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Politico:
‘Time to move on’: Infrastructure talks near collapse  —  Washington's bipartisan infrastructure talks may soon look a lot like its cicada population: squashed after staggering around haplessly.  —  Senate Republicans negotiating with the White House sounded dour notes on Monday evening …
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Washington Post:
Infrastructure talks hit a wall as Senate GOP and White House exchange blame  —  Republicans allege that Biden's aides reversed course  —  The prospects for a bipartisan infrastructure deal dimmed even further Monday, as Senate Republicans alleged that the White House had agreed to narrow …
Todd Neikirk / POLITICUSUSA:
Mitt Romney Becomes the First GOP Senator to Publicly Support 1/6 Commission Bill
Discussion: KEYT-TV and New York Times
David McCabe / New York Times:
Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates  —  The new law is a direct response to Facebook's and Twitter's suspensions of former President Donald J. Trump.  —  WASHINGTON — Florida on Monday became the first state to regulate how companies like Facebook …
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Florida governor signs bill barring social media companies from blocking political candidates  —  Tech trade groups say law is unconstitutional, conflicts with federal law  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that aims to punish social media companies for their moderation decisions …
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:
Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Bill to Stop the Censorship of Floridians by Big Tech
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
McGahn Is Likely to Testify Next Week on Trump's Efforts to Obstruct Russia Inquiry  —  A delay is said to have stemmed from an initial threat by former President Donald J. Trump to intervene, but he apparently reversed course.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump's former White House counsel …
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Biden's DOJ appeals order to release full memo on why Trump wasn't charged with obstruction  —  (CNN)The Justice Department is partially appealing an order to publicly release a pivotal 2019 memo about whether then-President Donald Trump obstructed the Russia investigation.
Discussion: KEYT-TV and NBC News
CNN:   Ex-WH counsel McGahn agrees to testify before House Judiciary Committee behind closed doors next week
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Terror vs. the Truth in Belarus  —  What the hijacking of a reporter means for us all  —  No matter how important you are, it is unlikely that a dictator has scrambled a fighter plane to force down a passenger flight so that he can arrest you.  This just happened to the young Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich.
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Associated Press:
EU leaders agree on Belarus sanctions after plane diversion
Washington Post:
Europe moves to isolate Belarus after Minsk forces airliner to land and detains dissident
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:   As countries condemn Belarus flight diversion, critics accuse West of similar tactics
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Liberal Media Dismissed the Lab-Leak Theory and Smeared Its Supporters  —  When Nicholson Baker wrote a cover story for New York laying out the evidence that COVID-19 may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, the hypothesis was still highly controversial.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage
Fox News:
Rand Paul receives death threat package with white powder and violent, profane message  —  On the outside of the envelope was a picture of a bruised and bandaged Paul with a gun to his head  —  Biden facing investigation over $87M migrant hotel housing contract
Discussion: Raw Story and RedState
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Suspicious package sent to Rand Paul's home  —  The FBI and Capitol Hill police are investigating a suspicious package containing white powder that was delivered to the home of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday, according to a senior adviser to the senator.  —  A large envelope arrived …
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Arrested insurrectionist visited Ted Cruz's house — and brought 11 molotov cocktails to Jan. 6 riot: report  —  Lonnie Coffman of Alabama will remain in a Washington, DC-area jail until his trial, I federal judge ruled on Monday.  —  “A north Alabama man facing multiple charges in connection …
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / UnHerd:
How influencers enabled anti-Semitism  —  In July 2005, Mohammed Bouyeri stood trial for the murder of Theo van Gogh.  A year earlier, in broad daylight on a street in Amsterdam, he shot Theo eight times, and then attempted to decapitate him.  Theo's crime, for which Bouyeri meted out a death sentence …
Discussion: Politico, NPR, The Bulwark and Axios
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Houston Keene / Fox News:
Tlaib ally, former Sanders surrogate says, ‘Stop condemning anti-Semitism’
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Support for Israel among young US evangelical Christians drops sharply — survey  —  Since 2018, backing for Israel down from 75% to 33% now; nearly half of evangelicals aged 18-29 say they favor establishment of Palestinian state, voted for Biden over Trump
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Jen Psaki Smashes Peter Doocy As He Tries To Blame Biden For COVID Deaths  —  Video: … Doocy asked, “On the origins of covid, there is a new Wall Street Journal story that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of urology were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with covid-19 and common seasonal illness of November 2019.
Juliet Macur / New York Times:
Simone Biles Dials Up the Difficulty, ‘Because I Can’  —  The Olympic gold medalist's new vault is so dangerous that gymnastics, for now, limits the scoring rewards for trying it.  Biles says that's unfair.  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history …
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘The final straw’: How the pandemic pushed restaurant workers over the edge  —  Jim Conway started working in restaurants in 1982, making $2.13 an hour, plus tips.  —  And though the world has changed significantly in the nearly 40 years since then, his hourly wage has not.
Reuters:
53% of Republicans view Trump as true U.S. president -Reuters/Ipsos  —  A combination picture shows U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaking during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate, held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic …
CNN:
American journalist detained in Myanmar while trying to fly out of country  —  (CNN)An American journalist working in Myanmar was detained by local authorities Monday, his family and his news organization told CNN.  —  Danny Fenster, 37, was stopped at the Yangon airport as he tried to board …
Mary Chastain / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
National Guard Starts Departing D.C. This Week After Four Months  —  They've been in D.C. since January after the Capitol Hill riots.  — Parler  — Gab  — MeWe  — Buffer  — Pocket  — Blogger  — Yahoo Mail  — Viber  — Skype  — Copy Link  —  More Sharing Options
Elana Schor / Politico:
The difference between Ilhan Omar and MTG  —  A DIVIDE OVER ANTISEMITISM — The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants, which ended 11 days of conflict, is holding.  But America is now grappling with the painful specter of antisemitism after a flurry of reported new attacks against Jews.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, HotAir and Breitbart
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
“Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating  —  Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do  —  The news business just can't stop clowning itself.  The latest indignity is an international fact-checking debacle originating …
Discussion: Fox News, FOX News Radio and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Nears Deal to Buy Hollywood Studio MGM  —  Deal for the ‘Rocky’ and ‘James Bond’ studio would mark tech company's second largest-ever acquisition  —  Amazon.com Inc. is nearing a deal to buy the Hollywood studio MGM Holdings for almost $9 billion including debt, said people familiar with the matter …
Jim Mustian / Associated Press:
AP: Top cop in Black man's deadly arrest withheld cam video  —  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In perhaps the strongest evidence yet of an attempted cover-up in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, the ranking Louisiana State Police officer at the scene falsely told internal investigators …
Discussion: KEYT-TV, Raw Story and CBS News
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon Crowd Convinced UFOs Are a Diversion From Voter Fraud  —  “They want you talking about aliens because they don't want you talking about Maricopa,” Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson tweeted.  —  It's never been a better time to believe in UFOs.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael E. Kanell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Labor shortages end when wages rise, say some local businesses  —  As his six restaurants started ramping up for a post-pandemic world, Brian Will was struggling to find employees, so he went with the classic economics response for hard-to-find things.  —  He paid more.
 
 
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
If the GOP is now home to ‘evil lunacy,’ it's time to leave
Discussion: The Intellectualist and HuffPost
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
New York City Will End Remote Learning in the Fall
Discussion: NPR and American Oversight
Grady Means / The Hill:
Progressives' push of racial politics prompts a GOP pushback
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Of inmates and asylums: Today's House Republicans make the John Birchers look quaint
Discussion: Forbes
Monica Crowley / The Hill:
Biden should think twice before destroying the Trump economic recovery
Discussion: The Atlantic, KEYT-TV and El American
Frank Green / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Senators from Virginia recommend three candidates to fill federal appeals court vacancy
John Sexton / HotAir:
San Francisco legislators denounce efforts by school district to grab COVID funding
 Earlier Items: 
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Nevada County GOP Cancels Meeting Amid Fear of Proud Boy Insurgency
Patrick Whittle / Associated Press:
Conservative lawmakers in Maine lose posts after mask row
Discussion: The Hill and Bangor Daily News
Cleve Wootson / Washington Post:
Biden to meet with George Floyd's family amid uncertain progress on race
Shant Mesrobian / INQUIRE:
Is Texas Really Banning Schools From Teaching About Slavery and Racism?
Discussion: The Guardian and National Review
Erin Banco / Politico:
Death-certificate omissions stymie FEMA funeral assistance program
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Judge Reveals More About the ‘Principal Lies’ Paul Manafort Told to Robert Mueller
Discussion: HuffPost and Talking Points Memo
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
The Post-Embarrassment Media Campaign of Andrew Yang
 

 
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Bill Donahue / Billboard:
Drake launches legal action against UMG and Spotify for allegedly using bots, payola, and more to inflate Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us, a track attacking Drake

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBC's new deal with Macy's to keep the Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC and Peacock has an average annual fee of $60M+, up from ~$20M in the current deal

 
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