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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Joe Biden, Once Again, Lucks Out with His Enemies — In his State of the Union address, the President offered a strong performance—with an assist from House Republicans. — When Joe Biden stepped onto the House floor just after 9 p.m. on Tuesday, for his first State of the Union address since …
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Biden, in State of the Union, mixes bipartisanship with defiance — Speech is marked by unusual back-and-forth between president and Republican lawmakers — By Toluse Olorunnipa and Yasmeen Abutaleb — President Biden, facing a vocal and divided Congress, used his second State …
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Republicans Turn Themselves Into Props for Biden — For four decades, since Ronald Reagan re-invented the modern State of the Union address, television audiences have become accustomed — arguably to the point of tedium — to presidents putting the spotlight on ordinary Americans invited …
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Rex Huppke / USA Today:
Dark Brandon shows up at State of the Union, mops the floor with lost Republicans — Biden went off script regularly, parrying GOP lawmakers who heckled him, at one point backing the party into a corner and getting them to swear to protect Medicare and Social Security benefits. — View Comments
Jeffrey Blehar / National Review:
Deal with It: Biden's State of the Union Was an Aesthetic Win — Behold, as I rise to write a wildly unpopular Corner post: — My reaction to Biden's State of the Union address inevitably falls upon aesthetic lines. It is perhaps my cardinal flaw to analyze politics in the post-social media …
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Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Dems rally behind Biden — and the political press weeps — Also: All the things McCarthy wouldn't applaud at SOTU. — Aaron Rupar and Noah Berlatsky — The political press is bitter. After the Democratic National Convention met in Philadelphia for its winter meeting last week …
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USA Today:
Biden is most talkative president in six decades of State of the Union addresses — George Petras Javier ZarracinaUSA TODAY — In the last six decades, no president has spoken as many words - by actual or average count - in an address to Congress than President Joe Biden.
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Wall Street Journal:
The State of the Union Contradiction — If Biden is such a success, why aren't Americans pleased? — By The Editorial Board — President Biden was set to devote much of his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to celebrating what he says is a long list of legislative and economic achievements …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Lays Down Economic Challenge to House Republicans in State of the Union Address
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Jeffries suggests Republicans who heckled Biden are unfit to serve in Congress
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Playbook: Biden's no-compromise SOTU
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CNN:
Fact-checking President Biden's State of the Union speech
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Queen of Having It Both Ways
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
ABC's Jon Karl Declares SOTU One Of Biden's ‘Best Speeches’ — Made Republicans Look ‘Bitter Rude Angry’
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Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
The State of the Union Was a Preview of 2024 for Both Biden and Republicans
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Rolling Stone:
Twitter Kept Entire ‘Database’ of Republican Requests to Censor Posts — Elon Musk's “Twitter Files” focus on Democrats, but former administration officials and Twitter employees say Trump's team and other Republicans routinely demanded posts be taken down — WHEN THE WHITE House called …
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Politico:
House GOP's under-the-radar Hunter Biden problem: DOJ got there first — House Republicans are itching to investigate Hunter Biden. But they have a problem: The feds got there first. — Though their probes differ in focus and scope — Republicans are looking at possible conflicts …
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Cristiano Lima / Washington Post:
Democrat accuses GOP of holding hearing to fundraise — on Twitter
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Twitter Officials Confirm to Congress: Trump, Not Biden, Has Tried to Censor Tweets
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Seymour Hersh:
How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline — The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now — The U.S. Navy's Diving and Salvage Center can be found in a location as obscure as its name …
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Cameron Joseph / VICE:
What it's Like When Ron DeSantis Takes Over Your College — Students at Florida's tiny New College are alarmed by Gov. Ron DeSantis' hostile takeover—and worry who his next targets will be. — Cameron Joseph — WASHINGTON, US — PB — Ron DeSantis has made a tiny liberal arts college …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Half in U.S. Say They Are Worse Off, Highest Since 2009 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Reflecting on their personal financial situations, 35% of Americans say they are better off now than they were a year ago, while 50% are worse off. Since Gallup first asked this question in 1976 …
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Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
Estimate of misspent Covid unemployment payments leaps to $191B — The Labor Department's internal watchdog identified nearly $30 billion more in pandemic unemployment benefits that were wrongfully sent out than previously estimated, according to testimony submitted Wednesday to the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Chicago Sun Times:
POLL: Lightfoot's losing hand? Bleak numbers in new poll spell trouble for reelection bid — With the election less than three weeks away, three out of five voters disapprove of the job the mayor has done in her first term and 71% think the city is on the wrong track …
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Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post:
Putin implicated by Dutch prosecutors in downing of Malaysia passenger jet — Dutch prosecutors said Wednesday that it was likely Russian President Vladimir Putin personally signed off on a decision to supply long-range antiaircraft missiles systems to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine …
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
NBC, MSNBC employees plan walkout in protest of layoffs — It's the latest major labor action to strike a national news organization in recent months as the media industry faces headwinds and cut-backs — More than 200 employees of NBC represented by the NewsGuild of New York plan to walk off …
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