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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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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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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.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Enough despair. We cannot be victims of excessive expectations. — Most of us expected more from 2021. The year started with new vaccines that promised to remove the coronavirus cloud hanging over us. And the defeat of former president Donald Trump suggested the threat to our democracy was behind us.
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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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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Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
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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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon carjacked and robbed in South Philly after touring FDR Park
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Ned Foley / Election Law Blog:
Could bipartisan democracy-protection have worked? Could it still? — There has been skepticism voiced by some about my suggestion that, after January 6, Democrats in Congress should have pursued a strategy of finding at least ten GOP Senators to support the kind of structural electoral reform …
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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.
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.
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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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 …
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Jim Jordan says he has ‘real concerns’ with Jan. 6 panel after sit-down request — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said on Wednesday that he has “real concerns” about the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which requested to sit down with him in a letter earlier in the day.
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Conor Shaw / Just Security:
The Path to Real Accountability: The Timetable and Track Record of the Jan. 6 Select Committee
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Michael Flynn loses his legal challenge to the House January 6 probe, one day after filing it
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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 …
Politico:
Senate GOP feels another Trump effect: The rise of celeb candidates — The most reliable springboard to the Senate used to be House experience — before Donald Trump vaulted from reality TV to the White House. — Five years after Trump went from celebrity to the presidency …
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Angela Haupt / Washington Post:
Thousands who ‘followed the rules’ are about to get covid. They shouldn't be ashamed. — For two years now, Aline, a 30-something graduate student in Ohio, has diligently — desperately, even — protected herself against the coronavirus. Vaccinated and boosted, she took a test last week ahead of holiday travel to Atlanta.
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Roger Scruton / The New Criterion:
The right targets — Introducing “Common-good conservatism: a debate.” — Conservatism may rarely announce itself in maxims, formulae or aims. Its essence is inarticulate, and its expression, when compelled, sceptical. — A large part of this issue of The New Criterion is devoted …
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Marches Toward Endemic Status in U.S. as Omicron Spreads — With a new wave rising, people and institutions are making decisions that reflect changing attitudes toward the threat that Covid-19 represents — The Omicron variant's aggressive advance is the latest twist in the course …
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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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Gregg Gonsalves / Washington Post:
President Biden is failing on covid-19 — Gregg Gonsalves is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and associate professor (adjunct) at Yale Law School. He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. — I've lived through two pandemics in my lifetime, first AIDS and now covid-19.
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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 …
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Buttigieg doles out $241M to US ports to boost supply chain — WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is awarding more than $241 million in grants to bolster U.S ports, part of the Biden administration's near-term plan to address America's clogged supply chain …
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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 …
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
President Biden to ABC's David Muir on at-home COVID testing: 'Nothing's been good enough' — 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” …
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