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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty in Fatal Kenosha Shooting — “The defendant will rise to face the jury and hearken to its verdicts.” “As to the first count of the information, Joseph Rosenbaum, we the jury, find the defendant, Kyle H. Rittenhouse, not guilty.
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Robby Soave / Reason:
The ACLU Thinks Kyle Rittenhouse's Civil Liberties Got Too Much Protection — Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who shot and killed two men during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer, was acquitted on Friday. Prosecutors had charged him with first-degree reckless homicide …
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ACLU of Wisconsin:
ACLU Responds to ‘Not Guilty’ Verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse Case — KENOSHA, Wis. — The American Civil Liberties Union released the following statement after a jury decided that Kyle Rittenhouse was not guilty of the fatal shooting of two protestors and injuring of another …
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GoFundMe Stories:
GoFundMe Policy on Fundraisers for the Legal Defense of Violent Crimes — GoFundMe's Terms of Service prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime. In light of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, we want to clarify when and why we removed certain fundraisers in the past.
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The White House:
Statement by President Biden — While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken. I ran on a promise to bring Americans together, because I believe that what unites us is far greater than what divides us.
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Kyle Rittenhouse Could Face Federal Charges As Rep. Nadler Calls For DOJ Review — Rep. Nadler tweeted: … Kyle Rittenhouse Crossed State Lines Which Means That He Can Be Federally Charged — There are a wide variety of federal charges that Kyle Rittenhouse could potentially face …
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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Kyle Rittenhouse to Appear on Tucker Carlson as Reality Trails The Onion by 6 Hours
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
The jury gave Rittenhouse the benefit of the doubt. That's what advocates of criminal justice reform should have wanted.
The jury gave Rittenhouse the benefit of the doubt. That's what advocates of criminal justice reform should have wanted.
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Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
Kyle Rittenhouse trial was designed to protect white conservatives who kill
Kyle Rittenhouse trial was designed to protect white conservatives who kill
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Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
Wisconsin gov. says Rittenhouse verdict has ‘reopened wounds,’ pleads with community to remain peaceful
Wisconsin gov. says Rittenhouse verdict has ‘reopened wounds,’ pleads with community to remain peaceful
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Nathan Layne / Washington Free Beacon:
Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted of All Charges
Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted of All Charges
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Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Biden expected to replace Ron Bloom, USPS board chair and key DeJoy ally, on postal board — Bloom, a Democrat, has backed the postmaster general as the agency slowed mail delivery standards and raised prices — President Biden is expected to announce Friday that he will not renominate Ron Bloom …
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Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Biden replaces DeJoy allies on Postal Service board
Biden replaces DeJoy allies on Postal Service board
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Kamala D. Harris becomes first woman to serve as acting president — for 85 minutes
Kamala D. Harris becomes first woman to serve as acting president — for 85 minutes
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge faults Trump for Jan. 6 attack — Judge Amit Mehta describes rioter John Lolos as ‘pawn’ of the former president, imposes 2-week jail sentence — A federal judge on Friday squarely placed the blame for the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Donald Trump, suggesting that the former president's role …
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Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Federal judge says Trump has responsibility for January 6, calling rioter a ‘pawn’
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wisconsin Republicans Push to Take Over the State's Elections — Led by Senator Ron Johnson, G.O.P. officials want to eliminate a bipartisan elections agency — and maybe send its members to jail. — Republicans in Wisconsin are engaged in an all-out assault on the state's election infrastructure …
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Washington Post:
Attempted breach of Ohio county election network draws FBI and state scrutiny — Federal and state investigators are examining an attempt to breach an Ohio county's election network that bears striking similarities to an incident in Colorado earlier this year, when government officials helped …
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BuzzFeed News:
Top Justice Department Officials Were Told There Were “No Credible Threats” Hours Before The Capitol Riot — WASHINGTON — On Jan. 6 at 10:43 a.m., three top Justice Department officials received an email with an update on a briefing that morning from the counterterrorism section.
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Republican Governors Distance Themselves From Trump, Drawing His Ire — About half of the 16 GOP governors up for re-election in 2022 face primary challenges from opponents endorsed or inspired by him — PHOENIX—As Republicans in the nation's capital mostly fall in line behind former …
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New York Times:
U.S. Warns Allies of Possible Russian Incursion as Troops Amass Near Ukraine — Western intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that the Russian president wants to take control of a larger swath of territory. — WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials are warning allies …
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Valerie Hopkins / New York Times:
After 15 Months in U.S. Prisons, She Now Sits in Russia's Parliament
After 15 Months in U.S. Prisons, She Now Sits in Russia's Parliament
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Scoop: Surprise Trump book, ‘Our Journey Together’ — Former President Donald Trump today shocked the publishing world that has tried to cancel his administration by revealing that he is releasing his first post-White House book in December, titled Our Journey Together.
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New York Times:
3 Women in the Senate Object to ‘Sexist’ Focus on Sinema's Style — The senators criticize The Times's coverage of their colleague's style and fashion choices. — To the Editor: — The Times has published four separate pieces analyzing the style and dress of our colleague Senator Kyrsten Sinema.
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CNN:
Peng Shuai: UN calls for proof of Chinese tennis star's whereabouts; WTA chairman willing to pull out of China — Hong Kong (CNN)China is facing pressure from the United Nations over Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai's whereabouts as the organization called for an investigation into her allegations of sexual assault.
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Washington Post:
McCarthy's overnight speech — longest in modern history — underscores rancor in the House — By the time House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) yielded the floor at 5:11 a.m. Friday, completing a speech that began some 8 ½ hours earlier, he had repeatedly taken aim …
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Kelly Crow / Wall Street Journal:
Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin Outbid a Group of Crypto Investors for Copy of U.S. Constitution — The 53-year-old billionaire paid $43.2 million for the historic document, plans to lend it to Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas — Chicago hedge-fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin said he won …
Jessica Huseman / Votebeat:
How Trump ally Cleta Mitchell won a seat on the EAC advisory board — An unorthodox process at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, largely done in secret, led to the controversial bipartisan appointment. — Cleta Mitchell, a voter fraud conspiracy theorist who joined President Trump …
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Washington Post:
Fauci's office flooded with attacks over beagle experiments — Covid chief's phone line rings 3,600 times in 36 hours after campaign by little-known animal rights group — Anthony S. Fauci was swamped by so many angry messages and threats that in late October his assistant quit answering the phone for two weeks.
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
‘Tiger mother’ Amy Chua: ‘Boldness is my downfall’ … Owing to my forgetfulness, my lunch with Amy Chua starts awkwardly before it even begins. On the train to New Haven, home of Yale University where Chua has been a tenured professor for 20 years, I realise that I forgot to reserve …
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:
I Made the World's Blandest Facebook Profile, Just to See What Happens — In 2019, a researcher at Facebook conducted an experiment to see whether the platform really has a tendency to send users down a rabbit hole of extreme and conspiratorial content. The employee set up a pair of fake profiles …
Justice News:
Real Estate Businessman And Lawyer Arrested In Connection With Campaign Finance Scheme — Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI" …
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Laura Nahmias / New York Magazine:
Kathy Hochul's Got Seven Months … The governor of New York was sitting in the back of the Apollo Family Restaurant in Buffalo one recent Wednesday afternoon when an older man in a VFW baseball hat approached. The governor, wearing a light-brown suit and a gold nameplate necklace that read “VAXED,” looked up from her rice pudding.
Christina Wyman / NBC News:
Schools face parents who want to ban critical race theory — and don't get how teaching works — An educator's top goal is to teach students to think. Parents who dictate curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies and biases hinder that goal. — CRT outrage & the VA governor's race
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CNN:
Trump's ire grows as DeSantis' popularity with Republicans takes off — People close to both men first noticed the palpable shift in Trump's posture toward DeSantis earlier this year as enthusiasm for the Florida governor swelled among donors and GOP operatives who praised his laissez-faire response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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