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Presented by Facebook President Trump Donald Trump Sacha Baron Cohen calls out 'danger of lies, hate and conspiracies' in Golden Globes speech Sorkin uses Abbie Hoffman quote to condemn Capitol violence: Democracy is 'something you do' Ex-Trump aide Pierson planning run for Congress MORE " width="580" height="387" data-delta="1" /> Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. Today is Monday, the start of Women’s History Month! Happy March! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver are the co-creators. Readers can find us on Twitter @asimendinger and @alweaver22. Please recommend the Morning Report to friends and let us know what you think. CLICK HERE to subscribe! Total U.S. coronavirus deaths as March 1 begins: 513,091. As of this morning, 15 percent of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and … [Read more...] about The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Trump teases on 2024 run

Gab, a fringe social media platform with a high concentration of far-right users, has been hacked, with a large trove of data including passwords and private messages being taken. The platform's CEO Andrew Torba acknowledged the hack, which was first reported by Wired on Sunday , in a tweet that also included a transphobic slur. According to the hacktivist collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) roughly 70 gigabytes of posts, private messages, profiles and plaintext passwords were obtained in the hack. ADVERTISEMENT The group says the data was provided to them by a hacktivist who identifies as "JaXpArO and My Little Anonymous Revival Project.” DDosSecrets cofounder Emma Best said in a post on the group’s site that they will not be publicly releasing the data because it includes sensitive information, and will instead be sharing it with journalists and researchers focused on right-wing extremism. “While the dataset is extremely important to … [Read more...] about Fringe social media platform Gab hacked

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday will make his first appearance before lawmakers since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as Democrats increasingly probe the bureau's actions leading up to the riot. Senate Democrats have asked for the FBI to turn over a number of documents and plans, gearing up for the tough oversight effort of a director whose tenure was often viewed as in jeopardy under the Trump administration. Though President Biden Joe Biden Biden offers support to union organizing efforts Senate Democrats nix 'Plan B' on minimum wage hike Kavanaugh dismays conservatives by dodging pro-Trump election lawsuits MORE chose to keep Wray on for his full 10-year term as FBI director after the attack, Wray will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee as its Democratic members are increasingly putting pressure on the FBI not just to up the ante on fighting domestic terrorism, but to single out the ideologies that provide the greatest risk. … [Read more...] about FBI director set for combative hearing on mob attack

Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN. (CNN) The United States Covid-19 vaccination program is gaining steam. As of Tuesday, more than 40 million people have received the first dose, representing about 13% of the country. At the same time, national rates of new infection have decreased , presenting a real opportunity to control the pandemic. Dr. Kent Sepkowitz With this progress, though, has come no small amount of consternation. A new set of daunting questions has arisen, the product of an increasing number of vaccines and vaccinees. Reasonably enough, people now want to know the specific dos and don'ts of daily living for the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. The nub is this: are we re-approaching the glory days of before this pandemic began or is the lockdown … [Read more...] about I got vaccinated. What now?