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Politico:
National Archives: Meadows may not have stored all Trump-era records ‘properly’ — Mark Meadows and the National Archives are in talks over potential records he did “not properly” turn over from his personal phone and email account, the presidential record-keeping agency confirmed Thursday.
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Appeals court denies Trump effort to block White House records from Jan. 6 investigators — A federal appeals court panel has thrown out former President Donald Trump's effort to stop congressional Jan. 6 investigators from obtaining his White House records, delivering a forceful rejection …
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Associated Press, UPI, Metro.co.uk, Reason, NBC10 Philadelphia, TheBlaze and Mediaite
CNN:
January 6 committee gets Meadows texts, emails with ‘wide range’ of people while attack was underway
January 6 committee gets Meadows texts, emails with ‘wide range’ of people while attack was underway
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HotAir, Washington Post, Mock Paper Scissors, Talking Points Memo, The Editorial Board, Bloomberg, NPR, emptywheel, Bipartisan Report, Mother Jones, CNBC, IJR and The Federalist
Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to keep January 6 documents from House committee
Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to keep January 6 documents from House committee
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Washington Examiner, CNBC, CBS News, BuzzFeed News, NPR, Washington Times, National Review, Raw Story, Bloomberg and The Gateway Pundit
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Appeals court rules against Trump in fight over Jan. 6 committee documents request
Appeals court rules against Trump in fight over Jan. 6 committee documents request
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Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump's White House Passed Around a PowerPoint on How to End American Democracy — The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol on Thursday released slides from a PowerPoint calling for former President Trump to declare a national security emergency in order …
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Big Law Firms Promised to Punish Republicans Who Voted to Overthrow Democracy. Now They're Donating to their Campaigns — But less than a year later, they're back to business as usual — WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, some of the country's biggest law firms …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
William Hartmann, 63, Michigan Official Who Disputed Election, Dies — He refused to certify Joseph Biden's victory over Donald Trump in Detroit but later relented. A foe of Covid vaccines, he was hospitalized with the virus. — William Hartmann, one of two Republican election officials …
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Reuters:
Georgia Republicans purge Black Democrats from county election boards — Protesters filled the meeting room of the Spalding County Board of Elections in October, upset that the board had disallowed early voting on Sundays for the Nov. 2 municipal election. A year ago, Sunday voting …
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Substack
Washington Post:
New York attorney general seeks Trump's deposition as part of civil fraud investigation — New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a deposition from former president Donald Trump early next year as part of her investigation into potential fraud inside the Trump Organization, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Washington Post:
The Supreme Court isn't well. The only hope for a cure is more justices. — Nancy Gertner is a retired U.S. District Court judge. Laurence H. Tribe is Carl M. Loeb University Professor emeritus and professor of constitutional law emeritus at Harvard Law School.
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Slate and The Racket News
Chicago Tribune:
Jussie Smollett's conviction for orchestrating and reporting a phony hate crime punctuates actor's sudden downfall — Jussie Smollett's star was rising fast three years ago, with his hit show “Empire” leading the ratings and providing him groundbreaking opportunities to portray a gay …
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CNN:
Actor Jussie Smollett found guilty of lying to police in hate crime hoax — Get caught up on the Jussie Smollett saga — Chicago (CNN)Actor Jussie Smollett has been found guilty on five of six felony counts of disorderly conduct for making a false report to Chicago police that he was the victim …
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Reuters, Washington Examiner, NBC News, NBC Chicago, Associated Press, WTOP News, Deadline, Variety, Page Array, TheGrio, Patterico's Pontifications and The US Sun
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Jussie Smollett is part of a larger trend of fake hate crimes
Jussie Smollett is part of a larger trend of fake hate crimes
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The Federalist
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
Birds Aren't Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory. — Peter McIndoe, the 23-year-old creator of the viral Birds Aren't Real movement, is ready to reveal what the effort is really about. — In Pittsburgh, Memphis and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, “Birds Aren't Real.”
Kristin Wilson / CNN:
House passes Protect Our Democracy Act to curb presidential abuses of power — Fmr. Reagan official warns of threats to abortion — and to democracy — (CNN)The House voted 220-208 on Thursday to pass the Protect Our Democracy Act, which addresses presidential abuses of power and reinforces …
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Washington Post and LifeNews.com
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
House Approves Post-Trump Curbs on Presidential Power
House Approves Post-Trump Curbs on Presidential Power
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Common Dreams, Reuters, Fox News, GovExec.com, Roll Call and Los Angeles Times
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Here's the speech Biden should give in defense of democracy
Here's the speech Biden should give in defense of democracy
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The White House, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, USA Today, Politico, Associated Press, The American Independent, Twitchy, The Guardian and BorderReport
Enes Kanter Freedom / The Atlantic:
Why I Became an American — When I first arrived in the United States, I had to adjust to a new language, new norms, and new traditions. But I was perhaps most stunned by a simple comment a teammate made. He criticized President Barack Obama, which I feared could have landed him in prison.
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HotAir, Washington Examiner, Overtime and The Daily Caller
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Enes Kanter Freedom's Political Awakening
Alina Selyukh / NPR:
Starbucks workers form their 1st union in the U.S. in a big win for labor — Starbucks workers have voted to form their first U.S. union. — Workers from one store in Buffalo, N.Y., voted to unionize, in a watershed moment for Starbucks, which operates 8,953 stores in the United States.
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Associated Press:
In a first, Starbucks workers agree to union in Buffalo, NY
In a first, Starbucks workers agree to union in Buffalo, NY
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The Hill, Common Dreams, CBS News, Forbes and CBS New York
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Starbucks Workers Vote to Unionize in Big Win for Labor
Starbucks Workers Vote to Unionize in Big Win for Labor
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news.com.au and Mother Jones
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Texas Judge Rules State Abortion Law Unconstitutional Over Its Enforcement — ‘EAGER IDEOLOGICAL CLAIMANTS’ — A judge in Texas ruled the state's controversial new abortion law unconstitutional Thursday. The statute bans abortions after six weeks, before many women even know they are pregnant …
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UPI, Raw Story and The Texas Tribune
Joe Kinsey / OutKick:
OutKick Exclusive: Penn Trans Swimmer's Teammate Speaks Out As Lia Thomas Smashes More Records … While University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who spent three years at the Ivy League school swimming as a male, has been busy smashing female pool records …
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The Daily Beast, The Clay Travis & …, New York Post, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, TheBlaze and The Western Journal
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Get them ready now’: Matt Gaetz and Steve Bannon discuss plan to take over government with ‘shock troops’ — Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Thursday talked with conservative broadcaster Steve Bannon about a plan to use “4,000 shock troops” to take over the jobs of federal government employees.
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YouTube, POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Senate Clears Last Major Hurdle to Raising Debt Ceiling — Fourteen Republicans joined Democrats in voting to take up legislation that would pave the way for Congress to raise the debt ceiling by a simple majority vote, skirting a filibuster. — WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday cleared away …
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
New York City poised to become the largest municipality in the U.S. to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections — NEW YORK — The city council here will vote on a measure Thursday that would allow immigrants who are not U.S. citizens to vote for mayor and other key municipal positions …
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Balkinization, Forbes and RedState
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Kelly Mena / CNN:
New York City gives noncitizens right to vote in local elections
New York City gives noncitizens right to vote in local elections
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Daily Caller
Jeanne Kuang / Kansas City Star:
Laclede County, MO Health Department stops COVID work — The local health department of a rural southern Missouri county is halting its COVID-19 response efforts after Attorney General Eric Schmitt wrote agencies this week demanding they drop mitigation measures.
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Springfield News-Leader, The Daily Beast and Missouri Independent
Bloomberg:
That Cream Cheese Shortage You Heard About? Cyberattacks Played a Part — Hackers shut down the biggest cheese manufacturer during peak demand — The cream cheese shortage wreaking havoc on bagel shops and bakeries is, in part, due to a cyberattack on the biggest U.S. cheese manufacturer.
Rachel Gutman / The Atlantic:
The Pandemic of the Vaccinated Is Here — Even before the arrival of Omicron, the winter months were going to be tough for parts of the United States. While COVID transmission rates in the South caught fire over the summer, the Northeast and Great Plains states were largely spared thanks …
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Florida Politics and Washington Examiner
Robert J. Shapiro / Washington Monthly:
It's a Biden Boom—and No One Has Noticed Yet — If the current high levels of economic, job, and income growth continue, the 2020 midterms could look different than most are predicting. — While many people are uncomfortable communicating bad news, Democrats have a problem these days talking …
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POLITICUSUSA, RedState, The Supply Times, Political Wire and Breitbart
Brooke Kato / New York Post:
Wil Wheaton apologizes for past homophobia, criticizes Dave Chappelle — After condemning Dave Chappelle's remarks about transgender people in his most recent Netflix special, actor Wil Wheaton has apologized for his own past homophobia. — “For much of my teen years, I was embarrassingly homophobic …
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The Daily Caller, Wil Wheaton, Ace of Spades HQ and RedState
Southern Poverty Law Center:
How Cryptocurrency Revolutionized the White Supremacist Movement — White supremacists embraced cryptocurrency early in its development, and in some cases produced million-dollar profits through the technology, reshaping the racist right in radical ways, a Hatewatch analysis found.
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 ‘Agent Provocateur’ Is A Big Tucker Fan And An Amateur Cardinals Mascot — “If I'm wrong, so be it, bro,” Carlson's guest said after he'd told Fox News viewers that the St. Louis baseball booster was “clearly a law enforcement officer.”
Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
What a Times Journalist Learned From His 'Don't Look Up' Moment — A new film about a killer comet revives memories of a nail-biting night in The Times newsroom two decades ago. — One of the thus-far theoretical duties of the astronomer is to inform the public that something very big …
Christopher Rowland / Washington Post:
Long covid is destroying careers, leaving economic distress in its wake … Before the coronavirus ruined her plans, Tiffany Patino expected to be back at work by now. She and her boyfriend intended to move out of a basement in suburban Maryland, where his grandmother lets them stay for free …