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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 …
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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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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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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Politico:
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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CNN:
Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election
Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election
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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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ABC News, Military Times, Task & Purpose, The Gateway Pundit and Breaking Defense
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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Politico:
McConnell summons GOP in scramble to raise debt ceiling — The Senate will vote Thursday night on a short-term debt limit patch to stave off economic disaster in less than two weeks, though a handful of Republicans first must walk the plank. — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced …
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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 …
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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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Spweber / Governor Spencer J. Cox:
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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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.
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 …
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Neal Sher, Nazi hunter and former AIPAC director, dies at 74 — (JTA) — Neal Sher, who as the U.S.'s chief Nazi hunter established the formula that led to the deportation of dozens of Nazis, has died at 74. — Sher, who led the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations …
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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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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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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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.
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.
Washington Post:
Video footage amid unrest after George Floyd's death captures Minneapolis police discussing ‘hunting people’ — A few days after George Floyd was killed last year, sparking wide-scale protests, a police officer responding to the unrest in Minneapolis remarked to another officer: “You guys are out hunting people.”
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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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