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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony against Trump Is Devastating — Things will not be the same after this. — Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump's White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, provided compelling testimony Tuesday that former president Donald Trump is singularly culpable for the Capitol riot.
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POLITICO Playbook: Jan. 6 panel may have found its ‘smoking gun’ — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — It's hard to imagine how Tuesday's surprise hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee could've been more damning for President DONALD TRUMP.
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Washington Post:
Post Politics Now: Breyer to retire Thursday from Supreme Court, clearing way for Jackson swearing-in — Today, Justice Stephen G. Breyer told the White House that he will retire from the Supreme Court at noon Thursday, clearing the way for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn in.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Kevin McCarthy, Have You No Sense of Decency? — In the last few minutes of today's January 6 committee hearing, Representative Liz Cheney presented evidence of possible witness intimidation. Several witnesses, she reported, had received messages from shadowy persons purportedly close …
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Pro-Trump web raced to debunk Jan. 6 testimony. Then they got confused. — The former president's supporters quickly spun an online conspiracy theory that he couldn't have possibly lunged for his driver's steering wheel on Jan. 6, 2021. When evidence suggested otherwise, they tried other routes to distract from the truth.
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Will the Jan. 6 Committee Finally Bring Down the Cult of Trump? — There's a saying among cult experts: Nobody ever joins a cult. — Of course, people join what, to outsiders, certainly appear to be cults — the Branch Davidians, the Moonies, the Peoples Temple and so on.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A lawyer for Virginia Thomas said she would not testify to the House panel. — A lawyer for Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a supporter of President Donald J. Trump's efforts to stay in power after the 2020 election, told the House select committee investigating …
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
The optimistic melancholy of Bennie G. Thompson — The witness called him “sir.” When Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide, testified before the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday afternoon, she addressed Chairman Bennie G. Thompson with a word that afforded him respect as a man, not merely as an official.
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Trump White House attorney disputes Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony about handwritten note — Hutchinson testified before the House Jan. 6 committee Tuesday. — Former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann is claiming that a handwritten note regarding a potential statement …
CBS News:
Secret Service plans to respond to Jan. 6 committee regarding Trump's actions, after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony
Secret Service plans to respond to Jan. 6 committee regarding Trump's actions, after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony
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Politico:
Secret Service: Jan. 6 committee didn't reach out before Hutchinson's explosive Trump testimony
Secret Service: Jan. 6 committee didn't reach out before Hutchinson's explosive Trump testimony
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New York Times:
Trump Aides Watch Testimony and Brace for Damage
Trump Aides Watch Testimony and Brace for Damage
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Morgan Phillips / Daily Mail:
Secret Service lead and presidential driver are prepared to testify under oath that Trump did NOT grab steering wheel or lunge at agents to drive himself to Capitol on January 6
Secret Service lead and presidential driver are prepared to testify under oath that Trump did NOT grab steering wheel or lunge at agents to drive himself to Capitol on January 6
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
January 6 testimony puts Donald Trump in even greater legal peril
January 6 testimony puts Donald Trump in even greater legal peril
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Shelby Talcott / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Ginni Thomas Responds To Jan. 6 Committee's Official Request For Testimony
EXCLUSIVE: Ginni Thomas Responds To Jan. 6 Committee's Official Request For Testimony
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Jan. 6 hearings deliver new template for digital-era dramatics
Jan. 6 hearings deliver new template for digital-era dramatics
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Eastman drops bid to block phone records from Jan. 6 committee
Eastman drops bid to block phone records from Jan. 6 committee
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New York Times:
The Vanishing Moderate Democrat — Their positions are popular. So why are they going extinct? — Early last year, as Democrats were preparing to control the White House and Congress for the first time in a decade, Josh Gottheimer met with Nancy Pelosi to discuss their party's message.
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
The fall of Roe is the culmination of the Democratic establishment's failures — The overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the underwhelming reaction from senior Democratic leaders to that huge defeat, make the case even clearer that the party's too-long-in-power leaders — including President Biden — need to move aside.
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Charlie Duxbury / Politico:
Swedish and Finnish NATO deal with Turkey triggers fears over Kurdish deportations — STOCKHOLM — Relief over Tuesday night's deal with Turkey unblocking the NATO accession process for Sweden and Finland was palpable on Wednesday, but there were also fears that the two Nordic states …
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NATO:
Issued by NATO Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Madrid 29 June 2022
Issued by NATO Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Madrid 29 June 2022
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Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:
NATO poised to take historic action on strategy, enlargement, and Ukraine
NATO poised to take historic action on strategy, enlargement, and Ukraine
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Associated Press:
US to boost military presence in Europe for Russia threat
US to boost military presence in Europe for Russia threat
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Sean Coughlan / BBC:
Charles charity cash donation ‘would not happen again’ — The cash donation accepted by the Prince of Wales for his charity would not happen now, a royal source says. — “That was then, this is now,” the source said, following reports Prince Charles had accepted around £2.5m in cash in a suitcase and carrier bags.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Narrows Ruling for Tribes in Oklahoma — The decision followed a landmark 2020 ruling that said much of eastern Oklahoma falls within Indian reservation lands, limiting the authority of state prosecutors. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Pelosi receives Communion in Vatican amid abortion debate — ROME (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Pope Francis on Wednesday and received Communion during a papal Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, witnesses said, despite her position in support of abortion rights.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Stacey Abrams outlines stance on abortion limits — Stacey Abrams said Wednesday that she would support legislation that would protect the right to an abortion before the point of fetal viability if she's elected the state's first Democratic governor in decades.
Adam Piore / Columbia Journalism Review:
Insiders — A Friday morning last fall, in the subterranean labyrinth of the Capitol building, on either side of thick double doors: a throng of reporters and the House Democratic Caucus. No sound from the room could be heard in the hallway. There was a time, which I can remember …
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Boebert says she is ‘tired’ of separation between church and state: ‘The church is supposed to direct the government’ — Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) says she is “tired” of the long-standing separation between church and state in the U.S., adding that she believes “the church is supposed to direct the government.”
Suhasini Raj / New York Times:
Religious Unrest Spreads in India With Killing of Hindu Man — Two Muslim men filmed themselves attacking a Hindu, a tailor, who had been accused of backing anti-Islamic remarks. — Give this article- - - Read in app — NAINITAL, India — The attackers recorded the gruesome killing on a mobile phone.
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Isabella Simonetti / New York Times:
Over 360 newspapers have closed since just before the start of the pandemic. — The same pace — about two closures per week — was occurring before the pandemic. — Give this article- - - Read in app — The pandemic has been bad for the country's local newspapers.
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Vogue:
Gloria Steinem, the Duchess of Sussex, and Jessica Yellin on Abortion Rights, the ERA, and Why They Won't Give Up Hope — two days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—Jessica Yellin, the award-winning journalist and founder of the independent media company News Not Noise …
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