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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Trump Emerges From Impeachment Trial With Sturdy Backing From GOP Voters — 54% would support him in a hypothetical 2024 primary, a return to pre-riot numbers — 59% of GOP voters said Trump should play a “major role” in the Republican Party going forward, up 18 points since a Jan. 6-7 survey.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Adam Kinzinger's Lonely Mission — Censured by his party and shunned by family members, Mr. Kinzinger, a six-term Illinois Congressman, is pressing Republicans to leave Donald Trump behind — and risking his career doing so. — WASHINGTON — As the Republican Party censures …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans can't quit Trump — DRIVING THE DAY — While the rest of the country wants less DONALD TRUMP, Republicans just can't quit him. Our flash POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted in the days following the Senate trial shows that despite the impeachment …
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New York Times:
Read the document — Below is a letter to Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, from several of his family members who support former President Trump. The Times has redacted the names of some family members who signed the letter but whom we did not interview.
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Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
The Trumpiest Republicans Are At The State And Local Levels — Not In D.C.
The Trumpiest Republicans Are At The State And Local Levels — Not In D.C.
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
N.A.A.C.P. Sues Trump and Giuliani Over Election Fight and Jan. 6 Riot — The civil rights group brought the suit on behalf of Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, with other Democrats in Congress expected to join as plaintiffs. — WASHINGTON — The N.A.A.C.P. on Tuesday morning filed …
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Democratic congressman sues Trump over role in Capitol riot — WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic congressman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and of conspiring with his lawyer and extremist groups to try to prevent …
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Maya King / Politico:
NAACP sues Trump and Giuliani after Jan. 6 riots — On the heels of the Senate's acquittal of Donald Trump, the NAACP, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson and civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll filed a lawsuit against the former president, Rudy Giuliani and two white supremacist groups …
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Jessica Schneider / CNN:
Leading House Democrat sues Donald Trump under a post-Civil War law for conspiracy to incite US Capitol riot
Leading House Democrat sues Donald Trump under a post-Civil War law for conspiracy to incite US Capitol riot
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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Lawsuit accuses Donald Trump, Giuliani and others of conspiring to incite Capitol riot
Lawsuit accuses Donald Trump, Giuliani and others of conspiring to incite Capitol riot
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Houston Chronicle:
What went wrong with the Texas power grid? — Millions of Texans were without heat and electricity Monday as snow, ice and frigid temperatures caused a catastrophic failure of the state's power grid. — The Texas power grid, powered largely by wind and natural gas, is relatively well equipped …
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Amanda Becker / The 19th:
Some Lincoln Project founders knew about sexual harassment allegations as early as March — The revelation comes as the political group releases workers from nondisclosure agreements. — Some of the leaders of the embattled Lincoln Project knew about sexual harassment allegations …
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Tracy Connor / The Daily Beast:
Lincoln Project Chiefs Knew of Weaver Abuse Claims in March 2020, Months Earlier Than They Have Said: Report
Lincoln Project Chiefs Knew of Weaver Abuse Claims in March 2020, Months Earlier Than They Have Said: Report
Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Ron Johnson on Jan. 6 Capitol attack: 'This didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me' — MADISON - Two days after members of the U.S. Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump on charges of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Wisconsin's senior senator is questioning whether an armed insurrection even occurred.
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Marc Levy / Associated Press:
Amid growing backlash, Pennsylvania GOP may censure Toomey — HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's Republican Party is planning a meeting to potentially censure U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey amid a growing GOP backlash over his vote to convict Donald Trump during the former president's second impeachment trial …
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Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
Mitt Romney accused of being ‘deep state’ agent in proposed censure motion
Mitt Romney accused of being ‘deep state’ agent in proposed censure motion
Marc Rod / Jewish Insider:
David Schoen describes dysfunction within Trump's impeachment team … Despite winning former President Donald Trump an acquittal in his second impeachment trial on Saturday, Trump's defense team was plagued by inconsistent internal communication and coordination, last minute shake-ups …
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Mitch McConnell / Wall Street Journal:
Acquittal Vindicated the Constitution, Not Trump — House managers wanted us to rush through a sham trial. Instead we did our duty to the rule of law. — Jan. 6 was a shameful day. A mob bloodied law enforcement and besieged the first branch of government.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Covid wars launch DeSantis into GOP ‘top tier’ — MIAMI — Ron DeSantis once drew national scorn for his stewardship of Florida's Covid-19 response — critics took to referring to the governor as “DeathSantis” for his resistance to restrictive measures. — But that very blowback …
Politico:
GOP tries to weaponize pandemic-exhausted parents against Biden — Distraught and exhausted parents are emerging as a new class of voters that could torment President Joe Biden — and the White House is moving quickly to head off the pain. — Nearing a year into the pandemic …
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Abdulqahar Balkhi / Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan:
Open letter to the people of the United States of America — As you may already be aware, every nation aspires to live a life in accordance with their own principles and values free from the fear of threats, invasions and attacks. Our struggle for the past nineteen years in Afghanistan …
Matthew Gault / Wired:
Billionaires See VR as a Way to Avoid Radical Social Change — Tech oligarchs are encouraging the creation of virtual worlds as a cheap way to avoid problems in the real one. — THE FUTURE OF virtual reality is far more than just video games. Silicon Valley sees the creation of virtual worlds …
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Laura Bassett / Elle:
Jennifer Carroll Foy Almost Died After Childbirth Because—Like Many Black Women—Her Pain Was Dismissed — Her personal experience is part of why she's running to be the nation's first Black woman governor — Jennifer Carroll Foy, a public defender and mother of twins who's running …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The truth about Cuomo — As the pandemic took hold of the United States last March, upending life as Americans knew it, Trump offered little consolation. The president claimed COVID would magically disappear in a few weeks, promoted miracle cures, and dismissed any criticism of his chaotic response as a “hoax.”
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Financial Times:
China targets rare earth export curbs to hobble US defence industry — Beijing asks industry executives if proposed restrictions will harm western contractors — China is exploring limiting the export of rare earth minerals that are crucial for the manufacture of American F-35 fighter jets …
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United States Department of State:
The Houthis Must Cease the Assault on Marib — The United States urges the Houthis to halt their advance on Marib and cease all military operations and turn to negotiations. The Houthis' assault on Marib is the action of a group not committed to peace or to ending the war afflicting the people of Yemen.
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Pizzagate's violent legacy … Play Video — SALISBURY, N.C. — He slipped out of bed before sunrise and started driving, spurred by the conspiracy theory he would soon help make famous. As he sped the 350 miles from his hometown in North Carolina to the nation's capital …
Joshua Leifer / Jewish Currents:
Israel's Islamists Side with Netanyahu — BY THE SUMMER OF 2020, it seemed all but certain that the Joint List, the coalition of Arab-led parties in Israel's Knesset, was headed toward a split. In July, a vote on whether to send a bill to ban LGBT “conversion therapy” …
Alex Kotch / EXPOSEDbyCMD:
Parler Is Now in the Hands of a Right-Wing Activist Seeking a Radical Rewrite of the Constitution — The board of the far-right social media app Parler has fired its CEO and put the platform in the hands of interim CEO Mark Meckler and right-wing British political operative Matthew Richardson …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Exclusive: Gannett, McClatchy team up to sell ads — Two of the country's biggest local news companies are joining forces to sell national ads to their combined reach of over 300 local communities. — Why it matters: There aren't many great options for Fortune 500 companies to buy ads …
Scott Rosenberg / Axios:
After Trump, the attention economy deflates — Politicians, celebrities and business leaders are trying to adapt to a new world beyond the attention inflation of the Trump era — one where the volume of attention-getting statements and actions has dropped and the value and impact of individual events may rise.