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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Wyoming GOP votes to no longer recognize Rep. Cheney as a Republican — Wyoming Republican leaders voted this weekend to no longer recognize Rep. Liz Cheney as a member of their party. — The resolution, which does not strip Cheney of any tangible power, passed the Wyoming GOP Central Committee …
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Dem tension breaks, but to-do list looms — Presented by The American Petroleum Institute — With Anthony Adragna, Heather Caygle and Kyle Cheney. — SCOREKEEPER, SCREEN YOUR CALLS — Speaker Nancy Pelosi's message to her leadership team on Monday night was clear …
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Associated Press, The Hill, National Review and Roll Call
Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
In Another Trump Book, a Journalist's Belated Awareness Steals the Show … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. — By the looks of his formidable résumé, the veteran Beltway journalist Jonathan Karl shouldn't startle all that easily.
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Jenna Ellis' memo on stealing the 2020 election holds a lesson for Democrats — Another Trump lawyer wrote another memo pressuring Pence to overturn election — After losing the 2020 presidential election, former President Donald Trump was obsessed with finding a route to remain in power.
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Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Axios:
Goldman: “Inflation will get worse” — “The current inflation surge will get worse this winter before it gets better,” Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research warns clients in a “2022 U.S. Economic Outlook.” — Driving the news: But Goldman expects the economy “to reaccelerate …
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Matt Egan / CNN:
The unemployment rate will match 50-year low by end of 2022, Goldman Sachs says
The unemployment rate will match 50-year low by end of 2022, Goldman Sachs says
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POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
Americans broadly support Supreme Court upholding Roe v. Wade and oppose Texas abortion law, Post-ABC poll finds — Americans say by a roughly 2-to-1 margin that the Supreme Court should uphold its landmark abortion decision in Roe v. Wade, and by a similar margin the public opposes …
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Sofi Sinozich / ABC News:
Majorities back maintaining Roe v. Wade, oppose states' abortion clinic restrictions (POLL)
Majorities back maintaining Roe v. Wade, oppose states' abortion clinic restrictions (POLL)
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NBC News
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump allies pressed Defense Department to help overturn election, new book says — Michael Flynn told a DoD official that Democrats were “stealing the election.” — In the aftermath of the 2020 election, some of Donald Trump's closest allies embarked on an unprecedented effort …
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Raw Story
Paul Bond / Newsweek:
James O'Keefe's Attorneys Demand Leakers be Identified in Case involving Ashley Biden's Alleged Diary — At 6 a.m. on November 6, a groggy James O'Keefe responded to pounding on his apartment door in New York's Westchester County wearing just his underwear.
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Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas
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University of Chicago News:
Statement from Chancellor Robert J. Zimmer on his role for the University of Austin — I was asked to serve in an advisory role to the University of Austin by its founding president, Dr. Pano Kanelos. This board had no fiduciary, oversight or management responsibilities.
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News & Updates, The Time of Monsters, Mediaite and The Daily Beast
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Biden and Xi Pledge More Cooperation, but Offer No Breakthroughs — President Biden and China's leader, Xi Jinping, met for about three and a half hours. U.S. officials said the talks were meant to reassure both sides that misunderstandings would not lead to unintended clashes.
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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Mnuchin and Pompeo Discussed a Plan to Oust Trump from Office on Jan. 6: Report — “In the hours after the riot, there were high-level conversations about” using the 25th Amendment to kick Trump out of office, according to ABC News' Jonathan Karl — Steve Mnuchin and Mike Pompeo discussed …
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Joe.My.God. and The Hill
The Daily Beast:
Mary Trump: If Donald Runs Again, This Will Be the Reason — Mary Trump is honest about what she thinks about Biden's low approval ratings and what her uncle is brewing. Plus, a Holocaust survivor's son shares a chilling Trump prediction. — Mary Trump knows her uncle, Donald Trump …
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Raw Story
Andrew Ackerman / Wall Street Journal:
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to Back Home Loans of Nearly $1 Million as Prices Soar — Scheduled increase in loan limits is a boon for borrowers but also stokes debate over government's role in housing market — WASHINGTON—The federal government is about to back mortgages of nearly $1 million for the first time.
NBC News:
Parents protesting ‘critical race theory’ identify another target: Mental health programs — At a September school board meeting in Southlake, Texas, a parent named Tara Eddins strode to the lectern during the public comment period and demanded to know why the Carroll Independent School District …
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Summit News and Chicago Sun-Times
Max Fisher / New York Times:
U.S. Allies Drive Much of World's Democratic Decline, Data Shows — Washington-aligned countries backslid at nearly double the rate of non-allies, data shows, complicating long-held assumptions about American influence. — The United States and its allies accounted for a significantly outsize share …
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 ‘Documentary’ Is His Most Nakedly Fascist Piece Of Propaganda Yet — His recent series for Fox Nation, “Patriot Purge,” is setting the stage for something even worse than the attack on the Capitol. — Tucker Carlson's “Patriot Purge,” a revisionist history …
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Media Matters for America
Fredrik deBoer / New York Times:
Democratic Socialists Have a Long Road to Electoral Victory — Mr. deBoer is the author of “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice” and publishes a daily newsletter. — In my political circles, the socialist and activist left, the recent defeat of India Walton …
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Freddie deBoer
Bill Grueskin / New York Times:
How Did So Much of the Media Get the Steele Dossier So Wrong? — Mr. Grueskin is a professor of professional practice and former academic dean at Columbia Journalism School. He has held senior editing positions at The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald and Bloomberg News.
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RedState, The American Conservative, HotAir and Red Voice Media
Yale Daily News:
Two students sue Yale Law administrators for alleged retaliation in Amy Chua case — Two unnamed Yale Law School students filed a complaint Monday against three Law School administrators and the University for allegedly “blackball[ing]” them from job opportunities after they refused to endorse …
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Reason, Washington Free Beacon, HotAir, Brian Leiter's Law … and Althouse
Politico:
GOP revenge for the Bannon indictment may have to wait — Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress greeted the indictment of Steve Bannon with a warning: It's payback time once we take back the House. But getting revenge won't be so simple. — Bannon turned himself into authorities …
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Joe Biden's Empty Inflation Toolbox — President Joe Biden was clear. Inflation — now at the highest point in 30 years — was at the top of his concerns. — “Many people remain unsettled about the economy, and we all know why,” Biden said recently at the Port of Baltimore. “They see higher prices.
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Al Jazeera, Washington Post and Bloomberg
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Teen Who Torched Synagogue Seethed About Jews in Disturbing Diary, Feds Say — Franklin Barrett Sechriest, a former National Guard member, also spewed vitriol toward African-Americans, a newly unsealed federal complaint reveals. — A Texas teen accused of setting fire to an Austin, Texas …
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Justice News and Talking Points Memo
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Welch preparing to run for Senate — Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) is indicating to colleagues he's preparing to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), people familiar with the matter tell Axios. — Why it matters: Vermont has never sent a woman to serve in either the House or Senate.
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The Hill, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, VTDigger and The Intercept
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
No matter the verdict in Rittenhouse trial, Black residents of Kenosha say justice remains elusive — KENOSHA, Wis. — More than a year after his nephew was shot seven times by a police officer, paralyzing him from the waist down, Justin Blake takes to this city's broad courthouse steps each morning and makes his case for justice.
Donovan J. Thomas / Washington Post:
Cambridge, Md., mayor charged with 50 counts in revenge porn case — Andrew Bradshaw allegedly used Reddit to distribute intimate photos of a woman without her consent — Cambridge, Md., Mayor Andrew Bradshaw faces 50 counts of distributing revenge porn, state prosecutors announced Monday.
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Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
Try patriotism — There's a pro-American majority out there with no one to represent them — The basic idea of “popularism” is that Democrats should emphasize the issues on which they agree with a majority of the American public, and de-emphasize the issues on which they disagree.
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry's favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says — Most U.S. news organizations won't let readers cancel online. The Federal Trade Commission wants that to change. — Discovering they had to get on the phone …
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 …
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