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Mike Allen / Axios:
Haberman book: Flushed papers found clogging Trump WH toilet — While President Trump was in office, staff in the White House residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet — and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper, Maggie Haberman scoops in her forthcoming book, “Confidence Man.”
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New York Times:
Investigators Find Gaps in White House Logs of Trump's Jan. 6 Calls — Sparse call records are the latest obstacle facing the House panel, which is trying to document what President Trump was doing during the attack on Congress. — WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating …
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New York Times:
Archives Found Possible Classified Material in Boxes Returned by Trump — The National Archives consulted with the Justice Department about the discovery after the former president sent back documents that he had improperly taken from the White House when he left office.
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Trump's unusually lawyerly response to allegations of destroying documents — When former president Donald Trump is accused of wrongdoing, his almost-reflexive response is to vociferously deny it and try to accuse his accusers instead. — On that call with Ukraine's president that led to his impeachment …
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Sonam Sheth / Insider:
Trump's former communications chief says he's ‘terrified’ of a forthcoming book by The New York Times' Maggie Haberman — Trump's ex-communications chief said he's “terrified” of Maggie Haberman's upcoming book. — Axios reported that the book contains new details about Trump's habit of flushing documents down the toilet.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: House Dems break against mask mandate
POLITICO Playbook: House Dems break against mask mandate
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Trump: Return of documents to Archives viewed as routine and ‘no big deal’
Trump: Return of documents to Archives viewed as routine and ‘no big deal’
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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Deputy Va. attorney general resigns after revelation of Facebook posts praising Jan. 6 rioters, claiming Trump won election — A top deputy overseeing election issues for Virginia's new Republican attorney general resigned Thursday after The Washington Post questioned the office about Facebook posts …
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Gwynn Guilford / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Inflation Accelerates to 40-Year High — Consumer-price index rose at 7.5% annual rate in January — U.S. inflation accelerated to a 7.5% annual rate in January, reaching a new four-decade high as strong consumer demand and pandemic-related supply constraints kept pushing up prices.
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Inflation hits new 40-year high ... again; UPDATE: Manchin says I told you so
BREAKING: Inflation hits new 40-year high ... again; UPDATE: Manchin says I told you so
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Washington Post:
Prices climbed 7.5% in January compared with last year, continuing inflation's fastest pace in 40 years
Prices climbed 7.5% in January compared with last year, continuing inflation's fastest pace in 40 years
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Nick Arama / RedState:
Biden in Deep Trouble as Inflation Hits Yet Another Record High
Biden in Deep Trouble as Inflation Hits Yet Another Record High
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Gwynn Guilford / Wall Street Journal:
Higher Inflation Is Probably Costing You $250 a Month
Higher Inflation Is Probably Costing You $250 a Month
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Most Biden detractors say he's done nothing they like since becoming president — (CNN)Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of how Joe Biden is handling his presidency, with most of that group saying there's literally nothing Biden has done since taking office that they approve of.
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Liz Cheney / Wall Street Journal:
The Jan. 6 Committee Won't Be Intimidated — We are focused on facts, not rhetoric, and will present them no matter what our critics say. — I keep on my desk a copy of the oath my great-great-grandfather signed when he re-enlisted in the Union Army in 1863.
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John F. Harris / Politico:
The Cynical Spectacle of Sarah Palin's Lawsuit Against the New York Times — In an age when every arena of politics and media is infused with remorseless combat, James Bennet has a rare distinction: The former New York Times editorial page editor has been circled by ideological packs on left and right with equal ferocity.
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Louis Jacobson / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Ranking the States Demographically, from Most Republican-Friendly to Most Democratic-Friendly — Dear Readers: Join us Tuesday, Feb. 15 as Center for Politics Director Larry J. Sabato interviews ABC News' Jonathan Karl about his new book, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The Times may publish documents about Project Veritas, a court says. — A state appeals court said that a judge's order preventing publication of the documents would not be enforced until a formal appeal could be heard. — The New York Times is free to publish documents pertaining …
Matthew Hindman / The Atlantic:
Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem — If you want to understand why Facebook too often is a cesspool of hate and disinformation, a good place to start is with users such as John, Michelle, and Calvin. — John, a caps-lock devotee from upstate New York, calls House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
James Vincent / The Verge:
Tesla sued by civil rights agency for operating ‘racially segregated workplace’ — The automaker denies the allegations — Tesla has been sued by a state civil rights agency for operating what it describes as a “racially segregated workplace” in California.
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Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal:
Tesla Sued by California Agency for Alleged Racial Discrimination, Harassment
Tesla Sued by California Agency for Alleged Racial Discrimination, Harassment
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Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Police records complicate Herschel Walker's recovery story — WASHINGTON (AP) — One warm fall evening in 2001, police in Irving, Texas, received an alarming call from Herschel Walker's therapist. The football legend and current Republican Senate candidate in Georgia was “volatile,” …
Freddie deBoer:
This is the World in Which We Live — on harassment, being nice, & trying to get me to kill myself — Recently the Brookings Institution took time out of their busy schedule pretending pre-K works to present irrefutable proof that Glenn Greenwald and Tucker Carlson are harassers. — Or, well, not really.
Judy Trinh / CBC News:
How organizers with police and military expertise may be helping Ottawa convoy protest dig in — Those involved with organizing protest include former RCMP and military officers — For nearly two weeks anti-vaccine mandate demonstrators and their big rigs have entrenched themselves …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Dems face a sobering possibility: Build Back ... never — Build Back Never? The thought has crossed Democrats' minds. — President Joe Biden's $1.7 trillion social and climate spending plan is dead as written, rejected by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). The Senate is moving onto a host …
Washington Post:
Politics drives the end of covid mitigation. It should — but that's too bad — Welcome to The Daily 202! Tell your friends to sign up here. According to the Associated Press: On this day in 1936, Nazi Germany's Reichstag passed a law investing the Gestapo secret police with absolute authority, exempt from any legal review.
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Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Montana senator criticizes fellow Democrats for not appealing to rural Americans more — (CNN)Montana Sen. Jon Tester criticized fellow Democrats for not appealing to Middle America more and said Democrats need to “show up” in those places if they want to win elections.
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ABC13:
Child shot in road rage incident when family was on the way to grocery store, police say — Child shot in road rage incident as family headed to grocery store — HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 9-year-old was shot in the head in an apparent road rage incident Tuesday night in southwest Houston.
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
‘Free Crack Pipes’ Myth Rooted in False Free Beacon Report — The Washington Free Beacon seemed to take a big leap to assert that free crack pipes would be part of a harm reduction package. Conservative media lapped it up. — Earlier this week, a lie rocketed around conservative media …
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Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
Why It's So Hard to ‘Follow the Science’ — A conversation with Harvard historian Steven Shapin about why people believe Joe Rogan, why our public discourse about science is splintered, and what to do about it … These days, it's hard to figure out who to believe, what to believe, and how to persuade others to believe.
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Black female lawmakers warn against pitting Supreme Court candidates against each other — At the forefront of their minds: Making sure the eventual nominee is not tainted by Democratic infighting ahead of expected GOP attacks on her qualifications and judicial philosophy
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The Harvard Crimson:
34 Harvard Professors Retract Support for Letter Questioning Results of Comaroff Investigations — Almost all of the Harvard professors who signed onto an open letter last week that questioned the results of misconduct investigations into professor John L. Comaroff have retracted their support for the message.
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