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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Kremlin TV Worries Tucker Carlson's Pro-Putin Bias Has Gone Too Far — Top Russian state propagandists are concerned that no one will take the Fox News host seriously any more. — With Russian troops steadily massing on the Ukraine border and a looming threat of an invasion …
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Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Where Is Germany in the Ukraine Standoff? Its Allies Wonder. — Germany's allies have begun to question what price Berlin is prepared to pay to deter Russia, and even its reliability as an ally, as it wavers on tough measures. — BERLIN — The United States and its NATO allies are moving …
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Washington Post, The Guardian, Voice of America, Metro.co.uk, Al Jazeera, The Nation and New York Post
Politico:
Will There Be a War Over Ukraine? 13 Putin Watchers Weigh In — Russian President Vladimir Putin sought a confrontation with the West and he got one. So now what? — Diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis appear to have stalled. In the past month, Putin has escalated his long proxy war …
Vladimir Isachenkov / Associated Press:
Russia threatens retaliation if Ukraine demands not met
Russia threatens retaliation if Ukraine demands not met
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BBC:
Ukraine: US could sanction Putin personally if Russia invades, Biden says
Ukraine: US could sanction Putin personally if Russia invades, Biden says
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire, giving Biden a chance to nominate a replacement — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, NBC News reported, giving President Joe Biden a crucial opportunity to replace the liberal justice. — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court, paving way for Biden appointment — Justice Stephen Breyer will step down from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term, according to people familiar with his thinking. — Breyer is one of the three remaining liberal justices …
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MarketWatch, Insider Paper, Townhall and Political Wire
The Daily Beast:
Florida Shock Jock in Matt Gaetz Circle Pleads Guilty — The feds are closing in on Rep. Matt Gaetz for his alleged underage sex crimes with yet another criminal case, this time against a key witness: his wingman's best friend. … “Big Joe” Ellicott, a former Florida shock jock …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
GOP Has Congress Edge by Default — Few say either party is very concerned about ‘average Americans’ — West Long Branch, NJ - Congressional Republicans have a small edge over their Democratic colleagues on a dubious metric - they are slightly less likely to be seen as lacking concern for the average American's financial well-being.
The Atlantic:
The Case Against Masks at School — Districts should rethink imposing on millions of children an intervention that provides little discernible benefit. … In the panicked spring of 2020, as health officials scrambled to keep communities safe, they recommended various restrictions and interventions …
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Glenn Youngkin / Washington Post:
Virginia's parents can decide what's best for their children — Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, is governor of Virginia. — In November's election, Virginians came together to declare that too many local leaders were failing a generation of schoolchildren.
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The Federalist, WTOP News, IJR, ABC News, WJLA-TV and Blue Virginia
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Raphael Warnock has amassed a $23M war chest for Senate reelection bid — Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock raised more than $9.8 million in the last three months of 2021 and will end the quarter with roughly $23 million in cash on hand for a reelection battle that could decide control of the U.S. Senate.
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Politico:
'She was Zoom'd out:' Veep mulls escape from D.C. bubble — Sitting among some of the most influential Black women in America last month, Vice President Kamala Harris confessed to a stifling sensation that had fallen over her while in office. She was struggling to escape the D.C. bubble …
Jada Yuan / Washington Post:
Melania Trump auctions off her hat, and has become the latest victim of the cryptocurrency crash — The former first lady's chapeau is still far below her asking price. — (This article has been updated to reflect that the auction, which was offline for part of Tuesday, is back online.)
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Melania Trump's Auction of Hat Hit by Plunge in Cryptocurrency
Melania Trump's Auction of Hat Hit by Plunge in Cryptocurrency
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University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository:
Biden Approval in NH Plunges as Approval Among Democrats Falls 1/26/2022 — Approval of Joe Biden's performance as President has fallen rapidly since December among Granite Staters and is at the lowest point in his presidency. Much of this decline is due to a fall in support among Democrats …
The Dworkin Report:
Author reveals how Peter Thiel helped Trump cut a deal with Facebook to evade fact checking — Scott talks with author and journalist Max Chafkin, who is a features editor and a tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek. Max is the author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power …
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Canceled NY mask mandate is uncanceled again... for now — Yesterday we discussed the ruling of a New York State supreme court judge who issued an injunction against Governor Kathy Hochul's statewide face mask mandate. The judge found that the mandate violated two different state laws …
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Fox News, Politico, Associated Press and The Daily Wire
Tess Owen / VICE:
Leaked Chats Reveal Fascist Group Patriot Front Shames Members About Their Porn, Junk Food Habits — The inner workings of the group were laid bare after the release of 400 gigabytes of data by the left-wing collective Unicorn Riot. — TO — It shouldn't be a surprise that fascists rule …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Cawthorn Challenge Raises the Question: Who Is an ‘Insurrectionist’? — The challenge to Representative Madison Cawthorn's re-election bid could set a precedent to challenge other Republicans who encouraged the Jan. 6 attack. — WASHINGTON — A group of lawyers is working to disqualify …
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Spencer Ackerman / Forever Wars:
Iran, Sanctions and Inflation as a Weapon of Mass Destruction — In a new paper, an economist reconceives a pillar of U.S. foreign policy as an indiscriminate weapon that works by harming not regimes but their people. — IN 2010, HAROLD KOH, the State Department's legal adviser …
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Washington Post:
Matea Gold named National Editor, Philip Rucker named Deputy National Editor — Announcement from Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, Senior Managing Editor Cameron Barr, Managing Editor Steven Ginsberg, Managing Editor Tracy Grant, Managing Editor Krissah Thompson, and Chief Product Officer and Managing Editor Kat Downs Mulder:
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Partisanship Made the Omicron Crisis Worse — On Monday, at least 2,181 Americans died from COVID-19. Over the past week, average daily COVID deaths in the United States have risen to 2,369 — the highest death rate the country has seen in nearly a year. Given the lag time between spiking cases …
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HotAir, Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic
Matt Friedman / Politico:
New Jersey political consultant Sean Caddle pleads guilty in murder-for-hire plot — The 44-year-old resident of Hamburg, Sussex County, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit murder for hire in the stabbing death of the unnamed victim. — The New Jersey state house is pictured.
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Kristen Jordan Shamus / Detroit Free Press:
For 1st time in Michigan history, more people died than were born in 2020 — For the first time in Michigan's recorded history, deaths outpaced births in 2020 — a situation worsened by the wave of deaths from COVID-19, said Kurt Metzger, a demographer who founded Data Driven Detroit and studies Michigan population trends.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
SALT change likely to be cut from bill, say Senate Democrats — Senate Democrats say a proposal to raise the cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions, a top priority of Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), is likely to be cut from the revised Build Back Better Act.
Eric Kaufmann / City Journal:
A Generational Threat to Free Expression — Survey data show that Americans under 30 prize cancel culture over liberty. — Economy, finance, and budgets — Politics and law — The Social Order — The clash between socialist and liberal economics defined the late twentieth century …
Nick Judin / Mississippi Free Press:
Ridgeland Mayor Demands LGBTQ+ Book Purge, Threatens Library Funding — Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee is withholding $110,000 of funding from the Madison County Library System allegedly on the basis of his personal religious beliefs, with library officials stating that he has demanded …
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Mark Kelly ‘does not support the censure’ of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema — Sen. Mark Kelly broke his silence over the censure of his Democratic colleague Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, with a campaign spokesperson saying he disagreed with it and she should not be singled out over her opposition to changing the Senate's filibuster rules.
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Sophia Ankel / Insider:
Prosecutors explained the plot of ‘Game of Thrones’ to argue that a rioter quoting Cersei Lannister was proof of criminal intent — Jeremiah Caplinger quoted from “Game of Thrones” in a social media post days after the Capitol riot. — “As said by Cersi Lannister 'I choose violence …
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Michael Schaub / Kirkus Reviews:
Missouri School District Bans Toni Morrison Book — A school board in Missouri has banned four books, including Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, from libraries in the district's high schools, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. — The Wentzville School Board voted 4-3 to remove …
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Zach Hirsch / NCPR Daily News:
Special report: How Stefanik won power and support for spreading Trump's ‘Big Lie’ — The false claim that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent or stolen lives on. — Former president Donald Trump continues to spread what's become known as the “Big Lie” — because it's a baseless myth — to this day.
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
How Senate Dems reaped the benefits from 2 little-known GOP maneuvers — Senate Democrats lost their fight to weaken the filibuster, but they're capitalizing big on another rules change — that the GOP pushed. — After an Obama administration marked by Democratic frustration over the pace …
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Sergio Olmos / The Guardian:
‘The most dangerous man in Congress’: how Paul Gosar became a darling of the far right — Once fringe, now dominant in the party, rightwing Republicans are strategizing for minoritarian rule — he Arizona Republican congressman Paul Gosar had a simple message for the crowd when he recently addressed …
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Jason Tidd / USA Today:
Kansas bill forces pharmacists to fill ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine as off-label COVID treatment — TOPEKA, Kansas - A group of Kansas politicians tasked with steering public health policy are pushing to allow doctors to prescribe unproven treatments and preventives for COVID-19 without any potential for responsibility.
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Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
DeSantis' Demented Doc Is About to Get the Grilling He Deserves — STRAIGHT-UP OPPORTUNIST … He doesn't deserve to be the state's surgeon general. It hardly seems like he deserves to be a doctor at all. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a politician by profession …
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