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Just Security:
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, RedState, 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 Biggest Takeaway from the January 6 Report
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USA Today, Associated Press, The Mahablog, Digby's Hullabaloo, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, PoliticusUSA, KTLA, Raw Story, DNyuz, NBC New York, Washington Post and Bloomberg
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
The January 6 committee did not finish the job
The January 6 committee did not finish the job
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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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Religion News Service, DNyuz, Mock Paper Scissors, Alaska Beacon, Variety, Vanity Fair, HotAir, Associated Press, Outside the Beltway, El País, Common Dreams, Semafor, NBC New York, UPI, 6abc, Ordinary Times, Raw Story, emptywheel, MSNBC, HuffPost, The Guardian, CNN and NBC News
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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Punchbowl News:
DOJ blocking Congress' access to Trump Mar-a-Lago docs — THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS BLOCKING THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE — AND CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS — FROM ACCESSING INFORMATION RELATED TO FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S WAREHOUSING OF HIGHLY CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS AT HIS MAR-A-LAGO ESTATE.
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Raw Story and Al Jazeera
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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Washington Examiner, ABC News, Forbes, Just The News, Semafor, Bloomberg, Associated Press, New York Magazine and CNN
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
McCarthy dings omnibus ‘pet projects’ in lengthy speech
McCarthy dings omnibus ‘pet projects’ in lengthy speech
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Signal and CNN
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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DNyuz, The Daily Caller, Reuters, New York Post, One America News Network and Cyprus Mail, 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, Fox News, National Review, The Daily Caller, The Hill, FiveThirtyEight, Raw Story, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
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 »
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.
W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
‘Majority’ Taylor Greene: Georgia lawmaker angles to be GOP kingmaker — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had a telling slip of the tongue earlier this month when she briefly referred to “Majority Taylor Greene” during a press briefing. — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) …
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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
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Metro.co.uk, New York Times, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, RedState, Meduza.io, New York Post, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Al Jazeera, DNyuz and Raw Story
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, IJR, Washington Post, The Post Millennial, New York Post, The Dispatch and Big League Politics
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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Mediaite, Mock Paper Scissors, Breitbart and Florida Politics
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Special counsel Durham has spent at least $6.5 million on inquiry into Trump-Russia probe — John Durham, the special counsel investigating potential misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe, has spent at least $6.5 million on his inquiry, including $2 million this year, according …
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Law & Crime and Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
Putin, Isolated and Distrustful, Leans on Handful of Hard-Line Advisers — Russia's president built a power structure designed to deliver him the information he wants to hear, feeding into his miscalculation on the Ukraine war — MOSCOW—Russian troops were losing the battle for Lyman …