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Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump told RNC chair he was leaving GOP to create new party, says new book — In his new book, Jonathan Karl shares what Trump said before backing down. — In an angry conversation on his final day as president, Donald Trump told the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee …
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ABC News:
'I'm done': Trump's post-Jan. 6 threat to GOP comes to light: The Note — New reporting from ABC's Jonathan Karl reveals Trump's threat to leave the GOP. — There's no questioning the Republican Party's loyalty to former President Trump these days — and a gathering of potential 2024 candidates …
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NBC News:
New NBC poll shows deep partisan differences among social media users — WASHINGTON — Our most recent NBC News poll asked respondents about their social media consumption, and the results told a clear story that doesn't require 280 characters. — Twitter isn't real life …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder — The partisan gap in Covid's death toll has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point. — As 2020 wound down, there were good reasons to believe that the death toll during the pandemic's first year might have been worse in red America.
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Pano Kanelos / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
We Can't Wait for Universities to Fix Themselves. So We're Starting a New One. — I left my post as president of St. John's College in Annapolis to build a university in Austin dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth. — So much is broken in America. But higher education might be the most fractured institution of all.
Christian Vanderbrouk / The Bulwark:
Notes on an Authoritarian Conspiracy: Inside the Claremont Institute's “79 Days to Inauguration” Report — The sun rises on January 6, 2021 while a nation is in crisis. — Michigan's presidential electors are in dispute after a mysterious fire in Detroit destroyed thousands of mail-in ballots …
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Washington Post:
Countries' climate pledges built on flawed data, Post investigation finds — Malaysia's latest catalogue of its greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations reads like a report from a parallel universe. The 285-page document suggests that Malaysia's trees are absorbing carbon four times faster …
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Kyle Rittenhouse / Associated Press:
Satellite images show China built mock-ups of US warships — BEIJING (AP) — Satellite images show China has built mock-ups of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer in its northwestern desert, possibly for practice for a future naval clash as tensions rise between the nations.
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Republican wave builds to take back the House — Republicans could hardly be better poised to recapture the House majority. — Increasingly aggressive redistricting, a diverse slate of candidates raking in record-breaking amounts of cash and a political atmosphere that just keeps getting …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
The Democratic Senate majority was already dicey. Then came Virginia.
The Democratic Senate majority was already dicey. Then came Virginia.
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
Six Degrees From Brookings: How a Liberal Think Tank Keeps Coming Up in the Russian Collusion Investigation — The latest indictment by Special Counsel John Durham has created a stir in Washington as the investigation into the Russian collusion scandal exposed new connections to the Clinton campaign.
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Robert Frank / CNBC:
Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill, which is likely the real reason he's selling stock — Elon Musk faces a tax bill of more than $15 billion in the coming months on stock options. — Musk asked his 62.7 million Twitter followers over the weekend whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla holdings.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
NRSC chair Rick Scott declines to say if Trump-backed Senate hopeful accused of strangling wife is right candidate for the job — Sen. Rick Scott, who heads the group that works to elect Senate Republicans, declined Monday to say whether Sean Parnell, a GOP hopeful in Pennsylvania …
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell spent decades chasing power. Now he heeds Trump, who mocks him and wants him gone. — How one of Washington's longtime Republican power players succumbed to the preeminence of the 45th president — As President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 …
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Rachel Bovard / The Federalist:
How 31 Republicans Just Betrayed The Country To Reward Illegal Immigration, Worsen Inflation, And Pay Off Democrats' Donors — A vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill is a vote for Biden's reconciliation legislation — the largest cradle-to-grave expansion of federal power since the New Deal.
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Trump bashes Senate Republicans, McConnell over infrastructure bill
Trump bashes Senate Republicans, McConnell over infrastructure bill
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Brad Wilmouth / Newsbusters:
MSNBC Regular: ‘Sick of White Men’ Like Carville, ‘Shut the F Up’ — Text to Speech — On Saturday morning's The Cross Connection, MSNBC viewers got a triple helping of racist comments as frequent guests Roland Martin and Elie Mystal took aim at whites. After Mystal claimed in the show's …
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Meet the anti-Fauci: Florida's sane surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo — America has had 20 long months with Dr. Anthony Fauci as the spokesman for the government's COVID response, poorly explaining to us both the pandemic and the concurrent illogical restrictions. — Perhaps it's time for some new voices.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
First look: Bullish Republicans launch 2022 ad, midterm strategy — The National Republican Congressional Committee will run a one-day, nation-wide ad campaign today — one year out from the 2022 midterm elections, targeting Democrats over rising prices, crime and the border.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sen. Josh Hawley defends speech on porn and video games — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told “Axios on HBO” he'll make masculinity a signature political issue, because he claims “the left” is telling men: “You're part of the problem. ... Your masculinity is inherently problematic.”
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Washington Post:
Biden's border woes expose White House divisions as centrists assert more control — Illegal border crossings and coronavirus cases were both rising this summer when a group of Biden administration officials developed a plan to vaccinate migrants in U.S. custody, viewing the shots as a sensible public health measure.
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Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Study: Diversity Statements Required for One-Fifth of Academic Jobs — Requirements as common in STEM as in social science — Nearly a fifth of university jobs require diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements that press applicants to express and expound upon their commitment to diversity …
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
GOP lobbyists say corporate America is coming back into the tent — Republican lawmakers appear more likely to take back Congress in 2022. And corporate America is taking notice. — A host of Republican lobbyists say that Tuesday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey have ignited interest …
New York Times:
Why Republicans Won in a New York County Where Democrats Outnumber Them — Voters readily ousted Democrats in Nassau County on Long Island, electing Republicans down the ballot. — It wasn't the high taxes in Nassau County, or the recent changes to New York's bail laws that drove Lizette Sonsini …
New York Times:
A Way Forward for Biden and the Democrats in 2022 and 2024 — Mr. Penn is a former adviser and pollster to President Clinton and Hillary Clinton. Mr. Stein is a former president of the New York City Council. — Swing voters in two blue-leaning states just sent a resounding wake-up call …
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CNN:
CIA Director had rare conversation with Putin while in Moscow last week — (CNN)CIA Director Bill Burns held a rare conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week, to convey “serious” US concerns about Russia's military buildup along the Ukrainian border and to attempt …
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