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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Bob Dole, Old Soldier and Stalwart of the Senate, Dies at 98 — Mr. Dole, a son of the Kansas prairie who was left for dead on a World War II battlefield, became one of the longest-serving Republican leaders. — Bob Dole, the plain-spoken son of the prairie who overcame Dust Bowl deprivation …
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Lauren King / ABC News:
Bob Dole, longtime public servant and WWII veteran, dies — In a memoir, Dole wrote that his experiences in World War II defined his life. — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, who will be remembered for the tenacity that defined his career and his work on behalf of fellow military veterans, died Sunday morning.
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Politico, Washington Examiner and Fox News
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Bob Dole, Longtime Senator, Republican Leader, Dies at 98 — The Kansas native who was grievously wounded in battle during World War II fought his way back to health and eventually served 36 years in Congress — Bob Dole went from the plains of Kansas to the battlefields of Italy …
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USA Today, CBS News and Associated Press
Kansas City Star:
Bob Dole, former Kansas senator, dead at 98 — Bob Dole, a son of the Kansas Dust Bowl who survived a crippling barrage of Nazi fire on an Italian hillside to lead his party in the U.S. Senate, but who fell short of his highest ambition, the presidency, died Sunday. — He was 98.
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Bloomberg
New York Times:
CNN Fires Chris Cuomo After New Details on Help He Gave His Brother — The cable news network said it had “terminated him, effective immediately,” a move that came four months after Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor of New York. — The star anchor Chris Cuomo was fired by CNN on Saturday amid …
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The Western Journal, The Hill, Axios, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, TheBlaze, Fox News, The Guardian, Associated Press, RedState and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
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Jesse O'Neill / New York Post:
Sexual misconduct allegation leveled against fired CNN anchor Chris Cuomo — A former co-worker of Chris Cuomo made a sexual misconduct allegation against the former CNN anchor, who was fired Saturday for misleading the cable network about the extent of the role he played trying to mitigate …
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HotAir, Mediaite, RedState, Louder With Crowder, Fox News and Trending Politics
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
CNN fires Chris Cuomo after law firm probes involvement in brother's harassment scandal
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Chris Cuomo fired by CNN after aiding governor brother and other ‘new allegations’
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Mediaite, BizPac Review, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, KVEO-TV and Poynter
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Mississippi Gov. Reeves: ‘No guaranteed right to an abortion’ in Constitution — ‘This has been a watershed moment in American history,’ GOP governor says, as decades of abortion rights precedence under review — Gov. Tate Reeves reacts to Biden's solution to high gas prices
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David Siders / Politico:
Why the threat to Roe may not save Democrats in 2022
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Washington Examiner
Politico:
Supreme Court justices on abortion, during confirmation and from the bench
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Washington Examiner
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Critical Moment for Roe, and the Supreme Court's Legitimacy
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RedState
Daniel Wood / NPR:
Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame — Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the 2020 presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden.
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Phil's Newsletter
The Daily Beast:
White Supremacists Stage Bizarro Rally in Downtown D.C., Find Themselves Stranded — Though they intended to “reclaim America,” members of Patriot Front had more than enough trouble reclaiming their own ride. — WASHINGTON, D.C.—A group of white supremacists stormed through downtown Washington …
Idrees Ali / Reuters:
U.S. congressman posts family Christmas picture with guns, days after school shooting … A U.S. congressman on Saturday posted a Christmas picture of himself and what appeared to be his family, smiling and posing with an assortment of guns, just days after four teenagers were killed in a shooting at a Michigan high school.
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Slate and WEB OF EVIL
Dan Primack / Axios:
Trump social media group raises $1 billion from undisclosed investors — Donald Trump's social media startup on Saturday announced that it secured $1 billion in new investment as part of its ongoing efforts to become publicly traded via a blank check company.
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David French / The Dispatch:
Don't Denigrate Adoption to Defend Roe — America's adoptive families are instruments of love. — From the moment I listened to the oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, I had a sinking feeling that we were about to have a cultural argument about adoption.
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Acceptable Takes, Insider and New York Post
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Gretchen Sisson / Washington Post:
Barrett is wrong: Adoption doesn't ‘take care of’ the burden of motherhood
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Althouse
Christina Goldbaum / New York Times:
Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation — An estimated 22.8 million people — more than half the country's population — are expected to face potentially life-threatening food insecurity this winter. Many are already on the brink of catastrophe.
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Outside the Beltway and Political Wire
CNN:
Fact check: Biden tells inaccurate story about his 1973 meeting with Israeli prime minister — Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden has a favorite story about his long relationship with Israel. For decades, he has been publicly recounting his 1973 meeting with then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir …
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Twitchy and The Western Journal
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Accidentally Posts Statement Blasting His Own ‘Stupid’ Election Lies — WHOOPS — Twice-impeached former President Donald Trump blasted out a brief statement on Saturday night that appeared to unintentionally refute his own long-running (and bogus) claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Discussion:
The Guardian and Slate
Noah Kirsch / The Daily Beast:
Why Is Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts Acting Extra Crazy? — The billionaire's son has blustered into the culture wars, signaling a potential run for higher office. — Billionaire's scion and Nebraska governor Pete Ricketts set a high watermark for controversy during his first six years in office.
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Raw Story
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