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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.
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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?
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New York Times:
Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection? — Mr. Tribe taught constitutional law at Harvard for 50 years. Merrick Garland was one of his students. Mr. Ayer oversaw criminal prosecutions and investigations as Ronald Reagan's U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California.
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
The Obscure Charge Jan. 6 Investigators Are Looking at for Trump — Prosecutors have hit 240 insurrectionists with the rare charge of obstructing an official congressional proceeding. The Jan. 6 Committee might be looking at that charge for Trump. — As federal prosecutors increasingly use …
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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 — The generation-defining essayist and novelist was preoccupied with mythos — and gifted at fashioning her own. — Joan Didion was 5 years old when she wrote her first story, upon the instruction of her mother …
Elaine Woo / Los Angeles Times:
Joan Didion, masterful novelist, memoirist and social critic, dies at 87
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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.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trumpland has a new favorite Jan. 6 conspiracy theory — It remains wild that there is still, to this day, a concerted effort to suggest that the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was somehow not directly a function of President Donald Trump and his supporters.
Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Trump pushes back on Candace Owens: 'People aren't dying when they take the vaccine'
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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 …
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W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
White House pressed on whether COVID-19 testing website will be better than botched Obamacare site
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Brandon Gillespie / Fox News:
NY Times: Kamala Harris gripes her media coverage would be better if she was White man
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Zachary Cohen / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: US intel and satellite images show Saudi Arabia is now building its own ballistic missiles with help of China — Washington (CNN)US intelligence agencies have assessed that Saudi Arabia is now actively manufacturing its own ballistic missiles with the help of China …
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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.
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Biden backs exception to filibuster for voting rights bills — President Biden says he supports creating an exception to the legislative filibuster in the Senate in order to pass voting rights legislation over Republican opposition. — Biden told ABC News' David Muir in a portion …
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Business appears complacent about US democratic stability
Monique Beals / The Hill:
Five arrested in connection with carjacking of House Democrat — Five suspects were arrested on Wednesday in connection with “an armed carjacking incident” earlier in the day involving Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), authorities said. — Delaware State Police also announced that they had located …
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Jasonhatchell / Delaware State Police:
5 Suspects in Custody After Congresswoman's Stolen Vehicle Located- Newark
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NBC Chicago:
Illinois State Senator Carjacked in Suburban Broadview — Illinois State Sen. Kimberly Lightford and her husband were the victims of a carjacking in a Chicago suburb Tuesday evening, authorities said. — The Broadview Police Department said three masked people driving a Durango SUV hijacked …
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Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Lack of trust puts the unvaccinated at risk — Unvaccinated Americans' already low trust in the federal government plummeted over the course of 2021, exacerbating the challenges in getting the pandemic under control, according to a year's worth of data from the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Defeat a Year Ago Was Dunkirk, Not D-Day — As 2021 ends, the forces of democracy remain beleaguered and the forces of sanity on the defensive. — Where do we stand, as year 2021 of the common era and year one of the Biden presidency comes to an end? — We're much better off than we might have been.
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Melissa Block / NPR:
The clear and present danger of Trump's enduring ‘Big Lie’ — It's been nearly a year since the United States suffered an unprecedented attack on constitutional democracy. — When a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the goal was to overturn the results …
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Biden's testing mess — DRIVING THE DAY — The novel coronavirus is raging through Washington, D.C., which on Wednesday registered the highest per-capita rate of daily new cases in the country. — At the White House, both President JOE BIDEN and VP KAMALA HARRIS …
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New York Times:
Trump Fraud Inquiry Won't Be Resolved When Vance's Term Ends Next Week — After leading a three-year investigation into the former president, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., will hand it to his successor. — The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., has run out of time.
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.
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NBC News:
The Taliban have halted all evacuee flights out of Afghanistan for the past two weeks — The Taliban want to use the flights to send their own people abroad to earn desperately needed money. The Afghan economy is in tatters. — The Taliban have halted all flights of Afghan evacuees …
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Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
Macron's wife plans to sue over false claims she is transgender — French President Emmanuel Macron's wife, Brigitte, plans to take legal action after a bizarre disinformation campaign was launched against her falsely claiming she was born a man. — The rumors appeared to have originated …
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Walker's financial disclosure give us a peak into a sports icon's wealth — U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker's financial disclosures were posted late Wednesday, and it shows he has a number of lucrative businesses.The document shows his umbrella organization for his various business endeavors …
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