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2:50 PM ET, May 3, 2021

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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe  —  Widely circulating coronavirus variants and persistent hesitancy about vaccines will keep the goal out of reach.  The virus is here to stay, but vaccinating the most vulnerable may be enough to restore normalcy.
Politico:
Senate Dems agonize over voting rights strategy  —  Senate Democrats made a major commitment to muscle through Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ethics and voting reform bill.  Yet many say they have no idea how to pass it and wonder what exactly the end game is for a signature Democratic priority.
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Biden is talking to Republicans, but for only so long
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The mask slips, revealing the truth about the GOP voter suppression game  —  Republicans are responding to their 2020 losses by doing everything they can to restrict the size of the electorate wherever possible, in ways they think will advantage them.  To disguise this ugly game …
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Florida Republicans rushed to curb mail voting after Trump's attacks on the practice.  Now some fear it could lower GOP turnout.  —  Republican operatives worth their salt remember well the Sunshine State's 1988 U.S. Senate race.  —  Floridians went to sleep that Nov. 8 believing …
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
ESPN's Kevin Merida named L.A. Times executive editor  —  The Los Angeles Times has named veteran journalist Kevin Merida as its top editor and tasked him with transforming the storied 139-year-old newspaper into a digital powerhouse that thrives for decades to come.
Norman Eisen / USA Today:
Rudy Giuliani raids signal accountability is coming for the Donald Trump era  —  The FBI raids of Giuliani's home and office should worry former President Trump and all who followed his lead in playing fast and loose with the law.  —  Former President Donald Trump and his cronies should beware.
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Rudy Giuliani slams raid on apartment as ‘out of control,’ says feds trying to ‘frame’ him
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
The Russia Collusion Smear Returns
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Millions Are Saying No to the Vaccines.  What Are They Thinking?  —  Several days ago, the mega-popular podcast host Joe Rogan advised his young listeners to skip the COVID-19 vaccine.  “I think you should get vaccinated if you're vulnerable,” Rogan said.  “But if you're 21 years old, and you say to me, ‘Should I get vaccinated?’
Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
Cheney stokes GOP rift with ‘big lie’ rebuke of Trump  —  Rep. Liz Cheney on Monday escalated her feud with former President Donald Trump and his supporters in Congress, issuing a less-than-subtle swipe at the former president's latest attempt to claim the 2020 election was stolen from him.
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Politico:
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut ending most restrictions on May 19  —  New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are lifting most Covid-19-related restrictions on May 19, signaling a denouement for some of the country's strictest lockdown orders and social distancing protocols imposed during the pandemic.
Discussion: New York Post
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New York Times:
N.Y., N.J. and Connecticut will let many businesses fully reopen in mid-May and N.Y.C.'s subway will resume 24-hour service.
Discussion: The Hill
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Lin Wood Is Just Asking Questions  —  On a late pandemic Friday night, the Richland County Republican Party held its convention in a drab, windowless conference room, with the AC blowing full blast.  —  Among the overwhelmingly maskless congregants was Lin Wood, candidate for state party chairman …
Bonchie / RedState:
The Biden Administration's Latest Hypocrisy on the Courts Will Have You Seeing Cross-Eyed  —  One of the wonders of our current political moment is that one political party openly supports packing the Supreme Court simply because they don't like the current makeup.
Discussion: Fox News, The Dispatch and Townhall
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Kansas City Star:
‘A troubled man’: Kansas Senate leader decries Rep. Mark Samsel's ‘deranged rantings’  —  Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson on Sunday condemned the “deranged rantings” of Rep. Mark Samsel, caught on video Wednesday talking to high school students about religion, sex and suicide.
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Swiss Billionaire Quietly Becomes Influential Force Among Democrats  —  Hansjörg Wyss, who recently dropped his bid to buy Tribune Publishing, has been a leading source of difficult-to-trace money to groups associated with Democrats.  —  WASHINGTON — He is not as well known …
WJXT-TV:
Gov. DeSantis suspends all remaining local COVID-19 orders  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed an executive order that will suspend all COVID-19 emergency orders issued by local governments in Florida.  —  DeSantis signed the executive order to bridge the gap …
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Scott Morefield / Townhall:   Most Consequential GOP Victory This Century Was Ron DeSantis Over Andrew Gillum in 2018. It's Not Even Close
Reis Thebault / Washington Post:
Pelosi's archbishop says prominent Catholics who support abortion rights should be denied Communion  —  The Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone was careful not to name any Catholics in his latest letter calling for Holy Communion to be withheld from public figures who support abortion rights.
Discussion: The Hill and The Western Journal
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Sam Dorman / Fox News:
San Francisco archbishop suggests Pelosi, Biden be denied Communion
Discussion: National Review and Crux
NBC News:
Biden administration to reunite four migrant families separated under Trump  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will reunite four migrant families separated during the Trump administration this week, while its reunification task force estimates that over 1,000 families remain separated …
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Sue Halpern / New Yorker:
Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance  —  The trouble with waiting to address problems long after you know that they exist.  —  When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to nasa administrators' disregard of the flaw …
CNN:
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN ANCHOR: This is GPS, the GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE.  Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.  I'm Fareed Zakaria.  —  (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
Discussion: RedState, TheBlaze and Breitbart
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
American Politics Now Has Two Big Racial Divides  —  There's been a recent flurry of studies and analyses that take a deeper look at the results of the 2020 election.  These examinations don't contradict our early interpretation of the results from the days and weeks immediately following Election Day …
Discussion: Political Wire
NBC News:
In bitterly divided election in Southlake, Texas, opponents of anti-racism education win big  —  SOUTHLAKE, Texas — Nine months after officials in the affluent Carroll Independent School District introduced a proposal to combat racial and cultural intolerance in schools …
Deena Yellin / NorthJersey.com:
‘Good Jewish boy’ or chief ‘infiltrator’?  NJ man spent years as fake rabbi in Israel, groups say  —  A self-professed “good Jewish boy from New Jersey,” Rabbi Michael Elkohen had come a long way.  —  In the ultra-Orthodox enclave in Jerusalem where Elkohen now lives …
Amanda Coletta / Washington Post:
Canadian chapter of the Proud Boys, designated a terrorist group by the government, says it has ‘dissolved’  —  TORONTO — Nearly three months after Canada declared the Proud Boys a terrorist entity, the Canadian chapter of the militant far-right group claims it has “officially dissolved.”
Discussion: The Hill and Al Jazeera
Jheberlein / The Office of Governor Larry Hogan:
Governor Hogan Announces Financial Incentive Program for State Employees to Encourage COVID-19 Vaccinations  —  ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan today announced that the State of Maryland will offer a $100 financial incentive to state employees who elect to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The slow, painful death of Trump allies' voting-machine conspiracy theories  —  Among the many wild conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, few rank as high when it comes to both baselessness and reach as those involving voting machines.  The theory that voting machines were programmed …
Discussion: Raw Story
Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC:
India accounts for 1 in 3 new Covid cases being recorded.  Here is its second wave in 5 charts  — Cases started rising in February, when India reported an average of about 10,000 infections a day.  — But the situation progressively worsened in April, ending the month by repeatedly setting new global records for daily cases.
 
 
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Areej Al-Sadhan / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia sentenced my brother to 20 years for tweeting. This could be his last chance.
Hina Shamsi / Just Security:
Trump's Secret Rules for Drone Strikes and Presidents' Unchecked License to Kill
Discussion: ACLU and Raw Story
Brian Mann / NPR:
24 States Mount Legal Fight To Block Sackler Bid For Opioid Immunity
Discussion: Florida Politics
Ted Sherman / New Jersey Online:
N.J. school nurse fails science, experts say, in comments about face masks.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Lawyers Up for the Capitol Police Officers' MAGA Riot Lawsuit
Discussion: Raw Story
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Will Schools Open in the Fall?
Discussion: HotAir and National Review
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CNN:
A Canadian oil firm thinks it has struck big. Some fear it could ravage a climate change hotspot
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Biden's poor TV ratings against Trump is exactly what this administration wants
Discussion: American Greatness and Instapundit
Daily Mail:
Angry parents blast rural Ohio high school after a lesbian couple, 18, are voted to be prom king and queen by their classmates
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
In South Texas, Hispanic Republicans Try to Cement the Party's Gains
Discussion: Balloon Juice
James Caven / Dailystar.co.uk:
Hitler liked women peeing on him during sex and was incestuous with niece, doc claims
Discussion: New York Post
Alex Wigglesworth / Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles County reports no new COVID-19 deaths
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Help, We Can't Stop Writing About Andrew Yang
Discussion: Twitchy