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10:05 PM ET, December 23, 2021

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Washington Post:
Thompson says Jan. 6 committee focused on Trump's hours of silence during attack, weighing criminal referrals  —  The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is focusing intently on Donald Trump's actions that day as it begins to discuss whether to recommend …
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Washington Post:
Trump asks Supreme Court to withhold records from House Jan. 6 committee  —  Lawyers for former president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block release of his White House records to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What Jim Jordan knows about Trump's coup attempt — and what he may cover up  —  The House select committee examining Jan. 6 appears increasingly focused on a highly consequential question: What did Donald Trump say and do as he watched the violent assault on the Capitol unfold over the course of at least two hours?
William Grimes / New York Times:
Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87  —  She established a distinctive voice in American fiction before turning to political reporting and screenplay writing.  But it was California, her native state, that provided her with her richest material.
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Harrison Smith / Washington Post:
Joan Didion, who chronicled American decadence and hypocrisy, dies at 87  —  Joan Didion, a virtuosic prose stylist who for more than four decades explored the agitated, fractured state of the American psyche in her novels, essays, criticism and memoirs, and who as one of the “New Journalists” …
Parul Sehgal / New York Times:   Joan Didion Chronicled American Disorder With Her Own Unmistakable Style
Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
MAGA Cartoonist Ben Garrison Turns on Trump After Pro-Vaccine Comments  —  Controversial cartoonist Ben Garrison's latest offering takes aim at former President Donald Trump - who once invited him to the White House for a social media summit.  —  Garrison's cartoon shows a distraught Trump riding …
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Washington Post
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Pushes Back on Candace Owens Undermining Vaccine: 'People Aren't Dying When They Take the Vaccine'  —  Former President Donald Trump pushed back on Candace Jones during a recent interview when the conservative commentator appeared to be undermining the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines to hurt President Joe Biden politically.
Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Trump pushes back on Candace Owens: 'People aren't dying when they take the vaccine'
Justice News:
Wilmington Man to Face Federal Charges For Armed Carjacking in FDR Park Yesterday Afternoon  —  PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Josiah Brown, 19, of Wilmington, DE, was arrested and charged by Criminal Complaint on charges of carjacking …
Discussion: CNN, The Hill, 6abc, Power Line, CBS News and Fox News
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A 19-year-old has been charged in the carjacking of U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, police say.  Four other teens were also arrested  —  A 19-year-old from Wilmington, Del., was charged in federal court Thursday with participating in Wednesday's gunpoint carjacking of U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon …
Discussion: Delaware State Police, UPI and The Hill
Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
The Biden Administration Rejected an October Proposal for “Free Rapid Tests for the Holidays”  —  With omicron cases spreading like wildfire, the White House is finally taking steps to make free antigen tests available to all.  But this fall, Vanity Fair has learned, it dismissed a bold plan …
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden's testing mess
Discussion: New York Times and HotAir
Virginia Aabram / Washington Examiner:
Jury finds former officer Kim Potter guilty in Daunte Wright's death  —  A jury found Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who said she accidentally shot a young black man when she mistook her gun for her Taser, guilty on two manslaughter charges Thursday.
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Washington Post:
Trump's newest business partner: A Chinese firm with a history of SEC investigations  —  Shanghai-based Arc Capital, an investment firm that has been the target of probes by securities regulators, is at the center of the deal to take Trump's media venture public.
Jimmy Quinn / National Review:
A Rift in the Conservative Foreign-Policy World  —  For years an influential foreign-policy voice on the right, the American Enterprise Institute finds itself at odds with hawkish Republicans.  —  hile Donald Trump's presidency realigned the foreign-policy debate on the right …
Valerie Bonk / WTOP News:
DC had largest percentage drop in population in nation … More people are leaving D.C. than in any other area of the country.  —  The District had the largest percentage drop in population in the nation in the last year, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.
Alexandra Marquez / CNBC:
New York will require masks and social distancing at scaled-back Times Square New Year's celebration  — Attendees at the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration will have to wear masks, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.  — Social-distancing rules will limit the crowd …
Davis Winkie / Army Times:
Wave of suicides hits Texas National Guard's border mission  —  Four soldiers have taken their own lives in two months  —  Pfc. Joshua R. Cortez was preparing to accept a “lifetime job” with one of the nation's biggest health insurance companies in late October.  But the Texas National Guard had other ideas.
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
The problem with performative centrism  —  In basically every major institution in America, there are powerful figures who I doubt voted for Donald Trump but nonetheless play down the radicalism of the Republican Party, belittle those who speak honestly about it or otherwise act in ways that make it harder to combat that radicalism.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
A year ago, Fox News considered a breakup with Trump.  2021 changed those plans.  —  Going into 2022, the network's alignment with Trump has it grappling with a pair of potentially catastrophic lawsuits.  But its ratings are on top again.  —  In the weeks before the 2020 election …
Discussion: Mediaite
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Interim Guidance for Managing Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 … View Larger  —  Background  —  This interim guidance is intended to assist with the following:  — Determining the duration of restriction from the workplace for HCP with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Discussion: New York Times
Yahoo News:
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has boasted about being unvaccinated, owns stock in 3 major vaccine makers  —  Bill Bostock,Camila DeChalus,Kimberly Leonard,Warren Rojas,Madison Hall  —  American politician and businesswoman from the state of Georgia  — Marjorie Taylor Greene owns stock …
Discussion: Mediaite, Daily Kos and IJR
New York Times:
Kamala Harris's Allies Express Concern: Is She an Afterthought?  —  The vice president's allies are increasingly concerned that President Biden relied on her to win but does not need her to govern.  —  WASHINGTON — The president needed the senator from West Virginia on his side …
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Jared Kushner investment firm Affinity raises $3 billion in committed funding  —  Jared Kushner's global investment firm, Affinity Partners, has raised more than $3 billion in committed funding from international investors, a person familiar with the fund-raising effort told Reuters on Thursday.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Complete and Total Trump Campaign!  —  The former president's obsession with the 2020 election may lead to GOP losses in the next two.  —  President Trump has formally endorsed 85 Republican candidates so far this year, probably far more than any other president so soon after leaving office.
Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Against ‘Zuckerbucks’ Influencing Elections  —  An overwhelming majority of American voters believe Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's multimillion-dollar effort to influence the 2020 presidential election was a bad thing for democracy, and most still think cheating influenced the election outcome.
Maria Godoy / NPR:
With omicron, you need a mask that means business  —  With another coronavirus variant racing across the U.S., once again, health authorities are urging people to mask up indoors.  Yes, you've heard it all before.  But given how contagious omicron is, experts say, it's seriously time to upgrade …
Discussion: Twitchy
 
 
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Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Will Waive In-Person Interviews for H-1B, Other Work Visas
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Historian Says Princeton Left Him To ‘Rot’ in Iranian Prison
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Paranoid Putin claims US is trying to partition Russia
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Fighting Behind Enemy Lines: Three Tactics for Resisting Wokeness from Within
Discussion: National Review
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Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
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Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
DOJ: Missouri let fugitive go because of Second Amendment law
Discussion: The Mahablog and Raw Story
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Defeat a Year Ago Was Dunkirk, Not D-Day
Discussion: Twitchy and NOQ Report
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Lack of trust puts the unvaccinated at risk
Discussion: Townhall and The Hill
Melissa Block / NPR:
The clear and present danger of Trump's enduring ‘Big Lie’
Discussion: Political Flare and Raw Story
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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