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12:05 AM ET, April 5, 2021

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Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
How the wealthy cut the line during Florida's frenzied vaccine rollout  —  Sharyn Alfonsi reports on corruption allegations clouding Florida's efforts to vaccinate its residents.  —  This past week, President Biden said 90% of U.S. adults will be eligible for the COVID vaccine by April 19 …
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and Florida Politics
Wall Street Journal:
Rival Group Makes Fully Financed, Roughly $680 Million Bid for Tribune  —  Tribune likely to deem new bid superior to agreement with Alden, according to sources  —  A Maryland hotel magnate and a Swiss billionaire have made a bid for Tribune Publishing Co. that the newspaper chain is expected …
Tampa Bay Times:
Live updates on Manatee plant potential collapse: What you need to know Sunday  —  Gov. DeSantis, state, local officials addressed the situation at Piney Point.  —  Published Earlier today  —  At a Sunday afternoon press conference, Manatee County officials reported “no news was good news” from the Piney Point reservoir leak.
Discussion: The Hill
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KOKI-TV:
Collapse ‘imminent’ at Florida phosphate mine leaking millions of gallons of contaminated water  —  MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — A cracked reservoir at a former Florida phosphate mine is leaking millions of gallons of contaminated water into the Gulf of Mexico.  —  Update 1:13 p.m. EDT April 4 …
Washington Post:
Will school be back to normal this fall?  Kind of, sort of, maybe.  —  Parents, students and teachers, exhausted by the false starts, union battles, quarantines and remote learning that have upended this school year, are looking around the bend with an urgent, fretful question: Come fall, will school at last be back to normal?
Discussion: Twitchy
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 …
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.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The Lawyer Behind the Throne at Fox  —  Even before the company's C.E.O., Lachlan Murdoch, moved to Australia, Viet Dinh was seen as Fox's power center.  —  LOS ANGELES — In early 2019, as the Murdoch family completed the $71 billion sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney …
Amos Harel / Haaretz:
Analysis |  Israel Returns to Sanity, but Ignores Rising COVID Infection in the West Bank and Gaza  —  While Israel has vaccinated tens of thousands of Palestinians, the vast majority remain unvaccinated at a time when Israel has surplus coronavirus vaccines.  It could all come back to haunt it
American Greatness:
The Appeal of the New Totalitarians  —  It's easy to understand and reject the horrors of totalitarianism.  It is much less easy to grasp its inexorable logic or its seemingly implacable attractions.  —  I am not a follower or a fan of baseball.  But I understand that it is, or has been …
Discussion: National Review
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Military Closes Failing Facility at Guantánamo Bay to Consolidate Prisoners  —  The move, which took place in a secret operation over the weekend, was conceived during the Trump administration to save on costs and troops at the remote base in Cuba.  —  U.S. military guards …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
New York Lawmakers Near Budget Deal to Raise Income, Corporate Taxes by $4.3 Billion  —  Under the agreement, top earners in New York City would pay the highest combined local tax rate in the country  —  ALBANY, N.Y.— New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers are nearing a budget agreement …
Discussion: New York Post
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Hunter Biden whitewashes just about everything in new tell-all  —  As addiction memoirs go, Hunter Biden's “Beautiful Things” is remarkable in one great sense: As poorly as he comes across, it's his father, President Biden, whose character takes a hit.  The Joe Biden depicted here is an absentee father …
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Hunter Biden ‘cooperating completely’ with federal investigators
Discussion: New York Post and Fox News
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Some Georgia GOP legislators want Coca-Cola products removed from offices  —  A group of GOP state legislators in Georgia are seeking removal of Coca-Cola products from their offices after the company's CEO criticized the state's recently passed voting law.  —  The legislators signed onto a letter …
Discussion: Washington Times
New York Times:
Biden Steps Up Federal Efforts to Combat Domestic Extremism  —  The administration has taken a series of steps to prioritize dealing with white supremacists and militias, especially after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
Biden Effort to Combat Hunger Marks ‘a Profound Change’  —  As millions of Americans lack enough to eat, the administration is rapidly increasing aid — with an eye toward a permanent safety net expansion.  —  WASHINGTON — With more than one in 10 households reporting that they lack enough to eat …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What Americans will get from Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan  —  Since President Biden unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, he and his advisers have been making the case that this “once in a generation” bill will be “transformational.”  They have embraced the size of the plan, calling it “bold.”
Discussion: Gothamist
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NBC News:
Capitol Police union warns of potential exodus after latest attack, urges security increases  —  The Capitol Police Union's head pushed Congress on Sunday to ramp up security after a second attack at the complex this year left another officer dead and also warned of a possible thinning of the department's ranks.
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
Vaccine Cheat Days Are Adding Up  —  A few weeks ago, my partially vaccinated partner and my wholly unvaccinated self got an invitation to a group dinner, held unmasked and indoors.  There'd be Thai food for 10, we were promised, and two über-immunized hosts, more than two weeks out from their last Moderna doses.
Jun Mai / South China Morning Post:
China says decades of terrorism justify tough Xinjiang measures  —  In 2014, President Xi Jinping launched strict new measures - ‘nets above and snares below’ - following a string of violent incidents Beijing's narrative has been hampered by past downplaying of terrorist events for fear …
Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Americans ‘want to see us get it done’: Buttigieg on Biden's infrastructure plan  —  “One way or the other, we've got to get it done,” Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.  —  ‘Time is of the essence’ to pass COVID-19 relief: Buttigieg  —  Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is interviewed on “This Week.”
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Cameron Cawthorne / Fox News:
Buttigieg says AOC demand for ‘even bolder’ spending than $2T proposal ‘natural part’ of talks on jobs plan
Discussion: RedState
Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Is the Model GOP Representative: A Creep No One's Surprised About  —  If so many of his colleagues knew about his dirtiness, why are they only speaking up now and on background? … Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, a spoiled 38-year-old adult child of a wealthy Floridian …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kate Brown / The Hill:
True democracy stands on the heels of vote by mail expansion  —  We got a small glimpse at what is possible for the future of voting in the U.S. In 2020, 46 percent of voters voted by mail.  It was a monumental habit change as the pandemic made it unsafe for people to congregate at polling places to cast ballots.
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
 
 
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Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
What happened in Wuhan? Why questions still linger on the origin of the coronavirus
Rogerlsimon / theepochtimes.com:
Virtue Signaling Replaces Baseball as America's National Pastime
Discussion: Power Line
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Israel, in first comment, says troubled by US position ahead of Iran talks
Discussion: The National Interest and Fox News
Washington Post:
Jordan accuses former crown prince and high-ranking officials of ‘promoting sedition,’ with foreign backing
Discussion: UPI
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
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Discussion: The Hill
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New York Times:
Punched, Kicked, Shoved: Documenting the Anti-Asian Violence
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
CDC director walks tightrope on pandemic messaging
New York Times:
Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say
Discussion: CNN