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First Lady / The White House:
First Lady Melania Trump: Our Path Forward — Like all of you, I have reflected on the past year and how the invisible enemy, Covid-19, swept across our beautiful country. All Nations have experienced the loss of loved ones, economic pain, and the negative impacts of isolation.
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Impeachment looms as fury grows over new details of Capitol attack — With help from Melanie Zanona. — Democrats are weighing how to fast-track their plans to impeach President Donald Trump this week as new details, images and video further fuel the rage over the deadly domestic terrorist attack …
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Politico:
House Dems on verge of sealing majority for Trump impeachment push — Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on the cusp of majority support in the House to impeach President Donald Trump, part of a two-front effort to punish and remove him for inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: For GOP, nine perilous days — Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter. — Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to receive the newsletter. — FOR GOP, NINE PERILOUS DAYS. There are some Republicans in Washington who wish inauguration day were today, or tomorrow — or yesterday.
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Charlie Sykes / Bulwark+:
Impeach. Indict. Disqualify.
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CNN:
House Democrats introduce impeachment resolution, charging Trump with 'incitement of insurrection
Associated Press:
House preps impeachment; GOP blocks ouster-by-Cabinet call
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David N. Cicilline / New York Times:
Why We Are Introducing an Article of Impeachment
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Washington Post:
Live updates: House Democrats introduce article of impeachment charging Trump with ‘incitement of insurrection’
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
Nancy Pelosi on the riot at the Capitol, Congress' mandate under Joe Biden and the youth in the Democratic party
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Talk-radio owner orders conservative hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric — After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America's largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction. — Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular …
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Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived — In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump's supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler …
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Parler goes dark after move by Amazon
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Associated Press:
Army investigating officer who led group to Washington rally — CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Army is investigating a psychological operations officer who led a group of people from North Carolina to the rally in Washington that led up to the deadly riot in the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump.
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Associated Press:
Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover
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Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Incitement Timeline: Year of Trump's Actions Leading to the Attack on the Capitol
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Biden plans to nominate William J. Burns, a former career diplomat, to run the CIA — President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate William J. Burns, a former career diplomat who has served both parties and won respect at home and abroad, to run a CIA that has been badly battered by the Trump administration.
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New York Times:
William Burns, a career diplomat, is Biden's choice to head the C.I.A.
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CNN:
Biden to nominate William Burns as CIA director, turning to a longtime diplomat to lead agency in post-Trump era
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Susan DeSantis / New York State Bar Association:
New York State Bar Association Launches Historic Inquiry Into Removing Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani From Its Membership — New York State Bar Association Launches Historic Inquiry Into Removing Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani From Its Membership — The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) …
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Washington Post:
Outgoing Capitol Police chief: House, Senate security officials hamstrung efforts to call in National Guard — Two days before Congress was set to formalize President-elect Joe Biden's victory, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund was growing increasingly worried about the size …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
We Worked Together on the Internet. Last Week, He Stormed the Capitol. — At BuzzFeed, we followed the signals of social media. A young employee followed them all the way to Charlottesville and Capitol Hill. — He fit in as well as anyone did at our Los Angeles studio, a place full of ambitious misfits with an unusual gift.
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Matthew Schmitz / New York Post:
What the left wants to ignore about slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick — On Thursday, Brian Sicknick, an officer with the US Capitol Police, died from injuries sustained during the storming of the Capitol Building. Democratic leaders have presented Sicknick as a martyr …
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ABC News:
In blow to Trump, golf's PGA strips major championship from Trump-owned course — The 2022 PGA Championship will no longer be held at Trump Bedminster. — US Capitol riots: Tracking the insurrection — On Jan. 6, rioters coming from a pro-Trump rally broke into the U.S. Capitol …
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Doug Ferguson / Associated Press:
PGA Championship leaving Trump National in '22 tournament
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Republican No More: The GOP's Existential Crisis — In the wake of the trauma of the last two months, two inescapable questions emerge. First, what does it mean to be republican? And second, does the Republican Party represent those values at all any more?
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Takes Further Action Against Russian-linked Actors — WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took additional action against seven individuals and four entities that are part of a Russia-linked foreign influence network associated with Andrii Derkach.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton: Trump should be impeached. But that alone won't remove white supremacy from America. — Hillary Rodham Clinton is a former U.S. senator, secretary of state and Democratic nominee for president in 2016. — Wednesday's attack on the Capitol was the tragically predictable result …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't fast-track Trump challenges to election results — As expected, the Supreme Court refused Monday to fast-track a batch of challenges to the presidential election filed by President Trump and his allies. — The rejections came without comment or noted dissent …
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WWNY:
Stefanik opposes impeachment, wants “a peaceful transition of power” — DANNEMORA, N.Y. (WWNY) - Congresswoman Elise Stefanik publicly opposed the push to impeach President Trump Saturday. — Stefanik was in Dannemora, New York rallying against the state closure of the Clinton Annex …
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
FBI: Does Anyone Know the Confederate Flag Guy From the Capitol Riot? — COME FORWARD — It was one of the most shocking images of the Trumpist storming of the U.S. Capitol last week—a bearded man, making no attempt to disguise his identity, brazenly strolling around the building while brandishing a Confederate flag.
Jillian C. York:
Everything pundits are getting wrong about this current moment in content moderation: An ongoing list — Since Twitter and Facebook banned Donald Trump and began “purging” QAnon conspiracists, a segment of the chattering class has been making all sorts of wild proclamations about this “precedent-setting” event.
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Ken Klippenstein / Jacobin:
Ken Klippenstein Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried — Investigative reporter Ken Klippenstein, who will soon be joining the staff of the Intercept, has honed the craft of Twitter trolling to an art form. But he'd prefer to be known for his journalistic scoops, based on a painstaking analysis …
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
FBI Arrests Grapevine Man Photographed in Tactical Gear on US Senate Floor — The FBI arrested a North Texas man Sunday in connection with last week's riots at the U.S. Capitol. — Larry Rendell Brock, of Grapevine, was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building and violent entry and disorderly conduct.
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
How A Snap Impeachment Could Shatter Our Constitutional Balance — Below is my column in the Hill newspaper on my concerns over the planned “snap impeachment” this year. In my view, impeaching on the speech alone would raise serious concerns over the use of impeachment in the future.
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Washington Post:
The Capitol mob: a raging collection of grievances and disillusionment — The 36-year-old West Texas florist and self-described “conservative die hard patriot” always took to Facebook when she had something to say. So just hours after Jenny Cudd and scores of fellow Trump supporters swarmed …
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