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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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Washington confronts the Tyre Nichols tragedy
POLITICO Playbook: Washington confronts the Tyre Nichols tragedy
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The Hill and Political Wire
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
Presidential Document Scandals Should Take Down America's Secrecy Industry
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Washington Post
Politico:
Oversight leaders will work on a legislative fix after classified documents were found at the homes of Donald Trump, Mike Pence and Joe Biden.
Oversight leaders will work on a legislative fix after classified documents were found at the homes of Donald Trump, Mike Pence and Joe Biden.
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Axios and New York Daily News
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Sharing Biden, Trump Documents Could Complicate Investigations, DOJ Says
Sharing Biden, Trump Documents Could Complicate Investigations, DOJ Says
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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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Washington Post:
Black Memphis police spark dialogue on systemic racism in the U.S. — MEMPHIS — For the mother of Tyre Nichols, the fact that five Memphis police officers charged with beating her son are also Black has compounded her sorrow as she tries to cope with his violent death at age 29.
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New York Times:
71 Commands in 13 Minutes: Officers Gave Tyre Nichols Impossible Orders
71 Commands in 13 Minutes: Officers Gave Tyre Nichols Impossible Orders
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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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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:
Republicans' 2024 Magical Thinking
Republicans' 2024 Magical Thinking
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Insider and New York Times
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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Washington Post, The Federalist and Raw Story
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, The Hill and RedState
Politico:
Meadows ally set to plead guilty for illegal campaign finance contribution — A family friend of Mark Meadows has agreed to plead guillty to accepting an illegal campaign contribution during an ill-fated 2020 run to succeed the former Trump White House chief of staff in Congress, according to newly-released court papers.
Kory Grow / Rolling Stone:
Marilyn Manson Sued for Sexual Assault of a Minor — Musician's former labels Interscope and Nothing Records also named as defendants in first suit to focus on alleged sex crimes from early in singer's career — MARILYN MANSON ALLEGEDLY groomed and sexually assaulted an underage girl multiple times …
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Jezebel
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.
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.
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Can We Still Govern? and Raw Story
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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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”.
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 …