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6:20 PM ET, January 11, 2023

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NBC News:
Biden aides find second batch of classified documents at new location  —  WASHINGTON — Aides to President Joe Biden have discovered at least one additional batch of classified documents in a location separate from the Washington office he used after leaving the Obama administration, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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New York Times:
The Special Counsel Investigating Trump Faces Headwinds Few Others Have  —  Jack Smith's challenges include a newly empowered Republican House majority and the recent disclosure of classified documents at a former office of President Biden.  —  WASHINGTON — Jack Smith …
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Classified Documents Found in Second Location Associated With Biden  —  The revelation is sure to intensify Republican attacks on the president, who has called former President Donald J. Trump irresponsible for hoarding sensitive documents at his estate in Florida.
USA Today:
White House refuses to answer key questions about Biden classified documents
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
In the case of the classified documents, it's more serious for Trump than Biden
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
George Santos's Secret Résumé: A Wall Street Star With a 3.9 G.P.A.  —  Two years before his successful run for Congress, George Santos gave Long Island Republican officials a résumé that reads like a detailed road map of his lies.
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New York Times:
Résumé of George Santos  —  A copy of a two-page version of his résumé, obtained by The Times, is the first that has become public.  Read more ›
Politico:
Santos refuses to resign amid calls from local N.Y. GOP  —  NEW YORK — Rep. George Santos refused to resign Wednesday despite a parade of Republican Nassau County officials demanding he step down.  —  Officials from across Santos' Long Island district and beyond gathered at the headquarters …
New York Times:
George Santos Faces Calls to Resign From Long Island GOP Leaders  —  The rejection by Republican leaders in Nassau County is the sharpest denunciation from Mr. Santos's party, whose leaders in Washington have mostly stayed mum.  —  WESTBURY, N.Y. — Republican officials on Long Island …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Third NY House Republican calls for Santos to resign  —  Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday called for fellow Long Island Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to resign over revelations he fabricated major portions of his resume and background while on the campaign trail.
NBC News:
McCarthy says embattled Rep. Santos should not be seated on top committees
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
The boring journey of Matt Yglesias  —  The Washington ur-blogger's slightly contrarian, mildly annoying, somewhat influential, very lucrative path toward the political center  —  Matt Yglesias can talk about supervolcanoes and about Habsburg federalism and about the semiconductor industry in Taiwan vs. China.
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Barbara Lee tells lawmakers she's running for Senate  —  Rep. Barbara Lee has told her fellow lawmakers she's running for Senate in California, according to two sources familiar with the situation.  —  She informed her colleagues in a closed-door Congressional Black Caucus meeting on Wednesday.
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Jamie Tahsin / VICE:
‘I Love Raping You’: What Andrew Tate Told Woman Who Accused Him of Rape  —  Exclusive: VICE World News has obtained WhatsApp messages and voicenotes sent by Andrew Tate to a woman who accused him of a 2013 rape.  She said police told her they believed her account, but authorities declined to prosecute.
Reuters:
U.S. airports rumble back to life after FAA computer outage  —  U.S. flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to all U.S. departing flights.
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The Hill:
5 things to know about the system outage at the FAA
Michelle Chapman / Associated Press:
Flight disruptions cascade across US after computer outage
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
There are no moderate House Republicans  —  Listen to the mainstream media's coverage of House Republicans, and you might think there is a mass of “normal” Republicans who do not buy into election denial, who are not apologists for former president Donald Trump, and who understand …
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Will / Trending Politics Conservative:
JUST IN: Republicans to Vote on a Bill that Would Abolish the IRS, Eliminate Income Tax
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
No, The Feds Aren't Coming For Your Gas Stove  —  Some lawmakers have revealed their own bizarre, unhealthy relationship with the kitchen appliance.  —  Lawmakers, including many close allies of the oil and gas industry, are simmering — boiling over, even — about the prospect of losing their beloved gas stoves.
Joe Biden / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans and Democrats, Unite Against Big Tech Abuses  —  Congress can find common ground on the protection of privacy, competition and American children.  —  The American tech industry is the most innovative in the world.  I'm proud of what it has accomplished, and of the many talented …
Megan Henry / The Columbus Dispatch:
Olentangy Schools official cuts off reading of Dr. Seuss book during NPR podcast  —  The assistant director of communications for Olentangy Local School District abruptly stopped the reading of the Dr. Seuss book “The Sneetches” to a third-grade classroom during an NPR podcast after students asked about race.
CNN:
Judge will allow prosecutors to use Trump's ‘stand back and stand by’ comment in Proud Boys trial  —  A federal judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors can use video of then-President Donald Trump telling the far-right group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” in the trial against several …
Discussion: Raw Story
Anatoly Kurmanaev / New York Times:
Russia-Ukraine War  —  Russia Shakes Up Military Leadership Again … The prior military leader is now a deputy to the newly named chief.  —  Russia has replaced its military chief in Ukraine with a Kremlin insider, dashing calls from Moscow ultranationalists for a radical overhaul of the leadership overseeing the flagging invasion.
Nicole Acevedo / NBC News:
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders bans term ‘Latinx’ on her first day in office  —  Within hours of being sworn in as the new Republican governor of Arkansas on Tuesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order banning the term Latinx from official use in the state government.
ABC News:
GOP-led Oversight Committee issues flurry of letters to begin probe of Biden, Twitter  —  The letters lead off the GOP's long-promised investigation of the president.  —  The chairman of the new Republican-led House Oversight Committee has issued a flurry of letters as part of the panel's …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court seems poised to void part of sex trafficking law  —  A federal appeals court panel appears likely to strike down part of a law Congress overwhelmingly passed in 2018 to crack down on online advertising websites such as Backpage that were viewed as facilitating prostitution.
Discussion: MLive.com
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
The New Soldiers in Propane's Fight Against Climate Action: Television Stars  —  An industry group is spending millions of dollars to push back against efforts to move heating away from oil and gas.  —  For D.I.Y. enthusiasts, Matt Blashaw is a familiar face, judging bathroom remodels …
CNN:
Exclusive: Uvalde school police chief told investigators why he didn't try to stop gunman: 'There's probably going to be some deceased in there, but we don't need any more from out here'  —  Uvalde school police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo told investigators he was more concerned …
Peter Spiliakos / National Review:
The House GOP's Risky Return to Budget Warfare  —  An agenda of balancing the budget with only spending cuts combined with radical tax reform might not be electorally viable.  —  It's not fair to say that the Republican Party doesn't change at all, but, in some ways, the Republican Party …
Human Rights First:
Biden Must Sanction Russians Involved in Kara-Murza's Detention … “Vladimir Kara-Murza has been unjustly detained for nine months and faces a growing list of unfounded charges for his courageous advocacy and criticism of the Putin regime's war of aggression in Ukraine and its utter disregard …
CNN:
GOP strategist alleges powerful conservative Matt Schlapp sexually assaulted him  —  A Republican strategist alleges that Matt Schlapp, the influential chairman of the American Conservative Union, groped and fondled his groin as he drove Schlapp back to an Atlanta hotel several weeks before the November midterm election.
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
 
 
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