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CNN:
Exclusive: US intelligence materials related to Ukraine, Iran and UK found in Biden's private office, source tells CNN — Among the classified documents from Joe Biden's time as vice president discovered in a private office last fall are US intelligence memos and briefing materials …
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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Treasury's Yellen to Stay On at Biden's Request as Showdown Over Debt Nears
Treasury's Yellen to Stay On at Biden's Request as Showdown Over Debt Nears
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Politico and Washington Examiner
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
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
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Biden's classified-records headache is Garland's special-counsel nightmare
Biden's classified-records headache is Garland's special-counsel nightmare
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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 …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
McCarthy's mysterious deal with the hard right — Republicans can't even agree on the existence of a document outlining the terms, and are doing their best to talk around the issue — despite pledging transparency. — When House Republicans on Monday night passed the rules that would govern …
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Fox News, The Daily Beast, New York Times, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg sent to jail for five months in tax fraud case — Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced to five months in jail after pleading guilty to multiple tax crimes related to former President Donald Trump's businesses.
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New York Times:
Trump's Longtime Finance Chief Sentenced to 5 Months in Jail — Allen H. Weisselberg served the family company for decades but agreed to testify about its tax fraud in exchange for a lighter punishment. — Allen H. Weisselberg, once one of Donald J. Trump's most loyal lieutenants …
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Insider, Associated Press and Raw Story
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge sentences ‘Baked Alaska’ to 60 days in jail for Jan. 6 conduct — A federal judge sentenced pro-Trump livestreamer Anthime “Baked Alaska” Gionet on Tuesday to 60 days in prison for his actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6, calling his raucous conduct “shocking” amid the chaos of the mob.
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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Gaetz introduces amendment to bring C-SPAN cameras back to House floor — Gaetz says pool view of Congress is 'antiquated, ‘boomer-fied’ — The House is in a stronger position after these concessions: Rep. Matt Gaetz — EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is introducing an amendment …
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Insider, Florida's Voice and Althouse, more at Mediagazer »
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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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Democrats planning to sit on all GOP select committees
Democrats planning to sit on all GOP select committees
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Washington Post and Political Wire
New York Times:
Crime Concerns Drove Asian Americans Away From New York Democrats — Worries about public safety, especially attacks against Asian Americans, caused some in the once-reliably Democratic bloc to vote Republican last year. — Asian Americans have typically formed a crucial and reliable voting bloc …
Nate Hochman / National Review:
How Ron DeSantis Stole Christmas — An ominous Daily Beast headline from this morning reads: “They Were Loving College. Then Ron DeSantis Got Involved.” Here are the opening two paragraphs: … Dun dun dun dunnnnnnn. — The rest of the story, unfortunately, is far less exciting …
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The Daily Beast and The Daily Caller
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
DeSantis Allies Plot the Hostile Takeover of a Liberal College
DeSantis Allies Plot the Hostile Takeover of a Liberal College
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Demodexio and Orlando Weekly
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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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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Mediaite, Raw Story, New Republic and Fox News
Richard W. Painter / MSNBC:
Trump's tax returns show he was a bigger risk than we realized — ‘That was a surprise’ What we learned from Trump's revealed tax returns — Last month the House Ways and Means Committee published six years of former President Trump's tax returns — documents that should have been released years earlier …
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Mother Jones, Raw Story, New York Daily News and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Death Toll in Peru Rises to 46 Amid Extraordinary Violence — “What happened yesterday was really a massacre,” said one human rights activist. — LIMA, Peru — At least 17 people were killed in southern Peru in a matter of hours on Monday amid ongoing protests over the ouster of the former president …
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Reuters, Al Jazeera, The Brazilian Report, Bloomberg, Associated Press and Jacobin
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.
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NBC Chicago, National Review, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller and CBS News
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Mary Kekatos / ABC News:
More US schools institute mask mandates as COVID cases rise
More US schools institute mask mandates as COVID cases rise
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Dr. Joe's Covid …, Boston.com, The Daily Caller, The College Fix, MLive.com and NBC Chicago
Craig Torres / Bloomberg:
Powell Vows to Limit Fed's Climate Role to Protect Independence — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sought to draw a line around how far the central bank will use its powers to promote a greener economy, vowing it will not be a climate regulator. — “The Fed does have narrow …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Powell says Fed might have to make unpopular decisions to stabilize prices
Powell says Fed might have to make unpopular decisions to stabilize prices
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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.
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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Louder With Crowder, No More Mister Nice Blog and Twitchy
Shira Stein / San Francisco Chronicle:
California Rep. Katie Porter, a rising progressive star, announces U.S. Senate bid — WASHINGTON — Rep. Katie Porter, a rising progressive star who represents coastal Orange County, is running for U.S. Senate, she announced Tuesday. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's term ends in 2024 …
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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.
Michael Malaszczyk / Herald Community Newspapers:
A light in the tunnel for George Santos: New York Young Republican Club offers their support — U.S. Rep. George Santos, known for alleged fabrications and “embellishments” about his resume, has no shortage of detractors. Many people, including prominent Republicans like former Congressman Peter King, have called for his resignation.
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.
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
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Trump's Tax Returns Expose Sweetheart Loans For Ivanka And Her Brothers — The real-estate billionaire used loans with rock-bottom interest rates to shift some of his fortune to his kids—and he may have employed savvy tax techniques to ensure it all happened legally.
Marisa Sarnoff / Law & Crime:
Judge Rejects Proud Boys' Racial Bias Claims Over Diverse Jury, Notes Panel Isn't ‘Bereft of White People’ — A federal judge rejected an 11th hour claim by Proud Boys' lawyers that prosecutors improperly discriminated against white jurors. The ruling, made by a Donald Trump appointee …
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The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
Pete Buttigieg took government jet to NYC for radio interview, ACLU meeting before flying back hours later — Buttigieg was forced to take the jet due to a ‘late-notice schedule change,’ Transportation Department tells Fox News Digital — Pete Buttigieg was reportedly warned about travel meltdown months ago
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Washington Examiner