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Nick Clegg / Meta:
Ending Suspension of Trump's Accounts With New Guardrails to Deter Repeat Offenses — Takeaways — We will be ending the suspension of Mr. Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks. — We've put new guardrails in place to deter repeat offenses.
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Facebook and Instagram end Trump's suspension from platforms — Former President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts are being reinstated, the social media giant Meta announced Wednesday — a little more than two years after he was suspended from the platforms over incendiary posts on the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Trump and Facebook's Mutual Decay — This afternoon, Meta announced that it will soon reinstate Donald Trump's account after a two-year suspension from Facebook and Instagram. The former president was deplatformed after his posts were deemed to have incited, or at the very least encouraged, the January 6 insurrection.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why this debt ceiling showdown is different — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — WHAT THEY'RE READING AT THE DNC — JMart's latest: “No Democratic Bench? Josh Shapiro and Wes Moore Are Ready To Step Up”
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Washington Post:
The scariest part of the debt ceiling impasse: Washington isn't scared — In the past week, I have been told by a prominent economist, the CEO of a major bank and two Democratic members of Congress not to worry about breaching the debt limit. Congress always ends up raising the debt limit …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Republicans demand spending cuts to lift the debt limit. They won't say what to cut.
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Matthew Choi / The Texas Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy says he'll use debt ceiling threat to push through his border security plan
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Democrats hammer GOP plan to impose national sales tax, abolish IRS
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Democrats have a two-part plan to use the debt ceiling against Republicans
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Politico:
Biden's next 2 years: A brutal war and a rough campaign — President Joe Biden's decision to send tanks to Ukraine marked a new chapter in the United States' commitment to Kyiv, one reflecting a growing belief that the war could stretch years and require extraordinary measures to hold an alliance together to repel Russia.
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Politico:
Inside Washington's about-face on sending tanks to Ukraine — In the weeks after Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Christmastime visit to Washington, U.S., German and other European leaders became locked in an increasingly ugly tit-for-tat over whether to send tanks to Ukraine.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
The M1 Abrams, headed to Ukraine, is the main U.S. battle tank.
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Bryan Metzger / Insider:
George Santos says he's undecided on whether he'll vote to kick Ilhan Omar off of the Foreign Affairs Committee — The GOP wants to remove Ilhan Omar from a committee over years-old comments seen as anti-Semitic. — Two Republicans have said they won't vote for the resolution, which is expected in the coming weeks.
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Virginia Aabram / Washington Examiner:
Swalwell says McCarthy will ‘regret’ booting him off Intel: 'I'm not going to be quiet'
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
G.O.P. State Lawmakers Push a Growing Wave of Anti-Transgender Bills — Four states could ban transition care into young adulthood. Lawmakers in several others want to restrict drag shows in ways that could affect transgender performers broadly. It's part of a long-term plan.
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Soo Rin Kim / ABC News:
Santos lists new treasurer — who says he doesn't work for the congressman — Embattled Rep. George Santos' campaign appears to be left without a treasurer. — With a disclosure filing deadline approaching as questions swirl around his — use of campaign funds
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Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Sen. Rick Scott is running for re-election pushing his controversial tax plan — Sen. Rick Scott of Florida is running for re-election, he said in an announcement first shared with NBC News. — Scott released his campaign staff hires and made it clear he's not planning to run for president, as some have speculated.
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Trump Has Completely Lost His Grip on Reality — The former president's deterioration is on full display in the Truth Social asylum he built for himself. — Let's check in on the shadow primary for the 2024 Republican nomination. Nikki Haley is putting together a finance committee …
Washington Post:
Opinion section at The Washington Post expands its roster with seven new contributors — The Washington Post's opinion section continues to grow under Editorial Page Editor David Shipley's direction adding seven new contributors today. These additions highlight The Post's commitment …
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Punchbowl News:
1/26/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM — Something unusual is happening in the Capitol: Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are getting along. … And these two will be at each other's throats for the foreseeable future over politics, policy, personnel and morals.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Top Dems push to deny Santos access to classified info — Two top New York House Democrats on Wednesday pressed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to deny Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) access to classified information. … - They wrote that Santos' “myriad deceptive actions …
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Matt Laslo / Raw Story:
Exclusive: Sen. Dianne Feinstein won't announce her plans for 2024 — until 2024 — WASHINGTON— Countless Democrats just hit a California-sized snag: Sen. Dianne Feinstein may not retire after all. — In an exclusive interview with Raw Story, California's senior senator announced she's not not running.
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
The private angst over Donald Trump's racist attacks on Elaine Chao goes public — Over the past several months, the leading Republican presidential candidate has launched a series of racist attacks on the wife of the Republican Party's Senate leader, a woman who once served in his Cabinet.
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Archives weighs asking past presidents, VPs to look for classified items — The National Archives is weighing whether to ask living former presidents and vice presidents to review their personal records to verify that no classified materials are inadvertently outstanding …
Axios:
D.C.'s top two leaders disagree on how to save downtown — D.C.'s top two leaders aren't seeing eye-to-eye about how to revive downtown, with Council chair Phil Mendelson opposing Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposals to raise building height limits and increase development.
New York Times:
Newport News School Was Warned 3 Times That 6-Year-Old Had a Gun, Lawyer Says — Another child saw the weapon at recess, and a teacher warned that the boy might have a gun in his pocket. Yet an administrator dismissed the threat, according to the lawyer for a teacher who was shot.
Livia Albeck-Ripka / New York Times:
Suspect in Arson at Planned Parenthood Clinic Cited Ex-Girlfriend's Abortion, U.S. Says — The man, Tyler W. Massengill, 32, told investigators that he hoped the fire on Jan. 15 would delay others in having an abortion, according to federal authorities. — A man accused of firebombing …
Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Biden vowed to punish Saudis over oil cut. That's no longer the plan. — Administration officials now point to intensified opposition in Congress as a chief outcome of OPEC's decision to slash output ahead of last year's midterm elections — Months after the White House vowed …
Department of Justice:
Chinese National Sentenced to Eight Years for Acting within the United States as an Unregistered Agent of the People's Republic of China — A Chinese national was sentenced today to eight years in prison for acting illegally within the United States as an agent of the People's Republic of China.
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Kevin Mcgill / Associated Press:
Report: Louisiana often holds inmates beyond release dates — Louisiana's prison system routinely holds people beyond their release dates, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday in a report concluding that the state has failed for years to develop solutions to “systemic overdetentions” …
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Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal:
DOT Probes Southwest Airlines Scheduling After Holiday-Travel Meltdown — Southwest says it will cooperate with requests from government officials — The U.S. Transportation Department is probing Southwest Airlines Co.'s LUV .52%increase; green up pointing triangle scheduling in the wake …
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New York Times:
N.I.H. Did Not Properly Track a Group Studying Coronaviruses, Report Finds — An internal federal watchdog said that the health agency had not given adequate oversight to EcoHealth Alliance, which had been awarded $8 million in grants. — The National Institutes of Health made significant errors …
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Will the 2016 Election Ever End? — New research about the Kremlin's election interference raises more questions than it answers. — The 2016 presidential election will never die—or, at the very least, we appear doomed to discuss it forever. Earlier this month, NYU's Center for Social Media …
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