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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 …
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
‘I Was Part of Something Unusually Evil’ In Kansas with Stephanie Grisham, who does not believe she will be redeemed. — Stephanie Grisham saw the pickup outside and yelped, “That's Larry!” She grabbed a small package and raced out her front door, down the steps of the porch …
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Stephanie Grisham / Washington Post:
I told the Trumps my relationship with a White House staffer had turned abusive. They didn't seem to care. — Stephanie Grisham served as chief of staff to the first lady, press secretary and communications director in the Trump White House. Her book “I'll Take Your Questions Now …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Mike Pence Says Media Focus on January 6 Is a Media Distraction Meant to ‘Demean’ Trump Supporters
Mike Pence Says Media Focus on January 6 Is a Media Distraction Meant to ‘Demean’ Trump Supporters
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
‘I Do’: Stephanie Grisham Straight-Up Confesses Her Enabling Trump Cost Lives During Covid
‘I Do’: Stephanie Grisham Straight-Up Confesses Her Enabling Trump Cost Lives During Covid
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Trump's ex-press secretary says former administration's handling of Covid-19 was ‘tragic’
Trump's ex-press secretary says former administration's handling of Covid-19 was ‘tragic’
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Donna Cassata / Washington Post:
Pence says media focus on Jan. 6 insurrection is to ‘demean’ Trump supporters
Pence says media focus on Jan. 6 insurrection is to ‘demean’ Trump supporters
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden getting frustrated with Manchin and Sinema — DRIVING THE DAY — HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU: Rep. ILHAN OMAR (D-Minn.) was dissed by the White House on Monday — her birthday, no less. The whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus was not invited …
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CNN:
Manchin breaks with party leaders over strategy on debt ceiling and Biden's economic package
Manchin breaks with party leaders over strategy on debt ceiling and Biden's economic package
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Pramila Jayapal's Perfect Pitch
Pramila Jayapal's Perfect Pitch
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Downsizing Dems' social spending bill
Downsizing Dems' social spending bill
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Washington Post:
Democrats begin to narrow their differences on Biden's agenda bill
Democrats begin to narrow their differences on Biden's agenda bill
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Biden eager to get out of DC, push benefits of spending plan
Biden eager to get out of DC, push benefits of spending plan
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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
Biden plots debt ceiling blitz to focus the blame on McConnell
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R. Marshall Brandt / The Bulwark:
What Was the Debt-Ceiling Showdown Really All About? — The answer is: Democracy.
What Was the Debt-Ceiling Showdown Really All About? — The answer is: Democracy.
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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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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Piranhas Come for Kyrsten Sinema
The Piranhas Come for Kyrsten Sinema
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Washington Examiner:
The Left's hate machine is going to get more people hurt
The Left's hate machine is going to get more people hurt
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Newsweek, Twitchy and New York Magazine
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Sinema and Cheney Are America's Best and Bravest Politicians
Sinema and Cheney Are America's Best and Bravest Politicians
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HotAir, Politico, HotAir and Los Angeles Times
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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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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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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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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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger Details Trump's ‘Threats’
GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger Details Trump's ‘Threats’
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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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Virginia Aabram / Washington Examiner:
Johnson & Johnson requests emergency authorization for COVID-19 vaccine booster — Pharmaceutical developer Johnson & Johnson is seeking emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its COVID-19 booster vaccine for people 18 years and older.
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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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The Daily Beast, HuffPost, Pirate Wires and Reason
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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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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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.
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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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.
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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Robert Kolker / New York Times:
Who Is the Bad Art Friend? — Art often draws inspiration from life — but what happens when it's your life? Inside the curious case of Dawn Dorland v. Sonya Larson. — To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Facebook Whistleblower Is Leftist Activist Repped By Lawyer For ‘Whistleblower’ Behind Trump Impeachment — The Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, has a record of donations to far-left Democrats and a history of raising issues about purported bias while at previous employers, a Daily Wire review found.
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Evan McMullin will mount an independent bid in Utah to oust Mike Lee — The viability of a McMullin candidacy hinges on a few basic assumptions. — 1. You can't beat Lee for the Republican nomination. — In my years covering politics, I've come to know Lee's two leading Republican challengers, Becky Edwards and Ally Isom.
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