Top Items:
Noah Lanard / Mother Jones:
We Tried to Call the Top Donors To George Santos' 2020 Campaign. Many Don't Seem To Exist. — In September 2020, George Santos' congressional campaign reported that Victoria and Jonathan Regor had each contributed $2,800—the maximum amount—to his first bid for a House seat.
Discussion:
The Daily Beast, New York Post, The Handbasket, Mediaite, Insider, Political Wire and WCAX-TV
RELATED:
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:
HotAir, Yahoo News, Raw Story, New York Post, Mediaite, Bloomberg and Associated Press
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
George Santos' Campaign Might Face a New Criminal Probe
George Santos' Campaign Might Face a New Criminal Probe
Discussion:
CNBC, Raw Story, New York Post, Fox News, The Daily Caller, CNN, Forbes and Politico
NBC News:
Video shows Memphis officers kick, punch and tase Tyre Nichols during fatal encounter — Video released by authorities in Memphis Friday shows police officers beating Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop that ended with his hospitalization and death. — The four videos released …
Discussion:
Human Rights Watch, CNN, Mediaite, New York Times, CBS News, The Guardian, ABC7, HotAir, Associated Press, New Republic, Bloomberg, Fox News, Vanity Fair, Washington Times, NBC Bay Area, who13.com, Vox, New York Post, WREG-TV, TheBlaze, Just The News, Rigid Thinking, New York Daily News, The Root, Washington Examiner and Al Jazeera
RELATED:
NBC News:
Tyre Nichols video live updates: Memphis police release bodycam video — Coming up: Live coverage as Memphis police release video of Tyre Nichols' arrest … 1m ago / 12:07 AM UTC — Biden said he told Tyre Nichols' mother he'll push for bill to prevent police abuse — Dennis Romero
Discussion:
New York Magazine, Washington Post, New York Times, New York Post, FOX8 WGHP, Reuters, USA Today, NPR, The Guardian, The REAL Newsletter, Fox News, MyNorthwest.com, ABC11, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mediaite, 6abc, Rolling Stone, The Root, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, NBC Chicago, National Review, NBC Bay Area, Chicago Tribune, WREG-TV, WTOP News, UPI, Politico, The Atlantic, CNN, Al Jazeera and Los Angeles Times, more at Mediagazer »
Van Jones / CNN:
The police who killed Tyre Nichols were Black. But they might still have been driven by racism — Editor's Note: Van Jones is a CNN host, political commentator and the founder of Dream.org, a national nonprofit dedicated to criminal justice reform. The views expressed in this commentary are his own.
Discussion:
Washington Post, New York Post, Why Evolution Is True, Raw Story, Trending Politics Conservative, Mediaite, Socrates Thalassos Writes, Public, RedState, Fox News, Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit, MSN, The Daily Beast, New York Daily News, Slate, NewsNation, Chicago Tribune, Media Matters for America, TheBlaze, Florida Phoenix, Althouse and The Hill
CNN:
Video shows Tyre Nichols calling for his mother, beaten by officers now charged in his death — Editor's Note: This article contains graphic videos and descriptions of violence. — CNN — Tyre Nichols screamed for his mother and Memphis police officers struck him multiple times …
Richard Fausset / New York Times:
From Sacramento to Memphis, Tyre Nichols Cut His Own Path
From Sacramento to Memphis, Tyre Nichols Cut His Own Path
Discussion:
The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Strangely Blogged, The Daily Beast, Fox News, City & State New York, The Post Millennial and ABC11
New York Times:
Fatal beating in Memphis echoes other deadly traffic stops analyzed by The Times.
Fatal beating in Memphis echoes other deadly traffic stops analyzed by The Times.
Discussion:
Vox, Washington Post, The Hill, UPI, WFLA-TV, Dallas Morning News, NPR, CBS News, NewsNation, Associated Press, Slate and HuffPost
Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner:
Social media reacts to gruesome videos of Tyre Nichols beating
Social media reacts to gruesome videos of Tyre Nichols beating
Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Trump makes his first big move in New Hampshire — Former President Donald Trump is tapping outgoing New Hampshire GOP Chair Stephen Stepanek to help oversee his campaign in the first-in-the-nation primary state, according to a person with direct knowledge of the hire.
Discussion:
Insider, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNN, One America News Network, Florida Politics, Raw Story, Bloomberg, ABC News and d2331
RELATED:
Michael Graham / NH Journal:
EXCLUSIVE: NHJournal Poll Finds NHGOP Divided on Trump '24 — If Republicans want to win New Hampshire's electoral votes for just the second time since 1988, there is a GOP candidate who handily beats President Joe Biden in Granite State polling. — Gov. Chris Sununu.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, Florida Politics, Fox News, Page Array and USA Today
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
DeSantis advisers prepare for potential presidential run, explore staff options — The private activity is the latest indication the second-term Republican governor is laying a foundation for a potential White House bid — Advisers to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are actively preparing …
Discussion:
HotAir, Ringside at the Reckoning and Florida Politics
NBC News:
Air Force general predicts war with China in 2025, tells officers to prep by firing ‘a clip’ at a target, and ‘aim for the head’ — “I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me will fight in 2025,” said Gen. Mike Minihan in a memo sent to the officers he commands and obtained by NBC News.
Discussion:
Washington Examiner, The Hill, National Review, Fox News, Outside the Beltway and Political Wire
RELATED:
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
U.S. general warns troops that war with China is possible in two years — Gen. Michael A. Minihan, who oversees the Air Force's fleet of transport and refueling aircraft, cited the 2024 presidential elections in Taiwan and the United States as part of his rationale
Discussion:
Washington Times
Associated Press:
New York should pay Cuomo's legal fees in suit, judge rules — New York state should pay former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's legal bills as he defends himself against a lawsuit accusing him of sexually harassing a state trooper, a judge ruled Friday. Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 amid sexual harassment allegations …
RELATED:
Priscilla DeGregory / New York Post:
Andrew Cuomo gets NY-funded defense in trooper sex harass suit, judge rules
Andrew Cuomo gets NY-funded defense in trooper sex harass suit, judge rules
Discussion:
Washington Examiner
Courier-Journal:
Holocaust Remembrance Day is a time to remember more than one atrocity — International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 is not just a reminder of the six million Eastern European Jews who were rounded up and murdered between 1941 to 1945. As one Louisville rabbi recently said …
David M. Drucker / The Dispatch:
Nikki Haley's Campaign-in-Waiting Starts Its Engines … Nikki Haley is planning to challenge Donald Trump for supremacy atop the Republican Party—and she could make her 2024 presidential bid official as soon as next month. — Haley possesses the architecture of a robust White House …
CBS News:
Jan. 6 rioter who admitted to spraying Officer Brian Sicknick sentenced to more than 6 years in prison — Washington - The New Jersey man who admitted to spraying U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick with pepper spray during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was sentenced to 80 months …
RELATED:
MSN:
A leaked internal message appears to show Elon Musk ordered Twitter staff to suspend a left-wing activist's account — Anti-fascist activist Chad Loder's Twitter account was suspended in November 2022. — A leaked internal Twitter message suggests Elon Musk directly ordered the suspension.
Discussion:
Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
NBC News:
Biden's notebooks among items seized by FBI in Delaware home search — Notebooks that President Joe Biden wrote in during his time as vice president are among the items the FBI took from one of his Delaware homes during a search there last week, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
Discussion:
RedState and New York Post
Nate Hochman / National Review:
'You're a Fascist. Care to Comment?' — Some top-notch journalisming from CNN, per Ron DeSantis's press secretary Bryan Griffin: — https://twitter.com/bryandgriffin/ status/1618998711887237121 — The premise in the above request is amazing for a number of reasons.
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Tyre Nichols — Like so many, I was outraged and deeply pained to see the horrific video of the beating that resulted in Tyre Nichols' death. It is yet another painful reminder of the profound fear and trauma, the pain, and the exhaustion that Black …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Durham Probe Was Barr's Witch Hunt … There is an enduring pattern in American conservatism in which the right first develops a paranoid interpretation of the liberal Establishment, and then reverse engineers its own version of the monster it has imagined.
Discussion:
The Daily Beast, Vox, Media Matters for America, Vanity Fair and Morning Memo