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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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
U.S. and China Agree to Ease Restrictions on Journalists — The deal tones down a diplomatic confrontation that led Beijing to expel some American reporters during the last year of the Trump administration. — WASHINGTON — The United States and China announced an agreement on Tuesday …
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The Guardian, Reuters, The Hill and Fox News, more at Mediagazer »
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Biden Sells Infrastructure Improvements as a Way to Counter China — Spending on roads, broadband internet and more will help revitalize U.S. competitiveness against its top economic adversary, the president says. — WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday began selling …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Biden maneuvers to avoid the unintended conflict with China — A welcome moment in Monday night's “virtual summit” came when President Biden told Chinese President Xi Jinping that he feared the risk of unintended conflict as China rapidly expands its nuclear arsenal — and the Chinese leader responded …
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The Straits Times and The Guardian
Fox News:
PolitiFact doubles down on widely mocked ‘fact-check’ claiming Rittenhouse's possession of weapon wasn't legal — ‘Our fact-check remains unchanged,’ a lengthy editor's note concludes — PolitiFact doubled down on Tuesday after being roasted for a poorly aged “fact-check” …
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The Western Journal, New York Post, Associated Press, Breitbart and Politico
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David French / The Atlantic:
Kyle Rittenhouse Is No Hero
Kyle Rittenhouse Is No Hero
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Twitchy, Washington Examiner and TheBlaze
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 …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
FBI Raids Home of Elections Official Tied to QAnon Voter Fraud Scheme
FBI Raids Home of Elections Official Tied to QAnon Voter Fraud Scheme
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Raw Story
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Did the Justice Department overreach in raiding James O'Keefe's home? — The FBI on Nov. 6 searched the Mamaroneck, N.Y., home of James O'Keefe, the founder of the video-sting group Project Veritas. As reported by the New York Times, authorities also searched the homes of two O'Keefe associates.
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The Western Journal, HotAir and Power Line
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Glenn Greenwald:
Kyle Rittenhouse, Project Veritas, and the Inability to Think in Terms of Principles — Those whose worldview is bereft of universally applied principles, and based solely on tribal allegiances, assume everyone else is plagued by this very deficiency. — The FBI has executed a string …
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Glenn Greenwald and The Gateway Pundit
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, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
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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 …
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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Robert Towey / CNBC:
Dr. Fauci says U.S. Covid cases need to fall below 10,000 a day to get to a ‘degree of normality’ — White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that Covid cases in the U.S. may need to fall as low as 3,300 per day for the nation to gain control over the virus.
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Washington Post:
House to vote to censure Gosar, remove him from committees over violent anime video depicting Ocasio-Cortez's killing — The House will vote Wednesday on a resolution that both censures Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) and removes him from his committee assignments, more than one week …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘The View’ erupts during segment with unvaccinated former co-host, providing a teachable moment — Video — “The View” is not the first place I would go for nuanced political or public health discussions. But Tuesday's episode did at least provide a teachable moment when it comes to vaccine skepticism.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Report: Sidney Powell Even Crazier Than You Think … It takes a certain kind of legal mind to decide to go to work for Donald Trump. Since Trump transparently does not believe in the rule of law in any way, shape, or form, serving him in a legal capacity is a bit like taking a job as Jeffrey Dahmer's ethicist.
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Nikolas Lanum / Fox News:
NPR slammed over story highlighting ‘disappointment’ over Boston electing Asian woman mayor — NPR deemed Wu's win a ‘letdown’ for some after she defeated African-American candidates — NPR took heat Tuesday after its report that Asian American Michelle Wu's, D., election win in Boston was considered a …
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Tovia Smith / NPR:
Why Boston will need to wait longer for its 1st elected Black mayor
Why Boston will need to wait longer for its 1st elected Black mayor
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Washington Free Beacon, Twitchy, TheBlaze, Townhall and IJR
Kana Ruhalter / The Daily Beast:
COVID-Positive Republican Senator Charged for Inappropriately Grabbing Nurse — HANDS OFF — John Bizon, a Republican state senator of Michigan and a doctor, has been charged with misdemeanor assault after allegedly grabbing a nurse practitioner and squeezing her waist inappropriately, according to MLive.com.
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MLive.com and Lansing State Journal
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 …
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 …
Los Angeles Times:
L.A. County supervisors seek to decriminalize bike violations after Times investigation — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday moved toward decriminalizing bicycling violations and ordered a review of “biased policing” the Sheriff's Department uses to enforce such laws.
Mark Lungariello / New York Post:
Student suspended for saying there are only two genders, lawsuit claims — A New Hampshire teenager is suing his school district after he was allegedly suspended from athletics for saying there are “only two genders.” — The Exeter High School freshman said in the suit that he was hit …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Anatomy of a Republican lie: A new GOP attack on Biden gives away the game — Earlier this fall, President Biden and Democrats scaled back a proposal to beef up IRS enforcement to go after wealthy tax cheats. They did so mostly in response to a full-throated campaign by Republicans …
Politico:
Judge questions why Justice reversed course on Trump taxes — A federal judge poised to rule on former President Donald Trump's effort to block Congress from obtaining his tax returns expressed skepticism Tuesday about the Justice Department's abrupt reversal in the case after Trump left office.
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Greene says she's accumulated $63K in House mask fines and is not vaccinated — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Tuesday that she has accumulated $63,000 in fines for refusing to wear a mask on the House floor, with additional fines likely to be imposed as she continues to defy …
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CNN and Political Wire
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Biden Delaware trips cost taxpayers about $3M in Secret Service alone — Americans may be grappling with how to put food on the table amid a sharp rise in the cost of everyday goods — but you'd never know it from the tab President Biden has racked up on their dime.
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Fox News
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Ben Affleck, Tracee Ellis Ross join anti-gerrymandering fundraiser with Clinton, Holder — Hillary Clinton is adding some star power — in the form of Ben Affleck and Tracee Ellis Ross — to a voting rights-focused fundraiser. — A Dec. 7 virtual event will feature a conversation among …
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Breitbart
American Greatness:
Trump Is Necessary to Restore Two-Party Rule — In allowing snobbery to overcome their better political judgment, NeverTrumpers punish themselves along with the rest of the country with their delusions. — In his most recent column, George Will, dean of serious American political commentators …
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
New Wrinkle in Ghislaine Maxwell Trial as Judge May Be Promoted — Senator Chuck Schumer will recommend Judge Alison J. Nathan for a seat on a federal appeals court, but the fraught case could put her in an unusual predicament. — The Manhattan judge presiding in the high-profile trial …
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New York Post, The Daily Beast and NPR