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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A glimmer of hope on Joe Manchin and voting rights? — By now, you'd be forgiven for concluding the chances of Sen. Joe Manchin III supporting a filibuster carve-out to pass democracy protections are somewhere between nonexistent and extremely nonexistent. — The West Virginia Democrat …
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Associated Press:
Power of one: Manchin is singularly halting Biden's agenda — WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Manchin settled in at President Joe Biden's family home in Delaware on a Sunday morning in the fall as the Democrats worked furiously to gain his support on their far-reaching domestic package.
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Wall Street Journal:
Senate Parliamentarian Rejects Democrats' Immigration Proposal in $2 Trillion Bill
Senate Parliamentarian Rejects Democrats' Immigration Proposal in $2 Trillion Bill
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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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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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Antony Sguazzin / Bloomberg:
South Africa Hospitalization Rate Plunges in Omicron Wave — Cases remain high compared with previous Covid waves — Omicron infections may have peaked in epicenter Gauteng — South Africa delivered some positive news on the omicron coronavirus variant on Friday …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Omicron Threatens Red America
Omicron Threatens Red America
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Washington Post:
Omicron outbreak inducing whiplash for many Americans
Omicron outbreak inducing whiplash for many Americans
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Biden: Unvaxxed will ‘overwhelm’ hospitals in ‘winter of illness and death’
Biden: Unvaxxed will ‘overwhelm’ hospitals in ‘winter of illness and death’
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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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Politico:
GOP blows off Trump's bid to oust McConnell — Former President Donald Trump has hit a wall in his efforts to oust Mitch McConnell as GOP leader. — Despite months of attacks, the Trump-led campaign to depose the Senate minority leader has resulted in firm pledges from just two Republican candidates …
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Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Judge Overturns Purdue Pharma's Opioid Settlement — The ruling said the company's owners, members of the Sackler family, could not receive protection from civil lawsuits in return for a $4.5 billion contribution. — A federal judge on Thursday evening unraveled a painstakingly negotiated …
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Disgrace: Biden abandoned over 60,000 Afghan interpreters, support personnel — along with 14,000 Americans — We found out about the 14,000 abandoned Americans almost two months ago, of whom the State Department only shows 900 exfiltrated thus far. We also knew that the US had abandoned tens …
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Jessica Donati / Wall Street Journal:
More Than 60,000 Interpreters, Visa Applicants Remain in Afghanistan
More Than 60,000 Interpreters, Visa Applicants Remain in Afghanistan
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Person of the Year: Jamie Raskin — How one politician devoted his fight for democracy to his lost son. — Ninety-four years ago, the editors of Time magazine declared the transatlantic aviator and anti-Semite Charles Lindbergh their first-ever Man of the Year.
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Eugene Goodman should be Time's Person of the Year
Eugene Goodman should be Time's Person of the Year
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CNN:
House oversight committee releases report detailing efforts of Trump administration officials to ‘undermine’ Covid-19 efforts in US — (CNN)Trump administration officials made “deliberate efforts to undermine the nation's coronavirus response for political purposes,” a House oversight committee led …
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Anna North / Vox:
The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work? — From the pandemic to climate change, Americans are still expected to work no matter what happens. — For a moment in early 2020, it seemed like we might get a break from capitalism. — A novel coronavirus was sweeping the globe …
The Daily Beast:
Kanye West's ‘Independent’ Campaign Was Secretly Run by GOP Elites — The campaign took steps, experts say, to mask its connections to GOP operatives. That could violate federal election laws. — New documents show Kanye West's doomed White House campaign—styled as an “independent” …
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Raw Story
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Dominion Defamation Suit Against Fox Can Move Forward — Fox had enough information to know claims false, judge says — Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson also targets of lawsuit — Fox News probably had enough information after the 2020 presidential election to know a conspiracy theory …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Dominion Voting wins key decision in lawsuit against Fox News
Dominion Voting wins key decision in lawsuit against Fox News
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Russia Lays Out Demands for a Sweeping New Security Deal With NATO — The proposal, coming as Russia masses troops on the border with Ukraine, was directed at the United States and Ukraine's other Western allies. — KYIV, Ukraine — Russia outlined on Friday its demands for a sweeping …
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Herschel Walker's campaign falsely claimed he graduated from college — Republican Herschel Walker's campaign deleted a false claim that he graduated from the University of Georgia hours after it was posted on a website promoting his U.S. Senate bid. — The former football star's campaign removed …
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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 …
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
REVIEW: What I Learned From Hillary Clinton's Master Class on ‘The Power of Resilience’ — You've probably heard the saying: Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. In this day and age, those who really can't become Master Class instructors on how to fail.
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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Debra Soh / Washington Examiner:
J.K. Rowling is being erased for defending women — Those seeking to understand why the average person is too terrified to speak up against transgender activism need only to look to J.K. Rowling. In a promotional trailer for Rowling's forthcoming film, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore …
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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Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Melania Trump emerges to launch new NFT platform meant to ‘inspire’ — and earn cash — Former president Donald Trump once called bitcoin a scam that “competed against the dollar,” but on Thursday Melania Trump announced a new business venture embracing cryptocurrency and digital art.
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 …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Queens Man Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for Posting Threats to Kill a Member of Congress and Illegally Possessing Ammunition — Defendant Threatened Violent Attacks in Washington, D.C., on January 5 and 6, 2021 — Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Eduard Florea was sentenced …
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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.
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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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Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Biden's Vaccine Mandate Triggers a Winter of Lockdowns — What happens when you fire nurses and then claim there's no more hospital space. — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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 …
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Kamala's Conundrum: She's Doing a Great Job But Her Story's Not Getting Out — AN UNPRECEDENTED POSITION … If the VP's record is supported as it should be, the chattering classes will spin it into the idea that the president is a lame duck. If not, it will be spun as a critique of her.
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