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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump, top national security officials refute claim that Chinese spy balloons transited US under last admin — Biden officials claim Chinese spy balloons briefly transited the continental United States under the Trump admin — What did it take to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon?
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Associated Press:
US officials offer Congress briefing on Trump documents — U.S. officials have offered to brief congressional leaders on their investigation into the classified documents found at former President Donald Trump's Florida residence, people familiar with the matter said Sunday.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
China crashes Biden's State of the Union speech — China will be an uninvited guest at President Biden's State of the Union address Tuesday night, as he takes credit for a resilient economy, celebrates record-low unemployment, and previews a broader domestic agenda. … Now, a balloon from China has complicated that.
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon reports past Chinese surveillance balloons near Florida, Texas — The Defense Department tells members of Congress about several previous incursions of U.S. airspace as Republicans criticize Biden's response — The Defense Department has notified Congress of several previous incursions …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Chinese spy balloons over US during Trump admin ‘discovered after’ he left office: senior Biden official
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump documents: Congress offered briefing on records kept at Mar-a-Lago
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
US intel assesses Chinese spy balloons transited US several times, went ‘undetected’: Senior admin official
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The inside story of how the U.S. shot down the Chinese balloon
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The Hill, Letters from an American, CNN and Fox News
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Few Americans are excited about a Biden-Trump rematch, Post-ABC poll finds — Most say they would feel dissatisfied or angry if either wins the general election — President Biden and former president Donald Trump may have each drawn a record number of votes in 2020 …
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John L. Dorman / Insider:
Chris Christie says Biden is ‘not capable of running a traditional American race’ in 2024: 'He's old. He's boring.' — Chris Christie blasted President Biden's reelection plans on Sunday, calling him “old” and “boring.” — “In the end, Joe Biden is not an exciting candidate.
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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Flexing his wins and eyeing a 2nd term, Biden will lay out contrasts with GOP in State of the Union
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Tell Me How This Ends
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Biden or bust: Democratic insiders are all in for Biden 2024
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Peter Nicholas / NBC News:
Biden's State of the Union address will make his case for re-election in 2024
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Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
House Republican says he's working with Democrats on ‘fail-safe’ option for debt ceiling — Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) said on Sunday that he is working across the aisle on a bipartisan solution on the debt ceiling as lawmakers brace for bitter negations in the coming months over the nation's finances.
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Gut spending? Slash the IRS budget? 7 GOP ideas for debt limit talks.
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Koch network to back alternative to Trump after sitting out recent primaries — The return of one of the biggest spenders in American politics to the presidential primary field poses a direct challenge to the former president's comeback bid — The network of donors and activist groups led …
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New York Times:
George Santos Is Accused of Sexual Harassment in His Capitol Office — The complaint was made by a man seeking work as a House aide, whose bid for a job was rejected because he faced criminal wiretapping charges in Ohio. — A prospective congressional aide has accused Representative George Santos …
Wall Street Journal:
Moscow, Tehran Advance Plans for Iranian-Designed Drone Facility in Russia — The two countries are deepening a military partnership that has alarmed the West — How We Know Russia Is Using Iranian Drones in Ukraine — Created with sketchtool. … 1x
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NewsNation and The Times of Israel
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
AR-15 lapel pin is a perfect symbol for a GOP that's become a death cult — The backward walk of devolution that is the modern Republican Party, and the near-death experience of American governing, can be best told through the story of two adjacent Long Island congressional districts that …
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John L. Dorman / Insider:
An ex-Romney presidential campaign strategist says Nikki Haley ‘embodies the collapse’ of the Republican Party — Ex-Romney strategist Stuart Stevens on MSNBC blasted Nikki Haley for her expected White House bid. — “No one else really embodies sort of the collapse of the party as well as Nikki Haley,” he said.
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Raw Story
U.S. Department of Defense:
Senior Defense Official and Senior Military Official Hold an Off-Camera, On-Background Press Briefing Update on the High-Altitude Surveillance Balloon — STAFF: So good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for today's background briefing regarding the U.S. military takedown …
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Jim Garamone / U.S. Department of Defense:
F-22 Safely Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off South Carolina Coast
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Eric Reinhart / New York Times:
Doctors Aren't Burned Out From Overwork. We're Demoralized by Our Health System. — Doctors have long diagnosed many of our sickest patients with “demoralization syndrome,” a condition commonly associated with terminal illness that's characterized by a sense of helplessness and loss of purpose.
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Raw Story
New York Times:
In China's Covid Fog, Deaths of Scholars Offer a Clue — After Covid ripped uncontrolled through China, the government announced that 80,000 people had died. But that is likely a vast undercount. We scoured obituaries of the nation's top academics for clues about the true toll of the outbreak.
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