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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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Harry Enten / CNN:
Why Democrats are in a lot of trouble in Virginia — Candidates make closing arguments in tight VA governor race — (CNN)Virginia will have the eyes of the political world on it Tuesday night. Most of the attention will be on the marquee gubernatorial election between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin.
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Reuters, Mediaite, Washington Monthly and FiveThirtyEight
Politico:
Last-ditch fight for Black votes could swing Virginia
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NBC News, Tom Bonier and Washington Post
Washington Post:
‘Red flags everywhere:’ The Washington Post dives deep into Jan. 6 — On the Hill — ‘Red flags everywhere:’ The Post dives deep into Jan. 6 — ‘Red flags everywhere’: Even 11 months after the insurrection, new details and reporting are still emerging that paint the fullest picture yet …
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Raw Story, Vanity Fair and NBC News
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Former president Donald Trump's response to the findings of The Post's Jan. 6 investigation
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The Hill, Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo and Mediaite
Washington Post:
What happened on Jan. 6: Trump stands back as rioters breach Capitol
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The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story and Mediaite
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Treasury Secretary Yellen expresses openness to defusing debt ceiling without GOP votes — After some party leaders ruled out approach last month, Yellen says Democrats-only budget process could prove ‘viable’ way to tackle debt limit — SOMEWHERE OVER THE ALPS — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen …
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
'They're probably going to put us back in power': GOP basks in Dem discord — Most of the House GOP isn't lifting a finger to help Democrats out of their infrastructure jam, and with good reason. Just ask Rep. Randy Weber. — “They're probably going to put us back into power,” …
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New Republic, Associated Press, Alabama Daily News and The Hill
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Cheney in defiant floor speech: Trump on ‘crusade to undermine our democracy’
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Insider
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 …
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Al Jazeera, Agence France-Presse and The Talking Dog
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
Reuters:
Houthi missile attack on mosque, religious school kills and injures 29 civilians in Yemen - minister — A Houthi ballistic missile attack on a mosque and a religious school killed and injured 29 civilians, including women and children, in the Yemeni province of Marib, the country's information minister …
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Take the win, Democrats, and don't look back — Celebrate victory. Explain what you've achieved. Defend it from attack. Change the public conversation in your favor. Build on success to make more progress. — And for God's sake, don't moan about what might have been.
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Raw Story and Conservative Brief
Mark Thompson / CNN:
Barclays CEO Jes Staley quits after investigation into links with Jeffrey Epstein — London (CNN Business)The American chief executive of Barclays (BCS), Jes Staley, is stepping down with immediate effect following an investigation by British regulators into his relationship …
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CNBC, CBS News, New York Post, Reuters and Financial Times
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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Jon Brown / Fox News:
Biden apologizes for being late to G20 press conference: ‘We were playing with elevators’
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The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Juan Williams / The Hill:
‘Parents’ rights' is code for white race politics — After white supremacists spilled blood in defense of keeping up Confederate statues in 2017, the GOP candidate for governor of Virginia, Ed Gillespie, said the monuments should stay up as a matter of heritage and history.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Authentic Phoniness of Josh Mandel — Back when the Ohio senate candidate Josh Mandel was a young man in politics, he had a spiel in his stump speech about bristling when people told him to wait his turn. Now, as Mandel approaches middle age, it seems that those people were onto something …
Terry Jones / Issues & Insights:
I&I/TIPP Poll: Just 42% Now Think Biden Is ‘Mentally Sharp’ — Concerns about President Joe Biden's mental abilities have gone mainstream. — Although the press has largely overlooked Biden's gaffes, his disastrous performance at a decidedly friendly CNN townhall prompted the Wall Street Journal …
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The Daily Wire and Instapundit
Steady:
A Party Embraces Vulgarity — I have tried for some time to avoid commenting on a topic that I felt should be so far beneath our political discourse that to give it the oxygen of attention would be to play into the strategic hopes of those who are seeking to debase our democracy.
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Twitchy
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida Democrats anxious as DeSantis seems unbeatable — TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis appears unstoppable. — A year before the Florida gubernatorial election, the Republican governor has nearly $60 million in the bank. The GOP is on the cusp of becoming the state's majority party …
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
There's nothing fake about parents' outrage in America's culture war — Are culture wars bad? Or are they necessary to shape the direction of the country? — Last week, former President Barack Obama stumped for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia: “This fake outrage that right-wing media peddles …
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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