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4:15 PM ET, April 4, 2021

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Ryan Dezember / Wall Street Journal:
If You Sell a House These Days, the Buyer Might Be a Pension Fund  —  Yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family homes, competing with ordinary Americans and driving up prices  —  A bidding war broke out this winter at a new subdivision north of Houston.
David Jackson / USA Today:
‘Radical Left CRAZIES:’ Trump issues Easter greetings by attacking political rivals, griping about election loss  —  WASHINGTON - Former President Donald Trump marked Easter weekend by attacking his political enemies, repeating false claims about the election, and calling for a boycott …
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Inside the Teen Vogue mess — which is really a Condé Nast mess  —  From the start, Alexi McCammond seemed an unlikely candidate to become a top boss within the storied Vogue empire — at least on paper.  —  Only 27, she had little editing experience and had never managed a staff …
CBS News:
Hunter Biden on his memoir “Beautiful Things” and his struggles with substance abuse  —  Hunter Biden was asked by correspondent Tracy Smith, “You've said your dad always saw the good in you through all of this.  Was there ever a time when you thought, Okay, there's no way, he's gonna give up on me, I've done it now?”
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Hunter Biden ‘cooperating completely’ with federal investigators
Discussion: Fox News
Hannah Beech / New York Times:
Myanmar's Military Has Killed Over 40 Children Since the Coup.  Here's One Child's Story.  —  Myanmar's security forces have killed more than 40 children since February.  Here is the story of one, Aye Myat Thu.  She was 10.  —  In the swelter of the hot season, U Soe Oo cracked open the coconut with practiced blows of his machete.
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
With stimulus cash and jobs spike, U.S. emerges as main engine for global economic recovery  —  Spending on imports spreads the wealth across Europe and Asia  —  The robust U.S. economic recovery this year is expected to be good news for factory workers, freight handlers and farmers.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
America's Losing Faith, and That Makes the Next Trump All But Inevitable  —  GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY … Yes, Americans are losing faith in almost all institutions these days, but the decline in church attendance has reverberations that will last a long time.
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Salena Zito / New York Post:
Why Christian voters want more politicians like Donald Trump
Discussion: Fox News
David Cohen / Politico:
Sen. Blunt sees ‘easy win’ if infrastructure plan scaled back  —  Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said Sunday the Biden White House could score “an easy win” on infrastructure if it would just reduce its new plan to focus solely on infrastructure.  —  Speaking to host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday …
Glenn Greenwald:
The Enduring Terror of Violent Crime Victimhood  —  A family in Oakland just suffered a horrific crime in their home — one similar to but far worse than one I had recently — and deserves much help in recovering.  —  21 hr ago  —  A harrowing story of a violent crime in Oakland was reported …
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Bidenomics, explained  —  It's the end of the Age of Reagan, but it's much more than that  —  “When the formula stops working, you change the formula.”  — Arin Hanson  —  “The era of ‘big government is over’ is over.”  — James Medlock  —  I know this post has a very Vox-like title …
New York Times:
Punched, Kicked, Shoved: Documenting the Anti-Asian Violence  —  Over the last year, in an unrelenting series of episodes with clear racial animus, people of Asian descent have been pushed, beaten, kicked, spit on and called slurs.  Homes and businesses have been vandalized.
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Reality catches up with propaganda channel  —  Eleven Fox programs whine about press conference treatment as Dominion lawsuit drops  —  Ask not for whom the world's tiniest violin plays — it plays for Fox News.  Three months ago the network's hosts enjoyed unprecedented political power …
Agence France-Presse:
China launches musical in bid to counter Uyghur abuse allegations  —  Beijing is attempting to draw attention away from reports it is holding at least one million in Xinjiang internment camps  —  A new state-produced musical set in Xinjiang inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster “La La Land” …
New York Times:
Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say  —  Declining infection rates over all masked a rise in more contagious forms of the coronavirus.  Vaccines will stop the spread, if Americans postpone celebration just a bit longer.  —  For weeks, the mood in much of the United States has been buoyant.
Washington Post:
Jordan accuses former crown prince and high-ranking officials of ‘promoting sedition,’ with foreign backing  —  AMMAN, Jordan — The government of Jordan on Sunday accused former crown prince Hamzeh bin Hussein and several of his associates of cooperating with foreign entities to pursue …
Discussion: UPI and The National Interest
Jazmine Hughes / New York Times:
‘Battle for the Soul of SoHo’: A Debate on Gentrification, Race and Wealth  —  The Manhattan neighborhood is locked in a contentious battle with city officials over whether, and how, it should change.  —  As a child growing up in SoHo, Akeela Azcuy remembers seeing her father …
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
A paralyzed democracy can't protect us  —  In a period of just a few weeks, our nation has been reminded yet again of its vulnerability to mass gun violence — and the shameful paralysis of our political system in the face of such horror.  —  The killing of at least four people …
Discussion: The Hill
Christina Maxouris / CNN:
These are the two key things that can help curb another Covid-19 surge, Fauci says  —  (CNN)Health experts warn the US may be on the cusp of another Covid-19 surge if Americans aren't careful — just as the country races to vaccinate more people.  —  There are two key things the US …
Discussion: CBS News, CNBC and Gothamist
Cameron Cawthorne / Fox News:
Buttigieg says AOC demand for ‘even bolder’ spending than $2T proposal ‘natural part’ of talks on jobs plan  —  AOC says $10 trillion over 10 years is a realistic aspiration  —  Buttigieg says millions of jobs will be created by infrastructure plan  —  Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg …
Discussion: RedState
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
U.S. Taps Johnson & Johnson to Run Troubled Vaccine Plant
Discussion: Vox and CNN
 
 
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Jon Levine / New York Post:
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Arsalan Shahla / Bloomberg:
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Washington Post:
Police crackdowns on illicit massage businesses pose harms to the women they aim to help
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Inside a stealth ‘persuasion machine’ promising Republican victories in 2022
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Washington Post:
How Joe Biden tamed the left — at least for now
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
Jennifer Levitz / Wall Street Journal:
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Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
Two Korean Americans in Congress pull endorsements of Sery Kim over her comments on Chinese immigrants
Discussion: Insider
BuzzFeed News:
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
'The Narrative Is, “You Can't Get Ahead"'  —  Ndona Muboyayi wants to improve the education …
 

 
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