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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
How McConnell Hopes to Thwart Trump in the Midterms — Senator Mitch McConnell is working furiously to bring allies to Washington who will buck Donald J. Trump. It's not going according to plan. — PHOENIX — For more than a year, former President Donald Trump has berated Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona …
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New York Times:
Giuliani in Talks to Testify to House Jan. 6 Panel — It is not clear how much assistance he might provide in the investigation into former President Donald J. Trump's efforts to hold onto power. — Rudolph W. Giuliani, who as former President Donald J. Trump's lawyer helped lead the effort …
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Washington Post:
A weakened Trump? As some voters edge away, he battles parts of the Republican Party he once ran. — EAST TAWAS, Mich. — Donald Trump's pick to become Michigan's next attorney general has a problem with the leaders of the party Trump once ran. — At a recent pizza-fueled meeting …
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
MTG Should Be an Embarrassment, Not a GOP Superstar
MTG Should Be an Embarrassment, Not a GOP Superstar
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Raw Story
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Why the West's Diplomacy With Russia Keeps Failing — Oh, how I envy Liz Truss her opportunity! Oh, how I regret her utter failure to make use of it! For those who have never heard of her, Truss is the lightweight British foreign secretary who went to Moscow this week to tell her Russian counterpart …
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Karena Phan / Associated Press:
CNN screenshot altered to add fake chyron about Putin and Biden — CLAIM: A screenshot shows a CNN chyron reading: “Sources: Putin to delay invasion until Biden delivers weapons to Ukraine for Russia to capture.” — AP'S ASSESSMENT: Altered image. The text was added to a screenshot of a CNN news report from 2017.
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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Pelosi has stark warning for Putin: ‘He has to know that war is not an answer’ — “There's very severe consequences to his aggression,” she said. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a stark warning for Russian President Vladimir Putin as the Russian military buildup near the Ukraine region showed no signs of slowing on Sunday.
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David Cohen / Politico:
‘Defund the police’ is not the policy of the Democratic Party, Pelosi says — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that the idea of defunding the police, a frequently used slogan during the 2020 elections, is not the direction that the Democratic Party is headed.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Clinton campaign paid to ‘infiltrate’ Trump Tower, White House servers to link Trump to Russia: Durham — 'Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP's DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.'
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Jesse O'Neill / New York Post:
Clinton campaign paid tech workers to dig up Trump-Russia connections: Report
Clinton campaign paid tech workers to dig up Trump-Russia connections: Report
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Jon Levine / New York Post:
Jared Kushner nominated for Nobel Prize as Abraham Accords negotiator
Jared Kushner nominated for Nobel Prize as Abraham Accords negotiator
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Bonchie / RedState:
John Durham Drops a ‘Shock and Awe’ Filing About Spying on Donald Trump
John Durham Drops a ‘Shock and Awe’ Filing About Spying on Donald Trump
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David French / The Dispatch:
The Seeds of Political Violence Are Being Sown in Church — The new insurrection is being organized, in a sanctuary near you. — On Thursday night in Castle Rock, Colorado, a group called “FEC United” (FEC stands for faith, education, and commerce) held a “town hall” …
Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
CNN Poll: Neither Biden nor Trump has their party's full support for a 2024 run — (CNN)A significant number of both Democrats and Republicans currently hope to see their parties find alternatives to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in the next presidential election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
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Associated Press:
Police arrest protesters who remained at US-Canada bridge — WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — Police moved in to clear and arrest the remaining protesters near a key U.S.-Canadian border bridge early Sunday, trying to end a demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions that has hurt the economy …
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CNN:
Trump's unorthodox phone habits complicate January 6 investigation — (CNN)In Donald Trump's White House, telephones were a valued commodity. The then-President loved to talk to everyone, said a former White House aide. — “He took everybody's calls,” the aide said …
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Vimal Patel / New York Times:
‘Alt-Right Armory’ Podcaster Faces Charges of Possessing Machine Guns — The podcaster, Joseph Paul Berger, and his father, Joseph Raymond Berger, had 13 fully automatic machine guns and 12 gun silencers that were illegally imported into the United States, officials said.
John Blake / CNN:
Joe Rogan's use of the n-word is another January 6 moment — (CNN)The podcaster Joe Rogan did not join a mob that forced lawmakers to flee for their lives. He never carried a Confederate flag inside the US Capitol rotunda. No one died trying to stop him from using the n-word.
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New York Times:
Inside the Bitcoin Laundering Case That Confounded the Internet — The arrests of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan left the world of cryptocurrency incredulous: Could this goofy young couple have been Bitcoin's Bonnie and Clyde? — When anonymous hackers infiltrated …
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