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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.
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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 …
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
George Santos' Campaign Might Face a New Criminal Probe
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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 …
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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
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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 …
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.
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Richard Fausset / New York Times:
From Sacramento to Memphis, Tyre Nichols Cut His Own Path
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New York Times:
Fatal beating in Memphis echoes other deadly traffic stops analyzed by The Times.
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Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner:
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.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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
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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 …
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Priscilla DeGregory / New York Post:
Andrew Cuomo gets NY-funded defense in trooper sex harass suit, judge rules
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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 …
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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jennifer Cohn / Bucks County Beacon:
Roger Stone Deserves More Scrutiny for His Role in the Events Leading to January 6 — Political fixer Roger Stone deserves more in depth scrutiny than the bipartisan January 6th Committee could or did provide in its recent 814-page report, which focused primarily on former President Donald Trump.
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