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7:35 AM ET, February 15, 2024

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Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
Powerful House GOP chair retiring after Mayorkas impeachment … - Green's decision to retire comes on the same week as the House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.  — Green joins House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger (R-Texas) …
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Marianne LeVine / Washington Post:
Trump ramps up calls to Congress to impeach Biden  —  Trump's remarks were the second time in less than 24 hours that the former president has pushed for Biden's impeachment  —  Former president Donald Trump escalated his calls for Congress to impeach President Biden, just one day after …
Discussion: IJR, Pravda EN and HuffPost
Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Putin says Biden would be better for Russia as president than Trump  —  Russian president also dismissed criticism of Joe Biden's mental fitness.  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday Joe Biden would be better for Russia as president than Donald Trump, ahead of a potential rematch between …
ABC News:
White House to brief lawmakers as House chairman warns of ‘serious national security threat’  —  Lawmakers said the issue is serious but shouldn't cause immediate alarm.  —  National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, Feb. 14, 2024.
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CNN:
House Intel Chairman announces ‘serious national security threat,’ sources say it is related to Russia
Washington Post:
Trump hearings in N.Y., Georgia on Thursday as trial schedule comes into focus  —  The former president is expected at a pre-trial conference in Manhattan, while some of his lawyers will be at Atlanta hearing focused on D.A. Fani Willis  —  Donald Trump is expected at the defendant's table …
Discussion: Press Herald
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Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Special Counsel asks Supreme Court not to delay Trump's election interference trial
Discussion: Roll Call and The Mahablog
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Special counsel Jack Smith urges Supreme Court to reject Trump bid to delay election trial
Russ Bynum / Associated Press:
Conservative group tells judge it has no evidence to back its claims of Georgia ballot stuffing  —  A conservative group has told a Georgia judge that it doesn't have evidence to support its claims of illegal ballot stuffing during the the 2020 general election and a runoff two months later.
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Biden attacked Hur for asking him when Beau died.  That didn't happen, sources say.  —  The president raised his son's death after being asked about his workflow at a Virginia rental home, where he said he found classified materials, two sources said.  —  President Joe Biden lashed …
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Hur making plans to testify to GOP panel about Biden … - Biden, his White House and his personal lawyer have been bashing Hur over his report, which cleared Biden of criminal wrongdoing but painted the president, 81, as having “diminished faculties” and a “poor memory.”
Discussion: Vanity Fair and National Review
Arizona Daily Star:
Tucson school district drops instructor after OnlyFans exposure  —  The woman who resigned as head of an NAACP chapter in 2015 after mispresenting herself as Black, Rachel Dolezal, was working for the Catalina Foothills Unified School District until its officials learned Tuesday of social media content under her current name.
Politico:
Senior Republicans fear Trump will tap the RNC to cover legal bills again  —  The president is going to put his people in place on the committee.  Major changes are in store.  —  Several senior Republican officials are concerned that Donald Trump's expected takeover of the RNC will ultimately pave …
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Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Trump On Pace to Drain Legal Funds by July, With Only $27 Million Left
Discussion: Washington Examiner
National Archives:
Updated: Incident at National Archives Rotunda Closes Galleries to Public  —  Press Release  —  The National Archives Rotunda and galleries in Washington, DC, closed to the public today after two individuals dumped red powder on the encasement protecting the U.S. Constitution at approximately 2:30 pm.
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Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
National Archives closes to public after activists dump red powder on case holding Constitution
Discussion: The Post Millennial
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Arizona GOP introduces resolution to declare Trump 2024 winner regardless of the vote  —  Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that would seek to declare former President Donald Trump the winner of the 2024 presidential election …
Edith Olmsted / The Daily Beast:
Huma Abedin Reveals Relationship with George Soros' Son Alex  —  Hilary Clinton's longtime aide reshared a photo showing the two cuddled-up in a booth at a restaurant in Paris.  —  Hilary Clinton's longtime aide Huma Abedin has apparently moved on from her scandal-scarred ex-husband Anthony Weiner …
Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn:
ASSISTANT DEMOCRATIC LEADER CLYBURN STATEMENT ON HOUSE LEADERSHIP ROLE  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. House Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn released the following statement on his decision to step down from House Democratic leadership:  —  “I have informed Leader Hakeem Jeffries …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Jim Clyburn steps down from House Democratic leadership role
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Republicans admit it.  Kevin McCarthy has never looked so good.  —  House GOP insiders view the new speaker as a man perpetually without a plan.  —  For nine months in his speakership, Kevin McCarthy seemed like a man with a title but no power — desperately improvising to keep …
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David Strom / HotAir:
About Damn Time  —  The Republicans in the House finally did something right.
Politico:
The government funding fight is about to flare again  —  Top lawmakers have less than three weeks to finish the first half of a federal spending agreement that's expected to top $1.7 trillion, with the first of two deadlines hitting on March 1.  —  House Republicans are bracing for a large group …
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox  —  Memo details layoffs, “strategic corrections,” and a desire for “trustworthy” AI.  —  Mozilla got a new “interim” CEO just a few days ago, and the first order of business appears to be layoffs.
Discussion: uh oh, PCWorld and TechCrunch
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The Daily Beast:
George Santos Mercilessly Trolls GOP After Democrats Win His Old Seat
 
 
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