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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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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
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Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:
Kyle Rittenhouse trial was designed to protect white conservatives who kill
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TK News by Matt Taibbi:
The Rittenhouse Verdict is Only Shocking if You Followed the Last Year of Terrible Reporting — A year of pronouncing the “Kenosha shooter” a murderer could have serious real-world consequences — Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all six charges today, already causing a great exploding of heads in the pundit-o-sphere.
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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’
New York Times:
How Hunter Biden's Firm Helped Secure Cobalt for the Chinese — The president's son was part owner of a venture involved in the $3.8 billion purchase by a Chinese conglomerate of one of the world's largest cobalt deposits. The metal is a key ingredient in batteries for electric vehicles.
PBS NewsHour:
2021 is now the deadliest year on record for transgender people — The list of names now is longer than it's ever been. — With nearly two months left, 2021 has shattered the record of transgender homicides in a year with 45 to date — most of them Black or Latinx — according to the Human Rights Campaign.
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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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Raw Story
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Kyle Rittenhouse to Appear on Tucker Carlson as Reality Trails The Onion by 6 Hours — The teen is cementing his place in right-wing culture as a conservative darling and future pundit — The Onion called it with their headline: “Kyle Rittenhouse Sentenced to 45 Years of CPAC Appearances …
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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U.S. Department of Justice:
Nashotah man sentenced for attacking U.S. Service Member — Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on November 18, 2021, Ian Alan Olson of Nashotah, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 14 months in prison, to be followed by one year …
Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
The 1619 Project started as history. Now it's also a political program. … The New York Times's celebrated 1619 Project is as intriguing for the second half of its title as for the first. What is the project of this sprawling project; what are not just its principal conclusions and messages …
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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Raw Story and Political Wire
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Sinema holds firm in support of the filibuster, imperiling late voting rights push — A key Democratic senator said this week she remains firmly opposed to changing federal election laws on a partisan basis, signaling that a planned last-ditch voting rights push that party leaders and activists …
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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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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Democrats are in denial about what they're up against — Wisconsin Republicans are plotting election theft, and Biden is boasting about bipartisanship — On Friday morning, Democrats passed their Build Back Better agenda through the House. Only hours before their triumphant celebrations …
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
The Steele Dossier and Donald Trump's Betrayal of America — Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. — Vladimir Putin must be delighted. With the recent indictment of Igor Danchenko, the primary source …
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Corporate America unloads on Biden's newly active business watchdogs … Corporate America mounted fresh attacks on Friday on President Joe Biden's antitrust enforcers who have vowed to rein in anticompetitive practices and vigorously investigate corporate crime.
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Fauci claims ‘gain of function’ is ‘completely meaningless term’ as he defends NIH actions — Dr. Anthony Fauci — said “gain-of-function,” the term for research to make viruses more dangerous, is a “completely meaningless term” in a new interview. — The octogenarian virologist …
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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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Raw Story
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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Carnegie Moscow Center, Associated Press and Foreign Affairs
Danusha V. Goska / Front Page Magazine:
A Letter to the Management of the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach — Give free speech a chance. — Editor's note: The management of the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida recently informed the David Horowitz Freedom Center that the hotel will no longer host the Center's Restoration Weekend …
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