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Politico:
13 Legal Experts on How Breyer's Replacement Will Change the Court — The news that Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring from the Supreme Court galvanized the legal and political worlds this week. With so much riding on every SCOTUS seat, it's impossible to ignore how big the consequences might be.
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Washington Examiner, Insider, Breitbart, Raw Story, Fox News and BuzzFeed News
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Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
New Georgetown Law Exec Deletes ‘Appalling’ Tweets About Biden SCOTUS Picks — ‘LESSER BLACK WOMAN’ — Less than a week after being hired to head a high-profile research department at Georgetown Law School, the former head of a conservative D.C. think tank predicted that Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee …
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Outside the Beltway, LAW.com, Raw Story and Politico
Politico:
Dems to Biden: Move fast on SCOTUS; a tragedy could ensue — Democrats are preparing a mad-dash confirmation for President Joe Biden's Supreme Court pick, fearful that with an evenly divided Senate, the door to act could close at any moment. — Now, they just need Biden …
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CNN, The American Spectator, The B|E note, WV MetroNews, WTOP News, Washington Post, NBC News, RedState, Townhall, YouTube and Vanity Fair
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Newsmax host: Is Breyer's retirement the way Hillary ends up as president?
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Politico, Raw Story, Mediaite, National Review and Boston Herald
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Breyer: I'm Retiring, But Only When My Successor Is Confirmed
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New York Times, Faster, Please! and The Daily Caller
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Bidens welcome Willow the cat to the White House — The Biden family finally has a cat. — First lady Jill Biden's office has announced America's first family is excited to welcome a two-year-old, gray-and-white-striped feline named Willow to the White House.
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Relax, America: Willow, the White House Cat, Has Arrived — She interrupted a campaign speech. Jill Biden wanted to keep her. — WASHINGTON — The cat has landed. — After keeping the nation on tenterhooks since even before taking office, the Biden White House announced on Friday …
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Daily Mail, CBS News and HuffPost
Maura Judkis / Washington Post:
The Bidens finally have a White House cat. World, meet Willow.
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NPR, Associated Press and Fox News
Daren Fonda / Barron's Online:
White House Wants Crypto Rules as a Matter of National Security
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Bitcoin Magazine, BullRun Forever and RedState, more at Techmeme »
CNN:
Ukrainian official tells CNN Biden's call with Ukrainian President ‘did not go well’ but White House disputes account — (CNN)A call between US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday “did not go well,” a senior Ukrainian official told CNN, amid disagreements over the …
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Putin Can't Be Appeased — Vladimir Putin has deployed some 100,000 troops to Russia's border with Ukraine. He has moved fighter jets and antiaircraft defenses into neighboring Belarus. He has around 6,000 soldiers, as well as air and naval assets, in Crimea, the peninsula in south Ukraine that he annexed illegally eight years ago.
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HotAir, Washington Examiner, Politico, The Hill, Bangor Daily News, Just Security, Fox News, Japan Times, The Blue State Conservative and Uncommon Sense
Richard Branson / Virgin.com:
My thoughts on Ukraine and Russia
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Friendly Fire Newsletter, Washington Post and The Hill
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
‘America First’ MAGA Tough Guys Are Modern-Day Neville Chamberlains
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Raw Story, Commentary Magazine and New York Times
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Pittsburgh bridge collapse injures 10 on day Biden to visit city to talk infrastructure — A Pittsburgh bridge collapsed early Friday, according to authorities, injuring 10 people just hours before President Biden was scheduled to visit the city to talk about infrastructure.
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CBS Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, HotAir, NBC News, The Hill, Washington Examiner, New York Post, ABC13, Mercury News and Political Wire
Joanne Kenen / Politico:
The NYT's polarizing pandemic pundit — THE NIGHTLY READS ‘THE MORNING’ — With 5 million readers, David Leonhardt, the author of The New York Times “The Morning” newsletter, is arguably the most influential of the Covid influencers. — He has positioned himself as the pundit who punches holes …
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Politico
Kaivan K. Shroff / The Harvard Crimson:
Harvard's Lawyers Should Demand Kavanaugh's Recusal — “What goes around comes around.” — These were the words of now Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh during the opening statement at his confirmation hearing. In those unprecedentedly partisan and hostile remarks …
Neal Augenstein / WTOP News:
Judge reverses decision: Teen convicted of Loudoun Co. high school sexual assaults will not go on sex offender registry … The teenager convicted of two assaults at separate high schools in Loudoun County, Virginia, will not have to register as a sex offender after a juvenile court judge reconsidered her initial ruling.
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The Daily Wire, New York Post, Louder With Crowder, Redux and TheBlaze
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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Va. judge reverses decision to place teen on sex offender registry in bathroom assault case
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The Daily Caller
mcminn.k12.tn.us:
McMinn County Board of Education Statement … Find Us — McMinn County School District3 South Hill StreetAthens, Tennessee TN 37303Phone: 423-745-1612Fax: 423-744-1641 — Log In — Quick Links — Current Board Agenda — School Calendars
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JNS.org, Fox News, The Atlantic, Balloon Juice and Wall Street Journal
Fox News:
California trans child molester, 26, gets 2 years in juvenile facility thanks to progressive DA Gascon — Tubbs, 26, pleaded guilty earlier this month to molesting the girl in a woman's bathroom on Dec. 31, 2014, when she was 17 — Fox News Flash top headlines for January 27
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Los Angeles Times and The Gateway Pundit
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Marjorie Hernandez / New York Post:
California child molester sentenced to two years in juvenile facility
Anneken Tappe / CNN:
The economy boomed in Biden's first year. His second will be harder — New York (CNN Business)The US economic recovery from the depths of the Covid pandemic continued through the end of last year. — But the strong finish to 2021 likely won't last into this year.
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U.S. Bureau …, Kevin Drum, Forbes, Mercury News and CBS News
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Talmon Joseph Smith / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Grew 1.7% in 4th Quarter, Capping a Strong Year
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HotAir
Associated Press:
Key Pa. Dems to miss Biden visit, cite scheduling conflicts — HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden will appear in Pittsburgh on Friday as an opening step in a broader campaign to promote the White House's achievements in key states before the midterm elections.
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ABC News, Fox News, Breitbart, RedState, CNN, Politico, The HEAT with Dan Adams, The Daily Caller and Twitchy
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Mandatory School Masking Should End After the Omicron Surge — Elissa Perkins, the director of infectious disease management in the emergency department of the Boston Medical Center, told me she spent most of 2020 “imploring everybody I could in every forum that I could to mask.”
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The Western Journal
New York Post:
NYC teen rapper charged with shooting NYPD cop walking free on bond — A 16-year-old, up-and-coming rapper charged with shooting an NYPD cop in the Bronx walked free on bond Thursday — and cops are fuming over it. — Camrin Williams, who is also known by the rap name C Blu …
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National Review
Taisha Walker / Click2Houston.com:
'I've never missed a vote': 95-year-old World War II Veteran says his mail-in ballot application has been denied twice due to new requirements — HOUSTON - A Harris County man fears new voting laws may prevent him from voting by absentee ballot for the first time in his lifetime.
John Sexton / HotAir:
Washington Examiner: BLM charity has no office and no known director — Recently, Marxist Black Lives Matter co-founded Patrisse Cullors claimed that backlash over her home-buying spree last year was an actual attempt to get her assassinated. Cullors subsequently stepped down from leadership …
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Washington Examiner
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Simon Carswell / The Irish Times:
Russian embassy disputes claims of ‘absolute guarantee’ to Irish fishermen on naval exercise impact — Military exercises will be carried out 240km off Co Cork from February 3rd to 8th — about 18 hours ago Updated: about 10 hours ago — Russia's ambassador to Ireland has given Irish fishermen …
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Irish News, IrishCentral, Euractiv and TheJournal.ie
David K. Li / NBC News:
Stephanie Ruhle set to take ‘The 11th Hour’ slot, while ‘Morning Joe’ expanding — Veteran anchor and reporter Stephanie Ruhle will be the new host of MSNBC's “The 11th Hour” while the cable network's “Morning Joe” is set to expand to an additional fourth hour, the network's president announced Thursday.
Patricia McCabe / Supreme Court of the United States:
STATEMENTS FROM THE SUPREME COURT REGARDING JUSTICE STEPHEN G. BREYER'S RETIREMENT — Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.: — Justice Stephen G. Breyer is an energetic jurist and dear friend. He has rendered nearly half a century of distinguished public service to our country …
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Washington Post and Reason
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Roosevelt Room / The White House:
Remarks by President Biden on the Retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
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RedState, Evie Magazine, NBC News, James's Newsletter and SCOTUSblog
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