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New York Times:
An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives — A low-profile Republican financier donated his company to a new group run by the influential operative Leonard A. Leo. — WASHINGTON — A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor …
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Fox News, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and Alternet.org
Politico:
‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump — In years past, it would have been a political Waterloo moment for Republicans: President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats racing frantically to finalize sweeping legislation …
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HotAir, driftglass, No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
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Rich Lowry / New York Times:
A Defense of G.O.P. Paranoia — The reaction to the F.B.I. search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property created an immediate and furious backlash among Republicans. Even after two years of making political hay out of left-wing calls to defund the police, voices on the right are calling …
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The Federalist
Andrew Stanton / Newsweek:
Trump Allies Will Betray Him, Former Lawyer Predicts: ‘So Much Flipping’ — Former President Donald Trump's allies will eventually turn on him to avoid prison, his former attorney Michael Cohen said on Sunday. — Cohen's comment came nearly two weeks after FBI agents executed a search warrant …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Judge leaves open possibility redactions in Trump affidavit could make it ‘meaningless’ — A federal judge who said last week that he is “inclined” to unseal some of the affidavit central to the FBI search of former president Donald Trump's Florida estate left open the possibility …
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Washington Examiner, Politico, Fox News, Bloomberg, NewsNation, The Daily Caller and Just The News
Sophia Ankel / Insider:
GOP lawmaker says Trump may have kept classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to write a memoir
GOP lawmaker says Trump may have kept classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to write a memoir
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CBS News and Just The News
Rachel M. Cohen / Vox:
There's a bipartisan bill to codify Roe — and abortion rights groups can't stand it — The Reproductive Freedom for All Act reveals deeper debates about post-Roe America. — Amid threats over the last year that the Supreme Court might abolish the right to an abortion …
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Hawkish Russian Commentator Is Killed in Car Bombing — The daughter of a prominent ultranationalist, herself a hawkish commentator, was killed by a car bomb deep in Russian territory. — A brazen car bombing in a Moscow suburb that killed the daughter of a prominent backer …
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Daily Kos, Telegraph, All that has been hidden …, Alexander Ziperovich, The Hill, The Bona Fide, The Daily Wire and The Guardian
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
What Russians See in the News: A War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them
What Russians See in the News: A War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them
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NaturalNews.com
Mark Galeotti / Spectator:
What the Dugin assassination tells us about Russia
What the Dugin assassination tells us about Russia
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Fortune, Financial Times, Diane Francis, Telegraph, National Review, ABC7, Associated Press, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion and NBC Connecticut
Andrew Welsh-Huggins / Associated Press:
Wanted: 7,000 construction workers for Intel chip plants — Ohio's largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there's also a national shortage of people working in the trades.
New York Times:
Eric Adams After Dark: A Private Table and Tarnished Friends — New York's mayor vowed to boost nightlife establishments in every corner of the city. But again and again, he returns to the same spot, run by friends with troubled pasts. — Before he took office, Eric Adams vowed to boost …
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Wide World of News
Kansas City Star:
Kansas recount confirms landslide win for abortion rights, but highlights risk to democracy — Kansas reaffirmed its landslide vote to uphold abortion rights after election officials on Sunday finished a recount that never had any chance of changing the outcome but was sought by an election denier …
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Raw Story
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
The left's mask slips on brazen Trump bias — Sam Harris deserves our gratitude. With dazzling honesty, the liberal atheist public intellectual from LA has said out loud what we all knew but which his ilk have blurred for the past two years: once you decide Donald Trump is the second coming …
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NBC News
Chris Giles / Financial Times:
UK inflation to hit 18.6% next year according to Citi — Investment bank raises forecast as wholesale gas prices surge — UK inflation is on course to hit 18.6 per cent in January — the highest peak in almost half a century — because of soaring wholesale gas prices …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Senate Candidates Say Better Call Mitch (McConnell) — Struggling nominees in swing states turn to the Republican Leader to save their campaigns. — WSJ Opinion: The Mar-a-Lago Raid Heads Into Overtime — Skip Ad — in 15 — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
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John Fetterman Guest / Times Leader:
Their View: To support working Pennsylvanians, we need to hold Washington accountable — Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. — All across Pennsylvania, we're seeing soaring prices, hollowed out communities, and families getting ripped off by corporate greed.
Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post:
A Russian soldier's journal: ‘I will not participate in this madness’ — RIGA, Latvia — Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatyev spent more than a month fighting in Ukraine after his poorly equipped unit was ordered to march from its base in Crimea for what commanders called a routine exercise.
BBC:
Imran Khan: Pakistan police charge ex-PM under terrorism act — Pakistan's police have charged the country's former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, under anti-terror laws. — Their investigation comes after he accused the police and judiciary of detaining and torturing a close aide.
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VICE, The Diplomat, Al Jazeera, CBS News, Associated Press, UPI and The Hill
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Robert J. Shapiro / Washington Monthly:
Yes, Americans Are Better Off Under Biden — Households have seen a stunning rise in employment and income, even considering inflation. — Ronald Reagan closed his presidential debate with Jimmy Carter in October 1980, urging Americans to ask themselves if they were better off than they were four years ago.
Axios:
Polls reveal Trump's FBI search bump … Several polls show him rising against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had been surging in key states. … - A source close to Trump says the fundraising effect has been “yuge,” reengaging donors in the biggest way since he left office.
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The Guardian, Washington Examiner, The Hill and WCDC-TV
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Is a Fetus a Person? An Anti-Abortion Strategy Says Yes. — Fetal personhood, which confers legal rights from conception, is an effort to push beyond abortion bans and classify the procedure as murder. In Georgia, it also means a $3,000 tax credit. — Even as roughly half the states …
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Althouse