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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol panel to investigate Trump call to Willard hotel in hours before attack — Committee to request contents of the call seeking to stop Biden's certification and may subpoena Rudy Giuliani — Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump and the January 6 committee are now locked in a full-on confrontation
Trump and the January 6 committee are now locked in a full-on confrontation
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: ‘The View’ struggles to find a Republican — DRIVING THE DAY — Before taking off for the holidays, the four long-standing hosts of “The View” had a message for executive producer BRIAN TETA: We're tired of the rotating cast of Republican guest hosts.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Justice Roberts Tops Federal Leaders in Americans' Approval — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chief Justice John Roberts earns the highest job approval rating of 11 U.S. leaders rated in a Dec. 1-16 Gallup poll with 60% approving of how he is handling his role. — Only two other leaders on the list …
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Alleged ‘dead’ Georgia voters found alive and well after 2020 election — Trump's allegations of vast voter fraud debunked — False claims that there were thousands of ballots cast in the names of dead Georgia voters can now rest in peace. — Election investigators found …
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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Fauci says to cancel New Year's Eve parties, as millions struggle for normalcy nearly two years into pandemic — Amid young adult mental health crisis, Fauci says to stay away from normalcy of New Year's Eve parties: ‘Not this year’ — Fox News Flash top headlines for December 27
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Fauci warns omicron cases ‘likely will go much higher’
Fauci warns omicron cases ‘likely will go much higher’
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Dan Bongino and the Big Business of Returning Trump to Power — The Secret Service agent turned radio host is furious at liberals—so he's trying to build a right-wing media infrastructure in time for 2024. … Dan Bongino, one of America's most popular conservative commentators …
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Jarvis DeBerry / MSNBC:
White evangelicals dying of Covid after denouncing vaccines are wasting martyrdom — Most of America's religious groups have no objections to vaccines or mandates. In that context, white evangelicals stand out. — This year we've seen a number of conservative personalities …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Inside Disney's Handling of the ABC News Sexual-Assault Allegations — A lawsuit claims executives knew of misconduct at the key revenue generator ‘Good Morning America’ but didn't follow up and discouraged an official report — When writer Jay Carson was doing research in the fall of 2017 to develop …
Parul Sehgal / New Yorker:
The Case Against the Trauma Plot — Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can't resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms? — It was on a train journey, from Richmond to Waterloo, that Virginia Woolf encountered the weeping woman.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Arizona Senate candidate brings NFTs to politics — Blake Masters, co-author of tech pioneer Peter Thiel's blockbuster “Zero to One,” and now a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Arizona, is offering NFTs with a limit of 99 copies. — Why it matters: Masters, 35, told Axios the plan is to attract support …
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Washington Free Beacon:
2021 Man of the Year: Ed Durr — New Jersey's pantheon of legends is, well, legendary. It includes the likes of Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Spielberg, Derek Jeter, Zach Braff. Joining this long and illustrious list is a state senator-elect by the name of Edward Durr Jr.
New York Times:
Record Beef Prices, but Ranchers Aren't Cashing In — “You're feeding America and going broke doing it”: After years of consolidation, four companies dominate the meatpacking industry, while many ranchers are barely hanging on. — SHEPHERD, Montana — Judging from the prices at supermarkets …
The Daily Beast:
Why 2022 Could Be ‘The Year of the Political Comeback’ — It's a redemption year for these politicians. — Every election year, American politicians find new and ever more brazen ways to disprove that old F. Scott Fitzgerald adage—that there are “no second acts in American lives.”
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
GOP optimism grows over possible red wave in 2022 — With less than a year to go until the 2022 midterms, Republicans are increasingly bullish on the prospect of a red wave that could flip both chambers of Congress and end Democrats' unified control in Washington.
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
House MAGA squad seeks to expand by boosting challengers to fellow Republicans — The defiant far-right acolytes of former president Donald Trump in the House Republican caucus have embarked on a targeted campaign ahead of the midterm elections to expand their ranks — and extend their power — on Capitol Hill.
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The Gospel of Donald Trump Jr.
The Gospel of Donald Trump Jr.
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POLITICUSUSA, HillReporter.com, Mediaite and Raw Story