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Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee to vote on referring Trump for criminal charges — The vote is expected at a public meeting on Monday as the committee prepares to release its final report — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to vote …
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Jan. 6 committee finalizes criminal referral plan for Trump — WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 committee met Sunday to finalize its plans to issue at least three criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump, NBC News has learned exclusively. — The committee, gathering publicly Monday …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Faces a Week of Headaches on Jan. 6 and His Taxes — The House panel investigating the Capitol attack is set to release its report and may back criminal charges against the former president, while a separate committee could decide to release his tax returns.
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How Trump jettisoned restraints at Mar-a-Lago and prompted legal peril — The inside story of how Trump transplanted the chaos and norm flouting of his White House into his post-presidential life, leading to a criminal investigation into his handling of classified documents that presents potential legal peril
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Adam Wren / Politico:
'He's Got a Huge Problem' — PHOENIX — A few weeks before Election Day, Mike Pence stood in the arid Arizona heat to give a boost to someone who was at that moment locked in a fight for a Senate seat. — Pence had been invited by David McIntosh — the president of the conservative Club for Growth and …
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CNN:
Veteran CNN investigative journalist Drew Griffin dead at 60 — Drew Griffin, CNN's award-winning Senior Investigative Correspondent, known for getting even the cagiest of interview subjects to engage in a story, died Saturday after a long battle with cancer, his family said. He was 60.
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New York Times:
Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction. — Mr. Santos, a Republican from New York, says he's the “embodiment of the American dream.” But he seems to have misrepresented a number of his career highlights. — George Santos, whose election …
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Washington Post:
Elon Musk blamed a Twitter account for a stalker. Police see no link. — The Twitter owner threatened legal action, changed the platform's rules and suspended journalists' accounts after a confrontation involving his security team at a gas station. But the incident's timing and location cast doubt on a link to the @ElonJet account.
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Caitlin Dickson / Yahoo News:
Report reveals offensive items for sale on major e-commerce sites — A new report released Monday highlights how major e-commerce platforms continue to profit from selling T-shirts and other items with racist, antisemitic or otherwise offensive slogans — in many cases in direct violation of companies' policies.
Emma Hurt / Axios:
Scoop: Stacey Abrams campaign in debt after blowout loss — After raising more than $100 million in her second bid to be Georgia governor, the Stacey Abrams campaign owes more than $1 million in debt to vendors, two-time campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo confirmed to Axios.
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Axios:
Scoop: Kevin McCarthy goes on offense in speaker battle … - “Kevin gave them an opportunity to negotiate in good faith,” a McCarthy adviser told me. — “Now there's going to be more of an effort to expose the craziness of what they're doing.” … - Now, fears are rising …
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NBC News:
Twitter announces, then quickly retracts ban on promoting other social media — Hours after Twitter banned users from promoting accounts on other major social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social, the controversial prohibition vanished from its policy page.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics — NPR's David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza and Miranda Green of Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action.
Associated Press:
Swedish court: Man wanted by Turkey cannot be extradited — Sweden's top court on Monday rejected a request to extradite a man wanted by Turkey, saying the crime the person is alleged to have committed is “not criminalized” in the Scandinavian country. In a statement, the Supreme Court …
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