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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“We Lost the Line”: Trump Is on the Brink of Yet Another Senate Acquittal — Republican senators ran for their lives, but they will not run from the former President. — A few hours into the presentation of the House managers' case against Donald Trump, for inciting the mob that stormed …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Even with acquittal, GOP sees trial ending Trump's shot at future office — Senate Republicans, including those who do not plan to vote to convict former President Trump, say this week's impeachment trial has effectively ended any chance of him becoming the GOP presidential nominee in 2024.
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CNN:
Three GOP senators meet with Trump's lawyers on eve of impeachment defense presentation — (CNN)A trio of Republican senators allied with former President Donald Trump met with his defense team Thursday evening, in the middle of an impeachment trial in which they will vote on whether …
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Hawley and Blunt deepen Missouri's embarrassment by refusing to see Trump's guilt
Hawley and Blunt deepen Missouri's embarrassment by refusing to see Trump's guilt
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP senators praise impeachment managers but say Trump will be acquitted
GOP senators praise impeachment managers but say Trump will be acquitted
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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
GOP Senators Increasingly Absent From Impeachment Trial As Weariness Grows
GOP Senators Increasingly Absent From Impeachment Trial As Weariness Grows
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Politico:
Nikki Haley's Choice — The 2024 hopeful can't decide who she wants to be—the leader of the post-Trump GOP or a “friend” to the president who tried to sabotage democracy.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Could McConnell surprise us all? — DRIVING THE DAY — BREAKING OVERNIGHT — LINCOLN PROJECT MELTDOWN: Late Thursday night, the Lincoln Project published what appeared to be the private Twitter messages of its recently departed co-founder JENNIFER HORN …
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Miranda Green / New York Magazine:
The Predator in the Lincoln Project John Weaver used his power to get jobs for young men he allegedly harassed. His colleagues were warned. — Alex Johnson was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, pursuing a career in politics, when he first heard from John Weaver, the legendary Republican operative living nearby.
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New York Times:
Former Lincoln Project Workers Ask to Be Released From Nondisclosure Agreements — Leaders of the anti-Trump group came under fire from former workers who want to talk about John Weaver, a co-founder who harassed young men. — Leaders of the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump media venture …
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Mitch McConnell still isn't talking to Trump. But will he vote to acquit him?
Power Up: Mitch McConnell still isn't talking to Trump. But will he vote to acquit him?
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New York Post:
Cuomo aide admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn't find out — Governor Cuomo's top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state's nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear the true numbers would “be used against us” …
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Washington Post:
Mounting evidence suggests Trump knew of danger to Pence when he attacked him as lacking ‘courage’ amid Capitol siege — Mounting evidence emerging as former president Donald Trump's impeachment trial unfolds in the Senate this week indicates Trump may have been personally informed …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
The GOP Stands in Judgment of Trump — and Its Own Future — What it takes to remain unconvinced by convincing evidence. — On Aug. 7, 1974, Richard Nixon, embroiled in the Watergate investigation, met in the White House with three senior Republican legislators.
New York Times:
Trump Was Sicker Than Acknowledged With Covid-19 — When hospitalized with the coronavirus in October, his blood oxygen levels had plunged and officials feared he was on the verge of being placed on a ventilator. — WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump was sicker with Covid-19 in October …
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Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Two officers who helped fight the Capitol mob died of suicide. Many more are hurting. — Engulfed in the crush of rioters storming the Capitol, D.C. police officer Jeffrey Smith sent his wife a text that spoke to the futility and fears of his mission. — “London has fallen,” …
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Officers' Injuries, Including Concussions, Show Scope of Violence at Capitol Riot
Officers' Injuries, Including Concussions, Show Scope of Violence at Capitol Riot
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Marc Thiessen / Washington Post:
Biden owes the Capitol Police an apology
Biden owes the Capitol Police an apology
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
The most influential Democrat you never hear from — Kyrsten Sinema doesn't often make big policy pronouncements. But when she does, Democrats had better listen. — Take the $15 hourly minimum wage that Democratic leaders want to add to a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.
Bret Stephens / New York Post:
Read the column the New York Times didn't want you to read — Last weekend, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a piece criticizing the rationale behind the forced ouster of Times reporter Donald J. McNeil, but it was never published. Stephens told colleagues the column was killed by publisher A.G. Sulzberger.
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Samantha Melamed / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Nation's oldest juvenile lifer, Joe Ligon, leaves Pa. prison after 68 years — Leaving the State Correctional Institution Phoenix in Montgomery County on Thursday morning, his white hair peeking out below a prison-issue hat, Joe Ligon was accompanied by a dozen large file boxes.
Washington Post:
Biden administration to move Friday to rescind Medicaid work requirements — The Biden administration is planning Friday to wipe out one of the core health policies of the Trump era, taking actions that will immediately rescind permission for states to compel poor residents to work in exchange for receiving Medicaid benefits.
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Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
Biden to begin admitting migrants forced by Trump to wait in Mexico
Biden to begin admitting migrants forced by Trump to wait in Mexico
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Arelis Hernández / Washington Post:
Asylum seekers stuck in Mexico are frustrated, angry over Biden administration's release of some migrants into U.S.
Asylum seekers stuck in Mexico are frustrated, angry over Biden administration's release of some migrants into U.S.
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Dallas Morning News:
Lawsuit: Texas AG Ken Paxton swapped political favors for home remodel, job for alleged ‘mistress’ — The new allegations offer up the most detailed theory to date about why Paxton helped Austin real estate developer Nate Paul even as his top aides balked at his behavior.
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Martin Gould / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘openly cheated’ on her husband of 25 years with a polyamorous tantric sex guru and then moved on to another affair with the manager at her gym — Marjorie Taylor Greene had affairs with tantric sex guru Craig Ivey …
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Politico:
The Chamber embraces Biden. And Republicans are livid. — Washington's most powerful trade group is having a political identity crisis. — Over the past month, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has taken a series of steps that have enraged its traditional Republican allies.
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Michael Levenson / New York Times:
Grand Jury Votes Not to Indict Buffalo Police Officers Accused of Shoving Protester — The officers had been charged with assault after a widely shared video showed them pushing Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester who landed hard on the sidewalk. — A grand jury has declined to indict …
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Washington Post:
Former FBI official, a Navy veteran, is ‘key figure’ in Jan. 6 riot, prosecutors allege — A former U.S. Navy intelligence officer and FBI official from Virginia has emerged as a key figure in the federal investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, as U.S. prosecutors alleged Thursday …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump disengaged from her husband's second impeachment trial and bitter over Jill Biden's publicity — (CNN)While former President Donald Trump watches his second impeachment trial unfold, Melania Trump spends most of her time post-White House relaxing at the spa and staying out of the fray.
Washington Examiner:
With Biden, teachers unions are getting what they paid for — President Biden has made abundantly clear that he cares more about the teachers unions than he does about the parents and students they're hurting. For an explanation, all you have to do is follow the money.
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Biden Trims Ambitions on School Reopening Pledge
Biden Trims Ambitions on School Reopening Pledge
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rebuffs Alabama's Effort to Bar Pastor From Execution Chamber — The case was the latest in a series of disputes over the presence of spiritual advisers in execution chambers that have bitterly divided the justices. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court late Thursday night …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
What Happened to Officer Sicknick? — Democratic impeachment managers have a duty to explain how Officer Sicknick died. — n its article of impeachment, the Democrat-controlled House alleged that former president Donald Trump, by his “incitement of insurrection,” was responsible for murder.
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Nathan Jeffay / The Times of Israel:
It works: 0 deaths, only 4 severe cases among 523,000 fully vaccinated Israelis — HMO data a week after 2nd dose shows 93% effectiveness, ‘unequivocally’ proving vaccine's success and leaving ‘no doubt’ it's saved many Israeli lives, says Maccabi official — 1,652 shares
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