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10:20 AM ET, January 9, 2023

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Mike Wendling / BBC:
How Trump's allies stoked Brazil Congress attack  —  The scenes in Brasilia looked eerily similar to events at the US Capitol on 6 January two years ago - and there are deeper connections as well.  —  “The whole thing smells,” said a guest on Steve Bannon's podcast, one day after the first round …
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Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
How Bolsonaro's rhetoric — then his silence — stoked Brazil assault  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — For more than four years, the most fundamental of questions has loomed over Brazil: Would its young democracy survive the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro?  —  Latin America's largest country embarked …
Discussion: CBS News
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Texas Democrat calls for US authorities to extradite Bolsonaro back to Brazil  —  Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) called on the Biden administration and local authorities in Florida on Sunday to send back to Brazil its former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, whose supporters stormed the country's Congress and Supreme Court.
Associated Press:
Pro-Bolsonaro crowd storms Brazil's Congress, other sites  —  Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his election defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace in the capital on Sunday, a week after the inauguration of his leftist rival …
Washington Post:
Assault on presidential palace, congress challenges Brazil's democracy  —  BRASILIA — Thousands of radical backers of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro breached and vandalized Brazil's presidential office building, congress and supreme court Sunday in scenes that hauntingly evoked the Jan. 6 …
Deutsche Welle:
Brazil: Bolsonaro supporters storm National Congress  —  Hundreds of supporters of Brazil's former president have stormed seats of political, judicial and legislative power.  President Lula has declared a federal intervention, with thousands of troops on standby in Brasilia.
Gabriel Stargardter / Reuters:
Bolsonaro's Florida stay puts ball in Biden's court after Brasilia riots
New York Times:
Here's what to know about Brazil's presidential election.
Adriano Machado / Reuters:
Bolsonaro supporters invade Brazil presidential palace, Congress, Supreme Court
BBC:
Brazil Congress: Lula vows to punish supporters of Bolsonaro after riot
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Prepare New Rules, but Fixing Congress Isn't So Easy  —  History suggests that the procedural plans of the new House Republican majority are likely to lead to more gridlock and legislative instability, not less.  —  WASHINGTON — Smarting after a dozen years under iron-fisted Republican rule …
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Politico:
Speaker McCarthy's first governing test  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE LATEST FROM BRAZIL:  — Brazilian police have cleared protesters from government offices after supporters of former Brazilian President JAIR BOLSONARO stormed …
Associated Press:
McCarthy's next big task: Win GOP support for House rules
Washington Post:
Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters  —  Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202!  I caught up on some time hanging out with friends this past weekend.  Friends are cool.  I recommend them.  —  Below: A watchdog criticizes the Interior Department's cybersecurity weaknesses …
Discussion: HotAir and RedState
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Gregory Eady / Nature:
Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior  —  orcid.org/0000-0003-0184-0055 1, - Tom Paskhalis  —  orcid.org/0000-0001-9298-8850 2, - Jan Zilinsky
Politico:
Migration issues cast long shadow over Biden's visit to ‘3 Amigos’ summit  —  MEXICO CITY — Joe Biden has no shortage of topics to tackle in his first presidential trip to Mexico.  —  There's the major shift in border policy that came just days before the trip.
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Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Texas Gov. Abbott greets Biden with scathing letter as president visits border: ‘emboldened the cartels’
Anna Noryskiewicz / CBS News:
Germany detains brothers from Iran over alleged terror plot involving cyanide and ricin  —  Berlin — Counterterrorism police in Germany raided an apartment in the west of the country over the weekend, arresting an Iranian national and his brother who now stand accused of preparing an attack motivated by Islamic extremism.
David Dayen / American Prospect:
The FTC Banned an Unfair Practice.  The Department of Transportation Can, Too.  —  DOT has the same statutory language to effectively ban deceptive flight cancellations, the way the FTC has banned noncompete agreements.  —  Travelers wait in line for service at the Southwest Airlines check …
Julia Moskin / New York Times:
Noma, Rated the World's Best Restaurant, Is Closing Its Doors  —  The Copenhagen chef René Redzepi says fine dining at the highest level, with its grueling hours and intense workplace culture, has hit a breaking point: “It's unsustainable.”  —  Julia Moskin has been reporting on the restaurant industry for The Times since 2004.
 
 
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