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John Koblin / New York Times:
More Than 19 Million Watched Jan. 6 Hearing, Early Tally Shows — The number, which will grow as the count adds more networks, is in the ballpark of big television events like a “Sunday Night Football” game. — Give this article- - - Read in app — More than 19 million people watched …
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen — Nearly 20 million people watched Thursday night's first hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol across broadcast and cable news, according to preliminary ratings figures from Nielsen.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Hits Back at Daughter's Account That She Accepted His Election Loss — The former president, responding to videotaped testimony played at the Jan. 6 hearing, said Ivanka Trump had been “checked out” and was not involved in studying the election results. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The Moral Desolation of the GOP — Yesterday evening, the leaders of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol opened their public hearings—hearings that will show, in the words of vice chair Liz Cheney, that “Donald Trump oversaw …
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New York Post:
Donald Trump, Democrats are obsessed with 2020 — GOP should look to the future — The Jan. 6 Commission is a Democratic campaign ad, a thinly veiled partisan exercise — aired in primetime, with the cooperation of a liberal press — to bolster a failed Joe Biden presidency.
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Rolling Stone:
Jared Kushner Wasn't Just Involved in Trump's Push to Overturn 2020. He Helped Start It — “Jared helped create what then morphed into the Rudy clown show,” one source tells Rolling Stone — Jared Kushner knew his father-in-law and boss Donald Trump had lost to Joe Biden.
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Cheney leaves Trump and his GOP apologists reeling — Constitutional democracies are rarely destroyed by a single blow. Their citizens often sleepwalk into catastrophe, discovering too late that a degree of timely vigilance could have preserved their system of self-rule.
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Just Security:
The January 6th Hearings: A Criminal Evidence Tracker — Introducing the January 6th Hearings Criminal Evidence Tracker — The January 6th Select Committee's first hearing was compelling. As with Watergate and other historic congressional proceedings, Thursday night will be long remembered …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Why It Matters That the Jan. 6 Hearings Put ‘a War Scene’ on Display — There is every reason to be skeptical, even cynical, about the effect and impact of the Jan. 6 hearings on the political landscape. — For one thing, most of the details of what happened are already in the public record.
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Here's What the World's Media Thinks of the Jan. 6 Hearings
Here's What the World's Media Thinks of the Jan. 6 Hearings
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New York Times, The Nation, USA Today, The Age, Xinhua, The National, Common Dreams, Fox News, New York Post, The Hill and National Review
Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump's Jan. 6 testimony exposes family strain
Ivanka Trump's Jan. 6 testimony exposes family strain
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Media Matters for America, Metro.co.uk, Wall Street Journal and BizPac Review
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why Liz Cheney's ‘seditious conspiracy’ talk is awful for Trump
Why Liz Cheney's ‘seditious conspiracy’ talk is awful for Trump
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Idaho Capital Sun, The Hill, politicususa.com, Common Dreams, Raw Story and Newsweek
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Resistance Porn Ratings Fail: Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Crushed by ‘Young Sheldon’ Rerun
Resistance Porn Ratings Fail: Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Crushed by ‘Young Sheldon’ Rerun
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Kelly Hooper / Politico:
‘Checked out’: Trump rebukes Ivanka over Jan. 6 testimony
‘Checked out’: Trump rebukes Ivanka over Jan. 6 testimony
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Fox News didn't just ignore the Jan. 6 hearing. It did something worse.
Fox News didn't just ignore the Jan. 6 hearing. It did something worse.
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Ariz. lawmakers to help overturn Trump's defeat, emails show — Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed 29 Republican state lawmakers in Arizona — 27 more than previously known — to set aside Joe Biden's popular vote victory and …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump's Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings, According to Reports … The irony is rich: Truth Social, Donald Trump's Twitter copycat claiming it is “free from political discrimination,” has reportedly banned users who posted information from Thursday's congressional hearing …
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Washington Post:
How the Jan. 6 hearing played out on the pro-Trump web — Ironically, online accounts that helped organize the insurrection tried to debunk the evidence the Jan. 6 committee presented Thursday — Former president Donald Trump's supporters scrambled to defend him online in the hours …
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Axios, Raw Story, HuffPost and The Daily Caller
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Inflation rose 8.6% in May, highest since 1981 — The consumer price index rose 8.6% in May from a year ago, the highest increase since December 1981. Core inflation excluding food and energy rose 6%. Both were higher than expected. — Surging food, gas and energy prices all contributed …
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
An ‘Ugly’ Inflation Report Upended Hopes That Price Gains Would Ease
An ‘Ugly’ Inflation Report Upended Hopes That Price Gains Would Ease
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Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Giuliani hit with ethics charges by Washington D.C. authorities over false election claims — The District of Columbia office that polices attorneys for ethical misconduct filed charges on Friday against President Donald Trump's former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, over baseless claims …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
DC bar brings ethics charges against Rudy Giuliani over election fraud claims
DC bar brings ethics charges against Rudy Giuliani over election fraud claims
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Taylor Lorenz said an editor was to blame. Is that okay? — UPDATE: The fallout from the Lorenz story continues: On Thursday, members of The Post's features staff held a meeting with Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, Senior Managing Editor Cameron Barr, Managing Editor of Diversity …
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Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
‘Ruth Sent Us’ group hinted at targeting Supreme Court Justice Barrett's children, church — Group gave details on Barrett's routine, her children's school and family's spiritual life — Protestors march outside of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's home
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CNN:
US seeks full reset with Saudi Arabia, effectively moving on from the murder of Jamal Khashoggi — (CNN)Senior US officials have conveyed to Saudi Arabia that the US is prepared to move forward with a “reset” of the relationship, and effectively move on from the 2018 murder …
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Wall Street Journal:
Meta Scrutinizing Sheryl Sandberg's Use of Facebook Resources Over Several Years — Review focuses on the extent to which staffers worked on her personal projects — The lawyers investigating Facebook operating chief Sheryl Sandberg's use of corporate resources are examining behavior …
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Kate Shaw / The Atlantic:
The Other Cause of January 6 — John Eastman. Rudy Giuliani. Donald Trump himself. — These people all bear some responsibility for the events of January 6, 2021. But there is another contributing factor—an institution, not a person—whose role is regularly overlooked …
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Todd Stacy / Alabama Daily News:
Poll shows Britt leading Brooks in Senate runoff — MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A new poll shows Katie Britt with a decisive lead over Mo Brooks in the Republican runoff for U.S. Senate. — The survey, taken by McLaughlin and Associates on behalf of the Alabama Forestry Association …
Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
Newsmax Moves Eric Bolling to Prime Time: 'Tucker, I'm Coming After You, Pal' — Newsmax TV's Eric Bolling is moving to 8 p.m. in prime time next week, the host announced Friday afternoon on his daily show. — “This show is moving to a brand new time slot, starting Tuesday,” Bolling told his audience.
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Wall Street Journal:
Rural America Reels From Violent Crime. ‘People Lost Their Ever-Lovin’ Minds.' — Murder rates didn't soar only in cities during the pandemic; small-town sheriffs and prosecutors are overwhelmed with homicide cases — Local prosecutor Rebecca McCoy used to think of her home in central Arkansas …
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