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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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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
‘A boom, then a monster sound’: 10 hurt after bridge over Pittsburgh's Frick Park collapses — This story was updated at 11:10 a.m. on Friday, January 28, 2022. — Ten people were injured Friday morning when a bridge that carries Forbes Avenue over Frick Park in Pittsburgh collapsed …
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NPR, Wall Street Journal, CBS Pittsburgh, Politico, The Daily Beast, POLITICUSUSA, Fox News, Bangor Daily News and Greensburg Tribune-Review
Associated Press:
Human chain formed to help after Pittsburgh bridge collapse — PITTSBURGH (AP) — A two-lane bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Friday, prompting rescuers to rappel nearly 150 feet (46 meters) while others formed a human chain to help rescue multiple people from a dangling bus.
Timothy Johnson / Media Matters for America:
New York Times cites conservative legal pundit with history of smearing the competence of women jurists of color — The pundit, Ed Whelan, was also responsible for smearing Christine Blasey Ford by promoting a conspiracy theory that she mistook Brett Kavanaugh for a doppleganger
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Slate, Raw Story and Press Watch
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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, Washington Post, Breitbart, New York Post, Insider, BuzzFeed News and Fox News
Mary Ziegler / Politico:
What Stephen Breyer's Replacement Won't Have
What Stephen Breyer's Replacement Won't Have
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New York Times, UPI, The Moderate Voice and Vanity Fair
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Supreme Court Risk
Biden's Supreme Court Risk
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Grid News, RedState, Washington Examiner, newsroom.co.nz, Fox News, The Hill, The American Spectator, One America News Network and Cracked Bowl
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Breyer: I'm Retiring, But Only When My Successor Is Confirmed
Breyer: I'm Retiring, But Only When My Successor Is Confirmed
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New York Times, Faster, Please! and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Lauren Lumpkin / Washington Post:
Incoming Georgetown Law administrator apologizes after tweets dean called ‘appalling’
Incoming Georgetown Law administrator apologizes after tweets dean called ‘appalling’
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The Hill, Chris's Newsletter, Reuters, WTOP News and The Daily Beast
Politico:
Dems to Biden: Move fast on SCOTUS; a tragedy could ensue
Dems to Biden: Move fast on SCOTUS; a tragedy could ensue
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CNN, HotAir, National Review, WV MetroNews, The B|E note, WTOP News, Washington Post, NBC News, RedState, The White House, YouTube, Supreme Court … and Townhall
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
New Georgetown Law Exec Deletes ‘Appalling’ Tweets About Biden SCOTUS Picks
New Georgetown Law Exec Deletes ‘Appalling’ Tweets About Biden SCOTUS Picks
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Washington Examiner, LAW.com, Outside the Beltway, TaxProf Blog, Insider, Washington Post and Raw Story
Lacie Pierson / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Justice touts achievements, tells haters to kiss Babydog's hiney in delayed State of the State address — NATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED, QUALITY LOCAL JOURNALISM.. — Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday used his second State of the State address as a victory lap for economic development and tourism in West Virginia …
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Politico and WV MetroNews
Ryan Randazzo / Arizona Republic:
Cyber Ninjas CEO participates in contentious deposition, says he's not ready to turn over audit records — Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan says he will not turn over records from the review of Maricopa County's 2020 election until he has a “clear” ruling he can appeal to the highest court.
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Raw Story
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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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
‘America First’ MAGA Tough Guys Are Modern-Day Neville Chamberlains
‘America First’ MAGA Tough Guys Are Modern-Day Neville Chamberlains
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Raw Story and Commentary Magazine
Rachel Bovard / The Federalist:
This Senate Rule Could Stop Democrats From Confirming Biden's SCOTUS Nominee — With the Senate split 50-50, the provision of Rule 26 that saved Lindsey Graham in 2020 could now doom a similar Democratic effort in 2022. — With Justice Stephen Breyer officially announcing his retirement on Thursday …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Let Kids Take Their Masks Off 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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Townhall
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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The Daily Caller, National Review and The Gateway Pundit
Angela Dewan / CNN:
Scientists slam Joe Rogan's podcast episode with Jordan Peterson as ‘absurd’ and ‘dangerous’ — (CNN)As podcaster Joe Rogan faces condemnation from medical scientists for spreading misinformation about vaccines and Covid-19, another interview by the controversial host this week has become …
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Watts Up With That? and The Guardian
Brett Tingley / The Drive:
A Chinese Satellite Just Grappled Another And Pulled It Out Of Orbit — A Chinese satellite was observed grabbing another satellite and pulling it out of its normal geosynchronous orbit and into a “super-graveyard drift orbit.” The maneuver raises questions about the potential applications …
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Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
VMI's first Black superintendent blasts White critics of diversity and equity reform — A scathing Facebook post from VMI leader Cedric T. Wins exposed the battle over the future of the nation's oldest state-supported military college — Retired Army Maj. Gen.Cedric T. Wins had a message he wanted to send.
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Maura Judkis / Washington Post:
The Bidens finally have a White House cat. World, meet Willow. — She's a gray-and-white tabby that the first lady met on the campaign trail in 2020. She has ‘plenty of room to smell and explore’ in her new home. — The long-awaited White House cat has joined the Biden family — and her name is Willow.
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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 …
Natalia Antonova / The Bulwark:
The Ghosts of Kyiv and the Shadow of War — Reflections on the spirit of Ukraine's capital, as worries of a Russian invasion grow. — In the last years of his life, my father would frequently toast his friends with the phrase, “Glory to Ukraine!” “Glory to the heroes!” their traditional reply went.
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Al Jazeera, Politico, The Daily Beast, WTOP News, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and TASS
David French / The Atlantic:
Declare Independence From COVID Partisanship — Competing COVID narratives are still costing lives and harming kids — One of the most important moments of my life was the day in 2016 when I divorced the Republican Party. I didn't divorce conservatism. I divorced the GOP.
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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Direct Left and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Anya Kamenetz / NPR:
After 2 years, growing calls to take masks off children in school — Kerry Dingle is a mother of two. She thinks masks should be optional for kids in schools and child care. And that makes her feel pretty lonely in Silver Spring, Md. — “As soon as you question 'Is it a good idea …
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Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
Books, speeches, hats for sale: Post-presidency, the Trumps try to make money the pre-presidency way — Donald Trump's advisers sent a “breaking” alert a few weeks before Christmas to his political supporters, informing them of a new opportunity to show their “loyalty” through a book of photographs.
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Insider
David M. Perry / CNN:
The real reason some people are so afraid of ‘Maus’ — ‘Maus’ author reacts to his book being banned — David M. Perry is a journalist and historian and co-author of “The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe.” He is a senior academic adviser in the history department of the University of Minnesota.
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Truth and Consequences, Weight of the World, Washington Post, Reason, WREG-TV, Vanity Fair and Gizmodo
Axios:
3. Hungary's quiet Democratic lobby — The Hungarian government — known for its links to the Trump administration and conservative supporters — is quietly working with a powerhouse public affairs shop stacked with Democratic talent, Axios' Lachlan Markay has learned.
Politico:
'The White House isn't supporting him': Biden's FDA pick left in limbo — President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration does not yet have the votes in the Senate needed to give the agency its first political leader in more than a year.
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HotAir