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Politico:
Senate that ‘sucks’ gets a dose of reality from Biden — Senate Democrats ended a frustrating day in a frustrating week with President Joe Biden acknowledging that his sweeping social spending bill will wait until next year — a setback that comes as the party also spins its wheels on election reform.
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Manu Raju / CNN:
‘A 50-50 Senate sucks’: Dejected Democrats fret over agenda failure amid grim 2022 outlook
‘A 50-50 Senate sucks’: Dejected Democrats fret over agenda failure amid grim 2022 outlook
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Bloomberg, Politico, The Hill and Conservative Brief
Tim Miller / Morning Shots:
Joe Manchin Is the Only Thing Standing Between America and Sen. Cletus Von Ivermectin in 2024.
Joe Manchin Is the Only Thing Standing Between America and Sen. Cletus Von Ivermectin in 2024.
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Overtime, Twitchy and Conservative Brief
Associated Press:
Power of one: Manchin is singularly halting Biden's agenda
Power of one: Manchin is singularly halting Biden's agenda
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RedState, Insider, Washington Examiner, HuffPost, Dysfunction’s Newsletter and Associated Press
Michael Lyle / Nevada Current:
Titus unloads on fellow Nevada Democrats, says they botched redistricting
Titus unloads on fellow Nevada Democrats, says they botched redistricting
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NBC News, HotAir, Fox News, Washington Post, The Daily Caller and Reason
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
It's Time for Democrats to Buck Up and Give Joe Manchin What He Wants
It's Time for Democrats to Buck Up and Give Joe Manchin What He Wants
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Mother Jones, New Republic, Common Dreams, Left Future, The Hill, Vox and The Status Kuo
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Senate Dems hit a wall
POLITICO Playbook PM: Senate Dems hit a wall
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DemCast, Bloomberg, CNN, Washington Post and Roll Call
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
F.D.A. Will Permanently Allow Abortion Pills by Mail — The decision will broaden access to medication abortion, an increasingly common method, but many conservative states are already mobilizing against it. — The federal government on Thursday permanently lifted a major restriction on access to abortion pills.
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HotAir, CBS News, Zandar Versus The Stupid, UPI, The Daily Wire, The Hill, TheBlaze, NPR and Politico
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Washington Post:
FDA eliminates key restriction on abortion pill as Supreme Court weighs case that challenges Roe v. Wade — The agency did away with a rule that required patients to pick up the drug at hospitals, clinics or doctors' offices — The Biden administration on Thursday ended a long-standing restriction …
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Insider, KDFX-TV, Mother Jones, Mock Paper Scissors, ABC13 and STAT
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
FDA loosens rules for distributing abortion pills, opening new battle fronts
FDA loosens rules for distributing abortion pills, opening new battle fronts
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HuffPost, NBC Boston, The 19th, ABC News, Roll Call, Fox News and National Review
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
FDA makes abortion pills more accessible
FDA makes abortion pills more accessible
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Florida Politics, Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller, Associated Press, Just The News and NPR
New York Times:
How Ashley Biden's Diary Made Its Way to Project Veritas — New details shed light on the federal investigation into the conservative group's acquisition last year of a journal kept by the president's daughter. — In the final two months of the 2020 campaign, President Donald J. Trump …
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The Daily Beast, HotAir, Raw Story, Twitchy and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
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Politico:
Life without Wallace — Presented by the Black Women's Health Imperative — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. With Allie Bice. — “Fox News Sunday” was one of the few shows on Fox News …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A theory: How Trump's Jan. 6 coup plan worked, how close it came, why it failed — The first time many Americans learned that a large pro-Donald Trump protest in Washington was planned for January 6 was 18 days earlier when the 45th president tweeted about it - “Will be wild!”
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Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
Why the media should have a pro-democracy bias
Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
Jim Jordan: ‘Trump did nothing wrong’ on Jan. 6
Jim Jordan: ‘Trump did nothing wrong’ on Jan. 6
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Newsweek, Right Side Broadcasting …, Washington Post, RedState, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Horizons and Bipartisan Report
Washington Post:
GOP agrees to pay up to $1.6 million of Trump's legal bills in N.Y. probes — The Republican Party has agreed to pay up to $1.6 million in legal bills for former president Donald Trump to help him fight investigations into his business practices in New York, according to Republican National Committee members …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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Select Committee to Investigate …:
Select Committee Subpoenas James P. “Phil” Waldron — Washington—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) today announced that the Select Committee has issued a subpoena to James P. “Phil” Waldron for records and testimony. Mr. Waldron appears to have been involved with efforts to promote claims about fraud in the 2020 election.
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POLITICUSUSA, USA Today, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
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Wall Street Journal:
WSJ News Exclusive | Senate Parliamentarian Rejects Democrats' Immigration Proposal in $2 Trillion Bill — The proposal marked Democrats' third effort to provide temporary deportation protections and work permits to millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
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Kansas Reflector, Washington Post and National Review
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate parliamentarian rejects Democrats' third immigration offer
Senate parliamentarian rejects Democrats' third immigration offer
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CNN, Vox, USA Today, CBS News, Townhall, Washington Times, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR and Associated Press
Joe Kukura / SFist:
Six Bay Area Men Arrested For a Staggering 70 Attacks on Asian Women — The suspects allegedly targeted Asian women exclusively, according to the Santa Clara DA, and had a pattern of attacking women walking alone to their cars. — In the wave of attacks on Asian Americans since …
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CBS San Francisco
Nick Anderson / Washington Post:
Harvard won't require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows — The fast-spreading movement aims to limit the role of the standardized exams in college admissions — Harvard University will extend for four years a policy begun soon after the coronavirus pandemic emerged …
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Insider, The Daily Wire and New York Times
Brendan Pierson / Reuters:
Judge tosses $4.5 bln deal shielding Purdue's Sackler family from opioid claims — A federal judge has thrown out a $4.5 billion settlement that would have shielded the Sackler family, which owned OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, from future lawsuits over opioids, upending the company's plan to reorganize in bankruptcy court.
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Associated Press and Washington Examiner
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
The puzzle of Joe Biden's unpopularity — I find President Biden's unpopularity puzzling. He is rounding out his first year in the White House with the lowest end of first-year approval ratings of any elected president in modern times with the exception of Donald Trump. Why?
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Dominion Voting wins key decision in lawsuit against Fox News — (CNN Business)A judge in Delaware has found that Fox News' coverage of election fraud after the 2020 election may have been inaccurate, and is allowing a major defamation case against the right-wing TV network to move forward.
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Insider, KDFX-TV, Raw Story, Bloomberg, Associated Press, One America News Network, Variety, Deadline and Daily News
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Wall Street Journal:
Washington Post Grasps for New Direction as Trump-Era Boom Fades — News outlet's audience is down sharply, amid sector-wide declines; subscription growth has stagnated as readers look beyond politics — Top Washington Post officials gathered last week and discussed how to respond …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Why Are Republicans Siding With Russia? — Because Putinism is catnip to a new breed of American losers. — There's been a lot of anger this week over Fox News's born-again populist, Tucker Carlson, going all in on attacking NATO and siding with Russia at the very moment …
Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Chris Noth Accused of Sexual Assault by Two Women — Triggered by the recent ‘Sex and the City’ reboot, the women allege two incidents of misconduct they say took place more than a decade apart.
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Snopes.com, CNBC, ТАСС, Variety, Page Six, CBS News, Deadline, One America News Network, The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, NPR, Mediaite, Gawker, The Daily Wire, Rolling Stone, The Wrap, TVLine, The US Sun, TMZ.com, Breitbart, NBC Los Angeles, Law & Crime, NewsNation Now and The Daily Caller
Tarini Parti / Wall Street Journal:
Kamala Harris Says She and Biden Haven't Discussed Running for Re-Election in 2024 — 'I don't think about it, nor have we talked about it,' she said in an interview, noting it's their first year in office amid a pandemic — Vice President Kamala Harris said that she and President Biden …
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CBS News, We Love Trump, Fox News, New York Post, RedState, USA Today, The Hill, CNN and TheBlaze
Jack Wittels / Bloomberg:
Giant Kites That Drag Cargo Ships Across Oceans Go on Trial — Add ships being dragged along by giant kites to the list of things the industry is exploring in its quest to decarbonize. — At the start of next year, the Ville de Bordeaux, a 154-meter-long ship that moves aircraft components for Airbus SE …
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Twitchy
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
America Is Not Ready for Omicron — America was not prepared for COVID-19 when it arrived. It was not prepared for last winter's surge. It was not prepared for Delta's arrival in the summer or its current winter assault. More than 1,000 Americans are still dying of COVID every day, and more have died this year than last.
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HotAir, New York Post, One America News Network, Alternet.org, Los Angeles Times and CNN
Washington Post:
Omicron outbreak inducing whiplash for many Americans — With the omicron variant sending coronavirus cases spiking across the country, the pandemic is once again upending daily life and evoking the early days of the outbreak as scientists race to understand the still-unknown implications of this new type of coronavirus.
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Breitbart, The Hill, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller and Washington Times
BuzzFeed News:
The FBI Said It Busted A Plot To Kidnap Michigan's Governor. Then Things Got Complicated. — The case seemed like a lock — until an informant and one FBI agent were charged with crimes, another was accused of perjury, and a third was found promoting a private security firm. And that wasn't all.
Mary Anne Franks / The Boston Globe:
Redo the first two amendments — Speech and guns: two of the most contentious issues in America today, with controversies fueled not only by personal passions and identity politics but by competing interpretations of the Constitution. Perhaps more than any other parts of the Constitution …
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Twitchy and The Gun Writer
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
‘The Media Variant’ Hits New York City — Yesterday, I jumped in line at my local City MD, at Lexington and 79th. By the time I got swabbed two hours later, the blue check mafia had worked itself into a full-on Omicron meltdown. What remained of the media-holiday-party industrial complex collapsed in a single afternoon.
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The Stranger