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New York Times:
Officer Brian Sicknick Died After the Capitol Riot. New Videos Show How He Was Attacked. … New videos obtained by The New York Times show publicly for the first time how the U.S. Capitol Police officer who died after facing off with rioters on Jan. 6 was attacked with chemical spray.
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The Hill, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, The Week, New York Post, CBS News, NPR, BuzzFeed News, Raw Story and Politico
Axios:
Biden's New Deal: Re-engineering America, quickly — President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big — and how fast is too fast — to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America.
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HotAir, The Western Journal, Townhall, Louder With Crowder and Breitbart
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
A “nuclear winter” foretold
A “nuclear winter” foretold
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Insider, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, HuffPost, The Guardian and HotAir
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Schumer, McConnell spar over Dems' S1 election bill during rare committee appearance: ‘Shame!’
Schumer, McConnell spar over Dems' S1 election bill during rare committee appearance: ‘Shame!’
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Bloomberg, CNBC, Axios and Crooks and Liars
Angus King / Washington Post:
What happens to the filibuster depends on how Republicans play their hand — Opinion by Angus King — Angus S. King Jr., an independent, represents Maine in the U.S. Senate. — I first came to the Senate eight years ago, at the beginning of President Barack Obama's second term and when the Democrats were in the majority.
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The Hill, The Daily Poster, Wall Street Journal and Political Wire
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Saving the filibuster: Bipartisan group seeks to show Senate can work
Saving the filibuster: Bipartisan group seeks to show Senate can work
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CNN, Kansas Reflector, New York Times, IJR, Los Angeles Times, Jacobin, The National Interest and Eschaton
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Manchin calls for ‘enormous’ infrastructure package paid for with new taxes
Manchin calls for ‘enormous’ infrastructure package paid for with new taxes
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The Hill
Sarah Binder / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell is wrong. Here's the filibuster's ‘racial history.’
Mitch McConnell is wrong. Here's the filibuster's ‘racial history.’
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National Review, Florida Politics, IJR, The 19th, CBS News and Townhall
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: The public option and the push for earmarks: Nuggets from our latest poll — A few interesting nuggets from our latest POLITICO/Morning Consult poll out today: — Support for a health public option is very high: 68% of respondents said they strongly …
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Real Clear Politics, Raw Story and Los Angeles Times
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Bad News Bias — The U.S. media is offering a different picture of Covid-19 from science journals or the international media, a study finds. — Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, noticed something last year about the Covid-19 television coverage that he was watching on CNN and PBS.
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OutKick and HotAir, more at Mediagazer »
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden should fact-check the White House press corps — The White House press corps, ginned up by Republican hype, has for weeks hounded White House press secretary Jen Psaki and anyone else from the Biden administration who comes into the briefing room about what is happening at the border.
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Media Matters for America, Fox News, Twitchy, Chicago Sun-Times, National Review, Hackwhackers and HotAir
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Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
Biden Isn't Talking for a Reason
Biden Isn't Talking for a Reason
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Insider, The Week, The Hill, The National Pulse and New York Post
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Hundreds Of Far-Right Militias Are Still Organizing, Recruiting, And Promoting Violence On Facebook — When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces Congress on Thursday, to testify about extremism online, he will do so as hundreds of far-right militias, including some whose members were charged …
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The Guardian and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
New evidence suggests ‘alliance’ between Oath Keepers, Proud Boys ahead of Jan. 6 — A key member of the Oath Keepers militia told associates he had coordinated alliances with the Proud Boys and other paramilitary groups in advance of Donald Trump's Jan. 6 rally, according to new evidence filed by the Justice Department.
Karen Weintraub / USA Today:
Moncef Slaoui, former Operation Warp Speed science chief, fired by drugmaker GSK for sexual harassment — Moncef Slaoui, former scientific head of Operation Warp Speed, the government's COVID-19 vaccine development effort, has been fired by GlaxoSmithKline after an internal investigation found …
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New York Post, CBS News and STAT
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Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Kamala Harris given lead role over border by President Biden — President Biden is placing Kamala Harris in charge of addressing the substantial uptick in migrants, including unaccompanied children, flocking to the U.S.-Mexico border, handing a major political risk to his vice president.
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Politico, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, National Review, IJR, Al Jazeera and RedState
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Bloomberg:
Suez Canal Snarled by Giant Ship Choking Key Trade Route — Oil prices rise on concern waterway could be blocked for days — Incident has caused congestion for tankers, ships in the area — A giant ship could be stuck in the Suez Canal for days, blocking one of the world's busiest …
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Wall Street Journal, BBC, The Guardian, Slate, Al Arabiya, Breitbart, Al Jazeera, Forbes, Lawyers, Guns & Money and UPI
Arizona Republic:
We didn't help get Kyrsten Sinema elected so she could ensure Senate gridlock — Opinion: We asked voters to support Kyrsten Sinema so she could make progress on big issues, not stand in the way of it by supporting the filibuster. — View Comments — Arizonans accomplished something truly historic …
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Talking Points Memo
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Sidney Powell Speaks ‘Her Truth’ — The Trumpist propagandist has been forced to admit that her “facts” aren't “true.” — The Big Lie is starting to unravel. One of Trump's disinformation stars, Sidney Powell, is backing down. But while we're considering the matter of truth and lies …
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Washington Post and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Daniel Snyder to Buy Out Other Owners of Washington NFL Team — The league is expected to approve a measure that will allow Daniel Snyder to buy total control of the team. — Seeking to move past a year of tumult over the team's former name and a sexual harassment investigation of its front office …
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Washingtonian and Sports Illustrated
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John Keim / ESPN:
Jason Wright says Washington Football Team under consideration as permanent name, cites fan sentiment
Jason Wright says Washington Football Team under consideration as permanent name, cites fan sentiment
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Breitbart, UPI, The Root and ProFootballTalk
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What the Duckworth-AAPI episode revealed — DRIVING THE DAY — For months, Sen. TAMMY DUCKWORTH (D-Ill.) had been nudging the Biden administration to appoint more Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to the Cabinet — to no avail. When she brought up the issue again …
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HotAir, Washington Post, National Review, CNN and ABC News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Trump is exposing the ugly truth about the GOP plan to retake power — Opinion by — The Republican strategy for retaking power depends in no small part on undertaking maximum voter suppression and other anti-majoritarian efforts all over the country — while piously pretending …
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The Hill, Mother Jones, The American Independent, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Raw Story and New York Times
Omer Benjakob / Haaretz:
Israel Election, the Day After: The Right Gears Up for Massive ‘The Left Stole the Vote’ Campaign — Israel elections 2021: Haaretz reveals how Benjamin and Yair Netanyahu, Likud officials and their media proxies have been using the Trump (and QAnon) playbook to cast doubt over election results since April 2019
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CNN:
Videos show ally of Marjorie Taylor Greene among mob inside Capitol during January 6 riot — These are the key moments from the US Capitol riot — (CNN)Footage from the January 6 riot at the US Capitol shows a close ally of Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene inside the building.
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The Root, The Intellectualist and Raw Story
Politico:
Newsom won't pick Schiff as California AG — Rep. Adam Schiff will not become California's next attorney general, sources familiar with the talks told POLITICO. — Gov. Gavin Newsom has decided against appointing the Los Angeles area congressman to lead the state's law enforcement agency …
Yue Stella Yu / The Tennessean:
Designation of Bible as state book to hit House floor following years of failed legislative attempts — A resolution designating the Bible as the state book cleared a House committee Tuesday morning despite constitutional concerns from several lawmakers. — HJR150, carried by Rep. Jerry Sexton …
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The Hill
Philip Klein / National Review:
Unlike Obama, Biden Doesn't Even Pretend to Care about Tackling Our Historic Debt — The new president is gambling that our extraordinary deficits will never matter. — n the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden proudly ran as an “Obama-Biden Democrat.” — But there is already one important …
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Washington Examiner
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Republicans Fear Flawed Candidates Could Imperil Key Senate Seats — Races in Missouri and Alabama, with others to come, reflect the potential risks for a party in which loyalty to Donald Trump is the main criterion for securing nominations. — The entry of two hard-right candidates …
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Washington Examiner and CBS News
Ezra Marcus / New York Times:
Man Says He Found Shrimp Tails in Cinnamon Toast Crunch — Crave those crazy ... shrimp tails? — Cereal is a staple of the American breakfast table, consumed by millions of people every day and tied, for many, with memories of childhood. So when a story began circulating this week …
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The Daily Caller and The Wrap
New York Post:
The Post says: Get weapons of war off America's streets — Eight slain in Atlanta, now 10 in Boulder. Your town could be next. Can the nation finally do something about weapons of war on our streets? — President Joe Biden called Tuesday for Congress to move immediately to “ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”
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HuffPost and Big League Politics
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Wealthy Republican Conspiracy Theorist Settles Lawsuit Over Seth Rich Claims — END OF THE ROAD — The brother of a murdered Democratic staffer who was the focus of pro-Trump conspiracy theories has settled a lawsuit against a wealthy conservative who pushed the smears.
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Raw Story
John Nichols / The Nation:
Fire Louis DeJoy! — Removing the postmaster general is necessary to save the postal service, and Biden has the authority to begin the process. — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy took charge of the United States Postal Service less than a year ago and began a process of running it into the ground.
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Raw Story, ArkansasTimes, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Post
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE:
Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive — After what workers describe as a successful union-busting campaign, Ev Williams has announced to journalists who work for him that they should feel free to go. — EO — On Tuesday night, billionaire Medium CEO …
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New York Magazine, Medium, New York Times, The Hill, Althouse and The Wrap, more at Mediagazer »
Keshia Clukey / Bloomberg:
Deal Reached to Fast-Track Legalizing Marijuana in New York — New York is ready to legalize recreational marijuana. The state would impose special pot taxes and prepare to license dispensaries under an agreement reached by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders.
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The Hill
Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Zuckerberg calls for changes to tech's Section 230 protections — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will propose this week that Congress make revisions to federal internet regulations that would require platforms to have systems in place for identifying and removing unlawful content.
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Insider, Bloomberg, The Wrap and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
Sophia Eppolito / Associated Press:
Utah governor signs divisive measure to require porn filters — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is a step closer to requiring all cellphones and tablets sold in the conservative state to automatically block pornography after the Republican governor signed legislation Tuesday that critics call a significant intrusion of free speech.
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The Daily Caller, Faithwire, National Review, The Hill, The Week and Courthouse News Service
Politico:
Don't expect a @realDonaldTrump comeback — Sad news for loser @jack (chocker?) and all the haters. Despite what many people are calling “heavy demand,” @realDonaldTrump will not be returning — like a dog — to his once Favorite part of The Big, Beautiful internet.
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
James Clark / Task & Purpose:
No, the ‘presidential salute’ isn't a thing — and neither is the ‘vice presidential salute’ — The hotly debated issue of the “presidential salute” is once again making the rounds online, except this time it has broadened in scope to include the “vice presidential salute.”
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HillReporter.com, The Sun, HuffPost, Washington Examiner, Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, Human Events, Fox News, The Daily Caller and Washington Times