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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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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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Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance
The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance
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CNN:
‘Need to end this call’: January 6 committee reveals new text messages to Meadows on House floor
‘Need to end this call’: January 6 committee reveals new text messages to Meadows on House floor
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
It Sure Sounds Like Trump Was Screening Don Jr.'s Calls During the Capitol Attack
It Sure Sounds Like Trump Was Screening Don Jr.'s Calls During the Capitol Attack
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Albert W. Alschuler / Just Security:
The Easiest Case for the Prosecution: Trump's Aiding and Abetting Unlawful Occupation of the Capitol
The Easiest Case for the Prosecution: Trump's Aiding and Abetting Unlawful Occupation of the Capitol
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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.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden on passing agenda by year's end: ‘I hope so’ — President Biden on Wednesday said some progress has been made toward passing his Build Back Better agenda in the Senate, but acknowledged it was possible it would not reach his desk before the end of the year. — “I hope so.
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
One year of ‘President Manchin’: For the Democratic agenda, all roads go through West Virginia
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden and Manchin deadlocked on length of BBB programs
Scoop: Biden and Manchin deadlocked on length of BBB programs
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Washington Post:
This block used to be for first-time homebuyers. Then global investors bought in. — LA VERGNE, TENN. — The homes on Tammy Sue Lane aren't fancy. Modest in size and clad in vinyl siding, the houses were priced below $200,000 when most were built about 15 years ago …
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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Anne Barnard / New York Times:
N.Y.C.'s Gas Ban Takes Fight Against Climate Change to the Kitchen — New York is set to become the nation's largest city to enact a ban on gas heat and stoves in new buildings. It's a major step away from fossil fuels that is expected to influence wider markets.
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Dionne Johnson / KLFY-TV:
Lafayette City Judge Michelle Odinet responds to use of racial slurs in home video following burglary — LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet confirmed with News 10 that over the weekend she and her family were victims of an armed burglary at their home in the upscale area of Bendel Gardens.
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T. Becket Adams / And another thing:
That Dana Milbank column is even dumber than you think — Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is as lousy a statistician as he is a political commentator. — Milbank claims journalists have been harder on President Joe Biden in the first year of his presidency than they were on former President Donald Trump in his last.
Phil Mattingly / CNN:
Biden set to surpass Trump in first-year judicial nominees; a window into a major Democratic push — (CNN)President Joe Biden will soon announce his latest wave of nine judicial nominees, according to a White House official, capping a year where the selections — and an effort to establish …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Hillary 2024? Given the competition, she may be the Dems' best hope — There may be a rematch coming in the 2024 race for the White House. But we're not talking (God help us) Biden-Trump II. — Instead, 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is an interesting prospect to consider …
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Republicans Who Assailed Biden's Stimulus Bill Are Embracing the Money — Republican governors who criticized the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill as wasteful are championing state projects funded by the money. — WASHINGTON — At her annual budget address this month, Gov. Kristi Noem …
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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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Five Republican governors seek vaccine exemptions, escalating a fight with the Pentagon. — Governors from five states have written a joint letter to Lloyd J. Austin III, the defense secretary, asking that their National Guard troops be exempted from a federal coronavirus vaccine mandate …
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Keith E. Whittington / Washington Post:
The intellectual freedom that made public colleges great is under threat — Across the country, state legislators are trying to control what happens in classrooms — and who gets hired and fired — Faculty members at public universities are under fire in numerous states …
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Jaclyn Diaz / NPR:
A leader of an Ohio Muslim organization was fired for spying for a hate group — The Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says it fired one of its top leaders after discovering he was sharing information about the organization to “a known anti-Muslim hate group.”
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Executes People for Watching K-Pop, Rights Group Says — At least seven people have been put to death in the past decade for watching or distributing K-pop videos, as the North cracks down on what its leader calls a “vicious cancer.” — SEOUL — North Korea has publicly executed …
Tyler O'Neil / Fox News:
DeSantis takes aim at CRT training in schools and corporate America — DeSantis' administration moved against critical race theory in schools; now the governor is broadening his efforts — DeSantis: Americans are rebelling against the Democratic Party — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis …
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Scott Bauer / Washington Post:
Wisconsin attorney general won't enforce any abortion ban — MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin's Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul said in an interview Tuesday that he would not investigate or prosecute anyone for having an abortion should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade and a currently unenforceable state ban takes effect.
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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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Lola Fadulu / New York Times:
Cornell University goes on high alert after finding evidence of the Omicron variant on campus. — Cornell University canceled a ceremony for December graduates, closed libraries and took other restrictive measures on Tuesday after the school's coronavirus testing lab found evidence …
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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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Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Democrats Legalized Crime, Thousands Died — And the killing is just getting started. — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. — 4,901 more people were murdered last year than in 2019.
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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Google tells employees they'll lose pay and will eventually be fired if they don't follow vaccination rules — In a memo circulated by leadership, Google told employees that they must comply with vaccine policies or they face losing pay and then losing their job.
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
After extraordinary sacrifice, and years of delay, Alwyn Cashe gets his Medal of Honor — Cashe died 16 years ago after saving his men from a burning vehicle in Iraq. He will become the first Black recipient of the award for actions since 9/11. — Staff Sgt. Douglas Dodge was dazed …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Build Back Better would make Biden's annus horribilis even worse — At the end of his year of Old Testament afflictions — the political equivalent of Job losing his camels and acquiring boils — President Biden might be muttering: Job was at least spared Sens. Joe Manchin III and Kyrsten Sinema.