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10:50 AM ET, January 9, 2022

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Ron Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Seeking a Third Senate Term  —  I'd like to retire, but I think the country is in too much peril.  —  I decided to run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 because growing entitlements and out-of-control federal spending had exploded our national debt to $14 trillion.
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Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Republican leadership bars journalists from Iowa Senate floor, worrying press advocates  —  When Iowa's 2022 legislative session commences Monday, there will be a notable absence on the floor of the state Senate: reporters.  —  Republican leaders in the state Senate told journalists last week …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Ron Johnson, G.O.P. Senator From Wisconsin, Will Seek Re-election  —  The renewed bid for office by Mr. Johnson, who has spread many false claims about the 2020 election and Covid, ensures that both parties will be highly invested in Wisconsin's 2022 Senate race.
Discussion: NBC News
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
How a Simple Twist of Fate Could End Democrats' Control of the Senate
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
U.S. experts offer a sensible strategy for living with covid.  Biden should listen.  —  Quite understandably, the coronavirus pandemic at first was a dire emergency.  But it can't be one forever.  The crisis will have to shift to a manageable health threat without massive disruption and overwhelming anxiety.
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Graham: 'These are the most dangerous times since the late ‘30s’  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted on Sunday that in 2022 Americans will vote “not based on what happened on January 6th, but based on this failed Democratic radical agenda,” claiming that because of that agenda the nation …
Discussion: The National and New York Post
Dawn Fallik / Washington Post:
They bought a blender.  Three weeks later, their cats continue to hold it hostage.  —  On Black Friday, Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves bought a blender.  It was a Vitamix blender, a professional-grade splurge, and the couple was looking forward to a winter of smoothies and soups.
Wall Street Journal:
How the Trump Social-Media Ban Paid Off for Trump, Platforms  —  One year after being kicked off Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, the former president is raking in campaign cash and planning his own social-media company  —  For an entire year, Donald Trump has been banned from mainstream social-media outlets.
Washington Post:
Trump's Cable Cabinet: New texts reveal the influence of Fox hosts on previous White House  —  Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to President Donald Trump, remembers the challenges that came from so many Fox News hosts having the direct number to reach Trump in the White House residence.
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Biden shied away from news conferences, interviews in Year 1  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In what's become a familiar scene President Joe Biden lingered after delivering a recent speech on the pandemic as reporters fired a barrage of questions.  —  He bristled at a query about the shortage …
Associated Press:
FACT FOCUS: Unfounded theory used to dismiss COVID measures  —  An unfounded theory taking root online suggests millions of people have been “hypnotized” into believing mainstream ideas about COVID-19, including steps to combat it such as testing and vaccination.
Carter Walker / LancasterOnline:
Militia, ‘patriots’ met in Lancaster County 3 days before Jan. 6 Capitol attack; here's a look at why  —  On a cold January day last year, more than two dozen people gathered inside a meeting hall at the Solanco Fairgrounds in Quarryville, a wide-open room that typically hosts …
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
White Supremacist Group Patriot Front Heckled Out of Chicago March for Life  —  RUN OUT THE RACISTS  —  A white supremacist group encountered a less-than-receptive crowd during an anti-abortion march in Chicago on Saturday.  Clad in khaki pants, blue jackets, and white balaclavas …
Discussion: Insider
Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Baby lost in chaos of Afghanistan airlift found, returned to family  —  An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturday.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Obama, Biden pay tribute to Harry Reid: ‘Brilliant, sometimes irascible, deeply good’  —  LAS VEGAS — President Biden and former president Barack Obama, speaking at former Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid's memorial service Saturday, lavished praised on Reid's pragmatic, dealmaking style …
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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
A Rise in Deadly Border Patrol Chases Renews Concerns About Accountability
John Wright / Raw Story:
Pence wants to testify in Jan. 6 probe but fears backlash from MAGA base: Former aide
Discussion: HuffPost
Bhavan Jaipragas / South China Morning Post:
Myanmar military's massacres mount as activists call for arms embargo
Discussion: Barbed Wires
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
Next Target for Epstein Prosecutors Could Be His Assistant Sarah Kellen
Discussion: Raw Story
Theo Wayt / New York Post:
Jon Ossoff expected to snub Pelosi by pushing ban on Congress stock trades
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Cyber Ninjas, Derided for Arizona Vote Review, Says It Is Shutting Down
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Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
New York hospitals admit that nearly HALF of their ‘covid’ patients were admitted for other reasons after Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered them to disclose the key statistic
Discussion: lewrockwell.com
Jacob Fraden / American Thinker:
Why are Caucasians Vanishing in TV Commercials?
Discussion: lewrockwell.com
New York Post:
NYPD commissioner blasts Manhattan DA's lenient agenda in letter to NYPD officers
Discussion: Breitbart and TheGrio
Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Was January 6 an Inside Job?
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Where was Justice Neil Gorsuch's mask?
 

 
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David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Elon Musk appears to confirm that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X, saying it is to stop “lazy linking”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

 
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