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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Why fewer states than ever could pick the next president — The results of this month's election point toward a 2024 presidential contest that will likely be decided by a tiny sliver of voters in a rapidly shrinking list of swing states realistically within reach for either party.
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
National Poll: Biden's Approval Remains Underwater As Majority of GOP Voters Support Trump As Republican Nominee for 2024
National Poll: Biden's Approval Remains Underwater As Majority of GOP Voters Support Trump As Republican Nominee for 2024
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Plain Dealer, CNBC, No More Mister Nice Blog, Digby's Hullabaloo and Politico
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Rebelling Against Trump Is Not the Same as Rebelling Against Trumpism
Rebelling Against Trump Is Not the Same as Rebelling Against Trumpism
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Fox News, Raw Story, Jacobin and Magenta Pills w/ Gregory …
Semafor:
Donald Trump's third party threat looms over 2024
Donald Trump's third party threat looms over 2024
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Raw Story, Washington Post, National Review and Washington Post
William Barr / New York Post:
Trump threatens to burn down the GOP, it's time to move on
Trump threatens to burn down the GOP, it's time to move on
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The Hill, The Willis Report and Outside the Beltway
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Voters name Trump as biggest loser of midterms
Voters name Trump as biggest loser of midterms
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Washington Examiner
Steve Clemons / Semafor:
Good morning Washington! Good evening Taipei!
Good morning Washington! Good evening Taipei!
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HuffPost, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Washington Times, The Hill, Mediaite, New Republic and No More Mister Nice Blog
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court denies Trump request to withhold tax returns from Congress — The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied former president Donald Trump's efforts to block the release of his tax records to a congressional committee that has sought the information for years.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court allows release of Trump's tax records to House Democrats — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump's last-ditch plea to block the release of his tax records to House Democrats, paving the way for their possible disclosure to the lawmakers.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why Trump and Kevin McCarthy should fear a Warnock victory — If Sen. Raphael G. Warnock wins the runoff election in Georgia, the biggest losers might prove to be not just Herschel Walker and Mitch McConnell, but also Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy. — Trump and House Minority Leader McCarthy appear …
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Politico:
Trump's Jan. 6 supporters feted at his Mar-a-Lago campaign launch — When Donald Trump plunged into the 2024 presidential race last week at his Mar-a-Lago club, he was surrounded by sidekicks, superfans and self-described sycophants. — Among them was another subset of Trump world figures …
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Washington Post:
From Europe, Trump special counsel takes over Mar-a-Lago, Jan. 6 probes
From Europe, Trump special counsel takes over Mar-a-Lago, Jan. 6 probes
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ABC News, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg and New York Magazine
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Mike Pence's Day-By-Day Account of Trump's Pressure Campaign Against Him
Mike Pence's Day-By-Day Account of Trump's Pressure Campaign Against Him
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NPR, RedState, Colorado Times Recorder, The Triad and Washington Examiner
CNN:
Special counsel in Mar-a-Lago and January 6 investigations begins work with no sign probes will slow down
Special counsel in Mar-a-Lago and January 6 investigations begins work with no sign probes will slow down
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Bloomberg, CBS News, The Status Kuo, New York Times and Washington Examiner
Steve Inskeep / NPR:
Mike Pence, pondering a presidential run, condemns Trump's rhetoric on Jan. 6
Mike Pence, pondering a presidential run, condemns Trump's rhetoric on Jan. 6
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Raw Story, Newsbusters and HuffPost
Jared Malsin / Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine Launches Assault to Oust Russia From Key Black Sea Peninsula — Kinburn Spit, occupied by Russia for months, lies at maritime choke point and is coveted prize for Kyiv — Ukraine's military said it launched an operation to push Russian forces from a strategic peninsula …
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New York Times:
On the Dnipro River at Night, Ukrainian Fighters Ambush Russian Forces
On the Dnipro River at Night, Ukrainian Fighters Ambush Russian Forces
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Associated Press reporter fired over erroneous story on Russian attack
Associated Press reporter fired over erroneous story on Russian attack
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Liz Hoffman / Semafor:
Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, and a secret text — Elon Musk used Twitter, the platform he now owns, to gleefully mock the meltdown of the crypto exchange FTX. His “bullshit meter was redlining” when he met the crypto exchange's founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, Musk has said.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
A Georgia Senate runoff poll points to challenges for Walker, Warnock — A new poll focusing on the Dec. 6 runoff between U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker shows a close race with challenges for both rivals as they rush to rebuild their coalitions.
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Georgia:
New AARP Georgia Poll: Voters 50+ May Tip Scales in Runoff Election — ATLANTA-Today, AARP Georgia released key findings from a 2022 runoff election survey that shows candidates should pay close attention to Georgians age 50 and older, with issues such as inflation and rising prices …
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Bloomberg, Washington Examiner and The Hill
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Saturday voting upheld in Georgia US Senate runoff
Saturday voting upheld in Georgia US Senate runoff
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The Hill, CNN, Associated Press, The American Independent, Washington Times and Now Habersham
Washington Post:
Musk's ‘free speech’ agenda dismantles safety work at Twitter, insiders say — Amid the wider turmoil since his takeover last month, Musk has moved rapidly to undermine Twitter's deliberative content-moderation system. — Hours after Elon Musk took control of Twitter in late October …
Chloe Malle / Vogue:
Exclusive: Naomi Biden On Her White House Wedding — On the Tuesday evening before her wedding, under the watchful eye of a Secret Service agent, Naomi Biden, 28, and her soon-to-be husband, Peter Neal, 25, came downstairs from their living quarters on the third floor of the White House residence to practice their first dance.
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Cdcmmwr / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Effectiveness of Bivalent mRNA Vaccines in Preventing Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection — Increasing Community Access to Testing Program, United States, September-November 2022 — Ruth Link-Gelles, PhD1; Allison Avrich Ciesla, PhD1,2; Katherine E. Fleming-Dutra, MD1; Zachary R. Smith, MA3 …
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Lauran Neergaard / Associated Press:
US renews push for COVID boosters as data show they protect
US renews push for COVID boosters as data show they protect
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New York Times:
Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Quest to Win Friends and Influence People — In just three years, the FTX co-founder built a massive operation to woo politicians, regulators and nonprofits to support his crypto goals. — In May, the founder of a Chicago nonprofit that works …
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TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Fortune and Grid News
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
'I'm Done With You!' Karine Jean-Pierre Blows Up at Reporter for Interrupting Colleague in Explosive Briefing Room Clash — White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre admonished Today News Africa correspondent Simon Ateba for speaking out of turn in his attempt to ask a question of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer makes historic pick for Michigan Supreme Court vacancy — Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has chosen state Rep. Kyra Harris Bolden to fill a seat on the Michigan Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman to serve on the state's high court.
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Michigan Advance, Bridge Michigan and Associated Press
Kimberly Leonard / Insider:
Fauci says he ‘will cooperate fully’ with GOP oversight hearings even though he's leaving the government — Dr. Anthony Fauci said he's ready to testify before US lawmakers under the new Congress. — Republicans, who will control the House, have pledged COVID-19 oversight.
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Politico:
Ralph Norman announced he will oppose Kevin McCarthy for speaker, the fifth GOP lawmaker to threaten his bid. — News and analysis from Capitol Hill for when you only have a few minutes, from POLITICO.
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Dayana Mustak / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk's 2022 Wealth Loss Exceeds $100 Billion for First Time — Elon Musk's losses for 2022 topped $100 billion as shares of Tesla Inc. dropped to the lowest level in two years. — The Tesla co-founder is still the world's richest person with a fortune of $169.8 billion …
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Soraya Nadia McDonald / Andscape:
Two new movies, ‘Till’ and ‘U.S. and the Holocaust,’ help us connect the dots between Jim Crow and fascism — With Kanye and Kyrie Irving dominating the news, the connections between victims of white supremacy are more relevant than ever … Fascism, Hughes concluded, was essentially Jim Crow with a foreign accent.
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Nearly 6 In 10 Americans View Trump's 2024 Run As A Bad Thing, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Republicans Split Between Trump Vs. DeSantis For 2024 GOP Nominee — mail_outline — One week after former President Donald Trump announced he was seeking to return …
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