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Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot in 7 states — Washington (CNN)Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts in December 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that Trump lost, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the scheme.
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Suspicious Trump weighs dual endorsements — DRIVING THE DAY — THE REBOOT — With his agenda stalled in Congress, President JOE BIDEN is switching strategies, “a stark admission that his approach to governing so far has fallen short,” NYT's Michael Shear, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Katie Rogers report.
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Politico:
‘Dangerous precedent’: Jan. 6 committee trains its sights on false pro-Trump electors
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POLITICO Playbook PM: Pelosi plays cleanup for Biden
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Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Michigan GOP co-chair said Trump campaign asked for GOP elector push: CNN
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Kelly McBride / NPR:
NPR reporting on Supreme Court mask controversy merits clarification — An inaccurate verb choice made the reporting unclear — On Tuesday morning, NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reported that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch had declined to wear a mask in court …
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NPR ‘Founding Mother’ Unloads on Public Editor Over SCOTUS Story: 'She's Not Clarifying Anything!' — “She can say any goddam thing she wants,” Nina Totenberg said of NPR's Public Editor before letting out a deep laugh. — The widening controversy over an NPR story on masks …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
I Am Embarrassed for the Supreme Court
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Weighs Evacuating Diplomats' Family Members From Ukraine — The U.S. is weighing whether to evacuate family members of diplomats stationed in Ukraine as Russia masses more than 100,000 troops on its borders, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Associated Press:
US and Russia try to lower temperature in Ukraine crisis — GENEVA (AP) — The United States and Russia sought to lower the temperature in a heated standoff over Ukraine, even as they reported no breakthroughs in high-level, high-stakes talks on Friday aimed at preventing a feared Russian invasion.
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Financial Times:
Russia raises pressure by sending more troops to Ukraine border
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
FBI raid on House Democrat's home related to Azerbaijan probe, source says — An FBI spokesperson said any law enforcement activity was “court-authorized.” — The FBI on Wednesday raided Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar's home and campaign office in Texas as part of a wide-ranging …
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George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
Courts hand Donald Trump loss after loss after loss — Donald Trump is often his own worst enemy. But sometimes, he gets competition from his lawyers. — Perhaps no better example of that can be found than in Wednesday's order from the Supreme Court, which summarily rejected the former president's …
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Politico:
Democrats slim down ambitions after back-to-back failures — After two strikeouts, don't expect Senate Democrats to immediately swing for the fences again. — There's little appetite in the Democratic majority to publicly fall short on high-profile priorities so soon after the party's failures …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's friends worry legal pick for N.Y. case lacks experience — Close associates and advisers to Donald Trump tell Axios they're concerned by his decision to use a relatively inexperienced New Jersey attorney, Alina Habba, in his high-stakes legal fight against New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:
DeSantis suggests vaccines hurt fertility. A study indicates otherwise — but says catching coronavirus might. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a foe of vaccine mandates, on Thursday appeared to suggest that getting a shot to protect against the coronavirus could cause infertility.
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court? — Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas's wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court. — In December, Chief Justice John Roberts released his year-end report on the federal judiciary.
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Kadia Goba / BuzzFeed News:
Rep. Lauren Boebert Asked A Group Of Jewish Capitol Visitors If They Were Doing “Reconnaissance” — Rep. Lauren Boebert left a group of Jewish visitors to the Capitol bewildered Thursday morning when she asked them if they were doing “reconnaissance” after seeing them at an elevator at the Capitol.
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Andy Hall / ESPN Front Row:
Due to COVID Concerns, ESPN Will Not Staff Winter Olympics in China — Robust remote coverage plans will kick off prior to start of competition — Due to concerns about COVID-19 and other COVID-related restrictions, ESPN will not be sending any news personnel to the Winter Olympics in China …
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Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Exclusive: Biden administration raises minimum wage for federal employees to $15 — Federal agencies are being directed to raise the minimum wages for government employees to $15 an hour, according to new guidance from the Office of Personnel Management shared first with Axios.
Associated Press:
Rittenhouse seeks return of gun used during Kenosha protest — KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois man acquitted of fatally shooting two men and wounding a third during street protests in Kenosha in 2020, is seeking the return of the gun and other property that police seized after his arrest.
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Michael Flynn allies allegedly plotted to lean on Republicans to back vote audits — Ex-whistleblower says group enlisted his help to seek potentially damaging information on two members of Congress to prod them to back audits in key states Trump lost — FBI agents and the House panel investigating …
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Only Trump was in worse electoral shape than Biden after his first year as president — (CNN)President Joe Biden's administration turned 1 year old on Thursday. He entered the White House by beating a historically unpopular president in Donald Trump. — And while Biden started with a lot …
Fox News:
California bill would allow preteens to be vaccinated without parents' consent — Currently in California, minors ages 12 to 17 cannot be vaccinated without permission from their parents or guardian, unless the vaccine is specifically to prevent a sexually transmitted disease
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Courtney Tanner / Salt Lake Tribune:
BYU is under federal investigation for how it disciplines LGBTQ students — The private religious school says it's exempt from Title IX requirements. But students say it's time for a change. — (George Frey | Special to The Tribune) Students and others gather in front …
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Ben Ryder Howe / New York Magazine:
13,000 Pounds at 118 Miles Per Hour — It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI's most notorious informants. — Photo-Illustration: Mark Harris. Photo courtesy of of the National Transportation Safety Board — On September 4, 2018, Nauman Hussain …
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Republicans Want New Tool in Elusive Search for Voter Fraud: Election Police — Republicans in three states have proposed strike forces against election crimes even though fraud cases remain minuscule. — WASHINGTON — Reprising the rigged-election belief that has become a mantra among their supporters …
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The Daily Beast
Graham Moomaw / Virginia Mercury:
Va. Republicans won big under Democratic voting rules. They still want tougher laws. — Virginia Republicans had a wildly successful election night in what had been a solid blue state in 2021, playing by Democratic voting rules the GOP spent two years arguing against.
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Josh Axelrod / The American Independent:
Here's how conservatives have prolonged the COVID-19 pandemic — It didn't have to be this way. — Nearly two full years after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, Americans' lives are still being dictated by the virus.
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Never Mind the Facts. Trump Fans Feel Like a Majority — Donald Trump's obsession with inflated estimates of the crowd sizes at his various live events has been a long-running joke in American politics. This was exhibited most famously in his bitter argument with the National Park Service …
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The Atlantic
Donald Shaw / The Brick House Cooperative:
Biden Re-Nominates Trump Pick and GOP Donor Jennifer Rearden as a Federal Judge — President Joe Biden yesterday nominated a slate of judges, including a controversial selection in Jennifer Rearden, who was first nominated for the federal bench by former President Donald Trump.
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Los Angeles Times
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Judge denies InfoWars host motion to dismiss — (CNN Business)A federal judge on Thursday denied InfoWars host and right-wing conspiracy theorist Owen Shroyer's attempt to dismiss the four charges against him in connection with the January 6 Capitol riot. — Shroyer has been charged …
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