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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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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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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.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Merrick Garland Has More Than Enough to Investigate Trump
Merrick Garland Has More Than Enough to Investigate Trump
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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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New York Times:
Concessions at peace talks may be little more than tactics, analysts say. — The gains in negotiations came as Ukrainian troops appeared to push back Russian forces around Kyiv. Russia said a meeting between President Vladimir V. Putin and President Volodymyr Zelensky could occur once a draft peace agreement was ready.
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
US still skeptical of peace talks as Russia claims to pull back from Kyiv
US still skeptical of peace talks as Russia claims to pull back from Kyiv
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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin: GOP treatment of Jackson ‘disgraceful,’ ‘embarrassing’ — Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said the way Republican senators treated Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson at last week's hearings was “disgraceful” and “embarrassing” after they repeatedly brought up her record of sentencing child pornography offenders.
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Biden says he didn't watch Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing after White House claimed he did
Biden says he didn't watch Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing after White House claimed he did
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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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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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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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Cassidy Morrison / Washington Examiner:
FDA authorizes second boosters of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for adults over 50
FDA authorizes second boosters of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for adults over 50
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
McCarthy to speak to Cawthorn after orgy comment sparks GOP frustration — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pledged to speak to Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) about his allegation that people in Washington, D.C. have invited him to orgies and done cocaine in front …
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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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New York Times:
G.O.P. Presses for Greater Edge on Florida and Ohio Congressional Maps — In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a map drawn by his fellow Republicans in the Legislature. In Ohio, Republicans closed in on a G.O.P.-friendly map for the midterm elections. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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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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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.
Scott Lanman / Bloomberg:
‘Whopping’ Golf Club Fees Cited as Example of Hidden Inflation by Philly Fed President — Federal Reserve leaders are hearing about the economic pain that inflation is causing for Americans — including those who are members of private golf courses. — Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker …
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.
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 …
John Solomon / Just The News:
Exclusive: Trump calls on Putin to release info on Hunter Biden's dealings with oligarchs — “I think we should know that answer,” America's 45th president says.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / Reuters:
Russian oligarch Deripaska loses U.S. court battle to lift sanctions — A U.S. appeals court in Washington on Tuesday rejected a bid by Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska to lift sanctions imposed on him by the United States in 2018, finding that American officials had sufficient evidence to back up their action.
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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Kevin Seifert / ESPN:
NFL says all teams must add minority offensive coach, expands Rooney Rule to include women — PALM BEACH, Fla. — All 32 NFL teams will hire a minority offensive assistant coach for the 2022 season, part of a series of policy enhancements announced Monday to address the league's ongoing diversity efforts.
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