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FBI agents swarm D.C. home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska — FBI agents swarmed the home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in Washington D.C. Tuesday, an agency spokesperson confirmed to NBC News. — The reason for their presence wasn't immediately clear.
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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Congressman says he expects to be indicted — Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) told supporters on Tuesday he expects to be indicted on allegations he lied to federal investigators. — Driving the news: In a video uploaded to YouTube, the congressman sat with his wife and dog in a vintage pickup truck …
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Paul Hammel / Omaha World-Herald:
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry expects to be indicted for lying to FBI but says charge is false
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry expects to be indicted for lying to FBI but says charge is false
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The Hill, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Nolan Dorn / KLKN-TV:
Rep. Fortenberry to be indicted for being accused of lying to FBI
Rep. Fortenberry to be indicted for being accused of lying to FBI
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The Daily Beast and KOLN
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Message to Progressives: Dragging Manchin and Sinema Isn't Working — If Bernie Sanders and the left want to move the needle, they'll need more carrots than sticks. — Gary Gulman has a fantastic yarn called “Meltdown at Trader Joe's.” The comedian describes his confrontation …
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Dems' dawning realization: Manchin's serious
Dems' dawning realization: Manchin's serious
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The Hill, Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
The Bulwark:
Steve Bannon Out in the Open — The erstwhile Trump adviser is refusing to talk to the Jan. 6 committee, but most of his energetic anti-democratic activities are in plain sight. — The House committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to vote today …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Congress is still trying to get Trumpworld to play by its rules
Congress is still trying to get Trumpworld to play by its rules
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New York Times, Politico and Bipartisan Report
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's ludicrous new effort to cover up Jan. 6 should spark new fears about 2024
Trump's ludicrous new effort to cover up Jan. 6 should spark new fears about 2024
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Washington Examiner, WHYY, HotAir, Denver Post, CBS News and Shore News Network
Josh Chafetz / NBC News:
Steve Bannon's House subpoena defiance should end in prosecution
Steve Bannon's House subpoena defiance should end in prosecution
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The Hill, CNBC, Raw Story, Reason, CNN, The Guardian, Daily Kos and MyNorthwest.com
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
What is Tommy Tuberville doing here? … Tommy Tuberville had a decision to make. So did the other Republican senators huddling with him in the storage closet. — It was Jan. 6, right-wing rioters were ransacking the U.S. Capitol, but these lawmakers were already in a secured part …
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Colin Powell and the Crisis of the Boomer Elite — You need to understand that in a society where religion has gone out of fashion, the elite has to canonize secular saints as examples for the people it proposes to rule. The elite needs a quasi-religious justification to feel superior …
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Washington Examiner, The Federalist, The Moderate Voice and Instapundit
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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
'Don't feel sorry for me,' Powell said as the end approached
'Don't feel sorry for me,' Powell said as the end approached
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HotAir, Columbia Journalism Review, Forever Wars, Insider, TheGrio, The Hill, New York Post, New York Times, WTOP and CNN
Insider:
Trump says his son Donald Jr. 'couldn't be beaten' if he ran for office in ‘certain places’: book — Former President Trump says he'd support his son Donald Trump Jr. if he runs for office someday. — “There are certain places where he couldn't be beaten,” Trump told journalist David Drucker.
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Insider:
Trump admits he didn't go all-out to push Republicans to vote in the Georgia Senate runoffs because he was ‘angry’ over losing the election, book says
Trump admits he didn't go all-out to push Republicans to vote in the Georgia Senate runoffs because he was ‘angry’ over losing the election, book says
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CNN, Raw Story, Daily Kos and The Daily Wire
Oma Seddiq / Insider:
Trump calls Rep. Liz Cheney a ‘psycho’ who is ‘not the brightest person in the world’: book
Trump calls Rep. Liz Cheney a ‘psycho’ who is ‘not the brightest person in the world’: book
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Raw Story
Meghan McCain / Variety:
Meghan McCain Reveals Why She Quit ‘The View’ (EXCLUSIVE BOOK EXCERPT) … On July 1, 2021, I announced live on air that I was leaving “The View” after four years. My co-hosts learned about my decision that morning, and the shock registered on their faces. I'd been talking to ABC's higher-ups for weeks about wanting to leave.
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Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:
Meghan McCain Tells All: 'The View's' ‘Toxic Work Environment,’ Why She Really Left and Her Feud With Joy Behar
Meghan McCain Tells All: 'The View's' ‘Toxic Work Environment,’ Why She Really Left and Her Feud With Joy Behar
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HotAir, The Daily Caller, WTOP, The Daily Wire, IJR, The Hill and Twitchy
Allahpundit / HotAir:
McAuliffe sweats: My comments about parents not telling schools what to teach are being taken “out of context” — There have been no new public polls of Virginia since Trafalgar's last week but I think the Twitter consensus about this new ad has to be right.
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
Everyone Is Reading Too Much Into Virginia's Race for Governor
Everyone Is Reading Too Much Into Virginia's Race for Governor
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The Dispatch, CNN, Althouse and RedState
David Byler / Washington Post:
Virginia Democrats are worried. They should be.
Virginia Democrats are worried. They should be.
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CNN, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed News, The Daily Beast and The Dispatch
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Democratic Party chair reports lynching threat after writing op-ed critical of Donald Trump — Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn received multiple threats, including one of lynching, after he penned an opinion piece critical of former President Donald Trump, he told the Des Moines Register.
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Washington Post, The Hill, VICE and Raw Story
Julie Ray / Gallup:
U.S. Ratings at Record Low as Trump Exited, Rally Under Biden — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six months into Joe Biden's presidency, approval ratings of U.S. leadership around the world had largely rebounded from the record-low ratings observed during the Trump administration.
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Micheline Maynard / Washington Post:
Don't rant about short-staffed stores and supply chain woes. Try to lower expectations. — For more than a century, business experts have been trying to dial up the United States' efficiency. Ever since Frederick Taylor published “The Principles of Scientific Management” in 1911 …
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Commentary Magazine, Fox News, National Review, The Daily Wire, The Right Scoop, Twitchy and Townhall
Taylor Goldenstein / Houston Chronicle:
‘The limitation of Donald Trump’: Election audit bill fails to pass in Texas Legislature — Despite unusually heavy lobbying from former President Donald Trump, two elections bills that he pushed Gov. Greg Abbott to enact this fall are all but dead. — One would have eased up the process …
Bianca Fortis / ProPublica:
The Trump Administration Used Its Food Aid Program for Political Gain, Congressional Investigators Find — The Food to Families program, touted by Ivanka Trump, gave tens of millions of dollars to unqualified firms and was also used to promote then-President Trump.
The HighWire:
San Francisco Closes In-N-Out Burger After Defying City's Vaccine Rule … In-N-Out Burger's Chief Legal and Business Officer, Arnie Wensinger, is set to release a statement after the San Francisco Department of Health closed one of the Top California Burger Restaurant's locations.
Valerie Bauerlein / Wall Street Journal:
Alex Murdaugh Denied Bail in South Carolina — Lawyer was arrested last week on charges related to misappropriating insurance settlement money — COLUMBIA, S.C.—A state court judge denied bond to former lawyer Alex Murdaugh on Tuesday, saying he wanted an independent psychiatric evaluation …
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New York Post:
Midnight runs: Biden secretly flying underage migrants into NY in dead of night — Planeloads of underage migrants are being flown secretly into suburban New York in an effort by President Biden's administration to quietly resettle them across the region, The Post has learned.
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Rachel Levine, openly transgender health official, sworn in as four-star admiral in Public Health Service — The former Pennsylvania health secretary is the sixth four-star admiral in the history of the health corps. — A senior Biden health appointee who made history when she became …
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Outside the Beltway, The Daily Wire, WTRF-TV and Tom Fitton
Leslie Josephs / CNBC:
Southwest drops plan to put unvaccinated staff on unpaid leave starting in December — Southwest scrapped a plan to put unvaccinated workers with pending exemptions on unpaid leave after the Dec. 8 deadline. — Both American and Southwest require their new-hire employees to show proof …
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The Right Scoop, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Townhall and Trending Politics
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Passengers held up phones during Philadelphia train rape, police say — The passengers who did nothing while a homeless man raped a woman on a commuter train outside Philadelphia may have also recorded the vile attack on their cellphones instead of calling for help, authorities said.
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HotAir, BBC and Metro.co.uk
Victoria Law / The Nation:
Rikers Detainees Are Being Transferred From One “Hell Hole” to Another — Former and currently incarcerated people denounce Governor Kathy Hochul's decision to transfer detainees as a temporary fix to the ongoing crisis at Rikers. — Governor Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that nearly 230 women …
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Trump criticizes media for treating Powell ‘beautifully’ in death — Former President Donald Trump lambasted the media on Tuesday for what he said was too favorable coverage of former Secretary of State Colin Powell after his death on Monday. — “Wonderful to see Colin Powell …
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Samya Kullab / Associated Press:
Taliban promise cash, land, to families of suicide bombers — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have promised plots of land to relatives of suicide bombers who attacked U.S. and Afghan soldiers, in a provocative gesture that seems to run counter to their efforts to court international support.
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Political Wire
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Out: Brexit. In: Polexit — All during the seemingly endless debate over Brexit, European leaders continued to warn the world of the dangers such a move could pose to the European Union. If Great Britain can leave, what's to stop other countries from following them out the door?
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Siena College Research Institute:
Democrats Give Hochul Early Double-Digit Lead — In a Fall Preview of June's Primary, Democrats Give Hochul Early Double-Digit Lead in 3 Potential Candidate Scenarios — New Gov Has Positive Favorability Rating - Comparable to AG James - But Her Job Performance Rating is Tilting Negative; Under Water on Several Issues
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New York Magazine, Mediaite and New York Post