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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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UPI, Raw Story, Insider and Political Wire
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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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Raw Story
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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The Welcome Party and The Economist
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
MTG Should Be an Embarrassment, Not a GOP Superstar — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says indefensible and incredibly stupid things. And she's the new soul of the Republican Party. … Did springtime come early? — In recent days, there have been signs that the Republican Party's support …
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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 — Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign paid an internet company to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower and the White House in order to link Donald Trump to Russia, a bombshell new legal filing alleges.
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Louder With Crowder
Techno Fog / The Reactionary:
Durham: Clinton allies spied on the Executive Office of the President — And - will we see a Rodney Joffe indictment? — The Michael Sussmann case is heating up. — On February 11, 2022, Durham filed the Government's Motion to Inquire into Potential Conflicts of Interest in the Michael Sussmann case.
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Meaning In History, Breitbart, SÁT-CỘNG's Newsletter, The Last Refuge and The Gateway Pundit
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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The Gateway Pundit and Twitchy
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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New York Times:
U.S. Battles Putin by Disclosing His Next Possible Moves
U.S. Battles Putin by Disclosing His Next Possible Moves
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U.S. Department of Defense, Savage Minds, Takes & Re-Takes, NPR, Fox News and CNN
Christina Zhao / NBC News:
Biden warns Putin of ‘swift and severe costs’ amid fears of imminent Ukraine invasion
Biden warns Putin of ‘swift and severe costs’ amid fears of imminent Ukraine invasion
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Margaret Brennan / CBS News:
New detail about Russian “false flag” plan prompts U.S. to prepare for worst in Ukraine
New detail about Russian “false flag” plan prompts U.S. to prepare for worst in Ukraine
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Craig's Newsletter, The Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, The Guardian, What'd I Miss?, CNN and Stock Quest
James Marson / Wall Street Journal:
Russians Have Already Started Hybrid War With Bomb Threats, Cyberattacks, Ukraine Says — Moscow is using cyberattacks, economic pressure and, most recently, false bomb threats, to undermine its neighbor, Kyiv says — KYIV, Ukraine—U.S. officials are warning that Russia could be about to attack Ukraine.
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Financial Times, Al Jazeera, One America News Network, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Forbes
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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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The Hill
NBC News:
Rapper Kodak Black, three others shot in West Hollywood — Kodak Black, the rapper whose legal name is Bill Kapri, was among three people shot early Saturday outside a restaurant in West Hollywood, California, four law enforcement sources familiar with investigation told NBC News.
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The Hill, Page Six, Mediaite, CBS Los Angeles, Rolling Stone, TMZ.com, Insider, UPI, Billboard, The Daily Beast and Hollywood Reporter
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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Raw Story
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Declassified Afghanistan reports back U.S. commanders who said Biden team was indecisive during crisis — Declassified U.S. military analyses of the calamitous exit from Afghanistan detail repeated instances of friction between American troops and diplomats before and during the evacuation …
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Political Wire
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
A Rhodes Scholar barista and the fight to unionize Starbucks — BUFFALO — The omicron variant was racing through the Starbucks on Elmwood Avenue so fast that by early January one-third of the store's 30-person workforce was sick or isolating at home. — The worried, angry and exhausted workers …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money