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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Republicans rebuke Liz Cheney in unprecedented moves — Party leaders meeting in Salt Lake City move a censure resolution against the congresswoman from Wyoming and prepare to fund her primary opponent — SALT LAKE CITY — Republican leaders forged an agreement this week to potentially fund …
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NBC News:
At RNC gathering, rift emerges between Trump's interests and the party's — SALT LAKE CITY — None of the officials assembled here for the Republican National Committee's winter meetings are writing off former President Donald Trump. They all recognize his singular hold over the party's electoral base.
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Politico:
GOP set to rebuke Cheney, Kinzinger — SALT LAKE CITY - Members of the Republican National Committee are pushing forward with a resolution to censure Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, while stopping short of calling for their expulsion from the House Republican Conference.
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
CNN staffers grill WarnerMedia boss over Jeff Zucker resignation — The sudden resignation of Jeff Zucker as president of CNN has shaken up the troops at the cable news network. — Jason Kilar, chief executive of the cable news channel's parent firm, WarnerMedia, heard it firsthand during …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“This Does Not Fit the Crime”: CNN Employees Continue to Push Back on the Fall of Jeff Zucker — One reporter told WarnerMedia chief Jason Kilar during a tense meeting on Wednesday that she was fielding calls from congresspeople, including a member of the January 6 committee …
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Forbes, New York Post, Puck, National Review and HotAir
Tatiana Siegel / Rolling Stone:
CNN Probe Eyes Jeff Zucker's Ties to Andrew Cuomo — The ongoing investigation, which exposed an affair that led to Zucker's abrupt resignation yesterday, has expanded to include possible improprieties during Cuomo's tenure as governor of New York, sources tell Rolling Stone
Noreen Malone / Slate:
Jeff Zucker's Resignation From CNN Doesn't Add Up—Until You Notice How It Happened
Jeff Zucker's Resignation From CNN Doesn't Add Up—Until You Notice How It Happened
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Fox News, Breitbart, New York Times, Politico and The Daily Caller
Ken Moritsugu / Associated Press:
Russia, China push back against US in pre-Olympics summit — BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of Russia and China pushed back against U.S. pressure on Friday, declaring their opposition to any expansion of NATO and affirming that the island of Taiwan is a part of China, as they met hours before the Winter Olympics kicked off in Beijing.
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Haley: Americans Face ‘Enormous Risk the Minute They Set Foot in China’ for Olympics
Haley: Americans Face ‘Enormous Risk the Minute They Set Foot in China’ for Olympics
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and Washington Post
John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC Opens Olympics With ‘Worst Hand Imaginable’
NBC Opens Olympics With ‘Worst Hand Imaginable’
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Wall Street Journal and Morning Consult
Wall Street Journal:
Cyberattack on News Corp, Believed Linked to China, Targeted Emails of Journalists, Others — The attack, discovered on Jan. 20, affected publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and the company's U.K. news operation — News Corp was the target of a hack that accessed emails …
CNN:
Arizona Republican House speaker effectively dooms GOP bill to allow state legislature to reject election results — (CNN)A Republican bill that would have overhauled elections in Arizona — including giving the state legislature the power to reject election results — proved to be too much even for state GOP leaders this week.
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National Zero, KASW-TV and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Facebook's dream of connecting the whole world is dead — The platform's first-ever decline in active users is a landmark event in social media history — For 18 years, ever since Mark Zuckerberg started it in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook has been growing.
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Agence France-Presse, The Western Journal, Protocol, New York Post and HotAir
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Washington Post:
Islamic State's ‘ghost’ of a leader was plotting comeback when U.S. commandos cornered him — Captured Islamic State fighters described him as a “ghost,” a mysterious and nearly invisible leader with little practical sway over his weakened terrorist organization.
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Washington Post:
Prison break: ISIS fighters launched a brazen attack to free their comrades
Prison break: ISIS fighters launched a brazen attack to free their comrades
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Inside Biden's decision to target ISIS's elusive leader
Inside Biden's decision to target ISIS's elusive leader
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New York Times, Political Wire, Slate, Al Jazeera, The Hill, Washington Examiner and Defense One
Bernie Moreno For Ohio:
Bernie Moreno Suspends U.S. Senate Campaign; Commits to Support Trump Endorsed Candidate — Ensure Republican Control of the U.S. Senate Seat and Focus Resources on Retiring Tim Ryan — The following statement can be attributed to Bernie Moreno: — “I asked for a private meeting …
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Politico:
Why Stephanie Cutter says Dems need a new SCOTUS strategy — As Justice Stephen Breyer prepares to retire, the White House is racing to select his replacement. Names of successors have been floated, the vetting-by-press has begun, members of Congress are already moving to push for their favored picks.
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Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Schumer corrects Senate remarks overlooking Thurgood Marshall's tenure on Supreme Court
Schumer corrects Senate remarks overlooking Thurgood Marshall's tenure on Supreme Court
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, Politico, New York Post, The Daily Caller and IJR
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
The Black woman sentenced to six years in prison over a voting error — Pamela Moses was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register despite a felony conviction but officials admitted making a series of mistakes — For the last few months, I've been following the case of Pamela Moses …
Alejandro Ramirez / Nashville Scene:
They're Burning Books in Tennessee — Greg Locke's zealots set fire to sacred millennial texts like Harry Potter and Twilight — Last week, McMinn County made news when the school board voted to ban beloved graphic novel Maus — a Holocaust story told with anthropomorphic mice and cats — due to instances of swear words and nudity.
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New York Daily News:
NYC public school cafeterias going vegan on Fridays — Hold the meat — and the cheese. — New York City public school cafeterias are going vegan-only on Fridays under a new policy from famously health-conscious Mayor Adams, who has touted the benefits of a vegan diet.
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Althouse
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Michael Flynn Is Still at War — The general tried to persuade Donald Trump to use the military to overturn the 2020 election. A year later, he and his followers are fighting the same battle by other means. — On Nov. 25, 2020, President Donald J. Trump announced via Twitter …
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Salon, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Gita Jackson / VICE:
Dystopic TikTok Trend Demands Amazon Workers Dance for Surveillance Cameras — TikTok users leave a note for their delivery drivers asking that they dance for the camera. Then, they put it online for the enjoyment of strangers. — GJ — Amazon drivers have to endure many indignities on the job.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Covid-19 Commission Modeled on 9/11 Inquiry Draws Bipartisan Backing — A broad, bipartisan group of senators is coalescing around a plan for an independent panel to investigate the origins of the coronavirus and the U.S. response. — WASHINGTON — A broad and bipartisan group of senators …
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Des Moines Register:
Kim Reynolds ending COVID disaster declaration, shutting down vaccination and case count websites … Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Thursday that she will soon end public health disaster proclamations that Iowa has operated under since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly two years ago.
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Lexi Lonas / The Hill:
Iowa announces upcoming end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency
Iowa announces upcoming end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency
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UPI, The Gateway Pundit and Iowa Office of the Governor
Washington Examiner:
Joe Biden News — Joe Biden is the country's 46th president. Once one of Congress's youngest senators, Biden, 78, will be the oldest president sworn into office after Ronald Reagan left the White House in 1989 at the age of 77. President Barack Obama's two-term vice president …
Politico:
‘Ground up and spit out’: Inside the Hill staffer Instagram rebellion — Pay so low that aides survive on food stamps. Office cultures that drive committed employees to seek mental health support. Staffers of color feeling cut off from pursuing senior roles.
Grace Schepis / The Crimson White:
Lucy-Graves Hall: UA building named for Autherine Lucy Foster on anniversary of enrollment — The University of Alabama will rename Graves Hall to Lucy-Graves Hall. Autherine Lucy Foster, the first African American student to enroll in the University, will share the building name with Bibb Graves …
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Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
On inflation, we can learn from the mistakes of the past — or repeat them — A year ago I warned that “there is a chance that macroeconomic stimulus on a scale closer to World War II levels than normal recession levels will set off inflation pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation.”
Politico:
It's not just the pandemic, stupid — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. With Allie Bice. — The Biden White House may be plotting out a new phase of the pandemic, one in which Americans live with the virus …