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Select Committee Issues Subpoenas Related to January 6th Stop the Steal Rally at U.S. Capitol — Bolton, MS—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson today announced that the Select Committee has issued additional subpoenas seeking testimony and records related to the “Stop the Steal” …
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Trump lawyer tells former aides not to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee — An attorney for former president Donald Trump, in a letter reviewed by The Washington Post, instructed former advisers, including Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, Dan Scavino and Stephen K. Bannon, not to comply …
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Trump tells 4 former aides to defy Jan. 6 committee's subpoena — Former President Donald Trump is directing a group of his former aides to ignore a subpoena from the House committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and signaling he will go to court to block their testimony to the investigators.
Politico:
GOP grits its teeth as debt-limit patch comes to a vote — Senate Republicans emerged from a tense private conference meeting on Thursday evening still uncertain whether they could supply 10 votes to break a filibuster on a short-term debt ceiling deal. — Summoned by Senate Minority …
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Arsonist heroically agrees not to light deadly fire? Let me rewrite that for you. — Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is getting exactly the kind of coverage he had hoped for — and had every reason to expect — from a press corps that is incapable of holding the Republican Party accountable for anything.
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Biden DOJ shields ex-Trump officials from testifying about election fraud cases — A top career official in President Joe Biden's Justice Department blocked efforts by Senate investigators to probe the handling of voter fraud complaints in the aftermath of the 2020 election, according to transcripts released Thursday.
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Report Cites New Details of Trump Pressure on Justice Dept. Over Election — A Senate panel fleshed out how Donald Trump pursued his plan to install a loyalist as acting attorney general to pursue unfounded reports of fraud. — WASHINGTON — Even by the standards of President Donald J. Trump …
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Senate Judiciary probe of Trump's 2020 machinations zeroes in on Pennsylvania House Republican
Senate Judiciary probe of Trump's 2020 machinations zeroes in on Pennsylvania House Republican
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP's fanciful defense of Trump's DOJ plot
The GOP's fanciful defense of Trump's DOJ plot
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Using an old bad defense of Trump to build a new bad defense of Trump
Using an old bad defense of Trump to build a new bad defense of Trump
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Sam LaGrone / USNI News:
UPDATED: Attack Submarine USS Connecticut Suffers Underwater Collision in South China Sea — This post has been updated with additional details on the injuries to the crew of USS Connecticut and the location of the collision. — Almost a dozen sailors have been injured …
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Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Troops Have Been Deployed in Taiwan for at Least a Year — Small presence of Americans secretly training local forces marks concern over China's yearslong military buildup and recent moves — WASHINGTON—A U.S. special-operations unit and a contingent of Marines have been secretly operating …
New York Times:
Fines Prevent Too Many From Voting in Florida — Mr. Winter is a staff photographer on assignment in Opinion. Mr. Wegman is a member of the editorial board. — Twenty years ago, Judy Bolden served 18 months in a Florida prison. She has been free ever since, but she is still barred …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on climate denial content — Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments. — Why it matters: It's …
Ruy Teixeira / The Liberal Patriot:
The Democrats' Hispanic Voter Problem: More Evidence from the 2020 Pew Validated Voter Survey — It's a Sobering Picture — Joe Biden in 2020 characterized Donald Trump as, among other things, an unapologetic racist who particularly detested immigrants. This strand of Biden's campaign …
Marisa Guthrie / The Hollywood Reporter:
“I Sleep Well at Night”: Suzanne Scott on Running Fox News — Twenty-five years after its founding, a sit-down with the CEO of America's most watched and most polarizing network, whose employees laud her for cleaning up a toxic workplace even as critics assail the channel for spreading misinformation and undermining democracy.
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Keila Szpaller / Daily Montanan:
Paul Kirgis steps down as dean of UM School of Law; Sally Weaver also to resign as associate dean — Paul Kirgis stepped down late Wednesday afternoon as dean of the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana. — “I have come to the conclusion that the School of Law …
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Susan Raff / WFSB-TV:
Guilford GOP school board campaign manager says helping children of color feel like they belong hurts white children — GUILFORD, CT. (WFSB) - Mary Beeman, the campaign manager for the Guilford republican school board candidates, commented, “helping kids of color to feel they belong …
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New York Times:
How Michael P. Farris Tried to Block 2020 Election Outcome — Drafts of a lawsuit filed with Supreme Court by Texas' attorney general in December had been circulated by the leader of an anti-abortion group. — WASHINGTON — One of the nation's most prominent religious conservative lawyers played …
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Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Giants vs. Dodgers NLDS is happening, and Kamala Harris has chosen her side — WASHINGTON — Former President Abraham Lincoln once said, “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” Of course, he was talking about democracy. But Vice President Kamala Harris this week will have to face …
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GOP lawmakers threaten forcible entry into Durham elections office — RALEIGH, N.C. — A group of Republican House members announced Thursday that they are launching a fraud investigation into North Carolina elections and said they would start by inspecting voting machines in Durham County …
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Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Woody Harrelson involved in altercation at Watergate Hotel, police say — Actor Woody Harrelson was involved in a physical altercation Wednesday night and struck a man who lunged at him at the rooftop bar of the Watergate Hotel, a D.C. police spokesman said.
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Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
Biggs Clings To Big Lie During Cyber Ninjas Hearing: 'We Don't Know' Who Won Arizona — Trump diehard Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) clutched onto ex-President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election on Thursday during an Oversight Committee hearing on Cyber Ninjas' shambolic “audit” of the election results in Maricopa County, Arizona.
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Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Welcome to Slack Tide — Konnichiwa. Or as my English-speaking readers prefer, “hello.” I'm Matt Labash, and welcome to Slack Tide, my brand spanking-new Substack. Just saying those words makes me feel like a honking cliché. Not the Matt Labash part. There aren't many of us.
Jenny G. Zhang / Gawker:
Identity Fraud — Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, maybe in the middle of some stupid argument with a stranger on the internet, the thought briefly crosses my mind: I should just say that whoever is currently driving me up the wall is racist. Or sexist. Or, myself being a non-white woman, a combination of the two.
Jeff Brady / NPR:
We need to talk about your gas stove, your health and climate change — Americans love their gas stoves. It's a romance fueled by a decades-old “cooking with gas” campaign from utilities that includes vintage advertisements, a cringeworthy 1980s rap video and, more recently, social media personalities.
Washington Post:
Cuomo aides sought post for Hochul in Biden administration before the N.Y. governor was engulfed in sexual harassment crisis — Top aides to then-New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo sought a job in the Biden administration for then-Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul so they could remove her from the gubernatorial ticket ahead …
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Nick R. Martin / The Informant:
Congressman promotes Holocaust denial website — Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona tweeted a link to The Unz Review, a website that traffics in Holocaust denial and neo-Nazism. — Congressman Paul Gosar tweeted a link on Wednesday to a website that routinely publishes the work of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and Holocaust deniers.
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: Andrew Yang's got a new political party — and he wants to change how we vote — In this edition: Andrew Yang joins the third-party movement, ballot measure advocates mobilize in the states, and conservatives double down on the schools issue in Virginia.
New York Times:
What's Delaying Vaccine Mandates? — President Biden is making another push for companies to require workers to be inoculated against the coronavirus. — The White House makes its vaccine pitch — President Biden is headed to Chicago today, where he will make another push for companies to announce coronavirus vaccine mandates.
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Biden Should Be Selling His Plan, Not Compromising Away Its Promise — Instead of downsizing his infrastructure plan to appease Manchin and Sinema, the president should rally the people to defeat corporate greed. — Media coverage of the fight over a pair of infrastructure bills …
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‘The struggle is real’: Why these Americans are still getting left behind in the recovery — Americans with college degrees fully recovered all pandemic job losses by May, while Americans without college degrees remain 4.5 million jobs below pre-pandemic levels. Black women are still the least recovered.
Emily Crane / New York Post:
Biden mocked for ‘Truman Show presidency’ over fake White House set — President Biden is being widely mocked on social media for running a “Truman Show presidency” after he was pictured speaking from a fake White House set that features a digital view of the Rose Garden in full bloom from a fake window behind him.
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
America Is Running Out of Everything — Is it just me, or does it feel like America is running out of everything? — I visited CVS last week to pick up some at-home COVID-19 tests. They'd been sold out for a week, an employee told me. So I asked about paper towels. “We're out of those too,” he said.
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Associated Press:
Former U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn accused of pointing gun in cryptocurrency dispute — ELLSWORTH, Maine — A former U.S. Senate candidate pointed a gun at a former campaign staffer in a dispute over a cryptocurrency investment, according to court documents.
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Gov. Cox, Lt. Governor Henderson, Attorney General Reyes, President Adams and Speaker Wilson express disappointment in Biden administration's decision to expand Utah monuments — SALT LAKE CITY (Oct. 7, 2021) - Gov. Spencer J. Cox, Lt. Gov. Deidre M. Henderson, Attorney General Sean Reyes …
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