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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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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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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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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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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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Kristin Wilson / CNN:
House passes Protect Our Democracy Act to curb presidential abuses of power
House passes Protect Our Democracy Act to curb presidential abuses of power
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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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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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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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Associated Press:
Reality TV's Josh Duggar convicted of child porn possession — FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was immediately taken into custody Thursday after a federal jury convicted him of downloading and possessing child pornography. — The jury in Fayetteville …
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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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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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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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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Enes Kanter Freedom's Political Awakening — The N.B.A. star, who has been outspoken about human rights in China, discusses his embrace by the right and his harsh words for LeBron James. — Enes Kanter Freedom, a center for the Boston Celtics, has played in the N.B.A. for a decade …
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Enes Kanter Freedom / The Atlantic:
Why I Became an American — When I first arrived in the United States, I had to adjust …
Why I Became an American — When I first arrived in the United States, I had to adjust …
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Kelly Mena / CNN:
New York City gives noncitizens right to vote in local elections — New York (CNN)New York City on Thursday became the largest municipality in the US to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections — In a vote of 33 to 14, the Democrat-controlled city council passed the measure known as “Our City, Our Vote.”
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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 City poised to become the largest municipality in the U.S. to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
New York City Lawmakers Pass Bill Letting Some Noncitizens Vote
New York City Lawmakers Pass Bill Letting Some Noncitizens Vote
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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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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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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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Washington Post:
Slain D.C. student wanted to join the Marines after graduation — He was 17 and had his future planned: Graduate high school and join the Marines. — Larelle Washington's family had hired a tutor to help him study for an aptitude test used to match enlistees to jobs in the military.
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.”
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 …
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.
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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CNN:
State Department officer struck by Havana syndrome sues Blinken and agency for alleged disability discrimination — (CNN)A State Department officer who says he was struck by the strange constellation of symptoms now known as “Havana syndrome” in 2017 is suing Secretary of State Antony Blinken …
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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Miriam Zinter / HuffPost:
I'm Black But Look White. Here Are The Horrible Things White People Feel Safe Telling Me. — “Many of these people are educated, and hold jobs or positions that give them some form of power or influence over Black people.” — I was outside my house gardening a few weekends ago when a neighbor …
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.
Livia Albeck-Ripka / New York Times:
Earth Is Getting a ‘Black Box’ to Hold Humans Accountable for Climate Change — When a plane crashes, its flight recorder is critical to piecing together the missteps that led to calamity. Now the planet is getting its own in case it self-destructs. — In a remote part of Australia …