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Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
Pentagon restricted commander of D.C. Guard ahead of Capitol riot — The commander of the D.C. National Guard said the Pentagon restricted his authority ahead of the riot at the U.S. Capitol, requiring higher level sign-off to respond that cost time as the events that day spiraled out of control.
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New York Times:
Capitol Police chief apologizes for security failures during the assault, including a delay in calling for Guard troops. — The acting chief of the Capitol Police apologized to Congress on Tuesday for the agency's massive security failures on Jan. 6, acknowledging during a closed-door briefing …
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Politico, NBC News, Washington Examiner, USA Today, Fox News, WTOP, UPI, New York Post, IJR, The Daily Caller, The Week, The Independent and Lawfare
CREW:
Kayleigh McEnany's Financial Disclosure reveals agreement with Fox News … Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany is the latest official to take advantage of the revolving door between Fox News and the Trump administration. According to her termination financial disclosure report …
Politico:
Rand Paul to force vote on constitutionality of Trump impeachment trial — GOP Sen. Rand Paul will force a vote Tuesday on whether putting a former president on trial for impeachment charges is constitutional. — Paul's effort reflects the widespread belief among Republicans that the Senate …
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Politico:
Trump sends a message to Senate Republicans ahead of his trial — A top political aide to former President Donald Trump spent the weekend quietly reassuring Republican senators that the former president has no plans to start a third party — and instead will keep his imprint on the GOP.
Sen. Rand Paul / Washington Examiner:
The Senate's impeachment trial is illegal and a sham
The Senate's impeachment trial is illegal and a sham
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Washington Post, The Hill, Patterico's Pontifications, IJR, The Daily Caller, Washington Times, Liberty Unyielding, CBS News and Don Surber
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Biden tells CNN Trump's impeachment trial ‘has to happen’
Biden tells CNN Trump's impeachment trial ‘has to happen’
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Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
CDC finds with precautions in place, scant spread of coronavirus in schools — Schools operating in person have seen scant transmission of the coronavirus, particularly when masks and distancing are employed, but some indoor athletics have led to infections and should be curtailed if schools …
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New York Times, HotAir, UPI, The Week and Mother Jones
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Kellyanne Conway Accused of Posting Topless Photo of Her 16-Year-Old Daughter on Twitter … Kellyanne Conway, ex-counselor to disgraced former President Trump, allegedly posted a topless picture of her daughter Claudia, 16, on Twitter on Monday. — Reached for comment …
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Russell Contreras / Axios:
Biden signs executive order ending new DOJ contracts with private prisons — President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed executive orders on housing and ending the Justice Department's use of private prisons as part of what the White House is calling his “racial equity agenda.”
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Washington Examiner, ABC News, RedState, Mother Jones, Daily Kos and The National Interest
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Sign Executive Orders to Phase Out Federal Use of Private Prisons — President's actions are intended to advance racial equity agenda, officials say — WASHINGTON—President Biden on Tuesday will sign a series of executive orders that are intended to advance racial equity …
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Associated Press and Reuters
Ryan Brooks / BuzzFeed News:
Joe Biden Is Aiming To End The Federal Use Of Private Prisons
Joe Biden Is Aiming To End The Federal Use Of Private Prisons
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The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
Biden issues executive orders promoting racial equity
Biden issues executive orders promoting racial equity
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Washington Post and Daily Maverick
Washington Post:
Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron to retire at the end of February — Washington Post Publisher and CEO Fred Ryan today shared the following note with Post employees. — Dear Washington Post colleagues, — Although we have long known this day would come …
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Leyland Cecco / The Guardian:
Canadian mogul fined after getting Covid vaccine meant for Indigenous residents … The former head of a Canadian casino company and his actor wife have been fined after chartering a private plane to a remote community near the Alaska border and receiving coronavirus vaccines meant for vulnerable Indigenous residents.
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Washington Post, New York Post, Yukon News, TheBlaze and Boing Boing
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Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler pepper-sprayed a maskless man who accused him of disregarding coronavirus measures — On Sunday, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was walking outside a craft brewery on the Oregon city's southwest side when a man walked up to him and shouted, “Thanks for ruining the city!”
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Willamette Week, New York Times, HotAir, Conservative News Today, Mediaite and RedState
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Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler pepper sprays unmasked man who confronted him with video camera
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler pepper sprays unmasked man who confronted him with video camera
Ben Leonard / Politico:
On first call with Putin, Biden raises election interference, bounties, Navalny poisoning — President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday afternoon, expressing U.S. objections to a variety of Kremlin actions, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday.
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CNN, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Arms deal, hacking complicate Joe Biden's approach to Russia
Arms deal, hacking complicate Joe Biden's approach to Russia
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CBS News, Axios, The Independent, HotAir, The White House, The National Interest and New York Post
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
If You're Gushing about Non-Answers, You're Not Really a Journalist
If You're Gushing about Non-Answers, You're Not Really a Journalist
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The White House and The Daily Caller
David Wickert / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia lawmaker booted from chamber for failing to get COVID-19 test — A Georgia state representative was removed from the House chamber Tuesday for refusing to be tested for COVID-19.Rep. David Clark, R-Buford, had refused to comply with requirements that legislators be tested for COVID-19 twice a week.
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Stephen Fowler / Georgia Public Broadcasting:
Rep. David Clark Removed From Ga. House Chamber For Ignoring COVID Testing Rules
Rep. David Clark Removed From Ga. House Chamber For Ignoring COVID Testing Rules
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wabe.org and Law & Crime
Ursula Perano / Axios:
McConnell defends filibuster: “You don't destroy the Senate for fleeting advantage” — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday condemned Democratic support for abolishing the legislative filibuster, arguing that it would create a “scorched-earth Senate.”
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Hundreds of Biden staffers receive COVID vaccine — A week into the job, President Biden's White House medical team has administered the coronavirus vaccine to several hundred staffers — and aims to vaccinate all in-person staff over the next few weeks, officials tell Axios.
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Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
HotAir:
Nikki Haley On Insurrection And Impeaching Trump: Come On, Give The Man A Break — I want to offer my sincere congratulations this morning to Trump and his supporters on having almost completely broken the “reasonable” wing of this collapsing party. There are still a few pockets of resistance led …
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CNN, Crooks and Liars, Washington Post, Raw Story and HuffPost
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
In Israel, Infections Drop Sharply After One Shot of Vaccine — Initial studies show a significant drop in infections and hospitalizations after just one dose, and very few cases after two. Experts caution that the results are preliminary. — JERUSALEM — Israel, which leads the world …
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The Times of Israel, HotAir and Gothamist
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
How the KGB Hooked Trump — ‘American Kompromat,’ a new book by Craig Unger, gets the lowdown from former Russian and U.S. spies … Red Dawn — There are boundaries in America's political discourse—or at least there were until Donald Trump's presidency.
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact-checking 7 statistical claims from Biden's (quite factual) economic speech — Biden: We cannot, will not let Americans go hungry — Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden recited a flurry of figures in a Friday speech in which he urged Congress to pass the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package he calls the American Rescue Plan.
Tess Owen / VICE:
Roger Stone Used Oath Keepers as Security on the Eve of the Capitol Riot — Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. — On the eve of the riot at the U.S. Capitol, Roger Stone walked out on stage before hundreds of cheering Trump supporters in Washington, D.C. …
Dave Philipps / New York Times:
From Navy SEAL to Part of the Angry Mob Outside the Capitol — The presence in Washington of a longtime member of the Navy SEALs who was trained to identify misinformation reflects the partisan politics that helped lead to the assault. — In the weeks since Adam Newbold …
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Cutting off stimulus checks to Americans earning over $75,000 could be wise, new data suggests — Biden is debating another round of $1,400 stimulus payments. Some in Congress have urged the president to target aid to lower-income families only. — As President Biden pushes for another round …
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Giuliani wasn't just a Trump partisan but a shrewd marketer of vitamins, gold, lawsuit says — Trump's personal lawyer sought to turn conspiracy theories and voter fraud videos into online moneymakers, attorneys for Dominion say — As he outlined how “pervasive voter fraud” …
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theslot.jezebel.com, Raw Story and Eschaton
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
White House expected to tell governors they will get more coronavirus vaccine doses starting next week — Expected increase will be about 16 percent but will not fully alleviate shortages — Federal allocations of coronavirus vaccine doses to states and other jurisdictions are expected …
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New York Daily News, Bloomberg, Missouri Independent, POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Biden Will Lie to You — All presidents lie. Even so, the Trump administration weaponized dishonesty to a remarkable degree. — Donald Trump did not merely lie to exaggerate his accomplishments, or smear his opponents. For Trump and the Republican Party, lies were a loyalty test.
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pjmedia.com, New York Magazine, Outside the Beltway, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg and Forbes
Brad Bannon / The Hill:
Can Joe Biden unify a divided nation? — The lights in America are bright now after the nation has been shrouded in darkness for four years. The questions facing Joe Biden's presidency are how long his fragile honeymoon period lasts and whether he can unify a deeply divided nation.
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RiverheadLOCAL, The American Independent and Deseret News
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Mayor Aims to Turn Small Town Into QAnon, USA — “I think we're a little microcosm of what's happening at the national level,” said Marsha Maguire, a resident of Sequim, Washington. — City council meetings don't often get heated in Sequim, Washington, a small town of roughly 7,000 people popular with retirees from Seattle.
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Raw Story
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
Oregon Republican Party falsely calls U.S. Capitol riot a ‘false flag’ meant to ‘discredit President Trump’ — Three weeks after hundreds of people stormed the U.S. Capitol in a violent rampage that left one police officer and four rioters dead and led to more than 100 arrests of the pro-Trump rioters …
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Mina Kaji / ABC News:
All US-bound passengers now need a negative COVID-19 test before boarding — Here's what you need to know about the new travel rules. — COVID-19 travel ban — President Joe Biden reinstates a travel ban due to new COVID-19 variants currently spreading in various countries.
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Washington Examiner, New York Times and TheBlaze
Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Biden's Commerce nominee backs changes to Section 230 — Biden said he wanted to revoke the law last year — In a hearing on her nomination for Commerce Department secretary on Tuesday, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo told lawmakers that she will pursue changes to Section 230 if confirmed.
Adam Weidemann / The Keyword:
New campaign targeting security researchers — Over the past several months, the Threat Analysis Group has identified an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers working on vulnerability research and development at different companies and organizations.
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Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, The Verge, Forbes, CyberScoop and ZDNet, more at Techmeme »
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
White House signals it could agree to more narrowly targeted stimulus checks — Brian Deese, President Joe Biden's top economic advisor, suggested the administration could be open to tweaking eligibility for future stimulus checks. — As written, the president's plan calls …
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Forbes, TheGrio and Washington Post
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Blinken confirmed as secretary of State — Antony Blinken was confirmed as secretary of State on Tuesday, taking the reins of U.S. foreign policy amid major global challenges and following years of turmoil at the State Department. — Blinken won bipartisan approval in the Senate, with a vote of 78-22.
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