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5:05 PM ET, January 26, 2022

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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court, paving way for Biden appointment  —  Live coverage: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire  —  WASHINGTON — Justice Stephen Breyer will step down from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term, according to people familiar with his thinking.
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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 …
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Justice Stephen Breyer, an influential liberal on the Supreme Court, to retire
Politico:
Breyer retirement hands Biden open Supreme Court seat
Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify to Take Down Neil Young's Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum  —  The folk-rock star won't back down after discussions with his record label and Spotify  —  Spotify Technology SA is in the process of removing Neil Young's music, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Plea deal for man involved in Gaetz investigation, whose attorney says he witnessed ‘sex, drugs — a whole lot of it’  —  Justice Department investigators have reached a cooperation agreement with a man whose attorney says he witnessed Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) attend parties involving …
Discussion: HuffPost
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
YouTube permanently bans Dan Bongino  —  YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension.  —  The Fox host uploaded a video to his main channel while his secondary channel …
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Dan Bongino Permanently Banned From YouTube
Discussion: Raw Story and Insider Paper
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 …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Man Who Sold Pistol Used in Synagogue Hostage Crisis Federally Charged  —  The man who sold Malik Faisal Akram the gun he used to kidnap hostages in a Texas synagogue earlier this month has been charged with a federal firearm crime, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
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Matthew Impelli / Newsweek:
Man Who Allegedly Sold Gun to Texas Hostage-Taker Was Previous Convicted Felon
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Georgia Potential November Showdowns: They're Already Close, Quinnipiac University Georgia Poll Finds; Only 25% Are Very Confident In Accurate 2022 Election Count  — mail_outline  —  With Georgia in the national spotlight over its election laws along with two high profile contests in November 2022 …
Discussion: RedState, Forbes and Political Wire
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.
Aaron Gordon / VICE:
Amazon Paid for a High School Course.  Here's What They Teach.  —  “Brainstorm ways you could motivate your employees other than large bonuses and high salaries.”  —  In 2019, Cajon High School in San Bernardino, California, started offering the “Amazon Logistics and Business Management Pathway …
CNN:
This Silicon Valley city just voted to institute first-in-the-nation gun ownership requirements  —  (CNN)The San Jose, California, city council voted Tuesday night to adopt a first-in-the-nation ordinance requiring most gun owners to pay a fee and carry liability insurance …
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Data For Progress:
Poll: Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema Set to Be Unseated by Possible Challenger Ruben Gallego in 2024 Primary Landslide  —  In October 2021, Data for Progress published poll findings that captured the extent of Arizona Democratic primary voters' dissatisfaction with Senator Kyrsten Sinema …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and CNBC
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 …
Kaylee McGhee White / Washington Examiner:
The FDA is wrong to pull life-saving COVID-19 antibody treatments  —  The Food and Drug Administration suddenly decided to withdraw its emergency use authorization of two COVID-19 antibody treatments this week, leaving hundreds of patients who depend on them in the lurch.
Discussion: The Pulse and Raw Story
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 …
Jason Rantz / MyNorthwest.com:
Downtown Seattle Target barely surviving as shoplifting ravages store  —  The Target department store in downtown Seattle is being absolutely ravaged by shoplifters, with one staff member telling me theft happens “about every 10 minutes.”  He wasn't kidding.
Discussion: HotAir
Wyatt DobrovichFago / FOX News Radio:
Nikki Haley: If Biden Loved Our Country, He Would Step Down And Take Kamala With Him  —  Listen To The Full Interview Below:  —  Nikki Haley, Former Governor of South Carolina, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Founder of Stand For America PAC joined the Guy Benson Show …
U.S. Embassy Kyiv / U.S. Embassy in Ukraine:
Message to US Citizens:  Commercial Air Availability from Ukraine    —  Home Почат ок |  Message to US Citizens:  Commercial Air Availability from Ukraine    —  The security situation in Ukraine continues …
Margery Smelkinson / The Atlantic:
The Case Against Masks at School  —  In the panicked spring of 2020, as health officials scrambled to keep communities safe, they recommended various restrictions and interventions, sometimes in the absence of rigorous science supporting them.  That was understandable at the time.
Discussion: HotAir, Washington Examiner and DCist
Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
'It's just plain unconstitutional': Wisconsin GOP leaders again reject resolution to ‘pull back’ 2020 electoral votes  —  MADISON - Assembly leaders for the second time have rejected a proposal from a Republican lawmaker to pull back Wisconsin's electoral votes cast in the 2020 election, which is illegal.
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 …
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ, RedState and HotAir
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 …
Bloomberg Law:
Biden FCC Nominee Settles Case That Spurred GOP Senator's Fight  —  A confidential settlement involving Federal Communications Commission nominee Gigi Sohn appears to undercut a key Republican senator's stated reason for opposing her nomination.  —  The delay in confirming Sohn …
Insider:
Dominion says there's no ‘realistic possibility’ that it'll settle its lawsuits with Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell, or Sidney Powell given the ‘devastating harm’ they've done to the company  — Dominion Voting Systems says it's unlikely to settle its defamation lawsuits over the 2020 election.
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
Breaking: AG to sue drugmaker Eli Lilly, Whitmer to announce plan to cap insulin costs  —  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will announce in her State of the State address Wednesday night she wants to sign a law chopping the cost of insulin for people with diabetes, and Attorney General Dana Nessel plans …
 
 
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Sydney Page / Washington Post:
New Mexico governor just signed on as a substitute teacher amid steep staff shortages
Discussion: Insider
Natalie O'Neill / New York Post:
Fauci says children younger than 4 will get three doses of COVID vaccines
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Rasmussen Reports:
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Discussion: Breitbart
Vincent Ni / The Guardian:
Low-carbon ambitions must not interfere with ‘normal life’, says Xi Jinping
CNN:
Top aide to Mark Meadows met with January 6 committee
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
John Archibald / al.com:
Brookside Police Chief Mike Jones resigns after AL.com report on traffic trap
Discussion: WTOP News and Reason
University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository:
Biden Approval in NH Plunges as Approval Among Democrats Falls 1/26/2022
Discussion: NRCC
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Raphael Warnock has amassed a $23M war chest for Senate reelection bid
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Canceled NY mask mandate is uncanceled again... for now
Discussion: Associated Press, Fox News and Politico
Kristen Jordan Shamus / Detroit Free Press:
For 1st time in Michigan history, more people died than were born in 2020
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
SALT change likely to be cut from bill, say Senate Democrats
 

 
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Financial Times:
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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