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Peter King / New York Times:
Why George Santos Won't Be Able to Fake His Way Through Congress — Mr. King, a Republican, was a member of Congress from 1993 to 2021, representing parts of Long Island. He served as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. — In the latest twist in the surreal saga of George Santos …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The stark irony of George Santos's and Marjorie Taylor Greene's committees
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Washington Post:
House GOP votes: Marjorie Taylor Greene is not ‘fringe’
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
George Santos Shows Early Signs of Tilting to the Hard Right
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ALanger / The Forward:
George Santos' latest doozy: Records show his mom wasn't in NYC on 9/11 — Newly obtained documents from the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services show that U.S. Rep. George Santos' mother, Fatima A.C.H. Devolder, was not in the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on 9/11, as he has claimed.
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Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
Records show Rep. George Santos's mother wasn't in New York on 9/11 — Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) has said his mother was inside one of the World Trade Center towers when they were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, but immigration records indicate that Santos's mother wasn't in the United States on that day, contradicting his claims.
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Jennifer McLogan / CBS News:
Long Island GOP leader says he has proof Rep. George Santos admitted to crimes in Brazil
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Florida Says AP African American Studies Program ‘Lacks Educational Value’ — The state used Ron DeSantis' “Stop WOKE Act” to block the proposed program from its schools — FLORIDA HAS BLOCKED the College Board from testing a pilot Advanced Placement African American Studies (APAAS) …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
DeSantis Blocks AP African-American Studies Course for Breaking Florida's Anti-CRT Law
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CNN:
DeSantis pushes to permanently ban Covid-19 mandates in Florida
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Politico:
U.S. prepping major military package for Ukraine — The U.S. is gearing up to announce a major new weapons package for Ukraine on Friday, as top military leaders from around the world gather in Germany to discuss how to help Kyiv in its fight against Russia, according to three U.S. officials …
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Washington Post:
A font feud brews after State Dept. picks Calibri over Times New Roman — ‘The Times (New Roman) are a-Changin,’ read the subject line of a cable from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to U.S. embassies as part of an accessibility push — The U.S. State Department is going sans serif …
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Washington Post:
GOP congressman linked to Jan. 6 probe assigned to House committee investigating Biden — In his decade as a member of Congress, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) has downplayed the severity of Puerto Rico's hurricane damage, refused to condemn QAnon, blasted coronavirus vaccine and mask mandates …
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
White House slams far-right Republicans' committee assignments
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
White House rips appointment of ‘extreme MAGA members’ to House Oversight panel
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NBC News:
Donald Trump prepares for his return to Facebook and Twitter — Mounting a comeback for the White House, Donald Trump is looking to regain control over his powerful social media accounts. — With access to his Twitter account back, Trump's campaign is formally petitioning Facebook's parent company …
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Alexander Sammon / Slate:
How One Bad Court Pick in New York Has Turned Into a National Quagmire — Today, the New York senate judiciary committee will speak to Hector LaSalle, governor Kathy Hochul's nominee for chief judge of the Court of Appeals, which is the highest-ranking position of the state's highest court.
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Chris Bragg / Buffalo News:
Hochul moves to hire litigator, potentially escalating chief judge fight
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Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Semafor:
Republicans worry a national sales tax bill would be a ‘political gift’ for Democrats — As part of his deal to become House speaker, Kevin McCarthy reportedly promised his party's conservative hardliners a vote on legislation that would scrap the entire American tax code and replace it with a jumbo-sized national sales tax.
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Tim Carman / Washington Post:
Biden calls in Ghostburger order, leaves employee speechless — Brittany Spaddy has never seen “The American President,” the 1995 rom-com written by Aaron Sorkin, but she basically lived out one of the film's most memorable scenes, the one in which a flower shop employee collapses …
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Vimal Patel / New York Times:
After Lecturer Sues, Hamline University Walks Back Its ‘Islamophobic’ Comments — In an about-face, the school said that using the term was “flawed” and that respect for Muslim students should not have superseded academic freedom. — Hamline University officials made an about-face on Tuesday …
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Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Who's Afraid of a Portrait of Muhammad?
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New York Times:
Media Start-up Semafor Plans to Buy Out Sam Bankman-Fried's Investment — Semafor is one of several media companies that received money from Mr. Bankman-Fried or his affiliates before his cryptocurrency company fell apart and he was charged with crimes. — The news start-up Semafor began …
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Murray Waas / Rule of Law:
Exclusive: Special Counsel has questioned several officials about Donald Trump's handling of Russia probe papers. — Trump's conduct in that regard likely will play a role in any decision by prosecutors to charge Trump, say people close to the investigation. — Photo Credit... the Department of Justice.
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Leo Valdes / The Atlantic:
Take Detransitioners Seriously — When Kristin Beck, a decorated Navy SEAL veteran, came out as a transgender woman in 2013, she became a high-profile advocate for the trans community—a role that earned her glowing coverage in left-wing and mainstream center-left media.
CNN:
Trump criticizes evangelical leaders for not backing his 2024 presidential bid — Just days before Donald Trump hosts his first 2024 event in South Carolina, a state whose evangelical population has long played a critical role in its presidential primary, the former president is lashing …
Greg Norman / Fox News:
Derek Chauvin appeals conviction in George Floyd murder, arguing trial wasn't fair — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years for May 2020 murder of George Floyd — An attorney for Derek Chauvin appeared before an appeals court in Minnesota Wednesday …
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Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal:
The Disney Executive Who Made $119,505 a Day — Geoff Morrell received over $8 million in compensation for less than four months' work in 2022 — From Robert Iger to Steve Jobs, Why Companies Bring Back Their CEOs — Created with sketchtool. … Even by show-business standards …
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Bolts:
Alabama's New Election-Denying Secretary of State Leaves Group That Helps States Clean Voter Rolls — The decision to pull Alabama out of ERIC was fueled by right-wing conspiracies that spread last year, and has alarmed election administration professionals. — Then-candidate Wes Allen campaigning for Alabama secretary of state.
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Jason Wilson / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Idaho Republican Club Hosts Speech by Antisemite, Jan. 6 Attendee — Far-right propagandist Vincent James Foxx echoed “Great Replacement” conspiracy theories in a speech to a gathering of North Idaho Republicans just over a week ago, alleging that unspecified conspirators had …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Trump Derangement Syndrome...on the Right — For years, conservative pro-Trumpers and anti-anti-Trumpers have tried to pin a nasty label on Trump critics, claiming they've been besotted by Trump Derangement Syndrome. They contend that an irrational hatred of the former failed casino owner …
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
MLK Deserved Better. He's Not Alone. (Corrected version.) — Plus: The latest Santos ripoff — Embrace, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial sculpture at Boston Common. (Photo by Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) — In today's Morning Shots: The GOP's fascination …
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Greg Wyshynski / ESPN:
Flyers' Ivan Provorov boycotts Pride night, cites religion — Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov did not take the pregame skate Tuesday night because he refused to wear the team's LGBTQ+ Pride Night warmup jersey, citing his religious beliefs. — Provorov, 26, told reporters …
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Kenneth Roth / The Boston Globe:
Harvard needs to stand with its principles, not with Israel — or its donors — Human Rights Watch and I seem to be objectionable to Douglas Elmendorf, dean of Harvard Kennedy School, precisely because we are impartial observers, which gives our criticism of Israel greater weight.
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