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5:26 PM ET, January 11, 2021

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Politico:
House to vote Wednesday as Pelosi gets the votes to impeach Trump  —  The House will vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week, just seven days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
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Jerry Zremski / Buffalo News:
Schumer: Impeachment won't stand in the way of stimulus, infrastructure plans  —  WASHINGTON - With the House moving to impeach President Trump a second time, Charles E. Schumer, the incoming leader of the new Democratic Senate majority, said impeachment won't interfere with his agenda …
NBC News:
FBI memo warns law enforcement across U.S. of possible armed protests at 50 state capitols  —  The FBI has sent a memo to law enforcement agencies across the country warning of possible armed protests at all 50 state capitol buildings starting Jan. 16, and also says an armed group has threatened …
Discussion: The Hill, IJR and Mediaite
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ABC News:
Armed protests being planned at all 50 state capitols, FBI bulletin says
Associated Press:
FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week
First Lady / The White House:
First Lady Melania Trump: Our Path Forward  —  Like all of you, I have reflected on the past year and how the invisible enemy, Covid-19, swept across our beautiful country.  All Nations have experienced the loss of loved ones, economic pain, and the negative impacts of isolation.
U.S. Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman:
Watson Coleman Receives Positive Coronavirus Test Following January 6 Capitol Lockdown  —  f t # e  —  Today, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) received a positive rapid antigen test result for COVID-19.  She believes she was exposed during protective isolation in the U.S. Capitol building …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Talk-radio owner orders conservative hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric  —  After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America's largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction.  —  Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular …
Medium:
Historians and Constitutional Scholars' Statement on the Second Impeachment of President Donald Trump  —  Historians and Legal Scholars for Impeachment  —  As American historians and constitutional scholars, we support the impeachment and removal of President Donald J. Trump.
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Joni Ernst / Des Moines Register:   What happened at the Capitol ‘is not the America that I know’
Richard Haass / Foreign Affairs:
Present at the Destruction … From the beginning, the essence of the Trump foreign policy …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
A Disgruntled Employee Changed The State Department's Website To Say That Trump's Term Ends Today, Sources Say  —  A disgruntled employee at the State Department changed the biographies of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to say their term was coming to an end on Monday …
Susan DeSantis / New York State Bar Association:
New York State Bar Association Launches Historic Inquiry Into Removing Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani From Its Membership  — New York State Bar Association Launches Historic Inquiry Into Removing Trump Attorney Rudy Giuliani From Its Membership  —  The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) …
Kelly Bjorklund / Foreign Policy:
'We're in a Worse Place Today Than We Were Before He Came In'  —  Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the mess Donald Trump is leaving behind.  —  President Donald Trump is on the way out of office—perhaps even earlier than the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived  —  In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump's supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler …
Mike Ford / RedState:
Enough!  There Was No Riot, Insurrection or “Storming!”  —  Enough!  Enough of the gaslighting by the press.  Enough of the gaslighting by the party of slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, want, deprivation, envy and murder of the unborn in the womb.  Most especially, enough of their “Republican …
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Mediaite and The Wrap
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Julio Rosas / Townhall:
WATCH: Townhall's Frontline Video of the Capitol Building Riot
Discussion: Washington Examiner
NBC News:
‘A great pick’: Top spies praise Biden choice of Amb. William Burns to head CIA … WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden's choice of career diplomat William Burns to be the next CIA director is drawing praise from veterans of the spy agency, who say the CIA will benefit …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Biden plans to nominate William J. Burns, a former career diplomat, to run the CIA
Susan Collins / Bangor Daily News:
Susan Collins recounts the moment rioters stormed the Capitol  —  The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com.  —  Susan Collins represents Maine in the U.S. Senate.
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Fox News Announces Major Revamp of Daytime Lineup  —  Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott has just announced a new daytime programming line-up that will debut on Monday, January 18th.  —  The most notable changes have news anchor Martha MacCallum moving from her 7 p.m. slot to hosting a dayside show …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and HotAir
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Fiona Hill / Politico:
Yes, It Was a Coup.  Here's Why.  —  Since last Wednesday, people have been arguing what to call what happened at the U.S. Capitol - was it a riot?  An uprising?  An insurrection?  I've been public in calling it a coup, but others disagree.  Some have said it's not a coup because the U.S. military …
About Facebook:
Our Preparations Ahead of Inauguration Day  —  We began preparing for Inauguration Day last year.  But our planning took on new urgency after last week's violence in Washington, D.C., and we are treating the next two weeks as a major civic event.  We're taking additional steps and using …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
1,100 State Department employees got vaccinated.  At USAID, zero did.  —  When the federal government dispersed its first round of coronavirus vaccines to federal agencies last month, the State Department received and distributed them to about 1,100 employees in Washington …
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Republican No More: The GOP's Existential Crisis  —  In the wake of the trauma of the last two months, two inescapable questions emerge.  First, what does it mean to be republican?  And second, does the Republican Party represent those values at all any more?
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Christopher Bing / Reuters:
Exclusive: FBI probes Russian-linked postcard sent to FireEye CEO after cybersecurity firm uncovered hack - sources  —  (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating a mysterious postcard sent to the home of cybersecurity firm FireEye's chief executive days after it found initial evidence …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
‘War for the soul’: Capitol riot elevates GOP power struggle between pro-Trump conspiracy theorists and party establishment  —  The essay reads like the manifesto of a delusional conspiracy theorist — claiming that President Trump would remain in office on Jan. 20, after purging his Cabinet and replacing Vice President Pence.
Kristin Tate / The Hill:
The worst run cities in America  —  The current state of many of America's large cities is poor and rapidly declining, leading to the greatest rates of emigration since the bad old days in the 1970s of bankruptcy, runaway crime, and disorder.  Eight cities stand out as the worst-run in the nation …
Matthew Beck Photo / Chronicle Online:
Federal officials seek information on manatee harassment  —  Updated with video  —  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the harassment of a manatee.  The animal was reported to federal authorities over the weekend when it was discovered with the words “Trump” scraped in its back.
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Germany's Merkel hits out at Twitter over ‘problematic’ Trump ban  — German Chancellor Angela Merkel finds Twitter's decision to ban President Donald Trump's account “problematic,” her spokesperson said.  — Twitter permanently suspended Trump's account on Friday, following outcry over riots on Capitol Hill.
David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump's nonprofit inaugural committee improperly paid a $49,000 bill incurred by his company, D.C. attorney general alleges  —  President Trump's private business failed to pay a $49,000 hotel bill incurred during Trump's 2017 inaugural — and then, after the bill went to a collections agency …
Nicholas Grossman / Arc Digital:
QAnon Woke Up the Real Deep State  —  An open letter to QAnon, “stop the steal,” and other communities involved in the Capitol attack  —  To the QAnon community, and others involved in storming the Capitol:  —  The Deep State is real, but it's not what you think.
Discussion: Raw Story
Miranda Green / New York Magazine:
Who Dies for Donald Trump?  —  Ashli Babbitt did not hide her far-right political views.  Outside her San Diego bungalow, located blocks from the beach, she flew both an American flag and a QAnon flag emblazoned with a giant Q and the acronym WWG1WGA, for “Where we go one, we go all.”
NPS.gov:
Record of Determination for the Temporary Closure of Public Facilities, Parking and Roads in Response to Threats to Visitors and Park Resources  —  § 1.5(a)(1) the National Mall and Memorial Parks is implementing temporary closures of National Park Service public facilities …
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republican leaders say Tom Cotton halted landslide of GOP objections in Senate  —  Senior Republicans are crediting Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton's surprise break with President Trump for preventing a flood of his GOP colleagues from objecting to the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.
Rich Miller / Capitol Fax.com:
UPDATED x2 *** Speaker Madigan to suspend campaign... for now  —  * Two high-level House Democrats have confirmed rampant rumors that House Speaker Michael Madigan is suspending his reelection campaign so that he's not standing in the way of someone else trying to get to 60.  More in a bit.
Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
Republican AGs group sent robocalls urging protesters to the Capitol.  GOP officials now insist they didn't know about it.  —  The day before a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, an arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association sent out robocalls urging supporters to come to D.C. to …
Politico:
Biden dresses down his Covid team over plans to speed vaccinations  —  President-elect Joe Biden has grown frustrated with the team in charge of plotting his coronavirus response, amid rising concerns that his administration will fall short of its promise of 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days …
Discussion: HotAir, CNN, The Week and Eschaton
B.J. Rudell / The Hill:
We've seen this movie before — Rumors of Trump's political demise are greatly exaggerated  —  Apparently, President Donald Trump's political future is over.  Headlines blare his actions are “a Breaking Point for Many in the G.O.P.” They pronounce that “Donald Trump Vows Retaliation as Republicans Abandon Him.”
Discussion: Vox
 
 
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Conrad Wilson / opb:
Man charged with shooting Portland federal courthouse attended Salem ‘Stop the Steal’ protest
Discussion: Raw Story and Breitbart
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
Sandberg says U.S. Capitol riot was ‘largely’ not organized on Facebook
Discussion: The Hill and Reuters
Elaine Low / Variety:
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 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
White House counsel and Barr warned Trump not to self-pardon
The Guardian:
The Capitol siege was the biggest media spectacle of the Trump era