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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Inquiry Into Matt Gaetz Said to Be Focused on Cash Paid to Women  —  The congressman and a former official in Florida sent money to the women using cash apps, receipts showed.  —  WASHINGTON — A Justice Department investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz …
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
These Text Messages Pointed the Feds to Matt Gaetz  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz, now facing a reported probe into a pay-for-sex scheme, came to investigators' attention after an alleged off-hours visit to a Florida tax agency.  —  In late January 2020, U.S. Secret Service agents received information …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
CNN's Dana Bash 'Can't Repeat' on TV All the Nasty Things GOP Members of Congress Are Privately Texting Her About Matt Gaetz  —  CNN's Dana Bash revealed that she received several texts from some of Rep. Matt Gaetz's current and former Republican colleagues in Congress.
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
A spokesman for Matt Gaetz quits, as the Justice Dept. investigates whether his boss violated sex trafficking laws.  —  The spokesman for Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican under federal investigation into whether he violated laws against sex trafficking, has abruptly resigned …
Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
Gaetz says he won't resign  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told The Hill on Friday he has no plans of stepping down after coming under fire following reports that the Department of Justice is investigating him for an alleged inappropriate relationship with a minor and a possible violation of sex trafficking laws.
Discussion: Associated Press
John Boehner / Politico:
Panic Rooms, Birth Certificates and the Birth of GOP Paranoia  —  In the 2010 midterm election, voters from all over the place gave President Obama what he himself called “a shellacking.”  And oh boy, was it ever.  You could be a total moron and get elected just by having an R next to your name …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
John Boehner's I-Was-Just-a-Feather-in-the-Gales-of- Crazy Act Doesn't Work on Those of Us Who Were There  —  from John Boehner's upcoming memoir in which the former speaker explains that wrangling maniacs became too overwhelming a job for him as the American people repeatedly elected Congresses full of maniacs, one after another.
Discussion: Insider, Raw Story and The Hill
CNN:
Gaetz showed nude photos of women he said he'd slept with to lawmakers, sources tell CNN
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
No Federal Taxes for Dozens of Big, Profitable Companies  —  FedEx and Nike are among those found to have avoided U.S. tax liability for three straight years.  —  Just as the Biden administration is pushing to raise taxes on corporations, a new study finds that at least 55 of America's largest paid …
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Emily Jacobs / New York Post:
Hunter Biden says laptop at center of Post exposé could ‘absolutely’ belong to him  —  Hunter Biden said the laptop at the center of The Post's explosive exposé last year “absolutely” could belong to him, he revealed in an interview Friday.  —  In a sit-down with CBS This Morning …
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Border crossings in March jumped to highest level in 15 years, data show  —  More than 171,000 migrants were taken into custody along the U.S. southern border in March, the highest monthly total since 2006, according to preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection data reviewed by The Washington Post.
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Phil Mattingly / CNN:
White House tells Democratic investigators it no longer has Trump White House Capitol attack documents  —  (CNN)The White House says it no longer has custody of the documents House Democratic investigators sought to shed light on the inner workings of then President Donald Trump's top aides in the lead up to …
Discussion: Political Wire and KRDO
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Charles Sykes / MSNBC:   Trump immigration architect Stephen Miller wants the media to rehab his image
Ruth Bloomfield / Wall Street Journal:
Scottish Castles Are Rare, Huge and Very Expensive  —  Owners share the ups and downs of living in, and selling, these pieces of history  —  PORTRAITS OF James Ramsay's forebears line the walls of his Scottish castle, and although it is 36 times the size of a typical British home, there are plenty of ancestors to fill the space.
Rob Crilly / Washington Examiner:
Biden accuses Republicans of changing tune on infrastructure spending  —  President Joe Biden accused Republicans of hypocrisy for lining up against his vast infrastructure bill after warning for years that America was falling behind rivals due to decaying roads, railways, and airports.
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Bloomberg:
Biden Says With Infrastructure Bill U.S. May Add 19 Million Jobs
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Is Biden Really the Second Coming of F.D.R. and L.B.J.?
Discussion: Breitbart, Axios, The Week and The Hill
New York Times:
What Georgia's Voting Law Really Does  —  The New York Times analyzed the state's new 98-page voting law and identified 16 key provisions that will limit ballot access, potentially confuse voters and give more power to Republican lawmakers.  —  Go page by page through Georgia's new voting law …
Associated Press:
Car rams Capitol barricade, injuring 2 officers; driver shot  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A car rammed a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday afternoon, injuring two Capitol Police officers and leading to the driver being shot, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March as recovery gains steam again  —  The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March, the highest level in months, as vaccine distribution and declining caseloads helped accelerate a recovery in the labor market.  —  The unemployment rate edged …
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Eric Morath / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Added 916,000 Jobs in March as Economy Recovers
Discussion: Marketplace and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Fresh data reveal how Trump made inroads with Latinos  —  A new analysis of U.S. voters suggests — counterintuitively — that the coronavirus pandemic may have helped drive former President Donald Trump's surprising increase in support from Latinos last November.
Wall Street Journal:
Iran Nuclear Deal Participants to Meet in Vienna Next Week  —  President Biden has said he wants the U.S. to return to the deal that U.S. exited in 2018  —  Negotiations to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will take place among all parties in Vienna next week, senior western diplomats said Friday …
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Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Vaccinated Americans are free to travel but should still take precautions, the C.D.C. says.  —  Americans who are fully vaccinated can travel “at low risk to themselves,” both within the United States and internationally, but they must continue to take precautions like wearing a mask in public …
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Can Vaccinated People Spread the Virus? We Don't Know, Scientists Say.
Eric Umansky / ProPublica:
My Kids' School Closed Again.  So I Started Calling Experts.  —  Many New York City public schools have been repeatedly closed because of two positive COVID-19 tests, even without evidence of in-school spread.  Experts call it “crazy.”  And it's driving me nuts. … Coronavirus
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
GOP lawmaker's own family wants him investigated for Capitol riot ties and then charged  —  Working in conjunction with the conservative Republican Accountability Project, the sibling of Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) are calling upon the U.S. government to investigate their brother …
Discussion: HuffPost
Politico:
Vulnerable Dems fret after getting a shock: AOC's campaign cash  —  As the midterm campaign's first fundraising deadline approached this week, several vulnerable House Democrats got an unwelcome surprise in their accounts: $5,000 from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Noah Bookbinder / USA Today:
I'm finally done with the Senate filibuster.  We're running out of time to save democracy.  —  This sounds apocalyptic and maybe a little crazy.  It is not.  The Trump presidency showed how quickly and completely our foundations can be shaken.  —  I worked as a counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee for eight years.
Sam Mintz / Politico:
DOT halts Texas highway project in test of Biden's promises on race  —  President Joe Biden's Department of Transportation is invoking the Civil Rights Act to pause a highway project near Houston, a rare move that offers an early test of the administration's willingness to wield federal power …
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
 
 
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Rep. Brendan Boyle decides against Pennsylvania Senate bid
Washington Post:
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Discussion: Raw Story
The Princetonian:
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Joshua Tait / The Bulwark:
The Long History of Fighting Over the Term ‘Conservative’
Brendan Cole / Newsweek:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Promises Avalanche of Election Fraud Evidence
Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
GOP's Post-Filibuster Wish List: Keystone XL Pipeline, Abortion Rules, Border Wall
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
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Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Staff Fret Over China's Ads Portraying Happy Muslims in Xinjiang
Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz / The Cut:
Catching Up With NYC's “Vaccine Daddy” Huge Ma helped thousands of New Yorkers get vaccinated. Now he's using his platform to combat anti-Asian racism.
Discussion: VTDigger
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump Calls On Biden to Let Global Capital Dictate U.S. Tax Policy
Discussion: Townhall, ITEP and CNN
Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
Maria Butina, Russian who conspired to infiltrate U.S. groups, visits Navalny in jail, with video cameras in tow
Discussion: New York Times and New York Post
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Karen Weise / New York Times:
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