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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nathan Layne / Reuters:
Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty of all charges in Wisconsin murder trial
Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty of all charges in Wisconsin murder trial
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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 — President Biden on Friday announced his nominees to replace two members — and allies of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy — of the USPS board of governors. — Why it matters: Biden is replacing Ron Bloom, a Democrat, and John Barger …
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Washington Post:
The House battle over Build Back Better — 24 restless hours on the Hill — After months of legislating that exposed intraparty riffs, House Democrats began the day Thursday finally feeling confident they could pass their roughly $2 trillion economic and social spending package, sending it on to the Senate.
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Washington Post:
McCarthy's overnight speech — longest in modern history — underscores rancor in the House
McCarthy's overnight speech — longest in modern history — underscores rancor in the House
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
House passes roughly $2 trillion spending package that would expand social benefits and fight climate change
House passes roughly $2 trillion spending package that would expand social benefits and fight climate change
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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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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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Washington Post:
‘No one tells me what to do’: Sinema praises infrastructure, questions spending and inflation in wide-ranging interview
‘No one tells me what to do’: Sinema praises infrastructure, questions spending and inflation in wide-ranging interview
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
What Disarray? Democrats Are Getting Stuff Done
What Disarray? Democrats Are Getting Stuff Done
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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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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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Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Federal judge says Trump has responsibility for January 6, calling rioter a ‘pawn’ — (CNN)A federal judge suggested Friday that former President Donald Trump had some responsibility for the January 6 attack on the Capitol and that rioters were pawns provoked into action.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge faults Trump for Jan. 6 attack
Judge faults Trump for Jan. 6 attack
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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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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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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.
Grace Ashford / New York Times:
Assembly Report on Cuomo Contains Grounds for Impeachment, Lawmaker Says — A report set to be made public next week sheds new light on the Cuomo administration's manipulation of nursing home death data and the former governor's $5.1 million book deal. — An investigation by the New York …
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 …
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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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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Dion Rabouin / Wall Street Journal:
Fed Programs Have Kept Finance Flowing to Fossil Fuels — Oil-and-gas companies have logged record amounts of private-sector financing since Fed's 2020 interest-rate cuts and corporate bond-buying programs — The world's biggest banks and investors recently pledged at the Glasgow climate conference …
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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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 …