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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Former Trump lawyer admits post-election misrepresentations — One of Donald Trump's high-profile lawyers pushed his post-election lies. She's now acknowledged that many of her claims simply weren't true. — As recently as 2016, Jenna Ellis was not a Donald Trump admirer.
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Quentin Young / Colorado Newsline:
Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis censured in Colorado for false election claims — Jenna Ellis, the Colorado attorney who was former President Donald Trump's senior legal advisor as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss, has been censured by a Colorado judge for misconduct.
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Ex-Trump attorney admits statements about 2020 election were false and is censured by judge — Jenna Ellis was censured by a disciplinary judge in Colorado Wednesday, in the latest effort to hold accountable attorneys who boosted former President Donald Trump's 2020 election reversal gambits.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump 2020 lawyer admits misrepresenting stolen election claims — Jenna Ellis, an attorney for Donald Trump who helped drive his false claims about the 2020 election results, has admitted in a Colorado disciplinary proceeding that she misrepresented evidence at least 10 times during Trump's frantic bid to subvert his defeat.
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NBC News:
Republicans launch an investigation into the Jan. 6 committee that examined the riot — WASHINGTON — A Republican-controlled House committee launched an inquiry Wednesday into the Democratic-controlled Jan. 6 committee, which a staff member said will review whether pertinent information …
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NBC News:
Jan. 6 rioters trashed a GOP senator's office, and he hasn't acknowledged it — WASHINGTON — Two years ago, a mob of rioters who believed former President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election viciously assaulted police, smashed out widows, stormed into an office …
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Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
Don't believe the Democrats' fake outrage over the new Jan. 6 footage
Don't believe the Democrats' fake outrage over the new Jan. 6 footage
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
An egregious denial of due process for Jan. 6 protesters
An egregious denial of due process for Jan. 6 protesters
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Budget Would Cut Deficits by $3 Trillion Over 10 Years, Raise Taxes on Businesses — Proposal will kick off talks on government spending with Republicans — WASHINGTON—President Biden will outline a plan to reduce federal budget deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade …
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Laura Davison / Bloomberg:
In Biden's Tax-the-Rich Budget, Capital-Gains Rates Near 45%
In Biden's Tax-the-Rich Budget, Capital-Gains Rates Near 45%
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Tamara Keith / NPR:
Biden is using his budget as a cudgel in the debt ceiling fight — and for 2024
Biden is using his budget as a cudgel in the debt ceiling fight — and for 2024
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Biden lays down first marker in fiscal talks with McCarthy
Biden lays down first marker in fiscal talks with McCarthy
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The Daily Beast:
Fox News Journalists Sound Off on ‘Soul-Crushing’ Dominion Filings — “It's just a really bad time to be working here,” one news producer told The Daily Beast in the wake of bombshell legal filings on the network's inner machinations. … “I think no regular person could read this and look …
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Washington Post:
Inside the simmering feud between Donald Trump and Fox News
Inside the simmering feud between Donald Trump and Fox News
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Matthew Sheffield / TYT Network:
Republican Elites and Their Fox Counterparts Hate Trump, But They Can't Get Rid of Him
Republican Elites and Their Fox Counterparts Hate Trump, But They Can't Get Rid of Him
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ProPublica:
Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance” — A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project. Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court …
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
How Biden Is Shaping the 2024 Battlefield — President Joe Biden is following a strategy of asymmetrical warfare as the 2024 presidential race takes shape. — Through the early maneuvering, the leading Republican candidates, particularly former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden zeroing in on candidates to be his 2024 campaign manager — President Biden has narrowed down his choices on candidates to run his 2024 presidential reelection campaign. — While the president has yet to formally announce he's running for a second term, he is widely expected …
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Washington Examiner and Insider
Collin Binkley / Associated Press:
Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college — When he looked to the future, Grayson Hart always saw a college degree. He was a good student at a good high school. He wanted to be an actor, or maybe a teacher. Growing up, he believed college was the only route to a good job, stability and a happy life.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
A Startling Document Predicted Jan. 6. Democrats Are Missing Its Other Warnings. — Weeks before the 2020 election, a secret 87-page document outlined in matter-of-fact language the threat posed by Donald Trump's still-to-come campaign of election denial.
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Raw Story, Erick Erickson's Show Notes and Political Wire
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump publishing private letters from Oprah, other celebrities — Former President Trump, in a new book, plans to reveal 150 private letters sent to him — including one from Oprah Winfrey in 2000 in which she says: “Too bad we're not running for office. What a team!”
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Caitlin Gibson / Washington Post:
The fear and fury of these Florida parents — The state has introduced new laws that affect nearly every stage of parenting. Some families are choosing between fight and flight. — One afternoon a few weeks ago, Alicea Hotchkiss's 14-year-old son, Eli, came home from his high school …
New York Times:
Newly Empowered Michigan Democrats Move on Labor, Gay Rights and Guns — Despite Republican objections, the Michigan House of Representatives voted to repeal a right-to-work law, codify L.G.B.T.Q. rights and expand gun background checks. — LANSING, Mich. — Democrats in Michigan pressed ahead …
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Beth LeBlanc / The Detroit News:
Michigan House passes right-to-work repeal, prevailing wage restoration
Michigan House passes right-to-work repeal, prevailing wage restoration
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Dafna Linzer abruptly steps down as Politico's executive editor — The award-winning journalist had clashed with another top executive amid a new corporate owner's plans for global expansion. — Dafna Linzer is leaving her role as executive editor of Politico a year after she took the job.
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Rachel Pannett / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell hospitalized after falling at hotel — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been hospitalized following a fall at a hotel in Washington, his spokesperson said late Wednesday. — The 81-year-old Senator was attending a private dinner at a local hotel when he tripped …
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Bloomberg:
Putin Is Losing His Ex-Soviet Backyard — Signs of President Vladimir Putin's waning power in what the Kremlin calls its “near abroad” of former Soviet republics are visible all around Russia's borders. — Georgia offers the latest evidence after the ruling party today abandoned controversial …
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Justin Kanew / THE TENNESSEE HOLLER:
Anti-LGBTQ Tennessee Lt. Gov. McNally Comments On Racy Instagram Pics of Young Gay Male — UPDATE TO THIS STORY: Lt. Governor Randy Mcnally has issued a statement blaming us for calling out his hypocrisy - but, importantly, not denying he's the one who made these comments, not claiming he was hacked, and not blaming an underling.
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Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:
Anthony Fauci hid the truth about COVID, until now — Dr. Anthony Fauci had every reason to cover up the truth. Documents show he played a vital role in funneling through a third party roughly $600,000 in taxpayer money to the Wuhan laboratory in China where the deadly COVID virus may well have leaked.
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Wall Street Journal:
Special Counsel Set to Ask Judge to Reject Trump's Privilege Claims in Mar-a-Lago Probe — WASHINGTON — A federal judge is set to hear arguments Thursday over special counsel Jack Smith's push to extract more grand-jury testimony from a lawyer for Donald Trump, according to people familiar …
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Brad Miller / American Prospect:
The Government Does a Bad Job Assessing Toxic Exposures — The history of the captured federal agencies that reassure the public after chemical disasters should give East Palestine residents pause. — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan speaks at a press conference in East Palestine, Ohio, February 28, 2023.
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Cloistered at Walter Reed, Fetterman Runs His Senate Operation From Afar — A dozen miles from the Capitol, the first-term Democrat from Pennsylvania is keeping up with his work while being treated for severe clinical depression. — WASHINGTON — In a cheerfully decorated common room …
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
WWE in talks with state gambling regulators to legalize betting on scripted match results — WWE has held discussions with state gambling regulators in Colorado and Michigan to legalize betting on scripted match results, sources said. — WWE is working with EY, commonly known as Ernst & Young …
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Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
To see Russia's secret antiwar art: Meet at a bus stop. At dark. Phones off. — ST. PETERSBURG — The meeting place to visit the exhibition is an anonymous bus stop opposite a snowy park in the northern Russian city of St. Petersburg at nightfall. There are no tickets and no website promoting …
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Matthew Desmond / New York Times:
Why Poverty Persists in America — A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem. — In the past 50 years, scientists have mapped the entire human genome and eradicated smallpox. Here in the United States, infant-mortality rates and deaths …
Ivan Nechepurenko / New York Times:
Georgia Plans to Withdraw Foreign Agents Bill After Protests — Opposition lawmakers had said the legislation mimicked a similar one in Russia that has been used to clamp down on dissent. — Facing mounting pressure from protesters, Georgia's governing party said in a statement on Thursday …
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Andrew Kerr / Washington Free Beacon:
Cori Bush's Bodyguard Says He Can't Be Anti-Semitic Because He's a Jewish High Priest … Rep. Cori Bush's (D., Mo,) bodyguard claims a host of supernatural abilities, including the power to summon tornadoes and read minds. During a Tuesday evening interview with the Washington Free Beacon …
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