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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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The Hill, RedState, New York Daily News, The Mahablog, New Jersey Online, Raw Story and Fox News
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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?
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump documents: Congress offered briefing on records kept at Mar-a-Lago — Closed-door session could provide insight into the sensitivity of the documents Trump retained and possibility of indictments — US officials have offered to provide a closed-door briefing to congressional leaders …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Chinese spy balloons over US during Trump admin ‘discovered after’ he left office: senior Biden official — Trump and his top defense and national security officials told Fox News Digital it never happened, and that they were never briefed on any Chinese spy balloons
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Daily Mail, Raw Story and Harry's Newsletter
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
US intel assesses Chinese spy balloons transited US several times, went ‘undetected’: Senior admin official — Trump and his top defense and national security officials told Fox News Digital it never happened, and that they were never briefed on any Chinese spy balloons
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PoliticusUSA, RedState, Twitchy, IJR and Townhall
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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Washington Examiner, Florida Politics, Fox News and The Hill
Financial Times:
China's military keeps rivals on edge with balloon strategy
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The Daily Beast, New York Times, Sun-Sentinel, The Hill, USNI News, BizPac Review and One America News Network
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Biden or bust: Democratic insiders are all in for Biden 2024 — PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden had one question for Democratic power brokers at a campaign-style rally Friday: “Are you with me?” — The roars of approval and chants of “four more years!” at the Democratic National …
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PoliticusUSA, Frontpage Mag, Political Wire and Washington Post
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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.'
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CNN, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, The Hill and Breitbart
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Few Americans are excited about a Biden-Trump rematch, Post-ABC poll finds
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National Review, The Hill, Breitbart, RedState, CNN, Mother Jones, The Guardian, Politico, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, Althouse, Wide World of News, BizPac Review and Bloomberg
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Record numbers of people are worse off, a recipe for political discontent: POLL
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RedState, Newsbusters, Breitbart, The Hill, The Daily Caller and Twitchy
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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New York Daily News and Tell Me How This Ends
Peter Nicholas / NBC News:
Biden's State of the Union address will make his case for re-election in 2024
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Washington Post, Associated Press, The Hill, Raw Story, The Guardian, NPR and Newsbusters
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, HuffPost and Insider
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Gut spending? Slash the IRS budget? 7 GOP ideas for debt limit talks. — Republicans haven't settled on what to ask for in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, but officials are eyeing these proposals — House Republicans are demanding that President Biden agree to policy concessions …
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Raw Story, New Yorker, New York Post, Vox and Fox News
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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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CBS News, Washington Examiner and CNN
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Welcome to Semafor Media, where we break the news behind the news. — This week's newsletter sent me back to what feels like a vanishing age: The years 2016-2020, when Donald Trump was the sun in the media sky, and his gravitational pull could be felt everywhere.
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Semafor:
Inside Harvard's misinformation meltdown — The highest-profile scholar of misinformation is being forced out at Harvard's premier public policy school, and interviews and internal documents reviewed by Semafor illustrate the institution's discomfort with her high-profile and politically charged work.
Sneha Dey / The Texas Tribune:
Harry Whittington, longtime Texas GOP supporter shot by Dick Cheney in a hunting accident, dies — Whittington, 95, was active in Republican politics since the party was powerless in the state. He died after a short illness. — Copy link — A potent Democratic machine used to dominate Texas politics.
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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.
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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CNN, Washington Examiner, CBS News, Breitbart, Wall Street Journal, HotAir, Mother Jones, Insider, The Hill, Politico, Mediaite, Just The News, Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
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