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Remy Tumin / New York Times:
Republican Ex-Candidate Arrested in Shootings Targeting New Mexico Democrats — The authorities in Albuquerque said Solomon Peña, who lost his bid for a State House seat in November, was behind a series of recent shootings targeting Democratic elected officials.
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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 — Solomon Peña is accused of paying four men to carry out shootings at Albuquerque-area homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators. No one was hurt.
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The Daily Beast, Insider, The American Independent, Law & Crime, MSNBC and PoliticusUSA
Rio Yamat / Associated Press:
Ex-GOP candidate arrested in shootings at lawmakers' homes
Ex-GOP candidate arrested in shootings at lawmakers' homes
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Albuquerque Journal, CBS News, Insider, Associated Press, Raw Story and Eschaton
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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Politico, Balloon Juice, Florida Politics and Raw Story
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
White House to McCarthy: ‘Come clean’ on your backroom speaker deals — The White House is escalating its fight with newly empowered congressional Republicans, with officials Tuesday calling on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to “come clean” about secretive deals he made with hardline members that helped him eventually land the top job.
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Fox News, PoliticusUSA, MSNBC, Washington Times, The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The impressively weak effort to ‘whatabout’ Biden's classified documents — Look, when there's no need for your rhetoric not to be lazy, you land on lazy rhetoric. If you can carry the day — at least with those who you're most worried about convincing — with little effort or logical consistency …
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The Hill, The Daily Signal, Mediaite, CNN, The Wrap, The Moderate Voice, Newsbusters and Outside the Beltway
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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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Washington Examiner, USA Today, Raw Story, Breitbart, Fox News and Grabien News
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Obama ethics chief blasts Biden's ‘inexcusable neglect of the most basic security protocols’
Obama ethics chief blasts Biden's ‘inexcusable neglect of the most basic security protocols’
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Washington Examiner, National Review, Right Side Broadcasting …, BizPac Review, New York Post, RedState, IJR and Just The News
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Two things can be true: Biden broke no laws. His lawyers made a mess.
Two things can be true: Biden broke no laws. His lawyers made a mess.
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CNBC, New York Post, Fox News, The Federalist and Raw Story
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
Matt Schlapp slapped with lawsuit after allegation of fondling GOP operative
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Politico, The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Occupy Democrats
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House Republicans gear up for a debt ceiling fight, clashing with Democrats — WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House has planted the seeds for a debt-ceiling showdown, with Speaker Kevin McCarthy endorsing a push by his hard-liners to demand spending cuts as part of any extension of the country's borrowing authority.
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New York Times:
As Debt Limit Threat Looms, Wall Street and Washington Have Only Rough Plans
As Debt Limit Threat Looms, Wall Street and Washington Have Only Rough Plans
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The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner and Morning Shots
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
New species discovered: Republicans who (sometimes) care about deficits
New species discovered: Republicans who (sometimes) care about deficits
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Raw Story, Tangle, WCIA-TV, Los Angeles Times and The Dispatch
The Daily Beast:
The Bathroom Fight Fueling Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert's Break-Up — A shouting match in a bathroom. Kevin McCarthy. Donald Trump. Ukraine aid. They're all contributing to the split between two of the far right's most high-profile figures.
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.
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Washington Post:
What the Jan. 6 probe found out about social media, but didn't report — The House committee investigating the riot avoided detailed discussion in its report for fear of offending Republicans and tech companies, sources say — The Jan. 6 committee spent months gathering stunning new details …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Rosen tells Israel she doesn't want to meet with members of 2 far-right parties — U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) told the Israeli government she doesn't want the bipartisan Senate delegation she is leading to Israel this week to meet with any members of two Israeli far-right parties …
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Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
Pro-Israel Democratic Senator Reportedly Asks Not to Meet With Far-right Parties During Israel Visit
Pro-Israel Democratic Senator Reportedly Asks Not to Meet With Far-right Parties During Israel Visit
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VINnews
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 …
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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New York Times:
How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low — The National Restaurant Association uses mandatory $15 food-safety classes to turn waiters and cooks into unwitting funders of its battle against minimum wage increases. — WASHINGTON — For many cooks, waiters and bartenders …
Brian Klaas / The Atlantic:
Asymmetrical Conspiracism Is Hurting Democracy — As an American living in Britain for the past decade, I've had a front-row seat to two dysfunctional democracies hell-bent on embarrassing themselves. President Donald Trump warned that a hurricane was “one of the wettest we've ever seen, from the standpoint of water.”
Politico:
Revealed: Who visited the Trump White House before Jan. 6 — The Trump administration never publicly released White House visitor records. But new data released by the Jan. 6 committee offers a never-before-seen glimpse. — Donald Trump spent his time in office fighting the release of his White House visitor logs.
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BizPac Review, Raw Story, Right Side Broadcasting … and Breitbart
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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HotAir, The American Conservative, Washington Examiner and Althouse
Julia Martinez / Morning Consult:
Republicans Increasingly Like Tesla Thanks to Elon Musk. That Hasn't Translated to Greater Interest in Buying EVs — GOP adults have not drastically changed their views on whether they are likely to purchase an electric vehicle within the next 12 months, and the same goes for Democrats and the general public
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National Review and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
First on Fox: Pompeo's secret trip to North Korea detailed in former secretary of State's new memoir — New memoir by Pompeo highlights his years as President Trump's CIA director and secretary of State — Pompeo says former President Trump's 2024 announcement won't affect his own decision on whether to run for the White House.
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The Hill
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Evangelical leaders are ‘disloyal,’ Trump says. His real worry is broader. — What Donald Trump wanted to have happen when he announced his presidential candidacy in November was for the galaxy of Republican and conservative voices that had allied with him in his reelection effort to do the exact same thing.
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NBC News:
My new co-worker George Santos is a distraction and a danger to democracy — As a native New Yorker who grew up in a public housing development across the street from Donald Trump's gilded golf course, I know what it's like to have the neighborhood you love hijacked by a man who is deceitful to the core.
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, The Hill, Al Jazeera and Mediaite
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Ron DeSantis Takes On the Likability Issue (Sort Of) — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When a couple hundred major donors to Gov. Ron DeSantis's inauguration arrived at a candlelight dinner to the sounds of a solo saxophonist the night before his swearing-in last week they found a pair of surprises waiting for them.
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New York Magazine, Wide World of News and Vanity Fair
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Trump to be joined by Graham, McMaster at Jan. 28 SC event — Former President Donald Trump will be joined by two of his highest-profile South Carolina supporters — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and Gov. Henry McMaster — at the first public campaign event of his 2024 White House bid later this month in the early voting state.
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