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Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Trump ally Steve Bannon surrenders after his indictment on two counts of contempt of Congress — (CNN)Steve Bannon, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, turned himself in to the FBI Monday morning after being indicted on criminal contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with the House committee investigating January 6.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Washington's mystery mansion buyer unmasked — DRIVING THE DAY — A busy Monday: Congress is back ... PATRICK LEAHY makes a big announcement at 10 a.m. ... JOE BIDEN signs BIF at 3 p.m. ... STEVE BANNON is expected to surrender. — THE TRUMP HOTEL IS BEING SOLD …
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
McConnell sought to disinvite Trump from Biden's inaugural — The level of distrust that Mitch McConnell had for then-President Donald Trump in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill was greater than previously known. — The then-Senate majority leader sought to have Trump disinvited …
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Craig Karmin / Wall Street Journal:
Trumps Selling Prized Washington, D.C., Hotel for $375 Million
Trumps Selling Prized Washington, D.C., Hotel for $375 Million
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Will Steakin / ABC News:
McConnell sought to disinvite Trump from Biden inauguration, triggering his final tweet, new book says
McConnell sought to disinvite Trump from Biden inauguration, triggering his final tweet, new book says
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Alex Jones Guilty by Default in All Sandy Hook Defamation Suits — A Connecticut judge's ruling combines with decisions in Texas to grant a clean sweep for families of shooting victims in their cases against the Infowars host. — A superior court in Connecticut granted a sweeping victory …
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Roll Call:
Leahy, longest-serving sitting senator, to retire — Vermont Sen. Patrick J. Leahy announced Monday he won't seek reelection to a ninth term in Congress, opting to retire following nearly five decades in Washington. — Leahy is the first Senate Democrat to announce his retirement …
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Washington Post:
Sen. Patrick Leahy, 81, the chamber's longest-serving Democrat, announces he will retire
Sen. Patrick Leahy, 81, the chamber's longest-serving Democrat, announces he will retire
Politico:
GOP weighs trapping Democrats in Trump's budget
GOP weighs trapping Democrats in Trump's budget
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Leahy announces retirement in 2022
BREAKING: Leahy announces retirement in 2022
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Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Patrick Leahy won't seek reelection after 48 years in the Senate
Patrick Leahy won't seek reelection after 48 years in the Senate
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Leahy, most-senior senator, will retire
Leahy, most-senior senator, will retire
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Jonathan Tilove / Texas Monthly:
Exclusive: Beto O'Rourke Is Running for Governor — For months, Texas Democrats have failed to field a single serious candidate to challenge Governor Greg Abbott's reelection bid. But today, Beto O'Rourke is announcing in Texas Monthly that he is entering the 2022 gubernatorial race.
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Beto O'Rourke says he's running for Texas governor — O'Rourke's decision to challenge Gov. Greg Abbott ends months of speculation and gives Democrats a formidable campaigner at the top of the ticket — someone who transformed Texas politics with his blockbuster campaign against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018.
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YouTube:
I am Running for Governor | Beto for Texas
I am Running for Governor | Beto for Texas
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke Announces Run for Texas Governor, Testing Democrats' Strength
Beto O'Rourke Announces Run for Texas Governor, Testing Democrats' Strength
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Insider:
Trump called January 6 ‘a very beautiful time with extremely loving and friendly people’ in a March 2021 interview for a new book — Donald Trump called January 6 “a very beautiful time” in a March 2021 interview. — ABC News' Jonathan Karl writes in his forthcoming book that Trump “fondly” recalled the crowd on Jan. 6.
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Bart Jansen / USA Today:
What documents does Trump not want the Jan. 6 House panel to see? Appointments, call logs and handwritten notes
What documents does Trump not want the Jan. 6 House panel to see? Appointments, call logs and handwritten notes
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The Bad Guys Are Winning — The future of democracy may well be decided in a drab office building on the outskirts of Vilnius, alongside a highway crammed with impatient drivers heading out of town. — I met Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya there this spring, in a room that held a conference table, a whiteboard, and not much else.
Brian Stelter / CNN:
New book alleges Fox's Maria Bartiromo shouted at Bill Barr about imagined voter fraud — (CNN Business)Former attorney general Bill Barr says Fox News host Maria Bartiromo called him up “screaming” about imaginary voter fraud, according to his account in a new book.
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Will Wright / The Charlotte Observer:
Charlotte-area GOP members shaken by Cawthorn move to district — Dual announcements by U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn and N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore have shaken the Republican establishment of Mecklenburg County — potentially the new stomping grounds of North Carolina's most controversial politician.
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CNN:
Exasperation and dysfunction: Inside Kamala Harris' frustrating start as vice president — (CNN)Worn out by what they see as entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus, key West Wing aides have largely thrown up their hands at Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff …
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Associated Press:
US journalist jailed in Myanmar for nearly 6 months is freed — BANGKOK (AP) — American journalist Danny Fenster, who was recently sentenced to 11 years of hard labor after spending nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, was freed and on his way home Monday, a former U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the release said.
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Lynette Horsburgh / BBC:
Liverpool Women's Hospital explosion declared a terror incident — An explosion outside Liverpool Women's Hospital on Remembrance Sunday has been declared a terror incident by police. — A taxi exploded and was engulfed in flames just before 11:00 GMT at a drop-off zone near the entrance …
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Robert Mendick / Telegraph:
Live Liverpool bomber was of Middle Eastern background and not known to MI5 - latest updates
Live Liverpool bomber was of Middle Eastern background and not known to MI5 - latest updates
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Doubt in American System Increases — GOP belief in 2020 election fraud couples with fundamental distrust — West Long Branch, NJ - Three in ten Americans now believe the nation's system is fundamentally unsound, according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
New York Times:
How Republicans Have an Edge in the Emerging 2022 Congressional Maps — On a highly distorted congressional map that is still taking shape, the party has added enough safe House districts to capture control of the chamber based on its redistricting edge alone.
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Stephen Singer / Hartford Courant:
In a reversal of fortune GE dismantles itself as its former home, Fairfield County, surges — Fairfield County, spurned by General Electric Co., is rebounding from the pandemic while the one-time global conglomerate dismantles itself. — Already reduced by hundreds of divestitures across …
Clio Chang / New York Magazine:
Inside Felicia Sonmez's War Against the Washington Post — Why was a reporter punished for speaking up about sexual assault? — In February 2020, the leadership of the Washington Post was in the midst of an internal crisis. Marty Baron, the revered executive editor credited with reviving …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Andrew Sullivan and the Narrative of the “MSM Narrative” — The narrative on MSM narratives is false. — Over the weekend Andrew Sullivan published a jeremiad against the “mainstream media” that tracks pretty closely with the Matt Taibbi-Glenn Greenwald-Bari Weiss view …
Harry Enten / CNN:
Flu shots uptake is now partisan. It didn't use to be — (CNN)Uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine has, unfortunately, become partisan like so much else in our society. Almost every Democratic adult (90% to 95%) has gotten a shot, while a little less than two-thirds of Republican adults have.
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