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“Danger Warning”: Women Say Madison Cawthorn Harassed Them In College — Madison Cawthorn arrived at Patrick Henry College's small Christian campus in northern Virginia in fall 2016 blazing with charm, bravado, and a flashing white smile. His former classmates said the future member …
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Insider, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Political Wire
Sarah Dadouch / Washington Post:
After dissident vanishes in Canada, Saudi exiles fear they are now in jeopardy — The mysterious disappearance last month of a Saudi dissident living in Montreal after visiting the kingdom's embassy in Ottawa has sent fear rippling across Canada's community of Saudi exiles.
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
President Biden Lets a Saudi Murderer Walk — The crown prince killed my friend Jamal Khashoggi, and we do next to nothing. — The United States government publicly identified Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia as the murderer of an American resident, and then President Biden choked.
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Patrice Taddonio / FRONTLINE:
Saudi Crown Prince Approved Plan to “Capture or Kill” Columnist Jamal Khashoggi, According to Declassified U.S. Report
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Biden Won't Penalize Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi's Killing, Fearing Relations Breach
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Crushing Dissent: The Saudi Kill Team Behind Khashoggi's Death
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The New Arab, Sara A. Carter and Insider
Washington Post:
'It's Donald Trump's party': How the former president is building a political operation to cement his hold on the GOP — Any lingering doubts about Donald Trump's primacy in the Republican Party have been settled in recent weeks by the parade of petitioners he has welcomed to his Florida social club.
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One America News Network
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The Man Who Refused to Bow — adam Kinzinger is a liberated individual—liberated from his party leadership, liberated from the fear of being beaten in a primary, liberated to speak his mind. The 43-year-old representative was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump for inciting the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Analysis: Biden ambitions run into reality of Senate's rules — WASHINGTON (AP) — The early ambitions of Joe Biden's presidency are quickly running into the guardrails of archaic Senate rules, testing his willingness to remake an institution he reveres to fulfill many of the promises he has made to Americans.
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump stewing over McCarthy again ahead of big CPAC speech — DRIVING THE DAY — BREAKING OVERNIGHT — “House passes Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid package,” by Caitlin Emma and Sarah Ferris — ORLANDO, Fla. — Friday was the warm-up act at TPAC (get it?) …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and New York Post
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Golden Trump statue turning heads at CPAC was made in ... Mexico … A golden statue of Donald Trump that has caused a stir at the annual US gathering of conservatives was made in Mexico - a country the former president frequently demonized. — Mitch McConnell says he'd ‘absolutely’ support Trump as 2024 nominee
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Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:
The Democrats Are Blocking a $15 Minimum Wage — According to the Center for Economic Policy and Research, the national minimum wage in this country rose in tandem with both inflation and productivity gains in the workforce until around 1968. If this had continued, the federal minimum today would be over $24.
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Democrats Move to Salvage Minimum Wage Hike
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Dom Calicchio / Fox News:
Kevin McCarthy blasts Pelosi ‘payoff’ bill, declares ‘The Swamp is back’; Pelosi counters
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Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
House Democrats Pass $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Said to Have Singled Out Potential Assailant in Capitol Officer's Death — The death of the officer, Brian Sicknick, after the Capitol riot has been a major focus for investigators scrutinizing the attack by a pro-Trump mob. — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. has pinpointed an assailant …
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Stefanie Dazio / Associated Press:
Lady Gaga's dogs recovered safely — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lady Gaga's two French bulldogs, which were stolen by thieves who shot and wounded the dogwalker, were recovered unharmed Friday, Los Angeles police said. — A woman brought the dogs to the LAPD's Olympic Community Police Station …
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Former CPAC Chair Minces No Words Slamming What The Event, GOP Have Now Become — This year's Conservative Political Action Conference attendees “are living in an alternate reality in which facts don't matter,” said former GOP Rep. Mickey Edwards. — A former chair of the Conservative …
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The Guardian and Raw Story
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Ben Leonard / Politico:
Grenell strongly hints at run for California governor at CPAC
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The Hill and Washington Times
New York Times:
Why Opening Windows Is a Key to Reopening Schools — The C.D.C. is urging communities to reopen schools as quickly as possible, but parents and teachers have raised questions about the quality of ventilation available in public school classrooms to protect against the coronavirus.
Umair Haque / Eudaimonia and Co:
The Dems are Blowing It — What Grade Would You Give the Democrats For Their First Month in Power? Here's Mine — I'm sorry. Accept my apology in advance. I'm going to say something ugly, and many of you aren't going to like it. But it needs to be said. — The Democrats are blowing it.
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
How Marty Baron and Jeff Bezos Remade The Washington Post — The celebrated editor is ending his tenure at the helm of a very different newspaper than the one he originally signed on to run. — On July 30, 2013, Martin Baron left The Washington Post building and crossed 15th Street for an extremely rare happy hour drink.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep. Appears at White Nationalist Event Where Organizer Calls Capitol Riot ‘Awesome’ — BAD COMPANY — A sitting member of Congress appeared at a white nationalist convention Friday night, marking new GOP support for the racist movement. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) spoke in Orlando …
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Washington Post, Crooks and Liars and Political Wire
Christal Hayes / USA Today:
Republicans sued over proxy voting in the pandemic. Now they're using it to speak at CPAC. — WASHINGTON - House Republicans were furious over the summer when the House made unpresented changes allowing lawmakers to designate a proxy and vote on their behalf amid traveling concerns due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Politico:
How Trump upended the race to control the House through 2030 — Days after the 2020 election, House Democrats convened to address some of the party's most surprising losses, and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Cheri Bustos name-checked one in particular: Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a freshman from South Florida.
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Raw Story
Paul Liotta / Staten Island Advance:
Andrew Yang comes to aid of photographer attacked on Staten Island Ferry — STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Andrew Yang, a former Democratic presidential candidate and current frontrunner in the race for NYC mayor, came to the rescue of a photojournalist who was attacked Friday on the Staten Island Ferry.
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THE CITY and NBC New York
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sasse marches to own tune as GOP implodes around him — Ben Sasse is about to be censured by the Nebraska GOP for his antagonistic stance toward Donald Trump — again. But he doesn't care. — As Sasse's fellow Republican critics of Trump fret over blowback from a base that demands loyalty …
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
New Class and Neocons — Why the Red Dogs won't hunt. — 3 hr ago — Dear Reader (Including acolytes of the Apis Bull(sh*tter)), — Yesterday, a bunch of people—at least I assume they were people—emailed me a piece by Scott Alexander. They wrote: “What do you think?”
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Harvard Business School Club of NY cancels speaker from...cancel culture talk: report — The book discusses how “anti-Enlightenment beliefs” such as cancel culture, subjective truth and language as violence pose an imminent threat “not only to liberal democracy but also to modernity itself.”
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
High on Their Own Supply — Democrats work the refs. — WASHINGTON — I've been waiting for this moment. The moment when some on the left would react indignantly to journalists doing their job. — It was so enthralling and gratifying to assail Donald Trump as a liar and misogynist …
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Meg Woolhouse / wgbh.org:
Citing Racial Inequities, Boston Public Schools Suspend New Advanced Learning Classes — A selective program for high-performing fourth, fifth and sixth graders in Boston has suspended enrollment due to the pandemic and concerns about equity in the program, GBH News has learned.
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