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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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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 — CBS News reported Monday that classified documents were found at an office used by President Biden.
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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 …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
DoJ seeks to question Trump team that found more classified documents
DoJ seeks to question Trump team that found more classified documents
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Raw Story
Mia Jankowicz / Insider:
Trump calls on FBI to raid Biden over classified files, misleadingly comparing the situation to documents found at Mar-a-Lago
Trump calls on FBI to raid Biden over classified files, misleadingly comparing the situation to documents found at Mar-a-Lago
CNN:
Classified documents from Biden's time as VP discovered in private office
Classified documents from Biden's time as VP discovered in private office
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Jack Nicas / New York Times:
What Drove a Mass Attack on Brazil's Capital? Mass Delusion. — Sunday's riot laid bare a daunting threat to Brazilian democracy: Unlike past putsch attempts in Latin America, this one was driven by deeply rooted conspiracy theories. — Jack Nicas has closely covered the right-wing movement in Brazil since 2021.
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Washington Post:
Brazil's riot puts spotlight on close ties between Bolsonaro and Trump
Brazil's riot puts spotlight on close ties between Bolsonaro and Trump
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Washington Post:
U.S. would ‘treat seriously’ requests to revoke Bolsonaro's visa
U.S. would ‘treat seriously’ requests to revoke Bolsonaro's visa
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Washington Examiner, Payday Report, Bloomberg, Insider, Raw Story, Cyprus Mail and The Guardian
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Defends Pro-Bolsonaro Rioters, Baselessly Declares Brazil's Election Was ‘Rigged’
Tucker Carlson Defends Pro-Bolsonaro Rioters, Baselessly Declares Brazil's Election Was ‘Rigged’
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New York Times:
House Republicans Vote to Rescind IRS Funding — The measure, one of the new majority's first legislative moves, would cut billions in funding that Democrats passed to help crack down on tax cheats. It does not have enough votes to pass the Senate. — WASHINGTON — House Republicans …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
‘87,000 IRS agents’ is the zombie falsehood setting the House agenda — “Our very first bill will repeal the funding for 87,000 new IRS agents.” — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), in remarks on the floor, Jan. 7 … — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), in a tweet, Jan. 8
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The Normalization of Marjorie Taylor Greene — Once considered a blight on the Republican party, she is now one of its prominent leaders. — During one of Kevin McCarthy's gauntlet of punishing votes, it was striking to see with whom he passed the time. There she was, dressed …
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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.
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HotAir
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 …
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Twitchy
Punchbowl News:
1/10/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM — The coming brawl over committees January 10, 2023 BY PUNCHBOWL NEWS STAFF THE TOP Happy Tuesday morning. Out: Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar. In: Paul Gosar, George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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HotAir
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 …
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 …
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Raw Story
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 …
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Jennifer Gonnerman / New Yorker:
UPS and the Package Wars — The company offers old-fashioned middle-class jobs and is enjoying record profits. So why is a strike looming? … For nearly twenty years, Antoine Andrews has been driving a UPS route in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bay Ridge.
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.
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.
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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 …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Nurses Retain Top Ethics Rating in U.S., but Below 2020 High — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nurses continue to garner the highest ethics rating from Americans among a diverse list of professions, a distinction they have held for more than two decades. The 79% of U.S. adults who now say nurses have …
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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 …
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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.
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Cherokee tribes turn to K Street to fulfill a 187-year-old promise for a seat in Congress — Three Cherokee tribes are pushing aggressively for the U.S. government to make good on a nearly 200-year-old promise to award them a sitting delegate in the House of Representatives.
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 Solender / Axios:
House Republicans in the dark on McCarthy's shadow document — A private document that only some House Republicans have seen and others refuse to talk about could play an outsized role in the governance of the chamber over the next two years. … - Those members have threatened …
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.
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The Post Millennial
Kenneth Roth / The Guardian:
I once ran Human Rights Watch. Harvard blocked my fellowship over Israel — I was told that my fellowship at the Kennedy School was vetoed over my and Human Rights Watch's criticism of Israel — uring the three decades that I headed Human Rights Watch, I recognized that we would never attract donors …
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The Golden Globes …
Mary Kekatos / ABC News:
More US schools institute mask mandates as COVID cases rise — Weekly COVID-19 cases have risen over the last five weeks. — More schools across the United States are putting mask mandates in place as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. — Before winter break, districts in New Jersey …
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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 …
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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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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.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
‘Totally Unexpected’: Diamond of MAGA Duo ‘Diamond & Silk’ Dies — Former President Donald Trump broke the news, describing her as “our Magnificent Diamond.” — One-half of the ardently pro-Trump commentary duo “Diamond and Silk” died on Monday. — Former president Donald Trump broke …
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