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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets — The hiring of Alexi McCammond, who was supposed to start at the Condé Nast publication next week, drew complaints because of racist and homophobic tweets she had posted a decade ago. — Alexi McCammond, who made her name …
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The Daily Beast:
Teen Vogue's New Top Editor Out After Backlash Over Old Racist Tweets — The Condé-owned outlet's new editor has exited the job just days before she was set to take on the gig. … Just days before she was set to begin the job, Teen Vogue's new editor-in-chief is out at the publication …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Intel revelations raise difficult questions for several Republicans — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) this week released a declassified intelligence community assessment on foreign threats to our 2020 elections, and the top-line takeaway was important …
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William Saletan / Slate:
A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset — Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the United States. That's been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S. Intelligence …
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Patrick Reevell / ABC News:
Putin challenges Biden to debate after president calls him a ‘killer’
Putin challenges Biden to debate after president calls him a ‘killer’
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Associated Press:
Biden to meet with Stacey Abrams on trip to Georgia — During his visit to Atlanta on Friday, President Joe Biden will meet with former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who has been widely credited with helping flip the former Republican stronghold blue.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Democrats Need to Move Fast and Fix Things
Democrats Need to Move Fast and Fix Things
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Joe Biden's quietly revolutionary first 100 days
Joe Biden's quietly revolutionary first 100 days
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Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
A Private Jet of Rich Trumpers Wanted to “Stop the Steal”—But They Don't Want You to Read This — These powerful Memphis figures reveal the rift in a segregated society. — At 12:11 p.m. on January 5, an eight-seat Bombardier Challenger 300 jet took off from Memphis International Airport.
CNN:
McCarthy tries to rewrite history by claiming that he didn't back Trump's efforts to overturn the election — McCarthy claims he never backed Trump's effort to overturn election — (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tried to rewrite history on Thursday by claiming that he was not involved …
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CNN:
Blinken warns China of need to respect global order or face a ‘more violent world’ at first meeting — (CNN)US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told senior Chinese officials on Thursday that he and national security adviser Jake Sullivan intend to discuss their “deep concerns” …
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Washington Field Office Releases Videos of Assaults on Officers at U.S. Capitol, Seeks Public's Help to Identify Suspects — The FBI's Washington Field Office has released new information and videos of suspects in the most egregious assaults on federal officers during the riots …
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Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
Judge Rules Some Ghislaine Maxwell Details Are Too ‘Sensational and Impure’ to Be Revealed to the Public — A federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday ruled on a series of redactions proposed by Ghislaine Maxwell and prosecutors regarding a compilation of transcripts submitted under seal by the government last month.
Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
Armie Hammer Being Investigated by LAPD After Woman Comes Forward With Violent Rape Allegation … The anonymous woman who first posted allegations against Armie Hammer on social media has publicly come forward. — “I thought that he was going to kill me,” the woman, named Effie …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
‘Not racially motivated’?: The Atlanta spa shootings show why the media should be wary of initial police statements — It's inevitable that reporters will have to rely heavily on law-enforcement sources in the first hours after a horrific crime. Amid chaos and wild speculation …
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CNN:
Beijing's crackdown in Xinjiang has separated thousands of children from their parents, new report claims. CNN found two of them — Tune into Anderson Cooper 360 next week to watch the exclusive footage from CNN's trip inside Xinjiang. — Xinjiang, China (CNN)It was supposed …
Sinéad Baker / Insider:
Dan Bongino says Biden is ‘boring’ and ‘a disaster for talk radio’ but that he'll do his best against him anyway — The letter F. An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. An image of a chain link. It symobilizes a website link url. A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting.
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Republicans are laying a ‘Trojan horse’ trap on infrastructure — Heads I win, tails you lose. That is Republicans' ominous warning to Democrats working to design and (to their credit!) actually pay for an infrastructure bill. — “I think the Trojan horse will be called infrastructure …
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Elizabeth Warren calls Senate filibuster racist — Signaling a coming case by progressives, Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Axios the Senate's legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes for most legislation, wasn't a creation of the founding fathers. — What she's saying …
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Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair:
Jimmy Kimmel Breaks Down in Emotional Interview With Ady Barkan — The late-night host and the dying healthcare champion shared some laughs—then things took an emotional turn. — Jimmy Kimmel's job is to make people laugh at the end of a long day, but he has become just as well-known for moments of sincerity that break the heart.
Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN:
Seriously, stop sharing your vaccine cards on social media — (CNN Business)When one of my editors recently shared a celebratory picture of his vaccine card on Instagram, I sent him a direct message: “Didn't you read our story about not posting your record? Scammers are watching!”
Joseph Loconte / National Review:
An American Defense of Britain's Constitutional Monarchy — The royal family is not simply an important part of British culture. It represents a valuable political inheritance, one to which Americans owe a great deal. — istorians may puzzle for many years over why a rambling …
Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian:
12 Republicans vote against honoring Capitol police for protecting Congress — House voted 413-12 to award congressional gold medals to all members of Capitol force for their efforts on 6 January — A dozen Republicans voted against a resolution honoring US Capitol police for their efforts …
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Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
QAnon Thinks Donald Trump's Vaccine Remarks Are Fake, Just a Very Good Imitation — QAnon followers are once again pulling in all directions as they struggle to explain why Donald Trump would urge people to get COVID-19 vaccinations, which are highly-detested among Q-conspiracists.
New York Times:
U.S. to Send Millions of Vaccine Doses to Mexico and Canada — The Biden administration has been quietly pressing Mexico to ramp up its efforts to limit the flow of migrants, clinging to a Trump policy of relying on southern neighbors to enforce America's immigration agenda.
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
The GOP's Political Nightmare: Running Against a Recovery — President Barack Obama's 2009 stimulus bill may have helped avoid a second Great Depression, but it was a political fiasco. As then-congressman Barney Frank liked to say: “Things Would've Sucked Even Worse Without Us” …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Here's the best use of Never Trumpers' energies — Some Never Trumpers — “God bless 'em,” as President Biden would say — think the Republican Party can still be reformed. I dunno, but a party that acquits a president who incited an insurrectionist mob; that still wants that person to head …
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Alex Kane / Jewish Currents:
Former AIPAC Senior Operative Launches Group to Cultivate Democratic Support for Israel — IN A SIGN of Israel advocates' growing anxiety over progressive opposition to Israeli policies, AIPAC's Director of Strategic Initiatives, Jonathan Kessler, is leaving his job at the flagship Israeli …
Politico:
Ted Cruz releases holds on Biden nominees as administration looks to get tough on Russia pipeline — Sen. Ted Cruz lifted his holds on two of President Joe Biden's top nominees on Thursday after the State Department indicated it would punish entities involved in the construction of a controversial Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline.
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Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open. — In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images.
Josefa Velasquez / THE CITY:
FBI Cuomo Probe Seeks Details on Deal to Shield Nursing Homes from COVID Lawsuits — FBI investigators probing the Cuomo administration's handling of nursing homes during the pandemic last spring are seeking information about a state budget provision that gave operators legal immunity, THE CITY has learned.
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Rod Dreher:
Damon Young: To Stop White Supremacy, Eliminate Whites — Damon Young, a black writer for The Root, a black-oriented commentary site owned by the same people who own Jezebel, Gizmodo, and The Onion (their parent company is Univision), had this to say at The Root about the Atlanta massage parlor mass murders:
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Silke Jasso / Rare.us:
Texas Wax Museum Removes Trump Figure Because People Keep Punching It — STORIES FOR YOU — LOL. I love Texas, everything about it. Especially this. Turns out Louis Tussaud's Waxworks on Alamo Plaza, located in San Antonio, decided to put away a wax figure of former President Donald Trump …
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Taylor Goldenstein / Houston Chronicle:
Poll: Most Texans support extra week of early voting, cool to GOP proposals to restrict voting — As state Republicans push to restrict voting, a new poll shows a majority of Texans want more time to vote early and do not approve of threatening voters or those who assist them with felony charges for violations.
Washington Post:
Trump faces an onslaught of legal problems, as investigations and dozens of lawsuits trail him from Washington to Florida — The district attorney is sifting through millions of pages of his tax records. The state attorney general has subpoenaed his lawyers, his bankers, his chief financial officer — even one of his sons.
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Joey Roulette / The Verge:
Biden to tap former Senator Bill Nelson as NASA chief — If confirmed, the former senator from Florida would helm NASA's return to the Moon — President Biden has tapped former Democratic Senator Bill Nelson for NASA administrator, according to three people familiar with the decision.
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
IRS warns of potential delays for major child poverty initiative in $1.9 trillion stimulus — A program authorized under the $1.9 trillion stimulus to combat child poverty is at risk of early delays, as the Internal Revenue Service grapples with its massive tax backlog and recent decision to extend the tax-filing deadline until May 17.
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Colin Zwirko / NK News:
North Korea blasts Malaysia over extradition order, says US will ‘pay due price’ — Pyongyang vowed to cut diplomatic ties with Kuala Lumpur after a DPRK citizen received an extradition order to the US — North Korea said it will cut diplomatic ties with Malaysia after the country decided …
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Not My Party: Boring But Radical — The fact that Republicans have been calling Biden radical and senile tells us more about them than him. — Slightly modified video transcript. Watch the original and subscribe to “Not My Party” on Snapchat. — So it's the middle of March now …
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy / Arizona Mirror:
Paul Gosar plans to go on a popular QAnon talk show — Weeks after Republican Congressman Paul Gosar gave a speech to a gathering of white nationalists, he is scheduled to appear on Patriots' Soapbox, a leading QAnon talk show. — “He has taken a stand against the conservative establishment …
Financial Times:
The US vaccine effect: rapid rollout starts to bear fruit — Analysis of official figures shows sharper decline in hospitalisations and deaths of older people — The rapid rollout of Covid-19 vaccines across the US is starting to work, according to a Financial Times analysis of official data …
Stephan Salisbury / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
50 tons of marble incised with the First Amendment is heading to Philadelphia — The Newseum, an interactive museum in Washington, D.C., devoted to journalism, is gone, succumbing to financial woes. It closed at the end of 2019.But while the building on Pennsylvania Avenue has since been sold …
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