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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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Washington Post, National Review and WHYY
Jessica Schneider / CNN:
Leading House Democrat sues Donald Trump under a post-Civil War law for conspiracy to incite US Capitol riot — (CNN)Former President Donald Trump and attorney Rudy Giuliani are being accused of conspiring with the far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to incite the January 6 insurrection …
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Politico, Washington Examiner, Wall Street Journal, The Gateway Pundit, IJR and The American Independent
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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Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Bloomberg and VICE
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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CNBC, BuzzFeed News, CNN, POLITICUSUSA, The Guardian and Raw Story
Russell Contreras / Axios:
NAACP sues Trump for inciting Capitol riot
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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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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The Western Journal, Fox News, NRCC, Washington Post, IJR, Daily Kos, Breitbart, The Daily Caller and New York Post
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 …
New York Times:
Read the document — Below is a letter to Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois …
Read the document — Below is a letter to Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, HuffPost, Insider and POLITICUSUSA
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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Columbian, The National Interest, Raw Story, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Louisiana Illuminator and The Week
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
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RedState, New York Post and HotAir
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
JUST IN: New Report Alleges Steve Schmidt Was Aware of Sexual Harassment Allegations as Early as March
JUST IN: New Report Alleges Steve Schmidt Was Aware of Sexual Harassment Allegations as Early as March
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Fox News, Washington Examiner and The Hill
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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CNN:
Frozen wind turbines contribute to rolling power blackouts across Texas
Frozen wind turbines contribute to rolling power blackouts across Texas
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Ars Technica, CBS News, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, The Week, TheBlaze and Daily Kos
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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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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Sean Hannity, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Times, Law & Crime and HuffPost
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Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
New York Gov. Cuomo's Job Approval Dips as Criticism Mounts Over Nursing-Home Deaths
New York Gov. Cuomo's Job Approval Dips as Criticism Mounts Over Nursing-Home Deaths
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Forbes
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 …
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Twitchy
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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Law & Crime
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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The Bulwark, Commentary Magazine, Fox News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Twitchy, Crooks and Liars and IJR
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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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 …
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Raw Story
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 …
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Vox Finds Its Next Top Editor at The Atlantic — Swati Sharma, 34, prepares to take over the 90-person newsroom of a digital outlet known for its clearsighted articles on knotty issues in the news. — Swati Sharma, a managing editor of The Atlantic, will be the next editor in chief of Vox.com …
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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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 …
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” …
Katie Dowd / SFGATE:
Lindsey Graham threatens impeachment of Kamala Harris on Fox News appearance — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened Vice President Kamala Harris with a potential impeachment trial in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” — The interview, conducted one day after President Donald Trump …
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The Daily Caller, HotAir and The Root
Marina Watts / Newsweek:
Joe Biden, Playing as Luigi, Wins in Mario Kart Race Against Granddaughter at Camp David — How did Joe Biden relax during his first Presidents Day weekend as president? By playing MarioKart with his family. — During his weekend retreat at Camp David, Biden and his granddaughter Naomi played the racing video game, and he won.
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Defying Biden administration, Egypt again arrests relatives of Egyptian American activist — CAIRO — Egyptian security forces raided the homes of six relatives of an outspoken Egyptian American activist, arresting and imprisoning two cousins in defiance of calls by the Biden administration …
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Rep. Debbie Lesko says Americans, not Hispanics, need vaccine first; draws outrage — Rep. Debbie Lesko said Hispanics are “very good workers” but implied they are not Americans in comments she made last week during a congressional hearing on vaccine distribution plans.
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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.