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Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Rating agencies say Biden's spending plans will not add to inflationary pressure — U.S. President Joe Biden's infrastructure and social spending legislation will not add to inflationary pressures in the U.S. economy, economists and analysts in leading rating agencies told Reuters on Tuesday.
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New York Times:
2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated Decades Later — The 1966 convictions of the men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader. — Follow our live coverage of reactions to the exonerations …
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Politico:
Sinema speaks up — and shakes off her critics — Watch the Senate floor enough and you'll notice Sen. Kyrsten Sinema regularly chatting with Mitch McConnell and his top deputy John Thune. Republicans have even tried to recruit her to their conference, and throw the Senate to the GOP.
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Cornyn says GOP might not run someone against Sinema in 2024
Cornyn says GOP might not run someone against Sinema in 2024
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Democrats Shouldn't Panic. They Should Go Into Shock. — Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality. — The rise of inflation, supply chain shortages, a surge in illegal border crossings, the persistence of Covid …
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Washington Post:
100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 12 months during the pandemic — The U.S. drug epidemic reached another terrible milestone Wednesday when the government announced that more than 100,000 people had died of overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021.
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Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Overdose Deaths Reached Record High as the Pandemic Spread
Overdose Deaths Reached Record High as the Pandemic Spread
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Jon Kamp / Wall Street Journal:
Drug Overdose Deaths, Fueled by Fentanyl, Hit Record High in U.S.
Drug Overdose Deaths, Fueled by Fentanyl, Hit Record High in U.S.
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley, A Capitol Riot ‘Flag-Bearer,’ Sentenced To Prison — Jacob Chansley, whom prosecutors called “the public face of the Capitol riot,” received one of the harshest sentences of any Jan. 6 defendant to date. — Jacob Chansley, the man federal prosecutors called …
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Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison
‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
‘QAnon Shaman’ sentenced to 41 months in prison for role in Jan. 6 riot
‘QAnon Shaman’ sentenced to 41 months in prison for role in Jan. 6 riot
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Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
‘QAnon shaman’ sentenced to 41 months for role in Capitol riot
‘QAnon shaman’ sentenced to 41 months for role in Capitol riot
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Washington Post:
House censures Rep. Gosar, ejects him from committees over violent video depicting slaying of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez — The House on Wednesday voted to censure Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) for tweeting an altered animated video that depicted him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and swinging two swords at President Biden.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi on Gosar punishment: 'It's an emergency'
Pelosi on Gosar punishment: 'It's an emergency'
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Poll: Voters' doubts rising about Biden's health, mental fitness — Voters have increasing doubts about the health and mental fitness of President Joe Biden, the oldest man ever sworn into the White House, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. — Only 40 percent of voters surveyed agreed …
Dana Loesch / Dana Loesch's Chapter and Verse:
Kyle Rittenhouse Isn't a Villain and There Is Nothing Wrong with Open Carry — I've known David French for a few years and there are things we agree on and things we do not agree on and this is most definitely the latter. I feel compelled to respond to this. … Open carry is “menacing?”
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
No curfew for Kenosha ahead of Rittenhouse verdict
No curfew for Kenosha ahead of Rittenhouse verdict
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Amanda Holpuch / New York Times:
Idaho Lawmaker Is Censured for Doxxing Intern Who Reported Rape — Priscilla Giddings, an Idaho state representative, shared a student intern's personal information after the teenager accused another lawmaker of rape. — An Idaho lawmaker who shared the personal information …
Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
Fox News proved a #MeToo lawsuit against them had “seemingly undisputed” allegations of sexual harassment — A #MeToo lawsuit against Fox News targeting its most popular nighttime opinion hosts, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, was just dismissed with prejudice over legal technicalities.
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Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:
Tucker Carlson's Fox News host salary is bankrolled by you
Bridget Read / The Cut:
What Happened at Carmine's — A confrontation between a host and dining patrons slid neatly into every outrage narrative of 2021. Maybe a bit too neatly. — A few hours before his workplace went viral, Matt, a server at Carmine's on the Upper West Side, was sitting in a pre-shift meeting, taking notes on the dinner specials.
Scott Alexander / Astral Codex Ten:
Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know — I know I'm two months late here. Everyone's already made up their mind and moved on to other things. — But here's my pitch: this is one of the most carefully-pored-over scientific issues of our time. Dozens of teams published studies saying ivermectin definitely worked.
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FOX13 News Memphis:
Rapper Young Dolph shot and killed in Memphis, law enforcement sources confirm — MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Three independent law enforcement sources confirmed to FOX13 that rapper Young Dolph was shot and killed in Memphis Wednesday afternoon. — Maurice Hill, the owner of the shop where the shooting happened …
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Adam Clark Estes / Vox:
Facebook's freaky new glove — Reality Labs is working on clothing that helps you feel things in the metaverse. — On Tuesday afternoon, Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, made a supposedly exciting announcement: a glove. But not just any glove.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
DeSantis Spokesperson Blames Vaccine Passport on the Rothschilds … The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a forgery written by the czarist secret police more than a century ago, purporting to reveal a lurid international Jewish plot. The Rothschild family played an outsize role in the imagined conspiracy …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump-backed House candidate has history of conspiratorial tweets and defended anti-Semitic Twitter account — (CNN)John Gibbs, the former Trump administration official backed by the ex-President in his bid to unseat a Republican congressman who voted for impeachment, has a history …
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
RED SHIFT: How Trump's attempt to let COVID-19 destroy Blue America reversed itself, animated — Back in July 2020, Vanity Fair reporter Katherine Eban wrote a shocking expose which exposed the depths of callousness and cold-hearted political calculation which the Trump Administration used …
Laura Collins / Daily Mail:
Prosecutors in the Kenosha shooter trial withheld evidence from the defense that was ‘at the center of their case,’ only sharing the high-definition drone video footage (pictured) on which they have hung their prosecution after the trial had concluded — Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger played …
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
The Steele Dossier and the End of Shame In American Politics — The famous philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal once declared that “the only shame is to have none.” The problem with shame is that it requires a sense of guilt over one's actions. In the age of rage …
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Ernest Luning / Colorado Politics:
FBI raids home of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in election data breach investigation — Federal, state and local authorities searched the homes of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and three of her associates on Tuesday as part of an investigation into accusations the elected official was involved …
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Republicans are becoming more diverse. That's a great thing. — Political observers have spent considerable energy discussing the many legislative seats that Republicans flipped in the Virginia and New Jersey elections this month. But few have remarked that women and minorities led the charge …
Scott Bland / Politico:
Liberal ‘dark-money’ behemoth funneled more than $400M in 2020 — A left-leaning, secret-money group doled out a whopping $410 million in 2020, aiding Democratic efforts to unseat then-President Donald Trump and win back control of the Senate. — The group, the Sixteen Thirty Fund …
Politico:
‘This experience broke a lot of people’: Inside State amid the Afghanistan withdrawal — In the days after the Taliban took Kabul in August, a desperate Afghan father pleaded over the phone with a State Department official to help get his family out of harm's way.
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Man who raped four teenagers gets no jail time, judge says: 'Incarceration isn't appropriate' — A New York man who pleaded guilty to rape and sexual abuse for assaulting four teenage girls during parties at his parents' home will not face jail time after a judge Tuesday sentenced him to eight years probation.
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Wall Street Journal:
Catholic Bishops Drop Effort to Ban Communion for Politicians Who Support Abortion Rights — The vote was the culmination of a debate that has exposed deep ideological divisions between U.S. bishops and Rome — BALTIMORE—The Catholic bishops of the U.S. ended a nearly yearlong debate Wednesday …
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