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New York Times:
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Subpoenaed in Jan. 6 Investigation  —  The special counsel overseeing the inquiry into Donald Trump's efforts to retain power after the 2020 election wants the former president's daughter and son-in-law to testify to a grand jury.
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Erin Snodgrass / Insider:
Donald Trump, who rolled back rail safety regulations and slashed environmental protections, donates Trump-branded water to East Palestine residents  — Donald Trump visited East Palestine, Ohio, on Wednesday, following a disastrous train derailment.  — The 2024 Republican candidate donated pallets …
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The Guardian:
Trump's environmental rollbacks in focus on visit to Ohio toxic train site
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Joey Garrison / USA Today:
White House blames Trump administration and Republicans over East Palestine, Ohio spill
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Considers Release of Intelligence on China's Potential Arms Transfer to Russia  —  Western nations have intelligence that Beijing might end its self-imposed restraint on weapons supplies to Moscow  —  The Biden administration is considering releasing intelligence it believes shows …
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Close-up photo of Chinese spy balloon in flight released by US military
Discussion: Washington Post and NewsNation
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
A global divide on the Ukraine war is deepening  —  Russia capitalizes on disillusionment with the United States to win sympathy in the Global South.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Ukraine appears to attack deep into Russian-occupied territory.
ProPublica:
A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts  —  In October, months before the East Palestine derailment, the company also directed a train to keep moving with an overheated wheel that caused it to derail miles later in Sandusky, Ohio.
Discussion: ABC News and Fox 8 Cleveland WJW
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New York Times:
Giving Jan. 6 Tapes to Carlson, McCarthy Keeps a Promise to the Hard Right  —  In granting exclusive access to Jan. 6 Capitol surveillance footage to a cable news host bent on rewriting the history of the attack, the speaker effectively outsourced a politically toxic re-litigation of the riot.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Expand Troop Presence in Taiwan for Training Against China Threat  —  The Pentagon is helping Taiwan focus on tactics and weapons systems that would make the island harder to assault  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. is markedly increasing the number of troops deployed to Taiwan …
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Joyu Wang / Wall Street Journal:
Taiwan Foreign Minister Held High-Level Meeting in Washington
Discussion: National Review and Political Wire
Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Republicans call opioids No. 1 health threat  —  Republicans see fentanyl and other opioids as the biggest threat to Americans' public health, while Democrats say it's guns, according to a new Axios-Ipsos survey. … - The survey also found that Americans overwhelmingly …
Spectrum News 13:
Spectrum News 13 crew member, 9-year-old girl killed in Pine Hills shootings  —  According to Orange County Sheriff John Mina, two members of a Spectrum News 13 crew at the scene of a homicide investigation were shot Wednesday afternoon.  —  One of the two has died, he said.  —  What You Need To Know
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Georgia juror unsettles Trump investigation with revealing interviews  —  Emily Kohrs may have added to the challenge for Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis, whose investigation has come under scrutiny for what some have described legal and ethical missteps  —  The forewoman of a special grand jury …
Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
Schiff, Porter in tight race to replace Sen. Feinstein, poll shows; others trail far behind  —  The race to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein is shaping up to be a close contest between two congressional colleagues who have built national profiles and potent fundraising operations but appeal …
Washington Post:
Trump's grip on the Republican base is slipping — even among his fans  —  More than 150 interviews in pivotal electoral states show the former president maintains a bond with his GOP voters, but faces rising interest in a new standard-bearer  —  One recent snowy evening at a gun range …
Brian Faler / Politico:
House GOP's top tax man throws K Street in a tizzy  —  Rep. Jason Smith hasn't been chair of the House Ways and Means Committee very long, but he's already done something rare for a Republican: He's struck fear into the heart of corporate tax lobbyists.  —  The Missouri lawmaker is making …
Financial Times:
How Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled down  —  The decision to invade was taken after consulting only a tiny circle.  The Russian leader has since become even more isolated  —  At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, received a troubling phone call.
Marilyn Singleton / Washington Post:
I'm a Black physician, and I'm appalled by mandated implicit bias training  —  Marilyn Singleton is a board-certified anesthesiologist and a visiting fellow at the medical advocacy organization Do No Harm.  —  I'll never forget my parents' reaction when I was accepted to the University of California at San Francisco's medical school.
Discussion: HotAir, Fox News and CNN
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Former Arizona attorney general failed to release report disproving election fraud claims  —  Former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich did not release to the public findings from his office that showed a series of 2020 election fraud claims were not backed up by evidence, according to documents released Wednesday by his successor.
Gillian McGoldrick / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Gov. Josh Shapiro expects John Fetterman to ‘come back stronger than ever’ after hospitalization for clinical depression  —  Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro expressed confidence this week in Sen. John Fetterman's return to the U.S. Senate and said he wouldn't entertain outside pressures …
Discussion: The Hill and PennLive
Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis wants to roll back press freedoms — with an eye toward overturning Supreme Court ruling  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' broken relationship with the mainstream media could get even worse.  —  At the governor's urging, Florida's Republican-dominated Legislature …
Yoshiaki Nohara / Bloomberg:
G-7 Countries Condemn Russian Aggression, Increase Aid to Ukraine  —  Group of Seven finance ministers once again condemned Russia's war in Ukraine on the eve of its one-year mark and pledged to increase financial support for Ukraine.  —  G-7 finance ministers increased their budget …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
GOP group of 16 complicates McCarthy's debt ceiling leverage … - As it stands, Republicans are already divided over which government programs to cut — handing Democrats an opening to accuse them of wanting to axe Social Security and Medicare.  — The Biden administration, meanwhile …
PRRI:
Abortion Attitudes in a Post-Roe World: Findings From the 50-State 2022 American Values Atlas  —  The End of Roe  —  In late June 2022, the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson overturned Roe v. Wade, reversing nearly five decades of precedent that had established a national right to abortion access.
Discussion: Religion News Service
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Kyrsten Sinema's $300,000 Security Expert Is Tulsi Gabbard's Sister  —  The Arizona senator has a security arrangement that raises several ethical red flags, according to campaign law experts. … Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) spends more of her campaign funds on security than nearly every …
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Ron DeSantis' Press Secretary Throws Hissy Fit at NBC, MSNBC  —  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' office has announced it would be boycotting both NBC News and MSNBC after pushing back on a report by the network's Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Young people are more likely to accept gay couples — and to identify as gay  —  As it does regularly, Gallup asked Americans last year if they identified as straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.  About 7 percent of Americans said they identified as one of the latter four categories …
Etan Smallman / Telegraph:
Evanna Lynch: ‘JK Rowling has always advocated for the most vulnerable members of society’  —  The Irish actress was mentored by Rowling, and went on to star as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films - then cancel culture arrived  —  Evanna Lynch, the Irish actress best known …
Discussion: Althouse
Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk's Twitter Goes Dark on Government Data Grabs  —  “That shit went out the window right after Elon came in,” one former staffer says of Twitter's previously routine transparency reports  —  TWITTER BOSS ELON Musk has railed against what he sees as U.S. government attempts to “censor” the social media company.
Discussion: Fortune and The Onion
 
 
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Jon Stewart Explains Why Fox News Is Now ‘Far More Devious’ Than Alex Jones
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Miles Johnson / Financial Times:
Russian warlord passed UK money laundering checks with mother's utility bill
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