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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden's strategy for Trump's impeachment: Sit back and STFU — Washington may be consumed by Donald Trump's impeachment trial this week, but the White House has a decidedly different view of it: Impeachment? What impeachment? — The Biden team has shut down question after question …
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CNN:
Trump lawyer withdraws request not to have impeachment trial on Sabbath
Trump lawyer withdraws request not to have impeachment trial on Sabbath
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Political Wire, New York Post and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jim Acosta / CNN:
Trump tells aides he thinks he'll be acquitted as he remains fixated on ‘accountability’ for GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach
Trump tells aides he thinks he'll be acquitted as he remains fixated on ‘accountability’ for GOP lawmakers who voted to impeach
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Insider, Politico, NBC News, Talking Points Memo, Fox News, National Review, New York Times, Daily Montanan and UPI
Washington Post:
It's not a typical trial. Lawyers in the Trump impeachment case will argue big constitutional questions.
It's not a typical trial. Lawyers in the Trump impeachment case will argue big constitutional questions.
Haley Victory Smith / Washington Examiner:
Trump impeachment lawyer doesn't plan to raise ‘polarizing’ election fraud claims during trial
Trump impeachment lawyer doesn't plan to raise ‘polarizing’ election fraud claims during trial
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Politico, Patterico's Pontifications and Wall Street Journal
New York Times:
Georgia Officials Review Trump Phone Call as Scrutiny Intensifies — The office of Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has initiated a fact-finding inquiry into Donald Trump's January phone call to Mr. Raffensperger pressuring him to “find” votes.
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Linda So / Reuters:
Exclusive: Georgia Secretary of State opens investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn election
Exclusive: Georgia Secretary of State opens investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn election
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Politico, CNN, Mock Paper Scissors, UPI, Reuters, The Hill, TheBlaze, Hackwhackers and IJR
Washington Post:
Democratic lawmakers splinter over criteria for $1,400 stimulus payments as Biden relief bill advances — Democratic lawmakers are increasingly divided over the criteria for the next round of stimulus payments, splintering the caucus even as they aim to quickly pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion relief package.
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Wall Street Journal:
Democrats' Stimulus Plan Offers $1,400 Checks at Same Income Levels as Previous Rounds
Democrats' Stimulus Plan Offers $1,400 Checks at Same Income Levels as Previous Rounds
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Raw Story
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“I Think People Will Get Tired of Him”: For Donald Trump, Sarah Palin's Fall Shows the Limits of Media Obsession — The former Alaska governor dominated coverage while she was seen as a GOP kingmaker and potential presidential candidate—until reality (or at least reality TV) set in.
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Political Wire and Raw Story
Adam Carlson / People.com:
Reporter Forgoes Covering President as Romance Blossoms with Biden Aide Battling Cancer: 'Didn't Think Twice' — “We both realized we both felt the same way,” TJ Ducklo, a White House deputy press secretary, says of Axios' Alexi McCammond. “We're both really happy, and we wanted to do it the right way.”
Jack Evans / Tampa Bay Times:
Someone tried to poison Oldsmar's water supply during hack, sheriff says — Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said the attacker tried to raise levels of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, by a factor of more than 100. — Local and federal authorities are investigating after an attempt Friday …
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Maggie Miller / The Hill:
Hackers breach, attempt to poison Florida city's water supply — Officials said Monday that a hacker had breached and attempted to poison the water supply for the city of Oldsmar, Fla., last week, but had been unsuccessful. — Pinellas County, Fla., Sheriff Bob Gualtieri announced …
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Reuters, HuffPost, New York Times, CNN and Washington Examiner
Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
Hacker Changed Chemical Level in Florida City's Water System
Hacker Changed Chemical Level in Florida City's Water System
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Wired, Breitbart, MyNorthwest.com and Fox News
CNN:
DOJ to ask Trump-appointed US attorneys to resign — (CNN)The Justice Department, as soon as Tuesday, is expected to ask US attorneys appointed by former President Donald Trump to submit their resignations, a turnover expected to spare two top prosecutors in Delaware and Connecticut overseeing …
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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Justice Dept. seeks resignations of Trump-era US attorneys
Justice Dept. seeks resignations of Trump-era US attorneys
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Washington Examiner
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
New York Times Meltdown Plays Out in Private Facebook Group — The “resignation” of star New York Times science writer Donald McNeil Jr. has sparked a furious back-and-forth among Times staffers, many of whom are outraged over the Gray Lady's handling of his departure.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Describing a Slur Is Not the Same As Using It
Describing a Slur Is Not the Same As Using It
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Adam Kinzinger / Washington Post:
My fellow Republicans, convicting Trump is necessary to save America — Adam Kinzinger, a Republican, represents Illinois's 16th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. — Winston Churchill famously said, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Manafort Can't Be Prosecuted in New York After Trump Pardon, Court Rules — The Court of Appeals let stand a lower-court ruling that the Manhattan district attorney's prosecution of Paul Manafort was barred by the double jeopardy rule. — The Manhattan district attorney's attempt …
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The Hill, Reuters, Associated Press, CNBC, The Daily Caller, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Week and Raw Story
New York Times:
‘Its Own Domestic Army’: How the G.O.P. Allied Itself With Militants — Actions taken by paramilitary groups in Michigan last year, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump, signaled a profound shift in Republican politics and a national crisis in the making.
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Andrew Yang's campaign is cutting ties with a fundraiser once accused of sexual misconduct — The NYC mayoral candidate's campaign said it was unaware of the well-publicized allegations. — Andrew Yang's mayoral campaign is cutting ties with one of its fundraisers, Shervin Pishevar …
New York Times:
China Blocks Clubhouse App After Brief Flowering of Debate — For a little while, the social media platform Clubhouse provided the rare opportunity for cross-border dialogue on contentious topics free from the country's usual tight controls. — One by one, the chatroom participants took …
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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
Harvard's Sunstein Joins Biden's DHS to Shape Immigration Rules — Progressive groups had raised concern about Sunstein's record — His wife is Biden nominee for international development agency — Former Obama administration official Cass Sunstein on Monday joined the Department …
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The National Pulse, Foreign Policy and Daily Kos
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
Rep. Ron Wright dies after battle with COVID-19 — Reelected in November, the Republican lawmaker had been fighting cancer. … U.S. Rep Ron Wright of Arlington died Sunday night after a battle with COVID-19. He was 67. — His family and spokesperson confirmed Wright's death Monday morning.
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Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
Why QAnon Followers Think Donald Trump Will Be Sworn Back In as President on March 4 — After more than three years of Donald Trump not taking down satanic pedophiles and the “deep state” working against him, losing the election, then failing to order mass executions at Joe Biden's inauguration …
CREW:
Jared and Ivanka made up to $640 million in the White House … Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income while working in the White House, according to an analysis of financial disclosures by CREW. It is impossible to tell the exact amount …
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Daily Kos, Vanity Fair, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill and Mediaite
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Biden's CIA Pick, William Burns, Leads A Think Tank With Close Ties To China — William J. Burns, the nominee for CIA director, is the president of a prominent think tank that has received as much as $2 million in recent years from a Chinese businessman and a think tank with links to the Chinese Communist Party.
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Lou Dobbs is lashing out at Fox on Twitter for dropping his show — Lou Dobbs is not taking his cancellation by Fox lying down. — On Friday night, Fox News Media management canceled “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” the most-watched show on Fox Business Network. No reason was given …
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Vice President Kamala Harris could kill the filibuster herself … It was 5:30 a.m. on Friday and all eyes were on Vice President Kamala Harris. — The Constitution has given Harris, as vice president, a second job — a side gig to most modern observers. She's not just President Joe Biden's No. 2 …
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Kimberly Wehle / The Bulwark:
Call. Witnesses. — There was a crime. There is a trial. There should be witness testimony. — Democrats are no longer under the thumb of Mitch McConnell. If they want to call witnesses to testify in the second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump, they can. — But what's more: They should.
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CNN, Law & Crime, CBS News and Deadline
ABC News:
GOP on defense as Democrats weaponize party's ties to extremism — Democrats are launching their 2022 efforts with ad buys focused on QAnon. — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: 'I've been freed' — Stripped of her committee assignments, the GOP congresswoman says she looks forward to returning to Georgia to see her constituents.
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Axios, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post
Ben Adlin / Marijuana Moment:
Judge Voids South Dakota's Marijuana Legalization Initiative, Finding Voter-Approved Measure Was Unconstitutional — A South Dakota state judge has ruled that last year's voter-approved initiative to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and over is unconstitutional and cannot go forward, though advocates plan to appeal.
New York Times:
Using Connections to Trump, Dershowitz Became Force in Clemency Grants — The lawyer Alan M. Dershowitz, who represented the former president in his first impeachment trial, used his access for a wide array of clients as they sought pardons or commutations.
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The Hill, Mediaite, The Intellectualist and Raw Story
Kang-Xing Jin / About Facebook:
Reaching Billions of People With COVID-19 Vaccine Information — We're running the largest worldwide campaign to promote authoritative information about COVID-19 vaccines by: — Helping people find where and when they can get vaccinated — similar to how we helped people find information about how to vote during elections
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Tess Owen / VICE:
This is the Proud Boys Supporter Who Filmed Attacks on the Media at the Capitol Riot — Meet Gabriel Brown, a live streamer from Long Island who's involvement in far-right activism goes back to the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. — TO
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Raw Story
Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
Law Professor Cited 15 Times by Trump's Legal Team Says Impeachment Memo Was Filled with ‘Flat-Out Misrepresentations’ of His Work — Donald Trump's defense team was accused of flagrantly misrepresenting the work of a constitutional scholar when asserting that the former president's impeachment is unconstitutional.
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littlegreenfootballs.com, Fox News, National Review, Raw Story and Mother Jones
Daniel Strauss / The Guardian:
‘This fever will break’: Republican Jeff Flake on the slow fade of Trumpism — Anti-Trumpists are growing but very slowly - convicting Trump in his impeachment trial would help speed things along, says Flake — By now, Jeff Flake thought this would all be over.
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The Editorial Board and Big League Politics
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Outcry as more than 20 babies and children deported by US to Haiti … US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) deported at least 72 people to Haiti on Monday, including a two-month-old baby and 21 other children, in an apparent flagrant breach of the Biden administration's orders …
Chris Hayes / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party is radicalizing against democracy. This is the central political fact of our moment. Instead of organizing its coalition around shared policy goals, the GOP has chosen to emphasize hatred and fear of its political opponents, who—they warn—will destroy their supporters and the country.
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Washington Monthly and New York Post
Penelope Green / New York Times:
Maxine Cheshire, Who Chronicled Beltway Scandals, Dies at 90 — A star society reporter for The Washington Post, she was the scourge of presidents, foreign operatives and philandering politicians. — The first time Maxine Cheshire encountered Jacqueline Kennedy, then a young senator's wife …
Mimi Montgomery / Washingtonian:
Where Does Abby Phillip Go From Here? … Abby Phillip's breakthrough moment came during those tense, hazy days after the election, when results were still rolling in, election nerds were toggling back and forth between Steve Kornacki and John King, and the networks hadn't yet called it for Joe Biden.