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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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CNN:
Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election — Washington (CNN)The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday released a sweeping report about how former President Donald Trump and a top lawyer in the Justice Department attempted …
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Washington Post, USA Today, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and The Guardian
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Senate report gives new details of Trump efforts to use Justice Dept. to overturn election
Senate report gives new details of Trump efforts to use Justice Dept. to overturn election
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The Daily Beast and WTOP
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Sanders' Sinema spat — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) withheld support for a joint statement condemning last weekend's protests against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) because it also wouldn't include a rebuke of her political views, Axios has learned. — Why it matters …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why McConnell backed down — DRIVING THE DAY — HUNTER BIDEN showcased his art to about 200 people at Milk Studios in Hollywood, Calif., The Daily Mail's Josh Boswell reports. Guests included “World Champion boxer SUGAR RAY LEONARD ... Los Angeles Mayor ERIC GARCETTI” …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and New York Times
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin demands progressives prioritize — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is telling colleagues that progressives need to pick just one of President Biden's three signature policies for helping working families and discard the other two, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
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New York Times:
Federal Judge Pauses Strict Texas Law Banning Most Abortions — A sharply worded ruling sided with the Justice Department, which sued to block the measure last month after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. — WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday granted the Justice Department's request …
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Paul J. Weber / Associated Press:
Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions — AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., calling it an “offensive deprivation” of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation's second-most populous state since September.
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HotAir, Common Dreams, The Gateway Pundit, ABC7, The Sun, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, Associated Press and MyStateline.com
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
U.S. judge blocks enforcement of near-total abortion ban in Texas
U.S. judge blocks enforcement of near-total abortion ban in Texas
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The Texas Tribune, Insider, LifeNews.com, CNN and Above the Law
Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Federal Judge Blocks Texas Abortion Law
Federal Judge Blocks Texas Abortion Law
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Political Wire
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 …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
The foul-mouthed farmer sticking his neck out for Democrats' agenda — When Jon Tester returned from a White House meeting last month, Amy Klobuchar congratulated him for his “nice quote” about the debt ceiling. — As Klobuchar read back Tester's expletive-infused words, he recalled protesting: “'Come on.
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly has edged down four percentage points since last year to 36%, making this year's reading the second lowest in Gallup's trend.
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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
In U.S., Trust in Politicians, Voters Continues to Ebb — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' lack of confidence in government may be related, in part, to a waning trust in the elected decision-makers who are ultimately responsible for how government functions, along with the voters who put them in office.
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The Hill and Political Wire
New York Times:
Pfizer Asks F.D.A. to Authorize Its Covid-19 Vaccine for Children 5 to 11 — The agency has promised to move quickly on the request and has tentatively scheduled a meeting at the end of the month to consider it. — WASHINGTON — Pfizer and BioNTech said on Thursday morning …
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Vox, UPI, NBC4 Washington and Political Wire
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
The inside scope: How ego led Trump to hide a colonoscopy — It was one of the great mysteries of his time in office. Why, exactly, did President Donald Trump make an unscheduled trip to Walter Reed National Medical Center one sunny Saturday afternoon in November 2019?
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Pelosi's office denies claims on Trump meeting from Grisham's book
Pelosi's office denies claims on Trump meeting from Grisham's book
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Politico:
Dems take GOP's short-term debt fix offer, kicking deadline to December — Democrats are planning to accept an offer from Mitch McConnell to let them raise the debt ceiling into December without a GOP filibuster, multiple senators said after a closed-door caucus meeting on Wednesday.
CBS Denver:
Patient, Donor Denied Kidney Transplant Surgery Over Being Unvaccinated — AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) - A Colorado woman with stage 5 renal failure was months away from getting a new kidney. Now, she and her donor are looking for another hospital after learning UCHealth's new policy.
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VICE, Breitbart, Fox News, New York Post, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, FOX31 Denver, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, HotAir and PIX11
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Michelle Malkin / CNSNews:
Comply or Die: Vax-Partheid in the Operating Room
CNN:
Trump allies did little to investigate election fraud claims, court documents show — Fact-checking the Trump legal team's claims — (CNN)Allies of former President Donald Trump testified under oath that they did little to check out some of the uncorroborated claims they made about 2020 election fraud …
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ESPN:
Saudi Arabian takeover of Newcastle nears completion - sources — A Saudi Arabia-led takeover of Newcastle United is expected to be completed within the next 48 hours, sources have told ESPN. — The Premier League are expected to announce Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) …
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Tulsa World:
Joy Hofmeister to flip parties, challenge Kevin Stitt for governor in 2022 … State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister is running for governor — as a Democrat. — The 57-year-old lifelong Republican told the Tulsa World in an exclusive interview that she is changing her party registration …
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The McCarville Report and Raw Story
American Greatness:
Why I Left National Review — Victor Davis Hanson discusses his decision to leave National Review with Tucker Carlson, and his ideas about a conservatism that respects and seeks to preserve America's middle class. — The following is a transcript of Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Dying Citizen …
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
C.I.A. Reorganization to Place New Focus on China — The agency will create two new mission centers, one focused on China, the other focused on emerging technology, climate change and global health. — WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. will embark on a reorganization intended to focus more on China …
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The Daily Beast:
Lewandowski Demanded Cash After MAGA-Land Kicked Him to the Curb — “It doesn't matter if he'd asked for five dollars, it wasn't going to happen,” one individual familiar with the situation said. — Last week, Donald Trump announced the exile of his confidant and former top campaign aide Corey Lewandowski …
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The New Civil Rights Movement, MSNBC, Raw Story and Mediaite
Chicago Council on Global Affairs:
2021 Chicago Council Survey — PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY BY DINA SMELTZ, IVO H. DAALDER, KARL FRIEDHOFF, CRAIG KAFURA, AND EMILY SULLIVAN — While the Biden administration seems to understand where Americans stand on China and domestic renewal to support global competitiveness …
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Washington Post
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
How AT&T fuels right-wing extremists — One America News (OAN), a right-wing propaganda network that promotes unhinged conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, COVID, and other topics, relies almost exclusively on funding from AT&T. Court records first obtained by Reuters reveal that AT&T is responsible for 90% of OAN's revenue.
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Jessica Anderson / Baltimore Sun:
Maryland man allegedly fatally shot his pharmacist brother for ‘killing people’ with the COVID vaccine, court records show — A Cumberland man allegedly killed his brother and sister-in-law in their Ellicott City home last week because his brother, a pharmacist, administered COVID-19 vaccines …
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Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Idaho's governor left the state. His lieutenant governor took power and banned state vaccine mandates.
Idaho's governor left the state. His lieutenant governor took power and banned state vaccine mandates.
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HotAir, Associated Press, Insider, New York Times, The Guardian, MSN, Democrats, Common Dreams, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, CNN, The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast and Deseret News
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida GOP demand puts DeSantis in awkward spot: Audit Trump's 2020 win — TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis and top Republicans in the Florida Legislature are under mounting pressure from their own party to audit the 2020 election even though former President Donald Trump easily won the state.
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Raw Story, The Federalist, Real Clear Politics and Florida Politics
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
‘The intelligence was there’: Law enforcement warnings abounded in the runup to Jan. 6 — On Dec. 24, a private intelligence company that works with law enforcement issued a grave warning: Users of a pro-Trump internet forum were talking about turning violent on Jan. 6.
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Raw Story
Amara Omeokwe / Wall Street Journal:
Jobless Claims Expected to Drop for First Time in Four Weeks — Temporary factors had driven up unemployment claims in September, but they remain near lowest levels of the pandemic — Filings for jobless benefits last week are estimated to have fallen for the first time in four weeks …
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The Daily Caller
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Mike Pence did a service to democracy on Jan. 6. Why is he trying to undo it now? — No one understands better than former vice president Mike Pence the corrosive forces of disinformation that led to the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. — Pence's refusal that day to bend …