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| Axios AM |
| By Mike Allen ·Apr 25, 2021 |
| 🥞 Happy Sunday! Smart Brevity™ count: 946 words ... 3½ minutes. |
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| 1 big thing ... Exclusive: Scaling the immigration wall |
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| A man looks across the Rio Grande in February, while waiting to show immigration documents to officers at the U.S.-Mexico crossing in Matamoros, Mexico. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images |
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| A poll and series of focus groups has honed a one-two punch for a doable first-step immigration deal: Give Democratic lawmakers a real path to citizenship for Dreamers, and give Republicans tight border security that's more realistic than a wall. - Why it matters: The formula — by Frank Luntz, who rose to fame as a Republican pollster but in recent years has taken a more bipartisan approach to policy — would make real progress on one of the nation's biggest tragedies that Capitol Hill has failed to confront.
- "The pathway to an agreement is to give both sides what they want most," Luntz said.
In an exclusive preview, Luntz told me he drew on 20 focus groups to pose this climactic proposal in a poll of 1,000 registered voters that he concluded Friday: - "Complete the building of a physical barrier between the U.S and Mexico to ensure border security, and pass the DREAM Act, which will give the children of undocumented workers the chance to earn citizenship over time."
- The result (margin of error: ± 3 points): 60% support.
Luntz over the years has recommended phrasing for Republicans that includes "death tax" instead of "estate tax," and "government takeover of healthcare" for "Obamacare." - Luntz told me: "I've changed 'wall' to 'barrier.' It's more accurate and less ugly, both visually and verbally."
The proposal fits the No. 1 recommendation former President George W. Bush made in a Washington Post op-ed in conjunction with his new book of paintings of immigrants, "Out of Many, One": "One place to start is DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)." 📺 Tonight at 10 p.m. ET, Fox News airs a one-hour special, "43 Portraits": Dana Perino interviews former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush in Dallas + an appearance by Goldman Sachs' Dina Powell, one of the profiles in Bush's new book. |
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| 2. Floyd's death set historic pace for Confederate removals |
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| Black Lives Matter activists stand near the graffiti-covered statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond in June. Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images |
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| Outrage over the police killing of George Floyd 11 months ago has ushered in a historic pace for removals of Confederate symbols from public spaces, Axios race and justice reporter Russell Contreras writes. - At least 167 Confederate symbols around the U.S. have been removed or renamed since Floyd's death last May, Southern Poverty Law Center data shows.
- That includes one symbol stolen from public property in Arizona, sparing Gov. Doug Ducey from having to make the call himself.
SPLC said 94 Confederate monuments were removed in 2020 — compared with a total of 58 removed between 2015 and 2019. Virginia and North Carolina have led states overall in removing Confederate symbols. 📱 Russ is co-author of our weekly Axios Latino newsletter. Sign up here. |
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| 3. Connecting the dots: 6 police killings in 24 hours |
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| Women from Colorado and North Carolina react to news Friday while paying respects at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. Photo: Julio Cortez/AP |
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| At least six people were fatally shot by officers across the U.S. in the 24 hours after jurors reached a verdict Tuesday in the murder case against Derek Chauvin, AP reports: The context: The deadly encounters are a small snapshot of the thousands of interactions between American police officers and civilians every day, most of which end safely. - Police say some of the people were armed with a gun, knife or a metal pole. One man claimed to have a bomb that he threatened to detonate.
Keep reading. |
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| A message from Bank of America |
| An inside look at Ernest Hemingway's life with Ken Burns |
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| In his new documentary, Ken Burns takes an inside look at the life of one of America's greatest and most complicated writers, Ernest Hemingway. Bank of America is a proud supporter of the documentary. Watch Ken Burns in conversation with Bank of America vice chairman Anne Finucane to learn more. |
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| 4. The latest from beyond our solar system |
 Data and planet illustrations: NASA. Graphic: Annelise Capossela, Andrew Witherspoon/Axios The holy grail for astronomers is finding an Earth-sized planet in a similar orbit to our Earth around a Sun-like star, Axios Space author Miriam Kramer writes. - While astronomers haven't yet found proof positive of an Earth twin, they continue to use high-powered tools on the planet and above it to find more and more planets out there in the universe.
Scientists have found more than 4,000 alien planets. But so far, "our home is unique in the universe," per NASA. Keep reading. |
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| 5. One word, a century in the making |
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| A child holds an Armenian flag as members of the Armenian diaspora in the U.S. rallied yesterday in L.A. Photo: David Swanson/Reuters |
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| President Biden said the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted "genocide" — a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey, further straining ties between the NATO allies, Reuters reports. - Why it matters: The symbolic move, breaking from decades of carefully calibrated language from the White House, was welcomed by the Armenian diaspora in the U.S.
The latest: Less than 16 hours later, Turkey's foreign ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador in Ankara to protest the announcement. |
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| 6. 🔮 How far in U.S. future? |
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| Photo: David Rowland/AP |
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| New Zealand band Six60 played for 50,000 yesterday in Auckland, New Zealand — the biggest live act in the world since the pandemic struck. - "New Zealand has all but eliminated the coronavirus, with 2,600 cases and 26 deaths reported since the start of the pandemic." —N.Y. Times
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| 7. An Oscars unlike any other |
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| Tonight's red carpet. Photo: Chris Pizzello/AP |
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| Tonight's Academy Awards (8 p.m. EDT, ABC) will have no host, no audience, and no face masks for nominees attending the ceremony at L.A.'s Union Station, AP's Jake Coyle writes: - Winners aren't allowed to accept by Zoom, though international hubs and satellite feeds will connect nominees unable to travel.
Why it matters: Show producers hope to return some of the traditional glamor to the Oscars, even in a pandemic year. - The red carpet is back, though only a handful of media outlets will be allowed on site. Casual wear is verboten.
Producers, led by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, promise a reinvented telecast: - The Oscars will look more like a movie: The show will be shot in 24 frames-per-second (as opposed to 30), appear more widescreen and the presenters — including Brad Pitt, Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon, Harrison Ford, Rita Moreno and Zendaya — are "cast members."
The best-picture nominees: Via AP |
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| 8. 1 coin thing: Dollar brings 840,000x |
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| Photo: Emily Clements/Heritage Auctions |
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| Amid the frenzy over digital art, Heritage Auctions in Dallas sold this copper prototype of a U.S. dollar coin, the only one of its kind, for much more than expected $840,000. - Heritage told me the coin, known to collectors as the "No Stars Flowing Hair Dollar," was the first dollar struck by the fledgling U.S. Mint, in Philly in 1794.
- The coin was excavated from the site of the first mint.
The dollar was expected to sell for between $350,000 and $500,000. - "This coin has traded hands just eight times during the last 230 years," said Jacob Lipson, a Heritage Auctions numismatist.
See a video about the coin. |
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| A message from Bank of America |
| Ken Burns: "I can't imagine a world without Hemingway" |
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| A new documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick sheds light on a fascinating moment in American history: Ernest Hemingway's life, work, and impact. Bank of America vice chairman Anne Finucane and Ken Burns take a deep dive into the making of Hemingway. |
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