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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 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 — 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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The Philadelphia Inquirer, ABC News, Above the Law, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, CNN and Talking Points Memo
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, Raw Story and Associated Press
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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CNN:
Trump allies did little to investigate election fraud claims, court documents show
Trump allies did little to investigate election fraud claims, court documents show
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Rolling Stone and Raw Story
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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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
Select Committee to Investigate …:
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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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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Washington Post:
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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Insider and 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 …
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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, The Gateway Pundit and Breaking Defense
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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why McConnell backed down
POLITICO Playbook: Why McConnell backed down
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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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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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TechCrunch and Twitchy, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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 …
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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The Hill, Raleigh News & Observer, Raw Story and The Pulse
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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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
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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CBS News
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 …
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.
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 …
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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Washington Post, The Hill, Mediaite and IJR
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.
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.
Allahpundit / HotAir:
MSNBC host: If Fox anchors think vaccine mandates are oppressive, why don't they quit in protest? — In theory there's an answer to this question that sits comfortably within conservative orthodoxy: Conservatives oppose state mandates but support the right of private business owners to run their own shops.
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RealClearPolitics, Crooks and Liars and ABC News
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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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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ABC News, KSTP-TV and Star Tribune
Los Angeles Times:
Former officials Nuñez, Boxer and Villaraigosa lead exodus from powerful lobbying firm — Former prominent Democratic elected officials Fabian Nuñez, Barbara Boxer and Antonio Villaraigosa led the mass resignations from one of the state's most powerful lobbying firms, Mercury Public Affairs.
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.
Eric Lipton / 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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Raw Story
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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