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J. Michael Luttig / CNN:
The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election — Ex-Judge who played key role in Trump-Pence feud speaks out for first time — J. Michael Luttig, appointed by President George H. W. Bush, formerly served on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for 15 years.
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New York Times:
McCarthy Feared G.O.P. Lawmakers Put ‘People in Jeopardy’ After Jan. 6 — New audio recordings reveal Kevin McCarthy worried that comments by his far-right colleagues could incite violence. He said he would try to rein in the lawmakers, but has instead defended them. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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William Saletan / The Bulwark:
The Most Damning Part of the Meadows Texts — He knew the president was lying. And he kept helping to spread the lies anyway. — We've known for a long time, based on audits, investigations, and court reviews, that Donald Trump's allegations about massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election are false.
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Tucker Carlson calls Kevin McCarthy ‘puppet of the Democratic Party’
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
Twitter says mass deactivations after Musk news were ‘organic’ — How Elon Musk's Twitter takeover could change the platform — Twitter was flooded with user reports of high-profile accounts losing thousands of followers in the hours after news broke that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would purchase …
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Elon Musk boosts criticism of Twitter executives, prompting online attacks — The targeting of employees by Musk's massive Twitter megaphone is a major concern for workers — Elon Musk on Tuesday used his powerful Twitter account to bolster right-wing users who sharply criticized two company executives …
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Project Veritas:
BREAKING: Twitter Insider Leaks Audio Recording of Company's Internal All-Hands Meeting Following Elon Musk Takeover ... ‘Many Different Feelings About What Is Happening’
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Wall Street Journal:
How Elon Musk Can Liberate Twitter
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Politico:
Twitter's top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover
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Jesse O'Neill / New York Post:
Elon Musk says suspending NY Post from Twitter was ‘incredibly inappropriate’
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Fox News, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal
Molly Ball / TIME:
What Elon Musk Really Believes
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Mediaite, The Federalist, FIRE and TheBlaze
Washington Post:
Russia cuts off gas to Poland, Bulgaria, stoking tensions with E.U. over Ukraine — Russia's state-controlled gas company, Gazprom, said Wednesday it had shut off the supply of natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria, a move that marks a significant escalation in the economic tension between Moscow and the West over the war in Ukraine.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Opinion Does the exit ramp look more attractive to Putin now?
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Eli Clifton / Responsible Statecraft:
Surprise: Ex-general pushing for NATO troops in Ukraine has weapons industry ties
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Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
In UK and US military support for Ukraine, a divergent tolerance for risk
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Washington Post and NPR
Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
Disney tells investors state can't dissolve special district without paying debt — As Florida legislators were rushing through passage of a bill to repeal the special district that governs Walt Disney World last week, they failed to notice an obscure provision in state law that says the state …
Associated Press:
Russia releases US Marine vet as part of prisoner exchange — WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia and the United States carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America …
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Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Michigan Republican resigns from GOP committee citing ‘delusional lies’ — Lansing — Tony Daunt, a longtime Michigan Republican insider, resigned Tuesday night from the GOP's state committee, saying party leaders had made the coming election a test of “who is most cravenly loyal” to former President Donald Trump.
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Jonathan Oosting / Bridge Michigan:
Matt Maddock, a Trump favorite, ousted from Michigan GOP caucus
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Los Angeles Times:
Villanueva backs off investigation of Times reporter who revealed cover-up — Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Tuesday that his department was targeting a Times journalist in a criminal leak investigation for her reporting on a departmental cover-up, but after a barrage …
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump judges audition for Supreme Court — A number of young and prominent Trump-appointed judges are writing their opinions with provocative language, diving into the culture wars in ways offering an audition for a future Supreme Court opening. … But with the specter …
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
NY attorney general's office says it's nearly done unraveling Trump's ‘Russian nesting doll’ — New York (CNN)Lawyers for the New York State Attorney General's Office said they are nearly finished with their civil investigation into the Trump Organization, after taking steps to unravel …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
First look: Lis Smith dishes on love of political combat in new book … - The title, “Any Given Tuesday,” puts an Election Day twist on the “Any Given Sunday” truism about the NFL. — The book is animated by Smith's love for the hand-to-hand combat of politics, and she …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Fauci pulls out of WHCD. Is Biden next? — DRIVING THE DAY — Late Tuesday night, CNN's Oliver Darcy and Kaitlan Collins scooped that ANTHONY FAUCI is dropping out of this weekend's White House Correspondents' Association dinner over concerns about Covid-19.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Before Washington's ‘Nerd Prom,’ Lots of Risk-Benefit Calculation — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci won't attend the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, but President Biden has concluded it is worth the risk. — WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris's Covid-19 diagnosis …
New York Times:
China's Covid Lockdown Outrage Tests Limits of Triumphant Propaganda — Public anger and grief over the bungled lockdown in Shanghai is creating a credibility crisis for the country's leader, Xi Jinping, and his zero Covid policies. — Immediately after Beijing said it had detected …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Warren tries to ‘light the fire of urgency’ for Democrats — As Elizabeth Warren surveys the landscape for her party, she does not like what she sees. — “We've got nearly 200 days. If we don't deliver, if we don't get up off our rear ends and make it happen, we're in real trouble,” …
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Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
United States is ‘out of the pandemic phase,’ Fauci says — The United States is finally “out of the pandemic phase,” the country's top infectious-disease expert said Tuesday, as cases and hospitalizations are notably down and mask mandates are all but gone.
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The New York Times Company:
An Investigative Reporter for the Albany Bureau — The Metro team welcomes Jay Root as an investigative reporter for the Albany bureau. Read more in this note from Jim Dao and Dean Chang. — When Dean Baquet suggested that Metro hire an investigative reporter for the Albany bureau …
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