election Coverage  —  Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company, accused the news channel of advancing lies that devastated its reputation and business.  —  Fox News and its powerful owner, Rupert Murdoch, are facing a second major defamation suit …
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
‘Oh God, I miss him’: Biden keeps returning to Trump as a cause of nation's troubles
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Presidential Press Conference in the Biden Era Is as Awful as Ever  —  Under Trump, we had to listen.  But now?  There must be a better way.  —  Sometimes the big moments in our politics meet the very low expectations we have for them.  Joe Biden's first Presidential press conference, on Thursday, was one of them.
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Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
New photos show cheat sheets used by Biden during his first press conference  —  New photos reveal several cheat sheets used by President Joe Biden during his Thursday press conference — including one with the headshots and names of reporters he planned to call on.
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Reporters hype—then waste—Biden's first press conference  —  Last week, when the White House announced that Joe Biden would hold his first formal press conference as president on March 25, the pre-game hype began.  Reporters excavated the history of White House press conferences …
Zeynep / Insight:
Ten Questions the Press Should Have Asked President Biden  —  A socially distant press conference shouldn't mean distance from the most important story  —  Yesterday, President Joe Biden held his first press conference.  There were questions on Biden's plans for the 2024 election …
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
At Biden's first news conference, it wasn't the president who was out of touch
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Complains Government Is ‘Persecuting’ Capitol Rioters  —  One of the most dangerous, long-lasting changes effected by Donald Trump is the rightward extension of the Republican coalition.  A wide array of far-right militias and cults was either created or inspired to join the Republican Party …
Discussion: Fox News and New York Post
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Washington Post:
Pelosi taps commander of D.C. Guard to become House sergeant-at-arms  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has tapped the commander of the D.C. National Guard to become the next House sergeant-at-arms, selecting the first African American for the post that is responsible for the chamber's safety …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump: Rioters in deadly Capitol insurrection posed ‘zero threat’  —  Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Thursday that his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 posed “zero threat” — despite the fact that five people died as a result of the violent insurrection, including a Capitol Police officer.
Discussion: ABC News, The Hill, Forbes, CNN, KRDO and IJR
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Image of lawmaker's arrest spoils victory lap on election law  —  By Patricia Murphy - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tia Mitchell - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  —  Talk about mixed messages.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia representative arrested after governor signs elections bill
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Michigan GOP leader reveals plans to go around Whitmer for voting law overhaul  —  Lansing — Michigan Republicans are crafting plans to work around Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to make changes to the battleground state's voting laws after losses in the 2020 election.
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans know their war on voting is racist — so they're barely bothering to defend it
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
Larry McMurtry, Novelist of the American West, Dies at 84  —  In “Lonesome Dove,” “The Last Picture Show” and dozens more novels and screenplays, he offered unromantic depictions of a long mythologized region.  —  Larry McMurtry, a prolific novelist and screenwriter who demythologized …
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Far-Right Extremists Move From ‘Stop the Steal’ to Stop the Vaccine  —  Extremist organizations are now bashing the safety and efficacy of coronavirus vaccines in an effort to try to undermine the government.  —  Adherents of far-right groups who cluster online have turned repeatedly …
Discussion: HillReporter.com
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
MAGA World says Biden's lost it.  Republican senators disagree.  —  For former President Donald Trump's GOP allies, President Joe Biden's recent stumble on the Air Force One stairs was a sign of bigger problems.  But Republican senators who've met with Biden say the 78-year-old president is just fine …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Media Startups Axios and the Athletic Discuss Merger, Eyeing SPAC Deal  —  Deal would be part of plan to create larger company with a portfolio of digital-media publishers  —  Sports-media outlet the Athletic is in merger talks with news startup Axios, according to people familiar with the matter …
Lori Ann LaRocco / CNBC:
Suez Canal blockage is delaying an estimated $400 million an hour in goods  — Lloyd's List calculates blockage is costing $400 million an hour.  — Lloyd's values the canal's westbound traffic at roughly $5.1 billion a day, and eastbound traffic at around $4.5 billion a day.
Discussion: Forbes, Reuters and New York Times
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Linda Lew / South China Morning Post:
Hugo Boss' Xinjiang comments spark accusations of hypocrisy online  —  Chinese subsidiary's social media post appears to contradict German fashion brand's corporate buying policy Japanese homeware brand Muji also accused of double standards as Beijing's dispute with Western countries hots …
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Gerry Shih / Washington Post:
China hits British lawmakers with new sanctions as spat with U.S. allies intensifies
Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD detains, then releases, Los Angeles Times reporter covering unrest in Echo Park  —  Los Angeles Times reporter James Queally was briefly detained by the Los Angeles Police Department as he was covering a protest in Echo Park on Thursday evening.  —  Protesters were also detained by police …
Dr. Sanjay Gupta / CNN:
Autopsy of a pandemic: 6 doctors at the center of the US Covid-19 response  —  Watch, “COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out,” at 9 p.m. Sunday, March 28, only on CNN.  —  (CNN)This past January, just a few days after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, six of the doctors responsible …
Discussion: HotAir and New York Post
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Reuters:
Taiwan reports largest ever incursion by Chinese air force  —  TAIPEI (Reuters) - Twenty Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence identification zone on Friday, in the largest incursion yet reported by the island's defence ministry and marking a dramatic escalation of tension across the Taiwan Strait.
Discussion: Associated Press
Steve Inskeep / New York Times:
For 50 Years, I Was Denied the Story of My Birth  —  All adoptees deserve better.  —  Mr. Inskeep, a co-host of NPR's “Morning Edition” and “Up First,” is an adoptee and an adoptive father.  —  In 1968, a woman appeared for an interview at the Children's Bureau, an adoption agency in Indianapolis.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Senators seek answers on Hunter Biden gun incident  —  BREAKING: A pair of Republican senators sent letters to federal law enforcement agencies seeking more information about an October 2018 incident involving HUNTER BIDEN and a discarded gun that we wrote about Thursday.
Hemal Jhaveri / Medium:
Hemal Jhaveri  —  I am no longer employed at USA TODAY, a company that was my work home for almost eight years.  —  Over eight years, I rose from a social media editor to a writer to a columnist and finally the Sports Media Group's Race and Inclusion editor.
Discussion: TheBlaze
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Yellow Journalism Turns Blue  —  Ron Johnson is under attack from a press that's abandoned honesty and fairness.  —  “Yellow journalism” means a sensationalized press.  Perhaps it is time to introduce “blue journalism”—the new media practice of abandoning standards to work seamlessly with the progressive left against any opposition.
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Stephen Miller to launch a new legal group to give Biden fits  —  Former Trump White House policy adviser Stephen Miller, known for his hard-line immigration policies and conservative culture war postures, is launching a new legal group.  And he's looking to use it to make Joe Biden's life miserable.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Biden administration guts Homeland Security Advisory Council  —  The Biden administration has fired 32 members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, according to a letter to members of the council obtained by POLITICO.  —  A letter sent Friday by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told members …
 
 
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Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
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Aaron Rosenthal / Washington Post:
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Discussion: Insider
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Decline of Republican Demonization
Discussion: Washington Post
Chloe Hadjimatheou / BBC:
The UK professor and the fake Russian agent
Alex Press / New Republic:
Why Are Freelancers Organizing Against the PRO Act?
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
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 Earlier Items: 
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
White House nixed Deb Haaland's Southwest-themed party over Covid concerns
Discussion: Mediaite
Annie Correal / New York Times:
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
These Mega-Businesses Are Already Back to Bankrolling Insurrectionists
Discussion: Raw Story
Gene Marks / The Hill:
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Discussion: Instapundit
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Social Justice Purge at Idaho Colleges
Discussion: FIRE and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Axios:
Scoop: AOC's private audience with Ron Klain
Discussion: Insider