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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Appeals court temporarily bars release of Trump White House records to House Jan. 6 committee — A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked the imminent release of records of former president Donald Trump's White House calls and activities related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack after a lower court found …
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Washington Post:
Pressure builds on Meadows to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee as White House rejects his executive privilege claims — The House Select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the White House are ramping up the pressure on former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows …
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Politico, The Hill, Bipartisan Report, Raw Story, The Guardian, Daily Kos, CNN and Political Wire
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Court Temporarily Paused Trump's Records From Going To The Jan. 6 Committee — WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Thursday agreed to temporarily stop the congressional committee investigating Jan. 6 from getting former president Donald Trump's White House records …
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
Mark Meadows says he won't cooperate with House January 6 committee until court rules on Trump privilege claim — (CNN)Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is facing new pressure to cooperate with the House Select Committee investigating January 6 after he was notified Thursday …
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East Bay Times and Raw Story
NBC News:
Trump launches last-ditch effort to stop Jan. 6 committee from obtaining White House records on Friday — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to temporarily block the National Archives from turning over his White House records …
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
Court temporarily delays release of Trump's Jan. 6 records — A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of White House records sought by a U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, granting — for now — a request from former President Donald Trump
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Bloomberg, The Hill, NPR, CNBC, Raw Story, One America News Network and Law & Crime
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Federal appeals court pauses release of Trump White House records ahead of Friday deadline
Federal appeals court pauses release of Trump White House records ahead of Friday deadline
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CBS News, The Guardian, Bipartisan Report, The Daily Caller, UPI, Raw Story and ABC17NEWS
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Tough sentences for Jan. 6 rioters should freak Trump out
Tough sentences for Jan. 6 rioters should freak Trump out
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Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
“Axios on HBO” exclusive: Christie taunts Trump for losing — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, lacing up for a possible presidential run in 2024, told “Axios on HBO” he won't back down from a fight with former President Donald Trump, taunting his longtime friend for losing the last election.
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
WATCH: Chris Christie ROASTS Trump for Losing to Joe Biden in Feud Escalation — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hit back at former President Donald Trump by harshly contrasting the results of their respective reelection efforts. — Trump and Christie are embroiled in a feud that offers a little bit of fun for everyone.
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YouTube, Washington Post and Raw Story
Jonathan Karl / Vanity Fair:
Lawsuit Threats, Empty Seats, and a “COVID Mobile”: Trump's Disastrous Tulsa Rally Was Even More of a Train Wreck Than Originally Thought — The rally made headlines for its empty seats, but things were even worse behind the scenes, writes Jonathan Karl. The president feuded with advisers …
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Insider, Rolling Stone and Raw Story
Tim Stelloh / NBC News:
Michigan's AG got drunk before a football game and wrote about it on Facebook — Two Bloody Marys on an empty stomach, it turns out, was a bit too much for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. — In a post on her personal Facebook page Wednesday, the state's top prosecutor acknowledged drinking …
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Daily Mail, WILX-TV, Associated Press, The American Spectator and Mediaite
Larry P. Vellequette / Section Page News:
Sen. Joe Manchin, speaking at Toyota event in W.Va., calls union-built EV tax credit ‘wrong’ — The news arrives as the state's senior senator holds a deciding vote on the Build Back Better Act, which includes a tax credit for union-made battery-electric vehicles that Toyota opposes.
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Washington Post and Washington Examiner
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Sinema: Households Earning $9 Million a Year Are Too Poor to Pay More Tax Finally, a senator looking out for the high-seven-figure-income class. — Joe Biden campaigned on a package of well-crafted reforms to restore fairness to the tax code, only to watch his handiwork eaten alive by a handful …
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Democrats' lofty tax agenda imperiled by resistance from within
Democrats' lofty tax agenda imperiled by resistance from within
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New York Post, Insider and Discourse Blog
David Siders / Politico:
'I hope it's a fever that will break': GOP wrestles with infrastructure vote backlash — It's the party against critical race theory, “woke-ism” and vaccine mandates. — And now, it would seem, the Republican Party is against bridges and roads. — The ferocity of the reaction …
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Political Wire, New York Post and ABC News
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Shawna Mizelle / CNN:
Trump's ex-Russia adviser Fiona Hill on the state of the GOP and Trump: ‘Am I a dissident now?’
Trump's ex-Russia adviser Fiona Hill on the state of the GOP and Trump: ‘Am I a dissident now?’
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Raw Story
Democracy Now:
White Supremacy on Trial: From Rittenhouse in Kenosha to Killers of Ahmaud Arbery, Will They Go Free? — Kyle Rittenhouse took to the stand on Wednesday before his defense team asked for a mistrial with prejudice in the case. If a mistrial is granted, Rittenhouse cannot be tried again …
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HotAir, Slate and Vanity Fair
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Zachary Faria / Washington Examiner:
Want to prevent future cases like Kyle Rittenhouse's? Stop tolerating riots
Want to prevent future cases like Kyle Rittenhouse's? Stop tolerating riots
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Washington Free Beacon, Raw Story and MSNBC
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran-Backed Militants Storm US Embassy in Yemen, Seize Hostages and Equipment — The State Department is working to secure the release of several kidnapped hostages taken by Iran-backed terrorists just a day after the militant group stormed the U.S. embassy facility in Sana'a, Yemen …
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MEMRI, Red Voice Media, The Western Journal, Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera and National Review
New York Post:
BLM leader says there will be ‘bloodshed’ after spat with Eric Adams over police reform — A Black Lives Matter leader said there will be “bloodshed” after debating police reform with Mayor-elect Eric Adams during a contentious sit-down with the incoming Democrat at Brooklyn Borough Hall Wednesday.
Kyle Kondik / New York Times:
How Likely Is a Democratic Comeback Next Year? — Mr. Kondik is the author of a new book about the history of the House of Representatives. — The election results from last week reconfirmed a basic reality about American politics: For either party, holding the White House comes with significant power …
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American Greatness, INFORUM and Salon
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Too dumb to check: Biden to improve standing with voters by hiring ...
Too dumb to check: Biden to improve standing with voters by hiring ...
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Townhall, ABC News, Washington Examiner, Twitchy and Just The News
Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
San Francisco police officer dies of covid while on leave for failing to meet vaccination requirement — When San Francisco police officer Jack Nyce missed the city's Nov. 1 deadline to submit his coronavirus vaccination record, he was placed on a month of paid administrative leave, the San Francisco Chronicle first reported.
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Metro.co.uk, Yahoo News and The Daily Beast
Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
Durham indictments - don't be fooled, here's where this case is likely headed — Abuse of political power is not necessarily a violation of the criminal law — Andy McCarthy on the implications of John Durham's latest indictments — There is a great deal of extravagant commentary …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Shelby of Alabama is said to plan $5 million campaign to boost former aide as Senate replacement over Trump-endorsed candidate — Retiring Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) has said he plans to spend $5 million of his campaign funds to help his former chief of staff in the Republican primary to replace him …
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Insider, Raw Story and Political Wire
Michael Graham / NH Journal:
Bolduc: I Drove ‘Communist Sympathizer’ Sununu Out of Senate Race — During a conspiracy-spinning interview with radio host Jack Heath Tuesday retired Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc called fellow Republican Chris Sununu a “Chinese Communist sympathizer” whose family business “supports terrorism …
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The Dispatch
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Obama adviser: Bidenflation is real and it's spectacular — and directly tied to Biden's stimulus — I hate to say we told you so back in February — so let's let one of Barack Obama's economists say it instead. “They poured kerosene on a fire,” former Obama administration economic adviser …
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Media Matters for America, Associated Press, Power Line and Ace of Spades HQ
Howard Gleckman / TaxVox:
Build Back Better 2.0 Still Raises Taxes For High Income Households And Reduces Them For Others — In a new analysis, the Tax Policy Center estimates that the major tax changes in the latest version of President Biden's Build Back Better plan would cut taxes on average for nearly all income groups in 2022.
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National Review, Washington Examiner and Tax Policy Center
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Trump Allies Help Bolsonaro Sow Doubt in Brazil's Elections — With his poll numbers falling, President Jair Bolsonaro is already questioning the legitimacy of next year's election. He has help from the United States. — BRASÍLIA — The conference hall was packed …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Embattled GOP Senator Says a Staffer Messed Up His Campaign Reports and Vanished. We Found Him in Minutes. — Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) is accused of a number of major campaign-finance violations. The campaign blames it on one particular staffer who it says “vanished.” Not quite.
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
America's Real ‘Wokeness’ Divide — Overeducated people are ruining political discourse by embracing “woke” language. If you pay attention to modern fights about language and social justice, you've probably heard some version of this complaint. The Democratic patriarch James Carville …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Gene Simmons rips anti-vaxxers: 'If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy' — Gene Simmons is blasting COVID-19 deniers and unvaccinated Americans, calling them the “enemy.” — “If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy,” …
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Washington Examiner, TMZ.com, Breitbart and The Wrap
ABC News:
ABC News documentary challenges Pentagon's claims of rogue Green Berets — “3212 UN-REDACTED” probes the mystery behind the deaths of four Green Berets. — Four Americans gunned down in a withering, four-hour firefight in the Sahara — part of a 10-man Green Beret team said to have gone rogue …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Why inflation is a political nightmare for Biden — (CNN)Joe Biden's next political nightmare is inflation, a force that can destroy family budgets and political careers and is being driven by domestic and global factors tough for a president to quickly fix.
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Have Democrats reached the limits of White appeasement politics? — There is a flip side to the White grievance of the right — and it's one of the most important but under-discussed aspects of American politics. — In the decades since the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts in the 1960s …
Geoff Edgers / Washington Post:
What happened to Eric Clapton? … Robert Cray was stunned when he first heard “Stand and Deliver.” Eric Clapton, his onetime musical hero, who became a mentor and friend, had released his first protest song in 56 years of recording. Only it wasn't about George Floyd or global warming.
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Rolling Stone
Wall Street Journal:
$76 Billion a Day: How Binance Became the World's Biggest Crypto Exchange — The trading platform surged by operating from nowhere in particular—without offices, licenses or headquarters. Now governments are insisting on taking some control. — The world's fastest-growing major financial exchange …
Amy Cheng / Washington Post:
London's River Thames, now home to sharks, seals and seahorses, is no longer ‘biologically dead’ — Some 60 years ago, parts of the River Thames were declared biologically dead. But the famous waterway that cuts through London has been revived and it is now home to hundreds of wildlife species, such as seahorses and sharks.