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Quinnipiac University Poll:
More Prefer Republicans To Win Control Of The House And Senate, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 68% Say Higher Prices Are Changing Spending Habits — mail_outline — With Election Day in the rearview mirror and both political parties setting their sights on the 2022 midterm elections …
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Marquette University:
New Marquette Law School Poll finds majority of Republicans across the nation favor a Trump run for president in 2024, while majority of voters overall are opposed — Please note: Complete Poll results and methodology information can be found online at law.marquette.edu/poll
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Democrats, You Have One Job — And most of the country thinks you're failing at it. — Barring some act of God, the Democratic party is going to get crushed in next year's midterms. — Redistricting (aka gerrymandering) has already netted Republicans five new seats …
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Politico:
Dems agonize over tax cuts for rich: ‘Bad policy, bad politics’
Dems agonize over tax cuts for rich: ‘Bad policy, bad politics’
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Politico:
Dems scramble to finish social spending bill as price tag expected Thursday
Dems scramble to finish social spending bill as price tag expected Thursday
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators appalled by ‘ridiculous’ House infighting
GOP senators appalled by ‘ridiculous’ House infighting
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David Brooks / The Atlantic:
The Terrifying Future of the American Right — Rachel Bovard is one of the thousands of smart young Americans who flock to Washington each year to make a difference. She's worked in the House and Senate for Republicans Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, and Mike Lee, was listed among the …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Two Iranian Nationals Charged for Cyber-Enabled Disinformation and Threat Campaign Designed to Influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election — An indictment was unsealed in New York today charging two Iranian nationals for their involvement in a cyber-enabled campaign to intimidate …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
U.S. indicts two Iranian hackers over 2020 election misinformation campaign — Two alleged Iranian hackers were indicted by the U.S. Justice Department Thursday and accused of engaging in a hacking and disinformation campaign targeting American voters in the run-up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Feds charge two Iranians with interference in U.S. 2020 election
Feds charge two Iranians with interference in U.S. 2020 election
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Biden bank cop nomination in doubt after fiery hearing — President Joe Biden's nominee to become the government's top banking regulator faced a wave of criticism Thursday at a tense Senate hearing that cast further doubt on her chances of being confirmed. — Saule Omarova …
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David Gura / NPR:
A look into the ugly and incredibly personal fight over Biden's pick to oversee banks — The president's pick to become a top banking regulator doesn't usually attract a lot of interest, but this time is different. — President Biden has nominated Saule Omarova, a law professor at Cornell University …
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Phill Swagel / CBO Publications:
CBO to Publish a Complete Cost Estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, This Afternoon — The Congressional Budget Office will publish a complete cost estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act (Rules Committee Print 117-18 incorporating a manager's amendment by Congressman Yarmuth), this afternoon.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Democrats plan Thursday vote on massive Biden bill
Democrats plan Thursday vote on massive Biden bill
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Prominent scientist who said lab-leak theory of covid-19 origin should be probed now says evidence points to Wuhan market — Controversy continues amid sketchy data and lack of transparency from Chinese authorities — The location of early coronavirus infections in late 2019 in Wuhan …
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Press Association:
Pennsylvania teen had his hands up when fatally shot by State Police, new videos show — Authorities obscured the last 4 seconds of Christian Hall's life in publicly released videos. New footage shows he had his hands up when troopers killed him. — STROUDSBURG, Pa. …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Kyle Rittenhouse's Defense Was Strong. It's Also a Threat to the Rule of Law. — In August 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse illegally brought an AR-15 rifle to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the name of law and order. As protests and riots raged in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake …
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Kyle Rittenhouse's Firearm Made Everything Worse
Kyle Rittenhouse's Firearm Made Everything Worse
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Biden says U.S. ‘considering’ diplomatic boycott of Winter Olympics in China — President Biden said Thursday that his administration is “considering” a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in China, a move that would keep U.S. government officials from attending the games in Beijing to protest China's human rights abuses.
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Biden says he is ‘considering’ diplomatic boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics
Biden says he is ‘considering’ diplomatic boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Biden expected to opt for “diplomatic boycott” of 2022 Winter Olympics
Biden expected to opt for “diplomatic boycott” of 2022 Winter Olympics
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ProPublica:
Texts Show Kimberly Guilfoyle Bragged About Raising Millions for Rally That Fueled Capitol Riot — Text messages reviewed by ProPublica represent the strongest indication yet that members of the Trump family inner circle were involved in financing and organizing the Jan. 6 “Save America” …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Murdoch Has the Power If He Wants Trump to Move On — The media mogul can order his properties to stop enabling the former president's falsehoods and conspiracy theories. — Rupert Murdoch told News Corp.'s shareholders that former President Donald Trump needs to get over himself.
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Adela Suliman / Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch says Trump should move on: ‘The past is the past’
Rupert Murdoch says Trump should move on: ‘The past is the past’
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
‘This is about power’: DeSantis gets big wins ahead of 2022 — TALLAHASSEE — Florida's special legislative session can be summed up in one phrase: What Gov. Ron DeSantis wants, he gets. — DeSantis called the special session in October to fight the Biden administration's coronavirus vaccine mandates …
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Florida Curtails Coronavirus Mandates, Reflecting Wishes of Vaccine Skeptics
Florida Curtails Coronavirus Mandates, Reflecting Wishes of Vaccine Skeptics
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TIME:
How a Manufactured Migrant Crisis Showed That Europe's Last Dictator Can Rattle the E.U. — Belarusian authorities were actively helping migrants cross the border, for example by bringing them to less patrolled areas where they could cross undetected, and even providing them with wire cutters.
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Why Vermont's Phil Scott, the Country's Most Popular Governor, May Be Resisting the GOP's Calls to the Senate — Scott's standing is driven by solid support among Democrats and independents — Republican Phil Scott of Vermont has been America's most popular governor throughout 2021 …
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NBC News:
Hospitalizations rising among fully vaccinated in U.S., Fauci says — Fauci discusses state of Covid and how to handle the holidays — As cases of Covid-19 rise throughout the U.S., health officials warn that an increasing number of fully vaccinated people are being hospitalized or going to the emergency room.
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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
The Pattern of GOP Voter Fraud — In case after case from 2020, it turns out that Republicans were the ones misbehaving at the ballot box. — On Tuesday, Donald Kirk Hartle, the CFO of a Nevada company that hosted a September 2020 rally for Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to voting twice …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Why Democrats are so bad at politics — Americans have much more in common than the party's conventional approach allows — The skill at which Donald Trump excels is creating a master narrative and ensuring every American hears it — no consultants needed.
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Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
Anxiety builds waiting for verdicts in the Rittenhouse and McMichael-Bryan trials — Donald Grant finds it difficult to look at the trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery through a single lens. Whether he processes it as a Black man, as the father of a young son or as a mental health professional …
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Politico:
Schumer, McConnell turn down the heat on debt limit fight — Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell clobbered each other incessantly during October's debt ceiling standoff. Now, as a new December deadline approaches, they're taking a slightly more conciliatory approach.
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Trump's Bureau of Land Management HQ move reduced Black employees, created mass vacancies, report says — Government Accountability Office report also finds headquarters move to Colorado led to ‘confusion and inefficiency’ at BLM — As Trump officials were moving the headquarters of the Bureau …
Matthew Cantor / The Guardian:
Cryptographers fight to keep ‘crypto’ prefix: ‘We all have hills we are willing to die on’ — Los Angeles' renamed Crypto.com stadium is good news for cryptocurrency fanatics but strikes a blow against cryptographers — he stadium that is home to the Los Angeles Lakers is getting a new name: the Crypto.com Arena.
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Politico:
Say goodbye to swing districts. Lawmakers are drawing easy wins in dozens of states. — When most voters go to the polls to elect members of Congress next year, the general election will essentially be meaningless. That's because winners are being determined right now …
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Trump ally's fund received over $20 million last year, then funneled cash to other right-leaning groups — A dark money group that was founded by one of former President Trump's key allies raised over $20 million in 2020 and used the money to help finance various conservative groups.