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1:44 AM ET, January 26, 2024

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David M. Drucker / The Dispatch:
RNC Moving to Declare Trump Its Presumptive Nominee  —  An RNC committeeman has submitted the proposal despite Nikki Haley's vow to stay in the race.  —  The Republican National Committee (RNC) is reviewing a draft resolution that, if approved, would declare Donald Trump …
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CNN:
Republican National Committee considering move that would declare Trump the presumptive nominee  —  A draft resolution circulating among the Republican National Committee would formally declare Donald Trump the Republican Party's 2024 presumptive nominee.  —  While the former president …
CNN:
GOP senators seethe as Trump blows up delicate immigration compromise  —  Senior Senate Republicans are furious that Donald Trump may have killed an emerging bipartisan deal over the southern border, depriving them of a key legislative achievement on a pressing national priority and offering …
Punchbowl News:
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.
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:   The duty to intervene: What news organizations need to do in 2024
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A new lens into Trump's legacy of adding to the federal debt
Discussion: HotAir
NBC News:
McConnell casts doubt on border and Ukraine aid deal as GOP fury threatens both
NBC News:   A Democrat raised protecting Speaker Johnson in meeting with Biden and congressional leaders
Steve Benen / MSNBC:   As 2024 race advances, Trump eyes a new priority: blacklisting
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Immigration emerges as key 2024 election wedge issue for Trump, vulnerability for Biden
Associated Press:
AP VoteCast: What the first contests tell us about the Trump and Biden coalitions
Discussion: Washington Examiner, CNN and The Hill
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
‘Preposterous’: Federal judge decries efforts to downplay Jan. 6 violence, label perpetrators ‘hostages’  —  Judge Royce Lamberth, who has handled dozens of Jan. 6 cases, lamented the false rhetoric spread by Donald Trump and his allies.  —  The longest-serving district judge on the federal bench …
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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.
Associated Press:
Trump White House official convicted of defying Jan. 6 congressional subpoena will be sentenced  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump White House official convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to be sentenced Thursday.
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Reagan-appointed judge warns GOP's ‘preposterous’ claims about Jan. 6 could pose threat  —  Judge Royce Lamberth says he's “shocked” that “meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream,” as some Republican politicans defend Jan. 6 rioters.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump's courtroom appearances force Arizona GOP to cancel ‘Freedom Fest’: report  —  The Arizona Republican Party has pulled the plug on their upcoming “Freedom Fest” event after former President Donald Trump, who was set to headline the gathering, ditched it to attend to legal matters in court.
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NBC News:
Trump briefly testifies in E. Jean Carroll damages trial, clashes with judge  —  The former president was on the witness stand for about three minutes.  Closing arguments will take place Friday morning.  —  Former President Donald Trump took the witness stand in a federal courthouse …
The Messenger:
Trump Spokesperson Steven Cheung Booted From Defamation Trial for Phone Alarm
Reuters:
Exclusive: China presses Iran to rein in Houthi attacks in Red Sea, sources say  —  Chinese officials have asked their Iranian counterparts to help rein in attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthis, or risk harming business relations with Beijing, four Iranian sources and a diplomat familiar with the matter said.
CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: Willis, Wade and others expected to be subpoenaed for hearing on Fulton County DA affair allegations  —  A current and former law partner to Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor leading the 2020 election subversion case in Georgia, have been told to expect a subpoena to testify …
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CBS News:
Biden administration warned Iran before terror attack that killed over 80 in Kerman, U.S. officials say  —  The Biden administration issued a private warning to Iran before the Jan. 3 terror attacks by the Islamic State (ISIS) that killed more than 80 people in the city of Kerman, U.S. officials confirmed Thursday.
Discussion: Associated Press
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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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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Speaker Johnson backs Abbott's border ‘invasion’ decree
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 …
Discussion: Robert Reich
Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal:
Vince McMahon Accused of Sex Trafficking by WWE Staffer He Paid to Keep Quiet  —  Janel Grant files lawsuit saying McMahon pressured her into sex with him and other men at wrestling business, raising questions about 2022 board probe into CEO's payouts  —  A woman who received a payout …
Marc Levy / Associated Press:
Pennsylvania's governor says he wants to ‘get s— done.’ He's made it his slogan, profanity and all  —  Gov. Josh Shapiro has a new slogan for how he wants to run Pennsylvania.  And it's profane.  (Jan.25)  —  Photos  —  Gov. Josh Shapiro has a new slogan for how he wants to run Pennsylvania — and it's not fit for kids' ears.
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.
Discussion: STAT
 
 
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The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Privately Told Colleagues His Real Motivation for Kevin McCarthy Ouster Was Ethics Probe
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
1,500 People Vote For Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ In New Hampshire
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McConnell dispels doubts about his commitment to a border-Ukraine deal
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