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Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Fine, Call It a Comeback — If the Joe Biden who showed up to deliver the State of the Union address last week is the Joe Biden who shows up for the rest of the campaign, you're not going to have any more of those weak-kneed pundits suggesting he's not up to running for re-election. Here's hoping he does.
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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg and The Guardian
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Biden breaks with Netanyahu but sticks with Israel … But in many ways, Biden sees Netanyahu as the one responsible for the deal slipping away. … - Biden has given the Israeli government unprecedented support over the past five months, at the cost of strong pushback from the president's party during an election year.
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MSNBC, HotAir, Washington Post, Fox News, Middle East Monitor, New York Post, Power Line, MeidasTouch, Israpundit, Breitbart, Business Insider and The Guardian
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
NYT columnist calls Biden SOTU speech a ‘comeback’ after saying he should not run — New York Times columnist Ezra Klein walked back his previous demands for President Biden not to run for reelection, calling his State of the Union speech a “comeback” for his electoral hopes on Sunday.
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The Guardian and Political Wire
New York Times:
Election Updates: Trump mocks and attacks Biden as the two ended their frenzied week in Georgia, kicking off the general election campaign.
Election Updates: Trump mocks and attacks Biden as the two ended their frenzied week in Georgia, kicking off the general election campaign.
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NBC News, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Breitbart, RTÉ, MeidasTouch, ABC News, The Hill, Bloomberg, CNN, Raw Story, CBS News, NewsNation, Wall Street Journal and NPR
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Byron Donalds finds it ‘disgusting’ that Biden scolded Supreme Court during SOTU
Byron Donalds finds it ‘disgusting’ that Biden scolded Supreme Court during SOTU
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Axios
NBC News:
Biden team brings in $10 million in the 24 hours after the State of the Union
Biden team brings in $10 million in the 24 hours after the State of the Union
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Bloomberg, Business Insider, The Hill, National Review, Mother Jones and Blue Virginia
George Chidi / The Guardian:
Biden hits out at Trump in Georgia rally: 'He's been sucking up to dictators all over the world'
Biden hits out at Trump in Georgia rally: 'He's been sucking up to dictators all over the world'
Fox News:
House Speaker Johnson chastises Biden for apology to Laken Riley murder suspect: ‘What an embarrassment’
House Speaker Johnson chastises Biden for apology to Laken Riley murder suspect: ‘What an embarrassment’
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RedState and New York Post
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Sanders: U.S. putting conditions on aid for Israel would be “the right thing to do”
Sanders: U.S. putting conditions on aid for Israel would be “the right thing to do”
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Americans split on who they trust to do a better job as president: POLL
Americans split on who they trust to do a better job as president: POLL
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The Hill and Political Wire
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Confronts Katie Britt on Falsely Connecting Biden to Sex-Trafficking Story — Sen. Britt dodged the question and tried to defend her false linkage of President Biden to a horrible, decades-old sex-trafficking story. — Even when confronted by Fox News on Sunday morning …
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Rolling Stone, DNyuz, The Guardian and Raw Story
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Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:
Status Report: The Katie Britt Lie
Status Report: The Katie Britt Lie
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PoliticusUSA, Washington Examiner, New York Times, New York Post, TMZ.com, NBC Bay Area, Raw Story, Breitbart, The Hill, al.com, MeidasTouch, DNyuz, The Hollywood Reporter, Forbes, Washington Post and CNBC
Fox News:
Republicans are ‘moving the process of appropriations forward’: Katie Britt
Republicans are ‘moving the process of appropriations forward’: Katie Britt
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ABC News, Business Insider, Vanity Fair, NBC News and Deadline
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Johnson, Scott hit Biden for walking back ‘illegal’ remark: ‘The president is cowering to his base’
Johnson, Scott hit Biden for walking back ‘illegal’ remark: ‘The president is cowering to his base’
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Washington Examiner, Trending Politics Conservative, Power Line, Twitchy, DNyuz, HuffPost and Breitbart
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy
Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy
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USA Today, CBS News, NBC News, DNyuz, New York Times, The Hill, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, CNBC, al.com, Raw Story, Mother Jones, NPR, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, HuffPost and Digby's Hullabaloo
Politico:
Netanyahu vows to defy Biden's ‘red line’ and invade Rafah — Israel PM insists his priority is to prevent another terror attack like the Oct. 7 Hamas raid. — Paul Ronzheimer is the deputy editor-in-chief of BILD and a senior journalist reporting for Axel Springer, the parent company of POLITICO.
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Netanyahu denies Palestinians are starving — Numerous world leaders and humanitarian charities have criticized Israel for not letting enough food aid into Gaza. — Paul Ronzheimer is the deputy editor-in-chief of BILD and a senior journalist reporting for Axel Springer, the parent company of POLITICO.
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Task & Purpose, DNyuz, Breitbart and The Guardian
New York Times:
Elon Musk Has a Giant Charity. Its Money Stays Close to Home. — After making billions in tax-deductible donations to his philanthropy, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX gave away far less than required in some years — and what he did give often supported his own interests.
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The Daily Beast and Wall Street Journal
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Nancy Mace explodes at ABC host for rape ‘shaming’ her for supporting rapist Donald Trump — Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) exploded at ABC host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday after he asked why she supported Donald Trump after he was found liable for sexual assault.
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HuffPost, ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, The Daily Beast, Newsbusters, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Hill, New York Post, PoliticusUSA, Fox News, DNyuz and Crooks and Liars
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Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Colin Allred says Texas Republican Party is seeing an ‘internal civil war’ — Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) said he thinks his Senate campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) can find victory because the Texas Republican Party is in disarray, and Democrats can pull off an upset in the Lone Star State.
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Fox News
Reuters:
Ukraine minister, responding to Pope Francis, says Kyiv will never raise white flag — Ukraine's foreign minister, responding to Pope Francis's call to show “the courage of the white flag” and negotiate an end to the war with Russia, said on Sunday that Kyiv would never capitulate and told …
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Axios, Associated Press, Fox News, New York Post, RedState, Al Jazeera, DNyuz, UPI, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, vaticannews.va and Reuters
Steve Janoski / New York Post:
Republican politico accused of ‘sexual torture’ and murder of pal in Alabama — A well-known GOP politico in Alabama has been charged with the “sexual torture” and murder of a man he knew. — Kyle Hayden Lewter, 36, allegedly killed Derek Franklin Walls, 54, of Harvest, Alabama …
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DNyuz, Law & Crime, WAFF-TV and al.com
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump campaign insider recounts failed hunt for 2020 fraud in new book — Ken Block, an expert hired by the campaign, writes that he shot down false claim after false claim in an election that was not stolen — The December 2020 claim of voter fraud was explosive, if true …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Forget ‘polarization.’ It's the GOP's radicalization. — The notion that the United States is “polarized” into two conflicting, equally stubborn and extreme camps infects much of the mainstream news coverage and everyday chatter about politics. Washington is “broken.” “Gridlock” is a problem.
Heather Hamilton / Washington Examiner:
Lara Trump promises legal ballot harvesting to be part of new RNC strategy — Newly-elected Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump said it is time for the RNC to up its game and compete with more strategy against the Democrats. — “We've been playing checkers …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pa.'s TikTok billionaire, Donald Trump, and the Selling of the President 2024 — It was the movie scene that launched a million journalism careers. Remember that moment in 1976′s All The President's Men when actor Hal Holbrook as the mysterious Watergate source “Deep Throat” …
Steven Greenhouse / The Guardian:
Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ — Trader Joe's and SpaceX are among businesses challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board — Upset by the surge in union drives, several of the best-known corporations in the US are seeking …
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Digby's Hullabaloo