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1/25/24 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM … Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did four extraordinary things Wednesday afternoon, all of which we scooped in our PM edition Wednesday night. … McConnell told GOP senators that before border security talks began, immigration policy united Republicans and Ukraine aid divided them.
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Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
McConnell Casts Doubt on Border Deal, Saying Trump Opposition May Sink It — The minority leader privately told Republicans that the former president had put his party “in a quandary,” casting further doubt on the deal's chances and the fate of Ukraine aid that the G.O.P. has tied to it.
Associated Press:
AP VoteCast: What the first contests tell us about the Trump and Biden coalitions
AP VoteCast: What the first contests tell us about the Trump and Biden coalitions
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Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Immigration emerges as key 2024 election wedge issue for Trump, vulnerability for Biden
Immigration emerges as key 2024 election wedge issue for Trump, vulnerability for Biden
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Ryan Lucas / NPR:
Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro sentenced to 4 months for contempt of Congress — Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro was sentenced Thursday to four months in prison for contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack.
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ABC News:
Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro sentenced to 4 months for defying Jan. 6 committee subpoena — The former White House adviser was sentenced on Thursday. — In this Sept. 7, 2023 file photo, Peter Navarro, an advisor to former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks to reporters as he arrives …
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Trump's exponential power surge — Something shocking — and telling — has unfolded beyond Donald Trump's onstage, online and courtroom theatrics: He's running a professional, well-managed, disciplined presidential campaign. — His 2024 operation is more sophisticated …
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Jason Lange / Reuters:
Trump opens up lead over Biden in rematch many Americans don't want — Donald Trump leads Democratic President Joe Biden by six percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Americans are unhappy about an election rematch that came into sharper focus this week.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
As 2024 race advances, Trump eyes a new priority: blacklisting — Ten months ago, Donald Trump and his team let Republicans know they'd embrace blacklisting tactics as the race unfolded. Evidently, they meant it. — Gov. Ron DeSantis launched his doomed presidential campaign in May 2023 …
David M. Drucker / The Dispatch:
RNC Moving to Declare Trump Its Presumptive Nominee
RNC Moving to Declare Trump Its Presumptive Nominee
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The Messenger:
Trump Spokesperson Steven Cheung Booted From Defamation Trial for Phone Alarm — U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, notoriously strict about electronics in his courtroom, brought down the hammer when the alarm went off in the middle of witness testimony on Thursday
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New York Times:
Trump-Carroll Defamation Trial — Trump Briefly Takes Stand in Civil Case — E. Jean Carroll seeks at least $10 million from the former president in a second defamation trial. A jury last year found that he had sexually abused her in the 1990s. — Benjamin Weiser and Maria CramerReporting from the courthouse
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Eagle Pass is today's Fort Sumter. Biden must federalize the Texas National Guard. — The high-stakes game of Texas Hold 'Em taking place on the banks of the Rio Grande between the tin soldiers of that state's Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the U.S. Border Patrol has reached a tension level …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Secretly Alerted Iran Ahead of Islamic State Terrorist Attack — Washington passed actionable intelligence to Tehran about the plot that killed 84 and wounded many more — WASHINGTON—The U.S. secretly warned Iran that Islamic State was preparing to carry out the terrorist attack early …
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Associated Press:
The US and Iraq plan talks soon on ending the mission of the US-led military coalition in Iraq
The US and Iraq plan talks soon on ending the mission of the US-led military coalition in Iraq
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
The U.S. economy grew at blistering 3.3% pace in Q4 while inflation pulled back — GDP, a measure of all the goods and services produced, increased at a 3.3% annualized rate in the fourth quarter of 2023. Wall Street had been looking for a 2% gain. — The U.S. economy …
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Courtenay Brown / Axios:
U.S. economy booms with 3.3% growth in final quarter of 2023
U.S. economy booms with 3.3% growth in final quarter of 2023
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Li Cohen / CBS News:
Tea with salt? American scientist's “outrageous proposal” leaves U.S.-U.K. relations in “hot water,” embassy says — How do you take your tea? One lump of sugar, two or maybe some milk? Unless you're adding salt, one U.S. scientist says, your cup won't be perfect …
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Charles Hilu / Washington Free Beacon:
New Cars Would Require Speed-Limiting Technology Under California Bill — A California bill would require new cars sold or made in the state to incorporate technology that limits the speed of the vehicle. — “This bill would require certain vehicles, commencing with the 2027 model year …
Washington Post:
Biden to deploy CIA director to help broker major Gaza deal — William Burns is looking to close gaps between Israel and Hamas on a deal that includes the release of all hostages in Gaza and a two-month cease-fire — President Biden plans to dispatch CIA Director William J. Burns …
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Gowri Ramachandran / Brennan Center for Justice:
Intimidation of State and Local Officeholders — Left unchecked, abuse harms not only elected officials but also the public they serve. — The January 6 insurrection at the Capitol seemed to mark a new peak in extremist intimidation targeting public officials.
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Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Launches Inquiry into Generative AI Investments and Partnerships — Agency Issues 6(b) Orders to Alphabet, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Anthropic PBC, Microsoft Corp., and OpenAI, Inc. — The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it issued orders to five companies requiring …
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Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
‘A Warning Shot’: Maggie Haberman Explains Why Trump Attacked Kayleigh McEnany — The New York Times reporter shared her analysis after Trump lashed out at his former press secretary over her comments on Fox News. — LOADING — New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Donald Trump's outburst …
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Jennifer Ludden / NPR:
Housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters, study finds — Over the past two years, Genuine Campbell was shocked at how rent for her two-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia just kept going up — from $1,300 a month to $1,600. She's a single mom of four …
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Associated Press:
White House's first chief diversity and inclusion officer is leaving Biden's administration — NEW YORK (AP) — The White House's top diversity officer and first ever aide in the role is leaving the Biden administration after three years in his position. — Michael Leach, a special assistant …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
White House stressing safe gun storage in new initiative — The White House on Thursday announced a series of actions emphasizing the importance of safe storage of weapons, the latest step in the Biden administration's efforts to curtail gun violence. — The Department of Justice is releasing …
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Stephen Gruber-Miller / USA Today:
An Iowa bill would make students sing the national anthem every day. One lawmaker sang it — When it came time for her closing comments at Wednesday's Iowa House subcommittee meeting, Rep. Sue Cahill stood — and began singing the national anthem. — “O say can you see, by the dawn's early light …
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Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Alabama GOP congressman disagrees with Nikki Haley: ‘Everyone has some racist in them’ — Rep. Jerry Carl, R-Ala., said that in his experience, the GOP presidential candidate's comments that America is “not a racist country” was not true. — An Alabama Republican congressman said on Wednesday that …
New York Times:
Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X's Fact Checkers Are Long Gone — Civil rights lawyers and Democrats are sounding alarms about Mr. Musk's claims about voting. The Biden campaign called his posts “profoundly irresponsible.” — In the spring of 2020 …
Rolling Stone:
How Big Pharma Is Fueling a Radical MAGA Agenda — Republicans' Project 2025 blueprint is an assault on women's health care. It would also end Biden's Medicare drug-pricing plan — Big Pharma has invested big money in the organizations planning what a MAGA policy agenda will look like in a new Trump administration.
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Rebecca Kaplan / NBC News:
House Ethics Committee drops its investigation of Rep. Jamaal Bowman — The New York Democrat pulled a fire alarm in a Capitol office building in September as Republicans called a vote to avoid a government shutdown. — WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee is not pursuing an investigation …
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