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7:10 PM ET, January 27, 2023

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Rolling Stone:
Trump's Killing Spree: The Inside Story of His Race to Execute Every Prisoner He Could  —  Before 2020, there had been three federal executions in 60 years.  Then Trump put 13 people to death in six months … N THE FINAL moments of Brandon Bernard's life, before he was executed …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Vox and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Justice Department asks FEC to stand down as prosecutors probe Santos  —  The request is the clearest sign to date of an active criminal investigation examining the congressman's campaign finances  —  The Justice Department has asked the Federal Election Commission to hold off …
Discussion: Raw Story, Bloomberg and Political Wire
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Jack Forrest / CNN:
Court releases video of attack on Paul Pelosi  —  San Francisco Superior Court on Friday released video and audio recorded during last year's attack on Paul Pelosi after a California court ruled the district attorney's office must make the materials public.  —  CNN has obtained the CD containing …
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Washington Post:
Judge releases evidence, video footage in attack on Paul Pelosi  —  Police body-camera video showing the October attack on the husband of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), along with audio of Paul Pelosi's 911 call, were made public Friday, revealing footage of the moment he was bludgeoned by a hammer-wielding intruder looking for his wife.
Houston Keene / Fox News:
David DePape breaking into Pelosi home captured on US Capitol Police surveillance footage
New York Times:
Tyre Nichols Live Updates: Memphis to Release ‘Appalling’ Police Video  —  People who have seen the footage say it shows five police officers, who have been fired and charged with murder, beating Mr. Nichols, who died three days later.  His family and officials have called for peaceful protest.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden speaks to parents of Tyre Nichols ahead of expected video release
Washington Post:
Ronna McDaniel quells revolt to win reelection as chair of fractured RNC  —  The RNC voted to stick with McDaniel amid demands for accountability for the party's string of electoral failures  —  DANA POINT, Calif. — The Republican National Committee on Friday voted to reelect Ronna McDaniel …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Ronna McDaniel wins RNC chair race that grew very messy by the end  —  DANA POINT, Calif. — Ronna McDaniel will serve a rare fourth term as chair of the Republican National Committee, emerging victorious in a contentious bid for reelection.  —  McDaniel on Friday defeated her main challenger …
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Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
On Trump's Social Network: Ads for Miracle Cures, Scams and Fake Merchandise
NBC News:
Man sentenced to over 6 years in the Jan. 6 assault on Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick  —  Julian Khater admitted to spraying Sicknick and another officer with a chemical irritant.  Sicknick died a day after the riot of natural causes, which Capitol Police said was in the line of duty.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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CBS News:
Jan. 6 rioter who admitted to spraying Officer Brian Sicknick sentenced to more than 6 years in prison
Trent Abrego / Argus Leader:
Former Jones County GOP chairman charged with 3 counts of child pornography  —  Update: This story has been changed to include a comment from the South Dakota GOP.  —  A Lincoln County man has been charged with three counts of possession of child pornography.
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Attorney who helped firebomb NYPD car during BLM protests sentenced to prison … President of the United States since 2021  —  BROOKLYN — In a dramatic hearing on Thursday, a federal judge sentenced a corporate attorney who firebombed a police car during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests …
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Announces More Arrests in Plot to Kill Iranian Writer  —  Three men were enlisted to assassinate Masih Alinejad, a human-rights activist in Brooklyn who has criticized Iran's repression of women, the indictment said.  —  The Justice Department has charged three men in a murder …
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Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Exclusive: Inside the extramarital affair and cash-fueled double life of Charles McGonigal, the FBI spy hunter charged with taking Russian money  —  2023-01-27T11:00:00Z … One morning in October 2017, Allison Guerriero noticed something unusual on the floor of her boyfriend's Park Slope, Brooklyn, apartment: a bag full of cash.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Bloomberg
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Washington Post:
Election losses only deepen Arizona Republicans' insistence on fraud  —  Some lawmakers refuse to acknowledge legitimacy of democratic governor, resist attempts to lessen division  —  PHOENIX — As Republicans in Arizona's largest county gathered earlier this month, the routine task of choosing …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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Associated Press:
Arizona GOP lawmakers OK rules to erase emails past 90 days
Discussion: Arizona Republic and Raw Story
Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Peter Navarro contempt of Congress trial delayed for months over executive privilege issues  —  A federal judge on Friday delayed the contempt of Congress trial for former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro, likely for months, to allow for additional pre-trial debate over the role executive privilege …
Discussion: Roll Call, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Gadi Zaig / Jerusalem Post:
Jerusalem synagogue killing spree leaves seven dead, three injured  —  Netanyahu: ‘I call on citizens not to take the law into their own hands, for that we have an army and police’  —  At least seven people were killed and another three injured in a terror attack at a synagogue …
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Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel:
Palestinian terrorist shoots 7 dead in ‘murderous rampage’ at Jerusalem synagogue
Lane Brown / Curbed:
New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much?  —  Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.  —  For a minute there, things looked grim for New York City landlords.  The pandemic caused an exodus of such proportions that building owners were forced …
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Downtown D.C.'s struggles mount as many workers remain remote  —  As his only tenant was moving out the other day, Anthony Lanier walked through his glass office tower in downtown Washington, all too aware of the looming financial danger he faces.  —  Mortgage payments of about $1 million a month.
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Personnel Announcement  —  I've known Ron Klain since he was a third-year law student.  He came to work for me on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and I knew the moment he started that he was a once-in-a-generation talent with a fierce and brilliant intellect.
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Not an anomaly: 2020's red states have higher murder rates  —  The murder rates in Trump-voting states from 2020 have exceeded those in Biden-voting states every year since 2000, according to a new analysis by ThirdWay, a center-left think tank. … - Four reliably-red states consistently …
Politico:
Garcetti, you're still here?  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  It's been 567 days since President JOE BIDEN announced his nomination of ERIC GARCETTI to become U.S. ambassador to India.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
House Oversight Chair Promises Newsmax He'll Investigate DirecTV  —  Comer's vow to hold hearings into DirecTV's cancellation of Newsmax comes after the network begged the GOP-led House to intervene on its behalf.  —  After relentlessly crying for Congress to intervene because DirecTV dumped it …
Discussion: Raw Story, Page Array, Mediaite and Fox News
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
A Federal Court Blocks California's New Medical Misinformation Law  —  California's law sought to punish doctors who give patients false information about Covid-19.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California has temporarily blocked enforcement of a new state law allowing regulators …
Douglas London / Just Security:
Rep. Jordan's Dangerous New Panel is Nothing Like the Church Committee  —  Washington is bracing for the impact of the new House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government which is to be led by Rep. Jim Jordan, the incoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee …
 
 
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Department of Justice:
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