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10:00 AM ET, January 30, 2023

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Politico:
Schumer plots debt ceiling course against McCarthy: 'We'll win'  —  Chuck Schumer, as he's known to do, is talking a lot these days.  And it's all aimed at Kevin McCarthy.  —  The Senate majority leader is directing heat at the new House GOP majority on the daily, casting McCarthy's conference …
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Caitlin Emma / Politico:
House GOP grits its teeth for the ‘big lift’: A budget battle  —  Debt ceiling negotiations are struck in limbo, as House Republicans demand severe spending cuts without saying where they'd start.  Pretty soon, though, their hands will be forced.  —  GOP lawmakers say they're committed …
The Daily Beast:
How the Trump Document Scandal Became a Congressional Pissing Match  —  Lawmakers wanted a briefing assessing the damage of former President Donald Trump mishandling classified documents.  Then politics happened. … When classified documents were found at former President Donald Trump's mansion …
Discussion: New York Post, Raw Story and NBC News
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David Dayen / American Prospect:   Presidential Document Scandals Should Take Down America's Secrecy Industry
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Waiting for a Deus Ex Machina End to the Trump Era  —  Press them hard enough, and most Republican officials—even the ones with MAGA hats in their closets and Mar-a-Lago selfies in their Twitter avatar—will privately admit that Donald Trump has become a problem.
Discussion: Raw Story, Wall Street Journal and CNN
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
I wrote about high-priced drugs for years.  Then my toddler needed one.  —  As a health and science reporter, I've studied the maze of U.S. health care.  But when my son got sick, I still got lost.  —  When a salmon-colored rash flared on my 3-year-old son's tummy one afternoon in August, I shrugged it off.
BBC:
Ukraine: Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike  —  Boris Johnson has said Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike in an “extraordinary” phone call in the run-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  —  The then-prime minister said Mr Putin told him it “would only take a minute”.
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
What three hard-line conservatives plan to do with their seats on the Rules Committee  —  The addition of Republican Reps. Chip Roy (Texas), Ralph Norman (S.C.), and Thomas Massie (Ky.) to the House Rules Committee — one of the concessions from Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Trump investigations: Georgia prosecutor ups anticipation  —  Former President Donald Trump and his allies have been put on notice by a prosecutor, but the warning didn't come from anyone at the Justice Department.  It was from a Georgia prosecutor who indicated she was likely …
Discussion: Raw Story and Los Angeles Times
New York Times:
71 Commands in 13 Minutes: Officers Gave Tyre Nichols Impossible Orders  —  A Times analysis found that officers gave dozens of contradictory and unachievable orders to Mr. Nichols.  The punishment was severe — and eventually fatal.  —  Police officers unleashed a barrage of commands that were confusing …
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Carl Szabo / Fox News:
Biden is coming for your job  —  New regulations, leftist policies threaten your job and are part of Biden's anti-business agenda  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for January 27  —  The Biden administration is waging war on America's leading job creators.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Inside the audacious new scheme to erase LGBTQ people from Michigan schools  —  A newly-formed conservative group is launching a brazen plan to remake Michigan public schools — using aggressive legal action to effectively mandate the erasure of LGBTQ people.
David Firestone / New York Times:
Bill Barr's Image Rehab Is Kaput  —  Former Attorney General William Barr has spent the last year in a desperate salvage operation for what's left of his legal and ethical reputation.  During his 22 months in office, he allowed his Justice Department to become a personal protection racket for his boss …
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Meet Ron DeSantis' inner circle  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is easily one of the most recognizable names in American politics today.  —  He won reelection by historic margins, stumped for candidates across the country during the 2022 election cycle and is widely expected to run for the presidency.
Susannah Luthi / Washington Free Beacon:
Gavin Newsom's Wife Rakes in Cash Charging California Public Schools To Screen Her Woke Movies … California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D.) wife has charged the state's public schools as much as $1.5 million to screen her documentaries on “gender justice” and “corporate exploitation.”
Mick Ryan / Futura Doctrina:
All Roads Lead to Crimea  —  Will it be the Last Campaign?  —  We will restore the normality of life in the territory of Donbas and Crimea, which were illegally occupied in 2014 and have been brought to the point of disaster by the occupiers over the time that has passed.
Discussion: Byline Times and Insider
 
 
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James Sasso / New York Times:
Donald Trump Isn't the Only One to Blame for the Capitol Riot. I'd Know.
Discussion: Can We Still Govern? and Raw Story
CNN:
Monterey Park hero and Tyre Nichols' family invited to attend State of the Union address
Primrose Riordan / Financial Times:
China targets consumption in bid to drive growth
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Matt Gaetz, Political Arsonist, Has New Powers. What Will He Do With Them?
Deborah Haynes / Sky News:
US general warns British Army no longer top-level fighting force, defence sources reveal
Discussion: The Defense Post and Fox News
 Earlier Items: 
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
David Gilbert / VICE:
Inside a US Neo-Nazi Homeschool Network With Thousands of Members
Discussion: HuffPost
 

 
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New York Times:
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: TikTok CEO Shou Chew, who has known Elon Musk for several years, has sought Musk's counsel in recent weeks on the incoming Trump administration

 
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