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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Hunter Biden's lawyers, in newly aggressive strategy, target his critics — His attorneys have sent letters to prosecutors urging probes of Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and others — Hunter Biden's lawyers, in a newly aggressive strategy, sent a series of blistering letters Wednesday …
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Hunter Biden asks for criminal probe into Trump allies for ‘theft’ of data from laptop — Lawyers for Hunter Biden sent letters Wednesday requesting investigations into allies of former President Donald Trump who they say trafficked in stolen information from his laptop …
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New York Post:
Hunter Biden finally admits infamous laptop is his as he pleads for criminal probe — So much for, the laptop “could be” mine. — First son Hunter Biden's lawyers admitted late Wednesday that the infamous laptop the now-52-year-old abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in the throes …
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Hunter Biden demands investigations and retractions, opening new front against GOP foes — Hunter Biden's legal team went on the offensive Wednesday, demanding state and federal investigations into the dissemination of material from his laptop, and threatening a defamation lawsuit …
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New York Times:
Eager to Challenge Trump, Republicans Aren't So Eager to Be the First — Nikki Haley is expected to join the 2024 race this month, but other G.O.P. contenders are taking a wait-and-see approach. Some anti-Trump Republicans worry that too much dithering could be costly.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
The GOP Is Just Obnoxious — This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. — Let's say you're a politician in a close race and your opponent suffers a stroke.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith / Bloomberg:
Trump's Attacks on Early Voting Worry Some in GOP Over Turnout
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators rally to defend DeSantis from Trump attacks
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Todd Stacy / Alabama Daily News:
Early poll: DeSantis beating Trump among Alabama Republicans
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New York Times:
Trump's Fund-Raising in First Weeks of '24 Race Is Relatively Weak
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Are Republicans Ready to Move On from Donald Trump?
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New York Times:
The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies — After criticism from Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, the official course looks different: No more critical race theory, and the study of contemporary topics — like Black Lives Matter — is optional.
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
My Printer Is Extorting Me — Subscriptions such as HP's Instant Ink challenge what it means to own our devices. — The first rule of at-home printers is that you do not need a printer until you do, and then you need it desperately. The second rule is that when you plug the printer in …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 defendant who sprayed line of police sentenced after tearful apology — A Jan. 6 defendant who sprayed a chemical irritant at about 15 police officers — and later bragged about it in a video interview — was sentenced Wednesday to 68 months in prison. This is one of the stiffest Jan. 6 sentences handed down to date.
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Jacqueline Sweet / Politico:
Feds probing Santos' role in service dog charity scheme — NEW YORK — FBI agents are investigating Rep. George Santos' role in an alleged GoFundMe scheme involving a disabled U.S. Navy veteran's dying service dog. — Two agents contacted former service member Richard Osthoff Wednesday …
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Max Tani / Semafor:
Justice Department arrests former ABC News journalist on child pornography charges — The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the arrest of an award-winning investigative reporter on charges related to child pornography. — In a statement, the DOJ said that it was charging James Gordon Meek …
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Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Guns in the House? A raucous Natural Resources panel debate — House Natural Resources Committee Republicans on Wednesday defeated Rep. Jared Huffman's (D-Calif.) push to reinstate an explicit ban on carrying firearms to the committee room after a lengthy and occasionally heated debate.
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Lizzie Johnson / Washington Post:
An alleged $500 million Ponzi scheme preyed on Mormons. It ended with FBI gunfire. — In Las Vegas, a lawyer with huge gambling debts is accused of a financial fraud that left hundreds of victims in its wake — LAS VEGAS — The FBI arrived at the only house on this stretch of Ruffian Road at 1:25 p.m. …
Mother Jones:
George Santos Relative Says They Never Gave $5,800 Reported by the Campaign: “I'm Dumbfounded” — Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. — Last week, Mother Jones reported that more than a dozen top donors to Rep. George Santos …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Lawmakers Call for Inquiry Into Durham's Review of Russia Investigation — The Democrats asked the Justice Department's inspector general to scrutinize whether John H. Durham and William P. Barr “violated any laws, D.O.J. rules or practices, or canons of legal ethics.”
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Fireworks in House after Democrat says ‘insurrectionists’ should be banned from leading Pledge of Allegiance — WASHINGTON — A routine House committee meeting erupted into a heated, nearly hourlong debate Wednesday over the Pledge of Allegiance, with one Democratic lawmaker saying that …
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden and McCarthy hold ‘first good’ meeting on debt ceiling, but ‘no agreements, no promises’ — President Joe Biden met Wednesday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in search of a path to lifting the nation's debt ceiling — and averting the potential for an economic catastrophe.
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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
Joe Manchin's Dumb Budget Idea Already Failed Before
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Trump Is Losing the Grifter Class to DeSantis — And they matter more than you might think. — 1. Hungry Dogs Have To Eat — There was bad news for the Trump 2024 campaign yesterday and it wasn't Nikki Haley's pre-announcement of her campaign to challenge the former president.1
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Dominique Mosbergen / Wall Street Journal:
Dangerous Fungi Are Spreading Across U.S. as Temperatures Rise — Some fungi such as the type that causes Valley Fever might be adapting to endure more heat stress — Dangerous fungal infections are on the rise, and a growing body of research suggests warmer temperatures might be a culprit.
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Mike Lee, Rick Scott lose key committee seats, Scott blames McConnell — Rick Scott tells Fox News Digital ‘McConnell gets to pick’ committee assignments — Sen. Rick Scott loses to Mitch McConnell in GOP Senate leadership bid — FIRST ON FOX: Republican Senators Mike Lee of Utah …
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The Daily Beast:
South Dakota Senator Censured, Unsuspended After ‘Suckling’ Scandal — ‘BEYOND REPROACH’ — A week after suspending state Sen. Julie Frye-Mueller, the South Dakota Senate voted Wednesday to censure and reinstate the Republican, despite a pending lawsuit in which she claimed the legislature violated …
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Trump Org. controller to testify to Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money payments — A top executive of the Trump Organization is expected to appear Thursday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's alleged role in a hush money payment scheme, people familiar with the matter said.
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CNN:
FBI finds no classified documents at Biden's Delaware vacation home — The FBI has completed its search of President Joe Biden's Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home and no documents with classified markings were found, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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FBI searches Biden's beach house amid classified documents investigation
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Senate Republicans pen letter asking DirecTV to explain decision ditching Newsmax — A group of leading Senate Republicans is requesting information from cable provider DirecTV surrounding its recent decision to drop conservative network Newsmax from its channel lineup.
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Haleh Esfandiari / Wilson Center:
What Went Wrong? For Women, Everything — On February 1, 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years in exile. The public welcomed his return as a new era of freedom, but the revolution dashed these hopes. Today, Iran's younger generation wants the end to the Islamic Republic.
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Pat Eaton-Robb / Associated Press:
Democratic-backed Connecticut bill would ban ‘Latinx’ term — A group of Hispanic lawmakers in Connecticut has proposed that the state follow Arkansas' lead and ban the term “Latinx” from official government documents, calling it offensive to Spanish speakers.
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