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ProPublica:
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax — The Secret IRS Files — In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011.
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ProPublica:
Why We Are Publishing the Tax Secrets of the .001% — We are disclosing the tax details of the richest Americans because we believe the public interest in an informed debate outweighs privacy considerations. — Today, ProPublica is launching the first in a series of stories based …
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HotAir, Twitchy and National Review
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Capitol Police had intelligence indicating an armed invasion weeks before Jan. 6 riot, Senate probe finds — The U.S. Capitol Police had specific intelligence that supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mount an armed invasion of the Capitol at least two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot …
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Wall Street Journal, National Review and The Root
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New York Times:
‘Does Anybody Have a Plan?’ Senate Report Details Jan. 6 Security Failures. — A 127-page joint report is the most comprehensive and detailed account to date on the intelligence, communications and policing failures around the Capitol riot. — WASHINGTON — Top federal intelligence agencies failed …
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The Crime Report, The US Sun, Washingtonian, The Guardian, ABC News and Associated Press
Ron Johnson Senator from Wisconsin:
Sen. Johnson and Colleagues Request Answers from DOJ on Unequal Application of Justice to Protestors — WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), along with senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), sent a letter on Monday …
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
NBC News:
Capitol Police didn't act on warnings Trump backers would breach Capitol, target Democrats, report says
Capitol Police didn't act on warnings Trump backers would breach Capitol, target Democrats, report says
CNN:
Senate report reveals new details about security failures ahead of January 6 attack but omits Trump's role
Senate report reveals new details about security failures ahead of January 6 attack but omits Trump's role
U.S. Senate Committee on Rules & Administration:
Peters, Portman, Klobuchar, Blunt Release Bipartisan Report Investigating January 6th Capitol Attack
Peters, Portman, Klobuchar, Blunt Release Bipartisan Report Investigating January 6th Capitol Attack
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, New York Post, The Dispatch and Roll Call
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Senators reveal further Capitol riot security failures in bipartisan report
Senators reveal further Capitol riot security failures in bipartisan report
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Washington Post, Insider, Washington Examiner, Fox News, National Review, Roll Call, CNN, NPR and Mother Jones
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Senate report details sweeping failures around Jan. 6 attack
Senate report details sweeping failures around Jan. 6 attack
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Justin Haskins / The Hill:
By rejecting Democrats' election overhaul bill, Joe Manchin may have saved America — On Sunday, the Charleston Gazette-Mail published an op-ed by Sen. Joe Manchin in which the West Virginia Democrat announced his opposition of the For the People Act, a bill that aims to impose a variety …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, Vox, Columbia Journalism Review, POLITICUSUSA and Politico
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Joe Manchin is opposing big parts of Biden's agenda as the Koch network pressures him — The Koch network has been pressuring Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to oppose key parts of the Democratic agenda, including filibuster reform and voting rights legislation. — That lobbying effort appears to be paying off.
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Washington Examiner, CBS News, Lawyers, Guns & Money, TheGrio and The Daily Caller
Alex Pareene / New Republic:
Democrats, Stop Negotiating With Traitors — The average consumer of political news can be forgiven for not being entirely sure how much to panic about the state of our democracy. On the one hand, one can read in the mainstream press that “more than 100 scholars of democracy have signed …
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Orlando Weekly, Insider and Daily Kos
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Joe Manchin's focus on West Virginia could doom voting rights
Joe Manchin's focus on West Virginia could doom voting rights
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, CBS News, Talking Points Memo, The American Independent and The Guardian
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
Joe Manchin Cares More About ‘Bipartisanship’ Than Fighting Jim Crow
Joe Manchin Cares More About ‘Bipartisanship’ Than Fighting Jim Crow
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Politico, POLITICUSUSA and Tangle
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Some Democrats wonder when Schumer will get tough with Manchin
Some Democrats wonder when Schumer will get tough with Manchin
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Political Wire
New York Times:
Biden Justice Department Seeks to Defend Trump in Suit Over Rape Denial — Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll, who has accused Mr. Trump of raping her. — During the presidential campaign, Joseph R. Biden Jr., then the Democratic candidate …
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The Daily Beast:
What if This Is Just the Tip of Trumpworld's Iceberg of Crazy? — We're only starting to find out now just how much influence the conspiracy-peddlers wielded in Trump's White House—and how much they'll wield in his future. — It was unhinged, even by Trumpworld standards.
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Raw Story, The Time of Monsters and Media Matters for America
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Biden Justice Department defends Trump in suit over rape denial — The Biden administration is pressing on with a controversial Justice Department defense of President Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit brought by a writer who accused him of raping her at a New York City department store in the 1990s.
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Washington Examiner, Forbes, RedState, Twitchy, The Daily Caller and Insider
Erica Orden / CNN:
DOJ argues it should substitute for Trump as defendant in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit
DOJ argues it should substitute for Trump as defendant in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit
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HotAir, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and New York Magazine
Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. continues appeal on behalf of Trump in defamation case brought by sexual assault accuser
Justice Dept. continues appeal on behalf of Trump in defamation case brought by sexual assault accuser
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NPR, USA Today, CBS News, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Al Jazeera
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Report Concluded Covid-19 May Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab — The 2020 lab report was used by the State Department in its own inquiry during Trump administration — WASHINGTON—A report on the origins of Covid-19 by a U.S. government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming …
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Tom Cotton / National Review:
Coronavirus Lab-Leak-Theory Proponents Have Been Vindicated
Coronavirus Lab-Leak-Theory Proponents Have Been Vindicated
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RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE, AMAC, Melanie Phillips, RedState and Quillette
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Hundreds Arrested After FBI Reveals It Secretly Ran Encrypted Messaging App for Criminals — ‘TROJAN SHIELD’ — Hundreds of alleged criminal underworld figures have been arrested around the globe after using an encrypted messaging app that was secretly being controlled by the FBI and Australian intelligence.
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Mike Corder / Associated Press:
Global sting: Secure FBI-run messaging network tricks crooks
Global sting: Secure FBI-run messaging network tricks crooks
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Europol, The Daily Caller, 77 WABC and WHNT-TV
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Newsmax turned down embattled Republican Matt Gaetz for a job -spokesperson — Conservative media outlet Newsmax, a favorite of former President Donald Trump's, rejected embattled Republican U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz's request for a job, a spokesperson for the website said on Monday.
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R.R. Reno / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates — Even those who aren't woke seem damaged by the experience, and they're deprived of role models. — I'm not inclined to hire a graduate from one of America's elite universities. That marks a change. A decade ago I relished the opportunity …
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Why a Judge Has Georgia Vote Fraud on His Mind: ‘Pristine’ Biden Ballots That Looked Xeroxed — When Fulton County, Ga., poll manager Suzi Voyles sorted through a large stack of mail-in ballots last November, she noticed an alarmingly odd pattern of uniformity in the markings for Joseph R. Biden.
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The Western Journal
Bryan Metzger / Politico:
Why the GOP Just Got Blown Out in a Congressional Race — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Two weeks before the GOP had its first chance to pick up a seat in Congress since Joe Biden became president, the Republican Party of New Mexico hosted a three-day event dubbed “Operation Freedom.”
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Raw Story
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Record-High 70% in U.S. Support Same-Sex Marriage — WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. support for legal same-sex marriage continues to trend upward, now at 70% — a new high in Gallup's trend since 1996. This latest figure marks an increase of 10 percentage points since 2015 …
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
James Murdoch spent $100 million to help fund political causes during 2020 election cycle — James Murdoch, the son of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, quietly invested $100 million into his nonprofit foundation, which then used a chunk of the money to fund political groups during the 2020 election cycle.
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Right-wing ‘Boogaloo’ militants plotted violence against cops so Trump would invoke Insurrection Act: Court docs — An Air Force sergeant accused of killing law enforcement officers last year in California was part of an extremist cell plotting “war” against police, according to newly revealed court filings.
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Daily Kos and CBS San Francisco
David Harsanyi / National Review:
The 1619 Project Comes for the Second Amendment — If the right to bear arms was intended to preserve slavery, why did civil-rights leaders insist that black Americans should be armed to protect themselves? — Left-wing academic Carol Anderson's new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, is all over the news.
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama criticizes Republicans for embracing 2020 falsehoods — (CNN)Former President Barack Obama said Republicans have been “cowed into accepting” a series of positions that “would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago,” telling CNN's Anderson Cooper he is worried …
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force to Address Short-Term Supply Chain Discontinuities — 100-Day Review Outlines Steps to Strengthen Critical Supply Chains — Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing key findings …
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Insider
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Erdan to AP CEO: Hamas worked on anti-Iron Dome tech in AP Gaza building — Hamas had intelligence, research and development offices in building Israel struck last month. — Hamas worked on a device to disrupt the Iron Dome missile defense system in the same building in Gaza …
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Bloomberg, The Times of Israel and JNS.org
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Harris border-czar flop: Guatemala president blames Biden, AOC objects — Maybe Kamala Harris should have gone to the border instead. Joe Biden put the Vice President in charge of handling the migrant crisis, but later claimed he meant that Harris would lead the diplomatic effort to resolve it.
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Fox News, Politico, The Guardian, Insider, New York Post, The Daily Caller and Associated Press
Paul Brandus / USA Today:
The four best ways Team Biden can show America the Donald Trump era is really over — Trump treated our Constitution and laws as doormats. Biden must reassert the primacy of the law and the importance of transparency in our democracy. — Tame the COVID-19 pandemic? Check.
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Associated Press, The Guardian and NBC News
The Texas Tribune:
An anti-abortion program will receive $100 million in the next Texas budget, but there's little data on what's being done with the money — Critics say the fast-growing Alternatives to Abortion program is secretive and a “waste” of money. But the program has strong supporters …
CNN:
Exclusive: New audio of 2019 phone call reveals how Giuliani pressured Ukraine to investigate baseless Biden conspiracies — (CNN)Never-before-heard audio, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows how former President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed …
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