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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Former VA administrator and Georgia senator Max Cleland dies at home — Former U.S. senator and Veterans Administration leader Max Cleland died Tuesday more than 53 years after a live grenade dropped by a fellow soldier in Vietnam robbed him of three limbs.The injuries, however …
Reuters:
USA-ELECTION/THREATS — Law enforcement has taken little action as backers of Donald Trump aim stark threats at election officials. Reuters tracked down nine of the harassers. Most were unrepentant. — This story contains text, images and audio clips with offensive language.
Jonathan D. Karl / The Atlantic:
The Man Who Made January 6 Possible — In late October 2020, Donald Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was attending the confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett when his cellphone rang. He answered with a whisper and walked out to the hallway to take the call.
Tim Mak / NPR:
A secret tape made after Columbine shows the NRA's evolution on school shootings — Soon after the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, senior leaders of the National Rifle Association huddled on a conference call to consider canceling their annual convention, scheduled just days later and a few miles away.
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Republican congressman details threatening voicemail he received after voting for bipartisan infrastructure bill — Washington (CNN)Republican Rep. Fred Upton on Monday shared a threatening voicemail he had received after voting for the bipartisan infrastructure bill last week.
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USA Today, CBS News, The Hill, BizPac Review and Jacobin
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Deceptive Republican attack ad uses images from Trump presidency to depict ‘chaos’ under Biden
Fact check: Deceptive Republican attack ad uses images from Trump presidency to depict ‘chaos’ under Biden
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Mock Paper Scissors, Raw Story, Townhall, The Hill and Axios
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:
Aaron Rodgers Didn't Just Lie — His lies, his illogical defense, and his hubris damage all professional athletes. — Professional athletes have come so far from the dark days when the public saw them as perpetually partying adolescents, mean-spirited bullies, and worse …
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USA Today, CNN, Breitbart, The Daily Wire, Daily Kos, ABC7, Washington Post, The Federalist, Nicki Swift and Sports Illustrated
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump makes — and loses — overnight bid to block Jan. 6 investigators — If you blinked you missed it. — Former President Donald Trump filed an emergency request to a federal judge late Monday night to prevent the National Archives from sending sensitive records to Jan. 6 committee investigators by Friday.
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Washington Examiner, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Political Wire
Alexandra Macon / Vogue:
Inside Ivy Getty's Fantasy Wedding Weekend in San Francisco — Artist and model Ivy Love Getty, the great granddaughter of J. Paul Getty and one of the heiresses to the oil fortune he amassed, married photographer Tobias Alexander Engel in a ceremony officiated by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at City Hall in San Francisco.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Sununu to Seek Re-election as New Hampshire Governor, Rejecting Senate Bid — National Republicans had been trying to recruit Gov. Chris Sununu to compete for a Democratic-held seat that the G.O.P. believed could determine control of the Senate. — Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire …
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
New Hampshire's Sununu to announce Tuesday whether or not he runs for Senate in key 2022 race
New Hampshire's Sununu to announce Tuesday whether or not he runs for Senate in key 2022 race
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Washington Examiner, Politico, The Hill and NBC Boston
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Indictment of Steele dossier source is more bad news for multiple media outlets — MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in December 2017 aired a special report on the Trump-Russia dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. That document, claimed Maddow …
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Eric Ting / SFGATE:
Gavin Newsom's wife, California Democrats bristle at questions about governor's continued absence — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has not appeared publicly since abruptly canceling a visit to Glasgow, Scotland on Oct. 29 for a climate change conference, stirring considerable online speculation.
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USA Today, Fox News, ABC7, Page Array, Townhall and Political Wire
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A Trump-backed Senate hopeful takes the stand — DRIVING THE DAY — PARNELL DOUBTS GROW — All eyes are on SEAN PARNELL when he testifies today for the second and final time in an ugly child custody battle with his estranged wife, LAURIE SNELL.
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Washington Post:
House Jan. 6 committee issues subpoenas to 6 top Trump advisers, including pair involved in Willard hotel ‘command center’
House Jan. 6 committee issues subpoenas to 6 top Trump advisers, including pair involved in Willard hotel ‘command center’
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Postal Banking Test in the Bronx Yields No Customers — From September 13 to October 31, not a single customer put a paycheck on a gift card in one of the four test locations. — While 9.4 percent of New York City households have no bank account, in the Bronx that number nearly doubles to 17.7 percent.
Phill Swagel / CBO Publications:
CBO's Schedule for Releasing a Cost Estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act — The Congressional Budget Office is in the process of preparing a cost estimate for the current version of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act (Rules Committee Print 117-18 incorporating a manager's amendment by Congressman Yarmuth).
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Rep. Paul Gosar tweets altered anime video showing him killing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden — Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) shared an altered, animated video that depicts him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and swinging two swords at President Biden …
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Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:
Ron DeSantis enemies list targets DNC member for “sleeping dragons” and viral tweets — Thomas Kennedy embarrassed Florida's governor. DeSantis' office directed the state's top law enforcement agency to disseminate criminal intelligence about him. — Florida's top statewide law enforcement …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
What Moves Swing Voters — A creative new poll tries to understand. — Political pundits often talk about swing voters as if they were upscale suburbanites, like “soccer moms” or “office-park dads.” And some are. But many are blue-collar. They are the successors to the so-called Reagan Democrats …
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Jacobin
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Crisis brews in Bosnia as U.S., EU stand by — The international community's top representative in Bosnia is sounding the alarm over the “very real” possibility of a return to conflict, citing secessionist maneuvers by the Serb member of the country's tripartite presidency.
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Financial Times
Jeremy Tombs / WKYT-TV:
Sen. Mitch McConnell tours AppHarvest facility in Morehead — MOREHEAD, Ky. (WKYT) - Monday afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a trip to Morehead to tour AppHarvest's facility. — After his tour with AppHarvest founder and CEO Jonathan Webb, Senator McConnell addressed dozens …
Gene Johnson / Associated Press:
Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs — A metallurgist in Washington state pleaded guilty to fraud Monday after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines. — Elaine Marie Thomas, 67, of Auburn …
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Insider, TheBlaze and Sacramento Bee
Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
White House tells businesses to proceed with vaccine mandate despite court-ordered pause — The White House on Monday said businesses should move forward with the requirements despite the court-ordered pause. — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, considered …
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National Review, Outside the Beltway, Instapundit, BizPac Review, RedState, Associated Press, The Last Refuge, TheBlaze, Political Wire and Breitbart
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
Unscientific Method — An astronomer's peer-reviewed work is passed under the “equity” lens and found wanting. — The Social Order — Another day, another retraction of a scientific paper for violating the code of diversity. On November 1, astronomer John Kormendy withdrew an article …
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
“Critical Race Theory” and actual education policy, part two — The core problem is a dangerous attack on efforts to measure learning — In yesterday's post I wrote about two recent trends in progressive education policy that have (rightly, I think) annoyed a lot of people …
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National Review
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Producer prices rise 8.6%, matching September record high — WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation at the wholesale level rose 8.6% last month from a year earlier, matching September's record annual gain and offering more evidence that inflationary pressures are not yet easing.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Covid-Related School Chaos Is a Problem for Democrats — Last Wednesday morning, Christopher Rufo, the architect of the right-wing crusade against critical race theory, sent me a message asking if I wanted to talk, I suppose because I was one of the first people to write about his project back in February.
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RedState
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
‘Free Joe Biden’: Sean Maloney on How Democrats Can Get Back on Track — In an interview, the leader of the House Democrats' campaign arm acknowledged the major challenges facing the party but defended its agenda and its continued focus on Donald Trump. — In the days since Democrats …
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Roll Call, East Bay Times and Los Angeles Times
Politico:
The Senate's year-end to-do list is ‘going to be a train wreck’ — As Mark Warner considers the Senate work left undone as the holiday season dawns, he's weighing a couple of potentially ugly scenarios. — “Having only other senators to kiss on New Year's Eve?” the Virginia Democrat deadpanned …
Jake Silverstein / New York Times:
The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History — Fights over how we tell our national story go back more than a century — and have a great deal to teach us about our current divisions. — To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Washington Post:
Why millions of job seekers aren't getting hired in this hot job market — The United States has a record number of job openings, but many firms continue to favor candidates with several years of experience, availability to work evening or weekend hours, and a willingness to work in-person
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Daily Kos and Florida Politics
Washington Post:
More than 360,000 U.S. children under 12 have already received a coronavirus vaccine … More than 360,000 children under 12 in the United States have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bernard Goldberg / The Hill:
Winsome Sears: The latest Black conservative to make liberals nervous — If there's anything that liberal elites, especially Black liberal elites, hate more than white rednecks, it's Black conservatives. Elites see them as sell-outs, or “Uncle Toms.” MSNBC host Joy Reid once referred …