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Politico:
Trump gears up for war with his own party — There's no longer a chief of staff to screen his calls and he keeps no predictable working hours. So an unspoken rule has governed Donald Trump's calendar since he left Washington last month: To sit down with the former president …
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump to speak at CPAC next week — Former President Trump will speak at next week's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) conference in Florida, his first public appearance since leaving office, a source with direct knowledge tells Axios. — What we're hearing …
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Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, The New Neo, The Guardian, TheBlaze, MSNBC, ABC13 and Washington Times
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Trump to speak at CPAC in first public appearance after leaving office
Trump to speak at CPAC in first public appearance after leaving office
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RedState, CNN, The Wrap, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit and NOQ Report
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham said ‘Count me out’ after the Capitol riot. But he's all in with Trump again.
Lindsey Graham said ‘Count me out’ after the Capitol riot. But he's all in with Trump again.
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Scripting News and Daily Kos
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Trump to speak at CPAC conference in first public appearance post-White House
Trump to speak at CPAC conference in first public appearance post-White House
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Politico and The Daily Caller
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Schedules Address Before CPAC Next Sunday
Trump Schedules Address Before CPAC Next Sunday
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Associated Press, Raw Story and National File
Maria Halkias / Dallas Morning News:
Griddy customers face $5,000 electric bills for 5 freezing days in Texas — In our deregulated market, Griddy and some other power suppliers charge customers wholesale variable rates. Those plans are relatively new — and left customers frustrated after the storm.
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Griddy, Townhall, Forbes, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Hackwhackers
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
U.S. deports former Nazi guard whose wartime role was noted on card found amid sunken ship — A 95-year-old former German concentration camp guard who made a new life in Tennessee was deported to his home country Saturday after an index card found in a sunken ship helped prove his Nazi ties.
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CNN, Bloomberg, The Times of Israel and New York Post
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U.S. Department of Justice:
WWII Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Removed to Germany — Man is the 70th Nazi Persecutor Removed from the United States — Today a Tennessee resident with German citizenship was removed to Germany for participating in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving as an armed guard at a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.
Washington Post:
U.S. investigating possible ties between Roger Stone, Alex Jones and Capitol rioters — The Justice Department and FBI are investigating whether high-profile right-wing figures — including Roger Stone and Alex Jones — may have played a role in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach as part of a broader look …
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Law & Crime, emptywheel, Insider, Raw Story, The Intellectualist, Talking Points Memo, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth and Political Wire
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Is Said to Be Examining Stone's Possible Ties to Capitol Rioters — A full criminal investigation is far from certain, a person familiar with the inquiry said. — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is examining communications between right-wing extremists who breached …
Jeremy Blum / HuffPost:
Chris Christie Has No Sympathy For Ted Cruz: ‘Ted Has Just Not Been A Very Likable Guy’ — The former New Jersey governor hasn't forgotten how Cruz made fun of him for that infamous beach incident in 2017. — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Friday that he wasn't particularly …
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New York Post and Mediaite
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Ashleigh Carter / NowThis News:
AOC & Beto O'Rourke Fundraise, Provide Relief For Texas While Ted Cruz Jets Off To Mexico
AOC & Beto O'Rourke Fundraise, Provide Relief For Texas While Ted Cruz Jets Off To Mexico
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Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo, CNN and Rewire News Group
Sonam Sheth / Insider:
United Airlines says it's investigating the leak of Ted Cruz's Cancun flight information
United Airlines says it's investigating the leak of Ted Cruz's Cancun flight information
Elizabeth Janowski / NBC News:
AOC raises over $3M for Texas relief, heads to Houston after blasting Cruz for Mexico trip
AOC raises over $3M for Texas relief, heads to Houston after blasting Cruz for Mexico trip
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POLITICUSUSA, Mother Jones and REVOLT
Susan Edelman / New York Post:
Bronx educator claims she was fired after sharing Holocaust story, refusing ‘Wakanda’ salute — A veteran Bronx superintendent once praised by Chancellor Richard Carranza for her successes in the classroom claims her career was derailed by his “equity” agenda — forcing her to take a demotion …
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Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:
Veteran Bronx educator claims she was fired after refusing ‘Black Panther’ salute
Veteran Bronx educator claims she was fired after refusing ‘Black Panther’ salute
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Fox News
Charles Hilu / The College Fix:
It's time to starve colleges of students and money, conservative scholars argue — “When enough parents and students decide that colleges are no longer worth it, campuses will start to fail.” — So said John Ellis, chairman of the California Association of Scholars and distinguished professor emeritus …
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National Review
Tyler Bridges / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
James Carville, Mary Matalin moving out of $3.4M New Orleans ‘gem’; here's a look inside — James Carville and Mary Matalin — America's most famous bipartisan power couple — are selling their Uptown New Orleans mansion. — But they're not leaving town.
Tim Miller / The Triad:
The Republicans UnCivil UnWar — Mitch versus Trump? LOL no. — 1. The UnBattle of Ohio — A dour, sullen, unsmiling, political hack. This was former president Donald Trump's assessment of Mitch McConnell in a press release this week. Politico reported that Trump was persuaded …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and The Week
Tyler Pager / Politico:
The jockeying to replace Neera Tanden has begun — The Biden White House is signaling publicly and privately that it is not prepared to abandon Neera Tanden's nomination to head the Office of Management and Budget. — But almost immediately after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) …
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Political Wire, Washington Post and American Prospect
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Merrick Garland Might Actually Get to Do This Job. It Looks Daunting. — After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing — “the most important thing I have ever done in my life” — the spurned Supreme Court nominee has another chance to shape history as threats of domestic terrorism rage.
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Meet SG3: The Élite Legal Squad That Vowed to Safeguard the Election — Calling themselves the Three Amigos, a self-appointed legal SWAT team of former Solicitors General ran through all the Doomsday scenarios they could think of—except armed insurrection at the Capitol.
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Raw Story
Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
4 More States Propose Harsh New Penalties For Protesting Fossil Fuels — Industry-designed bills to silence climate protests are under consideration in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota and Montana. More are likely to come. — Dawn Goodwin spent her 50th birthday among towering pines …
Wall Street Journal:
The Texas Freeze: Why the Power Grid Failed — The state's electricity system was considered a model. This week's outages revealed shortcomings in the market structure. — A fundamental flaw in the freewheeling Texas electricity market left millions powerless and freezing in the dark this week during a historic cold snap.
The White House:
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves Texas Disaster Declaration … Yesterday, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Texas and ordered federal assistance to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storms beginning …
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Washington Post, KTUU, CBS News, CNN, FEMA.gov, POLITICUSUSA, UPI, Slate, KRON4, USA Today, Al Jazeera, Associated Press, National Review, Insider, New York Post, Vox, NPR and The Texas Tribune
Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
In a Russian court, Alexei Navalny loses again but still has the last word — MOSCOW — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny lost in court Saturday — twice — but again used his time in the dock to expound on why he stands against President Vladimir Putin, no matter the personal risk.
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New York Times
New York Times:
Venezuelan Women Lose Access to Contraception, and Control of Their Lives — Affordable birth control has disappeared, pushing many women into unplanned pregnancies at a time when they can barely feed the children they already have. — SAN DIEGO DE LOS ALTOS, Venezuela …
Francis X. Rocca / Wall Street Journal:
Pope Francis Removes Conservative African Cardinal From Vatican Post — Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea is often mentioned as a possible future pontiff — ROME— Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Robert Sarah as head of the Vatican's office for liturgy …
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NPR
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
PolitiFact Is Ticked That We Fact-Checked Their False Fact-Check Of Our Fact-Check Of Their Fact-Check — PolitiFact botched a fact-check of a fact-check in a story exposing the group's absence of a fact-check. — On Friday, PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Angie Holan twice demanded …
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Breitbart and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Democrats Beat Trump in 2020. Now They're Asking: What Went Wrong? — Disappointed by down-ballot losses, Democratic interest groups are joining forces to conduct an autopsy of the election results. Republicans do not yet seem willing to reckon with the G.O.P.'s major defeats.
Dan Merica / CNN:
‘You did the unthinkable’: Ohio's Anthony Gonzalez faces fury over impeachment vote — Medina, Ohio (CNN)To Shannon Burns, the betrayal that local Republicans felt when Ohio State wide receiver-turned-Republican-congressman Anthony Gonzalez voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump …
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Raw Story and Political Wire