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Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Erik Prince, Trump Ally, Violated Libya Arms Embargo, U.N. Report Says — Mr. Prince offered to supply weapons, drones and mercenaries to a Libyan militia commander seeking to overthrow the government, according to U.N. investigators. — NAIROBI, Kenya — Erik Prince …
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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Blueprint for a raid: Documents shed light on plan to buy U.S. helicopter gunships for assault on Tripoli — The commandos for hire who landed in Benghazi in June 2019 had arranged, at great expense, to procure every weapon and tool needed for an assault on Libya's government.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Six Individuals Affiliated with the Oath Keepers Indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for Conspiracy to Obstruct Congress on Jan. 6, 2021 — WASHINGTON, D.C. -This week, six additional individuals associated with an organization known as the Oath Keepers, some of whose members were among …
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Washington Post:
U.S. alleges wider Oath Keepers conspiracy, adds more defendants in Jan. 6 Capitol riot — U.S. authorities on Friday alleged a broader conspiracy by Oath Keepers to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, charging six new individuals who appeared to be members or associates of the right-wing group.
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Law & Crime, Politico, Al Jazeera, IJR and Talking Points Memo
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
‘I Can Bring My Gun?’: Retired Couple Among Six Oath Keepers Charged With Conspiracy in Capitol Riots — Bennie and Sandra Parker, a retired couple from Ohio, allegedly plotted with other members of the far-right paramilitary group to storm the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
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Associated Press, Bloomberg, BuzzFeed News, IJR and Raw Story
New York Times:
More Oath Keeper Suspects Charged in Capitol Riot Plot
More Oath Keeper Suspects Charged in Capitol Riot Plot
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USA Today, NPR, Reuters, Raw Story and Law & Crime
Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
Trump Hotel Employees Reveal What It Was Really Like Catering to the Right Wing Elite … Everyone knew Table 72 belonged to the President. The round booth in the middle of the Trump Hotel's mezzanine was impossible to miss. It didn't matter how many Congress members were clamoring …
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
One night in Cancun: Ted Cruz's disastrous decision to go on vacation during Texas storm crisis — The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights — Usually, it takes at least one full day in Cancun to do something embarrassing you'll never live down.
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Vanity Fair:
The “Absolute and Abject Failure” of the GOP: Democratic Stars Joe Neguse and Beto O'Rourke on Trump, Cruz, and Finding Hope
The “Absolute and Abject Failure” of the GOP: Democratic Stars Joe Neguse and Beto O'Rourke on Trump, Cruz, and Finding Hope
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
How a Disaster Vacation Could Take Down Ted Cruz
How a Disaster Vacation Could Take Down Ted Cruz
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NBC News:
Joe Manchin comes out against Neera Tanden as Biden's OMB chief, imperiling nomination … WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said Friday he will oppose Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget, imperiling the prospects of a high-profile nominee of President Joe Biden.
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Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Tanden on the Ropes as OMB Director — Opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin in an evenly divided Senate could sink her nomination. On deck: Gene Sperling. — Neera Tanden, President Biden's nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, appears before the Senate Committee on the Budget …
New York Times:
Live Updates: Texans Are on the Hunt for Food and Clean Water — Residents at Granada Homes, a 200-unit low-income housing residence for seniors in downtown San Antonio, have been without heat or water since Sunday, leaving them unable to shower or flush their toilets all week as a frigid winter storm seized Texas.
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Texas journalists are providing critical information about a disaster they're living through — Among millions of Texans who survived without electricity or water this week were hundreds of local journalists, responsible for publishing crucial information about the deadly winter storm while they were at its mercy.
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Salon, Media Matters for America, The Texas Tribune and New York Post
Greg Olear / PREVAIL:
Lone Star Failed State
Lone Star Failed State
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Politico, Dallas Morning News and Washington Post
Jeremy Wallace / Houston Chronicle:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is Houston-bound with $2 million to help Texans after winter storm
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is Houston-bound with $2 million to help Texans after winter storm
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Los Angeles Times Owner Exploring Sale of Company — Patrick Soon-Shiong seeks exit after less than three years at the helm, as losses mount — Billionaire biotech investor Patrick Soon-Shiong is exploring a sale of the Los Angeles Times less than three years after buying it for $500 million, people familiar with the matter said.
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Wall Street Journal:
Pfizer Vaccine Is Highly Effective After One Dose and Can Be Stored in Normal Freezers, Data Shows — Peer-reviewed study comes as some governments debate whether to delay second vaccine doses — The Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE generates robust immunity …
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James Hamblin / The Atlantic:
A Quite Possibly Wonderful Summer — Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. — The summer of 2021 is shaping up to be historic. — After months of soaring deaths and infections …
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The Week and Political Wire
Carter Sherman / VICE:
‘Leftist Scum’ Memer Raised $400K for Planned Parenthood as a Special Tribute to Rush Limbaugh — “You know how to stop abortion?” Limbaugh once said. “Require that each one occur with a gun.” — CS — When Tommy Marcus learned that Rush Limbaugh had died, he grieved …
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Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Fox News Anchor Bill Hemmer Warns Cancel Culture Could ‘Come After Bible Characters Next’ — Cancel culture could “come after Bible characters next,” warned Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer on Friday, during a segment about Chicago putting dozens of its monuments under review.
TMZ.com:
Kim Kardashian Files for Divorce from Kanye West — Kim Kardashian has filed to divorce Kanye West after almost 7 years of marriage, but our sources say it's as amicable as a divorce can be. — Kim is asking for joint legal and physical custody of the couple's 4 kids.
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New York Times:
Republicans Struggle to Derail Increasingly Popular Stimulus Package — Polls show a $1.9 trillion rescue plan polls strongly across the country, including with many Republican voters, despite a scattershot series of attacks from congressional Republicans. — WASHINGTON — Republicans …
Marty Makary / Wall Street Journal:
We'll Have Herd Immunity by April — Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news. — Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we'd call it a miracle pill.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Steve Bannon's vile threats show the GOP's radicalization is getting worse — A raft of new developments shows that the GOP civil war over Donald Trump's legacy is intensifying. A top Senate Republican has now suggested that candidates in the former president's mold are unelectable.
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
MAGA crashes into moderates in train-wreck Senate race
MAGA crashes into moderates in train-wreck Senate race
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Karen Heller / Washington Post:
He was locked up at age 15. Almost seven decades later, he's reentering an unfamiliar world. — PHILADELPHIA — On a snow-flecked morning earlier this month, Joe Ligon stepped from his lawyer's car, his gait deliberate yet steady, his hair as white as cotton.
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
The Rise and Fall of the L. Brent Bozells — In The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, a classic 1943 film that traces, in vaguely allegorical fashion, half a century's evolution in England's national character, the actress Deborah Kerr plays a series of roles that represent changing incarnations of the ideal British woman.
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Emily Singer / The American Independent:
2nd Amendment defender Lauren Boebert upset others might want to amend Constitution — Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) doesn't seem to understand how the Constitution works. — Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is trying to defend herself from backlash after she went on a tirade on Thursday to demand …
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HuffPost, The Hill and Above the Law
Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
An 11-year-old boy died in an unheated Texas mobile home. Authorities suspect hypothermia. — Even though he was still in bed after 2 p.m. on Tuesday under a pile of blankets in their unheated mobile home in Conroe, Tex., Maria Elisa Pineda wasn't concerned when she checked on her son.
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Bari Weiss / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Whistleblower at Smith College Resigns Over Racism — Jodi Shaw made less in a year than the cost of tuition. She was offered a settlement, but turned it down. Here's why. — We all know that something morally grotesque is swallowing liberal America. Almost no one wants to risk talking about it out loud.
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Michael Kaplan / New York Post:
Columbia professor: I do heroin regularly for ‘work-life balance’ — Carl Hart is a Columbia University professor of psychology and neuroscience. He chairs the psych department and has a fondness for heroin - not only as a subject of scholarly pursuit but also as a substance for personal use.
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Lorraine Ali / Los Angeles Times:
Review: HBO's devastating ‘Allen v. Farrow’ is a nail in the coffin of Woody Allen's legacy — Is Woody Allen's career finally toast? — The question has been asked frequently in recent decades, both in response to a midcareer slump and, later, as the #MeToo movement brought new scrutiny …
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
The Virginia G.O.P. Voted on Its Future. The Losers Reject the Results. — In a sign of the Trump era's lingering alternate realities, Republicans in the struggling state party are refusing to move forward with a new system for choosing nominees. — ARLINGTON, Va. — The Republican Party …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge tosses Nunes' libel suit against CNN — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit Rep. Devin Nunes filed in 2019 claiming he was libeled by CNN in reports alleging he was involved in an effort to dig up Ukraine-related dirt on Joe Biden. — In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Court …
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Peter Heck / Disrn:
Cartoon Network pushes “anti-racism,” lecturing kids to “see color” in new PSA — A controversial new public service announcement from Cartoon Network encourages children to “see color” when they look at other kids. Only by looking through the lens of color, it says, can a person learn to be anti-racist.
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was targeted by gunman, federal judge tells ‘60 Minutes’ — Federal judge tears up over late son: I can't describe the pain — (CNN)US District Court Judge Esther Salas said that a gunman who killed her son and wounded her husband in 2020 had also set his sights …
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Francesca Bacardi / Page Six:
Joe Biden's brother Frank parties maskless at Floyd Mayweather's birthday — He's partying like it's 1999 — and there's no COVID-19 pandemic at all. — President Joe Biden's younger brother threw caution to the wind Thursday night as he joined a crowd of maskless revelers …