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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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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Sorry, Mr. Trump: Executive privilege is President Biden's to assert — Whose privilege is it, anyway? — That is, does executive privilege — a president's ability to shield internal documents and private conversations with top advisers from discovery — belong to the sitting president …
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New York Times
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Justice Department charges Steve Bannon with criminal contempt of Congress
Justice Department charges Steve Bannon with criminal contempt of Congress
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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 …
New York Times:
How the U.S. Hid an Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians in Syria — The military never conducted an independent investigation into a 2019 bombing on the last bastion of the Islamic State, despite concerns about a secretive commando force. — In the last days of the battle …
Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
‘Staggeringly overbroad’: Court affirms pause on Biden vax mandate for private biz — An appeals court on Friday upheld its decision to pause President Biden's sweeping vaccine mandate for private companies, calling the rule “staggeringly overbroad.” — A three-member panel …
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HotAir, Yahoo News, Fox Business and Townhall
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Dan Whitcomb / Reuters:
U.S. appeals court affirms hold on Biden COVID-19 vaccine mandate
U.S. appeals court affirms hold on Biden COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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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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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.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
FBI raid on Project Veritas founder's home sparks questions about press freedom — The Biden administration's effort to establish itself as a committed champion of press freedom is facing new doubts because of the Justice Department's aggressive legal tactics against a conservative provocateur known for his hidden-camera video stings.
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Washington Post:
Harris and Buttigieg under the spotlight amid uncertainty over Biden's future — PARIS — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg started his week in the White House press briefing room promoting a crown jewel of President Biden's legislative agenda — a landmark public works package that recently passed with bipartisan support.
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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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Jim Treacher / Who the Hell Is Jim Treacher?:
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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Instapundit, National Review and Townhall
Allison Schrager / Bloomberg:
Americans Need to Learn to Live More Like Europeans — Supply-chain shortages are constraining U.S. consumers' endless appetite for buying whatever they want whenever they want. It's about time. — It's become the conventional wisdom that the U.S. economy is built on Americans' endless appetite to buy lots and lots of stuff.
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Twitchy
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 …
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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Fox News and Political Wire
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, The Guardian, New York Post, Associated Press and One America News Network
Associated Press:
Fox News edits video of Biden to make it seem he was being racially insensitive — Fox & Friends host played edited clip before claiming the US president was ‘facing backlash’ for his remarks — Fox News edited video of Joe Biden to remove context from remarks some could judge as racially insensitive.
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The American Independent, Washington Examiner and Washington Post
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 …
New York Times:
On Podcasts and Radio, Misleading Covid-19 Talk Goes Unchecked — False statements about vaccines have spread on the “Wild West” of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications. — On a recent episode of his podcast, Rick Wiles, a pastor and self-described “citizen reporter,” …
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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 …
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, Bipartisan Report and Politico
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
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
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
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 …