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National Review:
Republican Voters Can — and Should — Rethink Nominating Trump — To say Donald Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination is an understatement. He is above 60 percent in national polling averages and leads by roughly 30 points in Iowa. His lead is much narrower in New Hampshire …
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Mick Mulvaney / The Hill:
Democrats play a dangerous game with dire warnings about Trump — Democrats would have you believe that our very democracy is at risk in the 2024 election. They may be right, but not for the reason they say. — That's because in the past, the low-level demagoguery of American politics was never really existential.
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Why Haley Won't Break Through — Today's GOP is split along class lines, and her college-grad supporters aren't the majority. — WAUKEE, Iowa — Nikki Haley's Tuesday rally outside Des Moines was a fittingly pedestrian event in this desultory excuse of a presidential primary.
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National Review, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Fox News and BizPac Review
Politico:
Playbook: The vibes have not improved — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — THE GENERATION GAP — “'You're not the boss of me': Former White House aides slam current staffers' tendency to protest,” by Eugene: “Protest letters, like those over Israel, were rare in past administrations.
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Raw Story
Ali Swenson / Associated Press:
Trump suggests unauthorized migrants will vote. The idea stirs his base, but ignores reality
Trump suggests unauthorized migrants will vote. The idea stirs his base, but ignores reality
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CT News Junkie, HotAir, Roll Call and The Messenger
Craig Mauger / The Detroit News:
Biden struggling in Michigan as Trump grabs strong lead, poll shows
Biden struggling in Michigan as Trump grabs strong lead, poll shows
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The Daily Caller, NBC News, Politico, The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, The Messenger, Raw Story, Fox News and Political Wire
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Senate GOP offers House Republicans reality check on spending
Senate GOP offers House Republicans reality check on spending
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Washington Examiner, USA Today, Raw Story, Punchbowl News, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, The Messenger, The Floridian, BizPac Review and GovExec.com
Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump warns of ‘bedlam,’ declines to rule out violence after court hearing
Trump warns of ‘bedlam,’ declines to rule out violence after court hearing
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American Prospect, The Guardian, Talking Points Memo, The Bulwark, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Raw Story, HuffPost, Metro.co.uk, Al Jazeera, Mediaite, TIME, Daily Kos and Political Wire
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Trump's Bad Day in Court — The first of many to come — Following Tuesday morning's oral argument in the District of Columbia, Donald Trump made some predictable comments to the press from a Washington, D.C., hotel. As he finished, a reporter shouted out a request that he use the moment to tell his followers, “No violence.”
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Judge Signals Trump Is Doomed in New E. Jean Carroll Trial — In a 27-page order, the judge overseeing the E. Jean Carroll case essentially sides entirely against Trump and suggests the case is basically already decided. — With Donald Trump's second rape defamation trial only one week away …
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ABC News:
Trump intends to deliver part of closing himself, say sources
Trump intends to deliver part of closing himself, say sources
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NBC News, The Messenger, The Hill, Raw Story, HuffPost, New York Post and PoliticusUSA
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity
Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity
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Associated Press:
Key moments in the arguments over Donald Trump's immunity claims in his election interference case
Key moments in the arguments over Donald Trump's immunity claims in his election interference case
Victor Nava / New York Post:
Trump prosecutor accused of ‘improper’ relationship with Georgia DA Fani Willis billed $4K for meetings with WH officials — The special prosecutor that Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is accused of having an “improper” relationship with billed the Fulton County DA's office $4,000 …
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Stephen Kruiser / PJ Media:
The Morning Briefing: Georgia Trump Haters Are Getting Their Fani Handed to Them — Top O' the Briefing — Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Sabbatwina was rapidly gaining renown as the fiercest potato shredder in the Alt-Latke Society.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Florida school district removes dictionaries from libraries, citing law championed by DeSantis — The Escambia County School District, located in the Florida panhandle, has removed several dictionaries from its library shelves over concerns that making the dictionaries available to students would violate Florida law.
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Diane Ravitch's blog, PEN America, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and El País
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Lauren Boebert's Ex-Husband Arrested on Weapons and Assault Charges — In addition to the assault and weapons counts, Boebert was also charged with harassment ("strikes shoves, kicks"), disorderly conduct, and trespassing, jail records show. — Jayson Boebert, the former husband of Rep. Lauren Boebert …
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CBS News, TMZ.com, New York Post, Raw Story, Political Wire and UPROXX
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Republican governors in 15 states reject summer food money for kids — Moving beyond efforts to block expansion of health care for the poor and disabled, Republican governors in 15 states are now rejecting a new, federally funded summer program to give food assistance to hungry children.
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Trump says he was never on Epstein's plane or ‘stupid island’ — President Trump denounced reports of his association with Jeffrey Epstein Tuesday, arguing he had never been on the convicted sex trafficker's plane or “stupid island” after images of the two made by artificial intelligence (AI) surfaced online.
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The Messenger, Daily Mail, Forbes and BizPac Review
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
Bosses in the Biden admin are pressed over young staffers' anonymous letters — Protest letters, like those over Israel, were rare in past administrations. White House veterans can barely contain their disdain over how times have changed. — Protest culture is shattering the last remaining barriers …
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Washington Examiner
Paul Demko / Politico:
‘It was a mirage’: States face budget woes as huge infusions of federal cash run out — Huge buckets of pandemic funding allowed states to boost spending and cut taxes, but now the windfall has run out — The pandemic boom times are over for state lawmakers — and so is their ability …
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Sacramento Bee
NBC News:
Starbucks sued for allegedly using coffee from farms with rights abuses while touting its ‘ethical’ sourcing — The lawsuit calls for the coffee chain to end its “unfair and deceptive” trade practices and argues that the company is aware of the child and forced labor on some of its supplier farms.
Slate:
Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans — Red states would rather let a patient die than let her terminate a dangerous pregnancy. And they're barely pretending otherwise. — For many years before S.B. 8 passed in Texas and was then swept into existence …
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Washington Examiner, The Guardian and CT Mirror
New York Post:
Hunter Biden knew most of his art buyers despite sham ‘ethics’ plan — contradicting the White House: dealer — WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden's Manhattan art dealer said Tuesday that he never worked with the White House on an ethics pact to ensure buyers would remain anonymous …
Sophie Tatum / The Messenger:
DLCC Announces ‘Roadmap’ For 2024 Statehouse Races — The group sees five opportunities to flip chambers: Arizona's House and Senate, New Hampshire's House and Senate, and the Pennsylvania Senate — Heading into what the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is calling …
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New York Times, NBC News and SC Daily Gazette
Politico:
Belgian government breaks deadlock over renewal of central bank governor mandate — The parties in Belgium's coalition government have reached an agreement to renew Pierre Wunsch's mandate as governor of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB). — The agreement was reached at a meeting attended …
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Bloomberg
Tobias Burns / The Hill:
IRS phone service is falling behind: internal watchdog — Telephone service at the IRS is a mess, with employees answering way fewer phone calls than official metrics suggest while they spend more than a million working hours a year just waiting around for the phone to ring …
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New York Times, The Messenger and CNN
U.S. Central Command:
US CENTCOM Statement on 26th Houthi attack on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea — On Jan. 9, at approximately 9:15 p.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Houthis launched a complex attack of Iranian designed one-way attack UAVs (OWA UAVs), anti-ship cruise missiles, and an anti-ship ballistic missile …
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Kat Tenbarge / NBC News:
X's fresh temporary ban of several prominent journalists raises alarm — “We do sweeps for spam/scam accounts and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them,” Elon Musk wrote on X, responding to the temporary ban of at least 8 accounts, including those of a handful of journalists.
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