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Politico:
Dems hustle for year-end deal as child tax credit cliff looms — “It's as important a thing as there is” in the party's social spending bill, as one senator put it. And it's expiring any day now. — Democrats are hoping a year-end cliff with 35 million families on the line can finally shake …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Old St. Chuck? Schumer under pressure to deliver by Christmas — The Senate Democratic leader wants to wrap up the $1.7 trillion social spending bill for the holiday — which may well prove impossible. — Chuck Schumer leapt over the trap doors of a potential government shutdown and debt default.
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Graham criticizes McConnell over debt ceiling, says GOP leaders must work with Trump — Sen. Lindsey O. Graham on Sunday continued his criticisms of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for adopting a bipartisan deal that allowed Democrats to raise the debt ceiling.
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Insider
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Chris Wallace bolts Tucker Carlson's Fox News — The Sunday morning farewell announcement from “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace had a narrow feel to it. “After 18 years, this is my final ‘Fox News Sunday.’ It is the last time — and I say this with real sadness — we will meet like this.
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Fox News, Coverage Notes and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Chris Wallace Leaves Fox News as Right-Wing Hosts Hold Sway
Chris Wallace Leaves Fox News as Right-Wing Hosts Hold Sway
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Fox News, The Western Journal, Outside the Beltway, Wall Street Journal and CNN
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Chris Wallace exits Fox News Channel for CNN's streaming service
Chris Wallace exits Fox News Channel for CNN's streaming service
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The US Sun, Ace of Spades HQ and The Moderate Voice
CNN:
Chris Wallace Joins CNN+
Chris Wallace Joins CNN+
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Axios, The Hill, The Verge, RedState, Rolling Stone, The Daily Wire, NPR, Insider and CBS News, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Chris Wallace leaves Fox News for a CNN streaming show: 'I'm ready for a new adventure'
Chris Wallace leaves Fox News for a CNN streaming show: 'I'm ready for a new adventure'
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Harris trashes her media coverage
POLITICO Playbook: Harris trashes her media coverage
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Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Shock: Chris Wallace quits Fox News
Shock: Chris Wallace quits Fox News
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The Western Journal, Washington Examiner, Power Line, Campaign Update and Instapundit
Politico:
Meadows Jan. 5 email indicated Guard on standby to ‘protect pro Trump people,’ investigators say — Mark Meadows indicated in a Jan. 5 email that the National Guard was on standby to “protect pro Trump people,” according to documents obtained by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot …
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New York Times, CBS News, Insider, NBC News, NBC Chicago, Raw Story, The Hill and One America News Network
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CNN:
January 6 committee releases resolution recommending holding Meadows in contempt of Congress — Washington (CNN)Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent an email saying the National Guard would be present to ‘protect pro Trump people’ in the lead up to the US Capitol insurrection …
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Insider, Raw Story, Letters from an American and Mediaite
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Pelosi will stay around to lead House Democrats through the next election — and perhaps beyond — (CNN)Speaker Nancy Pelosi will stay until at least after the midterm elections, extending her nearly 20-year run as the House's top Democrat after she turns 82 and, perhaps, beyond.
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Politico, RedState and Political Wire
Reuters:
The curious case of a map and a disappearing Taiwan minister at U.S. democracy summit — A video feed of a Taiwanese minister was cut during U.S. President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy last week after a map in her slide presentation showed Taiwan in a different color to China, which claims the island as its own.
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
White House cut Taiwanese official's video feed over map: report — After a Taiwanese minister showed a map that labeled Taiwan in a different color than China during President Biden's Summit for Democracy last week, the video of her presentation was reportedly cut by the White House over diplomatic concerns.
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Power Line
Ben Smith / New York Times:
A Comedy Nails the Media Apocalypse — With “Don't Look Up,” Adam McKay makes a star-studded allegorical satire that shows the news media whistling past the climate-change graveyard. — After the president, a former nude model, tries to cover up a major discovery, two astronomers leak …
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Satellite Images Show Russian Military Forces Keep Massing Near Ukraine's Border — KYIV — Tanks and other menacing self-propelled artillery. A Russian Buk surface-to-air missile system like the one that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. Thousands more troops.
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Lara Jakes / New York Times:
Diplomats Warn Russia of ‘Massive Consequences’ if It Invades Ukraine
Diplomats Warn Russia of ‘Massive Consequences’ if It Invades Ukraine
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Associated Press and Bloomberg
Hans Von Der Burchard / Politico:
G7 warns Russia of ‘massive consequences’ if it attacks Ukraine
G7 warns Russia of ‘massive consequences’ if it attacks Ukraine
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The Guardian, Reuters, The US Sun, TASS, Agence France-Presse, Al Jazeera, One America News Network, Politico, The Daily Wire, UPI and GOV.UK
MSN:
Marshall: ‘I still remain concerned’ Biden didn't win 2020 election fair and square — Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) responds to Bob Dole's final interview about President Trump and says that while he “absolutely” believes he won his own 2020 election fair and square, he “remains concerned” that President Biden did not.
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
'The president doesn't like you guys now': The inside story of Trump's rage against Netanyahu — A new Hebrew book published on Sunday by Israeli journalist Barak Ravid gives a behind-the-scenes look at what is now being revealed as a rocky U.S.-Israel relationship during the Trump administration …
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The Jewish Voice, Power Line and The Times of Israel
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Deadly Collapse at Amazon Warehouse Puts Spotlight on Phone Ban — Online retailer is returning to a cell phone ban in warehouses — Workers say they want access to weather alerts, communication — An Amazon.com Inc. warehouse collapse on Friday night that killed at least six people …
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New York Post, Gizmodo, Fred Klonsky in Retirement and The US Sun, more at Techmeme »
Denisse Quintanilla / CNBC:
Student-loan forgiveness would mean everything to Latinx students stuck in a debt cycle — The amount of student loan debt in the United States is $1.8 trillion dollars — and counting. The price to get an education has never been more expensive. — The student loan crisis has affected …
John Boothman / The Sunday Times:
‘Absurdity’ of police logging rapists as women — Police have been criticised for saying they will record rapes by offenders with male genitalia as being committed by a woman if the attacker “identifies as a female”. — Police Scotland said that they would log rapes as being carried …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Nothing is more important than Team Trump's January PowerPoint urging a full-blown coup — In 1971, the brilliant musician Gil Scott-Heron warned America that “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” So far that's been true, but who knew that in 2021 the counterrevolution …
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Talking Points Memo