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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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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. …
Washington Post:
House votes to hold Meadows in contempt for refusing to comply with Jan. 6 committee subpoena
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
It Sure Sounds Like Trump Was Screening Don Jr.'s Calls During the Capitol Attack
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
House Seeks Contempt Charge Against Meadows in Jan. 6 Inquiry
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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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Gabriel T. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Retail Sales Rose Modestly in November  —  Sales rose 0.3% in the month  —  Retail sales rose a modest 0.3% in November from the previous month, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, suggesting consumers are challenged to keep up with rising prices.
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 …
Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE U.S. lawmakers call for sanctions against Israel's NSO, spyware firms  —  A group of U.S. lawmakers is asking the Treasury Department and State Department to sanction Israeli spyware firm NSO Group and three other foreign surveillance companies they say helped authoritarian governments commit human rights abuses.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A junkie's guide to the 2022 midterms  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BREAKING OVERNIGHT — The House voted 222-208 to hold MARK MEADOWS in contempt of Congress and make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.  Just two Republicans — ADAM KINZINGER (Ill.) and LIZ CHENEY …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Biden admin, House GOP scrutinize Ilhan Omar's Islamophobia bill  —  The Biden administration has outlined several issues it has with Omar's bill  —  Rep. Boebert: Rep Omar wants public humiliation, not a public apology  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is pushing a controversial Islamophobia bill …
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.
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.
Discussion: Politico, Washington Examiner, Vox, Axios and NPR
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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Reuters:   Nearing ‘end of the road’ to save Iran nuclear deal -France
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 …
Discussion: ABC News
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.
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 …
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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Karen Sloan / Reuters:
Cyberattack during finals upends law students' study plans
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
‘15 minutes to save the world’: a terrifying VR journey into the nuclear bunker
Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:
EXCLUSIVE: State regulators reveal new fine against Sidney Powell, could lead to felony charges in Florida
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
This State's Rogue Sheriff Problem Somehow Just Got Worse
Discussion: scag.gov, Raw Story and governor.sc.gov
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Climate change has destabilized the Earth's poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril
Discussion: Substack and Common Dreams
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Man who threatened to shoot Pelosi and brought guns and ammo to D.C. is sentenced to 28 months
Discussion: wusa9.com
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Gorsuch writes scathing dissent after Supreme Court rejects New York vaccine mandate challenge
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Boston University Requires Faculty To Say They Should ‘Intervene’ If a Woman Is Encouraged To Have Children
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
A Real Housewife of New York Dined and Dashed at D.C.'s Sceniest Restaurant
Pippa Crerar / Mirror.co.uk:
Extraordinary image shows ‘raucous’ Xmas party thrown by Tory aides in lockdown breach
Discussion: 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
New York Times:
How Beijing Influences the Influencers
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Andrew Cuomo ordered to return $5.1M pandemic book profits to state
Sarah Mimms / BuzzFeed News:
The Pro-Trump Conspiracy Internet Is Moving From Facebook To Your Doorstep
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Marianne Lavelle / Inside Climate News:
Sources: the Trump admin plans to end Energy Star, a voluntary program started in 1992 to promote energy savings, initially aimed at PCs, monitors, and printers

Charles Daly / Bloomberg:
Klarna, which said in 2024 that AI was doing the work of 700 customer service agents, starts hiring remote workers after the AI approach led to “lower quality”

Financial Times:
Lloyd's of London insurers have launched a product to cover companies for losses if sued over AI chatbot errors, with policies developed by YC-backed Armilla
 
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