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U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops — It was a huge election-time story that prompted cries of treason. But according to a newly disclosed assessment, Donald Trump might have been right to call it a “hoax.” — It was a blockbuster story about Russia's return …
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New York Times, Insider, RedState, Twitchy and Al Jazeera
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U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Escalates Sanctions Against the Russian Government's Attempts to Influence U.S. Elections — WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took sweeping action against 16 entities and 16 individuals who attempted to influence …
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Just Security, Insider, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Caller, emptywheel, The Verge, UPI, Washington Times, Рос … and Meduza.io, more at Techmeme »
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New Sanctions On Manafort Deputy Suggest Deeper Role Of Russian Intel In 2016 — The Biden administration slapped Konstantin Kilimnik, an assistant of Paul Manafort and alleged Russian spy, with sanctions on Thursday as it escalated economic measures against Moscow.
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Election Law Blog
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U.S. says Manafort associate passed sensitive polling data to Russian intelligence — The U.S. government has sanctioned Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian-Ukrainian political consultant indicted in the Mueller investigation in 2018, for carrying out election influence operations on behalf of Russian intelligence services.
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Raw Story
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Biden Administration to Impose Tough Sanctions on Russia
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Wall Street Journal, Reuters and РБК
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The government finally connects the line from Trump's campaign to Russian intelligence
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Imposing Costs for Harmful Foreign Activities by the Russian Government
FACT SHEET: Imposing Costs for Harmful Foreign Activities by the Russian Government
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Axios, U.S. Department …, Insider, Defense One, The Hill, American Military News, TheBlaze, Breaking Defense, Рос …, New York Times and РБК
Bloomberg:
Biden Imposes Sanctions on Russia, Restricts Buying New Debt
Biden Imposes Sanctions on Russia, Restricts Buying New Debt
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Decision to pause Johnson & Johnson vaccine causes public confidence in vaccine to sink — Economist/YouGov Poll Politics & current affairs — Fieldwork for the latest Economist/YouGov poll on vaccine safety perceptions was in the midst of being conducted when the Centers for Disease Control …
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The Most Popular J&J Vaccine Story On Facebook? A Conspiracy Theorist Posted It — CNN. ABC News. The New York Times. Fox News. — Those are the publishers of four of the five most popular Facebook posts of articles about the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine this week.
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Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Media Matters for America and HotAir, more at Mediagazer »
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The media knows much less than it thinks
The media knows much less than it thinks
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The Daily Caller, WV MetroNews and The National Interest
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Biden Finally Got to Say No to the Generals — Critics be damned, the President is ending the Forever War waged by Bush, Obama, and Trump in Afghanistan. — On Wednesday, Joe Biden announced the close of the two-decade-long American war in Afghanistan, giving the U.S. military a deadline …
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Secretary of State Blinken visits Afghanistan in surprise trip after Biden troop announcement
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New York Times:
Veterans React to Biden's Afghanistan Troop Pullout Announcement
Veterans React to Biden's Afghanistan Troop Pullout Announcement
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Washington Post
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Blinken visits Afghanistan after Biden's withdrawal decision to press for diplomacy
Blinken visits Afghanistan after Biden's withdrawal decision to press for diplomacy
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Introducing the 2021 Cook Political Report Partisan Voter Index — The Cook Political Report is pleased to introduce the post-2020 edition of the Partisan Voter Index (PVI) for all 50 states and 435 congressional districts. Although these district boundaries won't be in place …
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Political Wire
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Tucker Carlson villainizes journalists on his top-rated show. Then the threats pour in. — As the Fox host's popularity grows, he has found fodder in lesser-known media figures whom he presents as symbols of liberalism-run-amok. — Brandy Zadrozny, a reporter for NBC News who covers online extremism …
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Tucker Carlson Is Giving ‘Red Pills’ To Millions. White Nationalists Are Thrilled.
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Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Chelsea Clinton calls on Facebook to ban Tucker Carlson
Chelsea Clinton calls on Facebook to ban Tucker Carlson
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Page Array, Media Matters for America and Alternet.org
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Democrats to introduce bill to expand Supreme Court from 9 to 13 justices — WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats will introduce legislation Thursday to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices, alongside progressive activists pushing to transform the high court.
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‘Frankly, I Think Everyone Is Baffled’: Searching For Clues In SCOTUS' Abortion Silence
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Pelosi rips McConnell in new book: He's an ‘enabler of some of the worst stuff’
Pelosi rips McConnell in new book: He's an ‘enabler of some of the worst stuff’
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CDC Identifies Small Group of Covid-19 Infections Among Fully Vaccinated Patients — Incidence is rare, occurring in only 0.008% of cases and in line with expectations — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified a small cohort of approximately 5,800 cases …
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The Daily Caller, Mediaite, CNN and Political Wire
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Biden Sparks Greater Party, Education Gaps Than Predecessors — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden's job approval ratings during his first two full months in office show greater divisions by party and educational attainment than those of his recent predecessors.
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The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and Washington Examiner
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17 requests for backup in 78 minutes — A reconstruction shows how failures of planning and preparation left police at the Capitol severely disadvantaged on Jan. 6 — At 1:13 p.m. on Jan. 6, a D.C. police commander facing a swelling crowd of protesters on the west side of the U.S. Capitol …
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Raw Story and The Intellectualist
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J.D. Vance tells associates he plans to run for Senate in Ohio — J.D. Vance, venture capitalist and author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” has told friends and colleagues that he plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Axios has learned from multiple sources.
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The Daily Caller
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We spoke with 21 of Matt Gaetz's high-school classmates. Some say they could have predicted the congressman's sex scandal. — Some of Matt Gaetz's former classmates spoke exclusively with Insider about his high school days. — Gaetz, now 38, had a reputation as a know-it-all who talked over his classmates and teachers.
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HillReporter.com, HotAir and Raw Story
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Introducing Substack Local, for a new generation of local news — Today, we're announcing Substack Local, a US$1,000,000 initiative to foster and develop the local news ecosystem by helping independent writers build local news publications based on the subscription model.
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New York Times, The Hill, Nieman Lab, TechCrunch and American Press Institute, more at Mediagazer »
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Accused Capitol rioter planned an escape to Switzerland, prosecutors said. Now he'll stay in jail. — When Jeffrey Sabol returned to his Colorado home after allegedly storming the U.S. Capitol and assaulting two police officers on Jan. 6, he fried his electronic devices in the microwave …
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Christie to GOP Study Group: Call Biden Out as ‘a Liar’ — Republicans are bloodied and beaten, and maybe just a little too bashful for their own good. At least, so says Chris Christie. — Knocked back on their heels and forced to answer for every outrageous thing Donald Trump did …
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'We Just Can't Do This Anymore' — Business owners who want to hire workers are finding it impossible to compete with the pandemic relief packages' enhanced unemployment payments. — 4 hr ago — WATERVILLE, Ohio—On a typical pre-pandemic Monday morning, Dale's Diner would be buzzing.
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House panel approves bill to create commission on slavery reparations — A House committee on Wednesday approved legislation to create a commission to make recommendations on paying reparations to the descendants of enslaved people, the furthest the bill has advanced since it was first introduced more than 30 years ago.
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Inside Nancy Pelosi's War With AOC and the Squad — Adapted from Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power, to be published by Twelve Books on April 20. — “Nancy doesn't have much patience for people who don't know what they don't know.” — That was what a senior congressional …
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3 teachers resign after investigation into slavery lesson at Sun Prairie middle school — An external investigation into a lesson asking sixth-graders at a Sun Prairie middle school in February how they would punish a slave led to three teachers at the middle school resigning.
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Washington Examiner and The Hill
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Matt Gaetz's Wingman Paid Dozens of Young Women—and a 17-Year-Old — VEN-UH-OH … Venmo payment records reveal a vast network of young women received money from Rep. Matt Gaetz's associate, the accused sex trafficker Joel Greenberg. — As new details emerge about Rep. Matt Gaetz's role …
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Leaked chats reveal ‘National Guardsman’ and White Lives Matter organizer is forming new fascist group that wants a race war — The organizer of the aborted White Lives Matter rally in Raleigh, NC claims to be a National Guard member who wants to launch an “aboveground fascist movement,” …
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Kristen Clarke, Bigot and Liar — Having sworn to answer all questions truthfully, in an appearance Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division offered a series of answers that strained credulity and veered into outright falsehood.
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National Review, C-SPAN.org, Daily Kos and Slate
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The End of the Insider Party Network — The pipeline from corporate America and Democratic insider circles into government is being challenged. — Then-Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a photo opportunity with others including former staffer Ricki Seidman, far left, December 2013, at the White House.