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Major Highlights of the January 6 Report — What follows are highlights of the January 6th Select Committee's final report from our initial review. Our discussion includes but is not limited to the report's findings and treatment of issues including: — Criminal misconduct in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Devastating New History of the January 6th Insurrection — The House report describes both a catastrophe and a way forward. — The New Yorker is publishing the full report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, in partnership with Celadon Books.
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CNN, Twitchy, NBC News, Althouse, Voice of America and Rolling Stone
New York Times:
Jan. 6 Panel Issues Final Report, Placing Blame for Capitol Riot on ‘One Man’ — The report expanded on this summer's televised hearings, describing in detail what it called former President Donald J. Trump's “multipart plan” to overturn the 2020 election. — WASHINGTON — Declaring …
New York Times:
Inside the Jan. 6 Committee — Power struggles, resignations and made-for-TV moments — the untold story of the most important congressional investigation in generations. — To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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Washington Post, DNyuz, OLD GOATS with Jonathan Alter and NBC News
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Biggest Takeaway from the January 6 Report — The congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection delivered a comprehensive and compelling case for the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump and his closest allies for their attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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Associated Press, The Hill, The Mahablog, Digby's Hullabaloo, Talking Points Memo, PoliticusUSA, KTLA, Raw Story, DNyuz, NBC New York, Washington Post and Bloomberg
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
The January 6 committee did not finish the job — 2022-12-23T17:27:09Z … For performing a desperately needed act of political exorcism, the members of the January 6 select committee deserve all the credit in the world. They hit Donald Trump hard. And they hit him where he lives — on TV.
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Washington Post, CNN and RedState
Politico:
Extremists at the vanguard of a siege: The Jan. 6 panel's last word
Extremists at the vanguard of a siege: The Jan. 6 panel's last word
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BuzzFeed News, Washington Post, USA Today, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, The Guardian, National Review, Metro.co.uk and Japan Times
Washington Post:
Jan. 6 report recommends Congress ban Trump from running again
Jan. 6 report recommends Congress ban Trump from running again
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HotAir, Mock Paper Scissors, Vanity Fair, Alaska Beacon, Variety, Outside the Beltway, Associated Press, El País, Common Dreams, Semafor, NBC New York, DNyuz, UPI, 6abc, Ordinary Times, Raw Story, emptywheel, MSNBC, HuffPost, The Guardian, NBC News, CNN and New York Times
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Final Campaign … Donald Trump was calling from Mar-a-Lago. It was a Monday afternoon in the middle of December. He was at his desk in what is known as 45 Office, a room on the second floor, above what is known as the Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom, 20,000 square feet festooned …
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New York Times:
George Santos's Early Life: Odd Jobs, Bad Debts and Lawsuits — Representative-elect George Santos, who is under scrutiny over potentially misrepresenting key parts of his campaign biography, had other undisclosed troubles in his early career. — The polite young customer service agent …
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HotAir, NBC New York, DNyuz, The Daily Beast, LI Press and DNyuz
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Hey. The Local Paper Was All Over Notorious Liar And Weirdo George Santos
Hey. The Local Paper Was All Over Notorious Liar And Weirdo George Santos
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Outside the Beltway, Zandar Versus The Stupid, RedState, Semafor and Washington Times
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House passes $1.7 trillion spending bill that rewrites U.S. election law, sending it to Biden to sign — WASHINGTON — The House on Friday voted to finalize a massive $1.7 trillion government funding bill, sending it to President Joe Biden and marking the end of two years of Democrats controlling both chambers of Congress.
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ABC News, Semafor, New York Magazine and CNN
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W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
‘Majority’ Taylor Greene: Georgia lawmaker angles to be GOP kingmaker
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Back End of an Omnibus — WSJ Opinion: Will Biden Run Again? Should He? — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
The Back End of an Omnibus — WSJ Opinion: Will Biden Run Again? Should He? — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
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Washington Examiner
Politico:
House sends $1.7T government funding bill to Biden
House sends $1.7T government funding bill to Biden
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Alaska Beacon, Fox News, The Hill, Washington Post, New York Post, RedState, The Daily Caller, Just The News, New York Daily News, Breitbart, Raw Story, Associated Press, The Daily Signal, Nextgov, NPR, DNyuz and ABC News
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Goodbye, 117th Congress
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Journalists who won't delete Musk tweets remain locked out of Twitter — Elon Musk suspended reporters from Twitter and later reinstated them, but with a catch: They must nix their tweets related to the account @ElonJet, which has tracked Musk's private plane using public data
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Twitchy, TechCrunch, Voice of America, The Hill and Metro.co.uk, more at Mediagazer »
Axios:
Exclusive: Bloomberg eyes WSJ-parent Dow Jones, WaPo — Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and media mogul, is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones or The Washington Post, a source familiar with his thinking told Axios.
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The Daily Caller, Reuters, One America News Network, Cyprus Mail and New York Post, more at Mediagazer »
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
McConnell calls out ‘diminished’ Trump, vows not to bow to his candidates in 2024 — WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell deferred to former President Donald Trump's handpicked candidates in competitive midterm races, culminating in jarring defeats and a larger Democratic majority that bucked the odds.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, National Review, FiveThirtyEight, Raw Story, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News:
Arizona Gov Forced To Dismantle $80 Million Cargo-Container Wall He Just Built — Under the duress of a federal lawsuit, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has agreed to dismantle two long sections of border wall the state built out of stacked shipping containers capped by concertina wire.
Washington Post:
Deep secrecy, high risk: How Zelensky's improbable D.C. visit came together — Plans were kept within a tiny group as the Ukrainian president prepared to leave his war-ravaged country for the whirlwind trip. — When a U.S. military aircraft landed on the tarmac in Rzeszow, Poland …
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TASS, New York Times, CBS News, Politico and Associated Press
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Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post:
Putin declares ‘war’ - aloud - forsaking his special euphemistic operation
Putin declares ‘war’ - aloud - forsaking his special euphemistic operation
Anthony Zurcher / BBC:
Zelensky makes his pitch - will US sceptics buy it?
Zelensky makes his pitch - will US sceptics buy it?
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Cyprus Mail, Independent, Slate, Washington Post, IJR, The Post Millennial, New York Post, The Dispatch and Big League Politics
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Special counsel Durham has spent more than $6.5 million on inquiry into Trump-Russia probe — John Durham, the special counsel investigating potential misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe, has spent nearly $6.5 million on his inquiry, including $2 million this year, according …
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Law & Crime and Washington Post
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Charlie Kirk delivers a warning to the RNC, and sparks a backlash — Kirk's Turning Point Action debuted an initiative designed to pick off GOP committee members insufficiently attentive to the ‘grassroots voice’ — Charlie Kirk, the 29-year-old activist who leads Turning Point USA and a network of affiliates, wrote with a warning.
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Mock Paper Scissors, Breitbart and Florida Politics
Washington Post:
For John Eastman and Clarence Thomas, an intellectual kinship stretching back decades — The Supreme Court justice and the lawyer referred by the House Jan. 6 panel for criminal investigation became acquainted years before Eastman served as Thomas's clerk — In July 2021, dozens …
Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
US fails to give money promised for developing countries to ease climate impacts — Spending bill passed by Senate includes less than $1bn in climate assistance for poorer nations even though Biden promised $11.4bn — The US has risked alienating developing countries hit hardest by the climate crisis …
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
Personal Income and Outlays, November 2022 — Personal income increased $80.1 billion (0.4 percent) in November, according to estimates released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (tables 3 and 5). Disposable personal income (DPI) increased $68.6 billion (0.4 percent) …
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CNN, Al Jazeera, UPI, The Daily Caller, RealityChek and The Hill