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CNN:
Trump's tax returns raise questions over his business operations, loans he gave his children and more — Six years of Donald Trump's federal tax returns released on Friday show the former president paid very little in federal income taxes the first and last year of his presidency …
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New York Times:
Trump Tax Returns Released by House Democrats — The publication of former President Donald J. Trump's private tax documents comes amid questions about why the I.R.S. failed to fully audit him during his presidency. … WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Friday released six years …
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Noah Bookbinder / The Atlantic:
The IRS Really, Really Should Have Audited Trump — Six years after Donald Trump should have disclosed his tax returns to the public, they have finally been released. This took advocacy, congressional action, and litigation that went to the Supreme Court—all to obtain basic financial transparency from a president.
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Digby's Hullabaloo and New Republic
Associated Press:
Trump's tax returns released after long fight with Congress — Democrats in Congress released six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns on Friday, the culmination of a yearslong effort to learn more about the finances of a onetime business mogul who broke decades of political precedent …
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Chris Pandolfo / Fox News:
Democrats release former President Donald Trump's tax returns
Democrats release former President Donald Trump's tax returns
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CNN, The Daily Caller, Axios, NPR, The Guardian, Washington Post and Washington Examiner
Fox News:
Idaho murders: Suspect arrested in killings of 4 university students, law enforcement source says — Suspect Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, now in custody in connection to deaths of Moscow, Idaho college students — Idaho murders: Suspect in custody, source reveals
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New York Times:
Santos, a Suburban House and $11,000 in Campaign Payments for ‘Rent’ — Representative-elect George Santos, under scrutiny after fabricating much of his résumé, also spent campaign funds on $40,000 worth of air travel. — The company was called Cleaner 123 …
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Outside the Beltway, Work from home for justice, Gothamist and Twitchy
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
A tiny paper broke the George Santos scandal, but no one paid attention
A tiny paper broke the George Santos scandal, but no one paid attention
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Maureen the Journalist and Media Nation, more at Mediagazer »
The Daily Beast:
Will George Santos' Lies Cost Him Access to Classified Information?
Will George Santos' Lies Cost Him Access to Classified Information?
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Raw Story
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
What Can the House Do to Address George Santos's Falsehoods?
What Can the House Do to Address George Santos's Falsehoods?
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CANNONFIRE, Politico and Fox News
Melanie Zanona / CNN:
McCarthy offers his critics a key concession in effort to clinch House speakership — House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has offered a key concession to critics of his bid for the House speakership during private conversations this week: reducing the threshold that is required to force …
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Ben Dreyfuss / Calm Down:
Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because Of His Greta Thunberg Video — This is a lesson in media failure and misinformation. — Romanian authorities detained far-right misogynist internet troll Andrew Tate today on allegations related to sex trafficking. — Who is Andrew Tate?
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Catherine Belton / Washington Post:
Putin, unaccustomed to losing, is increasingly isolated as war falters — A new gulf is emerging between the president and much of the country's elite — When Vladimir Putin visited Minsk last week to discuss deepening cooperation, a sarcastic joke by his host, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, seemed to ring all too true.
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CNN, Comment is Freed, Outside the Beltway, Bloomberg and The Guardian
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John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics — Western conservatives are at risk from generations of voters who are no longer moving to the right as they age — “If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain.”
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Mediaite
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Harris ‘gamesmanship’ torments staff, stems from ‘deep, deep insecurity’: Book — Vice President Kamala Harris's “gamesmanship” against her staff has led to a long-standing pattern of dysfunction, prompting questions about her capabilities under pressure, a new book reports.
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The Daily Caller and IJR
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
White House aides recall in new book Biden's fury over border: ‘You could hear the president cursing’
White House aides recall in new book Biden's fury over border: ‘You could hear the president cursing’
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Twitchy, Fox News, Washington Examiner and New York Post
The White House:
Clemency Recipient List — Today, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is granting full pardons to six individuals. — Gary Parks Davis - Yuma, Arizona — Gary Parks Davis is a 66-year-old man who pleaded guilty to use of a communication facility (a telephone) to facilitate an unlawful cocaine transaction at age 22.
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USA Today and New York Times
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David Gelles / New York Times:
The U.S. Will Need Thousands of Wind Farms. Will Small Towns Go Along? — In the fight against climate change, national goals are facing local resistance. One county scheduled 19 nights of meetings to debate one wind farm. — MONTICELLO, Ill. — Depressed property values. Flickering shadows.
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HotAir, American Greatness and Robert Bryce
William Kristol / The Triad:
A (Surprisingly) Happy New Year — 2022 was better than expected; 2023 is key. — A year ago, as we approached New Year's Day 2022, things seemed grim. — Things were grim. — At home, Donald Trump was ascendant in the Republican party. Elise Stefanik's Dear Leader sycophancy and Big Lie enthusiasm seemed to be the future.
Reuters:
Lawyers exit Hong Kong as they face campaign of intimidation — Hong Kong's human rights lawyers are fleeing abroad amid an effort to cleanse the city of dissent. The pressure is part of a wider crackdown by the ruling Communist Party on lawyers across China, say activists, legal scholars and diplomats.
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Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
How Justice Kagan lost her battle as a consensus builder — Speaking at a small university in Rhode Island earlier this year, Justice Elena Kagan committed an act of Supreme Court heresy. — For years, justices have told the same anecdotes to assure the public that …
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Al Jazeera