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6:55 PM ET, January 4, 2022

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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.
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
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 …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Police officer lawsuits pile up against Trump over Jan. 6  —  Three more police officers who responded to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — including two who aided the evacuation of lawmakers — have sued Donald Trump, seeking damages for their physical and emotional injuries.
Miles Parks / NPR:
Here's where election-denying candidates are running to control voting
CNN:   January 6 committee chairman wants to speak directly with Mike Pence
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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Washington Post:
Facebook groups topped 10,000 daily attacks on election before Jan. 6, analysis shows … Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden's victory between Election Day and the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, with many calling for executions …
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Thoughts On Our Political Exhaustion
Discussion: Twitchy
Stephen Marche / The Guardian:
The next US civil war is already here - we just refuse to see it
Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
Gallego: Garland ‘extremely weak’ on Jan. 6 cases
Discussion: New York Post and The Hill
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 …
Discussion: Deseret News, Raw Story and WTOP News
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.
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.
Discussion: Althouse
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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Washington Post:
How Republicans benefit from being united against protecting democracy
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 …
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.
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite
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.
Discussion: Townhall
Leah Brennan / Houston Chronicle:
4-year-old grandniece of George Floyd shot in Houston's Southside on New Year's Day  —  A 4-year-old relative of George Floyd was shot while inside an apartment in the city's Southside on New Year's Day, according to a family friend.  —  ABC13 first reported the connection Tuesday.
Discussion: New York Post and TMZ.com
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 …
Discussion: CBS New York, Twitchy and Page Array
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Federal judge to DoD: You can't punish SEALs who claim religious exemption on vaccine mandate  —  So much for Lloyd Austin's vaccine mandate ... at least for 35 Navy SEALs.  A federal judge imposed a preliminary injunction on the Department of Defense after the commandos objected …
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First Liberty:
Breaking: Federal Court Grants Injunction for Navy SEALs Challenging DoD Vaccine Mandate
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.
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos and The BRAD BLOG
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.
ABC News:
CDC clarifies isolation guidance after criticism but still no call for testing  —  An update on the CDC website gives Americans more details on the guidance.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday clarified its guidelines around what to do when you get COVID-19 …
Discussion: CNN, Politico, WPRI-TV, NBC Chicago and LifeSite
Washington Post:
‘No pictures, no pictures’: The enduring images from Jan. 6  —  Photographers documented the events as a pro-Trump mob stormed through the hallowed halls of Congress on Jan. 6, but some of the most powerful images were almost never made  —  While the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was raging …
Discussion: Florida Politics
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 …
Discussion: Fox News, KFXP-TV and Bloomberg
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Latino groups want to do away with “Latinx”  —  Elected officials, a major newspaper and the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S. have all spoken out strongly in recent weeks against the continued use of “Latinx,” the gender-neutral term promoted by progressives to describe people of Spanish-speaking origin.
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Biden disapproval hits new high as voters give him bad grades on economy, new CNBC/Change poll says  — President Joe Biden's overall disapproval rating reached a new high in December as more voters signaled their unhappiness with his handling of the economy and the Covid pandemic.
 
 
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New York Times:
U.S. Doubles Paxlovid Covid Pill Order
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Emily Crane / New York Post:
Flights carrying illegal immigrants now landing in Pennsylvania: reports
Discussion: The Western Journal and Fox News
Sharon Terlep / Wall Street Journal:
Walmart, Kroger Raise Prices of Covid-19 Test Kits
Discussion: Bloomberg and CBS News
Fortesa Latifi / Teen Vogue:
This is what it's like to be the child of a January 6 insurrectionist.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bloomberg:
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albanycountyda.com:
Statement from DA David Soares
Ovetta Wiggins / Washington Post:
Hogan declares 30-day state of emergency as state enters its ‘most challenging time’ of the pandemic
Discussion: The Hill and WTOP News
Gabriel San Román / Los Angeles Times:
Kelly Ernby, former Orange County GOP state Assembly candidate and deputy D.A., dies of COVID-19