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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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Zandar Versus The Stupid and The Moderate Voice
Raleigh News & Observer:
Mark Meadows should face charges for stonewalling Congress — OPINION AND COMMENTARY — Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. — BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD
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Washington Post, Washington Examiner, The Pulse, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, Digby's Hullabaloo, OpenSecrets.org, The Hill and IJR
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
Politico:
Jan. 6 investigators mull whether Trump violated obstruction law
Jan. 6 investigators mull whether Trump violated obstruction law
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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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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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Insider, NBC News, NewsNation Now, TheBlaze, Washington Times, National Review and The Guardian
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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The Hill, Associated Press, CNBC, Iowa Capital Dispatch, Breitbart, New York Post, Common Dreams, The Daily Wire, The US Sun and USA Today
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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New York Magazine, Forbes, CNN, HuffPost, The Hill, Insider, MSNBC, The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, National Review, New York Post, Abernathy Road and Common Dreams
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
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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New York Times and Fox News
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 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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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, Global Times and TASS
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
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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Washington Examiner, HotAir, HuffPost, CNN, National Review, Boston.com, Common Dreams, Talking Points Memo, Forbes, Insider, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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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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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Political Wire and Off the Kuff
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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
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Eric Adams Names NYPD Commissioner in Front of Cop Killer Mural — New York City mayor-elect Eric Adams (D.) on Wednesday named the next commissioner of the New York Police Department while standing in front of a mural dedicated to a convicted cop killer and other controversial left-wing icons.
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
Eric Adams Picks Nassau County PD Chief Keechant Sewell To Be First Female NYPD Commissioner
Eric Adams Picks Nassau County PD Chief Keechant Sewell To Be First Female NYPD Commissioner
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New York Post, City & State New York, Queens News, Snopes.com, Raw Story and NBC New York
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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CNN and Fox 8 Cleveland WJW
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 …
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
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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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.
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 …
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The lawyer behind the Trump coup memo unmasks the absurdity of the coverup — In their frantic efforts to disrupt the work of the House select committee examining Jan. 6, Donald Trump's co-conspirators have advanced a singular argument: The committee lacks any “legitimate legislative purpose.”
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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.
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 …
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.