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Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls … Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump's phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Three big takeaways from Trump's missing Jan. 6 phone logs — In another bid for the “Worse than Watergate” files, it turns out there is a seven-hour gap in Donald Trump's phone logs on the day of the insurrection attempt. According to documents obtained by The Post and CBS News …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Beware, Trump. 80 new Justice Department lawyers can do a lot of digging.
Beware, Trump. 80 new Justice Department lawyers can do a lot of digging.
New York Times:
New Focus on How a Trump Tweet Incited Far-Right Groups Ahead of Jan. 6
New Focus on How a Trump Tweet Incited Far-Right Groups Ahead of Jan. 6
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Democrats in Congress ask Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases
Democrats in Congress ask Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Significant’ evidence suggests Trump Organization misstated asset values for more than a decade, NY AG says — The New York Attorney General's probe of the Trump Organization “uncovered significant evidence” suggesting that the company's financial statements for more than a decade relied …
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump calls on Putin to release dirt on Hunter Biden — Former President Donald Trump in a new interview called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release information regarding alleged dealings between Eastern European oligarchs and Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son.
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Jordan Boyd / The Federalist:
Senators Release Receipts Showing Direct Payments From Foreign Oligarchs To Hunter Biden — Shortly after The New York Times quietly admitted that Hunter Biden's laptop is legitimate even though it was smeared as “disinformation” to protect then-candidate Joe Biden during the 2020 election …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
What Is Ginni Thomas? — “Activist” is a euphemism for “silly woman with a powerful spouse.” — 1. An Open Secret — Here is a secret no one in Washington is willing to say out loud: Ginni Thomas is an idiot. The only reason she was texting the president's chief of staff instead …
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Cora Engelbrecht / New York Times:
Accounts of Russian Rapes Are Growing, Ukraine Officials Say — The crime first came to light last week, when Ukraine's prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, said in a Facebook post that a Russian soldier had killed an unarmed civilian and then repeatedly raped his wife.
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Jim Sciutto / CNN:
US intel assess ‘major’ strategy shift by Russia as it moves some forces away from Kyiv
US intel assess ‘major’ strategy shift by Russia as it moves some forces away from Kyiv
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Future of Trumpism … In late February, as daily deaths from COVID-19 tallied in the thousands across the country, Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced his latest effort to dismantle his state's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Private businesses, he insisted, should stop requiring their employees to wear masks at work.
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Steve Contorno / CNN:
DeSantis vetoes new Florida congressional map and calls for special session
DeSantis vetoes new Florida congressional map and calls for special session
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David Kihara / Politico:
DeSantis says Disney ‘crossed the line’ in calling for 'Don't Say Gay' repeal
DeSantis says Disney ‘crossed the line’ in calling for 'Don't Say Gay' repeal
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Poll: Trump leads Biden, Harris in 2024 match-ups — Former President Trump is leading President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 match-up, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill on Monday. — If the 2024 presidential election were held right now …
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
McCarthy to speak to Cawthorn after orgy comment sparks GOP frustration
McCarthy to speak to Cawthorn after orgy comment sparks GOP frustration
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Poll finds GOP favored to win House; has 6-point lead over Democrats
Poll finds GOP favored to win House; has 6-point lead over Democrats
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Townhall and Conservative Brief
Errol Louis / New York Magazine:
AOC's Warning for Democrats: 'We're in Trouble' — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks President Biden got played by Senator Joe Manchin — and that the president's nostalgia for a bygone era of backroom dealmaking could prove disastrous for Democrats in the midterms.
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez to Clarence Thomas: Resign or face impeachment
Ocasio-Cortez to Clarence Thomas: Resign or face impeachment
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Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis beer heiress joins race for U.S. Senate — JEFFERSON CITY — St. Louis beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine joined the heated race for Missouri's U.S. Senate seat Monday. — The move triggered former state Sen. Scott Sifton, who had represented south St. Louis County …
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US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Second Booster Dose of Two COVID-19 Vaccines for Older and Immunocompromised Individuals — For Immediate Release: — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a second booster dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech …
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Ezra Klein / New York Times:
I Keep Hoping Larry Summers Is Wrong. What if He's Not? — I'm Ezra Klein, and this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” — [MUSIC PLAYING] — For the last year or so, Larry Summers, the economist and former Treasury Secretary, has been this relentless, loud, frustrating economic Cassandra.
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John Sexton / HotAir:
Larry Summers: ‘the situation continues to resemble the 1970s’
Larry Summers: ‘the situation continues to resemble the 1970s’
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Ace of Spades HQ and Instapundit
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Oil drops and stocks climb amid signs of progress in Russia-Ukraine peace talks. — WASHINGTON — The United States is preparing new sanctions targeting the supply chains of Russia's military industrial sector as it seeks to erode Moscow's ability to attack Ukraine, Adewale Adeyemo, the deputy Treasury secretary, said on Tuesday.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Inflation Dominates Americans' Economic Concerns in March
Inflation Dominates Americans' Economic Concerns in March
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Dan Stone:
Commentary's Cash Crash — The journal of neoconservatism is on a path to insolvency — Commentary magazine has lost half of its money since becoming independent in 2007 — By 2020 it was down to $5.7 million from $11.3 million — Commentary brought in more money than it spent in only 1 of 14 years
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
Maryland and Ohio Rulings Brighten GOP's Redistricting Outlook — The 2022 redistricting cycle continues to be a legal rollercoaster ride. After a string of state court victories in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Democrats finally suffered several setbacks this past week.
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Jerusalem Post:
Five killed in Bnei Brak shooting — Five people were killed in at least two locations in Bnei Brak. 11 Israelis have been killed in the past week, making it the bloodiest in recent memory. — Five people were killed in a shooting spree in Bnei Brak on Tuesday evening.
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Steven Rodas / New Jersey Online:
N.J. town sues woman, 82, for ‘voluminous’ and ‘burdensome’ public records requests — Elouise McDaniel prefers to deal with matters over the phone or via fax machine, but she made an exception last fall when her email pinged with a notification from Irvington Township.
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Melissa Brown / USA Today:
Tennessee legislature passes residency bill that would disqualify Trump-backed candidate — NASHVILLE, Tennessee - A bill to place residency requirements on Tennessee congressional candidates cleared its final hurdle in the General Assembly on Monday as both chambers agreed to allow …
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Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Rachel Sanders / The Nation:
BuzzFeed Doesn't Deserve Its Newsroom — Much of the News staff has been written off as dead weight on the payroll. What, after all, is a Pulitzer worth on a balance sheet? — Was it all a dream? In the harsh light of 2022, the early years of my time working at BuzzFeed …
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