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ProPublica:
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax  —  The Secret IRS Files  —  In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes.  He achieved the feat again in 2011.
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ProPublica:
Why We Are Publishing the Tax Secrets of the .001%  —  We are disclosing the tax details of the richest Americans because we believe the public interest in an informed debate outweighs privacy considerations.  —  Today, ProPublica is launching the first in a series of stories based …
ProPublica:   You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Capitol Police had intelligence indicating an armed invasion weeks before Jan. 6 riot, Senate probe finds  —  The U.S. Capitol Police had specific intelligence that supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mount an armed invasion of the Capitol at least two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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New York Times:
‘Does Anybody Have a Plan?’  Senate Report Details Jan. 6 Security Failures.  —  A 127-page joint report is the most comprehensive and detailed account to date on the intelligence, communications and policing failures around the Capitol riot.  —  WASHINGTON — Top federal intelligence agencies failed …
Discussion: ABC News, CNN and Associated Press
NBC News:
Capitol Police didn't act on warnings Trump backers would breach Capitol, target Democrats, report says … WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police leaders learned that Trump supporters were discussing ways to infiltrate tunnels around the complex and target Democratic members of Congress on Jan. 6 …
Discussion: HotAir, Bloomberg, Forbes and MSNBC
U.S. Senate Committee on Rules & Administration:
Peters, Portman, Klobuchar, Blunt Release Bipartisan Report Investigating January 6th Capitol Attack
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:   Bipartisan group of senators release report on Capitol attack, make recommendations
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Biden Justice Department defends Trump in suit over rape denial  —  The Biden administration is pressing on with a controversial Justice Department defense of President Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit brought by a writer who accused him of raping her at a New York City department store in the 1990s.
Discussion: Twitchy, The Daily Caller and Insider
The Daily Beast:
What if This Is Just the Tip of Trumpworld's Iceberg of Crazy?  —  We're only starting to find out now just how much influence the conspiracy-peddlers wielded in Trump's White House—and how much they'll wield in his future.  —  It was unhinged, even by Trumpworld standards.
Erica Orden / CNN:
DOJ argues it should substitute for Trump as defendant in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit  —  New York (CNN)The Justice Department argued in a brief filed Monday that it should be permitted to substitute itself for former President Donald Trump as defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought …
Paul Butler / Washington Post:   The best way for Garland to protect the Justice Department is to stop defending his predecessor
New York Times:
Justice Dept. says it recovered most of the ransom paid after the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack.
Justin Haskins / The Hill:
By rejecting Democrats' election overhaul bill, Joe Manchin may have saved America  —  On Sunday, the Charleston Gazette-Mail published an op-ed by Sen. Joe Manchin in which the West Virginia Democrat announced his opposition of the For the People Act, a bill that aims to impose a variety …
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Politico:
The left hates Joe Manchin. His fellow Senate Dems are staying quiet.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Some Democrats wonder when Schumer will get tough with Manchin
Discussion: Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Report Concluded Covid-19 May Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab  —  The 2020 lab report was used by the State Department in its own inquiry during Trump administration  —  WASHINGTON—A report on the origins of Covid-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming …
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Newsmax turned down embattled Republican Matt Gaetz for a job -spokesperson  —  Conservative media outlet Newsmax, a favorite of former President Donald Trump's, rejected embattled Republican U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz's request for a job, a spokesperson for the website said on Monday.
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Hundreds Arrested After FBI Reveals It Secretly Ran Encrypted Messaging App for Criminals  —  ‘TROJAN SHIELD’  —  Hundreds of alleged criminal underworld figures have been arrested around the globe after using an encrypted messaging app that was secretly being controlled by the FBI and Australian intelligence.
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
Exclusive: New audio of 2019 phone call reveals how Giuliani pressured Ukraine to investigate baseless Biden conspiracies  —  (CNN)Never-before-heard audio, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows how former President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed …
Amanda Coletta / Washington Post:
Muslim family in Canada killed in ‘targeted’ attack, police say  —  TORONTO — A man accused of mowing down five members of the same family with a black pickup truck in an Ontario city on Sunday, killing four and seriously injuring a 9-year-old boy, targeted them because they were Muslim …
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Bryan Metzger / Politico:
Why the GOP Just Got Blown Out in a Congressional Race  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—  Two weeks before the GOP had its first chance to pick up a seat in Congress since Joe Biden became president, the Republican Party of New Mexico hosted a three-day event dubbed “Operation Freedom.”
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Administration to Outline Measures to Address Supply-Chain Issues  —  Action follows 100-day review of the breakdown of supply chains during the pandemic  —  WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is expected to outline new measures Tuesday to address widespread supply-chain issues …
Discussion: Reuters, New York Times and CNBC
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Gavin Bade / Politico:
Biden to shore up supply chains for four sectors after 100-day reviews
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Nicole Di Ilio / Newlines Magazine:
‘I Will Kill Myself’: The Enduring Nightmare of Lebanon's Kafala System  —  In the moral void of Lebanon's Kafala system, maids from Africa and Asia are trapped in a nightmare of inescapable cruelty  —  Nicole Di Ilio is a freelance journalist whose work focuses on conflicts, radicalism, migrations, and marginalized groups
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Harris border-czar flop: Guatemala president blames Biden, AOC objects  —  Maybe Kamala Harris should have gone to the border instead.  Joe Biden put the Vice President in charge of handling the migrant crisis, but later claimed he meant that Harris would lead the diplomatic effort to resolve it.
Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Deranged Theory That Democrats Would Replace Biden Might Have Helped Him Lose 2020  —  The president was obsessed with the idea that Democrats would strip the primary win from Joe Biden and nominate Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama instead, reporter Michael Bender writes in an upcoming book.
David Harsanyi / National Review:
The 1619 Project Comes for the Second Amendment  —  If the right to bear arms was intended to preserve slavery, why did civil-rights leaders insist that black Americans should be armed to protect themselves?  —  Left-wing academic Carol Anderson's new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, is all over the news.
Discussion: The Bulwark
Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama criticizes Republicans for embracing 2020 falsehoods  —  (CNN)Former President Barack Obama said Republicans have been “cowed into accepting” a series of positions that “would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago,” telling CNN's Anderson Cooper he is worried …
Paul Brandus / USA Today:
The four best ways Team Biden can show America the Donald Trump era is really over  —  Trump treated our Constitution and laws as doormats.  Biden must reassert the primacy of the law and the importance of transparency in our democracy.  —  Tame the COVID-19 pandemic?  Check.
Discussion: Associated Press and NBC News
 
 
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Julia Harte / Reuters:
From Vermont to Kentucky, some Republicans expand voting access in 2021
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
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Washington Post:
Senate Republicans hold up Biden personnel nominee over ‘critical race theory’ and abortion rights
R.R. Reno / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
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Wall Street Journal:
Commodity Price Surges Add to Inflation Fears
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Are We Destined for a Trump Coup in 2024?
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Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden warned as a court slaps down race-based COVID relief
Marley Parish / Pennsylvania Capital-Star:
Pa. GOP lawmakers stay quiet on who paid for their trip to see Arizona audit. What's the impact?
Discussion: NBC10 Philadelphia
Fox News:
Biden White House powered by family connections
Discussion: HotAir and The Bulwark
Derek Lacey / USA Today:
New Super PAC formed with one goal: Fire Madison Cawthorn
Discussion: Political Wire
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Pro-McConnell PAC to vet Trump's 2022 primary picks
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The Scandal Rocking the Evangelical World
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