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Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the '70s. People Hated It — The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974. Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis …
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Senate votes unanimously to make daylight saving time permanent … The Senate voted Tuesday to end the biannual practice of “spring forward” and “fall back” under a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent — a move that reflects the increasingly popular view that the twice-yearly …
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Vox, CNN, NBC News, NPR, Raw Story, NBC 6 South Florida, CBS Boston and Insider
Politico:
Here comes the sun: Senate agrees on permanent daylight saving time — A bipartisan group of senators has tried and failed, for Congress after Congress, to keep America on daylight saving time permanently. Until Tuesday, when their bright idea finally cleared the chamber.
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
U.S. Senate approves bill to make daylight saving time permanent
U.S. Senate approves bill to make daylight saving time permanent
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The Hill, U.S. Senator for Florida …, CNET, Florida Politics, The 19th, Boing Boing, WHTM-TV, The Daily Wire and NOQ Report
Ali Zaslav / CNN:
Senate passes bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent
Senate passes bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent
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National Review, ABC7 and The Daily Caller
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Herschel Walker Skeptical Of Evolution: ‘Why Are There Still Apes? Think About It’ — The former NFL player, who is now running for Senate in Georgia, gets some basic facts wrong. — Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker cast doubt on the theory of evolution in recent remarks …
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Insider, Nothing's New Thing Under …, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and YouTube
Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
Why Joe Manchin Sank Sarah Bloom Raskin's Nomination — On Friday, an energetic Joe Manchin spoke to a room full of oil and gas executives in Houston. The following Monday, after long declining to state his position publicly, he came out against Biden's nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin …
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Insider, Alternet.org and Axios
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws Her Nomination to the Federal Reserve Board — Biden's nominee had publicly encouraged measures to mitigate climate change, including a transition to cleaner energy, which triggered a backlash from America's powerful oil, gas, and coal industries.
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Insider, Maryland Matters, Talking Points Memo, New York Post, Townhall, New York Times, Washington Times and New Republic
Kate Davidson / Politico:
Raskin withdraws as Biden's Fed nominee
Raskin withdraws as Biden's Fed nominee
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HuffPost, USA Today, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, NBC News, Bloomberg, NPR, Roll Call, Financial Times, CBS News, CBS Baltimore and Human Events
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Timeline: How two extremist groups planned for Jan. 6 — One of the more remarkable aspects of the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is that it was apparently exacerbated by planned attacks from not just one but two far-right extremist organizations.
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Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio jailed pending trial in Jan. 6 Capitol attack
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio jailed pending trial in Jan. 6 Capitol attack
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Associated Press, WFLA-TV, Raw Story, CBS News, NBC 6 South Florida and Political Wire
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Proud Boys leader indicted in Jan. 6 conspiracy ordered detained until trial
Proud Boys leader indicted in Jan. 6 conspiracy ordered detained until trial
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The Status Kuo, HillReporter.com and WSVN-TV
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Ex-Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Will Stay In Jail For His Jan. 6 Conspiracy Case
Ex-Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Will Stay In Jail For His Jan. 6 Conspiracy Case
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Insider, NBC 6 South Florida and Just The News
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Another Jan. 6 mystery revealed: Pence's second script rewrite — It turns out Mike Pence made more than one major change to the vice presidential script for presiding over the Jan. 6 counting of electoral votes. — Pence's decision to craft and employ his own unprecedented language …
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Washington Post and Raw Story
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Covid, Russia and crime: GOP presidential hopefuls take swipes at Trump's record
Covid, Russia and crime: GOP presidential hopefuls take swipes at Trump's record
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Raw Story
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Russia hits Biden, Blinken and other top U.S. officials with sanctions — Washington — The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday it is imposing sanctions on more than a dozen Americans, including President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin …
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BBC:
Russia sanctions Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and others
Russia sanctions Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and others
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HuffPost, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Breitbart, The Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit
Samuel Benson / Politico:
U.S. sanctions Belarus president, more Russian officials
U.S. sanctions Belarus president, more Russian officials
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Washington Examiner, Agence France-Presse, Politico, New York Post, HotAir and Fox News
Ben Hodges / CEPA:
The Next 10 Days Will Decide This War — Russia's effort to conquer Ukraine may culminate within the next 10 days. — The Russians are in trouble, and they know it. That's why they have reached out to China for help and why they are now recruiting Syrians.
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Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales — Talks between Riyadh and Beijing have accelerated as the Saudi unhappiness grows with Washington — Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price its some of its oil sales to China in yuan …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A Fox News crew was attacked in Ukraine, leaving two journalists dead. — A Fox News cameraman and a Ukrainian journalist traveling with him were killed on Monday in Ukraine when their vehicle came under fire outside Kyiv, according to the network and Ukrainian authorities.
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Washington Post:
Producer who crashed Russian TV broadcast with antiwar message can't be found, lawyers say — A day after she burst onto a live news broadcast on Russian state television holding a sign denouncing the war in Ukraine, lawyers with human rights groups told The Washington Post they are unable …
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Jacob Bacharach / New Republic:
Why Is David Leonhardt So Happy? — I have been reading David Leonhardt's New York Times newsletter, The Morning, for the better part of the last year, and I cannot for the life of me decide if he is Dr. Pangloss or if he is Candide—the relentless crackpot optimist or the disappointed student …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
No to Trump in 2024 — The GOP does not lack for better options. So why should we put ourselves through all that again? — onald Trump hasn't said for sure whether he will run in 2024," reports NPR. “ But he's having a hell of a lot of fun teasing it. Donald Trump? In 2024?
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Chernobyl, 200 Exhausted Staff Toil Round the Clock at Russian Gunpoint — Trapped since their shift 3 weeks ago, the Ukrainians keeping the abandoned nuclear plant safe from meltdown are ill-fed, stressed and desperate for relief — It was 10 a.m., 16 days into Russia's war on Ukraine …
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Washington Examiner and Christopher Six's Pick Six
New York Times:
Submarine Spy Couple Tried to Sell Nuclear Secrets to Brazil — Jonathan and Diana Toebbe pleaded guilty last month in the espionage case, but until now the identity of the nation they had approached had remained publicly undisclosed. — WASHINGTON — In 2020, a United States naval engineer …
Julie Carr Smyth / Associated Press:
Russia business deals muddy GOP US Senate primary in Ohio — COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Several Republicans competing for the party's nomination to run for U.S. Senate in Ohio are facing scrutiny for their ties to Russia as the country intensifies its war against Ukraine.
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
How Kyiv's outgunned defenders have kept Russian forces from capturing the capital — IRPIN, Ukraine — The bodies of Russian soldiers were scattered by the wreckage of charred military vehicles and shelled buildings. Twenty feet away, behind tanker trucks, Ukrainian volunteers stood watch …
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Kurt Volker / CEPA:
Desperate and Dangerous: Managing Putin — Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime is showing a growing desperation as its war against Ukraine falls further into disarray. — Putin knows he is losing, and is doubling down on aggressive actions even as his strategic position weakens.
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Washington Post, The National and Japan Times
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Gov. Reeves Claims Critical Race Theory ‘Humiliates’ White People At Bill Signing — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a victory today as he signed a bill into law that he and other Republican lawmakers have falsely claimed would ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in the state's public schools and community colleges.
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Biggest Lie About Florida's “Don't Say Gay” Bill Erases One Crucial Word — In the week since Florida lawmakers passed H.B. 1557, dubbed the “Don't Say Gay” bill, the law's most prominent supporters have refused to publicly tell the truth about what the measure actually says.
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Washington Post, Vox and American Greatness
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Think of Trump as one of Putin's ‘oligarchs.’ It just makes sense — Practical gangsterism is the key to understanding. — The former president keeps telling on himself. During an appearance Sunday on Jeanine Pirro's radio show on WABC, Donald Trump expressed, yet again, his sympathy for Russia's reigning kleptocrat.
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The Atlantic and CNN
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Trump is so clearly running for president that people are complaining to the FEC about it — Here are the clips that prompted American Bridge to accuse Trump of violating the law. — For the better part of a year, Donald Trump has been traveling the country telling anybody who will listen that he plans to run for president in 2024.
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Metro.co.uk, Raw Story, Associated Press, New York Times and CNN
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Elections Commission won't sanction Republicans who posed as presidential electors in 2020 — MADISON - The state Elections Commission unanimously decided not to sanction 10 Republicans — including one of the commissioners — for falsely claiming to be presidential electors in 2020, according to a letter released Tuesday.
Politico:
Schumer's Senate shocker: Bills are passing (seriously) — It's the Capitol's election-year surprise: The 50-50 Senate is actually working. — After high-profile partisan failures on President Joe Biden's signature domestic policy bill and on weakening the filibuster for voting reform …
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