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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Chris Christie Wants the Post-Trump G.O.P. to Move Past 2020 — In a new book and in an interview, Mr. Christie says that if the former president wants to be a positive force, “he's got to let this other stuff go.” — Chris Christie wants to be very clear about something: The election of 2020 was not stolen.
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New York Times:
Bannon Indicted on Contempt Charges Over House's Capitol Riot Inquiry
Bannon Indicted on Contempt Charges Over House's Capitol Riot Inquiry
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Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Politico, Washington Times, Bloomberg, NPR, Rolling Stone, ABC News and Balloon Juice
U.S. Department of Justice:
Stephen K. Bannon Indicted for Contempt of Congress
Stephen K. Bannon Indicted for Contempt of Congress
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The big warning signal Stephen Bannon's indictment sends
The big warning signal Stephen Bannon's indictment sends
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Law & Crime, POLITICUSUSA, Roll Call, HillReporter.com, One America News Network, Insider and Political Wire
New York Times:
Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream
Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream
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Outside the Beltway, The Hill and Raw Story
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The Republican Party's violence problem
Claudia Grisales / NPR:
Mark Meadows' “defiance” could lead to contempt referral, Jan. 6 panel says
Mark Meadows' “defiance” could lead to contempt referral, Jan. 6 panel says
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Washington Examiner, Snopes.com, KLRT-TV, Breitbart and HuffPost
Dan Whitcomb / Reuters:
U.S. appeals court affirms hold on Biden COVID-19 vaccine mandate — A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld its decision to put on hold an order by President Joe Biden for companies with 100 workers or more to require COVID-19 vaccines, rejecting a challenge by his administration.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Appeals Court Extends Block on Biden's Vaccine Mandate for Employers
Appeals Court Extends Block on Biden's Vaccine Mandate for Employers
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Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
‘Staggeringly overbroad’: Court affirms pause on Biden vax mandate for private biz
‘Staggeringly overbroad’: Court affirms pause on Biden vax mandate for private biz
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HotAir, Yahoo News and Townhall
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The Man Who Freed Me From Cant — I always find it hard to list the books that have influenced me the most. Memory is tricky, and a work can assert its influences over my thinking long after I've forgotten its particular details, or even its title. Moreover, people who set as their job …
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Judge in Kyle Rittenhouse trial faces backlash from ‘Asian food’ joke: ‘Definitely not okay’ — As the court in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse was set to adjourn for lunch Thursday, Judge Bruce E. Schroeder thought it was a good time to joke about whether their food would get there on time.
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Kyle Rittenhouse Shot Three (3) White People and Zero (0) Black People
Kyle Rittenhouse Shot Three (3) White People and Zero (0) Black People
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Instapundit
Barnini Chakraborty / Washington Examiner:
Some journalists and court watchers admit initial bias in Rittenhouse trial
Some journalists and court watchers admit initial bias in Rittenhouse trial
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National Review, Instapundit and Townhall
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
When All The Media Narratives Collapse — In case after case, the US MSM just keeps getting it wrong. — The news is a perilous business. It's perilous because the first draft of history is almost always somewhat wrong, and needs a second draft, and a third, and so on, over time …
Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams:
Documents Expose ‘Staggering Pattern of Political Interference’ in Trump's Covid-19 Response — “Top elected officials preferred to keep Americans in the dark and set policy based on political considerations, not science,” said one former CDC adviser. — Documents released Friday reveal …
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Rolling Stone, Politico and Bipartisan Report
Davis Winkie / Army Times:
Oklahoma Guard goes rogue, rejects COVID vaccine mandate after sudden change of command — The new commander of the Oklahoma National Guard has declared the organization will not enforce the Defense Department's COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its troops, according to local media outlets.
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Washington Post, The Hill and The Oklahoman
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Retirement talk growing around Rep. Jerry Nadler — Rep. Jerry Nadler, a liberal warhorse who has represented Manhattan's West Side in Congress since 1992, may pack it in at the end of his current term, insiders tell The Post. — “People are wondering when he would decide to retire,” …
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Political Wire
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
How Does This End? — Thinking about Covid and normalcy. — Among the Covid experts I regularly talk with, Dr. Robert Wachter is one of the more cautious. He worries about “long Covid,” and he believes that many people should receive booster shots. He says that he may wear a mask …
New York Times:
Project Veritas Tells Judge It Was Assured Biden Diary Was Legally Obtained — But a search warrant in the case suggests the Justice Department believes the diary kept by the president's daughter Ashley Biden was stolen. — Project Veritas, the conservative group under scrutiny …
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Power Line, Raw Story, Mediaite, BizPac Review, National Review, NOQ Report, Washington Examiner and Breitbart
New York Times:
Migrants Say Belarusians Took Them to E.U. Border and Supplied Wire Cutters — Iraqi Kurds and other migrants said they were fleeing despair at home, but Belarus encouraged them, offering visas and helping them get to the border. — SULAIMANIYA, Iraq — The sudden surge of migrants …
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Fox News, New York Post, Associated Press and One America News Network
CNN:
US announces big hike in Medicare premiums — (CNN)The federal government announced a large hike in Medicare premiums Friday night, blaming the pandemic but also what it called uncertainty over how much it may have to be forced to pay for a pricey and controversial new Alzheimer's drug.
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Inside DNC chair's ‘challenging’ bid to avert midterm defeat — He is not particularly close to the White House. He's never won statewide office or a seat in Congress. And just last year, he lost a high-profile Senate race by double digits. — But if you ask him, Jaime Harrison will tell …
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The Guardian
Financial Times:
Jes Staley exchanged 1,200 emails with Epstein that included unexplained phrases — Regulators flagged ‘snow white’ reference in messages between former Barclays boss and sex offender — Jes Staley exchanged 1,200 emails with Jeffrey Epstein over a four-year period with content …
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New York Post and The Daily Caller
Bridget Murphy / Newsday:
Police patrols around Rep. Andrew Garbarino's office stepped up after death threat, commissioner says — Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said Friday that patrols are being stepped up around the local office of U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino after a retired Long Island Rail Road worker allegedly phoned …
W. Joseph Campbell / The Hill:
After a misfire in New Jersey, pollster offers a remarkable apology for error — All too often when their work goes awry, election pollsters turn to feeble excuses such as “polls really aren't predictions. They're just snapshots in time.” That is nonsense, because no pollster takes …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant Zervos abruptly ends lawsuit against Donald Trump — Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice” who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her, on Friday ended her nearly five-year-old defamation lawsuit against the former U.S. president.
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Inside the Red-State Plot to Take Down a Top Trump Ally — For many Utahns, the Trump rally was the breaking point. A few days before the 2020 election, Senator Mike Lee paced across a red, white, and blue stage in Goodyear, Arizona, microphone in hand, rhapsodizing about the president's many virtues while he looked on.
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Raw Story
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Nationalized races threaten Dem governors in '22 — The sharp swing away from Democrats last week in Virginia and New Jersey has the party newly alarmed about even more vulnerable governorships across the country next year. — President Joe Biden's sinking approval rating in Virginia …
CNN:
Pardon for Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson's ‘separate but equal’ ruling, heads to Louisiana governor's desk — (CNN)Homer Plessy, whose 19th century case Plessy v. Ferguson became a landmark civil rights Supreme Court ruling, is only a step away from a posthumous full pardon from the state of Louisiana.
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Are Americans starting to embrace one-earner households again? — Americans quitting their jobs at a pace never seen before despite record job openings have left many economists scratching their heads. Conventional analyses pin the discrepancy on a host of concerns, such as lack of child care and lingering fear of covid-19.
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