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Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair:
“I Will Destroy You”: Biden Aide Threatened a Politico Reporter Pursuing a Story on His Relationship — Deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo lashed out at journalist Tara Palmeri, spurring conversations between Politico's brass and the White House—and raising questions about behavior tolerated in the Biden administration.
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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
The White House Response to the TJ Ducklo Story Should Remind Reporters: Press Staff Are Not Your Friends. — He got a one-week suspension for alleged awful behavior. So much for the Biden administration's “deep respect” for the press. — When White House press secretary Jen Psaki gave …
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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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Politico:
Senate GOP gripped by conviction vote intrigue — Six GOP senators voted this week to move forward with President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. But Republicans believe several more of them may be considering conviction. — As the Trump defense made its argument on Friday …
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
The ‘Sound And Fury’ Of Trump's Impeachment Trial Signifies Something Sinister For America
The ‘Sound And Fury’ Of Trump's Impeachment Trial Signifies Something Sinister For America
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Trump impeachment defense team puts Democrats on trial for past hot rhetoric: ‘Stop the hypocrisy’
Trump impeachment defense team puts Democrats on trial for past hot rhetoric: ‘Stop the hypocrisy’
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's impeachment defense centers on both having and eating cake
Trump's impeachment defense centers on both having and eating cake
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CNN:
Three GOP senators meet with Trump's lawyers on eve of impeachment defense presentation
Three GOP senators meet with Trump's lawyers on eve of impeachment defense presentation
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Washington Post:
Who's talking the most during Trump's second impeachment trial
Who's talking the most during Trump's second impeachment trial
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Buzz: Trump to unleash after trial, Cheney on his ‘list,’ GW's hair, JFK's sweater to auction
Buzz: Trump to unleash after trial, Cheney on his ‘list,’ GW's hair, JFK's sweater to auction
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump legal defense will argue impeachment trial is unconstitutional
Trump legal defense will argue impeachment trial is unconstitutional
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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.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Nikki Haley criticizes Trump and says he has no future in the GOP
Nikki Haley criticizes Trump and says he has no future in the GOP
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
New Allegations of Cover-Up by Cuomo Over Nursing Home Virus Toll — In a leaked conversation, the governor's top aide admitted that data was withheld on nursing homes, where more than 10,000 New Yorkers have died during the pandemic. — ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and his top aides …
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New York Post:
Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn't find out
Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn't find out
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Top Republicans call for Cuomo's ouster following nursing home revelation
Top Republicans call for Cuomo's ouster following nursing home revelation
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Firing Actors for Being Conservative Is Another Hollywood Blacklist — In the 1950s, Hollywood studios — under pressure from the right — promised they would not “knowingly employ a communist.” This blacklist eventually became notorious, especially in Hollywood, which came to lionize its victims in several films.
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Andreas Wiseman / Deadline:
Gina Carano Hits Back, Announces New Movie Project With Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire: “They Can't Cancel Us If We Don't Let Them” — EXCLUSIVE: Less than 24 hours after her explosive ouster from Star Wars series The Mandalorian for incendiary social media posts, Gina Carano has hit back at her detractors …
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Tim Pearce / The Daily Wire:
Gina Carano To Produce And Star In Upcoming Film For The Daily Wire
Gina Carano To Produce And Star In Upcoming Film For The Daily Wire
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ABC News:
CDC says schools can open safely even in COVID-19 hot spots if certain steps are taken — Schools in “red zones” can reopen full-time with regular surveillance testing. — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. — Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
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Wall Street Journal:
CDC Presses K-12 Schools to Reopen
CDC Presses K-12 Schools to Reopen
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Associated Press:
CDC: Strong evidence in-person schooling can be done safely
CDC: Strong evidence in-person schooling can be done safely
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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.
USA Today:
Take whatever COVID vaccine you can get. All of them stop death and hospitalization. — Waiting for a more effective vaccine is actually the worst thing you can do to lower your risk of getting severely ill and dying of COVID-19. — Almost every day, we get the same questions from family …
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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.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats have one big weapon left against Trump. Will they use it? — Evidence is mounting that Donald Trump knew Mike Pence was in grave danger from the mob rampaging into the Capitol when the then-president sent out a tweet blasting his vice president.
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Brad Bannon / The Hill:
Biden has a choice that could make or break him — President Biden has a choice that could make or break his presidency. — He can go big and rely on Senate Democrats to pass a $1.9 trillion pandemic stimulus package or he can accept a less expensive and less effective package that might attract a few Republican votes.
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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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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's version of an insanity defense: His critics are insane — In the summer of 2015, two months after Donald Trump announced he was running for president, a blogger named Esther Goldberg read a Washington Post column by the conservative commentator George F. Will that accused Trump of being phony, vulgar and unprincipled.
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Two officers who helped fight the Capitol mob died by 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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Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
6-Month Delay In Census Redistricting Data Could Throw Elections Into Chaos — The 2020 census data needed for the redrawing of voting districts around the country are extremely delayed and now expected by Sept. 30. — A senior Democratic aide who was briefed by the Census Bureau on Friday …
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ProPublica:
“I Don't Trust the People Above Me”: Riot Squad Cops Open Up About Disastrous Response to Capitol Insurrection — Interviews with 19 current and former officers show how failures of leadership and communication put hundreds of Capitol cops at risk and allowed rioters to get dangerously close to members of Congress.
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Donors Fume: 'It's Bullshit' Biden Hasn't Called About Ambassadorships — “People are starting to second-guess whether or not they're qualified, whether or not they overshot the countries that they're qualified for,” one party bundler said. — They wrote massive checks.
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George Will / Washington Post:
Will Senate Republicans allow their louts to rule the party? — The first of this century's national traumas is denoted by two numbers: 9/11. One purpose of, and a sufficient justification for, the second impeachment of the 45th president was to inscribe this century's second trauma in the nation's memory as: 1/6.