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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Alex Jones Liable 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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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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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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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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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
Beto O'Rourke says he's running for Texas governor
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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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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Democrat Beto O'Rourke, onetime presidential candidate, announces bid for Texas governor
Democrat Beto O'Rourke, onetime presidential candidate, announces bid for Texas governor
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Fox News, Red Voice Media and National Review
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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Washington Post:
Sen. Patrick Leahy, 81, the chamber's longest-serving Democrat, announces he will retire — Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), the longest-serving Democrat in the Senate, on Monday announced he will retire at the end of his term next year. — Leahy, 81, who was first elected in 1974 …
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Leahy, longest-serving sitting senator, to retire
Leahy, longest-serving sitting senator, to retire
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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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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.
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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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Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside Chris Christie's breakup with Trump — Chris Christie told me on “Axios on HBO” that he and former President Trump haven't spoken since before Jan. 6, when Christie frantically tried to reach his friend of 20 years — and Trump never picked up the phone.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
A newly disclosed memo reveals Trump's plot to turn the military into his personal goon squad — I want to apologize to Mark T. Esper, former president Donald Trump's fourth and second-to-last defense secretary. I may have been too harsh on the man who became known as “Yesper” for accommodating Trump.
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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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Yuliya Talmazan / NBC News:
Liverpool car blast declared a ‘terrorist incident’ by U.K. police
Liverpool car blast declared a ‘terrorist incident’ by U.K. police
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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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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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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 …
Chicago Tribune:
Judge dismisses gun charge against Kyle Rittenhouse — KENOSHA, WIS. — A Kenosha County judge handed a huge win to Kyle Rittenhouse's defense team before closing arguments when he dismissed a misdemeanor gun charge against the teen. — Legal experts had considered the misdemeanor gun charge …
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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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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Texas state lawmaker leaves Democratic Party for GOP — Texas state Rep. Ryan Guillen announced on Monday that he is departing the Democratic Party to join the GOP. — “After much consideration and prayer with my family, I feel that my fiscally conservative, pro-business …
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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 …
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 …
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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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.
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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