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Politico:
GOP lawmakers were deeply involved in Trump plans to overturn election, new evidence suggests — Republican members of Congress were heavily involved in calls and meetings with former President Donald Trump and his top aides as they devised a strategy to overturn the election in December 2020 …
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Meadows was warned of violence before Jan. 6, new court filings show — White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was warned before Jan. 6, 2021, about the threat of violence that day as supporters of President Donald Trump planned to mass at the U.S. Capitol, according to new testimony released late Friday …
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Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
'It's Time to Head for the Lifeboats': Democratic Fatalism Intensifies — Strategists and pollsters are increasingly talking about limiting the party's expected losses in November rather than how to gain new seats. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Roll Call, Outside the Beltway, Breitbart and Townhall
New York Times:
Meadows Was Warned Jan. 6 Could Turn Violent, House Panel Says — The committee investigating the attack also said in a filing that the former White House chief of staff proceeded with a plan for “alternate electors” despite being told it wasn't legally sound. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
McCarthy's failure to lead House Republicans started before Jan. 6 — The GOP leader, who wants to be speaker, wouldn't tell his members whether he would vote to certify Biden's victory — On New Year's Day 2021, House Republicans still could not get a straight answer about whether …
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World Socialist Web Site, Insider, The Guardian, Washington Examiner and Politico
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Jan. 6 panel gets inconsistent testimony on key Trump family conversation
Jan. 6 panel gets inconsistent testimony on key Trump family conversation
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Raw Story
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
White House readies for tough probes that would follow a GOP takeover
White House readies for tough probes that would follow a GOP takeover
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New York Times, Daily Montanan, The Daily Caller, CNN, Political Wire and Townhall
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Exclusive: Madison Cawthorn photos reveal him wearing women's lingerie in public setting — Photographs obtained by POLITICO appear to show Madison Cawthorn, the embattled Republican congressman from North Carolina who recently accused his GOP colleagues of inviting him to orgies, wearing lingerie in what appears to be a party setting.
Washington Post:
Person of interest in shooting that injured 4 found dead, officials say — A man identified as a person of interest in a shooting Friday in which four people were injured by what appeared to be indiscriminate gunfire was found dead hours later in an apartment near the scene, two officials with knowledge of the investigation said.
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Ariana Garcia / Laredo Morning News:
Gov. Greg Abbott truck inspections turned up zero drugs, migrants but cost Texas $4.2 billion — The costly policy, which experts estimate cost hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a single week, did not result in any migrant detentions or illegal substance seizures.
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Off the Kuff, The Texas Tribune, HuffPost and The Hill
Robert Schlesinger / New Republic:
Republicans Give Up on the Free Market and Put Their Faith in Vindictive Governance — “The market is rational and government is dumb,” Dick Armey, one of the leaders of the 1994 Republican Revolution, liked to say. That used to be a cornerstone of conservatism. Today, it's increasingly the reverse.
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Punishing Disney, DeSantis Signals a Lasting G.O.P. Brawl With Business
Punishing Disney, DeSantis Signals a Lasting G.O.P. Brawl With Business
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill Stripping Disney of Special Tax Status
Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill Stripping Disney of Special Tax Status
Bill Chappell / NPR:
DeSantis wanted to punish Disney. Repealing its tax status may hurt taxpayers instead
DeSantis wanted to punish Disney. Repealing its tax status may hurt taxpayers instead
David French / The Atlantic:
Ron DeSantis Aims at Disney, Hits the First Amendment
Ron DeSantis Aims at Disney, Hits the First Amendment
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The Intercept, De Civitate, PLURIBUS and Twitchy
Kyle Morris / Fox News:
DeSantis signs bill stripping Disney of self governing status
DeSantis signs bill stripping Disney of self governing status
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The Daily Caller, Louder With Crowder, Townhall, NBC News and Insider
CNN:
Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted over old social media posts advocating violence against Democrats in court testimony — (CNN)Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was confronted in court on Friday over past social media posts advocating violence against Democrats.
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Seeking to Prevent Her Disqualification, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Under Oath That She Can't Remember Much About Talks Before Jan. 6
Seeking to Prevent Her Disqualification, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Under Oath That She Can't Remember Much About Talks Before Jan. 6
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Dustin Jones / NPR:
Firearms overtook auto accidents as the leading cause of death in children — For decades, auto accidents have been the leading cause of death among children, but in 2020 guns were the No. 1 cause, researchers say. — Overall firearm-related deaths increased 13.5% between 2019 and 2020 …
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Justice News:
California Man Arrested and Charged with Making Threats Against LGBTQ Community — Defendant allegedly targeted Springfield-based Merriam-Webster, Inc. and other institutions and individuals with threats to commit anti-LGBTQ violence — BOSTON - A California man was arrested on Tuesday …
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New York Times, The Wrap, Raw Story, Pharyngula and HuffPost
Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Twitter bans climate change propaganda ads as deniers target platforms — The social media company says ads can't contradict “scientific consensus” on the environmental crisis — Twitter is banning advertisements that promote climate change denial in an effort to curb the reach of groups seeking …
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Timothy Snyder / New York Times:
The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word — In a creative play on three different languages, Ukrainians identify an enemy: ‘ruscism.’ — The City Council of Mariupol, Ukraine, was trying to make a point about mass death. Their city had been hit hardest by the Russian invasion …
New York Times:
What Happened on Day 58 of the War in Ukraine — Here's the latest on the war in Ukraine. — Ukrainian officials acknowledged Friday that Russian forces had taken more than three dozen small towns in their initial drive this week to seize eastern Ukraine, offering the first glimpse …
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Starbucks Is Sued by U.S. Labor Board Over Retaliation Claims — U.S. labor officials are asking a federal court to force Starbucks Corp. to reinstate a group of activists, escalating the legal battle over the company's response to the union campaign sweeping through its stores.
Chris Smyth / The Times:
Sajid Javid inquiry into gender treatment for children … Vulnerable children are wrongly being given gender hormone treatment by the NHS, Sajid Javid believes, as he prepares to launch an urgent inquiry. — The health secretary thinks the system is “failing children” …
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The Guardian
Steve Rosenberg / BBC:
Ukraine war: The Russia I knew no longer exists — There are no shells exploding in Moscow. There are no foreign forces encircling the city. What Muscovites are experiencing now is nothing compared to the horrors in Ukraine. — At first glance life here even looks normal.
Jessica Schneider / CNN:
Person sets self on fire at Supreme Court plaza — Washington (CNN)Someone set themself on fire Friday at the plaza in front of the US Supreme Court building, a court spokesperson said. — Supreme Court Police, US Capitol Police and the DC Metropolitan Police Department responded to the incident …
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NBC News, Fox News, Raw Story and Political Wire
James McAuley / New Yorker:
The French Far Right Comes on Little Cat Feet — After years of seeing Marine Le Pen as a dangerous extreme, many voters now see her as a politician like any other. — In the early spring of 2017, before France's previous Presidential election, I took a taxi from my apartment in Paris to Saint-Cloud …
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Matthew Dalton / Wall Street Journal:
Marine Le Pen's Far-Right French Party to Pay Nearly $13 Million to Russian Military Contractor
Marine Le Pen's Far-Right French Party to Pay Nearly $13 Million to Russian Military Contractor
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Bloomberg