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Foreign Policy:
Russia Planning Post-Invasion Arrest and Assassination Campaign in Ukraine, U.S. Officials Say — Intelligence on possible targets has been shared with Ukraine and other partners in the region. — The United States has obtained intelligence that Russia may target prominent political opponents …
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Politico:
The Speech In Which Putin Told Us Who He Was — The beautiful and prosperous city of Munich, Germany, has many claims to notoriety. It was the hotbed of early Nazism, the site of Neville Chamberlain's famous meeting to appease Hitler and, later, a hub of German resistance to Hitler.
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CNN:
“Bleak' new intelligence assessment driving new urgency from Biden administration on Russia
“Bleak' new intelligence assessment driving new urgency from Biden administration on Russia
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The Daily Beast, The Liberal Patriot, CNBC, csis.org, The National Interest, Raw Story, WTOP News, UPI, The Federalist, New York Post and TASS
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
The media and Durham's corrupt “spying” investigation — Editor's note: Good news! The audio option should be returning next week. … Subscribe to PRESS RUN — Fox News has lost its mind. Again. — Looking for a partisan outrage to promote as Covid cases plummet …
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Raw Story, BizPac Review, Mediaite and Washington Examiner
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Durham Distances Himself From Furor in Right-Wing Media Over Filing — The special counsel implicitly acknowledged that White House internet data he discussed, which conservative outlets have portrayed as proof of spying on the Trump White House, came from the Obama era.
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Mediaite, The Federalist, Washington Post, MSNBC, Yahoo, The Wrap, National Review, The Western Journal, NBC News, CourtListener and HotAir
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
War over Trump spying
War over Trump spying
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Mediaite, Washington Times, Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
How the right embraced the false claim that Hillary Clinton ‘spied’ on President Donald Trump
How the right embraced the false claim that Hillary Clinton ‘spied’ on President Donald Trump
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NPR, Poynter, claytoonz, Judicial Watch, RedState, The Daily Beast and emptywheel
New York Times:
Material Recovered From Trump by Archives Included Classified Information — In a letter to Congress, the National Archives confirmed that boxes taken from the White House by the former president included classified national security documents. — WASHINGTON — The National Archives confirmed …
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POLITICUSUSA, Lawfare and Political Wire
Mike Allen / Axios:
Squad politics backfire — The hard-left politics of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the so-called “Squad,” once a dominant theme for vast numbers of elected Democrats, is backfiring big-time on the party in power, top Democrats tell us. … - “It's a huge problem.”
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RedState, Common Dreams, Ace of Spades HQ, Tilting At Windmills, Washington Examiner, HotAir and Cracked Bowl
Jackie Calmes / Los Angeles Times:
The latest conservative to join the resistance? Ted Cruz's mentor — It's been a measure of former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig's stature in the conservative legal movement that Supreme Court justices hired so many of his law clerks — 40 over 15 years.
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Politico:
The never-before-told backstory of Pence's Jan. 6 argument — For most of his life, J. Michael Luttig has operated behind the scenes at the top of the conservative legal world. He started his career as a young aide at the U.S. Supreme Court, worked as an attorney in the Reagan White House …
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Insider, Washington Examiner and New York Times
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Red Covid, an Update — The partisan gap in Covid deaths is still growing, but more slowly. — Ocean County, in central New Jersey, is a mixture of beach towns like Barnegat Light and exurban towns like Toms River and Lakewood. Household income in the county exceeds the U.S. average.
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Twitchy
Hunter Woodall / Star Tribune:
Minnesota Rep. Jim Hagedorn dies at the age of 59 — Hagedorn, a Republican, was serving in his second term at the time of his death. — TEXT SIZE — MORE — Minnesota U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn has died at the age of 59 after a long battle with kidney cancer, according to his wife.
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Minnesota Rep. Hagedorn dies of cancer
Minnesota Rep. Hagedorn dies of cancer
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Washington Post, KSTP-TV, Associated Press, Breitbart, Roll Call, Washington Examiner and Political Wire
HuffPost:
Trump Directed $375,000 In Donations To His Own Building To Rent An Unused Office — “It's a huge scam,” said a former aide, and the total exceeds what Trump donated to Republican candidates - the supposed purpose behind his committees. — By S.V. Date — NEW YORK ― …
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Raw Story
Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:
GOP bills banning critical race theory are racist, and Democrats should say so — Republicans believe they've found their winning issue for the 2022 election: banning what they call critical race theory from being taught to students from kindergarten to college.
New York Times:
N.Y. Officials Announce Plan to Remove Homeless People From Subways — The plan, which calls for stricter enforcement, also promises to offer more mental-heath services and housing options to people who shelter underground. — Responding to an increase in crime in the New York City subways …
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Bloomberg, National Newswatch, New York Post and City & State New York
John Burnett / NPR:
Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own — There's a private Facebook group with nearly 8,000 members called Conservatives Moving to Texas. Three of them are sitting at a dinner table—munching on barbecue weenies and brownies—in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
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Raw Story and Sabato's Crystal Ball
USDA APHIS:
Fresh Avocado Imports from Mexico Resume — The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced today that its avocado inspection program in Michoacan, Mexico has restarted and avocado exports to the United States have resumed.
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Bloomberg and FreightWaves
Associated Press:
California bill would allow citizens to enforce weapons ban — SAN DIEGO (AP) — A new bill in California would allow private citizens go after gun makers in the same way Texas lets them target abortion providers, though gun advocates immediately promised a court challenge if it becomes law.
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The Hill, Sacramento Bee, POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Dean Baquet Never Wanted to Be an Editor — Ahead of his expected retirement, the Times' executive editor reflects on his newsroom's unprecedented growth, Twitter's influence on journalism, and the time he punched a hole in a wall. — When Dean Baquet took over as the executive editor of the Times …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Ottawa Trucker Protest Is Both Giddy and Terrifying — OTTAWA — When I asked Matthew Wall, a 36-year-old electrician from Manitoba, what brought him to this city, which has been overwhelmed by a giant protest encampment, he answered with one word: “Mushrooms.”
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New York Times:
Police Begin Arresting Protest Organizers in Canada
Police Begin Arresting Protest Organizers in Canada
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Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Celebs Backed BLM Fund That Bailed Out a BLM Assassin — The creator of “Hamilton,” rappers, actors, and TV stars all donated. — [Order David Horowitz's latest book, 'I Can't Breathe: How a Racial Hoax is Killing America': CLICK HERE.] — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow …
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Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
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Human Events, TheBlaze, RedState, HotAir, BizPac Review, Townhall and The Western Journal
Politico:
Jan. 6 panel interviewed Ellipse rally organizer Katrina Pierson — Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign spokesperson who helped plan the Jan. 6 rally at the Ellipse, has answered questions from the Capitol riot panel, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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POLITICUSUSA
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Wife in Maryland spy couple also pleads guilty in plot to sell U.S. nuclear secrets — The wife of a Navy engineer pleaded guilty Friday to helping her husband try to sell secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines to a foreign country — a high-profile espionage case that will send her to prison …
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USA Today, CBS News, New York Times and WV MetroNews
Mark Schlabach / ESPN:
Phil Mickelson will deal with Saudis to pressure PGA Tour — LOS ANGELES — Even though the Saudi Arabian government has been accused of myriad human rights violations by watchdog groups around the world, Phil Mickelson says he is willing to get involved with a Saudi-financed breakaway golf league to have leverage with the PGA Tour.
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Yahoo Sports, One America News Network, WTOP News, Mediaite, Defector, Slate and ABC17NEWS
Jay Varma / STAT:
To make public health officials more accountable, they should be elected, not appointed — In the United States, the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the widespread firing and resignation of public health officers. According to one analysis, more than 300 state and local health officials were fired …
Christopher Ingraham / The Why Axis:
For the first time, fewer than half of Americans have an unwavering faith in God — Data from the General Social Survey plots the rise of a more secular nation — Back in 1993, two-thirds of American adults told pollsters from the General Social Survey they “know God really exists” and had “no doubts about it.”