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Tony Plohetski / Austin American-Statesman:
Exclusive: Watch Uvalde school shooting video obtained by Statesman showing response — Editor's note: The video footage, audio, and events described in this story are disturbing. Discretion is advised. This exclusive story and video are being made available free of charge as a public service.
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Manny Garcia / Austin American-Statesman:
Why the Austin American-Statesman chose to publish video from inside Robb Elementary — The American-Statesman is publishing a video account of the delayed police response at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde after a gunman walked into two classrooms and killed 19 children and their two teachers.
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Uvalde Video / KVUE-TV:
Hallway footage in Uvalde school shooting obtained by KVUE
Hallway footage in Uvalde school shooting obtained by KVUE
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Washington Post:
Trump hid plan for Capitol march on day he marked as ‘wild’, panel says — New evidence and testimony showed the president's tweet promoting a protest on Jan. 6 united extremist groups and led to calls for violence — Gift Article — Donald Trump scrawled the words on Twitter …
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Jan. 6 panel escalates showdown with Trump over influencing witnesses
Jan. 6 panel escalates showdown with Trump over influencing witnesses
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Politico:
‘His own choices’: Select panel says Trump — not his advisers — set Jan. 6 in motion
‘His own choices’: Select panel says Trump — not his advisers — set Jan. 6 in motion
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘He is not an impressionable child’: Cheney lays marker on Trump, crime
‘He is not an impressionable child’: Cheney lays marker on Trump, crime
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
What the Jan. 6 Committee Needs to Ask in the Big Finale
What the Jan. 6 Committee Needs to Ask in the Big Finale
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why evidence that Trump planned a Capitol march is important
Why evidence that Trump planned a Capitol march is important
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump has never been held accountable for impeding inquiries. It shows.
Trump has never been held accountable for impeding inquiries. It shows.
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Raw Story and Washington Examiner
NBC News:
Takeaways from Day 7 of the Jan. 6 panel: Trump can't be ‘willfully blind’ in defending assembling the mob
Takeaways from Day 7 of the Jan. 6 panel: Trump can't be ‘willfully blind’ in defending assembling the mob
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Washington Post:
Trump tried to contact committee witness, an effort referred to Justice Department, Cheney says
Trump tried to contact committee witness, an effort referred to Justice Department, Cheney says
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NBC News:
Cipollone corroborated virtually everything from Hutchinson, Jan. 6 panel member says
Cipollone corroborated virtually everything from Hutchinson, Jan. 6 panel member says
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Tears, Screaming and Insults: Inside an ‘Unhinged’ Meeting to Keep Trump in Power — Even by the standards of the Trump White House, a meeting on Dec. 18, 2020, that was highlighted Tuesday by the Jan. 6 committee was extreme. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Washington Post:
‘Unhinged’: The White House meeting that preceded Trump's ‘will be wild’ tweet — Gift Article — Late on a Friday night about six weeks after Donald Trump lost his reelection, a fistfight nearly broke out in the White House between the president's fired national security adviser and a top White House aide.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
House centrists mull Manchin counteroffer: No new taxes — Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) is gauging support among House centrists for a counteroffer to the emerging Senate reconciliation package, with one big clause: No new taxes. … That could deprive President Biden — and vulnerable lawmakers …
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Ella Nilsen / CNN:
More than 200 congressional staffers urge Pelosi and Schumer to act on climate or risk dooming younger generations — “We've crafted the legislation necessary to avert climate catastrophe. It's time for you to pass it,” the staffers wrote in a letter, sent to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer …
CBS News:
Charges: Man lit his camper on fire, defaced own garage to appear targeted due to Trump flag — MINNEAPOLIS - A Brooklyn Center man faces federal charges after he lit his own camper on fire to make it look like a politically-motivated crime, and then allegedly filed several fraudulent insurance claims.
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
A Former Mueller Prosecutor Takes Merrick Garland to Task — Few people know complex federal criminal investigations as well as Andrew Weissmann does. — Over the course of his career, Weissmann has worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, as a deputy and eventually director …
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Is ‘convergence’ the new ‘collusion’? — With help from Alice Miranda Ollstein — CONSPIRACY (LEGAL) THEORY — Today's Jan. 6 committee hearing, led by committee members Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), was billed as the committee's effort to demonstrate …
Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:
Leaked Audio: Before Election Day, Bannon Said Trump Planned to Falsely Claim Victory — “That's our strategy. He's gonna declare himself a winner.” … On the evening of October 31, 2020, Steve Bannon told a group of associates that President Donald Trump had a plan to declare victory on election night—even if he was losing.
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Molly Jong-Fast / The Atlantic:
The Trump Enablers Truly in Contempt of Congress
The Trump Enablers Truly in Contempt of Congress
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Washington Post:
Twitter sues Elon Musk, setting stage for epic legal battle — The lawsuit is the first legal volley in what will likely be one of the most watched and contentious business trials in recent history — Listen — Gift Article — Twitter filed suit Tuesday against Elon Musk to force …
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New York Times:
Twitter Sues Elon Musk to Force Him to Complete $44 Billion Acquisition
Twitter Sues Elon Musk to Force Him to Complete $44 Billion Acquisition
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Logs show 10 House Republicans attended White House meeting on pressuring Pence — Ten Republican members of Congress attended a Dec. 21 White House meeting focused on efforts to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to help overturn the 2020 election, according to the Jan. 6 committee.
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Jacob Ogles / Florida Politics:
Mehmet Oz bragged about hunting in Florida, but he's never held a license — He also claimed to own a hunting ranch in Florida. — Television personality Mehmet Oz spent months in a Pennsylvania Senate race touting a history of hunting in Florida. But the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission …
Washington Post:
Twitter went easy on Trump because it ‘relished’ the power, ex-employee says — In testimony before the Jan. 6 committee, the unidentified former employee said they'd tried for months ‘to raise the reality that ... if we made no intervention into what I saw occurring, people were going to die.’
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Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Cassidy Hutchinson Begged Senior Trump Officials For ‘Financial Assistance’ After Being Subpoenaed By J6 Committee — The Jan. 6 Committee's key witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, asked former Senior Trump officials for financial assistance and legal help in February after she was subpoenaed …
David French / The Atlantic:
The Constitution Isn't Working — On the last day of the Supreme Court's most recent term, the Court released two cases that highlight a challenge to American democracy—a challenge that is the direct result of one of the Founders' more consequential miscalculations.
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Former senior U.S. official John Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups — John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said on Tuesday that he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries.
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Arif Rafiq / The Strategist:
Pakistan's foreign policy reset hits a dead end — When Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's government fell in a vote of no confidence in April, his detractors in the power elite claimed that the change of government would lead to improved ties with the world and an easing of the country's economic crisis.
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Republicans threaten Wall Street over climate positions — BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase and other asset managers face complaints from the left — and threats from the right — Listen — Gift Article — Republican officials across the country, tearing a page from the ongoing culture wars …
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
What happened after Pete Buttigieg went on Fox News Sunday — Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg went on Fox News Sunday over the weekend and gave a good answer to a question he was asked about pro-choice protests against Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Page Six:
Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin—and Anna Wintour played matchmaker: sources — A star couple is born: Huma Abedin and Bradley Cooper are dating, insiders told Page Six. — The top aide to Hillary Clinton — and former wife of disgraced politician Anthony Weiner …
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Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Joe Biden's Dobbs Response Has Been Breathtakingly Awful — Why can't the president show some fight? — This weekend, the Washington Post published an article that chronicled the lumbering strategy of Joe Biden's administration in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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TMZ.com:
LeBron James Says He'd Question Returning To America If He Were Brittney Griner — LeBron James says Brittney Griner's been in captivity for way too long without the U.S. bringing her home, so if he were the WNBA star, he'd question returning to America. — Bron made the comments during …