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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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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
McConnell says what the Jan. 6 committee uncovers is ‘something the public needs to know’ — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled support for the bipartisan House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, saying what the panel …
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
McConnell Goads Trump: The Public ‘Needs to Know’ What Happened on Jan. 6
McConnell Goads Trump: The Public ‘Needs to Know’ What Happened on Jan. 6
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Republican Party Hands Trump $1.6M to Fund Mounting Pile of Legal Fights, Says Report
Republican Party Hands Trump $1.6M to Fund Mounting Pile of Legal Fights, Says Report
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Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
Trump invokes antisemitic tropes while discussing his support for Israel — Former President Donald Trump veered into several antisemitic tropes in a recent interview, claiming that Israel used to have “absolute power over Congress” and saying that American Jews — the majority of whom vote Democratic …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump says American Jews 'either don't like Israel or don't care about Israel' in new interview
Trump says American Jews 'either don't like Israel or don't care about Israel' in new interview
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Oma Seddiq / Insider:
Trump says American Jews ‘no longer love Israel’ and Jewish people ‘run The New York Times’
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Claims Israel Controlled Congress, Jews Run New York Times
Trump Claims Israel Controlled Congress, Jews Run New York Times
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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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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump Rioter Who Attacked Cops With Fire Extinguisher Gets Longest Jan. 6 Sentence Yet — Capitol rioter Robert Scott Palmer, known to online sleuths as #FloridaFlagJacket, was arrested by the FBI 12 days after he was named in a HuffPost story. — A Florida man who attacked law enforcement officers …
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Mike D'Onofrio / Axios:
Capitol rioter who threw fire extinguisher at police gets more than 5 years in prison — A capitol rioter from Florida has been sentenced in federal court to more than five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer says Build Back Better will be delayed
Schumer says Build Back Better will be delayed
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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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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump White House made ‘deliberate efforts’ to undermine Covid response, report says
Trump White House made ‘deliberate efforts’ to undermine Covid response, report says
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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 …
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Financial Times:
‘No evidence’ Omicron is less severe than Delta, say UK researchers — Imperial College study warns of elevated reinfection risk but notes ‘very limited’ data on hospitalisations — There is at present “no evidence” that the Omicron coronavirus variant is any less severe than the Delta strain …
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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 …
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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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
I Canceled My Birthday Party Because of Omicron — I turn 40 today, and I was planning to have a party. The Delta surge made me nervous about it. The arrival of Omicron made me cancel it. — The plan was to have an extended house party, with a couple dozen people popping by over the weekend.
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
New York Times fires ‘Wirecutter’ editor accused of leaving profane voicemails for gun rights group — Erin Marquis, a staffer for the popular product-review site, had also lashed out at a gun-rights organization on Twitter. — The New York Times has fired an editor for Wirecutter …
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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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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
“Corrosive Communities”: How A Facebook Fight Over Wind Power Predicts the Future of Local Politics in America — Bad vibrations abound. Many of them are obvious: We can sense them, measure the damage they do, try to counteract or avoid them. Others exist in a range outside the limit of normal human perception.
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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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Taylor Goldenstein / Houston Chronicle:
Texas AG Paxton's $2.2M voter fraud unit closed three cases in 2021. GOP lawmakers still boosted its budget. — Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has been one of former President Donald Trump's most reliable allies in spreading the myth of widespread voter fraud …
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Kevin Daley / Washington Free Beacon:
Influential Judge Deals Blow to Biden's Employer Vaccine Mandate — The Biden administration's employer vaccine mandate took a beating this week from one of the nation's top judges, a major win for red states and conservative groups fighting it in court. — Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton …
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Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
Children exposed to covid can safely stay in class with in-school testing, CDC says … Students who have been exposed to the coronavirus can safely continue in-person learning if they are regularly tested for the virus at school, avoiding disruptive at-home quarantines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Josh Mandel, Candidate for GOP Nomination for Senate, On The 2020 Election and President Biden's Legitimacy — Former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel joined me this morning: — Audio: — 12-17hhs-mandel — Transcript: — HH: Josh Mandel, former state treasurer in Ohio, is running for Senate in Ohio.
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The Hill
Reuters:
Special Report: Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm — Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar with the incident.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Can Randi Weingarten Save Public Schools? — The parents were talking about pandemic schooling, so, unsurprisingly, the conversation quickly turned to emotional devastation. — It was a Wednesday night in December, and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers …
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.
Associated Press:
Far-right using COVID-19 theories to grow reach, study shows — PARIS (AP) — The mugshot-style photos are posted on online message boards in black and white and look a little like old-fashioned “wanted” posters. — “The Jews own COVID just like all of Hollywood,” the accompanying text says.
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Erika D. Smith / Los Angeles Times:
Tough-on-crime politics are back in California. But Black activists aren't giving up — “I don't think all is lost.” — I'm not sure what I expected to hear when I called up Cat Brooks, co-founder of Oakland's Anti Police-Terror Project, but it sure wasn't that.