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Jacqueline Sweet / Patch:
Disabled Veteran: George Santos Took $3K From Dying Dog's GoFundMe — QUEENS, NY — In May 2016, Richard Osthoff was living in a tent in an abandoned chicken coop on the side of Route 9 in Howell, New Jersey, with his beloved service dog Sapphire. A veteran's charity gave the pit mix to Osthoff …
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Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Considered but Rejected Role in Biden Documents Search — Officials opted for hands-off approach to leave special counsel's probe uncompromised — WASHINGTON—The Justice Department considered having FBI agents monitor a search by President Biden's lawyers …
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Daniel Chaitin / The Daily Wire:
Biden Attorney Interviewed By Feds In Docs Review - But No ‘302’ Summary: Report — Federal investigators reportedly interviewed a personal attorney to President Joe Biden, but did not use a form to summarize the interview. — Patrick Moore, the attorney identified as the one who initially …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The impressively weak effort to ‘whatabout’ Biden's classified documents
The impressively weak effort to ‘whatabout’ Biden's classified documents
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The Bulwark:
Jim Jordan Overreaches in Attacking DOJ Over the Biden Classified Docs
Jim Jordan Overreaches in Attacking DOJ Over the Biden Classified Docs
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Peter Nicholas / NBC News:
After criticism for silence, Biden White House takes questions on classified documents
After criticism for silence, Biden White House takes questions on classified documents
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Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Matt Schlapp Is Accused in Lawsuit of Groping Aide to Herschel Walker's Campaign — The aide, who was working for Herschel Walker's campaign for Senate in Georgia, made the allegations in a lawsuit filed anonymously. A lawyer for Mr. Schlapp denied the accusations.
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Matt Schlapp slapped with lawsuit after allegation of fondling GOP operative — WASHINGTON — A Republican operative sued Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and a top ally of former President Donald Trump, over allegations of sexual misconduct Tuesday.
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New York Times:
George Santos Lands 2 House Committees: Small Business and Science — House Republican leadership placed Representative George Santos on two committees, even as some G.O.P. congressmen have called for his resignation. — Even as calls grew for investigations into Representative George Santos …
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Mia Cathell / Townhall:
TAPES: We Investigated a Suburban LGBTQ Pedophile Ring. Here's What We Found. — This is Part 1 of a four-part investigative series. … A months-long Townhall investigation reveals disturbing new details about the affluent LGBTQ-activist couple accused of sodomizing their young adopted sons …
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Tara Palmeri / Puck:
Feeling the Vern — Vern Buchanan exploded after losing Ways & Means to a McCarthy ally, fueling anxiety that he could retire out of pique—and that McCarthy's favor trading has eroded his narrow margin of support. — As I wrote last week, Republicans have been fixated on whether 71-year-old …
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
White House to McCarthy: ‘Come clean’ on your backroom speaker deals
White House to McCarthy: ‘Come clean’ on your backroom speaker deals
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New York Times:
Pentagon Sends U.S. Arms Stored in Israel to Ukraine — Israeli officials had initially expressed concerns that the move could damage its relations with Russia. — WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is tapping into a vast but little-known stockpile of American ammunition in Israel …
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Associated Press:
Maine Gov. Janet Mills wants to expand access to abortion in the state — ME legislative leaders want to allow abortion after 24 weeks with a doctor's approval — Fox News Flash top headlines for January 17 — Maine Gov. Janet Mills and legislative leaders want to expand access to abortion …
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Amy Beth Hanson / Associated Press:
Montana lawmaker seeks to overturn abortion ruling
Montana lawmaker seeks to overturn abortion ruling
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CBN News:
Trump's Ties to Evangelicals Souring Despite Roe v. Wade Win - Tells CBN News 'It's a Sign of Disloyalty' — Former President Donald Trump is being extremely blunt about why evangelical leaders have held off endorsing him so far in the 2024 presidential race.
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David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
FTX Executives Expressed Concern Over Use of Customer Funds, Documents Show — Documents obtained by The New York Times provide new details about the discussions among FTX's top leaders before the cryptocurrency exchange collapsed in November. — A few weeks before FTX collapsed …
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Washington Post:
Election-fraud conspiracies behind plot to shoot at New Mexico Democrats' homes, police say — Solomon Peña, a defeated candidate for the state legislature, paid people to fire on the houses of four Democratic office-holders, authorities say — The arrest of a defeated candidate …
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Deon J. Hampton / NBC News:
Failed GOP candidate visited homes of New Mexico Democratic politicians to dispute election prior to shootings, officials say
Failed GOP candidate visited homes of New Mexico Democratic politicians to dispute election prior to shootings, officials say
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United States Capitol Police:
USCP Threat Assessment Cases for 2022 — Last year the number of threat investigations by the United States Capitol Police (USCP) decreased, but the caseload remains historically high. — In 2022, the USCP Threat Assessment Section (TAS) investigated a total of 7,501 cases.
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Delegation of visiting US senators asks not to meet with Smotrich and Ben Gvir — Request by senator leading trip indicates Democrats are less comfortable with makeup of new Israeli government than White House, which has avoided announcing similar boycott — A delegation of US senators slated …
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Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:
Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies — A 2016 video that Tesla (TSLA.O) used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer.
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Nick Arama / RedState:
What Brian Stelter and Seth Moulton Are Talking About at the WEF Should Concern Us All — After CEO Chris Licht began to take stock of the mess he'd acquired over at CNN, one of the first moves he made was to boot Brian Stelter and cancel his show, “Reliable Sources” back in August 2022.
Politico:
Biden, House GOP refuse to budge as key debt ceiling deadline looms — The Biden administration and House Republicans are heading toward an initial Thursday debt ceiling deadline without even a hint of an endgame, ensuring a months-long standoff that's poised to rattle financial markets amid worries about a recession this year.
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Reuters:
Greta Thunberg arrested at German mine protest, will be freed later - police — Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was detained alongside other activists on Tuesday during protests against the demolition of the coal village of Luetzerath but the entire group will be released later in the day, according to police.
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Constanze Stelzenmüller / Financial Times:
Scholz is a wartime chancellor, whether he likes it or not — The German leader and his new defence minister have a big decision to make on supplying tanks to Ukraine — The writer directs the Center on the US and Europe at the Brookings Institution — On Monday, Germany's ill-starred …
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RealClearInvestigations:
The Rise of the Single Woke (and Young, Democratic) Female — Soccer Moms are giving way to Single Woke Females - the new “SWFs” - as one of the most potent voting blocs in American politics. — Unmarried women without children have been moving toward the Democratic Party for several years …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Biden just outmaneuvered MAGA Republicans — and they barely noticed — If President Biden rolls out a major new pro-immigrant policy, and MAGA Republicans don't make any noise about it, did the announcement happen at all? — Why, yes, it did. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas unveiled …
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
At Davos, Sinema and Manchin High-Five Over Keeping Filibuster Rule — Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin — who foiled Democrats' efforts to pass a voting-rights overhaul by a simple majority — shared a high-five on the stage in Davos as they reaffirmed their opposition to overturning the Senate's filibuster rule.
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Melanie Zanona / CNN:
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar get committee assignments — Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona have been given committee assignments for the new Congress, after being booted from their committees by Democrats and some Republicans for their incendiary remarks, sources told CNN.
Jesse Singal / New York Times:
Diversity Trainings Don't Work. Here's What Could. — Diversity trainings have been around for decades, long before the country's latest round of racial reckoning. But after George Floyd's murder — as companies faced pressure to demonstrate a commitment to racial justice …
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