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Washington Post:
Warnings of violence before Jan. 6 precipitated the Capitol riot — and his team had spotted increasing signs that supporters of President Donald Trump were planning violence when Congress met to formalize the electoral college vote, but federal law enforcement agencies did not seem to share his sense of urgency.
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The Mahablog, Raw Story, Crooks and Liars, Reuters, Mother Jones, Eschaton and Digby's Hullabaloo
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Jan. 6 ‘Influencer’ Who Said She's ‘Definitely Not Going To Jail’ Should Go To Jail, Feds Say — Jenna Ryan, a Trump-loving real estate broker, called Jan. 6 “one of the best days of my life” and bragged that she wouldn't go to jail because she's white. — Federal prosecutors …
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
BEFORE THE ATTACK — Law enforcement officials did not respond with urgency to a cascade of warnings about violence on Jan. 6 — Alerts were raised by local officials, FBI informants, social media companies, former national security officials, researchers, lawmakers and tipsters.
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Election Law Blog, The Daily Beast, Raw Story, Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Washington Post:
Former president Donald Trump's response to the findings of The Post's Jan. 6 investigation — On Oct. 31, The Washington Post published a three-part investigation that found that law enforcement officials failed to heed mounting red flags that there would be violence when Congress formalized the electoral college vote on Jan. 6.
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Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Washington Post:
What happened on Jan. 6: Trump stands back as rioters breach Capitol — For 187 harrowing minutes, the president watched his supporters attack the Capitol — and resisted pleas to stop them. — President Donald Trump had just returned to the White House from his rally at the Ellipse …
Sally Buzbee / Washington Post:
Letter from Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee about The Post's Jan. 6 investigation
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
The “Let's Go, Brandon!” Freakout Goes Next-Level — A Southwest pilot earns ISIS comparisons for joking into a loudspeaker, as pundits continues to mass-forget the previous four years — FBI Special Agent-turned-CNN Political Analyst Asha Rangappa — gosh that resume sounds unsurprising …
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Twitchy, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, TheBlaze, BizPac Review, Scripting News, Insider, RedState, New York Post and pjmedia.com
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Southwest Airlines apologizes for pilot's “Let's Go Brandon” remark — A pilot on a Southwest Airlines flight from Houston to Albuquerque delivered a three-word sentence that set off some of his passengers. During the pilot's greeting to the passengers, he finished up with “Let's Go Brandon”, a popular hashtag on social media.
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The Daily Wire, The Wrap, Louder With Crowder and Twitchy
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Biden's job rating sinks to 42 percent in NBC News poll a year from midterms — WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans now disapprove of President Joe Biden's job performance, while half give him low marks for competence and uniting the country, according to results from the latest national NBC News poll.
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Biden, Democrats failing to sell agenda to American people: POLL
Biden, Democrats failing to sell agenda to American people: POLL
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Washington Examiner, National Review, HotAir and Twitchy
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
In a tight Virginia race, Covid concerns still make campaigning difficult for Democrats
In a tight Virginia race, Covid concerns still make campaigning difficult for Democrats
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MSNBC and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Jess Bidgood / The Boston Globe:
The car becomes the weapon — Demonstrators around the country have been injured and killed by vehicle rammings, but there's been precious little justice. And new laws could make accountability even scarcer. — Switch to light mode — TULSA, Okla. — On May 31, 2020 …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
‘When do we get to use the guns?’ The life-or-death stakes of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial — The late conservative icon Barry Goldwater famously said “extremism in defense of liberty is no vice,” but last Monday the limits of that — and American political speech in general …
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The Intercept
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David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Biden says Russia, China 'didn't show up' on climate change commitments — ROME — U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday blamed Russia and China for any disappointment over the level of commitment by G20 leaders to fight climate change. — “With regard to the disappointment …
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Bloomberg, Fox News, RedState, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and UPI
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Jon Brown / Fox News:
Biden apologizes for being late to G20 press conference: ‘We were playing with elevators’
Biden apologizes for being late to G20 press conference: ‘We were playing with elevators’
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RedState
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
U.S. Military Jury Condemns Terrorist's Torture and Urges Clemency — Seven senior officers rebuked the government's treatment of an admitted terrorist in a handwritten letter from the jury room at Guantánamo Bay. — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Seven senior U.S. military officers …
Brett Bachman / Salon:
GOP candidate: Michael Flynn trying to run extortion plot on U.S. officials to reinstall Trump — Pennsylvania Senate candidate Everett Stern made the bombshell accusation in a press conference Saturday — A Republican Senate candidate alleged over the weekend that former national security adviser …
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emptywheel
New York Times:
The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops — Busted taillights, missing plates, tinted windows: Across the U.S., ticket revenue funds towns — and the police responsible for finding violations. — Harold Brown's contribution to the local treasury began as so many others have in Valley Brook …
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Outside the Beltway
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New York Times:
In the Final Days Before Virginia Votes, Both Sides Claim Momentum — Glenn Youngkin and Terry McAuliffe crisscrossed Virginia on the last weekend of what has become an increasingly close race for governor. — MANASSAS PARK, Va. — The high-stakes race for governor of Virginia entered …
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Washington Times, Politico, Associated Press, New York Post, Conservative Brief, Terry McAuliffe and Insider
Jon Brown / Fox News:
Jen Psaki tests positive for COVID-19 — Psaki last saw Biden a day after he coughed into his hand and shook hands with the public while maskless — Fox News Flash top headlines for October 31 — White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday she has tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated.
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Washington Post, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, NPR, USA Today, Bloomberg, CNN, Politico, Reuters, Breitbart, Washington Times, Financial Times, The Wrap, Deadline, TMZ.com, New York Post, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, RedState, Twitchy, TheBlaze and TASS
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Cheney in defiant floor speech: Trump on ‘crusade to undermine our democracy’ — Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) warned in a fiery floor speech on the eve of her expected ouster from House GOP leadership that the decision by many in her party to enable former President Trump's falsehoods …
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Insider
Kelly Hooper / Politico:
Buttigieg: 'We're the closest that we've ever been' to passing infrastructure and spending bills — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sounded confident Sunday that the House is close to passing both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and President Joe Biden's domestic agenda spending bill.
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The Hill, ABC News, Fox News, Townhall and justoneminute.typepad.com
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Buttigieg on passing spending packages: ‘We are the closest we have ever been’
Buttigieg on passing spending packages: ‘We are the closest we have ever been’
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The Daily Beast