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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.
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
How a Simple Twist of Fate Could End Democrats' Control of the Senate — The list of what threatens to end the Democrats' control of the Senate is familiar: History says the White House's party usually loses seats in midterms. The president's low approval ratings in battleground states …
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Washington Examiner and Raw Story
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.
New York Times:
U.S. Details Costs of a Russian Invasion of Ukraine — The Biden administration and its allies are developing new possible sanctions ahead of a series of meetings to defuse the crisis with Moscow. — WASHINGTON — The Biden administration and its allies are assembling a punishing set of financial …
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Luke McGee / CNN:
The West has a rare window to put Putin in his place
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Los Angeles Times and New York Times
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Prospects dim as US, Russia prepare to meet over Ukraine
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HotAir, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, New York Times, One America News Network, Al Jazeera, Associated Press and The White House
Valerie Hopkins / New York Times:
Amid Crisis, Kazakhstan's Leader Chose His Path: Embrace Russia
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The Guardian, Washington Post, Associated Press, Bloomberg and CNN
Hannah Allam / Washington Post:
A rural Washington school board race shows how far-right extremists are shifting to local power … EATONVILLE, Wash. — On the morning she met her opponent for coffee, Sarah Cole walked in with a front-runner's confidence. — To Cole, the school board seat in this rural red district about an hour outside Seattle was all but hers.
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.
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 …
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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.
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Raw Story
Sandra E. Garcia / New York Times:
What New Yorkers See in This Portrait of the Mayor's Mother — Dorothy Mae Adams-Streeter posed for a portrait at her 75th birthday party. Her image, floating in a brandy snifter, has a powerful resonance. — On New Year's Day, when Eric Adams was sworn in as the 110th mayor of New York City …
New York Times:
Early Data Hints at Omicron's Potential Toll Across America — The extremely transmissible Omicron variant is spreading quickly across the United States, making up a vast majority of U.S. cases after becoming dominant in the week before Christmas. — The Centers for Disease Control …
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.
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Reuters, RedState, Relativization and The Last Refuge
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 …
Politico:
‘We are going right to the belly of the beast’: Biden takes on Georgia — Fresh off a high-profile speech in which he warned that a dagger had been placed at the throat of American democracy, President Joe Biden will travel to the state that White House officials view as “ground zero” for Republican-led election suppression efforts.
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The Hill, Washington Examiner and Los Angeles Times
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.
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National Review, Los Angeles Times, Daily Kos and New York Post
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Steve Bannon Is Onto Something — In his 2020 book “Politics Is for Power,” Eitan Hersh, a political scientist at Tufts, sketched a day in the life of many political obsessives in sharp, if cruel, terms. — To Hersh, that's not politics. It's what he calls “political hobbyism.”
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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Claire Rafford / Politico:
‘Deeply good man from Searchlight’: Democratic leaders pay tribute to Harry Reid in Nevada
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