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7:20 AM ET, January 5, 2022

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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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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 …
Paul Blest / Discourse Blog:
January 6 Isn't an Electoral Strategy  —  Everything we've seen so far suggests voters just don't care.  —  In 1873, Alexander Hamilton Stephens was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election in Georgia.  A year later, Stephens' party took back the House …
Politico:
Jan. 6 committee seeking phone records from Sebastian Gorka  —  The select panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has issued a subpoena for the phone records of pro-Trump commentator and radio host Sebastian Gorka, who previously had not been known to be of interest to the committee.
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Beast
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Top Senate Republican signals support for election reform  —  A top Republican is signaling his party isn't necessarily opposed to joining with Democrats to clarify an existing federal law to reduce the potential for election subversion.  —  Driving the news: While broader federal voting …
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Washington Post:
How Congress can fix the Electoral Count Act
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin floats modest Senate rules changes
Discussion: Roll Call, The Daily Wire and ABC News
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Democrats haven't learned from Harry Reid's mistakes
Alejandro Alvarez / WTOP News:
I-95 in Va. reopens as motorists battle bailout traffic jam on Route 1  —  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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Jordan Boyd / The Federalist:
New York Magazine Writer Mocks Conservatives Helping Stranded Drivers On Snow-Covered I-95
Discussion: WTVR-TV
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 …
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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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 …
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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 …
Melissa Nann Burke / Detroit News:
Rep. Brenda Lawrence to retire from Congress, leaving Detroit-area seat up for grabs  —  Washington — U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence said she plans to retire from Congress at the end of her term, becoming the 25th House Democrat to decide against seeking reelection in 2022.
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 …
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
‘Vaccine Police’ Leader Traveling Country With Flamethrower Jailed for Trespassing  —  The antivax leader, who set out to arrest Democratic governors, has found himself behind bars.  —  An anti-COVID-19 vaccine organization leader, who recently set out on a cross-country road trip …
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Kazakhstan government resigns after violent protests over fuel price  —  Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev accepted the government's resignation on Wednesday, his office said, after a fuel price increase in the oil-rich Central Asian country triggered protests in which nearly 100 police were injured.
Michael David Smith / ProFootballTalk:
One MVP voter says he won't vote for Aaron Rodgers, calling him “the biggest jerk in the league”  —  Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the favorite to win the league's MVP award.  But one voter has already ruled out Rodgers for consideration.  —  That voter is Hub Arkush …
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
2022 House Overview: Still a GOP Advantage, but Redistricting Looks Like a Wash  —  The surprising good news for Democrats: on the current trajectory, there will be a few more Biden-won districts after redistricting than there are now — producing a congressional map slightly less biased in the GOP's favor than the last decade's.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Punchbowl News
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
John Solomon / Just The News:
Georgia opens investigation into possible illegal ballot harvesting in 2020 election  —  Secretary of State Raffensperger says subpoenas could be forthcoming.  — Article  —  Georgia authorities have launched an investigation into an allegation of systematic ballot harvesting during …
Jim Newell / Slate:
Aw, Apple Made Me a “Memory” of the Time I Hid From Rioters in the U.S. Capitol  —  What was it like being inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?  Kind of a blur.  My colleagues and I on the congressional beat first got word that a House office building was under lockdown.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
More than 1,000 US public figures aided Trump's effort to overturn election  —  Insurrection Index identifies those who acted as accomplices by participating in 6 January attack or spreading Trump's ‘big lie’  —  More than 1,000 Americans in positions of public trust acted as accomplices …
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Biden ‘Over-Promised and Under-Delivered’ on Climate.  Now, Trouble Looms in 2022.  —  Mounting challenges will make the coming months critical for the president's environmental agenda, analysts say.  —  WASHINGTON — As the new year opens, President Biden faces an increasingly narrow path …
 
 
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Daniel Moritz-Rabson / New York Focus:
Ron Kim Targets a Progressive Heavyweight in Allegations of Wage Theft
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Washington Post:
Biden still doesn't have a U.S. ambassador in Ukraine — and it's not the Senate's fault
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ron DeSantis's Vaccination Status Is Now a State Secret
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Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
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