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12:05 PM ET, January 10, 2024

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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.
Peter Laffin / Washington Examiner:
A vote for Trump is a vote for distraction, drama, and chaos  —  With the opening of the Iowa caucuses next week, the first presidential election of my life as a father begins in earnest — our first son was born in June.  It's remarkable how parenthood concentrates the mind in matters both private and public.
NBC News:
House Republicans to vote on resolutions to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress  —  The votes comes after House Republicans released a report recommending Hunter Biden be held in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to sit for a closed-door deposition and offering to testify publicly instead.
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Washington Post:
Hunter Biden makes surprise appearance at House contempt hearing  —  President's son also made an unexpected appearance last December to blast House Republicans who have subpoenaed him  —  Hunter Biden made an unexpected appearance on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Hunter Biden crashes House hearing on resolution to hold him in contempt
New York Post:
Hunter Biden knew most of his art buyers despite sham ‘ethics’ plan — contradicting the White House: dealer
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
Discussion: Townhall, Reuters, Twitchy and NewsNation
Athena Thorne / PJ Media:
Looks Like the Georgia RICO Case Against Trump Just Imploded
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.
The Messenger:
Speaker Johnson, Desperate To Avoid Mutiny, To Call Trump For Approval Check  —  'He and I have a very close relationship.  He's been an enthusiastic supporter of my leadership here," Johnson said of Trump  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson is reaching for the ultimate lifeline on Wednesday …
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Politico:
Playbook: The vibes have not improved
Discussion: Raw Story and Punchbowl News
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.
Discussion: CBS News and WOI
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.”
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 …
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 …
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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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / Washington Monthly:
Psst: Joe Biden Has Solved the Student Debt Crisis  —  This past fall, with student loan payments set to resume after the pandemic pause, dread was setting in.  My pre-pandemic monthly payments had been a crippling burden that made saving money impossible; the pause was a lifeline that had allowed …
Discussion: Forbes
Washington Post:
Settlers killed a Palestinian teen.  Israeli forces didn't stop it.  —  A review of the deadliest settler attack in the West Bank since the war began shows how increasingly violent tactics have gone unpunished  —  The threats were sent via Facebook on Oct. 9 to residents of Qusra …
Discussion: The Times of Israel
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Sacramento Bee
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.
Arielle Mitropoulos / WMUR:
Chris Christie says Chris Sununu is a ‘liar,’ after suggesting his campaign is on its last breath  —  ROCHESTER, N.H. —  Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fired back on calls from Gov. Chris Sununu to drop out of the race for president, telling WMUR in a one-on-one interview Tuesday …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
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.
Mia Jankowicz / Business Insider:
Fox News ran a conspiratorial segment saying the Pentagon wanted to use Taylor Swift as a psy-op  — Fox News' Jesse Watters floated a brand new theory about Taylor Swift on Tuesday night.  — He said the Pentagon had planned to make her an “asset” in a pro-President Joe Biden “psyop.”
 
 
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Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
Police Investigated MAGA Michigan Leader For Partner Violence
Discussion: Raw Story
Gustaf Kilander / The Independent:
The Electoral College is a ‘bad’ and ‘undemocratic’ system. So why does the US still use it?
Discussion: Maine Morning Star
Svea Herbst-Bayliss / Reuters:
Exclusive: Investor Ackman backs bid by dissidents for Harvard board seats
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Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:
Amalija Knavs dead: Donald Trump's mother-in-law dies at age 78
Associated Press:
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

 
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