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9:40 AM ET, January 10, 2023

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CBS News:
U.S. attorney reviewing documents marked classified from Joe Biden's vice presidency found at Biden think tank  —  Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned the U.S. attorney in Chicago to review documents marked classified that were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy …
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CNN:
Classified documents from Biden's time as VP discovered in private office  —  Several classified documents from President Joe Biden's time as vice president were discovered last fall in a private office, Biden's attorneys acknowledged Monday.  —  Attorney General Merrick Garland has asked …
New York Times:
Biden Lawyers Found Classified Material at His Former Office  —  The White House said it was cooperating as the Justice Department scrutinizes the matter.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden's lawyers discovered “a small number” of classified documents in his former office at a Washington …
Mia Jankowicz / Insider:
Trump calls on FBI to raid Biden over classified files, misleadingly comparing the situation to documents found at Mar-a-Lago
Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy
Insider:
There's a key difference between the classified documents found at a former Biden office and the ones Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago, national security expert says
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
DoJ seeks to question Trump team that found more classified documents
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Giuliani subpoenaed amid special counsel investigation into Trump's fundraising  —  Special counsel Jack Smith's team has subpoenaed Donald Trump's former attorney Rudy Giuliani, asking him to turn over records to a federal grand jury as part of an investigation into the former president's …
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Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Ally Giuliani Gets Subpoena From Washington Grand Jury
Washington Post:
Brazil's riot puts spotlight on close ties between Bolsonaro and Trump  —  In August 2021, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's son traveled to Sioux Falls, S.D., to meet with some of the most prominent purveyors of former president Donald Trump's false claims of mass election fraud.
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Defends Pro-Bolsonaro Rioters, Baselessly Declares Brazil's Election Was ‘Rigged’
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Trump executive Weisselberg prepares for jail on Rikers Island  —  A longtime executive for Donald Trump is expected to be sent to New York's notorious Rikers Island jail after being sentenced on Tuesday for helping engineer a 15-year tax fraud scheme at the former president's real estate company.
Bryan Metzger / Insider:
House Republicans voted to gut the House Ethics Committee, and George Santos said it was ‘fantastic’  — House Republicans voted on Monday to hobble the Office of Congressional Ethics.  — The body will now likely be limited in its ability to carry out investigations due to staffing shortages.
Mpac / Muslim Public Affairs Council:
Statement of Support for Art Professor Fired from Hamline University  —  It is with great concern that the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) views the firing of an art professor, Erika López Prater, from Hamline University on the grounds of showing a fourteenth-century painting depicting the Prophet Muḥammad.
Discussion: The Post Millennial
Zachary Basu / Axios:
GOP's defense divide  —  The threat of cuts to U.S. defense spending has emerged as a flashpoint in House Republicans' first week in the majority, widening the GOP's isolationist fault line and exposing the fragility of Kevin McCarthy's young speakership.
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Brianna Herlihy / Fox News:
House passes new rules for Congress as McCarthy clears first major test as House speaker
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84  —  A Serbian-born American, he left the impression in his verse that he had “poked a hole into everyday life to reveal a glimpse of something endless.”  —  Charles Simic, the renowned Serbian-American poet whose work combined …
Washington Post:
Satellite images show crowds at China's crematoriums as covid surges  —  An overwhelmed funeral home in Chengdu, China, stopped offering memorial services, budgeting just two minutes for each family to say goodbye to loved ones before cremation.  A funeral parlor on the outskirts of Beijing quickly cleared space for a new parking lot.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Can Ron DeSantis Avoid Meeting the Press?  —  The Florida governor easily won re-election despite little engagement with mainstream news outlets, another sign of partisan division ahead of the 2024 presidential race.  —  Assigned to cover the re-election campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida …
Mitch Perry / Florida Phoenix:
Florida Democratic Party Chair Manny Diaz resigns  —  Chair Manny Diaz and Florida Democrats held trainings, caucus meetings, and organizing sessions in a rally-like atmosphere on the second day of Leadership Blue Weekend in July 2022.  Credit: Photos provided by Florida Democratic Party.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:   Florida Democratic Party chair resigns after brutal midterms
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Herschel Walker closed 2022 with $5 million despite losing bid  —  It's not unheard of for losing candidates to close an election cycle with significant money left in their campaign accounts  —  Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker closed the year — after his November general election …
Joseph Berger / New York Times:
Adolfo Kaminsky Dies at 97; His Forgeries Saved Thousands of Jews  —  His talent for creating realistic documents helped children, their parents and others escape deportation to concentration camps, and in many cases to flee Nazi-occupied territory.  —  Adolfo Kaminsky's talent was as banal as could be …
Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Liberal media is trying to protect the FBI from hard questions about illegal surveillance  —  Besides addressing the crisis at the southern border, there is no more urgent matter for the new Republican House majority to direct its attention to than the conversion of the federal government into a progressive cudgel against civil rights.
Orange Wang / South China Morning Post:
China unlikely to seize Taiwan in invasion but heavy losses for all: think tank  —  Beijing is unlikely to succeed in seizing Taiwan in a hypothetical invasion of the island in 2026, but such a conflict would wreak havoc on both sides of the strait, the US and Japan with total casualties running …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
DeSantis Allies Plot the Hostile Takeover of a Liberal College  —  New College of Florida has a reputation for being the most progressive public college in the state.  X González — a survivor of the Parkland school shooting who, as Emma González, became a prominent gun control activist …
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Lawsuit Reveals Trump Can't Stand Being Compared to Hitler  —  A new lawsuit against CNN reveals just how much Donald Trump hates being compared to “Adolph” Hitler.  —  Former President Donald Trump is doubling down on his “I am not Hitler” defamation lawsuit against CNN by adopting …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How the Biden administration can slow the GOP's dangerous schemes  —  The rules package that House Republicans passed Monday night provides an indication of just how much damage House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has wrought in capitulating to the most extreme members of his caucus.
Discussion: Vox, CNN and Bloomberg
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden team eyes end of Covid emergency declaration and shift in Covid team  —  When the Biden administration renews the Covid public health emergency this week, it will mark the 11th time since the coronavirus arrived that the government declared its presence a national crisis.  —  It may also be the last.
Discussion: CBS News
John Kenneth White / The Hill:
2023 is the year for hunting heretics  —  The late political analyst Mark Shields was fond of classifying partisans into two types: those who seek converts and those who carry on crusades to root out heretics.  Former President Trump is the ultimate heretic hunter.
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
First on CNN: Biden administration prepares more measures to curb border crossings, keep migrants from journeying to the US  —  The Biden administration will roll out additional measures during Tuesday's North American Leaders' Summit in a desperate bid to keep migrants from journeying to the US southern border.
CNN:
Russian artillery fire down nearly 75%, US officials say, in latest sign of struggles for Moscow  —  As Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its 11th month, US and Ukrainian officials tell CNN that Russia's artillery fire is down dramatically from its wartime high, in some places by as much as 75 percent.
Discussion: HotAir
Politico:
Mutually assured obstruction: House GOP aims ‘weaponization’ panel at DOJ  —  House Republicans are declaring what amounts to an investigative war on the Biden administration, pledging to probe “ongoing criminal investigations” at the Justice Department.  —  Veterans of some of Congress …
Jonathan Fjeld / KOB.com:
APD: Suspect in custody, tied to shooting at lawmaker's home  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The homes or offices of six local elected leaders were shot at over the last few weeks, according to Albuquerque police.  —  Mayor Keller and Chief Medina held a news conference Monday to announce …
Punchbowl News:
1/10/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM  —  WITH PASSAGE OF THE HOUSE RULES PACKAGE ON MONDAY NIGHT, THE NEXT BIG FIGHT FOR THE CHAMBER WILL BE “POPULATING” ITS COMMITTEES.  AND THAT'S GOING TO LEAD TO A BIG PARTISAN BRAWL ON THE FLOOR.  —  HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE EXPECTED TO NAME SCHIFF …
 
 
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Bernie Marcus / Wall Street Journal:
Entrepreneurship Will Lift Minorities Up
Discussion: Breitbart
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Biden Administration Plans to Ease Rules for Income-Based Student-Loan Forgiveness
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
House GOP to embark on sweeping probe of covid origin, U.S. response
Discussion: National Review and STAT
Bloomberg:
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Devan Cole / CNN:
DOJ appeals decision that faulted Air Force for 2017 Texas church shooting
Alex Berenson / Unreported Truths:
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Ross Douthat and the Match Throwing Club
John Woodrow Cox / Washington Post:
Moms Demand's Shannon Watts, who took on the NRA, to retire from group she founded
Danielle Battaglia / Raleigh News & Observer:
Florida man: Madison Cawthorn, denied NC reelection, confirms move to Sunshine State
Discussion: Associated Press
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Locked Out of Twitter for Using Dr. Dre's Music
 

 
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