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9:55 AM ET, January 9, 2022

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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 …
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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.
Discussion: Politico and NPR
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  —  Biden to Ukraine: US ‘will respond decisively if Russia further invades’  —  (CNN)Next week may see one of the most significant and defining moments in relations between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia since the break-up of the Soviet Union.
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.
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.
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
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 …
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.
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
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.
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
A Rise in Deadly Border Patrol Chases Renews Concerns About Accountability  —  The increasing number of deaths adds urgency to questions about when and how agents should engage in high-speed chases as they pursue smugglers and migrants.  —  WASHINGTON — Angie Simms had been searching …
John Wright / Raw Story:
Pence wants to testify in Jan. 6 probe but fears backlash from MAGA base: Former aide  —  Mike Pence likely will cooperate with the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection — but it may require a subpoena, according to his former press secretary.
Discussion: HuffPost and NBC News
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
Next Target for Epstein Prosecutors Could Be His Assistant Sarah Kellen  —  ‘SHE KNEW’  —  Sarah Kellen's name came up in court time and again as victims of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein testified about the rich duo's sex-trafficking ring.  —  At Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Bhavan Jaipragas / South China Morning Post:
Myanmar military's massacres mount as activists call for arms embargo
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
Associated Press:
Explosives found at Florida man's home after arrest at rally
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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 and New York Post
Jacob Fraden / American Thinker:
Why are Caucasians Vanishing in TV Commercials?
Discussion: lewrockwell.com
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New York Post:
NYPD commissioner blasts Manhattan DA's lenient agenda in letter to NYPD officers
Discussion: Breitbart and TheGrio
Andreas Rinke / Reuters:
German SPD official defends pro-Nord Stream 2 policy
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Was January 6 an Inside Job?
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