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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump called aides hours before Capitol riot to discuss how to stop Biden victory — Sources tell Guardian Trump pressed lieutenants at Willard hotel in Washington about ways to delay certification of election result — Hours before the deadly attack on the US Capitol this year …
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Raw Story, Insider, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice and POLITICUSUSA
Jamie Smyth / Financial Times:
Moderna chief predicts existing vaccines will struggle with Omicron — Stéphane Bancel foresees ‘material drop’ in current jabs' effectiveness, sending stocks and oil prices lower — The chief executive of Moderna has predicted that existing vaccines will be much less effective …
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Tina Reed / Axios:
Omicron fuels the case for COVID boosters — The emergence of the Omicron COVID variant is turbocharging the push for vaccine boosters, and experts say a booster may soon become a requirement to be considered “fully vaccinated.” — Why it matters: Booster uptake has been sluggish so far …
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National Review, Associated Press, NBC Bay Area, Washington Post and CBS News
CBS News:
Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world
Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world
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Breitbart, Associated Press, The Guardian, CBS San Francisco and Political Wire
Cora Engelbrecht / New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: Omicron Was Already in Europe a Week Ago, Officials Say
Covid Live Updates: Omicron Was Already in Europe a Week Ago, Officials Say
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NPR, The Guardian and Iowa Capital Dispatch
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Covid looms over Biden's presidency, once more and always
Covid looms over Biden's presidency, once more and always
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Washington Post, New York Post, Children's Health Defense, CBS News, Associated Press, Twitchy, The Daily Caller and Townhall
CNBC:
Dow drops 600 points after Powell mentions speeding up taper even amid omicron threat
Dow drops 600 points after Powell mentions speeding up taper even amid omicron threat
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Biden's Bumbling COVID Policy
Biden's Bumbling COVID Policy
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Washington Post, New York Post, Quartz, Florida Politics, Washington Post, In These Times and Washington Post
Twitter:
Expanding our private information policy to include media — As part of our ongoing efforts to build tools with privacy and security at the core, we're updating our existing private information policy and expanding its scope to include “private media.” Under our existing policy …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Will Twitter Censor Images of Riots?
CNN:
Exclusive: Meadows reaches deal for initial cooperation with January 6 investigators — (CNN)Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows is cooperating with the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot and is providing records and agreeing to appear for an initial interview, CNN exclusively has learned.
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Politico:
Appeals court judges poised to reject Trump's effort withhold Jan. 6 documents — Three federal appellate judges appear likely to reject Donald Trump's effort to block Jan. 6 investigators from obtaining his White House records — a big potential boost for lawmakers hoping to reveal …
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Washington Examiner, CNBC, POLITICUSUSA, UPI, One America News Network, Shore News Network, Raw Story and USA Today
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Case Against Abortion — A striking thing about the American abortion debate is how little abortion itself is actually debated. The sensitivity and intimacy of the issue, the mixed feelings of so many Americans, mean that most politicians and even many pundits really don't like to talk about it.
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Wall Street Journal, The Daily Signal, Vox and HuffPost
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Charles Fried / New York Times:
I Once Urged the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe. I've Changed My Mind.
I Once Urged the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe. I've Changed My Mind.
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Washington Post, Slate and Reason
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Roe v. Wade on the line as Supreme Court takes up Mississippi abortion rights case
Roe v. Wade on the line as Supreme Court takes up Mississippi abortion rights case
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Why Conservatives Adopted a Pro-Choice Slogan
Why Conservatives Adopted a Pro-Choice Slogan
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The Western Journal, Bloomberg and Washington Post
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Another video shows Lauren Boebert suggesting Ilhan Omar was terrorist — (CNN)Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado suggested to a crowd in September that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, whom she called “black-hearted” and “evil,” was a terrorist.
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Greene calls fellow Republican ‘trash’ of GOP conference
Greene calls fellow Republican ‘trash’ of GOP conference
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Washington Post:
GOP resistance to preschool plan could imperil key Biden proposal in many states — His signature universal preschool plan would depend on the participation of states, which have had uneven approaches to implementing federal aid — The White House's proposal to create universal prekindergarten …
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CBS News, Politico, Bloomberg and Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
New opioids, more powerful than fentanyl, are discovered in D.C. amid deadly wave of overdoses — Forensic analysts have identified a new and highly potent family of synthetic opioids in the District's illicit drug supply, a worrisome discovery in a city already struggling with a wave of fatal overdoses that shows no signs of abating.
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New York Daily News:
An errant op-ed: Rich Azzopardi, Gov. Cuomo and Attorney General Tish James — We publish lots of op-eds. More often than we'd like, errors make it into print. It is rare that a guest opinion essay has misstatements rooted in an author's personal recollection that we specifically sought …
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CBS New York, NY State Attorney General, New York Times and Politico
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Never Got Another Classified Intelligence Briefing After Jan. 6 — Donald Trump skipped his classified intelligence briefings for the holidays. And then, after his Jan. 6 briefing didn't happen, he never got another one, a new CIA book reveals. — After a holiday break …
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
McCarthy's floor speech pays off as he becomes first House GOP leader to launch national ad blitz — McCarthy fundraising, new ad blitz should pay dividends in House GOP leader's push to regain majority, quest for speaker — Fox News Flash top headlines for November 30
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Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
Pence 2024? — Mike Pence spent much of his vice presidency quietly catering to the whims of President Donald Trump. But on January 6, he broke with Trump by refusing to overturn the 2020 election results. And now, Pence is eyeing a presidential run of his own, even though his old boss hasn't ruled out a 2024 campaign.
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Washington Examiner, Patterico's Pontifications, Raw Story and Orange County Register
A.O. Scott / New York Times:
Tony Kushner, Oracle of the Upper West Side — When Steven Spielberg asked Kushner, America's most important living playwright, to take on ‘West Side Story,’ he thought, 'He's lost his mind.' But he dared. — To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Space Force General: China and Russia attacking U.S. space assets ‘every day’ — When Russia blows up a satellite in space with a missile (as it did this month), or when China tests a new hypersonic missile (as it did last month), the ongoing arms race in space leaps into the news.
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The Nation
Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal:
Metaverse Real Estate Piles Up Record Sales in Sandbox and Other Virtual Realms — Firms' purchases of digital land in online worlds are bets that property values will rise as more people join in — The latest hot real-estate market isn't on the scenic coasts or in balmy Sunbelt cities.
Washington Post:
Prosecutors demanded records of Sidney Powell's fundraising groups as part of criminal probe — A subpoena issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. sought communications and other documents related to fundraising and accounting by Defending the Republic
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Red states are now paying people not to get vaccinated — Once upon a time, states debated whether to pay people to get vaccinated. Now, some red states are paying people not to get vaccinated, by cutting checks to workers who quit or are fired because they refuse covid-19 shots.
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Mock Paper Scissors
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Lorne Michaels still lives for Saturday night … NEW YORK — Episode 4. Season 47. — “I got a lot of notes here.” — “Chloe, you've got to play it to camera.” — Fifty-three minutes to showtime. — “James, can we get you up in the seat?” — You can't see Lorne Michaels behind …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
How Biden and Trump actually compare on coronavirus deaths — The United States passed yet another grim coronavirus milestone this month: We have now seen more deaths from the virus in 2021 than we did in all of 2020 — despite the advent of vaccines. — Naturally, this has led to plenty …
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The Federalist and IJR
Chris Casteel / The Oklahoman:
Defense secretary Lloyd Austin says Oklahoma National Guard members must get vaccinated — Members of the Oklahoma National Guard must get vaccinated against COVID-19 regardless of their duty status or personal beliefs, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Gov. Kevin Stitt on Monday.
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Ece Toksabay / Reuters:
Turkey jails founder of opposition party pending trial … A Turkish court jailed pending trial Metin Gurcan, a founder of the Turkish opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), over “political and military espionage,” a state-run news agency said on Monday.
Sue Halpern / New Yorker:
Biden's Global Democracy Summit Raises an Awkward Question: Can Ours Endure? — In the past year, the prospects for improving American democracy have dimmed considerably. — In March, not long after Joe Biden assumed the Presidency, Freedom House, a democracy-watchdog group …
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New York Magazine, The Liberal Patriot and The Hill
Aaron DeGroot / Rodney Davis Announces 2022 …:
Rodney Davis Announces 2022 Re-Election Campaign to Congress in New IL-15 — LaHood, Bost, Shimkus, 31 of the 35 Republican county chairmen in IL-15, and 14 Republican state lawmakers in IL-15 also announced their endorsement of Rodney's re-election to Congress
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