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G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’ — The Republican National Committee voted to censure Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in the inquiry into the deadly riot at the Capitol. — WASHINGTON — The Republican Party on Friday officially declared …
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‘Trump Is Wrong,’ Pence Says of False Claim About Overturning Election — Former Vice President Mike Pence said in a speech on Friday that he had no right to overturn the 2020 election, as the former president has falsely claimed. — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday offered …
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Jan. 6 Defendant Seeks to Subpoena Trump as Witness at Trial — The request to have the former president testify faces an uphill fight, but it illustrates efforts by defendants to place him at the center of their cases. — Almost from the moment that the first rioters were arrested …
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‘President Trump is wrong’: Pence rejects claim he could have ‘overturned the election’ — Former VP Pence: ‘President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election.’ — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday rejected former President Donald Trump's claim that he could have …
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Pence says Trump was wrong when he claimed the vice president could have overturned the 2020 election — The former vice president pushed back on the false claim that he had the power to change the outcome of the election. — Former vice president Mike Pence said former president Donald Trump was …
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Pence, defending his actions on Jan. 6, rebukes Trump as ‘wrong’
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Morgan Anderson / CheneyForWyoming.com:
Cheney: I Do Not Recognize Those In My Party Who Have Abandoned The Constitution To Embrace Donald Trump
Cheney: I Do Not Recognize Those In My Party Who Have Abandoned The Constitution To Embrace Donald Trump
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Pence says ‘Trump is wrong’ to say then-vice president had the right to overturn 2020 election
Pence says ‘Trump is wrong’ to say then-vice president had the right to overturn 2020 election
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Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Pence Says Trump Was Wrong to Say He Could Overturn Election
Pence Says Trump Was Wrong to Say He Could Overturn Election
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Exclusive: Newly obtained records show Trump and Jim Jordan spoke at length on morning of January 6 — (CNN)The House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection is now in possession of White House records that provide new details about a phone call Donald Trump made to Republican …
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Gabby Orr / CNN:
In censure of Cheney and Kinzinger, RNC calls events of January 6 ‘legitimate political discourse’
In censure of Cheney and Kinzinger, RNC calls events of January 6 ‘legitimate political discourse’
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Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
Romney and other Republicans decry RNC censuring Liz Cheney and Kinzinger
Romney and other Republicans decry RNC censuring Liz Cheney and Kinzinger
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Michael Avenatti convicted of stealing $300k from Stormy Daniels — Attorney-turned-criminal Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of swiping nearly $300,000 in book-advance money from his then-client Stormy Daniels. — The now twice-convicted felon — and one time rising star …
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Reactions to day one of the Sarah Palin vs NY Times trial (including from Michael Avenatti)
Reactions to day one of the Sarah Palin vs NY Times trial (including from Michael Avenatti)
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How Jeff Zucker Turned CNN Into A Cult — In movies and history books when someone is fighting with the French Resistance against the Nazis nobody cares if they are cheating on their spouse, or engaged in dubious ethical practices. It's an existential crisis, and normal rules don't apply.
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POLITICO Playbook PM: Inside CNN's explosive Zucker meeting — MUST-READ OF THE DAY: BEHIND THE SCENES AT CNN — WarnerMedia CEO JASON KILAR held a meeting with CNN staff on Wednesday night in an attempt to explain the sudden dismissal of JEFF ZUCKER as president of the network. It didn't go well.
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James Gordon / Daily Mail:
Chris Cuomo ‘to get $9m from CNN’: Fired anchor 'will be paid half his contract to stop him filing lawsuit claiming that Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust …
Chris Cuomo ‘to get $9m from CNN’: Fired anchor 'will be paid half his contract to stop him filing lawsuit claiming that Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust …
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Revealed: Trump reviewed draft order that authorized voting machines to be seized — Then president, during contentious December 2020 meeting, also agreed to appoint Sidney Powell as special counsel to investigate fraud — Weeks after the 2020 election, Donald Trump reviewed a draft executive order …
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Jon Stewart sides with Joe Rogan as more artists leave Spotify: ‘This overreaction is a mistake’ — Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and more have removed their catalogues from the streaming platform — Video mash-up compares Joe Rogan's apology to what he says on podcast
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Judge temporarily halts Youngkin order making masks optional in Va. schools after lawsuit from school boards — An Arlington judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of Gov. Glenn Youngkin's mask-optional order for schools — a major victory for the seven school boards …
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Who's Behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, The Secretive NFT Brand? These Two, For Starters. — The buzzy NFT collection has raked in millions and the eager support of dozens of celebrities. But its founders' anonymity raises questions about accountability in the age of crypto. — Copy
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US grants sanctions relief to Iran as nuke talks in balance — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday restored some sanctions relief to Iran's atomic program as talks aimed at salvaging the languishing 2015 nuclear deal enter a critical phase.
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The Hidden Failure of the World's Biggest Privacy Law — The EU's landmark privacy law, GDPR, was supposed to change the world of tech privacy forever. What the hell happened? — Alerts — This week, European authorities struck a massive blow to the digital data-mining industrial complex …
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A Black Iraqi's Sudden Career in TV News: ‘They Wanted to See All Colors’ — Randa Abd Al-Aziz was joking with friends in a Baghdad cafe when she got a surprise job offer: broadcasting the news in Iraq, whose Black citizens have little media presence and even less power.
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Bombshell picture shows Boris Johnson holding can of beer at lockdown birthday party — Sources said that pictures taken by the official No10 photographer have been handed over to Scotland Yard for their investigation into the Downing Street parties - including one of the PM with a can of beer
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Sixteen Penn swimmers say transgender teammate Lia Thomas should not be allowed to compete — Sixteen members of the University of Pennsylvania women's swimming team sent a letter to school and Ivy League officials Thursday asking that they not take legal action challenging the NCAA's recently updated transgender policy.
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Lia Thomas should not be allowed in women's competitions, 16 UPenn swimmers argue
Lia Thomas should not be allowed in women's competitions, 16 UPenn swimmers argue
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ESPN Guy Says China's Genocide is No Worse Than Red States Requiring Voter ID — The U.S. declared last year that the actions against Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China as genocide. But according to ESPN's J. A. Adande, committing genocide against Uyghurs is no worse than red states requiring voter ID.
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A new GOP bill would give workers an alternative to unions. Republicans should get behind it. — Republicans such as Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Rep. Jim Banks (Ind.), the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, have been working on ways to make the GOP policy agenda align better with its increasingly working-class voters.
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The Anti-Semitism In Anti-Whiteness — Whoopi Goldberg just brought it out into the open. … Whoopi Goldberg, I think it's safe to say, is not a deep thinker, and wouldn't claim to be. She's also clearly not an anti-Semite. She's a talented entertainer and merely reflects many …
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Neo-Nazi group's leader among 3 arrested in attack at Orlando demonstration — Three members of the National Socialist Movement, including Kissimmee-based leader Burt Colucci, were arrested after a scuffle during a demonstration at Waterford Lakes last weekend made national headlines …
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Amir Locke's Death Should Incense Anyone Who Cares About Gun Rights — An officer with the Minneapolis Police Department SWAT team shot and killed a 22-year-old man early Wednesday morning during the execution of a no-knock raid, reinvigorating debate around a law-enforcement tactic that many say is rife for abuse.
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Is There a Market for Saving Local News? — Jump-starting journalism in smaller, economically depressed places requires a degree of patience, and some tolerance for risk. — “The Cleveland Press, dead at 103.” That was WEWS Cleveland's proclamation on June 17, 1982, the day the paper …