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Martin Robinson / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE ‘You get picked up in the US for walking on cracks in a pavement!’ Security services are accused of ‘intelligence failure’ after British synagogue siege terrorist, 44, evaded officials despite criminal convictions and 9/11 rant — FBI identifies Texas synagogue shooter …
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Nelson Oliveira / CBS News:
Rabbi threw chair at gunman before he and other hostages escaped Texas synagogue: “It was terrifying” — A rabbi who was among the four hostages held during a nearly 11-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue managed to escape after throwing a chair at the gunman, he told “CBS Mornings” on Monday.
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Washington Free Beacon, Algemeiner.com, Breitbart, The Hill and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Associated Press:
Texas rabbi: Security training paid off in hostage standoff — COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — U.S. and British authorities Monday continued an investigation into the weekend standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead and a rabbi crediting past security training …
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New York Times, Mediaite, New York Post, Associated Press, Washington Post and The Daily Wire
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Why Were Authorities So Evasive About the Synagogue Gunman's Motive? — Actual statements from our president, midday Sunday: … Biden says the gunman's motivation was a mystery, and then mentions that he was “using anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments.”
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American Greatness, The Week, Insider and Instapundit
Jack Newman / Daily Mail:
FBI finally admits Texas synagogue siege WAS an anti-Semitic terror attack after first claiming it was ‘not specifically related to the Jewish community’
FBI finally admits Texas synagogue siege WAS an anti-Semitic terror attack after first claiming it was ‘not specifically related to the Jewish community’
Reuters:
Texas synagogue hostage-taker was a British citizen; two arrested in England
Texas synagogue hostage-taker was a British citizen; two arrested in England
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BBC, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, New York Times, New York Post, Breitbart, BizPac Review, Politico, NPR and The Times of Israel
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
FBI reverses and says Texas synagogue hostage case was terror, Jews were targeted
FBI reverses and says Texas synagogue hostage case was terror, Jews were targeted
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Washington Post, Insider, The Federalist, National Review, Al Jazeera and The Daily Caller
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Political Party Preferences Shifted Greatly During 2021 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — On average, Americans' political party preferences in 2021 looked similar to prior years, with slightly more U.S. adults identifying as Democrats or leaning Democratic (46%) than identified as Republicans or leaned Republican (43%).
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Ron DeSantis Is Going to Get Trump Trucked — 1. Fake Versus Real — I wrote about the brewing Trump-DeSantis feud back in July, when it was clear that DeSantis was Single White Female-ing Trump to a degree that was going to get super uncomfortable. — Now the fight is almost out in the open …
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Vanity Fair, Townhall, CBS Miami, Raw Story and IJR
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New York Times:
Who Is King of Florida? Tensions Rise Between Trump and a Former Acolyte — A spat over Covid has exposed friction between the former president and a rising G.O.P. governor unwilling to curb his ambitions. — For months, former President Donald J. Trump has been grumbling quietly …
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Mediaite, Washington Post, Morning Shots, POLITICUSUSA, HuffPost, The Hill, Raw Story, Greensburg Tribune-Review, National Review, IJR and The Florida Capital Star
David Reaboi / Newsweek:
Ron DeSantis Welcomes You to Florida, America's New Texas
Ron DeSantis Welcomes You to Florida, America's New Texas
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The Guardian and Raw Story
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Rep. Burgess Owens: Biden agenda doesn't represent MLK's hopes, ‘dreams’ — Martin Luther King ‘was about unifying us,’ Owens tells Fox News Digital — Husband of Emanuel Nine victim remembers MLK's forgiveness, legacy — Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, remembered the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr …
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Hakeem Jefferson / San Francisco Chronicle:
What would MLK say about this moment in American democracy? We don't have to guess
What would MLK say about this moment in American democracy? We don't have to guess
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Common Dreams, CNN and Los Angeles Times
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
Martin Luther King Jr. on the filibuster
Martin Luther King Jr. on the filibuster
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TheGrio, VTDigger and Popular Information
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong in Biden's Voting Rights Push — Allies say the White House has been MIA — WASHINGTON — In mid-November, Vice President Kamala Harris joined a video call with a coalition of nearly 250 groups trying to pass new legislation to protect the right to vote …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
How Manchin and Sinema Completed a Conservative Vision — The decision by Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to block their fellow Democrats from passing new federal voting-rights legislation clears the path for years of tightening ballot restrictions in Republican-controlled states.
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The Hill, The Dispatch and National Review
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
The left dreamed of remaking America. Now, it stares into the abyss as Biden's plans wither. — In 2020, prominent liberals promised major changes to the safety net and climate policy — Just three years ago, as they vied to lead the country, the Democratic Party's presidential candidates competed …
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HotAir, Fox News, BizPac Review, Instapundit and Eschaton
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
The C.D.C.'s New Challenge? Grappling With Imperfect Science — The Omicron coronavirus variant is moving much faster than researchers can, worsening a longstanding problem: The agency must make tough decisions with scant data. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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Sabrina Imbler / New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: Approval of U.S. Pandemic Response Hits New Low
Covid Live Updates: Approval of U.S. Pandemic Response Hits New Low
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CNN, Slate and Vanity Fair
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
School Closures Were a Catastrophic Error. Progressives Still Haven't Reckoned With It. … Recently, Nate Silver found himself in the unenviable role of main character of the day on Twitter because he proposed that school closures were a “disastrous, invasion-of-Iraq magnitude (or perhaps greater) policy decision.”
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Joanne Jacobs and Mediaite
Beth LeBlanc / Detroit News:
Michigan Democratic Party deletes post questioning parents' role in schools — The Michigan Democratic Party has deleted a weekend Facebook post that questioned the role parents have in deciding what is taught in public schools and drew criticism from conservative and school choice groups.
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Fox News, Political Wire and BizPac Review
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
‘Morning Joe’ hosts mock Trump — “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski mocked former President Trump for sending a statement Monday morning attacking the MSNBC show. — “Will ‘Morning Joe’ be canceled? He and Mika's ratings are very low—they are having an extremely hard …
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Book bans are back in style — School districts from Pennsylvania to Wyoming are bowing to pressure from some conservative groups to review — then purge from public school libraries — books about LGBTQ issues and people of color. — Why it matters: A pivotal midterm election year …
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The Left Place
BBC:
Eric Zemmour: Far-right candidate found guilty of hate speech — Far-right French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has been fined €10,000 (£8,350) by a Paris court for hate speech. — The case was launched over a TV appearance, where he described unaccompanied migrant children as “thieves”, “rapists” and “murderers”.
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Agence France-Presse, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, The Local and Politico
Christopher Hutton / Washington Examiner:
Airline executives warn 5G could ground thousands of flights — Executives at several airline companies fear an aviation crisis is on the horizon after AT&T and Verizon implement their 5G networks this week. — These concerns arose after the Federal Aviation Administration issued several notices warning …
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Politico, Al Jazeera and One America News Network
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Dem Megadonor: I Don't Care About the Uyghurs — Billionaire liberal megadonor Chamath Palihapitiya said he does not care about China's genocide of its Uyghur ethnic minority and argued that the “narrative” around the issue “may not be true.” — Palihapitiya's remarks came during a Saturday episode of his podcast All-In.
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Fox News, Washington Examiner and Insider, more at Techmeme »
Joint Chiefs of Staff:
Statement by Joint Staff Spokesperson Col. Dave Butler on Gen. Milley testing positive for COVID-19 — Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Public Affairs 0 — WASHINGTON - Joint Staff Spokesperson Col. Dave Butler provided the following statement:
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David Siders / Politico:
Kristi Noem's on a Political Rocket Ship. But Don't Rule Out a Crash. — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — One Saturday last fall, around the opening of South Dakota's pheasant hunting season, a crowd of businesspeople and political benefactors who'd come to meet and hunt with the state's governor …
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Natalie Colarossi / Newsweek:
Trump Claims White People ‘at the Back of the Line’ for COVID Vaccines, Treatments — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that white people are being discriminated against and sent to the “back of the line” when it comes to receiving COVID-19 vaccines and treatment.
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Mediaite, HuffPost, Associated Press and Insider
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
CDC's suggestion to cancel football, band in nearly every US school called ‘unrealistic’ — (CNN)If the scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had their way, to curb the spread of Covid-19 right now, nearly every US school would cancel football, wrestling, band and loads of other mainstay school activities.
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The Guardian:
Revealed: the Flint water poisoning charges that never came to light — The former criminal prosecution team investigating the Flint water crisis was building a racketeering case against state officials. Then the team was dismantled — A team of prosecutors and investigators leading …
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News & Views … and The Crime Report