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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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The Daily Beast and Talking Points Memo
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:
GOP national sales tax talk backfires, as Dems see political gold — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has backed his fellow Republicans into a corner with one of the promises he made to his far-right flank to land his job: opening the door to considering fringe legislation that would replace …
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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Washington Examiner, 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
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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Wall Street Journal, Fox News, CBS News, The Hill, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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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Axios, RedState, New York Daily News, Florida Politics, Insider, CBS News, Washington Times, The Hill and Politico
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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Raw Story and Los Angeles Times
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Waiting for a Deus Ex Machina End to the Trump Era
Waiting for a Deus Ex Machina End to the Trump Era
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19FortyFive, Raw Story, Wall Street Journal and CNN
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 …
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.
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.
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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James Sasso / New York Times:
Donald Trump Isn't the Only One to Blame for the Capitol Riot. I'd Know. — I spent 12 months holed up in a windowless cubical den or locked in my home office investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol and working on a report that my fellow investigators and I thought would blow open the story.
Discussion:
Can We Still Govern? and Raw Story
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 …
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The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
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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The Guardian, Reason, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Wall Street Journal and Politico
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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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The Hill, Associated Press, Fox News, Insider, Page Array, Washington Times, Breitbart and NBC News
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.