memeorandum: After 6-Year-Old Is Accused in School Shooting, Many Questions and a Murky Legal Path (New York Times)

4:20 PM ET, January 8, 2023

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Bolsonaro has been holed up thousands of miles away in Florida. — Here's what to know about the protest fueled by false claims of electoral fraud. — Thousands of supporters of Brazil's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, stormed the country's Congress and presidential offices on Sunday …

Discussion: Associated Press, CBS News, Insider, Rolling Stone and Political Wire

Washington Post:

Bolsonaro backers storm congress, court, presidential office in Brazil's capital — BRASILIA — Thousands of radical backers of Brazil's far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro breached and vandalized the presidential office building, congress and the Supreme Court on Sunday …

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George Wright / BBC:

Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazilian Congress — Supporters of Brazilian far-right ex-President Jair Bolsonaro have stormed Congress in the capital. — The dramatic scenes came a week after left-wing veteran Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's inauguration.

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CNN:

Bolsonaro supporters breach security barriers, break into Brazilian Congress and presidential palace — Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday breached security barriers set up by the Armed Forces and gained access to key buildings for each of the three branches of government …

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Peter Millard / Bloomberg:

Pro-Bolsonaro Rioters Breach Into Congress, Presidential Palace — Thousands of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro broke through security barriers in the capital of Brasilia and invaded Congress, the supreme court and the presidential palace. — President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva isn't in the palace.

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Vimal Patel / New York Times:

A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job. — After an outcry over the art history class by Muslim students, Hamline University officials said the incident was Islamophobic. But many scholars say the work is a masterpiece. — Erika López Prater …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and WOID

Rachael Bade / Politico:

POLITICO Playbook: The clock starts ticking on McCarthy's speakership — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — KEVIN McCARTHY finally got the gavel — but in the process, he gave away the House. — The concessions the California Republican awarded …

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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Video shows border agents, police arresting migrants sleeping outside church shelter in El Paso ahead of Biden's visit

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CNN:
How McCarthy survived the House chaos to win the speaker's gavel

Céline Gounder / New York Times:

Grant Wahl's Death Isn't a Tool for Covid Vaccine Disinformation Spreaders — Dr. Gounder is an infectious disease physician and epidemiologist. She is the widow of the sports journalist Grant Wahl. — It was the end of the workday on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022.

New York Times:

After 6-Year-Old Is Accused in School Shooting, Many Questions and a Murky Legal Path — The teacher who was shot was in stable condition on Saturday, the police said, but details surrounding the gun remained unknown. — NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The scene was heartbreakingly familiar.

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Fairfax County Times:

Area principals admit to withholding National Merit Awards from students — While Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid claims the principal at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology withheld National Merit awards from students in a “one-time human error …

New York Times:

House Republicans Preparing Broad Inquiry Into F.B.I. and Security Agencies — Republicans plan to create a special subcommittee, led by a Trump ally, with a mandate to scrutinize open criminal investigations and classified intelligence. — WASHINGTON — Newly empowered House Republicans …

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Jesse Bedayn / Associated Press:

Boebert's backers urge her to ‘tone down the nasty rhetoric’ — Debbie Hartman voted for Lauren Boebert for Congress in 2020 and again in 2022, delighted by Boebert's unequivocal defense of cultural issues that animate the Republican Party's far right flank.

Discussion: Insider

Henry J. Cordes / Omaha World-Herald:

Relationship with ‘needy’ Trump a complex part of Sasse political legacy — As Ben Sasse formally leaves the U.S. Senate on Sunday, he knows his relationship with former President Donald Trump will be a big and complicated part of his political legacy. — A reliable conservative who voted …

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Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:

What's in Kevin McCarthy's Deal With Conservatives — House speaker made pledges on what bills he would bring to the floor and agreed to make it easier to oust him — WASHINGTON—Kevin McCarthy's election early Saturday morning to be House speaker came only after 14 unsuccessful ballots …

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