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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 …

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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 …

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Daniella Cheslow / Wall Street Journal:
House GOP Seeks Biden Residence Visitor Logs as Classified-Document Saga Continues

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Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Biden speech at Ebenezer to bring focus to King's legacy, likely to president's as well

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Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Biden documents bungle seen as political black eye before 2024 launch

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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: 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 …

Washington Post:

Harbor City called George Santos a ‘perfect fit.’ The SEC called the company a fraud. — The inside story of the New York congressman and the now-shuttered Florida firm that employed him for more than a year — In July 2020, a small Florida-based investment firm announced …

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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 — In Oscar Wilde's “The Importance of Being Ernest,” the main character's search for his true name comes to a head when he finally demands “would you kindly inform me who I am?”

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 …

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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 …

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 …

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

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, New York Times, Politico and The Hill

Tal Axelrod / ABC News:

Biden classified documents could have national security implications, Schiff says — “I'd like to know what these documents were,” Rep. Schiff said on “This Week” — Rep. Adam Schiff, a former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that classified documents recently discovered …