memeorandum: Downtown Atlanta protest turns into riot, six arrested, police say (WAGA-TV)

11:40 AM ET, January 22, 2023

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10 people killed, 10 injured in mass shooting at Monterey Park dance studio — Ten people were killed and at least 10 others were injured when a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.

NBC News:

9 people killed in mass shooting near Los Angeles after Lunar New Year celebrations — Nine people were killed in a mass shooting in Monterey Park, Calif. late Saturday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement. — The incident took place at around 10:22 p.m. local time (1:22 a.m. ET), the statement said.

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Brittany Shepherd / ABC News:

POLL: Most Americans think both Biden and Trump inappropriately handled classified documents — A plurality sees Trump's actions as more serious, an ABC News/Ipsos poll shows. — In this Nov. 13, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump is shown at the White House in Washington, D.C. |

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Caroline Downey / National Review:

FBI Discovers More Classified Documents at Biden's Delaware Home — The FBI on Friday uncovered more classified documents while searching President Biden's residence in Wilmington, Del. — Over the course of 13 hours, investigators found six items composed of records determined to be sensitive …

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New York Times:

Investigators Seize More Classified Documents From Biden's Home — A team from the Justice Department conducted a 13-hour search of the president's Wilmington residence on Friday. — WASHINGTON — Investigators for the Justice Department on Friday seized more than a half-dozen documents …

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BBC:
US files: Six more classified documents seized at Biden home

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CNN:
FBI searches Biden's Wilmington home and finds more classified materials

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Wall Street Journal:
More Classified Documents Found at President Biden's Delaware Home

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Katie J. M. Baker / New York Times:

When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don't Know — Educators are facing wrenching new tensions over whether they should tell parents when students socially transition at school. — Jessica Bradshaw found out that her 15-year-old identified as transgender at school after she glimpsed …

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WAGA-TV:

Downtown Atlanta protest turns into riot, six arrested, police say — “I saw people smashing out taillights of cop cars and windows,” witness says — ATLANTA - What started as a peaceful protest against the death of a Georgia-based activist took a violent turn in downtown Atlanta Saturday evening …

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Emma Colton / Fox News:
Atlanta riots erupt downtown amid ‘Cop City’ backlash

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Timothy Pratt / The Guardian:
‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia's ‘Cop City’

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TMZ.com:

Rep. George Santos Admits to Dressing in Drag, Denies Being a ‘Queen’ — REP. GEORGE SANTOS OKAY, FINE, I DID DRESS IN DRAG ... But I'm No ‘Queen,’ Dammit — JUST HAVIN' SOME FUN — Rep. George Santos did, in fact, dress in women's clothing as a young man — but don't go calling …

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Chanteé Lans / abc7NY:
Rep. George Santos returns to NY, faces questions from Eyewitness News

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Rolling Stone:

Anti-Abortion Voters Have Picked an Early 2024 Favorite. It's Not Trump — Students For Life conducted the first straw poll of the potential GOP field. The former president is nowhere close to the top spot — TWO THOUSAND ATTENDEES at the National Pro-Life Summit cast their votes …

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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:

Protesting against Congress may get you a $50 fine. Disrupting the Supreme Court is a different story. — WASHINGTON — When Emily Paterson was arrested for protesting abortion law changes during a Supreme Court hearing in November, she spent the night in jail and now has a criminal conviction on her record.

Lori Rozsa / Washington Post:

A Black professor defies DeSantis law restricting lessons on race — NEWBERRY, Fla. — The inscriptions on many of the tombstones at the Pleasant Plain Cemetery tucked in the north Florida woods are so worn by time and weather that they are unreadable. — But Marvin Dunn knows their stories.

New York Times:

Ron Klain Expected to Step Down as Biden's White House Chief of Staff — Mr. Klain's departure would mark a rare moment of high-level turnover in an administration that has been remarkably stable through two years of crises and political battles. — WASHINGTON — Ron Klain …

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CNN:
White House chief of staff Ron Klain expected to step down in the weeks after State of the Union

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NBC News:
Ron Klain is expected to step down as White House chief of staff in the coming weeks

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Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Ron Klain, White House chief of staff, plans to step down

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Politico:

RNC chair challenger looks to Never Trumpers for a boost — In a last-ditch effort to upend the Republican National Committee chair race, challenger Harmeet Dhillon has begun a full court press of various factions of a party in search of skeptics of current chair Ronna McDaniel.

Discussion: Raw Story

Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:

Fed Sets Course for Milder Interest-Rate Rise in February — Officials could begin weighing whether and when to pause rate increases this spring — Watch: Fed Chair Powell Announces Half Point Interest-Rate Increase — Created with sketchtool. … 1x

Associated Press:

Sanders' Latinx ban wades into community's generational rift — One of Sarah Huckabee Sanders' first acts as Arkansas governor was to ban most state agencies from using the gender-neutral term Latinx, tapping into a debate that's divided Hispanics along generational lines.

Discussion: Chicago Tribune