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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump tested positive for Covid few days before Biden debate, chief of staff says in new book — Mark Meadows makes stunning admission in new memoir obtained by Guardian, saying a second test returned negative — Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19 three days before his first debate …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The reckless timeline of Trump's positive coronavirus test
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Conservatives plot government shutdown over vaccine mandate — DRIVING THE DAY — FRIDAY'S SHUTDOWN SHOWDOWN GETS REAL — Conservatives on both sides of the Capitol are privately plotting to force a government shutdown Friday in an effort to defund …
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CNN:
CNN suspends Chris Cuomo indefinitely — New York (CNN Business)CNN said Tuesday that it has suspended Chris Cuomo “indefinitely” after new documents released this week indicated that the anchor was more intimately involved than previously known in helping his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo …
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Harvard University:
1. A majority (52%) of young Americans believe that our democracy is either “in trouble,” or “failing” — Only 7% of young Americans view the United States as a “healthy democracy”; 27% described the nation as a “somewhat functioning democracy,” 39% a “democracy in trouble,” …
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Axios:
Republicans threaten to shut down government over vaccine mandates — Conservative Republicans in the House and Senate are planning to force a government shutdown Friday to deny funding needed to enforce the Biden administration's vaccine mandates on the private sector, according to Politico.
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Washington Post:
Young Americans are really down on democracy and reeling from the pandemic
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J.D. Capelouto / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Dickens wins runoff election, will become Atlanta's 61st mayor
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The Root
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Mace and Greene keep feuding, despite McCarthy's effort to intervene
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The Colorado Sun, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Political Wire and Raw Story
New York Times:
A federal judge blocks Biden's vaccine mandate for U.S. health workers.
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UPI and CITIZEN STRINGER
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republican Recriminations Point to a Rocky Path to a House Majority
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Marcus Lamb, head of Daystar, a large Christian network that discouraged vaccines, dies after getting covid-19 — Marcus Lamb, founder of the large Christian network Daystar, died Tuesday after contracting the coronavirus. Lamb's network during the pandemic has made the virus a huge focus …
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Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Founder Of Anti-Vaccine Christian TV Network Dies After COVID-19 Fight — Televangelist Marcus Lamb, president and founder of Daystar Television Network, died at age 64. — Televangelist Marcus Lamb, the founder of the conservative Christian Daystar Television Network …
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Tim Fitzsimons / NBC News:
Anti-vaccine Christian broadcaster Marcus Lamb dies at 64 after contracting Covid
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The Guardian, New York Post and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Emma Platoff / The Boston Globe:
Governor Charlie Baker telling allies he isn't running for reelection — Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, the Republican who maintained the enduring support of his blue state constituents through boom times, the Trump presidency, and in the face of mass death during the COVID-19 pandemic …
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Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker won't seek reelection — BOSTON — Republican Gov. Charlie Baker won't seek reelection next year, he announced Wednesday, in a move that surprised some in the state's political class and will ripple down the 2022 ballot in Massachusetts.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Live Updates: Supreme Court Hears Mississippi Abortion Law Arguments — The justices are hearing arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, concerning a law enacted in 2018 by the Mississippi Legislature that banned abortions if “the probable gestational age of the unborn human” was determined to be more than 15 weeks.
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ABC News:
Parties prep for earthquake over future of abortion rights: The Note
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Ellena Erskine / SCOTUSblog:
We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don't have to
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Sarah Jones / New York Magazine:
There's No Such Thing As a Pro-Life Feminist
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New York Times
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Dr. Oz Quacks the Code of Republican Politics — Having peddled snake oil for years, he's found his true calling in the GOP. — Sean Parnell, the Trump-anointed candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, dropped out of the race a week ago after a custody hearing that featured lurid details of his relationship with his ex-wife.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Why the Discredited Dossier Does Not Undercut the Russia Investigation — Donald J. Trump and his backers say revelations about the Steele dossier show the Russia investigation was a “hoax.” That is not what the facts indicate. — WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J. Trump and his allies …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Why the CIA is so worried about Russia and Ukraine — The CIA discovered something scary in October: Russia was moving troops toward the Ukrainian border — and, unlike in previous border thrusts, was making secret plans about how to use them. — The agency also worried that the potential conflict zone …
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Reuters:
Ukraine urges NATO to be ready with sanctions in case of Russian invasion
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Ann M. Simmons / Wall Street Journal:
Russia Expels Some U.S. Diplomats in Latest Tit-for-Tat Action
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Associated Press, New York Post, Al Jazeera and One America News Network
Axios:
Clinton Foundation donations plummet 75% — Donations to the Clinton Foundation plummeted to $16 million last year, down nearly 75% from the organization's peak when former secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was running for president, records reviewed by Axios show.
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Jerusalem Post:
COVID: First signs that vaccine protects against Omicron - health minister — So far, Israel has registered four cases infected with the new variant, while general morbidity remains low. — There are indications that individuals fully vaccinated against corona within six months …
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New York Post, The Times of Israel and HotAir
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
Is Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer the new ‘Angel of Death’? — In August, Vanity Fair published an article labeling Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the “Angel of Death” because of increased COVID-19 infections. The narrative was that DeSantis was an incompetent governor whose policies led to an “unnecessary” increase in deaths.
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The Hill
Anders Anglesey / Newsweek:
QAnon Followers Rush to Defend Donald Trump After Pilot Testifies He Was on Jeffrey Epstein's Jet — QAnon followers and commentators have rushed to defend Donald Trump after Jeffrey Epstein's former pilot testified in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial that the former president had traveled on one of the pedophile's private planes.
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Trump's Iran Policy Has Become a Disaster for the U.S. and Israel — The judges have voted and the results are in: President Donald Trump's decision to tear up the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 — a decision urged on by his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and Israel's prime minister …
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The Atlantic
John Wright / Raw Story:
Trump supporter arrested after allegedly casting multiple ballots in Florida — A registered Republican and apparent supporter of former president Donald Trump has been arrested and charged with casting more than one ballot in an election. — Joan Halstead, a 72-year-old resident of the Villages …
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Villages-News
Wall Street Journal:
Racy Affair Saga Between Jeff Bezos and Enquirer Reaches Final Chapter — Probes by federal officials on phone-hack, extortion claims haven't led to public action — In 2019, Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos accused the National Enquirer of attempting to extort him with embarrassing texts and photos …
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