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Washington Post:
Americans not feeling impact of Biden agenda, Post-ABC poll finds — More than 6 in 10 say the president has not accomplished much, despite the passage of numerous bills — Two years into a presidency that the White House casts as the most effective in modern history …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Record numbers of people are worse off, a recipe for political discontent: POLL — 4 in 10 Americans say they are worse off financially since Biden took office. — Four in 10 Americans say they've gotten worse off financially since Joe Biden became president, the most in ABC News/Washington Post polls dating back 37 years.
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Associated Press:
Biden 2024? Most Democrats say no thank you: AP-NORC poll — A majority of Democrats now think one term is plenty for President Joe Biden, despite his insistence that he plans to seek reelection in 2024. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research …
Stephen Neukam / The Hill:
Julián Castro: Latest Trump-Biden poll ‘should be worrisome’ for Democrats
Julián Castro: Latest Trump-Biden poll ‘should be worrisome’ for Democrats
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Neo-Nazi leader and girlfriend accused of targeting Md. power stations — A neo-Nazi leader recently released from prison has been arrested again and accused of plotting an attack on the Maryland power grid with a woman he met while incarcerated. — Brandon Russell, 27, and Sarah Clendaniel …
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Financial Times:
China's military keeps rivals on edge with balloon strategy — Data gathered by swelling ‘lighter than air’ programme could have defence applications — The Chinese balloon that transfixed America in recent days was no surprise to Cheng Ming-dean. “This balloon has been appearing for a long time! …
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Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:
The View's Ana Navarro Tries to Pin Balloon-Gate on GOP: China Loves That ‘Republicans Turned This Into a Big Drama’
The View's Ana Navarro Tries to Pin Balloon-Gate on GOP: China Loves That ‘Republicans Turned This Into a Big Drama’
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Michael Pompeo / Fox News:
China spy balloon fiasco exposed Biden's astonishing weakness and Xi will drive a truck through it
China spy balloon fiasco exposed Biden's astonishing weakness and Xi will drive a truck through it
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The Daily Beast:
Inside the Trump Campaign's Plan to Take Down Nikki Haley — “The difference between her and DeSantis is she's an also-ran. Donald Trump doesn't need to fear her. He's gonna toy with her.” … Nikki Haley's decision to become the first Republican to jump into the 2024 race against Donald Trump …
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Politico:
Trump's '24 game plan: Be the dove among the hawks — Donald Trump is settling on a simple foreign policy pitch in his second bid for the White House: Want World War 3? Vote for the other guy. — Over the past week, Trump has assailed President Joe Biden's handling of Afghanistan.
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David M. Drucker / The Dispatch:
Ranks of Republicans Refusing a ‘Clean’ Debt Ceiling Hike Grows … Republican pragmatists in the House of Representatives have a message for President Joe Biden: We don't support a clean debt ceiling increase, either. — Rep. Dusty Johnson says that the group of pragmatic conservatives …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP critic dials up pressure on McConnell: ‘Tired of caving’
GOP critic dials up pressure on McConnell: ‘Tired of caving’
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Washington Post:
Live updates: Earthquake kills more than 2,000 in Turkey, Syria; second massive quake follows — The first earthquake occurred in Kahramanmaras province, north of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border. A second was recorded in southeastern Turkey, near Ekinozu.
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Associated Press:
Powerful quake rocks Turkey and Syria, kills more than 2,300
Powerful quake rocks Turkey and Syria, kills more than 2,300
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New York Times:
Kamala Harris Is Trying to Define Her Vice Presidency. Even Her Allies Are Tired of Waiting. — Ms. Harris is struggling to carve out a lane for herself in what may be one of the most consequential periods in the vice presidency. — WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris was frustrated.
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Unfortunately, the Biggest Election Case of the Supreme Court Term Could Be Moot — Will a power grab by the new Republican majority on North Carolina's Supreme Court—ostensibly to reverse a power grab by the earlier Democratic majority on North Carolina's Supreme Court …
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Reem Nadeem / Pew Research Center:
Economy Remains the Public's Top Policy Priority; COVID-19 Concerns Decline Again — Increased focus on deficit reduction; Republicans far more likely than Democrats to view it as a top priority — Increased focus on deficit reduction; Republicans far more likely than Democrats to view it as a top priority
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Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
Convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter caught secretly filming woman undressing at tanning salon owned by his father: Police — An Iowa father who recently pleaded guilty to interfering with police during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has found himself once again embroiled in scandal …
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Greene Raise Hell Over Sam Smith's Grammys Performance — Right-wingers are using Pfizer's sponsorship to fuel conspiracies that Satan is controlling the federal government and coming for your kids — THE GRAMMYS WAS its usual lavish spectacle featuring scores of styled-out celebrities on Sunday night.
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Paul Blest / VICE:
Cops Seemingly Put a Fake MLK Quote on a Cruiser to Celebrate Black History Month — The director of The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University said “we have no record of the maxim.” — PB — The police department in Columbus …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Defiance of Salman Rushdie — After a near-fatal stabbing—and decades of threats—the novelist speaks about writing as a death-defying act. — When Salman Rushdie turned seventy-five, last summer, he had every reason to believe that he had outlasted the threat of assassination.
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Eric Trump tourmate claims Jewish people are frauds and “Hitler was actually fighting the same people that we're trying to take down today” — Scott McKay also claims Jewish people are responsible for 9/11, presidential assassinations, and child sacrifices — Eric Trump has been touring …
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Melania Trump watched 2019 ISIS raid from Situation Room, suggested ‘hero dog’ story in media — Melania Trump in October 2019 sat in and watched the U.S. raid that led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a compound in Syria, according to a new memoir set for release this week.
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National Review:
DeSantis Is Right to Reform Higher Education — Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has taken the first steps in what seems set to be a decades-long political fight over the nature of America's public universities. Among the host of major reforms that DeSantis proposed last week are a ban on …
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The Guardian
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump appeals nearly $1 million in sanctions for ‘frivolous’ suit he filed against Hillary Clinton — Former President Donald Trump and one of his lawyers said they are appealing nearly $1 million in sanctions slapped on them by a federal judge in Florida.
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Jill Lawrence / Los Angeles Times:
One smart way to win over working-class voters and help the economy — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has held his job for less than a month, so it's probably too early for him to think about running for president. But it's not too soon for other governors considering a White House run …
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Doha Madani / NBC News:
School food vendor apologizes — again — for ‘inexcusable’ Black History Month menu — A vendor that provides food service to schools apologized for the “unintentional insensitivity” of its Black History Month menu, echoing similar apologies it has made for more than a decade amid backlash over racially insensitive menus.
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New York Times:
Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. It's Been Rough Going. — Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views. “Sewer rats,” as one regulator described bad actors, remain. — Over 120,000 views of a video showing a boy being sexually assaulted.
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Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
Inside The Race To Tap A Controversial Source Of Carbon-Free Energy: Nuclear Waste — There's enough energy in spent uranium fuel to power the U.S. for over a century, but recycling waste was a challenge even in America's atomic glory days. — LEMONT, Ill. — Down a bright fluorescent hallway …
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NBC News:
FBI to search Pence's Indiana home for more classified documents — The FBI is expected to search former Vice President Mike Pence's Indiana home for classified documents in a matter of days, three law enforcement officials told NBC News. — The planned search was first reported by the Wall Street Journal last week.
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