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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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Politico:
Biden DOJ shields ex-Trump officials from testifying about election fraud cases — A top 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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Politico:
Senate Judiciary probe of Trump's 2020 machinations zeroes in on Pennsylvania House Republican — A Senate Democratic report released Thursday places Rep. Scott Perry at the center of efforts to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election results, urging other congressional investigators …
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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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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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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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The Hill, Wall Street Journal and Raw Story
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Trump Whined to Acting Attorney General: You'll Do Nothing to Help Me ‘Overturn’ Election
Trump Whined to Acting Attorney General: You'll Do Nothing to Help Me ‘Overturn’ Election
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Washington Post and Raw Story
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 …
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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.
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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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Politico:
GOP struggles to accept debt limit patch — Senate Republicans are trying to keep their members in line and let a short-term debt ceiling increase pass without a GOP filibuster. — After a private party meeting on Thursday, Republicans hadn't agreed on how to allow the deal struck …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Senate leaders announce short-term deal to raise debt ceiling $480 billion into December
Senate leaders announce short-term deal to raise debt ceiling $480 billion into December
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Here's Why McConnell Blinked
Here's Why McConnell Blinked
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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 …
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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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin demands progressives prioritize
Scoop: Manchin demands progressives prioritize
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Washington Post, The Hill and HuffPost
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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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.
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Washington Post and Insider
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Dispute Over Claim That Proud Boys Leader Urged Attack at Capitol — An accused rioter has told the F.B.I. that Joseph Biggs, a leader of the far-right Proud Boys, directed him to challenge the police at a key moment on Jan. 6. Mr. Biggs's lawyer denied the allegation.
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
‘The intelligence was there’: Law enforcement warnings abounded in the runup to Jan. 6
‘The intelligence was there’: Law enforcement warnings abounded in the runup to Jan. 6
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Raw Story
John Shiffman / Reuters:
The tech entrepreneur who founded Trump's go-to TV news network — He's a high school dropout who made his mark with savvy business moves in the circuit board industry and combative litigation against adversaries. Now Robert Herring Sr stands atop OAN, a far-right political network former …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
How AT&T fuels right-wing extremists
How AT&T fuels right-wing extremists
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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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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Durham Probes Pentagon Computer Contractors in Anti-Trump Conspiracy — Above, ‘Tech Executive-1’ alludes to leaving his job last month amid John Durham's Russia probe. — Cybersecurity experts who held lucrative Pentagon and homeland security contracts and high-level security clearances …
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.
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.
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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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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Jacqueline Feldscher / Defense One:
GOP Lawmakers Slam Pentagon Nominee for Tweets — “Do you believe every Republican in the GOP...are they all racist?” Sen. Dan Sullivan asked Brenda Fulton. — Republicans on Thursday slammed President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Pentagon's manpower office for tweets that called …
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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 …
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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WRAL-TV:
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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CNBC:
Ozy Media got $5.7 million in relief loans to help pay employees, but ex-staffers say they didn't see any of it — Ozy Media, which is under fire after several reports detailed questionable business practices at the company, took two separate PPP loans for a total of $5.7 million.
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Reuters:
Hackers of SolarWinds stole data on U.S. sanctions policy, intelligence probes — The suspected Russian hackers who used SolarWinds and Microsoft software to burrow into U.S. federal agencies emerged with information about counter-intelligence investigations, policy on sanctioning Russian individuals …
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