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Washington Post:
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 …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Beware, Trump. 80 new Justice Department lawyers can do a lot of digging.
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Democrats in Congress ask Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: The Times and Insider
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New York Times:
Concessions at peace talks may be little more than tactics, analysts say.
Jim Sciutto / CNN:
US intel assess ‘major’ strategy shift by Russia as it moves some forces away from Kyiv
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
US still skeptical of peace talks as Russia claims to pull back from Kyiv
Discussion: Politico, Fox News and Forbes
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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.
Discussion: Law & Crime
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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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