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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Donald Trump ‘shied away from criticising Nick Fuentes’ — Advisers wanted ex-president to distance himself from white supremacist with whom he dined but Trump feared alienating supporters - insiders — Donald Trump repeatedly refused to disavow the outspoken antisemite …
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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Key Trump 2024 Rivals Silent After His White Supremacist Meeting — Many of Donald Trump's potential 2024 rivals and some top Republicans have fallen silent on the former president's dinner with a notorious white supremacist, illustrating the party's continuing struggle to escape his grasp.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP lawmakers hushed on Trump's dinner with white nationalist
GOP lawmakers hushed on Trump's dinner with white nationalist
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
House Dems on GOP's thin majority: Welcome to hell — Democrats just spent two harrowing years navigating one of the tiniest majorities in House history. Now it's the GOP's turn — and things could get even worse. — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his team are set …
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Biden Helped Democrats Avert a '22 Disaster. What About '24? — A stronger-than-expected midterm showing has quieted the party's public hand-wringing about a re-election campaign for President Biden. But it hasn't put those worries to rest. — Expecting a cataclysmic midterm election …
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Extreme Recklessness of Biden 2.0
Associated Press:
Crowd angered by lockdowns calls for China's Xi to step down — Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China's powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations Sunday that represent a rare direct challenge to the ruling Communist Party.
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Joe Mcdonald / Associated Press:
China eases COVID rules after wide protests of lockdowns
China eases COVID rules after wide protests of lockdowns
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Yuan Yang / Financial Times:
China's zero-Covid protests create a rare nationwide coalition of interests
China's zero-Covid protests create a rare nationwide coalition of interests
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: We run down the year-end sprint — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — President JOE BIDEN and lawmakers return to Washington this week facing a lengthy lame-duck to-do list with only three weeks scheduled to resolve it …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Major News Outlets Urge U.S. to Drop Its Charges Against Assange — In a joint letter, news organizations warned that the indictment of Julian Assange “sets a dangerous precedent” that could chill reporting about matters of national security. — WASHINGTON — The New York Times …
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Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests — For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's radically reduced anti-propaganda team grappled on Sunday with a flood of nuisance content …
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Billionaire-Backed ‘Hub for Election Denial’ — Dick Uihlein has been awfully busy backing election deniers. A new IRS filing shows he also teamed up with one. — Right-wing megadonor Dick Uihlein has been funneling tens of millions of dollars to election deniers …
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Washington Post:
High-profile Republicans gain followers in first weeks of Musk's reign — Shift in follower counts for Elizabeth Warren, Ted Cruz show how the platform is beginning to change under Musk — High-profile Republican members of Congress gained tens of thousands of Twitter followers …
Merriam-Webster:
Word of the Year 2022 — ‘Gaslighting,’ plus ‘sentient,’ ‘omicron,’ ‘queen consort,’ and other top lookups of 2022 — In this age of misinformation—of “fake news,” conspiracy theories, Twitter trolls,and deepfakes—gaslighting has emerged as a word for our time.
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Leanne Italie / Associated Press:
What headline? ‘Gaslighting’ Merriam-Webster's word of 2022
What headline? ‘Gaslighting’ Merriam-Webster's word of 2022
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Politico:
The GOP's great Trump reckoning begins at the state party level — For years, Lou Barletta counted himself among Donald Trump's most diehard allies. The former Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate and congressman endorsed him at a time in 2016 when many GOP elected officials saw Trump as radioactive.
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New York Times:
Russia-Ukraine War — Russia Denies Reports That It Will Withdraw from Embattled Nuclear Plant … The Kremlin tries to tamp down speculation that its forces will leave the Zaporizhzhia plant. — KYIV, Ukraine — Following a string of Ukrainian military successes in the south …
Mitchell Epner / The Daily Beast:
Trump Might Have to Face His Worst Nightmare—a D.C. Jury — The 11th Circuit's upcoming ruling likely means the end of the special master in the investigation over classified documents. That means a District jury, not a Florida one. … Federal prosecutors on Tuesday …
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Raw Story
Associated Press:
WHO renames monkeypox as mpox, citing racism concerns — The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. The U.N. health agency said in a statement Monday …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Warnock rallies weekend voters, but Walker is out of sight — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock hardly took any time off for Thanksgiving break, headlining six separate events scattered across metro Atlanta this weekend to pump up weekend voting. Meanwhile, Herschel Walker …
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