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Politico:
Trump cancels Jan. 6 event amid GOP complaints — Senate Republicans can now breathe easier on Jan. 6. — Former President Donald Trump's announcement Tuesday evening that he would cancel a previously planned press conference is good news for Senate Republicans, who earlier in the day openly fretted …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Jan. 6 committee to request Sean Hannity's cooperation — The Jan. 6 select committee is preparing to ask Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity for his voluntary cooperation with its investigation of the assault on the U.S. Capitol, a source with direct knowledge of the plans tells Axios.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump cancels Jan. 6 press conference — Former President Trump is scrapping a planned news conference on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. — The former president had planned to use the Thursday news conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The smoking gun that Liz Cheney is looking for on Trump comes into view — For weeks, Rep. Liz Cheney has hinted that the House select committee examining Jan. 6 might urge the Justice Department to consider prosecuting Donald Trump. The grounds for this criminal referral might be that Trump obstructed the …
David Rothkopf / USA Today:
What if the Jan. 6 insurrection had succeeded in illegally installing Trump? — What if Donald Trump were illegally installed for a second term? Election stealer would then have moved quickly to consolidate power, with Republican help. — View Comments
Politico:
Sean Hannity tried to dissuade Trump from Jan. 6 strategy, texts show — Sean Hannity repeatedly tried to scale back Donald Trump's effort to use the Jan. 6 session of Congress to overturn the 2020 election results, according to text messages between the Fox News host and former White House chief …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump cancels Jan. 6 news conference at Mar-a-Lago, blames news media and House committee investigating attack on Capitol — Former president Donald Trump has canceled the news conference he planned to hold on Jan. 6 to mark the first anniversary of the attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Police officer lawsuits pile up against Trump over Jan. 6
Police officer lawsuits pile up against Trump over Jan. 6
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New York Times:
House Panel Asks Sean Hannity of Fox News to Cooperate in Jan. 6 Inquiry
House Panel Asks Sean Hannity of Fox News to Cooperate in Jan. 6 Inquiry
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NPR, Mother Jones and Breitbart
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Capitol Riot Panel Weighs Televised Hearings During Prime Time
Capitol Riot Panel Weighs Televised Hearings During Prime Time
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Miles Parks / NPR:
Here's where election-denying candidates are running to control voting
Here's where election-denying candidates are running to control voting
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Washington Post and Florida Politics
Ann Telnaes / Washington Post:
The insurrectionists' roll call
David Gelles / New York Times:
Ben Smith Is Leaving The Times for a Global News Start-Up — Mr. Smith will help start a new organization with Justin Smith, the chief executive of Bloomberg Media. — Ben Smith, the media columnist for The New York Times, is leaving the paper to start a new global news organization with Justin Smith …
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Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Ben Smith Can't Say What His New Media Venture Is — The departing Times media columnist and former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News wants to push the envelope but isn't yet ready to say just how. — Ben Smith had a hundred-and-forty-four unread text messages when we talked …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith Steps Down to Found News Startup
Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith Steps Down to Found News Startup
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Ben Winslow / KSTU:
Entrata founder emails Utah tech CEOs, claiming COVID vaccine part of extermination plot by ‘the Jews’ — SALT LAKE CITY — The founder and chair of Entrata, a Silcon Slopes tech firm, sent an email to a number of tech CEOs and Utah business and political leaders, claiming the COVID-19 vaccine …
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John Sexton / HotAir:
Democracy is not in crisis just because Democrats are losing — Everywhere you look, Democrats are warning about the threat to democracy currently posed by Trump or the GOP or some combination of the two. The panic seems omnipresent and is peaking as we approach the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riots at the capitol.
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Alejandro Alvarez / WTOP News:
I-95 remains shutdown as VDOT says no more motorists are stranded — Have you or someone you know been stuck on I-95? Tell WTOP about your experiences. — Listen to WTOP live online and on the radio at 103.5 FM. Download the free WTOP News app for Android and Apple phones to sign up for custom traffic and weather alerts.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
No Way to Grow Up — American children are in crisis. — American children are starting 2022 in crisis. — I have long been aware that the pandemic was upending children's lives. But until I spent time pulling together data and reading reports, I did not understand just how alarming the situation had become.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What Merrick Garland should say about Jan. 6 — Attorney General Merrick Garland will give a speech Wednesday about the investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection and the prosecution of those responsible. Garland will reportedly reaffirm his “unwavering commitment to defend Americans …
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Washington Post:
Facebook groups topped 10,000 daily attacks on election before Jan. 6, analysis shows
Facebook groups topped 10,000 daily attacks on election before Jan. 6, analysis shows
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Simon van Zuylen-Wood / Washington Post:
The Radicalization of J.D. Vance — As he runs for the Senate, the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author has gone from media darling to establishment pariah. Is his new, fiery, right-wing persona an act? Or is something more interesting going on? — Let's start with the beard. J.D. Vance didn't used to have one.
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Ron Johnson escalates attack on vaccines: ‘Why do we think that we can create something better than God?’ — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) this week doubled down on his campaign to promote the so-called “natural immunity” that occurs after one has been infected by Covid-19.
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RedState, Daily Kos, Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite
New York Post:
Manhattan DA to stop seeking prison sentences in slew of criminal cases — Who needs soft-on-crime judges when the district attorney doesn't even want to lock up the bad guys? — Manhattan's new DA has ordered his prosecutors to stop seeking prison sentences for hordes of criminals …
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CBS New York, Twitchy and Page Array
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ron DeSantis's Vaccination Status Is Now a State Secret … Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been walking a delicate balancing act on vaccinations, assiduously courting vaccine skeptics without going so far to the right that he lands in Marjorie Taylor Greene territory.
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NBC News:
Capitol rioter compares attacks on her to treatment of ‘Jews in Germany’ — Jenna Ryan, a Texas realtor who has sought to parlay her role in the Capitol riot into a career as a right-wing media personality, posted a tweet in March last year that quickly went viral.
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Raw Story, Law & Crime, POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite
New York Times:
Leftists Are Ascendant in Latin America as Key Elections Loom — Growing inequality and sputtering economies have helped fuel a wave of leftist victories that may soon extend to Brazil and Colombia. — RIO DE JANEIRO — In the final weeks of 2021, Chile and Honduras voted decisively …
FOX 35 Orlando:
New COVID-19 variant named IHU discovered in France — What is the IHU variant? — A new COVID-19 variant has been discovered in France. It is called IHU. — NEW YORK - A new COVID-19 variant has been detected in France. The variant has been named IHU.
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Kara Voght / New Republic:
Inside D.C.'s Rowdy New Progressive Scene — Once a month, in the latter, vaccinated half of 2021, denizens of D.C.'s progressive ecosystem flocked to a bar in Washington's Adams Morgan neighborhood for a happy hour hosted by the pollster and think tank Data for Progress.
Politico:
White House embraces a manage-not-contain Omicron game plan — When President Joe Biden took office last January amid a winter Covid-19 surge, he vowed an all-out federal assault aimed at vanquishing the virus. — A year later, with the country facing unprecedented levels of disease once again …
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John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Lies are bad. A press corps enabling liars is worse — Propaganda works when reporters fear telling the truth. — It's conventional wisdom among newspaper reporters that we should let readers decide. Don't come to conclusions. Just present the facts objectively. Leave the rest to the op-ed page.
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Erin Cunningham / Washington Post:
U.S. charges Colombian national in plot to kill Haitian president — Mario Antonio Palacios was detained at an airport in Panama and transported to the United States — U.S. authorities have arrested a Colombian national suspected of a role in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll: Red flags for the GOP on the midterms, for Biden on leadership — A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll raises a red flag for Republicans on the midterm elections and offers mixed advice for President Joe Biden on whether he should fight or fold on his big domestic initiative.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Kamala Harris aide leaves vice president's office for Capitol Hill on heels of other departures — Another aide is leaving Vice President Kamala Harris' office soon after two other advisors departed late last year. — Vincent Evans, who was Harris' deputy director of public engagement …
Garion Frankel / Chalkboard Review:
BREAKING: Chicago Teachers Union Begins Strike Over in-Person Learning — As many schools across the country resume in-person learning after the holiday break, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) finds itself in turmoil. — On Tuesday, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) voted to refuse anything but a return to remote learning.
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