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New York Daily News:
FBI raids NYPD sergeants union Manhattan headquarters — Federal investigators descended Tuesday on the Lower Manhattan headquarters of the NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association, the union headed by fiery and controversial president Ed Mullins, the Daily News has learned.
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New York Post:
FBI raids NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association headquarters — The Manhattan office of the NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association was raided by federal agents Tuesday morning, a high-ranking police source said. — Investigators from the FBI descended on the Worth Street office as part …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
What's Wrong With Kyrsten Sinema? — In 2003, Joe Lieberman, at the time the worst Democratic senator, traveled to Arizona to campaign for his party's presidential nomination and was regularly greeted by antiwar demonstrators. “He's a shame to Democrats,” said the organizer of a protest outside …
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Sinema and Cheney Are America's Best and Bravest Politicians
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HotAir, Politico and Los Angeles Times
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Mike Pence Says Media Focus on January 6 Is a Media Distraction Meant to ‘Demean’ Trump Supporters — Former Vice President Mike Pence said the focus on January 6th is a distraction intended to “demean” millions of Trump supporters. — Pence spoke with Sean Hannity Monday night …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Trump's ex-press secretary says former administration's handling of Covid-19 was ‘tragic’
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The Daily Beast, HuffPost, The Hill and USA Today
Stephanie Grisham / Washington Post:
I told the Trumps my relationship with a White House staffer had turned abusive. They didn't seem to care.
Donna Cassata / Washington Post:
Pence says media focus on Jan. 6 insurrection is to ‘demean’ Trump supporters
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Mediaite, The Hill, BizPac Review, The Daily Caller, Washington Times, The Guardian and Crooks and Liars
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
‘I Do’: Stephanie Grisham Straight-Up Confesses Her Enabling Trump Cost Lives During Covid
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IJR
CNN:
Manchin breaks with party leaders over strategy on debt ceiling and Biden's economic package — (CNN)Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday pushed back on several politically sensitive positions his party leaders are taking at a crucial time for President Joe Biden's domestic agenda.
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Axios, The American Independent, Washington Examiner, CNN, Politico, Real Clear Politics, Popular Information, Wall Street Journal, తెల …, The Hill and HotAir
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Pramila Jayapal's Perfect Pitch — The Congressional Progressive Caucus chair is standing firm against Manchin, Sinema, and corporate “centrists,” and winning accolades as a master negotiator. — The New York Times headline on Sunday declared, “Biden Tacks Left,” as the newspaper recounted the fact that …
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CBS News, Daily Kos, The Editorial Board and Washington Post
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As the U.S. Hurtles Toward a Debt Crisis, What Does McConnell Want? — Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has a long record of tying debt ceiling increases to policy demands. But with a catastrophic default two weeks away, he has yet to make any.
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden plots debt ceiling blitz to focus the blame on McConnell
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CNN, Raw Story, New York Times, IJR and Talking Points Memo
R. Marshall Brandt / The Bulwark:
What Was the Debt-Ceiling Showdown Really All About? — The answer is: Democracy.
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Twitchy
NIH News Release:
Francis Collins to step down as director of the National Institutes of Health — Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today announced his decision to end his tenure as the director of the National Institutes of Health by the end of the year. Dr. Collins is the longest serving presidentially …
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, Insider, Bloomberg, CBS News, The Hill, Washington Post, LifeNews.com, Breitbart, NPR, RELEVANT, The Daily Caller and Townhall
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Felix Salmon / Axios:
Trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted at the last minute — A trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted “within hours of the Treasury Secretary's decision to do so,” Philip Diehl, former director of the United States Mint, tells Axios. — Why it matters: Congressional solutions …
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Full Stack Economics, Reason and CNBC
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Criminal inquiry into Trump's Georgia election interference gathers steam — The disgraced former president faces a range of possible charges - including conspiracy and election fraud — Donald Trump is facing increasing legal scrutiny in the crucial battleground state of Georgia …
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Crooks and Liars, Raw Story and Brookings
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger Details Trump's ‘Threats’
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Raw Story
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook is harming our society. Here's a radical solution for reining it in. — Frances Haugen, who revealed herself Sunday as the Facebook whistleblower, could not have made things any clearer. — “Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer …
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HuffPost, Just Security, CNN and Wall Street Journal
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Dorian Abbot / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
MIT Abandons Its Mission. And Me. — Let's make sure my cancellation is the last. That begins by standing up and saying no to the mob. — I am a professor who just had a prestigious public science lecture at MIT cancelled because of an outrage mob on Twitter. My crime?
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New York Post, JONATHAN TURLEY, The College Fix, Reason and Twitchy
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
What WaPo Writers Keep Getting Wrong about 2020 — No, Trump didn't come close to overturning the election, and it's alright to say so. — elling people to take a deep breath and calm down, as the headline-writer for my latest column advised, does not always achieve its intended effect.
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Washington Post
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Donald Trump Falls Off The Forbes 400 For First Time In 25 Years — Donald Trump is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, leaving him $400 million short of the cutoff to make this year's Forbes 400 list of America's richest people. The real estate mogul is just as wealthy as he was a year ago …
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The Daily Beast, Insider, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite, Raw Story and IJR
New York Times:
Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants — Counterintelligence officials said in a top secret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost.
Anna Gustafson / Michigan Advance:
Once lauded as heroes, health care workers are now spit on and ‘threatened every day at work’ — When Tom Kelsch heads to his job as a registered nurse in Mercy Health Muskegon's emergency department, he knows, almost without a doubt, that he'll be threatened by a patient or their family that day.
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Irina Ivanova / CBS News:
Biggest tax haven in U.S.? South Dakota, says Pandora Papers investigation — Mention tax havens, and most people imagine small nations with balmy weather: The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Malta. — But South Dakota and a handful of other U.S. states are increasingly competing as landing pads …
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CNN:
‘Some are just psychopaths’: Chinese detective in exile reveals extent of torture against Uyghurs — (CNN)The raids started after midnight in Xinjiang. — Hundreds of police officers armed with rifles went house to house in Uyghur communities in the far western region of China …
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Washington Free Beacon, National Review, తెల … and HotAir
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Once and Future Threat of Trump — Last fall, before the November election, Barton Gellman wrote an essay for The Atlantic sketching out a series of worst-case scenarios for the voting and its aftermath. It was essentially a blueprint for how Donald Trump could either force the country …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Ron Johnson takes 2 covid conspiracy theories from fever swamps to Fox News prime time — When Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show on Monday night, the conversation turned to what could have been done differently to prevent the 700,000 coronavirus deaths we've seen so far.
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Crooks and Liars and STAT
Juan Perez Jr / Politico:
Garland taps FBI in response to ‘disturbing spike’ in threats against educators — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday ordered federal law enforcement authorities to huddle with local leaders in the coming weeks to address what the nation's top prosecutor called a recent …
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Washington Examiner, The American Independent, National Review and Raw Story
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