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During Jan. 6 riot, Trump attorney told Pence team the vice president's actions caused attack on Capitol — As Vice President Mike Pence hid from a marauding mob during the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol, an attorney for President Donald Trump emailed a top Pence aide to say that Pence …
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Read: Pence aide Greg Jacob's draft opinion article denouncing Trump's outside lawyers — Below is the text of a draft op-ed Greg Jacob wrote in January 2021, when he was chief counsel to Vice President Mike Pence, but ultimately decided not to publish. The Washington Post obtained a copy …
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘A deliberate, orchestrated campaign’: the real story behind Trump's attempted coup … n 4 January, the conservative lawyer John Eastman was summoned to the Oval Office to meet Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence. Within 48 hours, Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The most shocking new revelation about John Eastman
The most shocking new revelation about John Eastman
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Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Lincoln Project Posed as Charlottesville White Supremacists at GOP Event — Five people dressed like the white supremacists who caused the violent “Unite the Right” riots in Charlottesville four years ago showed up outside of Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin's event in the town on Friday.
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Emily / The Lincoln Project:
Statement from the Lincoln Project — October 29, 2021 — Today, The Lincoln Project released the following statement: — “Glenn Younkin has said: ‘President Trump represents so much of why I am running.’ Youngkin proves it every day by trying to divide Virginians using racial code words …
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Washington Post:
Lincoln Project organized a group to carry torches at Youngkin event in Charlottesville — A group of people carrying tiki torches outside Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin's tour bus in Charlottesville on Friday, which caused a stir on social media and led …
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
The Lincoln Project roasted as ‘deranged hacks’ for orchestrating viral hoax to smear Youngkin
The Lincoln Project roasted as ‘deranged hacks’ for orchestrating viral hoax to smear Youngkin
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Kay Smythe / The National Pulse:
Democrat Operatives Caught Dressing Up As White Supremacists in Desperate Last-Ditch Virginia Election Stunt.
Democrat Operatives Caught Dressing Up As White Supremacists in Desperate Last-Ditch Virginia Election Stunt.
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Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Group of anti-Trump Republicans was behind tiki torches in Virginia campaign
Group of anti-Trump Republicans was behind tiki torches in Virginia campaign
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Philip Klein / National Review:
McAuliffe Should Be Held Responsible for Tiki Torch Stunt, Because His Campaign Thinks Candidates Are Responsible for Supporters
Isaac Schorr / National Review:
Lincoln Project Claims Credit for Racial Hoax at Youngkin Event
Lincoln Project Claims Credit for Racial Hoax at Youngkin Event
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Florida Bars State Professors From Testifying in Voting Rights Case — After being hired as expert witnesses for groups opposing a restrictive voting law, three University of Florida academics were told they could not participate in the lawsuit against the state.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Call logs, speech drafts among records Trump is trying to block from Jan. 6 investigators — Donald Trump is seeking to prevent Jan. 6 investigators from accessing daily presidential diaries, drafts of election-related speeches, logs of his phone calls, handwritten notes and files of top aides …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
New January 6 court filings reveal what Trump is trying to keep secret from Congress — (CNN)Specifics about former President Donald Trump's efforts to keep secret the support from his White House for overturning his loss of the 2020 election were revealed in late-night court filings that show …
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
G20 leaders endorse global minimum tax — Leaders of the world's largest economies are endorsing the establishment of a global minimum tax at the opening of the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Rome on Saturday. — The global minimum tax seeks to block corporations from moving jobs or profits overseas in order to avoid paying taxes.
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Politico:
Jayapal warned Klain not to push an infrastructure vote. Then chaos ensued. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought President Joe Biden in this week to finally close the deal on Democrats' domestic agenda. Rep. Pramila Jayapal had other plans. — As Biden prepared for the high-stakes meeting …
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Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Biden troubles at home follow him abroad
Biden troubles at home follow him abroad
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't block vaccine mandate for Maine health-care workers with religious objections — The Supreme Court Friday turned down a request from a group of Maine health-care workers to block a state coronavirus vaccination mandate that does not contain an exception for religious objectors.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Won't Block Maine's Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers
Supreme Court Won't Block Maine's Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Vaccine confers better protection than natural immunity, CDC finds — American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator. — WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, the conservative radio host Dennis Prager announced he had contracted the coronavirus. This was, as far as he was concerned, good news.
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New York Times:
Trump's $300 Million SPAC Deal May Have Skirted Securities Laws — The former president began discussing a deal with a ‘blank check’ company early this year. Investors weren't told. — Just days after Donald J. Trump left the White House, two former contestants on his reality show, “The Apprentice,” approached him with a pitch.
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Washington Post:
Trump looks to 2024, commanding a fundraising juggernaut, as he skirts social media bans — Facebook has banned former president Donald Trump from posting on its platform, and he is barred by law from using his current fundraising to finance another campaign for the White House.
Kiran Stacey / Financial Times:
US intelligence report sheds new light on Wuhan lab accident theory — Declassified report reignites debate over whether China bears responsibility for pandemic's origins — A US intelligence agency has spelt out for the first time how and why it thinks the virus that causes Covid-19 …
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Kieran Healy:
The Polarization of Death — I'm continuing to update the covdata package in anticipation of a Data Visualization for Social Science course I'll teach next semester. I revisited the Partisan Trajectories graph, as it seems there's more that could be done with it. More on that in the future, I hope.
Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
A Black chief diversity officer lost a job offer after flagging racial bias — Joseph B. Hill was four days from starting a new position as vice president, chief equity, diversity and inclusion officer at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, when he received an email that changed the trajectory of his career.
Washington Post:
Biden privately questions whether major emitters will deliver on their climate pledges — In an Oval Office meeting last month, President Biden questioned his top aides on whether the world's top polluters would actually follow through on their commitments to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions.
Andrea Bernstein / NPR:
Trump's businesses and brand still suffering from his polarizing rhetoric — Once, Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was a bustling indoor mall, with floors and floors of retail, a pink marble atrium, and an indoor waterfall. On a recent visit, the waterfall and the pink marble were still there …
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Financial Times:
Allies lobby Biden to prevent shift to ‘no first use’ of nuclear arms — European and Asian capitals intensify behind-the-scenes pressure amid fears US will change doctrine — US allies are lobbying Joe Biden not to change American policy on the use of nuclear weapons amid concern …
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