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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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HuffPost and Balloon Juice
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Kimberly Wehle / The Bulwark:
Trump in the Wings? — The lawsuits over the former president's executive privilege claims feed into the far-right narrative that he is the rightful president. — Defenders of democracy scored two significant points last week. First, a federal district judge rejected former President …
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Politico, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Red Voice Media
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Seeks Continued Block on Sending White House Files to Jan. 6 Panel — The ex-president's brief to a federal appeals court argued that his residual secrecy powers could block a House subpoena for information about the Capitol riot. — WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J. Trump asked …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Biden administration soon to announce diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics — With the Beijing Winter Olympics just three months away, the Biden administration will soon have to make clear whether it plans to send an official delegation to China. But sooner rather than later …
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Politico, CNN, HotAir, The White House, Insider, Breitbart, The Guardian, The American Spectator, Defense One, New York Times, Mediaite, China Media Project, Twitchy, Informed Comment, The Daily Wire, Political Wire and UPI
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Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
White House pushes back on Xi pegging Biden as an ‘old friend’
White House pushes back on Xi pegging Biden as an ‘old friend’
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Fox News and New York Post
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Biden and Xi Pledge More Cooperation, but Offer No Breakthroughs
Biden and Xi Pledge More Cooperation, but Offer No Breakthroughs
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Associated Press, Fox News, DCReport.org, Bloomberg, Atlantic Council, UPI, The Daily Caller, unz.com, The Guardian, Breitbart, Raw Story, Washington Post, NPR, The Hill and The Daily Wire
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A victory lap and a reality check — DRIVING THE DAY — It was all smiles and selfies at the White House on Monday as Democrats celebrated passage of the bipartisan infrastructure deal. But rising voter concern about inflation has cast a pall over President JOE BIDEN's victory lap.
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Wall Street Journal, The Hill, The Daily Wire, New York Times, The National Interest and Florida Politics
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CNN:
House Republicans shrug off threats of violence as Democrats prepare to punish Gosar
House Republicans shrug off threats of violence as Democrats prepare to punish Gosar
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Insider, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Wyoming GOP votes to no longer recognize Rep. Cheney as a Republican
Wyoming GOP votes to no longer recognize Rep. Cheney as a Republican
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Melanie Zanona / CNN:
Kevin McCarthy says he called Paul Gosar about now-deleted tweet
Kevin McCarthy says he called Paul Gosar about now-deleted tweet
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Daily Kos and New Republic
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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New York Magazine, Insider, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Occupy Democrats, Rolling Stone, Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
Associated Press:
Jury begins deliberations at Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial — In an unusual move, Kyle Rittenhouse was allowed by Judge Bruce Schroeder to draw the numbered slips of paper from a raffle drum that determined which of the 18 people who sat in judgment during the trial would decide his fate and which ones would be dismissed as alternates.
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Insider, Metro.co.uk, WKRG-TV and NBC Chicago
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Jen Psaki is annoyed you'd ask about Biden defaming Kyle Rittenhouse as a white supremacist
Jen Psaki is annoyed you'd ask about Biden defaming Kyle Rittenhouse as a white supremacist
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The Western Journal, Summit News and The Daily Wire
James A. Gagliano / New York Post:
From irresponsibly pointing a gun, to ‘tsking,’ DA's closing in Rittenhouse trial was pathetic
From irresponsibly pointing a gun, to ‘tsking,’ DA's closing in Rittenhouse trial was pathetic
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HotAir, National Review and Reason
Washington Post:
The second-biggest program in the Democrats' spending plan gives billions to the rich … The House is expected to vote this week on President Biden's Build Back Better legislation. The social spending bill includes investments in clean energy and affordable child care …
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Bloomberg, Breitbart, Jacobin, TheBlaze and Committee for a …
Wall Street Journal:
FBI Tracks Threats Against Teachers, School-Board Members — Many Republicans see prospect of criminalizing concerned parents — WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation has set up a process to track threats against school-board members and teachers, moving to implement …
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National Review, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Breaking911
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
New anti-election memo from Team Trump comes into sharper focus — Bannon makes curious choice of lawyer for contempt of Congress case — Over the course of the last year, the public has learned in frightening detail just how far Donald Trump and his team went to pressure …
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Right Wing Watch, Raw Story and Washington Post
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Emily Singer / The American Independent:
GOP lawmaker takes credit for infrastructure funding after voting against it — Republicans have begun to take credit for things in the infrastructure bill they didn't vote for. — Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) on Monday night touted “critical funding” that President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill provided …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and The Western Journal
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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
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Media Matters for America:
On Fox Nation, Tucker Carlson goes full anti-vaccine with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
On Fox Nation, Tucker Carlson goes full anti-vaccine with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Insider, Joe.My.God. and Eschaton
Nicole Gaudiano / Insider:
Democratic strategists plan to get aggressive on critical race theory, saying Republicans are putting ‘politicians in charge of the classroom and white supremacists in charge of the curriculum’ — Democratic strategists say the party should hit back harder against GOP critical race theory claims.
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Twitchy, Ace of Spades HQ, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times
The White House:
A Proclamation on Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons Responsible for Policies or Actions That Threaten Democracy in Nicaragua — In light of the importance to the United States of fostering democratic processes and institutions in Nicaragua to help …
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Insider
Kyle Whitmire / al.com:
Hubbard still pulling strings from prison, tapes reveal — This is an opinion column. — In September, Mike Hubbard said he was sorry — for something. — In a letter to Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker, the former Alabama House speaker apologized — for his convictions. Not his crimes.
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Political Wire
David Pitt / USA Today:
Audit: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds improperly used COVID funds for salaries — DES MOINES, Iowa — A state audit report on government spending released Monday accused Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds of using nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds to pay salaries for 21 staff members …
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Iowa Capital Dispatch, Talking Points Memo, The American Independent, Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Inflation Is Not The Biggest Thing Happening In The Economy Right Now — Family poverty has substantially declined thanks to the child tax credit. — WASHINGTON ― Rising prices have crushed consumer sentiment and become a major political story as President Joe Biden struggles to enact …
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CBS Philly
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 …
Tovia Smith / NPR:
Why Boston will need to wait longer for its 1st elected Black mayor — For the first time in its history, Boston is inaugurating a newly-elected mayor on Tuesday who is not a white man. Michelle Wu - who's Asian American, is the first woman and first person of color elected to lead the city.
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Washington Free Beacon and Twitchy
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
A maternity ranch is born … ARGYLE, Tex. — The vision had come as she was driving home from the Kroger, and it was so sudden and fully formed that Aubrey Schlackman began to tell people that “it was like God placed it in my head.” — This was last year, a time when abortion …
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Dems' gloom increases over midterms: Afghanistan fallout? — For two months, I have argued that Joe Biden's disgraceful abandonment of Afghanistan and several thousand Americans provided the catalyst for a confidence-crisis cascade. Now it appears that Democrats might finally see it for themselves.
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The Hill and Washington Post
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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ABC News, Forbes, Daily Kos, Townhall, USA Today, The American Independent, Raw Story, Joe.My.God., Althouse and The Constitutionalist
Wall Street Journal:
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant — Top executive didn't inform board of some reports, including alleged rapes; company faces multiple regulatory investigations — Bobby Kotick, the longtime chief executive …
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The Verge and dexerto.com, more at Techmeme »
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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Outside the Beltway and Althouse
C. Ryan Barber / Insider:
Democrats are frustrated with Merrick Garland's judge-like apolitical style as Biden's attorney general — Merrick Garland has frustrated Democrats with his judge-like approach to running the DOJ. — Recent House and Senate oversight hearings reveal Garland's political blind spot.
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Raw Story
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz, raised in Soviet country, says it's ‘crazy’ for Americans to want socialism here — Indiana Republican wants to work on health care reforms to combat the left's Medicare-for-All movement — GOP congresswoman-elect who grew up under socialism: We need to be good students of history
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Townhall
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
Waiting for the Apocalypse: The Unnerving New Normal — A few months ago, the humorist David Sedaris wrote about his joy at feeling he no longer had to care about political news. Four years of “constant monitoring” of events, which a friend of his likened to having a second job, had left him exhausted.