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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Newest addition to Trump's legal team sidelined in Mar-a-Lago search case — The newest addition to former President Donald Trump's legal team, Chris Kise, has been sidelined from the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation less than a month after he was brought on to represent Trump in the matter …
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NBC News:
From DeSantis to McCarthy to Trump, a week that defined the GOP-Democrat divide in 2022 — I left the Republican Party because I was worried it had fundamentally lost its way. Looking back, I have never been more convinced I was right. — I don't think I've recently experienced a span …
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Ex-Staffer Says DeSantis TORCHES Trump in Private: ‘Moron Who Has No Business Running For President’
Ex-Staffer Says DeSantis TORCHES Trump in Private: ‘Moron Who Has No Business Running For President’
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Ron DeSantis: The Making and Remaking (and Remaking) of a MAGA Heir
Ron DeSantis: The Making and Remaking (and Remaking) of a MAGA Heir
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Molly Ball / TIME:
How Democrats Gave Ron DeSantis a Pass
How Democrats Gave Ron DeSantis a Pass
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis faces the true test of any Florida governor
DeSantis faces the true test of any Florida governor
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Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
Florida Contracts Go to Companies That Flooded Ron DeSantis Campaign Fund
Florida Contracts Go to Companies That Flooded Ron DeSantis Campaign Fund
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Republican ex-congressman suggests colleagues ‘had serious cognitive issues’ — Paul Gosar and Louie Gohmert were eager to believe ‘wild, dramatic fantasies’, claims Denver Riggleman in new book — The Republican congressmen Louis Gohmert and Paul Gosar adopted such extreme …
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Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee postpones planned hearing as Hurricane Ian advances
Jan. 6 committee postpones planned hearing as Hurricane Ian advances
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Mark Meadows' inbox
Mark Meadows' inbox
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Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served with subpoena, court record says — In an affidavit, a process server said that the state's top attorney tried evade him as he attempted to deliver a subpoena from an abortion fund's lawsuit against the state. — Copy link
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Matt Young / The Daily Beast:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Flees Home in Truck to Avoid Subpoena
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Flees Home in Truck to Avoid Subpoena
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
McConnell endorses bill to prevent efforts to subvert presidential election results — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has endorsed a bipartisan electoral count reform bill in the Senate, giving the legislation a key boost over a similar bill the House passed last week.
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Reuters:
Gas leaks from Russian pipelines to Europe raise sabotage fears — Europe was investigating leaks in two Russian gas pipelines that churned up the Baltic Sea on Tuesday and raised concerns from Copenhagen to Moscow about sabotage on infrastructure at the heart of an energy standoff.
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KFTC-TV:
InsiderAdvantage/FOX 29 poll shows Fetterman leading Oz, Shapiro in double-digit lead over Mastriano — A new InsiderAdvantage/FOX 29 poll shows a tight contest in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race with the percent of undecided voters remains relatively high. Meanwhile, the race for Governor of Pennsylvania tells a different story.
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Polls are useful. They just can't predict elections in swing states.
Polls are useful. They just can't predict elections in swing states.
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USA Today and The Daily Beast
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump fan who assaulted Officer Fanone on Jan. 6 sentenced to more than 7 years in prison — WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump fan who brought his teenage son along as he assaulted then-D.C. police officer Mike Fanone and another officer at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced to more than seven years …
Dara Lind / New York Times:
Ron DeSantis Is Making an Asylum Crisis of His Own — When nearly 50 migrants were lured onto a pair of planes in San Antonio and dumped on Martha's Vineyard this month, a sequence of events arranged by Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, it was an escalation of what his fellow Republican governor …
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Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Washington Post:
Lawsuit aims to stop Biden's student loan forgiveness plan — A public interest lawyer in Indiana is suing to block President Biden's plan to cancel some student debt, arguing that the policy will force him to pay state taxes on the forgiven amount. — The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court …
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Pacific Legal Foundation:
Lawsuit filed to stop Biden administration's unlawful student loan cancellation
Lawsuit filed to stop Biden administration's unlawful student loan cancellation
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
In 2019, Doug Mastriano said women who violated proposed abortion ban should be charged with murder — In 2019, state Sen. Doug Mastriano sponsored legislation barring abortions at around six weeks. Asked if women who broke that law should be charged with murder, he said, “Yes.”
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Secret Service took the cellphones of 24 agents involved in Jan. 6 response and gave them to investigators — Senior leadership at the Secret Service confiscated the cellphones of 24 agents involved in the agency's response to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and handed them over to the Department …
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Marty Schladen / Cincinnati.com:
Affidavits: 2 more pregnant minors who were raped were denied Ohio abortions — At least two more minors made pregnant by sexual assault were forced to leave Ohio to avoid having their rapists' babies, according to sworn affidavits filed by abortion providers.
Cady Lang / TIME:
Hailey Bieber's ‘Brownie Glazed Lips’ Look Is Yet Another Example of Cultural Appropriation in Beauty — Hailey Bieber faced criticism over the weekend after a TikTok video she made about “brownie glazed lips” was called out for appropriating a makeup technique favored by Latinas and Black and brown women since the '90s.
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Rick Maese / Washington Post:
Brett Favre is the face of a scandal, but Mississippi's issues go deeper — In 2017, a Mississippi nonprofit called Operation Shoestring received a federal grant worth more than $200,000. But when the organization sought to renew the funding a year later, the money was no longer available.
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New York Times:
Russia Admits to Draft Problems as Anger Flares Into Violence — The Kremlin's spokesman tried to shift blame for errors in the call-up to regional agencies on Monday, the same day a gunman attacked a draft office in Siberia. — In a rare admission of official mistakes …
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Joselyn King / newsandsentinel.com/:
Justice considering U.S. Senate run — WHEELING — Gov. Jim Justice said he may not be done with public office when his second term as governor concludes in 2024, and that a seat in the U.S. Senate just might pique his interest. — The next time one of West Virginia's two Senate seats is up is 2024 …
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Political Wire
Darrell Owens / The Discourse Lounge:
Santa Cruz is A Housing Nightmare — My adventure in trying to find a basic necessity like housing in this ridiculous suburbia called Santa Cruz, California. — Santa Cruz, California has the worst housing crisis in the state of California. It skims Silicon Valley prices yet has incomes far lower than Silicon Valley.
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Los Angeles Times
Meta:
Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From China and Russia — Today, we're sharing our findings into two covert influence operations — from China and Russia — that we took down for violating our policy against Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB). We shared information with our peers …
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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
The Dictator and the Diva — Meet Alla Pugacheva, the Russian pop mega-star who is challenging Putin. — Of all the different reasons given for Vladimir Putin's decision last week to order “partial mobilization” of Russian reservists, the most unusual one has been offered …
Sarah Posner / Talking Points Memo:
The Key Ingredients Of Christian Nationalism — Christian nationalism isn't new. But its core components are dominating Republican politics. — Christian nationalism has been all over the news lately, but it is neither a new term nor a new phenomenon in American politics.
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