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Congress' Jan. 6 investigators face an inevitable reckoning with their GOP colleagues — As congressional investigators accelerate their probe of Donald Trump's 2020 election challenges that culminated on Jan. 6, one thing is clear: All roads run through a handful of their GOP colleagues.
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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Biden declines Trump request to withhold White House records from Jan. 6 committee
Biden declines Trump request to withhold White House records from Jan. 6 committee
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Renuka Rayasam / Politico:
‘Mad Men’ advice for Biden — BUILD BACK BETTER, BETTER — Wherever you sit on the political spectrum, and whatever you think of the substantive merits of the multi-trillion dollar bill that Joe Biden has staked his presidency on, you will probably agree that the bill has been terribly named.
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Thompson & Cheney Statement on Subpoena Deadline
Thompson & Cheney Statement on Subpoena Deadline
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Rob Crilly / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE ‘I stand with Trump’: Steve Bannon tells the January 6 select committee that he will NOT comply with their subpoena because the former president has ‘executive privilege’
EXCLUSIVE ‘I stand with Trump’: Steve Bannon tells the January 6 select committee that he will NOT comply with their subpoena because the former president has ‘executive privilege’
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Kyrsten Sinema Wants to Cut $100 Billion in Proposed Climate Funds, Sources Say — The Arizona senator, who started in politics as an environmentalist, is one of two centrist Democrats who could make or break a spending bill at the center of President Biden's legislative agenda.
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats edge toward dumping Iowa's caucuses as the first presidential vote — President Biden is not a big fan. Former Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez is openly opposed. And elsewhere in the Democratic inner sanctum, disdain for Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential caucus has been rising for years.
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New York Post:
LI Rep. Suozzi to outflank Hochul in Buffalo ahead of potential gov challenge — A Long Island Democrat, Rep. Tom Suozzi, is making his most aggressive move in a potential bid to challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul in a primary next year — by outflanking the former lieutenant governor in a local race on her own Buffalo turf.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell vows GOP won't help raise debt ceiling in December after Schumer ‘tantrum’ — Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned President Biden Friday that Republicans won't help raise the debt ceiling later this year, and stated that a recent speech by Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y) had “poisoned the well.”
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Lurching From Crisis to Crisis, Congress Is Addicted to Cliffs
Lurching From Crisis to Crisis, Congress Is Addicted to Cliffs
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Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
Manchin blasts Schumer's GOP-bashing floor speech: ‘Civility is gone’
Manchin blasts Schumer's GOP-bashing floor speech: ‘Civility is gone’
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Ann Marimow / Washington Post:
Appeals court reinstates Texas's six-week abortion ban, two days after it was lifted — A federal appeals court late Friday reinstated the nation's most restrictive abortion law, which bars the procedure as early as six weeks into pregnancy with no exceptions for rape or incest.
Dave Lawler / Axios:
French elections: Far-right TV pundit climbs to second behind Macron — A far-right firebrand is shaking up the French presidential election and, with six months to go, has pulled into second in the polls. — Why it matters: This race had long seemed on course for a rematch between President …
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Gavin Mortimer / Spectator:
France's political elite created Eric Zemmour
Politico:
Major Harris surrogate goes full DGAF — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. With Allie Bice. — “Her portfolio is trash.” — That's what BAKARI SELLERS, one of the most public and vocal defenders …
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
America's unemployed are sending a message: They'll go back to work when they feel safe - and well-compensated — September marked the weakest hiring this year, and an alarming number of women had to stop working again to deal with unstable school and child-care situations
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
National Democrats seek to intervene in GOP-backed challenge to mail voting in Pennsylvania — The Democratic National Committee is seeking to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Pennsylvania Republicans aimed at curbing the use of mail voting, according to a copy of the filing shared with NBC News.
Washington Post:
Why outlawing harmful social media content would face an uphill legal battle — Even in cases with tragic facts, courts have resisted penalizing speech involved with some general societal harm. — Testimony from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has given new life to a pair of ideas that …
David-Moore / Sludge:
Harrison Nominates New Corporate Lobbyists to Join the DNC — DNC members say they were not allowed input on the nominees, who were put forward as a slate by Chair Jaime Harrison and will almost certainly be approved. — EDITED BY — Tomorrow, Democratic National Committee members …
New York Times:
Luo Changping Detained in China After Criticizing ‘The Battle at Lake Changjin’ — The police arrested Luo Changping on Thursday, two days after he questioned China's role in the Korean War, the subject of China's box office hit “The Battle at Lake Changjin.”
Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
Three U.S. Embassy staff in Russia face expulsion over allegations of property theft — MOSCOW — Russia on Friday accused three U.S. Embassy employees of theft and demanded that they leave the country or face prosecution, exacerbating already tense relations.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
‘Battered on trust, doubted on leadership’: A ‘brutal’ poll for Biden shows no easy fix — “These new poll numbers are frankly brutal for the president,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper reported on Wednesday after a new Quinnipiac University poll showed that President Biden is at his lowest approval number yet — 38 percent.
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Politico:
Capitol Police whistleblower delivers scathing rebuke to two of its senior leaders on Jan. 6 — A former high-ranking Capitol Police official with knowledge of the department's response to the Jan. 6 attack has sent congressional leaders a scathing letter accusing two of its senior leaders …
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Raleigh News & Observer:
White House condemns NC Lt Gov Robinson's anti LGBTQ comments — The Biden White House condemned on Friday North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's comments calling transgender people and homosexuality “filth.” — “These words are repugnant and offensive,” said Andrew Bates …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Why is a prominent federal judge hiring a law clerk who said she hates Black people? — For a graduating law student, a clerkship with a federal appeals court judge is a glittering credential. With the right judge, it can be a steppingstone to the most sought-after credential of all, a clerkship at the Supreme Court itself.
The Indian Express:
There's an urgent need to clean up the World Bank and IMF — Devesh Kapur, Arvind Subramanian write: Global political leaders convening next week must open up selection of heads of these institutions to the best candidates, regardless of nationality. — Something is rotten on 19th Street in Washington DC.
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
The DOJ Is Investigating Americans For War Crimes Allegedly Committed While Fighting With Far-Right Extremists In Ukraine — KYIV — One chilly day in February, Craig Lang, a former US Army soldier wanted for allegedly killing a married couple in Florida, pleaded with three stern-faced judges …
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Wall Street Journal:
Global Supply-Chain Problems Escalate, Threatening Economic Recovery — Component shortages, surging prices of raw materials and transportation backups compound the bottlenecks — in Hong Kong, William Boston in Berlin and Alistair MacDonald — Global supply-chain bottlenecks are feeding …