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Voices on social media summoned the protesters to Brasília, offering free transportation and food. — Here's the latest on the riot in the Brazilian capital. — At least 1,200 protesters were detained for questioning in the wake of the storming of Brazil's capital buildings …
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Richard Lapper / The Guardian:
The pro-Bolsonaro ‘insurrection’ was pathetic - and, for now, has made President Lula stronger — The real threat from Brazil's radical right is not from showy coup attempts, but from less deluded ultra-conservatives playing the long game — lad in canary yellow football shirts or draped …
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Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
‘They were in ecstasy’: how Bolsonaro mob's orgy of violence rocked Brasília
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
‘We were duped’: How George Santos raised money from wealthy GOP donors while lying about his resume — George Santos would flaunt or hint at key pieces of his resume that have turned out to be false as he raised money for his successful congressional campaign.
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Politico:
Disheveled GOP scrambles to finalize new House rules — Fifteen ballots later, the House GOP has begun its official organizing of the 118th Congress. And it's proving just as tangled as expected. — As a powerful group of House Republicans privately gathered Monday …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy reveals how the MAGA House will protect Trump — Donald Trump has long excelled at the art of blithely revealing his corrupt designs in public, and at a rally in September, he openly signaled that he fully expected Republicans elected to Congress to thwart the ongoing criminal investigations into, well, himself.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Ally Jason Smith to Lead Congress's Powerful Tax Committee
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Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: Fulton special grand jury completes Trump investigation — Judge dissolves panel, sets hearing on whether to publish group's recommendations — The Fulton County special grand jury that has spent the last eight months examining potential criminal interference …
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CNN:
Georgia grand jury investigating Trump and 2020 election aftermath completes its work — The Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies violated the law in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election has completed its work, according to a new court filing.
Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
Georgia grand jury investigating Trump election interference completes probe
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Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears — A federal agency says a ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern about harmful indoor air pollutants emitted by the appliances. — The US Consumer Product Safety Commission plans to take action to address the pollution …
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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Gabriel Stargardter / Reuters:
Bolsonaro's Florida stay puts ball in Biden's court after Brasilia riots
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Danielle Battaglia / Raleigh News & Observer:
Florida man: Madison Cawthorn, denied NC reelection, confirms move to Sunshine State — Former Rep. Madison Cawthorn confirmed Friday he has moved to Florida. — Rumblings of a potential move away from North Carolina, the state he represented in Congress, began to emerge as early as September …
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
GOP prepares to battle itself over defense spending — Less than two weeks after cementing another major increase to the Pentagon budget, lawmakers are now talking about going the opposite direction — and are even raising the specter of across-the-board cuts that rocked the establishment just over a decade ago.
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Republicans Signal Cuts To Social Security, Medicare With New House Majority
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TMZ.com:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Locked Out of Twitter for Using Dr. Dre's Music — 12:28 PM PT — Turns out, Dr. Dre's team took action — reaching out to Twitter to get the video taken down. As a result, Marjorie Taylor Greene tells us she's been locked out of her Twitter account for using Dre's copyrighted work without permission.
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
IRS Funding Repeal Could Cost Over $100 Billion, Encourage Tax Cheating — The House is likely to vote today on a bill that would rescind roughly $70 billion of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding over the next decade. We estimate the bill would increase deficits by more than $100 billion …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Maria Bartiromo Is Still Doing the Kind of Journalism That Got Fox News Sued For Billions — Few people are as ill-equipped to handle an interview with an election denier as Maria Bartiromo, whose naïve (I'm being charitable) willingness to embrace stolen election conspiracy theories …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
McCarthy's fast start: Big Tech is a top target — House Republicans plan to launch a new investigative panel this week that will demand copies of White House emails, memos and other communications with Big Tech companies, top sources tell Axios. … The new panel, the Select Subcommittee …
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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.
Jonel Aleccia / Associated Press:
New guidance: Use drugs, surgery early for obesity in kids — Children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13, according to new guidelines released Monday.
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Supreme Court declines to hear another longshot 2020 election fraud challenge — The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear another longshot case alleging the 2020 election was fraudulent brought by a Utah man seeking to have hundreds of elected officials removed from office …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and Just The News
Bennet Goldstein / In These Times:
Queering the Family Farm: Meet the LGBTQ Midwest Farmers Taking Food Justice Into Their Own Hands — “We're not just raising food. We are creating safe spaces for people.” — Shannon and Eve Mingalone avow that their farmers market booth is “very gay.”
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Ross Douthat and the Match Throwing Club — Fire is good; firefighters can be dangerous; and the club is back to normal now. — 1. The Match Throwing Club — Once upon a time there was a club of people who enjoyed throwing matches. They were reasonably careful about it …
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CBS News:
Feds charge former McDonald's CEO with misleading investors — Former McDonald's CEO Stephen Easterbrook has been charged by federal regulators with making false and misleading statements to investors about the circumstances of his firing by the burger giant in November 2019.
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Josef Federman / Associated Press:
Israel's Netanyahu races ahead with hard-line agenda — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government has wasted no time implementing its ultra-nationalist agenda, including adopting a seemingly petty ban on displaying the Palestinian flag and shaking the foundations of Israel's democracy …
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Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
Public Transit Goes Off the Rails With Fewer Riders, Dwindling Cash, Rising Crime — When riders stop taking subways and buses, it's harder to keep up service. 'It's becoming a vicious cycle.' — Several of the nation's largest urban mass-transit systems are at a crossroads …
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Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg:
Judge Delays Unsealing Trump Deposition in Rape Accuser's Suit — A federal judge gave former President Donald Trump more time to argue against the partial release of his deposition in a lawsuit by a woman who claims he raped her in the 1990s. — US District Judge Lewis Kaplan …
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Sam Sokol / Haaretz:
‘I Expect More and More Violence’: Former IDF West Bank Chief Pans Palestinian Sanctions — Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon says Israel's flurry of punitive actions in response to the PA's International Court of Justice request puts ‘oil on the fire,’ as former COGAT adviser Michael Milstein warns against enabling the PA's collapse
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