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Andrew Solender / Axios:
The infrastructure Republicans — Some of the swing-district House Republicans who crossed party lines to help Democrats pass the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill told Axios they believe they can survive the political fallout from their own party — and that their vote strengthens …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
GOP erupts over its House members bailing out Biden — In Tuesday's election, Republicans served notice that the clock is ticking on Democrats' slim majorities in Congress. On Friday, 13 House Republicans delivered the decisive votes to rescue a key part of President Biden's agenda — an agenda endangered by those in his own party.
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Patience, persistence pay off as Biden brings infrastructure package across finish line — Bipartisan deal would have ramifications for roads, bridges, ports, and broadband access across the entire country, delivering on a campaign promise. — Less than 10 months after taking office …
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Philip Klein / National Review:
Disgraceful House Republicans Rescue Biden's Flailing Agenda — Just before midnight on Friday, we witnessed an utterly disgraceful act by a group of 13 House Republicans. Given the chance to deal a severe blow to President Biden's flailing agenda, they instead rescued him by providing Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
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Ricochet:
13 Republican Congressmen Save Pelosi, Biden on $1.2T Infrastructure Vote
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Roads, transit, internet: What's in the infrastructure bill
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New York Times:
Election Results in Virginia Prove Things Can Get Worse for Democrats — Republicans ran up the margins in rural Virginia counties, the latest sign that Democrats, as one lawmaker put it, “continue to tank in small-town America.” — HOT SPRINGS, Va. — The increasingly liberal politics …
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Searches James O'Keefe's Home in Ashley Biden Diary Theft Inquiry — Authorities carried out a court-ordered search at the New York apartment of the Project Veritas founder two days after searching the homes of his associates. — Federal authorities on Saturday searched the home of James O'Keefe …
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New York Times:
The Congressional Black Caucus Was Key to the Infrastructure Vote — Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the chairwoman of the caucus, Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, to announce a key deal, understanding that the lawmaker had more influence at that point than she did.
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
U.S. federal appeals court freezes Biden's vaccine rule for companies — A U.S. federal appeals court issued a stay Saturday freezing the Biden administration's efforts to require workers at U.S. companies with at least 100 employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be tested weekly, citing …
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
GOP-appointed judges freeze Biden vaccine requirement after federal lawsuit — The federal appeals court in New Orleans is giving the Biden administration until Monday to respond to a lawsuit filed by GOP-led states and businesses. — A federal appeals court suspended the Biden administration's …
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Financial Times
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
'It's a walkout!' … BRADFORD, Pa. — Dustin Snyder was tired of the low wages, the 60-hour workweeks and the impossible-to-please customers, and so in early September the assistant general manager at a McDonald's here drafted a petition that laid bare months of building anger and frustration.
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
House 6 January panel to issue new round of subpoenas for Trump allies — Focus on events at Willard hotel ‘command center’ — John Eastman among about 20 individuals in committee's sights — The House select committee investigating the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January …
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Merrick Garland is caught in a pickle with Steve Bannon
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Kylee Zempel / The Federalist:
9 Truths From Aaron Rodgers' Explosive Vaxx Interview You Aren't Allowed To Say — 'For the media out there taking shots at me, you don't know my story. Now you do. So quit lying about me.'
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Matt Bonesteel / Washington Post:
Aaron Rodgers lashes out against NFL, ‘woke mob’ in defense of vaccination status
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New York Times:
Georgia Grand Jury Looms in Trump Inquiry — An Atlanta D.A. is said to be likely to impanel a special grand jury in her criminal investigation of election interference by the former president and his allies. — As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot fights …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Infrastructure Bill Makes First Major U.S. Investment in Climate Resilience — The measure includes $47 billion to help communities prepare for the new age of extreme fires, floods, storms and droughts that scientists say are worsened by human-caused climate change.
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The Hill and Florida Politics
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Wokeness Derails the Democrats — WASHINGTON — In Shakespeare, when characters want to fulfill their desires, they escape to what's been called the Green World. — And that's what Democrats promised voters: that they could leave behind the vitriol and aggravation of Donald Trump's America …
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Bill Maher, liberal professor clash on CRT in schools: It's ‘disingenuous’ to say parents oppose Black history — The HBO star told Michael Eric Dyson that parents were ‘not objecting to Black history being taught’ — Rufo calls media denial CRT exists in schools a ‘deliberate strategy’: ‘They have no choice’ but to lie
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Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. Supervisor Dean Preston invited YIMBYs to look at his housing record. They panned it. — In the middle of a city grappling with a major housing shortage sit 15 parcels of land now occupied by garbage-strewn parking lots, auto shops, a car wash and old government buildings.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
A spin doctor with ties to Russia allegedly fed the Steele dossier before fighting to discredit it — Charles Dolan Jr., a PR executive who cut his teeth in Democratic politics, provided anti-Trump information, according to the special counsel probing the Russia investigation
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Kimberley Strassel / New York Post:
Inside the Clinton dossier and the con behind the Russiagate scandal
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Jason Farago / New York Times:
Hunter Biden: Emotionally Honest, Generically Smooth — The president's son has turned to art as a career. “The Journey Home” is his first solo exhibition. — The Journey Home — Hunter Biden is an emerging artist from Wilmington, Del. He is now, like no shortage of emerging artists …
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Graham Bowley / New York Times:
At Hunter Biden's Art Show, Line, Color and Questions
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