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Attorney General James Takes Action to Force Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump to Comply with Ongoing Investigation Into Trump Organization's Financial Dealings — Motion to Compel Filed After Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., — and Ivanka Trump Refuse to Provide Sworn Testimony
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New York Times:
N.Y. Attorney General Outlines Pattern of Possible Fraud at Trump Business — The attorney general, Letitia James, released new details of her investigation into whether the company misrepresented the value of its assets, but her office did not file a lawsuit.
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Washington Post:
N.Y. attorney general alleges Trump's business inflated property values, wealth statements — NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James alleged on Tuesday that former president Donald Trump's business inflated the value of his properties and misstated his personal worth in representations …
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Matthew Yglesias / Grid News:
The case for a better way to poll — Issue polling makes America seem very liberal. Combining party trust polling would help explain why Republicans win elections. — Editor-at-Large — In recent years, progressives have invested heavily in crafting a narrative which holds …
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Mark Kelly supports change to Senate's filibuster rule for voting-rights legislation — Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., will support a change to the filibuster rule, The Arizona Republic has learned, showing for the first time a willingness to bend on an issue that has tied the Senate in knots …
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Doug Jones:
Restoring the Senate to Protect the Freedom to Vote
Restoring the Senate to Protect the Freedom to Vote
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
In Voting Rights Fight, Democrats Train Ire on Sinema and Manchin
In Voting Rights Fight, Democrats Train Ire on Sinema and Manchin
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CNN:
Exclusive: Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle's phone records subpoenaed by January 6 committee — Washington (CNN)The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has subpoenaed and obtained records of phone numbers associated with one of former President Donald Trump's children …
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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
How Biden's first year became a tale of two presidencies — One year ago, President Joe Biden stood in front of a U.S. Capitol that still bore the wounds of an insurrectionist siege, taking the oath of office at a time when the nation faced its greatest array of crises in nearly a century.
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Politico:
Biden plans giveaway of 400M masks as Omicron surges
Biden plans giveaway of 400M masks as Omicron surges
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Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Biden's report card: 1 year in, accomplishments and stalled priorities
Biden's report card: 1 year in, accomplishments and stalled priorities
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Biden promises free masks in the ‘largest deployment’ of such equipment in U.S. history.
Biden promises free masks in the ‘largest deployment’ of such equipment in U.S. history.
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Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Police said the male suspect (pictured) is believed to be homeless and fled through the back door before calming walking down an alley — The architectural design student from Pacific Palisades was alone in the Croft House store on La Brea Avenue in LA's upscale Fairfax neighborhood when a man entered around 1:50 p.m. and stabbed her.
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Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Senate President Stuart Adams tested positive for COVID twice Tuesday before publicly announcing he was negative — Acknowledgment of positive tests came after Tribune inquiries, records request. — (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Elder Gerrit W. Gong …
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
How many people has Murdoch killed during pandemic? — We'll never know … Subscribe to PRESS RUN — After spending much of 2020 and the first half of 2021 raging against mask mandates and whining about how forcing workers to get vaccinated represented the trampling of individual liberties …
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Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Florida could shield whites from ‘discomfort’ of racist past — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees …
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Washington Post:
The long slide: Inside Biden's declining popularity as he struggles with multiple crises — The second week of August began as a time for vacation for President Biden and some of his team. Then Afghanistan imploded. The reports out of Kabul were harrowing: Images of desperate Afghan nationals clinging …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Firearms, a drone and 30 days of supplies: New details of Oath Keepers Jan. 6 weapons cache — Oath Keepers planning to violently subvert the 2020 election stockpiled 30 days of supplies and a cache of rifles and ammunition just outside of Washington, D.C., prosecutors alleged in a late-night court filing.
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Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
The Republican Parallel Universes Strategy — And how Democrats can break through it. — Shortly after the 2020 election I was chatting with a Republican strategist who'd done some work for several vulnerable-seeming GOP candidates who ultimately won their races, outperforming Donald Trump by several points.
Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state — (CNN)Election officials in a rural Georgia county are weighing plans to close all but one polling place ahead of this year's elections, alarming local voting and civil rights groups.
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The Administration Knew the Afghan Air Force Would Collapse after a U.S. Withdrawal — On the menu today: A declassified special-inspector-general report proves that the Pentagon and the Biden administration were warned in January 2021 that Afghanistan's air force did not have the capabilities to survive after a U.S. withdrawal.
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John Archibald / al.com:
Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’ — Ramon Perez came to court last month ready to fight the tickets he'd been handed by Brookside police, including one for rolling through a stop sign and another for driving 48 mph in a 40 zone.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Omicron Is in Retreat — What's next? — The latest Omicron developments continue to be encouraging. New Covid-19 cases are plummeting in a growing list of places. The percentage of cases causing severe illness is much lower than it was with the Delta variant.
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United States Department of State:
Secretary Blinken's Meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy — The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv as part of our close and continued coordination with Ukraine following …
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Stephen Hudak / Orlando Sentinel:
Sources: State health officer Pino placed on administrative leave after vaccination email — Dr. Raul Pino, who became a trusted voice of the pandemic response in the nation's tourist capital, has been placed on administrative leave from his post as the state's chief health officer …
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The Dworkin Report:
Lev Parnas just explained how Rudy Giuliani acquired Russian disinformation for Trump — Scott and Grant interview Lev Parnas, a former political associate of President Trump and a close confidant to his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. This is the first part of a special two-part interview with Lev Parnas …
Laura Reiley / Washington Post:
Biden renewed a free program to feed needy kids. Most states haven't even applied. — At its height, Pandemic-EBT fed millions of low-income students. Now it's faltering as burdened administrators opt out. — Odessa Davis worked three jobs to get by, until the pandemic shutdowns …
Aadi Nair / Reuters:
Athletes warned against speaking up on human rights at Beijing Games — Athletes travelling to next month's Beijing Olympics were warned on Tuesday about speaking up on human rights issues while in China for their own safety by speakers at a seminar hosted by Human Rights Watch.
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The curious case of the clerk and the racist texts — “Why is a prominent federal judge hiring a law clerk who said she hates Black people?” asked the headline on a column I wrote in October. Now, the story has resurfaced, with a surprising, belated — and, in my view, ultimately unconvincing …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Wife of Justice Clarence Thomas signed off on letter saying Capitol attackers ‘have done nothing wrong’
Wife of Justice Clarence Thomas signed off on letter saying Capitol attackers ‘have done nothing wrong’
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