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4:55 PM ET, February 2, 2023

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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
The Cold Calculus Behind the Shrinking GOP Presidential Field  —  DANA POINT, Calif. — The last time the Republican National Committee held its winter meeting at the outset of an open presidential race, the state chairs and committee members arrived at the Hotel del Coronado …
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David Byler / Washington Post:
Trump's Republican opponents are making a painfully obvious mistake  —  It's often said that military leaders “fight the last war”: They assume their current enemy is just like the previous one so they misjudge their foe and lose.  —  The Republican establishment is making that exact mistake in the 2024 presidential primary.
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump Won't Commit to Backing the G.O.P. Nominee in 2024
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Political Wire
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Many Georgia Republicans want no part of Trump's comeback
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is the GOP's Albatross
Scott Wong / NBC News:
Rep. Ilhan Omar backs resolution recognizing Israel as a ‘legitimate’ ally as GOP moves to oust her from committee  —  WASHINGTON — More than 30 House Democrats have signed onto a new resolution “recognizing Israel as America's legitimate and democratic ally and condemning antisemitism.”
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Associated Press:
House GOP votes to oust Democrat Omar from major committee
NBC News:   Congress is off to a spectacularly slow start, and members fear it won't get better
ABC News:
House Republicans vote to kick Rep. Ilhan Omar off Foreign Affairs Committee
Scott Wong / NBC News:
Republicans vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Rep. Ilhan Omar kicked off committee after party-line vote in House
Lawrence Richard / Fox News:
New Jersey Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour shot dead outside home in ‘despicable criminal act’  —  Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour found dead inside vehicle outside apartment with multiple gunshot wounds  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for February 2
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
New Jersey Councilwoman Is Fatally Shot, Officials Say  —  Eunice K. Dwumfour, 30, was found dead in her car with multiple gunshot wounds on Wednesday night.  She was serving her first term on the Sayreville Borough Council.  —  Eunice K. Dwumfour, a 30-year-old councilwoman serving …
ProPublica:
“We're Still Gonna Say No”: Inside UnitedHealthcare's Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient  —  Co-published with The Capitol Forum  —  In May 2021, a nurse at UnitedHealthcare called a colleague to share some welcome news about a problem the two had been grappling with for weeks.
Balázs Gulyás / The Bulwark:
How Rod Dreher Caused an International Scandal in Eastern Europe  —  Blogging and backtracking.  —  Last week, Rod Dreher, the American author now living in Hungary, caused a diplomatic scandal that has gone largely unnoticed in his home country.  —  Dreher's stay in Hungary is apparently financed …
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Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
A U.S. Ambassador Finds Himself on Hostile Ground in Hungary
Miles J. Herszenhorn / The Harvard Crimson:
Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say  —  Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf is forcing out online misinformation expert Joan M. Donovan from her role at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and ending …
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and Semafor
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell pulls rival Rick Scott off powerful Commerce Committee  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has pulled Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who tried to oust him as the Senate's top Republican in a bruising leadership race, off the powerful Commerce Committee.
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Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:
Mitch McConnell told Rick Scott he was off Commerce Committee via text
Discussion: The Hill and HuffPost
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Personnel Announcement  —  When I took office, we faced high unemployment, an economy in crisis, and main streets shuttered across the country.  I knew we needed to not just get families back to work and businesses re-opened, we needed to rebuild our economy so no one was left behind.
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Deese, Top Economic Aide to Biden, Will Step Down This Month
The Cut:
Do You Know How to Behave?  Are You Sure? … THE NEW RULES FOR  — Friends & Lovers  — Strangers & Others  — Going Out & Staying In  — Tipping  — Work  — The City  — Parenting  — Posting & Texting  —  The ways we socialize and date …
Discussion: Slate
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Former President Donald Trump On Nikki Haley's Announcement, Taiwan, Ukraine And More  —  Former President Donald Trump joined me this morning:  —  Audio:  —  02-02hhs-trump  —  Transcript:  —  HH: Former President Donald Trump, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show.  Great to have you on again, sir.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Blue Virginia
Department of Justice:
Broome County Man Pleads Guilty to Making Interstate Threats to Member of Congress  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York  —  SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Joseph F. Morelli, 51, of Endicott, New York pled guilty today to making threatening phone calls …
Wall Street Journal:
FBI to Search Mike Pence's Home for Additional Classified Materials  —  Justice Department is in talks with former vice president's legal team about scheduling search  —  How Presidential Documents Are Supposed to Be Archived  —  Created with sketchtool. … 1x
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The Neo-Nazi Hunter Next Door  —  Kris Goldsmith has seen too many veterans get tricked into equating patriotism with right-wing lunacy.  He's got a plan to turn ex-service members into neo-Nazi hunters  —  IRAQ WAR VETERAN Kris Goldsmith believes “patriot” and “anti-fascist” …
NBC News:
Heating up: Bipartisan duo Manchin and Cruz pitch bill to defend gas stoves  —  WASHINGTON — A new bipartisan duo is diving in to defend gas stoves.  —  Senate Energy Committee Chairman Joe Manchin, D-W.V., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the new ranking member of the Commerce Committee …
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Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Gas Stoves Are Back Under Scrutiny With New US Limits Proposed
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Lawsuit can proceed against Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse  —  A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled Wednesday that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 can proceed against Rittenhouse, police officers and others.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema pulls in cash from Wall Street, real estate titans as she mulls reelection bid  — Titans of the real estate and private equity industries, including from companies like Blackstone, are bankrolling Sen. Kyrsten Sinema as the Arizona lawmaker considers a reelection bid in 2024.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
NBC News:
Biden admin transfers a Guantanamo detainee to Belize  —  Majid Khan, a Pakistani citizen and Guantanamo's only known legal U.S. resident, arrived in Belize on Thursday.  Two more detainees could leave the facility in Cuba soon.  —  The Biden administration transferred a detainee …
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I Will Fight the Forgetting of Homs, Syria
Foreign Policy:
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Someone Called the Police on a Girl Catching Lanternflies. Then Yale Honored Her.
Eleanor Hawkins / Axios:
America's CEOs have gone silent on national tragedies
Discussion: National Review
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Despite prior sexual harassment probe, executive hired to senior federal job
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Anne Tergesen / Wall Street Journal:
Short on Cash, More Americans Tap 401(k) Savings for Emergencies
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Still Glum About State of the Union in Most Areas
Discussion: UPI, Washington Examiner and The Hill
Maxine Joselow / Washington Post:
The gas industry is under fire. It's hiring Democratic politicians to help.
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Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Former ABC News journalist charged in child pornography case
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