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Rep. Don Bacon / The Daily Caller:
If McCarthy's Speaker Bid Fails, Democrats Might Have To Be Part Of The Process … I support Kevin McCarthy, but a small handful of people are holding us hostage.  —  The vast majority of the conference knows we can't cave to the few when the demands are unreasonable.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Politico:
McCarthy relents on key conservative demand — but uncertainty remains over speaker bid  —  Kevin McCarthy has made perhaps his biggest concession so far to the band of conservatives standing in the way of his path to speaker.  Yet it's not clear if it will be enough to clinch his gavel.
Politico:
Conservatives threaten to withhold critical McCarthy support, hours before speaker vote  —  Just hours before the speakership vote, Kevin McCarthy's opponents are warning they still aren't ready to give him the support he needs.  —  With the House slated to start voting on who will command …
Brendan Buck / New York Times:
A Failed Speaker Vote for Kevin McCarthy Would Be a Historical Event  —  Opening day in the House of Representatives is typically marked by the usual pageantry and the fleeting promise that this Congress will work better than the last.  That hope could be immediately dashed this year …
Eileen Grench / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Bob Good Teases Rival to Kevin McCarthy for House Speaker
Rachael Bunyan / Daily Mail:
'It's going to stink for a while, but I'll fight with all I have got': Tennis world rallies around Wimbledon legend Martina Navratilova, 66, as she reveals ‘double whammy’ of throat and breast cancer diagnosis  — Martina Navratilova, 66, has been diagnosed with throat and breast cancer …
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New York Times:
Ukrainian Attack Kills 63 Russian Soldiers in East, Moscow Says … A Russian proxy official called the attack in Donetsk a ‘massive blow.’  —  Ukrainian missiles struck a building that housed Russian soldiers in an occupied city in Donetsk early on New Year's Day, according to Russian proxy officials and the Ukrainian military.
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Wall Street Journal:
Ukraine Strikes Russian Forces in Donbas in Deadliest Attack in Months
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:   ‘This made us all unemployable’: Trump White House aides respond to January 6 in angry text exchange
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Hope Hicks, Ivanka Aide Fumed at Karlie Kloss' Jan. 6 Tweets
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Inside the Jan. 6 committee's massive new evidence trove  —  The Jan. 6 select committee has unloaded a vast database of its underlying evidence — emails between Trump attorneys, text messages among horrified White House aides and outside advisers, internal communications among security …
Asta Hemenway / The Daily Beast:
South Carolina Lawmaker Found Drunk in Parked Car on New Year's  —  ‘ASHAMED’  —  South Carolina state Sen. Tom Davis was hit with a public intoxication ticket on New Year's after he was found drunk in a parked car.  The Republican said in a statement that he got in a car after a night of drinking …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Associated Press:   State senator cited for intoxication while in parked car
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
A Comprehensive Guide to Why a Ron DeSantis Presidency Would Be as Terrifying as a Trump One  —  His bigoted policies and authoritarian behavior make him just as bad a pick for the top job in Washington.  —  Ron DeSantis has not (yet) said if he will run for president in 2024 …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Jessica Piper / Politico:
New data shows the folly of Trump's crusade against early voting  —  If there was any doubt Donald Trump's vilification of early voting is only hurting the GOP, new receipts from the midterm elections show it.  —  Election data from a trio of states that dramatically expanded the ability …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Emma Freire / Compact Magazine:
The Privatization of Policing  —  David, 26, is shoplifting peanut butter from the Stadium Shopping Center in Portland, Ore. He has been living on the streets for about a month.  Already addicted to heroin, he had started using fentanyl four days earlier.  The store's personnel spot …
Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:
White contractors wouldn't remove Confederate statues.  So a Black man did it.  —  RICHMOND — Workers in bright yellow vests circled up in the morning chill.  Some clutched cups of Starbucks coffee, a last comfort before beginning the hard work of dismantling a statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill in the middle of an intersection.
 
 
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Richard Fausset / New York Times:
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