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11:25 PM ET, February 8, 2022

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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
McConnell calls Jan. 6 a ‘violent insurrection,’ breaking with RNC  —  McConnell: January 6 was ‘violent insurrection’ after a legitimate election  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell disagreed Tuesday with the Republican National Committee's recent censure of two GOP lawmakers …
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Ronna McDaniel / Townhall:
The Media Is Distorting Republican Censure of Cheney, Kinzinger  —  If corporate news media wants to know why Americans don't trust it anymore, they should look no further than the shameful, outrageous, and patently false coverage of the resolution adopted by the RNC to censure Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
‘Legitimate political discourse’: Three words about Jan. 6 spark rift among Republicans
New York Times:
New York joins several other U.S. states in rolling back mask mandates as infections fall.  —  Gov. Kathy Hochul will drop New York's stringent indoor mask mandate on Wednesday, ending a requirement that businesses ask customers for proof of full vaccination or require mask-wearing at all times …
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Bobby Burack / OutKick:
More Unreleased Stacey Abrams Maskless School Photos  —  Stacey Abrams' recent visit to an elementary school is more cringeworthy than we thought.  —  OutKick has obtained more photos from Abrams' visit to Glennwood Elementary School last week, showing how Abrams spent the entire day maskless while the children remained masked up.
Kiran Stacey / Financial Times:
‘Full blown’ pandemic phase of Covid nearly over in US, declares Fauci  —  Biden's top medical adviser says Americans will soon make ‘own decisions’ on dealing with virus  —  The US is heading out of the “full blown” pandemic phase of Covid-19, the president's chief medical adviser said …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Steve Reilly / Grid News:
The hacked account and suspicious donations behind the Canadian trucker protests  —  The jumble of misinformation, online fundraising groups and amplification from right-wing political figures suggests there's more to these protests than meets the eye.  —  Hundreds of people have been camped …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Rep. Cori Bush isn't backing down on “defund the police” slogan  —  Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) says she's not going to stop using the slogan “defund the police” ahead of this fall's midterms — even though some of her colleagues have made that request.  —  Why it matters: Progressives …
Discussion: Fox News, RedState and Political Wire
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Two Arrested for Alleged Conspiracy to Launder $4.5 Billion in Stolen Cryptocurrency
Carlos Frías / Miami Herald:
New York's Cafe Habana removes info about Che and Fidel from website  —  HOME THINGS TO DO FOOD CLUB + BARS MORE  —  A Mexican hangout where the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Che Guevara plotted the Cuban revolution is the inspiration behind a New York City restaurant opening a location soon in downtown Miami.
Discussion: Instapundit and The Daily Caller
Aram Roston / Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE FBI probes pre-Capitol riot meeting of far-right groups … The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a meeting in a downtown DC garage the day before the January 6 Capitol Hill riot between the then-leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, the now-indicted leader …
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Bradley Jones / Pew Research Center:
Fewer Americans now say Trump bears a lot of responsibility for the Jan. 6 riot
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
FBI arrests Trump supporter who stormed Capitol while on bail for attempted murder
Discussion: Insider and Law & Crime
Washington Post:
Virginia Senate Democrats join GOP on amendment to allow parents to opt out of school mask mandates  —  RICHMOND — Senate Democrats who have been howling over Gov. Glenn Youngkin's executive order making masks optional in K-12 schools got on board with the idea Tuesday …
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Jeremiah Poff / Washington Examiner:
Youngkin and conservatives claim vindication as Democrats back off mask mandates
Dan Margolies / KCUR 89.3:
Missouri Supreme Court disciplines St. Louis lawyers who waved guns at BLM protesters  —  The McCloskeys drew national headlines when they confronted a group of mostly Black protesters who had entered their gated community en route to demonstrate in front of the nearby home of a former St. Louis mayor in June 2020.
Discussion: Associated Press
Emily Peck / Axios:
Male economists are freaking out over a NYT profile  —  A handful of prominent male economists, including former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, are freaking out — mostly on Twitter — about a weekend New York Times profile of economist Stephanie Kelton, known for her work on Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT.
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
No Attack on Voting Rights Is Too Racist for This Supreme Court  —  The court's decision to let Alabama's new redistricting map remain in place opens the door to a season of racist gerrymandering.  —  I honestly do not know what kind of attack a state would have to launch against the voting rights …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Washington Post
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Steve Vladeck / MSNBC:   Supreme Court's Alabama travesty and its worn-out ‘shadow docket’ defense
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Doug Emhoff, husband of vice president, evacuated from D.C. school after bomb threat  —  Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Harris, was evacuated from a D.C. public school on Tuesday afternoon after a bomb threat, officials said.  —  A Secret Service agent told Emhoff “we have to go” …
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Why Didn't Vanity Fair Break the Jeffrey Epstein Story?  —  The former editor Graydon Carter and a journalist, Vicky Ward, give conflicting accounts of why the magazine didn't publish sexual-abuse allegations in 2003.  —  “Ghislaine Maxwell is arguably the most hated woman in the world.
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Chad P. Bown / PIIE:
China bought none of the extra $200 billion of US exports in Trump's trade deal  —  Image credit: Oriental Image via Reuters Connect/Li Xiaofei  —  Yilin Wang provided outstanding data assistance, and Nia Kitchin, Melina Kolb, and Oliver Ward assisted with graphics.
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
McConnell dismisses Trump criticism, saying it's no threat to his leadership role  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is shrugging off Donald Trump's campaign to oust him as the top Senate Republican, chuckling that he views “Old Crow,” the former president's derisive nickname for him, as a compliment.
Discussion: The Hill
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker apologizes to CBC chair for allegedly telling her to ‘kiss my a—’  —  Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) apologized to Congressional Black Caucus chair Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) after he allegedly told her to “kiss my a—” in response to her request for him to wear a mask before taking a train inside Capitol Hill.
Discussion: Political Wire
Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
Oregon GOP gubernatorial candidate admits he and wife belonged to swingers group  —  A top candidate in the Republican primary for Oregon governor has admitted that he and his wife had explored a swinging lifestyle before deciding that swapping partners wasn't for them, according to a report.
New York Times:
Europeans Pursue Diplomacy Amid Mixed Signals on Russian Aims in Ukraine  —  President Emmanuel Macron of France said time was needed to solve the crisis, as the Kremlin refuted reports that he and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had made progress toward de-escalation.  —  Here's what you need to know:
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Feds Arrest Capitol Rioter Who Allegedly Shouted 'Let's Go!'  While Fighting ‘the Commies’  —  FIGHTING THE BAD FIGHT  —  The Justice Department announced the arrest of the latest Capitol rioter Tuesday: Eric Gerwatowski, 31, of New Hyde Park, New York.  He's been charged with civil disorder …
David Wallace-Wells / Vulture:
Lived Through This … In his new collection, The Nineties: A Book, the critic Chuck Klosterman works ground up from culture to build a sort of mood-board history of a decade that floats a little out of focus in the national memory: close enough to feel familiar, far away enough to feel weird.
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
What about Black students' ‘discomfort’?  —  Of all the attempts around the country to coddle the snowflakes among us who can't handle the reality that our shared history is equal parts noble and brutal, the “discomfort” bill in the Florida state legislature is the most idiotic.
Aaron Gordon / VICE:
The New USPS Trucks Would Probably Be Illegal If They Weighed One Pound Less  —  Manufacturer Oshkosh Defense is exploiting a long-standing loophole that incentivizes bigger, heavier vehicles that can pollute more.  —  Aaron Gordon  —  The USPS has defended the purchase of up to 165,000 …
Discussion: UPI, Gizmodo and The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
AP source: GOP Maryland Gov. Hogan won't run for Senate  —  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan plans to announce Tuesday that he will not run for the U.S. Senate, rebuffing an aggressive recruitment push from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans who saw …
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
A Lawsuit Accuses Harvard of Ignoring Sexual Harassment by a Professor  —  The controversy surrounding John Comaroff, an anthropologist, has divided the faculty, with scholars like Jill Lepore and Henry Louis Gates Jr. supporting their colleague.  —  For her first day of graduate school at Harvard …
Bernie Sanders / The Guardian:
We must do everything possible to avoid an enormously destructive war in Ukraine  —  I'm concerned when I hear familiar drumbeats in Washington demanding we ‘show strength’, when we're faced with what could be the worst European war in 75 years  —  ars have unintended consequences.
Los Angeles Times:
How Jose Huizar's lavish Las Vegas jaunts tripped alarms for FBI in L.A. bribe case  —  Las Vegas casinos pamper their big spenders with loads of perks, and the $13 million Wei Huang had lost gambling at the Palazzo made him a coveted “whale” of a customer.  So the casino charged him nothing …
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
House Passes Bill to Shore Up Postal Service, Working to Avert Insolvency  —  Supporters say the legislation, which has bipartisan support, would address the agency's financial woes while requiring it maintain a delivery standard of at least six days a week.
 
 
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Linda Hirshman / The Atlantic:
The Fight for Democracy Will Be a Long, Long Haul
Discussion: Raw Story
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Americans Are Frustrated With the Pandemic. These Polls Show How Much.
Discussion: Axios
Erin Banco / Politico:
Senior director for global health security leaving the NSC
Lowkell / Blue Virginia:
Audio: At Fundraiser in May 2019, Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant (R) - Who Just Voted for 20-Week Abortion Ban - Discusses Her Convoluted, Self-Contradictory, Factually Incorrect Views on This Topic
Washington Free Beacon:
State Department Impeding Investigation Into Hunter Biden, GOP Senators Claim
Leana S. Wen / Washington Post:
In this next phase of the pandemic, beware of the extremes
Discussion: Commentary Magazine and RedState
Casey Quinlan / The American Independent:
GOP governors embrace political assault on transgender kids
 Earlier Items: 
Insider:
Chuck Schumer says he supports banning lawmakers from trading stocks: ‘I would like to see it done’
Discussion: Alternet.org
OCCRP:
Boss Babies: The Children Who Own Hundreds of Luxembourg Corporations
Financial Times:
Women spoke up, men cried conspiracy: inside Axel Springer's #MeToo moment
Emily Peck / Axios:
Jaw-dropping gender gap in jobs
 

 
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