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Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
President Biden to ABC's David Muir: Accountability needed for Jan. 6 insurrection ‘no matter where it goes’  —  He spoke with “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir in an exclusive interview.  —  President Joe Biden said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with ABC “World News Tonight” …
Discussion: Politico
David Gilbert / VICE:
People Got Sick at a Conspiracy Conference.  They're Sure It's Anthrax.  —  The fact that the conference was likely a COVID outbreak and superspreader event has been almost entirely ignored.  —  DG  —  A group of unvaccinated people who attended a huge conspiracy conference in Dallas earlier …
Natasha Khan / Wall Street Journal:
Hong Kong University Pulls Down Monument to Tiananmen Massacre Victims  —  Sculptor says he is shocked by actions to remove ‘Pillar of Shame’  —  HONG KONG—The governing body of the city's oldest university ordered the removal of a statue commemorating the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre …
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Tom Grundy / Hong Kong Free Press HKFP:
University of Hong Kong removes Tiananmen Massacre monument in dead of night
Discussion: UPI and The Guardian
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Michael Flynn loses his legal challenge to the House January 6 probe, one day after filing it  —  (CNN)Michael Flynn has swiftly lost his bid in court to block a possible House select committee subpoena for his phone records and to hold off demands he speak to the panel investigating January 6.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
House Jan. 6 probe seeks information from Rep. Jim Jordan about his contact with Trump
William Booth / Washington Post:
Real-world data from U.K. suggests omicron is less likely than delta to send people to the hospital  —  LONDON — Researchers looking at real-world coronavirus cases in Britain reported Wednesday that the omicron variant of the coronavirus appears to be less severe than the once-dominant delta strain.
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National Review:
End the Covid-Zero Mentality  —  As the Omicron variant rips through areas of the United States with among the highest vaccination rates in the world, it should be abundantly clear that we will not be able to “end” Covid.  But we still have the power to end the “Covid zero” mentality.
Matthew Perrone / Associated Press:
Pfizer pill becomes 1st US-authorized home COVID treatment
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon carjacked and robbed in South Philly after touring FDR Park  —  U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was carjacked and robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight on Wednesday afternoon shortly after finishing a meeting at FDR Park, her office and police officials confirmed.
Mara Gay / New York Times:
The Rise of Eric Adams and Black New York  —  Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board.  —  It was winter in Black New York, and the last thing Eric Leroy Adams wanted to do was join the New York City Police Department.  —  It was the early 1980s and waves of joblessness and crime …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sets special hearing for Biden's vaccine rules for health-care workers, private businesses  —  The Supreme Court Wednesday night announced it will hold a special hearing next month to consider challenges to the Biden administration's pandemic efforts to impose a nationwide vaccine …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Proud Boy pleads guilty to felony charge in Capitol riot  —  A New York man who was a member of the Proud Boys pleaded guilty Wednesday to obstructing Congress and conspiring to obstruct law enforcement during the pro-Trump riot on Jan. 6, a felony.  —  The plea is significant because Matthew Greene …
Ruby Cramer / Politico:
‘Have I Hit Bottom?’:  Michael Avenatti and the Fall of a Trump-Era Antihero  —  VENICE, Calif. — Inside a two-bedroom apartment, 11 blocks from the ocean, there is a man in free fall, though he has nowhere to go.  He wears a monitor on his right ankle, government-issued, blinking green beneath his tapered track pants.
Discussion: HotAir and Twitchy
John Bowden / The Independent:
‘Fox News is putting a target on the back of top scientists’: Fellow medics back Fauci in Watters row  —  Fallout continues from Jesse Watters' Turning Point USA speech  —  More health experts are calling for Fox News to take some kind of action after one of its most prominent hosts …
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
On More Generous Terms, Obamacare Proves Newly Popular  —  Record sign-ups, even in states that had resisted expanding health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.  —  A record number of Americans — 13.6 million — have signed up for health plans through the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces for 2022 …
Discussion: CNN and POLITICUSUSA
Politico:
Biden aides catch the holiday blues  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With Allie Bice.  —  About two months ago during a fire drill, the White House emptied and aides congregated outside.
Discussion: Insider
Mike Spies / The Trace:
Wayne LaPierre Testified He Fled to the Bahamas for ‘Security.’ Documents and Interviews Tell a Different Story.  —  The NRA chief's misleading statements about his yacht trip after Sandy Hook and his niece's employment could strengthen the New York attorney general's attempt to dissolve the gun group.
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Madison Cawthorn Announces Divorce From Wife 8 Months After Wedding  —  CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING  —  Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) and his wife, Cristina Cawthorn, are divorcing after less than a year of marriage.  The North Carolina lawmaker cited his time in Congress …
Washington Post:
Inside the nonstop pressure campaign by Trump allies to get election officials to revisit the 2020 vote  —  More than a year after Donald Trump lost the presidency, election officials across the country are facing a growing barrage of claims that the vote was not secure and demands to investigate …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
Why Biden Refused to Pay Restitution to Families Separated at the Border  —  White House officials ultimately decided that a settlement had become a greater political liability than any potential fallout from a broken promise.  —  Late last week, after ten months of negotiations …
Kira Lerner / The States:
Candidates fighting 2020 misinformation run to administer local elections  —  As a chemist and immigrant from Vietnam, Linh Nguyen never thought she could have a role in U.S. politics.  But then Donald Trump was elected president in 2016 and he “unknowingly inspired minority leaders …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Trump's Handling of COVID Was Worse Than You Thought.  —  1. Early COVID  —  Last week the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis issued a report, along with a release of some emails and interviews.  —  First things first: This report is not what America needs.
Discussion: Overtime
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
Democrats Score a Big Win in California Redistricting Map  —  On Monday, California's citizens' redistricting commission voted 14-0 to approve a map that's a dream for Democrats.  Technically, the commission (five Democrats, five Republicans and four others) was prohibited from taking partisan or incumbent data into consideration.
Discussion: Sacramento Bee and Political Wire
Peter Hamby / Puck:
The Biden Youth Bomb  —  Joe Biden was elected to be competent, compromising, and stoic.  But his staggering—no, seriously, staggering—unpopularity among younger voters suggests that the Democratic establishment really doesn't have an earthly idea about what matters to their kids.
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden gets an early Christmas gift: Good economic news
Eric Levai / The Daily Dot:
Rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 are now asking the government to forgive their PPP loans
Discussion: Raw Story
Marshall News Messenger:
Guest Column: Invest in rural areas like Marshall to help them thrive
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Roger Stone is selling a Trump autograph NFT to pay his legal bills
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Forbes and Raw Story
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Todd Neikirk / HillReporter.com:
WATCH: Charlie Kirk Compares the Persecution of Kyle Rittenhouse to That of Jesus Christ
Discussion: Political Flare
New York Times:
India's Christians Attacked Under Anti-Conversion Laws
Discussion: The Western Journal
PNAS:
Algorithmic amplification of politics on Twitter
Jason Dearen / Associated Press:
He wore a wire, risked his life to expose who was in the KKK
Jason Stanley / The Guardian:
America is now in fascism's legal phase
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
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