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James Politi / Financial Times:
US plans sanctions against Vladimir Putin's inner circle if Russia moves on Ukraine — Measures would punish country's elite and come as UK warns of similar penalties — The US has drawn up sanctions targeting Vladimir Putin's inner circle and its ties to the west as Washington broadens …
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
The Hard-Line Russian Advisers Who Have Putin's Ear
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Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
US has identified Russian elites who will be sanctioned if Putin invades Ukraine
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The Guardian, New York Times and The Western Journal
Courtney McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Senate Nears Completion of Measures Targeting Russian Economy in Event of Ukraine Invasion
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump's Grip on G.O.P. Faces New Strains — Shifts in polls of Republicans, disagreements on endorsements and jeers over vaccines hint at daylight between the former president and the right-wing movement he spawned. — About halfway into his Texas rally on Saturday evening …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Congress confronts a February deluge — DRIVING THE DAY — Lawmakers return from recess this week to a massive February to-do list before President JOE BIDEN's March 1 State of the Union address. And the pressure is on: The White House and vulnerable House Democrats …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
North Carolina superintendent abruptly removes MLK-themed novel from 10th grade class — An acclaimed MLK-themed novel was removed from a 10th-grade English class in North Carolina. Haywood County Superintendent Dr. Bill Nolte told Popular Information that he pulled the book …
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New York Times:
Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S. — Challenges to books about sexual and racial identity are nothing new in American schools, but the tactics and politicization are. — In Wyoming, a county prosecutor's office considered charges against library employees for stocking books like “Sex Is a Funny Word” and “This Book Is Gay.”
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Financial Times:
‘Pandemic of the unboosted’: low US Covid jab uptake piles pressure on hospitals … Almost half of the US Covid-19 hospitalisations this winter could have been averted if the country had matched the vaccination coverage of leading European countries, according to a Financial Times analysis …
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Daniel Ek / Spotify:
Spotify's Platform Rules and Approach to COVID-19 — A decade ago, we created Spotify to enable the work of creators around the world to be heard and enjoyed by listeners around the world. To our very core, we believe that listening is everything. Pick almost any issue and you will find people and opinions on either side of it.
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Joe Rogan Apologizes, Spotify Publishes Content Policy in Response to Neil Young Outcry
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Neil Irwin / Axios:
White House braces for bad Omicron jobs numbers — Job growth numbers may be about to turn negative for the first time since President Biden took office, and the White House is seeking to get ahead of potential negative headlines. — The big picture: Vast numbers of Americans missed work …
BBC:
Sue Gray finds ‘failures of leadership’ in No 10 — Sue Gray report update - watch BBC News for the latest reaction — Play video Sue Gray report update - watch BBC News for the latest reaction — Summary — An initial version of Sue Gray's highly-anticipated report …
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Insider, The Guardian, Raw Story and Metro.co.uk
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
What Trump Is Pushing the GOP to Do About Jan. 6 if They Win the Midterms — Sure, the conspiracy theory that the FBI was behind the Trump-fueled Capitol riot is bogus. But that's not stopping Trump from encouraging the faithful to investigate it. — Since last year, Republicans …
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNN, BizPac Review, Raw Story, Yahoo News and CBS News
CNN:
Exclusive: Kamala Harris drove within several yards of pipe bomb at DNC headquarters during Capitol riot — (CNN)Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris drove within several yards of a pipe bomb lying next to a bench outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters on January 6, 2021 …
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The Hill, New York Post, Mediaite and Raw Story
Washington Post:
New York lawmakers draw redistricting map that boosts Democrats — Democratic state legislators in New York released a congressional redistricting map Sunday that redrew House lines to give Democrats as many as three more seats at a time when the party's majority is in jeopardy.
Politico:
The Jan. 6 panel's on a hot streak against Trump World. Now what? — The Jan. 6 select committee is on a winning streak. Now comes the hard part. — In the past few weeks, the panel has prevailed against Donald Trump at the Supreme Court, obtained pivotal documents related …
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Raw Story
Jack Posobiec / Newsweek:
This Year's Olympics Will Double as Xi Jinping's Coronation — “To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence. Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” So said General Sun Tzu around 500 BC. — Chinese Communist Party chairman …
Sarah Fortinsky / CNN:
Trump says he wanted Pence to overturn the 2020 election and falsely claims it was vice president's ‘right’ — ‘He must be kidding’: Lawmaker reacts after Trump goes after Pence — (CNN)Former President Donald Trump in a statement Sunday said he wanted then-Vice President Mike Pence …
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The Hill, Insider, Mediaite, Rolling Stone, HuffPost and Washington Examiner
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
DMFI PAC announces first slate of House endorsements — Among 15 pro-Israel Democrats are 10 incumbents, four open-seat candidates and one challenger — JESSICA RINALDI/THE BOSTON GLOBE VIA GETTY IMAGES — DMFI PAC, the political arm of Democratic Majority for Israel …
Washington Examiner:
The Black Lives Matter scam — The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation did not raise a single penny for the first six years of its existence. It couldn't. — The foundation wasn't even registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a charity.
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Critics say Ginni Thomas's activism is a Supreme Court conflict. Under court rules, only her husband can decide if that's true. — Ginni Thomas's name stood out among the signatories of a December letter from conservative leaders, which blasted the work of the House committee investigating …
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Raw Story
Jane Kitchen / Common Sense:
Last Year, I Was a Bryn Mawr Girl. Now I'm at Hillsdale. — Growing up in a conservative town, I always dreamed of attending college with liberals like me. The pandemic changed everything. — My family is liberal and not at all religious. Depending on where you grew up …
David Eggert / Associated Press:
John James announces run for Michigan congressional seat — LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan businessman, military veteran and two-time Republican Senate candidate John James announced Monday he will run for an open House seat in the Detroit area. — The 10th District, newly created through …
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FOX 35 Orlando:
Deputies investigating fight involving demonstrators wearing Nazi symbols, yelling anti-Semitic slurs — ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - The Orange County Sheriff's Office said its deputies responded to a fight between a group of demonstrators wearing Nazi symbols and someone not affiliated with the group.
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WKMG and Florida Politics
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Rents are up 40 percent in some cities, forcing millions to find another place to live — Rising rents are expected to be a driving force in inflation this year and have been an ongoing policy challenge for the Biden administration — Kiara Age moved in less than a year ago and now it's …
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HotAir and Political Wire
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Amnesty International describes Israel as an apartheid state in new report — Amnesty International, a widely respected human rights group, plans to release a report on Tuesday accusing Israel of committing apartheid and describing its existence as a Jewish state as a deprivation of Palestinians' basic rights.
Breitbart:
US Attorney Doc: IRS Issued Grand Jury Subpoena to JPMorgan for Hunter, James Biden Bank Records In Probe into Biden Family's China Connections — A criminal IRS investigation into Hunter Biden — President Biden's son — appears to have convened a grand jury as far back as May 2019 …
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