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WSOC-TV:
Sources: Rep. Madison Cawthorn cited for having a gun at Charlotte Douglas — CHARLOTTE — Rep. Madison Cawthorn was cited for having a gun at Charlotte Douglas International Airport Tuesday morning, three sources tell Channel 9. — According to the TSA, a 9 millimeter handgun was discovered …
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Fears mount inside White House that Manchin won't agree to any deal — Biden aides have tried gauging the senator's interest in a potential agreement, but time is running out — President Biden last spring proposed spending more than $4 trillion to transform the American economy.
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CBS News:
Biden tells Congressional Hispanic Caucus he's looking at forgiving most federal student loan debt — President Biden is looking at different options to forgive most, if not all, federal student loan debt - a move that would thrill some of his most loyal supporters and financially strapped students nationwide …
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Forbes
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Biden's sanctions coordinator to take leave of absence from White House
Biden's sanctions coordinator to take leave of absence from White House
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Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
Myah Ward / Politico:
Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid
Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid
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Washington Examiner, Associated Press, UPI, Ace of Spades HQ, The Daily Wire, WTOP News and Florida Politics
Bloomberg:
Manchin Explores Possible Energy, Climate Package With GOP
Manchin Explores Possible Energy, Climate Package With GOP
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Insider, Washington Times and Daily Kos
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
Manchin and Schumer Discuss New Tax Hike, Deficit Cut Proposal
Manchin and Schumer Discuss New Tax Hike, Deficit Cut Proposal
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Politico and Slow Boring
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A Billionaires' World — The world's richest person didn't like Twitter. So he's buying it. — Give this article- - - Read in app — Two years ago, the economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman published a statistic that you don't normally see. It was the share of wealth owned by the richest 0.00001 percent of Americans.
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Shira Ovide / New York Times:
Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Will Face Reality of His Free-Speech Talk — Tech's big shots have learned again and again that free speech isn't so simple. What happens when Mr. Musk owns Twitter? — A decade ago, Twitter executives, including the chief executive, Dick Costolo …
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
EU warns Elon Musk over Twitter moderation plans — EU commissioner Thierry Breton tells Tesla chief executive: ‘Elon, there are rules’ — Brussels has warned Elon Musk that Twitter must comply with the EU's new digital rules under his ownership, or risk hefty fines or even a ban …
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Politico:
Twitter's top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover
Twitter's top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover
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CBS News, The Verge and Axios, more at Mediagazer »
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans to Trump: Stay away from Twitter
POLITICO Playbook: Republicans to Trump: Stay away from Twitter
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Elon Musk Buying Twitter Is Weird, Chaotic, and a Little Bit Awesome
Elon Musk Buying Twitter Is Weird, Chaotic, and a Little Bit Awesome
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Constant Commoner, Ask Questions Later and Deseret News
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Twitter workers face a reality they've long feared: Elon Musk as owner
Twitter workers face a reality they've long feared: Elon Musk as owner
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll: Kemp has strong shot to knock out Perdue without a runoff — Gov. Brian Kemp has a chance of landing an outright victory against former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll that shows the Republican incumbent with a hefty advantage over his Donald Trump-backed challenger.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A leading Trump sycophant may soon get the humiliation he deserves — When the history of the Donald Trump era is written, a special place in the whole saga should be reserved for David Perdue. The former senator has debased himself on Trump's behalf perhaps more thoroughly than anyone alive …
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Breitbart, PolitiFact and NBC News
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The not-so-neat trick GOP candidates play on the ‘stolen election’
The not-so-neat trick GOP candidates play on the ‘stolen election’
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Raw Story, Daily Kos and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Jacob Schumer / Bloomberg Tax:
The Contractual Impossibility of Unwinding Disney's Reedy Creek — There's been a lot of talk about whether Florida lawmakers can legally dissolve Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District, but there's one basic reason why Florida can't dissolve it—it promised bond purchasers that it wouldn't …
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Sarah Rumpf / Law & Crime:
Florida's Contractual Obligations to Bond Holders Block Repeal of Disney's Special Taxing District, Says Reedy Creek in New Statement — Ever since Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed the bill repealing the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID), the special taxing district operating …
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Occupy Democrats and The Duckpin
ProPublica:
Building the “Big Lie”: Inside the Creation of Trump's Stolen Election Myth — Co-published with FRONTLINE … By the time Leamsy Salazar sat down in front of a video recorder in a lawyer's office in Dallas, he had grown accustomed to divulging state secrets.
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
‘Yes sir’: New texts show Hannity promising on-air Trump campaign push
‘Yes sir’: New texts show Hannity promising on-air Trump campaign push
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Media Matters for America, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite and Vanity Fair
New York Times:
New Details Underscore House G.O.P. Role in Jan. 6 Planning
New Details Underscore House G.O.P. Role in Jan. 6 Planning
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
539 days later, Trump still can't point to actual voter fraud
539 days later, Trump still can't point to actual voter fraud
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Slate, The Status Kuo and Raw Story
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Most Americans have been infected with the coronavirus at least once, the C.D.C. says. — The common perception that nearly everyone in America seemed to have been infected with the Omicron variant last winter may not have been far from the truth. By February 2022, nearly 60 percent …
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Washington Post:
Harvard leaders and staff enslaved more than 70 people, report finds — The university said it had benefited from slave-generated wealth and practiced racial discrimination — Harvard University leaders, faculty and staff enslaved more than 70 individuals during the 17th and 18th centuries …
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Harvard University, The Hill, Harvard University President, UPI and Al Jazeera
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Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Joe's missing millions! Financial records reveal Biden had $5.2million in unexplained income - as emails show he paid Hunter's legal bills for one megabucks Chinese deal and was tapped as ‘big guy’ to get a 10% cut in another — Emails from Hunter's laptop reveal Joe Biden agreed …
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RedState, The Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit and Ace of Spades HQ
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
ABC News Exclusive: Dr. Birx speaks to Trump disinfectant moment, says colleagues had resignation pact — White House COVID response coordinator reveals details before book release. — The coronavirus response coordinator for President Donald Trump's COVID task force, Dr. Deborah Birx …
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USA Today, Politico, HuffPost, The Hill and Political Wire
BBC:
Germany to send tanks to Ukraine in U-turn — Watch: BBC News coverage of UN chief's Ukraine talks in Moscow — Updates from BBC correspondents: Yogita Limaye, Sarah Rainsford, Joe Inwood, Joel Gunter and Anna Foster in Kyiv, Andrew Harding in Donbas, Catherine Byaruhanga in Zaporizhzhia …
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Putin gets what he didn't want: Ukraine army closer to West
Putin gets what he didn't want: Ukraine army closer to West
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NBC News:
U.S. intel helped Ukraine protect air defenses, shoot down Russian plane carrying hundreds of troops — As Russia launched its invasion, the U.S. gave Ukrainian forces detailed intelligence about exactly when and where Russian missiles and bombs were intended to strike …
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Washington Post, Metro.co.uk, New York Times, Foreign Policy, ABC13, Political Wire and The Covid Chronicles
Andrew Kerr / Washington Examiner:
Madison Cawthorn implicated in potential insider trading scheme, experts say — EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Madison Cawthorn may have violated federal insider trading laws as he hyped up an alleged pump-and-dump cryptocurrency scheme, multiple watchdog groups told the Washington Examiner.
Amber Coakley / One America News Network:
Rep. Biggs: Alleged Rep. McCarthy comments raise huge trust issue for me — Arizona congressman Andy Biggs says taped comments of Republican leader Kevin McCarthy about President Donald Trump are “a huge trust issue” for him. One America's John Hines has more from Washington.
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The Hill, Washington Post and Political Wire
Christopher Hooks / Texas Monthly:
Cancel Culture Comes for Beto O'Rourke — The Democratic gubernatorial candidate says he wants to have a dialogue with Texans of all persuasions. But in one rural community, Republicans worked to make sure he would have no place to talk or listen. — When Democratic candidates …
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Dallas Morning News
Techno Fog / The Reactionary:
Durham's latest: He has hundreds of e-mails between Fusion GPS and reporters — Special Counsel John Durham just filed this motion in response to the efforts of Hillary for America, Fusion GPS, et al. to keep secret (by use of the attorney-client and work product privileges) communications involving Fusion GPS.
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