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Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: Republican JD Vance has slight lead on Democrat Tim Ryan in Senate race in Ohio — Republican J.D. Vance has opened a narrow edge over Democrat Tim Ryan in the Senate race in Ohio, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, as President Joe Biden's unpopularity complicates …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Scalise acknowledges GOP plan to change Social Security, Medicare — As the midterms elections near, voters don't appear focused on Republican plans for Social Security and Medicare. That's probably a mistake. — The latest New York Times/Siena College poll asked respondents about the major issues facing the country.
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New York Times, Media Matters for America, TheBlaze and Bloomberg
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
GOP wants to push to extend Trump tax cuts after midterm elections — Republican lawmakers gear up to push 2017 tax law after midterm elections, despite potential impact on inflation — Republicans plan to push to extend key parts of President Donald Trump's tax cuts if they take control …
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Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
The End of the Good Republicans — Ben Sasse is retiring from the Senate at the youthful age of 50.
The End of the Good Republicans — Ben Sasse is retiring from the Senate at the youthful age of 50.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Republicans Gain Edge as Voters Worry About Economy, Times/Siena Poll Finds
Republicans Gain Edge as Voters Worry About Economy, Times/Siena Poll Finds
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Maura Reynolds / Politico:
Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’ — It's been nearly eight months since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops and tanks over the border into Ukraine, and a lot has changed in that time. Ukraine has shown itself to be a far more robust military force than pretty much anyone predicted.
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Boris Bondarev / Foreign Affairs:
The Sources of Russian Misconduct … For three years, my workdays began the same way. At 7:30 a.m., I woke up, checked the news, and drove to work at the Russian mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva. The routine was easy and predictable, two of the hallmarks of life as a Russian diplomat.
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HotAir and Cyprus Mail
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump and Kanye West speak amid rapper's antisemitic rants, acquisition of Parler — Former President Donald Trump spoke with Kanye West over the phone following the rapper's decision to buy his own social media platform, a person familiar with the call told POLITICO.
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Bloomberg:
Ye Says He Bought Parler Because Instagram, Twitter Penalized Him — Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, said he was motivated to acquire the conservative social media service Parler by his belief that existing platforms like Instagram and Twitter are too restrictive when it comes to user speech.
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Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
White House calls Trump's attack on American Jews antisemitic
White House calls Trump's attack on American Jews antisemitic
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Kanye West plans to acquire Parler
Kanye West plans to acquire Parler
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant’ rates at his hotels, records show — Former president Donald Trump's company charged the Secret Service as much as five times more than the government rate for agents to stay overnight at Trump hotels while protecting him and his family, according to expense records newly obtained by Congress.
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New York Times:
Trump Hotels Charged Secret Service Exorbitant Rates, House Inquiry Finds — Records obtained by the House Oversight Committee show the former president's properties charged more than $1.4 million to agents protecting him and his family. — WASHINGTON — The Trump Organization charged …
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NBC News, The Atlantic, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Just The News and CBS News
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia sentences U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets — The Saudi government has sentenced a 72-year-old U.S. citizen to 16 years in prison for tweets he posted while inside the United States, some of which were critical of the Saudi regime.
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The Hill
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Boston University researchers' testing of lab-made version of Covid virus draws government scrutiny — Research at Boston University that involved testing a lab-made hybrid version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is garnering heated headlines alleging the scientists involved could have unleashed a new pathogen.
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Caitlin Tilley / Daily Mail:
Boston University CREATES a new Covid strain that has an 80% kill rate — echoing dangerous experiments feared to have started pandemic — Researchers added Omicron's spike protein to the original Wuhan Covid strain — Omicron's spike is highly mutated which made it the most infectious variant ever
Eric Garcia / The Independent:
Exclusive: Gisele Fetterman calls for NBC to apologise following ‘shocking’ interview with husband John Fetterman — John Fetterman's wife speaks to Eric Garcia about closed captioning and the controversy after Senate candidate's interview with NBC News — Pennsylvania Democratic Senate …
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene — What the rise of the far-right congresswoman means for the House, the G.O.P. and the nation. — “There's going to be a lot of investigations,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said, describing what she anticipates if the Republicans regain the House majority this November.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Trump Says He Wants Marjorie Taylor Greene in His Next Administration
Trump Says He Wants Marjorie Taylor Greene in His Next Administration
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Political Wire and The American Conservative
House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis:
New Select Subcommittee Report Details Trump Administration's Assault on CDC and Politicization of Public Health During the Coronavirus Crisis — Report is the third installment detailing findings from investigation into Trump Administration's political interference with federal coronavirus response
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Washington Examiner and Reuters
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Jeannie Baumann / Bloomberg:
Trump's CDC Changed Covid Reports Under Political Pressure, Panel Finds
Trump's CDC Changed Covid Reports Under Political Pressure, Panel Finds
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Washington Post, CNN, UPI, The Hill and Roll Call
Leor Sapir / City Journal:
No Laughing Matter — John Oliver badly botches the “gender-affirming care” debate. — The Social Order — Health Care — Yesterday, John Oliver devoted an episode of Last Week Tonight to transgender rights, specifically the controversy over “gender-affirming care” for minors.
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Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Oath Keepers Trial Rocked by Wacky Sexts Between Militia Boss and Lawyer — The case against the far-right group for its role in the Capitol riot was already disturbing. Then came evidence of what prosecutors say is an inappropriate relationship. — Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Congress braces for new members who were at Capitol on Jan. 6 — Three people who were on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 stand a serious chance of returning to the site of the deadly riot next January — this time as duly elected Republican members of Congress.
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HotAir and Associated Press
Hannah Dellinger / Houston Chronicle:
New law asks Texas schools to distribute kits to students to keep DNA samples in case of emergencies like Uvalde — Texas public school systems are set to distribute DNA and fingerprint identification kits for K-8 students to parents who wish to store their child's DNA is case of emergency.
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Detroit News:
Lee Chatfield suspected of engaging in criminal enterprise — Lansing — Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is under investigation in connection with an alleged “criminal enterprise,” potentially involving embezzlement, bribery, campaign finance violations and controlled substances …
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Herschel Walker tries to turn ‘prop’ badge controversy into campaign gold — GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker discusses why he flashed a badge during Friday's debate — Herschel Walker was widely mocked and criticized for flashing an honorary deputy sheriff's badge onstage …
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Dan Snyder / KOKH:
New poll shows Hofmeister leading Stitt in Oklahoma Governor's race — New polling from Oklahoma-based political consulting firm Ascend Action shows a close gubenetorial race just weeks ahead of November's midterm elections.
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Political Wire and Daily Kos
Bryan Metzger / Insider:
Ted Cruz reimbursed himself $555,000 after successfully challenging a political spending law at the Supreme Court — Ted Cruz's campaign paid him $555,000 to cover old personal loans to his Senate committee. — It comes after Cruz successfully challenged a law that capped the amount candidates could repay themselves.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Gordon Corera / BBC:
Ex-UK pilots lured to help Chinese military, MoD says — Former British military pilots are being lured to China with large sums of money to pass on their expertise to the Chinese military, it is claimed. — Up to 30 former UK military pilots are thought to have gone to train members of China's People's Liberation Army.
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The Sun
Marisa Kabas / MSNBC:
In Kari Lake and Tudor Dixon, the GOP offers a cynical alternative to Trump — Arizona Republican nominee for governor Kari Lake declared in a Sunday interview on CNN that she will accept the results of her state election in November — if she wins. — In that declaration …
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Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Pamela Falk / CBS News:
U.N. Security Council considers sending multinational force to Haiti — United Nations — The U.N. Security Council met in an urgent session on Monday to deal with the gang violence that has enveloped Haiti. The Caribbean nation has been dealing with what the U.N. called “catastrophic” …
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ICT, Fox News, Associated Press, Al Jazeera and Latin America Daily Briefing
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Furrygate: A Litterbox of Lies — What are the teachers doing with their students' poo poo? Does the smell just waft through the room until class is over? Doesn't that embarrass the little kitties . . . errr, kiddies? — These are just some of the questions that have been nagging at me for the last few weeks.
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Reason, Colorado Pickaxe and Colorado Community Media
Hanna Kang / Insider:
Trump-backed congressional candidate Bo Hines says he 'can't afford' to give up his salary. But federal records show he has no salary. — Bo Hines, a congressional candidate from North Carolina, twice claimed that he and his wife “can't afford to give up a month's salary.”