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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
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Trump and his allies target McConnell over deal to avoid default — Thursday's debt-limit deal has prompted a new round of attacks on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell by former president Donald Trump and his supporters, highlighting McConnell's beleaguered role in a party where Trump remains the most powerful force.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
No one likes the debt deal — The leaders of the Senate were happy Thursday with their deal to avoid a debt default. They were about the only ones. — Why it matters: The Band-Aid does nothing to solve the debt ceiling problem long term for Americans. Democrats fear it only kicks the can down the road to a very busy December.
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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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Journalists known for taking on governments of Philippines and Russia win Nobel Peace Prize — Editors Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov on Friday won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for their fight for a free and independent press in a major boost to journalists amid increasing pressures on freedom of expression around the world.
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James Hookway / Wall Street Journal:
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov — Journalists are honored for efforts to safeguard freedom of expression — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia for their efforts to defend freedom of expression.
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Eliza Shapiro / New York Times:
New York City to Phase Out Its Gifted and Talented Program — Students who are currently enrolled in gifted and talented classes will not be affected. But the highly selective and racially segregated program will be replaced for incoming students. — Mayor Bill de Blasio will overhaul …
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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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Today's deep question: Why does Biden use a stage set instead of the White House? — The “fake set” question first came up a week ago, when a few critics speculated that Joe Biden's booster shot was as staged as the environs. There's not a shred of evidence that Biden didn't get his third dose …
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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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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Google Won't Fund Sites, YouTube Videos That Deny Climate Change
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Trump May Run in 2024. So Might They. It's Getting Awkward. — Former President Donald J. Trump's unwillingness to cede the spotlight has cast doubt on the political futures of several Republican politicians. — With all the subtlety of a bullhorn, former President Donald J. Trump …
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Pence and Haley Aren't the Future of the GOP—They're Roadkill
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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 …
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
David Shor Is Telling Democrats What They Don't Want to Hear — President Biden's agenda is in peril. Democrats hold a bare 50 seats in the Senate, which gives any member of their caucus the power to block anything he or she chooses, at least in the absence of Republican support.
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Roger L. Simon / theepochtimes.com:
Thank Goodness Merrick Garland's Not on the Supreme Court — Mitch McConnell is not always the most popular guy among conservatives or Republicans in general. Just today he's taking incoming for caving on the short-term debt ceiling. — But we can certainly score one solid A+ for him during his tenure.
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The Dworkin Report:
Reality Winner's mom calls on President Biden to grant her daughter clemency — Scott speaks with Billie Jean Winner-Davis, whose daughter Reality spent years in federal prison for revealing Russia's cyberattack on America's elections in 2016. Reality's mom shared some of her frustrations …
Josh Partlow / Washington Post:
Biden to expand Bears Ears and other national monuments, reversing Trump cuts, White House says — The decision will restore full protections to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah and reinstate fishing restrictions in a marine monument off New England
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Michael Gableman, the GOP attorney reviewing Wisconsin's 2020 election, is backing off on the subpoenas to cities days after issuing them — MADISON - In a dramatic turnaround, an attorney reviewing the 2020 election for Assembly Republicans on Thursday canceled interviews with mayors …
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CNN:
More people are getting Covid-19 vaccine boosters than getting their first shots, CDC data shows — (CNN)Mark Warschauer, a professor of education at the University of California, Irvine, was “tremendously excited” about the authorization of Covid-19 vaccines, and happy when he became eligible to get his first doses.
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Ariana Garcia / Houston Chronicle:
Matthew McConaughey says politics is ‘a bag of rats’ in interview weighing run for Texas governor — In an interview on the Sway podcast, the Lone Star State native wavered on whether he could affect real change as a politician and called the state's abortion ban ‘juvenile in its implementation.’
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump-Loving Cousins IDed By Online Sleuths Are Arrested For Attacking Cops At Capitol — #MississippiFlagGuy and #KingstonAsh were identified by online sleuths back in February. — The FBI has arrested two cousins who attacked police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and were identified …
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
The Cult of the Vaccine — Yesterday, I ran a story that had nothing to do with vaccines, about the seeming delay of the development of a drug called molnupiravir (see the above segment with the gracious hosts of The Hill: Rising for more). In the time it took to report and write that piece …
Liz Peek / The Hill:
Global energy crunch spurs inflation and scares green lobby — Environmentalists are terrified. Not that polar bears will soon go the way of the dodo or that melting ice caps will submerge Iceland in the near future (or is it Greenland?). — No, the green lobby is very …
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.
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 …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
NIH's Francis Collins, on covid, science and faith: ‘There is such a thing as truth’ — It seems like my last memory from a previous life — a life of human interaction without constant precaution. On the first day of March 2020, I was seated at lunch next to the director of the National Institutes …
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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