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6:35 PM ET, January 15, 2023

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Eugene Daniels / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Three storylines to watch in Biden's document drama  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  HAPPENING NOW — “Biden speech at Ebenezer to bring focus to King's legacy, likely to president's as well,"by The Atlanta Journal …
Discussion: CNN, Forbes and CBS News
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United States House Committee on Oversight …:
Comer Calls on White House to Release Biden's Wilmington Residence Visitor Log, Questions Why Biden Aides Continue to Search Properties in Wake of Special Counsel  —  WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is calling on White House Chief …
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
What College Admissions Could Look Like Without Affirmative Action  —  Schools may need to rethink everything, including recruitment, scholarships, standardized testing and alumni preferences.  —  MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — In 1964, hoping to erase its image as a privileged cloister for white rich families …
Discussion: RedState and WISH-TV
Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble.  Who's Winning?  —  The outsider streaming site that just partnered up with Donald Trump Jr. is growing — but not in the way most people think  —  TO RING IN 2023, the social video site Rumble announced an exclusive partnership with Donald Trump Jr. Beginning …
Jacob Geanous / New York Post:
Hunter Biden asks court to stop love child from taking his sullied surname  —  He doesn't want to give her his bad name.  —  Hunter Biden asked a judge to deny his 4-year-old daughter from taking his surname — claiming it's a lightning rod for criticism and would rob the child of a “peaceful existence.”
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JONATHAN TURLEY:   The Importance of Being Biden: How Hunter Reached a New Low in Seeking to Bar Daughter From Using His Name
Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:
Former Russian president says Japanese leader should disembowel himself  —  Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and a senior security official in President Vladimir Putin's administration, said Saturday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida should perform a ritualistic suicide …
Discussion: Reuters, UPI, The Guardian and TASS
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
A GOP postmortem: What went so wrong in Pennsylvania?  —  PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania GOP is trying to figure out what went so horribly wrong in 2022.  —  After the party's disastrous midterm races, Republicans in the critical battleground state are conducting a postmortem …
Newsday:
Records show George Santos made questionable payments to vendors, experts say  —  Campaign committees tied to Rep. George Santos paid tens of thousands of dollars to newly formed companies with opaque histories and meager track records of working for other candidates, a Newsday review of state and federal filings shows.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over social media use  —  Court documents reveal reasons for Awad Al-Qarni's arrest - even though rulers are major investors in social media platforms  —  A prominent pro-reform law professor in Saudi Arabia is facing the death penalty …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Hand Recount of 2020 Election Results in Lycoming County Showed Little Change  —  Lycoming County, Pa., officials were persuaded to conduct a 2020 recount, a three-day undertaking that showed almost no change, but left skeptics just as skeptical.  —  WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. …
Discussion: Raw Story
Malu Cursino / BBC:
Ukraine war: Chances of more survivors from Dnipro strike minimal - mayor  —  The mayor of Dnipro has warned there may be no further survivors after Saturday's Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian city.  —  The attack left 29 dead while a further 44 are missing, city officials said.
Discussion: Reuters, Al Jazeera, Politico and The Hill
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans' Rocky Road Ahead  —  With members of the House G.O.P. caucus still pulling in all directions, does anyone know where the Party is headed?  —  The simplest thing, usually, for a new congressional majority to do is elect a Speaker of the House.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The House GOP's retread tactics have blown up in Republicans' faces before  —  Political energy is hard to define but easy to recognize.  Attentive citizens can usually tell which side is rising, dominating the public discussion and laying ownership to the future.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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