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CNN:
Jim Jordan sent one of the texts revealed by January 6 committee — Rep. Liz Cheney reveals frantic texts from GOP lawmakers to Mark Meadows on January 6 — (CNN)Rep. Jim Jordan forwarded a text message to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on January 5, outlining a legal theory …
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
During January 6 Hearing, Schiff Doctored Text Messages Between Mark Meadows And Rep. Jim Jordan — Democrat Adam Schiff doctored text messages between Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan during Monday's Jan. 6 hearings, an investigation by The Federalist shows. — Oops, he did it again.
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
Gone Too Far — The Capitol riot happened because President Donald Trump simply lied, and lied, and lied. — s cable television broadcast the scenes of Trump supporters breaking past police lines and even smashing their way into the Capitol on January 6, the president's son, Donald Trump Jr. …
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The Moderate Voice
New York Times:
Trump Found Crucial Support in Congress as He Fought to Stay in Power — A small circle of Republican lawmakers, working closely with President Donald J. Trump's chief of staff, took on an outsize role in pressuring the Justice Department, amplifying conspiracy theories and flooding the courts …
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Insider, PolitiFact, One America News Network and Bloomberg
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
BREAKING: January 6 Committee Admits It Doctored Text Message Between Meadows And Jordan — The House January 6 committee admitted on Wednesday that it doctored a text message from Jim Jordan to Mark Meadows, as was first reported by The Federalist. — Following reporting by The Federalist …
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Washington Examiner, Townhall and Twitchy
Raleigh News & Observer:
Mark Meadows should face charges for stonewalling Congress
Mark Meadows should face charges for stonewalling Congress
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Washington Post, Washington Examiner, The Pulse, Breitbart, Talking Points Memo, Digby's Hullabaloo, Mother Jones, The Hill, OpenSecrets.org and IJR
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sinema pops Democrats' filibuster trial balloon on voting rights — Kyrsten Sinema supports the elections reform bill that Democrats are considering a year-end push to pass. She doesn't support a shortcut around the filibuster to get it done. — The Arizona moderate is making clear …
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Politico:
‘Going very poorly’: Biden can't nail Manchin down on Dems' bill — Tensions are boiling over as discussions about finishing Democrats' $1.7 trillion domestic spending bill drag on between President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin. — The legislation looks increasingly likely to stall …
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New York Times, Insider, TheBlaze, Washington Times and National Review
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Final Child Tax Credit Payments Go Out Amid Doubt Over Program's Future
Final Child Tax Credit Payments Go Out Amid Doubt Over Program's Future
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Townhall, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Bloomberg and CNBC
NBC News:
Democrats' hopes dim that Build Back Better will pass before New Year
Democrats' hopes dim that Build Back Better will pass before New Year
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Washington Post:
Democrats' $2 trillion spending plan in political peril as talks between Biden, Manchin appear to hit snag
Democrats' $2 trillion spending plan in political peril as talks between Biden, Manchin appear to hit snag
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Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Senate GOP target BBB child care provision as bill stalls in the Senate
Senate GOP target BBB child care provision as bill stalls in the Senate
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Fox News and New York Times
National Archives:
JFK Assassination Records - 2021 Additional Documents Release — Have a question about JFK Assassination Records? — Ask it on HistoryHub! — The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is processing previously withheld John F. Kennedy assassination-related records to comply …
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Katie Bo Lillis / CNN:
JFK researchers underwhelmed by latest release of assassination documents
JFK researchers underwhelmed by latest release of assassination documents
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The Daily Caller, The Western Journal, Politico and Raw Story
CBS San Francisco:
SF Mayor London Breed Announces Crime Crackdown; ‘Less Tolerant Of All The Bulls-t That Has Destroyed Our City’ — SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Mayor London Breed launched an emergency police intervention in San Francisco's crime-ridden Tenderloin neighborhood Tuesday, targeting a pipeline …
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Elizabeth Warren / The Boston Globe:
Expand the Supreme Court — I don't come to this conclusion lightly or because I disagree with a particular decision; I come to this conclusion because I believe the current court threatens the democratic foundations of our nation. — This month, a majority of justices …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden picks Caroline Kennedy, Michelle Kwan for ambassador roles — President Biden will nominate Caroline Kennedy and former figure skater Michelle Kwan to ambassadorships as part of a slate of diplomatic picks, the White House announced Wednesday. — Biden announced his intent to nominate Kennedy …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Biden nominates former Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan as ambassador to Belize
Biden nominates former Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan as ambassador to Belize
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David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
Omicron Is About to Overwhelm Us … For all their limitations, the models right now are flashing bright red. Over the course of the pandemic, again and again, projections based on simplistic extrapolations of current trends have missed the mark when the trajectories turned.
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The Atlantic, The National Interest and USA Today
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russian Politician Calls for Kidnapping of U.S. Congressman on Live TV — “This is how we should be dealing with these bastards,” the Russian lawmaker said after advocating for the abduction of Rep. Ruben Gallego over his recent comments on Ukraine. — With tensions between the United States …
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discuss security cooperation against US
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discuss security cooperation against US
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HotAir, Wall Street Journal, Global Times and TASS
Dylan McGuinness / Houston Chronicle:
Former Houston cop who thought A/C repairman was a voter fraud mastermind indicted on felony assault charge — A Harris County grand jury on Tuesday indicted former Houston police captain Mark Aguirre on an assault charge after he was accused of running a man off the road and pointing to a gun …
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Bloomberg:
Unvaccinated Covid Patients Push Hospital Systems Past the Brink — Data analysis and visualization by David Ingold and Paul Murray — In a Kentucky hospital bed at the end of November, a Covid-19 patient from the state's latest wave of infections lay alone behind the glass isolation wall.
Washington Post:
Historic wind storm slamming central U.S. with rare tornado threat in the north — Minnesota and northern Iowa could see their first December tornadoes on record; winds are expected to gust over 60 mph in Denver, Omaha and Des Moines. — Half of the Lower 48 faces a dangerous weather event Wednesday …
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Reuters:
The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump's campaign of disinformation — After Donald Trump lost the White House, ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and three other current and former U.S. Army officers challenged the vote's legitimacy and pushed baseless conspiracy claims.
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Florida Phoenix, Raw Story and Political Wire
Alexander Sammon / American Prospect:
Does Punchbowl News Play by the Rules? — Where hosting a confab for lobbyists meets journalistic ethics — On Sunday afternoon, the Washington Football Team lost to the Dallas Cowboys, and Punchbowl News was there to see it. The D.C.-based scoop shop, a newsletter-based online publication …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Agency overseeing Trump's D.C. hotel lease failed to examine ethical, constitutional conflicts, report says — WASHINGTON — The federal agency managing the government's lease of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., failed to examine ethical conflicts and constitutional issues posed …
Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times:
Retailers say thefts are at crisis level. The numbers say otherwise — Organized retail crime is haunting the nation this holiday season. — Captured on smartphones and closed-circuit cameras, thefts involving groups of people smashing windows or individuals wheeling loaded shopping …
Travis Fain / WRAL-TV:
Democrat Jeff Jackson expected to drop out of U.S. Senate race — A leading Democrat vying for North Carolina's soon-to-be-open U.S. Senate seat plans to leave the race, people familiar with the matter told WRAL Thursday. — Sen. Jeff Jackson, D-Mecklenburg, was expected to announce …
Jonah Goldberg / The G-File:
Donald Trump's Megaphone — Fox News news hosts knew that Trump's lies were lies—and they amplified them anyhow. — Screw it. — I've shown a good deal of restraint since news broke that I left Fox News. — I haven't done any TV about it, and I've let a lot of nonsense go by without a response.
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
NFL map endorses CCP's claim that Taiwan is part of China — The NFL appeared to endorse the Chinese Communist Party's claims to sovereignty over Taiwan on Wednesday in a map announcing the NFL's international marketing. — The world map shared by the NFL colored the Chinese mainland …
Charles Creitz / Fox News:
‘The Five’ blasts Swalwell, Frum for ‘despicable’ new COVID restriction ideas for unvaccinated Americans — Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum suggested relegating unvaccinated hospital patients to the back of the line — Eric Swalwell, David Frum float ‘despicable’ new coronavirus vaccine mandates
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
3rd Circuit's Ambro to take senior status, giving Biden second vacancy — (Reuters) - U.S. Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro is stepping down from active service on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a court official said Wednesday, creating a new judicial vacancy for President Joe Biden to fill on the Philadelphia-based court.
Jim Treacher / Who the Hell Is Jim Treacher?:
Jen Psaki Wants to Beat Big Meat — Let me explain. — Here's the White House press secretary yesterday, making excuses for the runaway inflation that Joe Biden has caused because he's an idiot: — Townhall.com @townhallcom — Jen Psaki blames increases in meat prices on “the greed of meat conglomerates.”
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Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Bassholes — Stop culturally appropriating, or, a meditation on the importance of fishing hats — Whenever I'm lecturing in journalism schools, eyeing row upon row of tomorrow's Tom Wolfes and Janet Malcolms - or as editors like to call them, future listicle writers - I tell the kids, “Journalism is easy, I just make it look hard.”
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Katharine Finnerty / KSHB-TV:
Blue Springs School District owes over $4 million in damages to transgender student — Blue Springs School District Blue Springs School District logo — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A jury in Jackson County has found that the Blue Springs R-IV School District owes more than $4 million in damages …
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