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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
‘This Case Was Never About Fraud’: Federal Judge Refers ‘Kraken’ Attorneys, Including Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, for ‘Possible Suspension or Disbarment’ — A federal judge sent a strong message to each of the so-called “Kraken” lawyers behind litigation to upend the 2020 election …
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Rosalind Helderman / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Michigan orders pro-Trump lawyers disciplined over lawsuit seeking to overturn 2020 election — A federal judge in Michigan has ordered that Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood and seven other attorneys who filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election be disciplined …
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Tatyana Monnay / Politico:
Federal judge imposes sanctions on Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and other pro-Trump lawyers — A federal judge on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and seven other pro-Trump lawyers in a strongly worded denouncement of what the court called a frivolous election fraud lawsuit.
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
READ: Judge Refers ‘Kraken’ Lawyers For Potential ‘Disbarment’ In Scathing Opinion Over Big Lie
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Orders Sanctions Against Pro-Trump Lawyers Over Election Lawsuit
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Select Committee to Investigate …:
Select Committee Issues Sweeping Demand for Executive Branch Records — Bolton, MS—Today, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson announced the Select Committee's first round of demands for records as the committee expands its investigation into the January 6th violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and its causes.
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Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
Herschel Gets In — “Mr. Walker, you have admitted you carried a gun and wanted to kill a man.” — “Mr. Warnock, that experience led me to Jesus. You're a minister and you tried to run over your wife.” — A Herschel Walker v. Raphael Warnock debate would be one for the ages and Walker wants to make it happen.
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Jan. 6 committee demands a huge trove of Trump White House records
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Dan Levin / New York Times:
In Florida, the pandemic is worse now than it has ever been before. — More people in Florida are catching the coronavirus, being hospitalized and dying of Covid-19 now than at any previous point in the pandemic, underscoring the perils of limiting public health measures as the Delta variant rips through the state.
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Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
Florida is the only state where more people are dying of COVID now than ever before. What went wrong? — A few months ago, Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican of Florida, declared his hands-off approach to COVID-19 “ — a tremendous success. ” Politico announced that he had “ — won the pandemic.
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Media Matters for America
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy makes at least 5 false claims in 7-minute Fox News interview — This is what Trump said about US' evacuation of Afghan allies — Washington (CNN)House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy made at least five false claims during a seven-minute Sunday interview on Fox News.
Henry Kissinger / The Economist:
Henry Kissinger on why America failed in Afghanistan — It was not possible to turn the country into a modern democracy, but creative diplomacy and force might have overcome terrorism, says the American statesman … THE TALIBAN takeover of Afghanistan focuses the immediate concern …
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Washington Post:
Pelosi assails two lawmakers who made unauthorized trip to Kabul — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) blasted two lawmakers who surreptitiously flew into Kabul without approval to examine conditions at the international airport where a massive airlift is underway to evacuate U.S. citizens, allies and vulnerable Afghans.
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
2 U.S. Representatives Try to Explain Unauthorized Visit to Kabul
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Defendant in Plot to Kidnap Michigan Governor Sentenced to Six Years — Ty G. Garbin, 25, had pleaded guilty to taking part in an extremist plot driven by anger at the governor's efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. — The only defendant to plead guilty to taking part in a plot …
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Associated Press:
Man gets 6 years in prison in Michigan governor kidnap plot
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Man who plotted to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sentenced to over 6 years in prison
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Karen Pearlman / Los Angeles Times:
Students from San Diego County school district stranded in Afghanistan — At least 24 students from the Cajon Valley Union School District in El Cajon and 16 parents are stranded in Afghanistan after taking a summer trip abroad. — They are among thousands of individuals waiting to leave …
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Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
In Kabul, Private Rescue Efforts Grow Desperate as Time to Evacuate Afghans Runs Out — Defense contractor Erik Prince charges $6,500 a person, other groups' planes leave Kabul empty — A disparate group of American veterans, military contractors, aid workers and former spies is scrambling …
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Team Biden wonders: Why isn't the media giving us more credit for our amazing Kabul evacuation?
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RedState, Patterico's Pontifications, National Review, Townhall and Instapundit
Sami Sadat / New York Times:
The Afghan Army Collapsed Against the Taliban. Here's Why.
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Gov. Greg Abbott bans mandates on COVID-19 vaccines regardless of whether they have full FDA approval — The order comes two days after the FDA granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine. That raised questions about the fate of a previous Abbott order that prohibited vaccine mandates …
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Blue Book Diaries, Office of the Texas Governor, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and Raw Story
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Michelle Meredith / WFLA-TV:
Bodies stacked to the ceiling as COVID-19 surge creates backlog at Florida funeral homes, crematories — WINTER GARDEN, Fla. (WESH) — At West Side Crematory in Winter Garden, they're overwhelmed with the remains of people that need to be cremated. — There's an influx of bodies …
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The Daily Beast and Crooks and Liars
Annie Karni / New York Times:
The Latest G.O.P. Schism: How to Handle Afghan Evacuees — The resettlement of Afghan allies in the U.S. is revealing an internal divide between the party's anti-immigrant wing and other conservatives who want to help the refugees. — WASHINGTON — The Republican Party is united …
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Media Matters for America and Washington Post
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Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Enough is Enough: Antifa Attacks Reporter in Portland — Antifa's influence may be exaggerated, but it's not a mythical Snuffleupagus, either, as they showed in attacking reporter Maranie Staab from our partner News2Share this past weekend. — This past Sunday, while covering a protest in Portland …
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HotAir
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Ron DeSantis Says Biden Should Follow Florida's Lead on COVID — ‘GREAT SUCCESS’ — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, said that President Joe Biden had failed to “end COVID,” whereas his state was experiencing “great success” in treating patients.
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Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Prosecutor: South Dakota AG to take plea deal in fatal crash — PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg will avoid a trial and take a plea deal for misdemeanor traffic charges in a crash last year in which he hit and killed a man who was walking along a rural highway, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Craig McCarthy / New York Post:
NYPD's largest police union vows to sue over possible COVID vaccine mandate — The Big Apple's largest police union told its members Wednesday that it would sue the city if cops are required to get the COVID-19 vaccine, The Post has learned. — “If the City attempts to impose a vaccine mandate …
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The Daily Caller and POLITICUSUSA
Marina Villeneuve / Associated Press:
New NY governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul promised more government transparency on her first day in office and by day's end her administration had quietly delivered it by acknowledging nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state …
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Jordan Williams / MSN:
Lester Holt to interview Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt — NBC News's Lester Holt will interview the Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the network announced. — The interview, set to air Thursday …
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Glenn Greenwald:
The Bizarre Refusal to Apply Cost-Benefit Analysis to COVID Debates — Are those who oppose a ban on cars or a radical reduction in speed limits sociopaths, given the huge number of people they are knowingly consigning to death or maiming? — In virtually every realm of public policy …
Jake Auchincloss / Washington Post:
Biden made the hard choice in Afghanistan, and the right one — Jake Auchincloss, a Marine veteran, is a Democrat representing Massachusetts's 4th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. — Before serving in Congress, I was an infantry platoon commander in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.
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Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of Robert F. Kennedy assassination, seeks parole with no opposition from prosecutors — Attorneys say that 53 years behind bars is sufficient punishment for the 77-year-old; Kennedy family declines to weigh in — Sirhan B. Sirhan, convicted of the 1968 assassination …
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Where America Lost And Gained Population Could Help Democrats In Redistricting — With the release of block-level data from the 2020 census, we now have a much clearer picture of how and where the U.S. population has grown — and shrunk — over the past 10 years.
Padma Lakshmi / Washington Post:
Padma Lakshmi says disparaging Indian food isn't funny. It's ugly. — Comedy, when done well, has the power to transmute our personal and collective pain. From slapstick to satire to memes, it can be a balm, a moment of catharsis to punctuate the often-cruel and random nature of life, reminding us of our common humanity.
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Wall Street Journal:
CIA, U.S. Troops Conduct Missions Outside Kabul Airport to Extract Americans, Allies — Risky operations include helicopter lifts as evacuation window closes — WASHINGTON—The Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. military are conducting extraction operations to rescue Americans using helicopters …
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