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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Is Depicted as a Would-Be Autocrat Seeking to Hang Onto Power at All Costs — As the Jan. 6 committee outlined during its prime-time hearing, Donald J. Trump executed a seven-part conspiracy to overturn a free and fair democratic election. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Jan. 6 hearing makes case Trump at ‘center of this conspiracy’ to overturn election — Thursday marked the House select committee's first prime-time hearing. — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol held its first prime-time hearing on Thursday.
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
6 takeaways from the Jan. 6 committee's first prime-time hearing — The congressional Jan. 6 committee held its first prime-time hearing Thursday night about the attack on the Capitol and the events leading up to it. Here are six takeaways from the first of June's hearing, after nearly a year of investigation.
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
January 6 Primetime Hearing Proves A Slow Start At Unraveling A Dreadful Day In American History — Editor's Note: This post on the Jan 6 committee hearings by our TV critic Dominic Patten has been reclassified from a review to a commentary, and has been edited to better reflect the author's point of view.
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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 need to announce that it wasn't going to cover Thursday night's prime-time hearing from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Jan. 6 Chair Bennie Thompson Tells Tapper He Has Witnesses to Conversations Between Proud Boys and Those ‘In The Trump Orbit’ — House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol Chairman Bennie Thompson told CNN's Jake Tapper that witnesses will describe conversations between members …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Jan. 6 Committee holds first public hearing investigating attack on the US Capitol — Lawmakers are expected to present videos of interviews with former top Trump officials and potentially family members — Fox Business Go — Lawmakers on the Jan. 6 committee Thursday night plan …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
The Jan. 6 committee's evidence spoke for itself. Is the Justice Department listening? — Panel blames Trump for ‘attempted coup’ in first Jan. 6th hearing — WASHINGTON — The evidence was the star witness. — In painstaking detail, and with brutal new footage of the attack at the U.S. Capitol …
New York Times:
Liz Cheney: Vice Chair Has Become a G.O.P. Outcast For Condemning Trump — “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” [cheering] They came from all 50 states …
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Politico:
Jan. 6 panel lets Trump allies narrate the case against him
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NewsNation:
Jan. 6 committee: Trump ‘lit the flame of the attack’
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Jan. 6th Committee Starts With “Just the Facts, Ma'am”
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Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
New court filings raise questions about Sen. Mike Lee's involvement in attempts to overturn the 2020 election
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Police officer describes bloody ‘war scene’ outside Capitol
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
In trying to prebut Jan. 6 committee, McCarthy reinforces its utility
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Ingrid Jacques / USA Today:
Betsy DeVos: Trump's actions on Jan. 6 were ‘line in the sand’ that led to resignation
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Hutchinson, former Meadows aide, replaces lawyer on cusp of Jan. 6 hearings
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Camila DeChalus / Insider:
Bennie Thompson is poised to take center stage as Jan. 6 hearings start after 29 years in Congress
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Aware of Injuries Inside, Uvalde Police Waited to Confront Gunman — More than a dozen students remained alive for over an hour before officers entered their classrooms. The commander feared a risk to officers' lives, new documents show. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Waiting for keys, unable to break down doors: Uvalde schools police chief defends delay in confronting gunman — Criticized by law enforcement experts for slowness in taking out the shooter, Pete Arredondo described an agonizing wait for a key that would work.
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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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Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Prices Rise Rapidly in May: Live Updates
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
The Washington Post Fires Felicia Sonmez Amid Week of Infighting — The political reporter's exit caps off nearly a full week worth of highly public drama at the paper. … The Washington Post has fired national political reporter Felicia Sonmez, The Daily Beast has confirmed …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Jared and Ivanka, Without the Power or the Masks — In stark videotaped interviews, Ivanka Trump accepted the notion that there had been no fraud in the 2020 election. Jared Kushner complained that a White House counsel had been “whining.” — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Group aiming to defund disinformation tries to drain Fox News of online advertising — A nonprofit aiming to defund disinformation online that has taken money out of the pockets of several prominent far-right websites now has its sights set on its most formidable target yet: Fox News.
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Politico:
Chesa Boudin is out in San Francisco, but his agenda is alive in California — OAKLAND — San Francisco voters threw their liberal district attorney out of office this week in a decisive rejection said to spell doom for criminal justice reform nationwide. — But just across the Bay …
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