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Leader of Oath Keepers and 10 Other Individuals Indicted in Federal Court for Seditious Conspiracy and Other Offenses Related to U.S. Capitol Breach — Eight Others Facing Charges in Two Related Cases — A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment yesterday …
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Washington Post:
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes charged with seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 Capitol riot — Stewart Rhodes — founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers, whose members are accused of being key players in the Jan. 6 attack on Congress — has been indicted and arrested, officials said Thursday.
Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
Oath Keepers leader arrested outside Dallas, feds search home (VIDEO) — The leader of a national right-wing extremist group just got arrested by the FBI on the grave felony charge of seditious conspiracy. — Federal agents apprehended Stewart Rhodes III in Little Elm …
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Associated Press:
What is seditious conspiracy? Rare, but now part of Jan. 6
What is seditious conspiracy? Rare, but now part of Jan. 6
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Wall Street Journal:
The Capitol Riot Really Was an Insurrection
The Capitol Riot Really Was an Insurrection
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Georgia Speech Is a Break Point — He thought he was merely appealing to his base. He might have united the rest of the country against him. — It is startling when two speeches within 24 hours, neither much heralded in advance—the second wouldn't even have been given without the first …
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Jonah Goldberg / The G-File:
About That Speech ... As his presidency spirals downward, Joe Biden lashes out. — Hey,
About That Speech ... As his presidency spirals downward, Joe Biden lashes out. — Hey,
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Philip Klein / National Review:
Biden's Big Blunder: Picking Battles He's Likely to Lose — On Thursday, President Biden suffered two additional defeats, as the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his employer vaccine mandate and Senator Kyrsten Sinema restated that she would not blow up the filibuster to pass a voting bill.
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court Had No Legal Reason to Block Biden's Workplace Vaccine Rules — The Supreme Court significantly hobbled—but did not obliterate—President Joe Biden's efforts to protect Americans from COVID in the face of congressional inaction. By a 6-3 vote, the justices blocked …
Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
The Supreme Court Goes Anti-Vaxx
The Supreme Court Goes Anti-Vaxx
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court blocks workplace vaccine requirements, allows requirement for health-care workers
Supreme Court blocks workplace vaccine requirements, allows requirement for health-care workers
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Fabiola Cineas / Vox:
Protecting voting rights isn't enough to save democracy
Protecting voting rights isn't enough to save democracy
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James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal Drama Critic, Dies at Age 65 — Missouri-born author and musician wrote biographies of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and H.L. Mencken — Terry Teachout, a prolific New York-based biographer and essayist who wrote exuberantly about drama for The Wall Street Journal …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
R.N.C. Signals a Pullout From Presidential Debates — The Republican National Committee says it will require candidates to pledge to not participate in debates run by the Commission on Presidential Debates. What would replace them, if anything, was unclear.
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Shawn Johnson / NPR:
A Wisconsin judge rules absentee ballot drop boxes are not allowed under state law — A Waukesha County judge has ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes are not allowed under Wisconsin law, a ruling that could potentially remove an option for voting ahead of the state's crucial midterm elections.
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Houston Chronicle:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton violated open records law, says Travis County DA — AUSTIN — The Travis County district attorney has determined that Attorney General Ken Paxton violated the state's open records law by not turning over his communications from last January …
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Telegraph:
Two parties held in Downing Street as Queen and country mourned death of Prince Philip — The leaving events for No 10 staff were held on the eve of the Duke's funeral and excessive alcohol is believed to have been consumed — Downing Street staff drank alcohol into the early hours …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein brought EIGHT young women with him on his trips to see Bill Clinton at the White House: Displayed photos of himself posing at the Briefing Room podium at his Palm Beach mansion — Visitor logs obtained by DailyMail.com reveal Jeffrey Epstein was not always alone …
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Patient in Groundbreaking Heart Transplant Has a Criminal Record — David Bennett Sr. was involved in a serious assault nearly 35 years ago, court records show. — An ailing Maryland man who received a pig's heart last week in a pioneering transplant procedure has a criminal history stemming …
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New Virus Cases Begin to Slow in U.S. Cities Where Omicron Hit First — Reports of infections are falling in Cleveland, Newark and Washington, suggesting that a national peak may be approaching. — At another bleak moment of the pandemic in the United States — with nearly 800,000 new cases a day …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Dems torpedo Cruz's bid to sanction Russian pipeline — Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a GOP-led effort to impose sanctions on a Russian natural-gas pipeline amid deteriorating talks with Moscow over its military buildup along Ukraine's eastern border.
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New York Times:
Anti-Trump Republicans Diverge on 2022 Midterms — Disaffected conservatives broke with their party to oust a sitting president. Some still hope to have a say in the G.O.P.'s future. — For those Republicans who dare to publicly oppose Donald J. Trump, politics can be a lonely place.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
White House criticizes bleak “outlier” Quinnipiac Biden poll — White House deputy chief of staff Jennifer O'Malley Dillon is publicly attacking a new poll that gave President Biden a 33% approval rating, using the full weight of her office to call it an “outlier,” according to a memo shared with Axios.
Nathalie Baptiste / HuffPost:
It's Time For Democrats To Accept That Norms Are Dead — The GOP has no problem being completely unmoored from reality. — When members of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 asked Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to meet with them, they probably should've known that he wouldn't comply with their request.
Azeen Ghorayshi / New York Times:
Doctors Debate Whether Trans Teens Need Therapy Before Hormones — Clinicians are divided over new guidelines that say teens should undergo mental health screenings before receiving hormones or gender surgeries. — An upsurge in teenagers requesting hormones or surgeries to better align …
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Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby indicted on federal charges she lied on loan, mortgage documents — A federal grand jury has indicted Baltimore's top prosecutor Marilyn J. Mosby on charges she lied on a mortgage loan application to buy a Florida property and made false statements …
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Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
Gov. Gavin Newsom rejects parole for Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday refused to parole the man convicted of gunning down Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles, a brazen assassination of a presidential candidate that scarred the nation and altered …
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Will Nominate Sarah Bloom Raskin as Top Fed Banking Regulator — Former No. 2 Treasury official has called for more aggressive climate focus — President Biden will nominate Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former top Treasury Department official, to serve as the Federal Reserve's top banking regulator, the White House said.
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Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Glenn Beck has Covid again after refusing vaccine: 'It's going into my lungs' — Right-wing talk radio personality Glenn Beck on Wednesday said he has contracted Covid-19 for the second time and complained about the disease's effect on his lungs. — “It's starting to go into my lungs today and a little disturbing.
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Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee says tech firms are not cooperating, issues subpoenas — Chairman cites repeated unanswered requests for information from Facebook, Twitter, Google and Reddit — Congressional investigators on Thursday issued subpoenas to Twitter, Reddit and the parent companies of Facebook …
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