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6:40 PM ET, February 2, 2023

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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.
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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 …
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump Won't Commit to Backing the G.O.P. Nominee in 2024  —  The former president faces several potential Republican challengers in his bid for the White House.  —  Donald J. Trump refused to say he would support the next Republican presidential nominee if it was not him …
Stephen Neukam / The Hill:
Larry Hogan says he will support Trump if he's the nominee
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump won't commit to endorsing eventual 2024 GOP nominee
Wall Street Journal:
Chinese spy balloon seen over U.S. this week—Officials  —  Incident comes days before Secretary of State Blinken set to travel to China  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. tracked a Chinese reconnaissance balloon over the continental U.S. this week, U.S. officials said.
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Suspected Chinese spy balloon found over northern U.S.  —  The government has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days, and they have discussed shooting it out of the sky, according to two U.S. officials and a senior defense official.
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
Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost:
AOC Defends Rep. Ilhan Omar As House Republicans Kick Her Off Committee
Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
House Ousts Ilhan Omar From Foreign Affairs Panel as G.O.P. Exacts Revenge
Scott Wong / NBC News:
Republicans vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee
NBC News:
Congress is off to a spectacularly slow start, and members fear it won't get better
Discussion: Politics Extra
Kadia Goba / Semafor:
George Santos: We've been secretly recorded  —  It's Groundhog Day, but George Santos is worried about a mole.  —  The Congressman told Semafor he expects recordings by a prospective staffer they interviewed this week to be published this evening by progressive news site Talking Points Memo.
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 …
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
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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 …
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
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The Daily Beast:
Potential Mass Shooting Thwarted in Hollywood  —  CRISIS AVERTED  —  Calls made to police by concerned neighbors in Los Angeles thwarted a potential mass shooting on Tuesday, authorities said.  Several neighbors flagged mental health concerns to cops after 25-year-old Braxton Johnson threatened …
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 …
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.
Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Gas Stoves Are Back Under Scrutiny With New US Limits Proposed  —  Gas stoves are coming under fresh scrutiny as a second federal agency has now stepped into the political firestorm with a proposal for new regulations for the appliances.  —  The Energy Department proposal, published Wednesday …
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NBC News:
Heating up: Bipartisan duo Manchin and Cruz pitch bill to defend gas stoves
Eleanor Hawkins / Axios:
America's CEOs have gone silent on national tragedies … - Power dynamics. … - Economic uncertainty. … - ESG pushback. … - Fatigue.
Discussion: National Review
 
 
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Kari Lake meets with NRSC officials
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Admin Floats New Strategy To ‘Address the Climate Crisis’: Don't Leave Your House
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Jay Willis / Balls and Strikes:
Big Law's Cancel Culture, and Other Obviously Fake Things That Do Not Exist
Maya King / New York Times:
Someone Called the Police on a Girl Catching Lanternflies. Then Yale Honored Her.
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
The Neo-Nazi Hunter Next Door
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U.S. Department of Defense:
Guantanamo Bay Detainee Transfer Announced
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema pulls in cash from Wall Street, real estate titans as she mulls reelection bid
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Maxine Joselow / Washington Post:
The gas industry is under fire. It's hiring Democratic politicians to help.
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Lawsuit can proceed against Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
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Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Former ABC News journalist charged in child pornography case
 

 
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