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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Proof: Trump Planned the Mob's March to the Capitol — The January 6th Committee just proved it was deliberate strategy. — Donald Trump's defenders can finally drop the idea that he just happened to extemporaneously order the mob that he knew was armed to march to the Capitol in the course of his speech on January 6, 2021.
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Washington Post:
Dramatic moments from deprogrammed right-wingers indict the whole GOP — Listen — Gift Article — Amid the parade of awful revelations unearthed by the House select committee examining the Jan. 6 insurrection, one area of immense culpability still needs further fleshing out.
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Washington Post:
Trump hid plan for Capitol march on day he marked as ‘wild’, panel says
Trump hid plan for Capitol march on day he marked as ‘wild’, panel says
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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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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sidelined by Covid, Schumer goes hard from Brooklyn — Chuck Schumer's negotiations with Joe Manchin on their party's domestic agenda were delicate even before the famously chatty majority leader caught Covid. Now he's digging in for Congress' most high-stakes work from quarantine in Brooklyn.
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 …
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
Senate Democrats Must Shoot Down Biden's Anti-Abortion Court Nominee
Senate Democrats Must Shoot Down Biden's Anti-Abortion Court Nominee
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Mike Allen / Axios:
1 big thing: Seismic shift … - Democrats are becoming the party of upscale voters concerned more about issues like gun control and abortion rights. — Republicans are quietly building a multiracial coalition of working-class voters, with inflation as an accelerant.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Poll Shows Tight Race for Control of Congress as Class Divide Widens — Nonwhite and working-class Democrats worry more about the economy, while white college graduates focus more on cultural issues like abortion rights and guns. — With President Biden's approval rating mired in the 30s …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected, as price pressures intensify — Shoppers paid sharply higher prices for a variety of goods in June as inflation kept its hold on a slowing U.S. economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday.
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Gabriel T. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Inflation Reached Highest Rate in Nearly 41 Years in June — Rising housing costs are putting pressure on prices, but lower gasoline costs and a glut of retail goods could be turning point in inflation surge — U.S. inflation reached 9.1% in June, its highest rate in nearly 41 years, the Labor Department said Wednesday.
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Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
Consumer prices jump again in June: Live Updates
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:
‘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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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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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.
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Fan Accused of Setting Fire to His Own Van After Blaming Biden Supporters and Black Lives Matter
MAGA Fan Accused of Setting Fire to His Own Van After Blaming Biden Supporters and Black Lives Matter
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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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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Russia's War Against Ukraine Has Turned Into Terrorism — The Russian military isn't just bombing civilians. It's also targeting the laws and values that protect human rights. — Red Cross packages are lined up along the sidewalk in Serhiivka, a small town in the southwestern corner of Ukraine.
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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Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Visit a Saudi Arabia That Is Closer to Russia Than Ever — The oil-rich kingdom has rebuffed Washington's pleas for more oil to hold down global prices — DUBAI—As President Biden prepares to visit Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich kingdom is closer than ever to Russia and has no plans …
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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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Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Trump hosts controversial Saudi-funded golf tournament as he mulls 2024 bid — Money. Revenge. Disruption. International intrigue. — These hallmarks of Donald Trump's business brand are all colliding in his latest political controversy involving the world of professional golf.
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Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Whitmer's leads over GOP rivals raising doubts about red wave, poll finds — Lansing — Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has leads over all five of her potential GOP challengers less than four months before Election Day, raising doubts about whether a Republican wave will make landfall in Michigan.
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Will Horner / Wall Street Journal:
Global Oil-Supply Crisis Shows Signs of Easing, IEA Says — Lower demand and a stronger-than-expected Russian supply are helping to ease tightness, International Energy Agency says — The worst oil-supply crisis in decades is showing tentative signs of easing as flagging economic growth weighs …
Jessica Grose / New York Times:
What It Means to Raise an American Girl Now — One of the images that has stuck with me from the pandemic's early days is the doll hospital my daughters made from cardboard boxes. Not long after their world was locked down, my children's American Girl dolls were afflicted with an unnamed illness and put to bed for weeks.
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Whitney Wild / CNN:
Secret Service member returns to US following altercation in Israel — Washington (CNN)A member of the US Secret Service Counter Assault Team was detained by the Israeli national police in Jerusalem this week after he allegedly assaulted a woman outside of a bar, a source tells CNN …
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