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Channel 3 crew threatened with arrest after asking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a question during town hall meeting — A Channel 3 reporter and photojournalist were threatened with arrest after asking U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene a question during a town hall meeting in Dalton.
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Parkland Parents: Marjorie Taylor Greene Won't Get Away With Lying About Our Son — Linda Beigel Schulman does not have the luxury of believing in conspiracy theories. She knows that no amount of magical thinking can bring her son back. She knows exactly how long he's been gone.
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POLITICO Playbook: SCOOP: Inside the White House's new thinking on Covid relief — DRIVING THE DAY — MCCARTHY TRIES TO MAKE NICE WITH TRUMP: House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY and former President DONALD TRUMP will meet around lunchtime at Mar-a-Lago — a face-to-face we're told McCarthy requested …


Video surfaces of Marjorie Taylor Greene confronting Parkland shooting survivor with baseless claims
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Congressman Jimmy Gomez to Introduce Resolution Expelling Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress
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Op-Ed: I called Arizona for Biden on Fox News. Here's what I learned — The New York Evening Express was no great shakes as a newspaper. But in 1886, when the New York Times ran the obituary of one of the Express' former owners, Erastus Brooks, it had to give credit where it was due.


2022 Senate Races: Initial Ratings — On a potentially limited playing field, both parties look to expand past their current 50 seats — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Republicans will be defending more Senate seats than Democrats in 2022, but both sides have some potential pickup opportunities …
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McConnell Was Done With Trump. His Party Said Not So Fast.
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McCarthy to meet Trump after rift over his assertion that the former president ‘bears responsibility’ for the Capitol attack.
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In the Republican Party, the post-Trump era lasted a week
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N.Y. Severely Undercounted Virus Deaths in Nursing Homes, Report Says — The state attorney general, Letitia James, said the Cuomo administration likely omitted thousands of Covid-19 deaths of nursing home residents. — ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State attorney general accused …
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo faults ‘incompetent government’ for COVID deaths
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Robinhood Stops Users From Trading GameStop Stocks, Other Reddit YOLO Picks — With the market in chaos, even Robinhood has now turned on retail investors pumping dark-horse stocks. — Jordan Pearson — Robinhood, the fee-free investment app that has helped Redditors …
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GameStop Stock Soars as Reddit Investors Take On Wall St. — GameStop shares have soared 1,700 percent as millions of small investors, egged on by social media, employ a classic Wall Street tactic to put the squeeze — on Wall Street. — A real estate salesman in Valparaiso, Ind. A former line cook from the Bronx.
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Keeping Customers Informed Through Market Volatility — Our mission at Robinhood is to democratize finance for all. We're proud to have created a platform that has helped everyday people, from all backgrounds, shape their financial futures and invest for the long term.
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What happened with GameStop? — It's not David vs Goliath. It's Goliath vs. Goliath, with David as a fig leaf — This is a free post from Markets Weekly, a newsletter by former Wall Street professional Alexis Goldstein. If you appreciated this post, please consider signing up here for premium access to all posts.
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Republicans demand audit of Kelli Ward's narrow win for Arizona GOP chair — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez Ronald J. HansenArizona Republic — After months of sounding the alarm on what she claimed was a stolen presidential election, Kelli Ward is facing questions about her own reelection Saturday as Arizona Republican Party chair.
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Betraying Your Church—And Your Party — How Representative Adam Kinzinger, an evangelical Republican, decided to vote for impeachment—and start calling out his church — the letter writer's message was clear: Representative Adam Kinzinger is doing the devil's work, and he is possessed by demons.
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Kinzinger: Voting to impeach Trump ‘could very well be terminal to my career’
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Republican Rep. Kinzinger: I voted to impeach ‘knowing ... it could very well be terminal to my career’
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What happened when a beloved mom influencer donated to Trump — Taking Cara Babies taught her 1.3 million followers how to get their babies to sleep. Then her political affiliations sparked a social media meltdown. — SHARE All sharing options — This story is part of a group of stories called
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2020 was the worst year for economic growth since the Second World War — New federal data offers comprehensive snapshot of a year marred by staggering job losses, waves of small-business closures and mounting inequality — The U.S. economy shrank by 3.5 percent last year …


Twitter's priceless gift to Biden — As he entered his first week in office, President Joe Biden was handed a priceless gift: the blissful sound of former President Donald Trump's Twitter silence. — Gone are the pre-dawn tirades, the all-caps declarations, the “Sleepy Joe” mocking …
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What was Tommy Tuberville doing in the Trump Hotel D.C.? — Despite his denials, photos appear to show Tuberville in the Trump Hotel D.C.'s lobby the night before the Capitol insurrection — Photos posted on social media appear to refute a U.S. Senator's claim that he was not at the Trump Hotel D.C …
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Photos put Tuberville in Trump's hotel on Jan. 5 despite denying meeting
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Biden takes first step toward bolstering Obamacare — President Joe Biden is taking the first step toward rebuilding Obamacare, ushering in a new era for the health care law after a decade of Republican attacks. — The Biden administration on Thursday announced it's throwing open the doors …
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Biden starts rolling back Trump anti-abortion rules
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The Republican Retreat From Governance … On January 26, 45 Republican senators voted for an amendment declaring the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump unconstitutional—a stance not shared by legal scholars. Trump is facing a Senate trial for inciting an insurrection …
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Ease Up on the Executive Actions, Joe — President Biden is right to not let his agenda be held hostage, but legislating through Congress is a better path. — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.
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Announcing the Oversight Board's first case decisions — Today, the Oversight Board is announcing its first decisions. — In the five case decisions published today, the Board overturned four of Facebook's decisions, upheld one and issued nine policy recommendations to the company.
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Merrick Garland Wants Former Facebook Lawyer to Top Antitrust Division — Susan Davies has spent much of the last decade working on behalf of major mergers and fending off antitrust enforcement. — Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland is working behind the scenes to install longtime aide Susan Davies …


Biden Appoints New Cabinet Secretaries, Ousting Trump Loyalists — President Biden named nearly all of his cabinet secretaries and their immediate deputies before he took office, but his real grasp on the levers of power has come several layers down. — WASHINGTON — When President Biden swore …
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Insurrection aftermath: Staffers struggle with trauma, guilt and fear — They replay the day in their minds, hear threats when they pick up the phone, and try to keep doing their jobs. Congressional staffers are still struggling in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol …


Self-styled militia members in three states began planning in November for recruits, weapons ahead of Capitol breach, U.S. alleges — Three self-styled militia members charged in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol began soliciting recruits for potential violence within days …
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Man arrested with explosives may have been targeting Gov. Newsom, authorities say — A suspected far-right extremist and radicalized supporter of former President Trump facing federal explosives charges may have been targeting California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Bay Area headquarters …


‘What Democrat beats that guy?’: Top Dems flinch from Rubio challenge — MIAMI — Few Republicans are more loathed by Democrats than Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Many have never looked at him the same since, after helping to draft the 2013 bipartisan immigration bill, he backed away under conservative pressure.


Democrats Are Laying a Trap with Trump's Impeachment Trial — Beware: Those arguing the Dems are making a miscalculation have got it all wrong. — WHITE HOUSE — Which Teachings of Critical Race Theory Does the Biden Administration Endorse? — By JASON RICHWINE
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