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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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.
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CNN:
US seizes $6 million in ransom payments and expected to charge Ukrainian over major cyberattack — Here's everything you need to know about ransomware — (CNN)Law enforcement officials have seized an estimated $6 million in ransom payments, and the US Justice Department is expected …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump will ‘probably’ announce 2024 plans after midterms: ‘A lot of people will be very happy’ — Trump to Fox News: 'A lot of great people who are thinking about running are waiting for that decision, because they're not going to run if I run' — Trump teases press with 2024 hints
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump looks like he'll run to reclaim the presidency in 2024
Trump looks like he'll run to reclaim the presidency in 2024
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Associated Press:
Obama hits Russia, China for “lack of urgency” on climate — GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Barack Obama expressed confidence at U.N. climate talks Monday that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555 billion climate package through Congress, and faulted U.S. rivals China and Russia …
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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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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
When Keeping It ‘Woke’ Gets Racist, Liberals Should Say So — A Republican won Virginia's governorship last week after campaigning on a vow to “ban critical race theory in our schools.” — On one level, this was an odd campaign promise. Properly defined, critical race theory (or CRT) …
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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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Rachel Treisman / NPR:
Big Bird got ‘vaccinated’ against COVID-19, drawing outrage from Republicans — Big Bird ruffled some conservatives' feathers this weekend by announcing that he had been vaccinated against COVID-19. — The beloved Muppet tweeted on Saturday that he had gotten the shot …
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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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Washington Post:
Capitol rioter Evan Neumann applies for asylum in Belarus, local media says — MOSCOW — A man who allegedly participated in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 and is wanted by the FBI is now seeking asylum in Belarus, the country's state media reported Monday, presenting him as a …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Majority of Americans say Biden isn't paying attention to nation's most important issues — (CNN)One year out from the 2022 midterm elections, 58% of Americans say President Joe Biden hasn't paid enough attention to the nation's most important problems, as a majority disapproves …
Natasha Anderson / Daily Mail:
Biden is considering shutting down ANOTHER oil pipeline despite soaring energy prices: Republicans demand Michigan's Line 5 be kept open to avoid a further rise in energy bills this winter — President Joe Biden's Administration is considering shutting down the Line 5 oil pipeline that links Superior …
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Talmon Joseph Smith / New York Times:
Winter Heating Bills Loom as the Next Inflation Threat
Winter Heating Bills Loom as the Next Inflation Threat
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Derek T. Muller / Excess of Democracy:
Ranking the most liberal and conservative law firms among the top 140, 2021 edition — One of my most popular posts remains “Ranking the most liberal and conservative law firms.” That post is from 2013, and an update is long overdue. — At the outset, “ranking” a firm or calling it …
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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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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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Right-wing operatives deploy massive network of fake local news sites to weaponize CRT — Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby — Last Tuesday night, Glenn Youngkin (R) was elected the next governor of Virginia. At 9:15 PM, Garrit Lansing, president of WinRed …
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Fed's Quarles Will Resign at End of Year — Randal Quarles's term as vice chairman for bank supervision expired last month — Federal Reserve governor Randal Quarles said Monday he would resign his position around the end of this year. — Mr. Quarles's resignation will open up another seat …
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
School closures haunt Democrats as frustrated parents cast their votes — Rice University college basketball player (1986-1989) — WASHINGTON — The father was furious. “Figure it out, or get off the podium,” he shouted at school board members in Loudoun County, Va.
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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 …
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 …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrats call on New Jersey Republican to concede gubernatorial race — New Jersey Democrats are calling on Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli to concede last week's election, saying that his silence since the race was called for Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is “an assault on the integrity of our elections.”
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