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SELECT COMMITTEE SUBPOENAS INDIVIDUALS TIED TO THE FORMER PRESIDENT IN THE DAYS SURROUNDING JANUARY 6TH — Washington—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson today announced that he has issued a round of subpoenas for documents and testimony to four individuals with close ties to the former President …
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Biden White House leans toward releasing information about Trump and Jan. 6 attack, setting off legal and political showdown — The White House is leaning toward releasing information to Congress about what Donald Trump and his aides were doing during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol despite …
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump's election challenges distracted from covid response, White House adviser told colleagues — Emails obtained by House panel detail priorities as virus surged last year — White House officials prioritized former president Donald Trump's attempt to challenge the election …
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Politico:
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas 4 from Trump's inner circle — The select panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is issuing subpoenas to four current and former top aides to President Donald Trump, including his most recent chief of staff Mark Meadows. — The committee issued its first subpoenas …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Scoop: Tears in the Oval Office — SCOOP: Playbook has learned that during an intense meeting at the White House on Wednesday, Rep. PRAMILA JAYAPAL (D-Wash.) broke into tears while arguing her case to President JOE BIDEN that the reconciliation bill should include …
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
The Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed top Trump advisers, ramping up its investigation. — The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Thursday subpoenaed four of President Donald J. Trump's closest allies, ramping up its scrutiny of what the former president was doing during the deadly riot.
Washington Post:
House Jan. 6 committee issues subpoenas for Trump aides and advisers, including Meadows and Scavino
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Trump moving political HQ back to Mar-a-Lago
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The Daily Caller and The Hill
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Our constitutional crisis is already here — “Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation.” — The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
It's Too Early to Consign Joe Biden to the Ash Heap of History — But not too early for Democrats to start panicking. — Is Joe Biden's Presidency actually “dead,” “failed,” and all but “over,” as you have surely heard by now? The Republicans and their conservative allies in the commentariat …
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Biden Loses Ground With the Public on Issues, Personal Traits and Job Approval — More support than opposition for infrastructure bills; majorities favor raising taxes on large businesses, high-income households — Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand the public's views …
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
The Competency Question — When Biden was running for president, his message was pretty straightforward: I'm the guy who will bring normal back to Washington. Where President Trump was unorthodox and chaotic, Biden would be conventional and organized. Trump ran the White House like a reality show …
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Associated Press and NH Journal
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
J.D. Vance Defends Texas Abortion Ban, Calls Rape ‘Inconvenient’ — J.D. Vance, who is trailing several GOP candidates in the Senate primary, told Spectrum News 1 that “in Texas they're trying to make it easier for babies to be born.” — In a local news interview published Wednesday …
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Misty Severi / Washington Examiner:
Abortion providers ask Supreme Court for quick review of Texas abortion ban
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Approval of U.S. Supreme Court Down to 40%, a New Low
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
Biden's Approach To Immigration Is Causing A Huge Internal Rift And Leading To A Lot Of Confusion — Unlike his predecessor, President Joe Biden doesn't obsess publicly over the southern border and the immigrants seeking to cross it. But on rare occasions, he is blunt about what he wants to happen there.
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
A Foul Play by Progressives Over Israel's Iron Dome — There's little doubt that Congress will pass and President Biden will sign legislation to provide $1 billion in funding for Iron Dome, the Israeli-American missile defense system. Steny Hoyer, the majority leader in the House …
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Philip Klein / HotAir:
Democrats can't hide their Israel problem
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Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
Taliban official: Strict punishment, executions will return — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions …
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Washington Post:
CIA station chief in Vienna recalled amid criticisms of management and handling of ‘Havana Syndrome’ cases — The CIA has removed its top officer in Vienna following criticism of his management, including what some considered an insufficient response to a growing number of mysterious health incidents …
Science:
Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum — MATTHEW R. BENNETT HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-3063- 8844 [EMAIL PROTECTED], DAVID BUSTOS HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-0309- 7632, JEFFREY S. PIGATI HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0001-5843- 6219, KATHLEEN B. SPRINGER HTTPS …
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
House passes $768B defense bill, super-sizing Biden's Pentagon plans — The House on Thursday easily passed a $768 billion defense policy bill that endorses a major budget boost, dealing the biggest blow yet to President Joe Biden's Pentagon spending plans.
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Morgan Phillips / Daily Mail:
Biden says troops should be dishonorably discharged if they disobey order to get Covid vaccine
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Alene Tchekmedyian / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. County sheriff's unit accused of targeting political enemies, vocal critics — On paper, the deputies are scattered around the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in various assignments. One is supposed to be working patrol in Lancaster, another in West Hollywood. A third is assigned to a gang crime unit.
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Los Angeles County … and The Hill
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Tough-on-Crime Republican DA Charged With Ambushing, Raping Woman — Jeffrey Lynn Thomas, Somerset County, Pennsylvania's top cop, is now facing a slew of charges for the alleged attack. — A Republican district attorney in Pennsylvania who styled himself as a tough-on-crime prosecutor …
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Adam Kinzinger: Republicans Are ‘Frigging Crazy’ — In each edition of my newsletter, I'll bring readers inside The Atlantic, and discuss the issues that concern us the most. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get future issues of Notes from the Editor in Chief.
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Ron Klain hasn't retweeted Jennifer Rubin since Politico reported on lovefest between Biden WH, WaPo columnist — Before last week, the WH chief of staff retweeted Rubin ‘more than three dozen times since mid-May’ — Biden's media coverage under scrutiny amid crises
John Nichols / The Nation:
Has Big Pharma Bought Enough Democrats to Derail Biden's Plan? — If Democrats allow the party's Manchinema wing to derail prescription drug pricing reforms, they could lose their ability to govern. — Polling tells us that when it comes to health care issues, the top priority of Americans is lowering prescription drug prices.
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Maria Cardona / The Hill:
Democrats' do-or-die moment
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Craig Spencer / The Atlantic:
No, Vaccinated People Are Not ‘Just as Likely’ to Spread the Coronavirus as Unvaccinated People — For many fully vaccinated Americans, the Delta surge spoiled what should've been a glorious summer. Those who had cast their masks aside months ago were asked to dust them off. Many are still taking no chances.
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HotAir
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Why Aren't Americans Protesting in the Streets? — No one seems to care that Democrats are walking us into a fiscal catastrophe. — Here's a question for any American who is capable of thinking past next week: Why, in the ever-loving hell, are you not out in the streets …
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Media Matters for America:
Charlie Kirk: “Deputize a citizen force, put them on the border” in order to protect “white demographics in America” — Steve Bannon and his panel push for Arizona-style “audit” in Georgia — Steve Bannon touts QAnon-linked Arizona election announcement: “The decertification process starts tomorrow”
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Media Matters for America, Joe.My.God. and HillReporter.com
David Karpf:
An Open Letter to the American Political Science Association regarding John Eastman and the Claremont Institute — (Members of the APSA can sign on to this letter by clicking here) — To the members of the APSA Council: — On January 11, 2021, you issued the following statement on behalf …
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NBC News:
Hungry and desperate: Climate change fuels a migration crisis in Guatemala — LA VEGA, Guatemala — Darwin Mendez has tried and failed to reach the United States three times. Twenty-three years old and $30,000 in debt, he said leaving Guatemala is his only option.
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
January 6 rioter who took beer from Pelosi's office pleads guilty — (CNN)An Oklahoma man who took a beer from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the January 6 insurrection pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor offense. — Andrew Ericson, 24, pleaded guilty to one count …
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Washington Examiner
Rebecca McCray / Curbed:
What Its Like at Rikers, According to People Who Just Got Out “They're not feeding people, there's no water, no showers, no phone calls.” — Photo-Illustration: by Curbed; Photo Michael Kirby Smith/The New York Times/Redux/B) The New York Times — The ongoing violence and despair …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
United States Returns to Iraq Rare Tablet Bearing Portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh — The United States has returned to the Republic of Iraq a rare cuneiform tablet bearing a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian poem considered one of the world's oldest works of literature.
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