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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Presidential Document Scandals Should Take Down America's Secrecy Industry
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
DOJ tells senators it is working to satisfy Trump and Biden document demands without harming special counsel probes
DOJ tells senators it is working to satisfy Trump and Biden document demands without harming special counsel probes
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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
GOP Sen. Rubio, Dem Sen. Warner say lack of access to Biden, Trump docs ‘cannot stand’
GOP Sen. Rubio, Dem Sen. Warner say lack of access to Biden, Trump docs ‘cannot stand’
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John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
TikTok's Chief to Testify Before Congress in March — Republicans are expected to use hearing to highlight security and privacy concerns over video app — How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company — Created with sketchtool. … 1x — TikTok's chief executive has agreed to appear …
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”.
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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 …
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Raw Story, Washington Post and The Federalist
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
CNN boss Chris Licht on restoring trust and why he deleted his Twitter account — Slumping ratings, cost-cutting, show cancellations and — comedy? — The path of CNN has been a bit rocky since it became part of Warner Bros. Discovery last year and the parent company's chief executive …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
More Cite Gov't as Top U.S. Problem; Inflation Ranks Second — WASHINGTON, D.C. — More Americans name the government as the nation's top problem in Gallup's latest poll, which encompassed the rocky start of the 118th Congress' term. With high prices persisting, inflation remains the second …
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Washington Examiner and The Hill
Politico:
Meadows ally faces charge, possible plea over illegal campaign finance contribution — Lynda Bennett, who lost in a 2020 Republican primary campaign to Madison Cawthorn, accepted a contribution from a family member totaling at least $25,000, according to charging paperwork filed by prosecutors.
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.
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.
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.) …
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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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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Jim Jordan shrugs off Tyre Nichols' death because there's no law ‘that can stop that evil’
Jim Jordan shrugs off Tyre Nichols' death because there's no law ‘that can stop that evil’
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