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David Corn / Mother Jones:
I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows' Book. It's Damning. — Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. — Mark Meadows, call your publisher. — It seems that Donald Trump's final White House chief …
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
It Sure Sounds Like Trump Was Screening Don Jr.'s Calls During the Capitol Attack — The president's namesake texted Mark Meadows that his father needed to “condemn this s—t.” — On Monday night, while arguing that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows should be held …
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CNN, The Hill, Daily News, The Daily Caller, ABC News, The Western Journal and Gizmodo
Riana Pfefferkorn / Just Security:
The Easiest Case for the Prosecution: Trump's Aiding and Abetting Unlawful Occupation of the Capitol — Knowing whether former President Trump's conduct on Jan. 6 violated one or more criminal statutes is important for several reasons. First, the public should know whether Trump committed any crimes.
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The Daily Beast, POLITICUSUSA and CNN
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
McConnell: Riot panel findings of GOP involvement ‘will be interesting’
McConnell: Riot panel findings of GOP involvement ‘will be interesting’
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, Fox News and The Federalist
New York Times:
Trump Fraud Inquiry's Focus: Did He Mislead His Own Accountants? — The investigation, by the Manhattan district attorney, is zeroing in on information the former president and his company shared about the value of his assets. — As prosecutors in Manhattan weigh whether to charge Donald J. Trump …
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Insider and Political Wire
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Washington Post:
Trump's longtime accountant testifies to N.Y. grand jury in criminal probe — A longtime accountant for former president Donald Trump — who helped prepare Trump's taxes and the financial statements he used to woo lenders — testified recently before a New York grand jury investigating Trump's …
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CNN, Raw Story and Mock Paper Scissors
Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds — ATLANTA (AP) — An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.
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HotAir, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Washington Post and Political Wire
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
American Conservatism Is a Rotting Whale Carcass on the Beach — For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. See you, my princes, and my noble peers, — These English monsters! —Henry V — , Act II, Scene 2
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Rolling Stone, POLITICUSUSA and The Status Kuo
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New York Post:
Eric Adams picks Keechant Sewell as the first female police commissioner of the NYPD — Mayor-elect Eric Adams has tapped Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell as the first female police commissioner of the NYPD — a stunning, close-to-home pick from a field of seasoned top women cops across …
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THE CITY, Spectrum News NY1, Fox News, New York Times, The Hill, City & State New York, CBS New York and PIX11
Politico:
Judge scraps Trump lawsuit to shield tax returns from Congress — A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's bid to block congressional Democrats from obtaining his tax returns. — Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee to federal district court in Washington …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden and Manchin deadlocked on length of BBB programs — President Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) are locked in a disagreement over how long programs in the Build Back Better agenda should be funded, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Gorsuch writes scathing dissent after Supreme Court rejects New York vaccine mandate challenge — Justice Neil Gorsuch penned a scathing dissent after the Supreme Court left in place New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. — Only two other Republican-appointed justices …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Supreme Court Is Playing Constitutional Calvinball
The Supreme Court Is Playing Constitutional Calvinball
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TheBlaze, The Federalist, National Review and The Daily Wire
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Blumenthal Speaks at Communist Party Awards Ceremony — Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) spoke at an awards ceremony over the weekend hosted by a Communist Party affiliate whose leaders used the event to recruit potential members to the organization. — Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members …
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Fox News, National Review, The Daily Caller, Townhall and Yankee Institute
Associated Press:
The AP Interview: UN nuke chief says view of Iran blurred — ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog warned Tuesday that the restrictions faced by his inspectors in Iran threaten to give the world only a “very blurred image” …
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Washington Post:
Omicron spreading rapidly in U.S. and could bring punishing wave as soon as January, CDC warns — But federal and some pharmaceutical executives signal they do not currently favor revising vaccines, saying existing regimen plus boosters are effective
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Bloomberg, Breitbart, CBS News, Ground Truths and STAT
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Biden White House warns: COVID explosion imminent
Biden White House warns: COVID explosion imminent
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, Mynewsdesk, Digby's Hullabaloo, Daily Mail, Deadline, CBS News, Insider, Metro.co.uk, HotAir and Washington Post
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Phil Waldron, backer of Jan. 6 PowerPoint, is invited to speak to Louisiana voting panel — A retired Army colonel who worked with then-President Donald Trump's outside legal team to claim that the 2020 election results were rigged was an invited speaker Tuesday at a state commission charged with shaping Louisiana's voting system.
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Popular Information, First Draft and NBC News
Eric Geller / Politico:
Feds scramble to assess security flaw that threatens ‘hundreds of millions’ of devices — “Hundreds of millions” of internet-connected devices are vulnerable to hackers because of a newly discovered security flaw in a widely used piece of computer code, a federal official said Tuesday …
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New York Times:
How Beijing Influences the Influencers — We are on the outskirts of Shanghai today at the most incredible hotel we've ever stayed at. — It's the first in the world built inside a quarry. — Stick around when we show you around. — Catch you later.
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
A Real Housewife of New York Dined and Dashed at D.C.'s Sceniest Restaurant — Live in Washington long enough, and you'll see some naughty behavior. This is a town that's seen three impeachments, two fake wars, one attempted coup, and too many sex scandals to count — and that's just the last four administrations.
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Andrew Cuomo ordered to return $5.1M pandemic book profits to state — New York's ethics watchdog panel ordered disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return the $5.1 million in profits from his pandemic book deal to the state next month. — The extraordinary resolution was approved …
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Mike DeForest / WKMG:
3 residents of The Villages arrested for casting multiple votes in 2020 election — Few Central Floridians have faced similar charges over past two decades, records show — SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. - Three residents of The Villages have recently been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into voter fraud, court records show.
Washington Post:
D.C. attorney general sues Proud Boys, Oath Keepers over Jan. 6 attack — D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) on Tuesday sued the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, seeking to use a law written to cripple the Ku Klux Klan to exact stiff financial penalties …
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Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
Tech's Looming Radical Chic Throwdown — The recall election of Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's avant-garde D.A., has turned bitter, pitting tech's billionaires against one another—and forcing the city to look at itself, and its past, in the mirror. — Last January, I fired up my AirPods …
Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:
EXCLUSIVE: State regulators reveal new fine against Sidney Powell, could lead to felony charges in Florida — Public records requests reveal a new enforcement action and Consent Decree against former Trump 2020 campaign lawyer Sidney Powell's organization Defending the Republic Inc. of Texas …
Sarah Mimms / BuzzFeed News:
The Pro-Trump Conspiracy Internet Is Moving From Facebook To Your Doorstep — The man at the door said he was just there to verify some publicly available information. — In the home security video, he seems nervous and out of breath as he waits at the doorway, glancing frequently at his phone.
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Raw Story
Politico:
How a 100-year-old newspaper became the go-to way to influence Biden — Interest groups trying to influence the president of the United States will often fork over millions of dollars in order to do so. During the Biden era, however, an old media-centric, less splashy technique has been deployed.
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Climate change has destabilized the Earth's poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril — New research shows how rising temperatures have irreversibly altered both the Arctic and Antarctic. Ripple effects will be felt around the globe. — The ice shelf was cracking up.
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Substack and Common Dreams
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
Biden Nominee Saule Omarova Speaks Out About The Campaign To Smear Her As ‘Soviet’ — Omarova says Wall Street backed the successful campaign to brand her a communist. — Saule Omarova left her confirmation hearing feeling calm. — She didn't think she'd been “savaged,” as some writers would later put it.
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
This State's Rogue Sheriff Problem Somehow Just Got Worse — Twisted new criminal allegations of Tasing came in a state where elected law-enforcement figures love to cross the line into criminality. — A South Carolina sheriff is facing multiple charges after allegedly ordering a deputy …
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scag.gov, Raw Story and governor.sc.gov
Pippa Crerar / Mirror.co.uk:
Extraordinary image shows ‘raucous’ Xmas party thrown by Tory aides in lockdown breach — Our image shows 24 people crowded together in a room in the Tories' Westminster HQ for an event organised by Shaun Bailey's mayoral campaign - Mr Bailey tonight quit as chair of the London Assembly's police …
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Metro.co.uk and The Guardian
Washington Post:
Biden pleads for Congress to act on gun control as he marks 9th anniversary of Sandy Hook shooting — President Biden, in a video message Tuesday, sent his sympathies to the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn., and demanded that Congress take action on his gun-control agenda.
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