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Russell Moore / Christianity Today:
This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse — The abuse investigation has uncovered more evil than even I imagined. — They were right. I was wrong to call sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) a crisis. Crisis is too small a word. It is an apocalypse.
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Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
Explosive Southern Baptist sex abuse report expected to be released Sunday — Leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention on Sunday are expected to release the findings of a major third-party investigation into how sex abuse cases have been handled by prominent leaders within the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Houston Chronicle:
Bombshell 400-page report finds Southern Baptist leaders routinely silenced sexual abuse survivors — Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate — For 20 years, leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention — including a former president now accused of sexual assault …
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New York Times
Associated Press:
Report: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled sex abuse victims — Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest Protestant denomination, stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations …
New York Times:
Kushner's and Mnuchin's Quick Pivots to Business With the Gulf — Weeks before the Trump administration ended, Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin met with future investors on official trips to the Middle East. — Give this article- - - Read in app — Shortly before the 2020 election …
New York Times:
Democrats See Headwinds in Georgia, and Everywhere Else — Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams, viewed as strong candidates by their party, will be running against President Biden's low ratings as well as their G.O.P. rivals. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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The Hill
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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Stacey Abrams says Georgia ‘the worst state in the country to live,’ despite owning multiple houses there
Stacey Abrams says Georgia ‘the worst state in the country to live,’ despite owning multiple houses there
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The Gateway Pundit and National Review
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
In new book, Kellyanne Conway takes aim at many targets — except Trump — Part personal chronicle and part political journey, the book is filled with the sorts of barbed one-liners and bon mots that she dispensed on cable news — In 2015, Kellyanne Conway found herself en route to pick …
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway Book: Trump Toyed With Quitting After Access Hollywood ‘Pussy’ Tape
Kellyanne Conway Book: Trump Toyed With Quitting After Access Hollywood ‘Pussy’ Tape
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Ashley Southall / New York Times:
Man Fatally Shot on Manhattan Subway in Unprovoked Attack — Riders scrambled for safety when a gunman fired a shot on a Q train in Lower Manhattan on Sunday, killing Daniel Enriquez, 48. The gunman fled into the streets. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Reuters, New York Post and WTOP News
New York Times:
The Ransom: A Look Under the Hood — Thousands of pages of original documents, and hundreds of books and articles. Here are the historians and researchers on which the Haiti project drew. — Give this article- - - Read in app — This series was the work of four reporters and more than a dozen researchers.
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Washington Post:
A grasp at diplomacy as fighting grinds on in Ukraine — The Polish president addresses Ukraine's parliament, calling on Russia to withdraw. — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the path to ending the war with Russia would require diplomacy and an international agreement …
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Washington Post:
Inside the Republican push to stop Trump's ‘vendetta tour’ in Georgia — GOP governors hatched a plan months ago that will culminate in a closely-watched gubernatorial primary on Tuesday — Republican governors hatched the plan months ago. Meeting at the desert Biltmore resort in Phoenix …
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Election Law Blog, Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, Insider, HuffPost, Reuters, USA Today, Vox and Mercury News
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp poised for a big win Tuesday, but Trump's shadow looms large
Kemp poised for a big win Tuesday, but Trump's shadow looms large
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Insider, Raw Story and Missoulian
David Siders / Politico:
'No one's paying any attention': The week that Republicans ignored Trump's election lies
'No one's paying any attention': The week that Republicans ignored Trump's election lies
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Insider, Raw Story, Florida Politics and NPR
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
My Lunch With President Biden — Give this article- - - Read in app — President Biden invited me for lunch at the White House last Monday. But it was all off the record — so I can't tell you anything he said. — I can, though, tell you two things — what I ate and how I felt after.
CBS News:
More Americans label Republican Party extreme and Democratic Party as weak — CBS News poll — With midterm primaries helping set the direction for the Democratic and Republican parties, most Americans, including many of the parties' own voters, aren't terribly happy with the parties or what they're talking about.
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New York Post, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, Politico and The Hill
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Sophia Bollag / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘NIMBYism is destroying the state.’ Gavin Newsom ups pressure on cities to build more housing — SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom defended his administration's work on housing and homelessness during an interview with The Chronicle's editorial board Thursday, promising to crack down on local opposition to housing projects.
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Breitbart
Axios:
Democrats' redistricting nightmare — Early redistricting wins for Democrats are collapsing across the map, deepening the party's fears of a rout in November's midterm elections. … - Party heavyweights — including House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney …
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Political Wire
New York Times:
What they can attempt after an election has been certified — Launch audits and investigations - Attempt to decertify the election — The Times's review provides only a glimpse of the ways that state legislatures fueled the movement to deny and challenge the 2020 results.
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Election Law Blog, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Jim's Journal, The Hill and The Atlantic
Bloomberg:
More Horrors Await After $550 Billion Retail Earnings Meltdown — Soaring costs and swollen inventories have retailers on the ropes, and investors fear that the punishment won't ease anytime soon. — With companies from Costco Wholesale Corp. to Dollar General Corp. and Best Buy Co. set …
Financial Times:
Business leaders warn that three-decade era of globalisation is ending — Executives and investors gather in Davos to discuss mounting economic and financial challenges — The three-decade era of globalisation risks going into reverse according to company executives and investors …
Aime Williams / Financial Times:
‘Megadrought’ threatens water and power supplies to millions in US — Water levels in two largest reservoirs at record lows as study says southwestern drought worst in 1,200 years — The “megadrought” gripping the southwestern US has driven water levels at the two largest reservoirs to record lows …