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Washington Post:
GOP agrees to pay up to $1.6 million of Trump's legal bills in N.Y. probes  —  The Republican Party has agreed to pay up to $1.6 million in legal bills for former president Donald Trump to help him fight investigations into his business practices in New York, according to Republican National Committee members …
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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Politico:
GOP blows off Trump's bid to oust McConnell  —  Former President Donald Trump has hit a wall in his efforts to oust Mitch McConnell as GOP leader.  —  Despite months of attacks, the Trump-led campaign to depose the Senate minority leader has resulted in firm pledges from just two Republican candidates …
Discussion: Raw Story
Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: ‘This is a real f—ing problem’  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  SEE YOU IN JANUARY — NYT: “Democrats' $2.2 trillion social safety net, climate and tax bill faced new setbacks on Thursday as President [JOE] BIDEN conceded that the measure was stalled for the moment …
Discussion: The Hill and Sacramento Bee
New York Times:
R.N.C. Is Said to Agree to Pay Up to $1.6 Million of Trump's Personal Legal Bills
Discussion: Insider and Political Wire
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Judge Overturns Purdue Pharma's Opioid Settlement  —  The ruling said the company's owners, members of the Sackler family, could not receive protection from civil lawsuits in return for a $4.5 billion contribution.  —  A federal judge on Thursday evening unraveled a painstakingly negotiated …
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Brendan Pierson / Reuters:
Judge tosses $4.5 bln deal shielding Purdue's Sackler family from opioid claims  —  A federal judge has thrown out a $4.5 billion settlement that would have shielded the Sackler family, which owned OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, from future lawsuits over opioids, upending the company's plan to reorganize in bankruptcy court.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Person of the Year: Jamie Raskin  —  How one politician devoted his fight for democracy to his lost son.  —  Ninety-four years ago, the editors of Time magazine declared the transatlantic aviator and anti-Semite Charles Lindbergh their first-ever Man of the Year.
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:   Eugene Goodman should be Time's Person of the Year
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A theory: How Trump's Jan. 6 coup plan worked, how close it came, why it failed
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:   Why the media should have a pro-democracy bias
Politico:
Life without Wallace  —  Presented by the Black Women's Health Imperative  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With Allie Bice.  —  “Fox News Sunday” was one of the few shows on Fox News …
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Tarini Parti / Wall Street Journal:
Kamala Harris Says She and Biden Haven't Discussed Running for Re-Election in 2024
Politico:
Senate that ‘sucks’ gets a dose of reality from Biden  —  Senate Democrats ended a frustrating day in a frustrating week with President Joe Biden acknowledging that his sweeping social spending bill will wait until next year — a setback that comes as the party also spins its wheels on election reform.
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Pam Belluck / New York Times:
F.D.A. Will Permanently Allow Abortion Pills by Mail  —  The decision will broaden access to medication abortion, an increasingly common method, but many conservative states are already mobilizing against it.  —  The federal government on Thursday permanently lifted a major restriction on access to abortion pills.
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Antony Sguazzin / Bloomberg:
South Africa Hospitalization Rate Plunges in Omicron Wave  — Cases remain high compared with previous Covid waves  — Omicron infections may have peaked in epicenter Gauteng  —  South Africa delivered some positive news on the omicron coronavirus variant on Friday …
Wall Street Journal:
WSJ News Exclusive |  Senate Parliamentarian Rejects Democrats' Immigration Proposal in $2 Trillion Bill  —  The proposal marked Democrats' third effort to provide temporary deportation protections and work permits to millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate parliamentarian rejects Democrats' third immigration offer
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Dominion Voting wins key decision in lawsuit against Fox News  —  (CNN Business)A judge in Delaware has found that Fox News' coverage of election fraud after the 2020 election may have been inaccurate, and is allowing a major defamation case against the right-wing TV network to move forward.
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
The puzzle of Joe Biden's unpopularity  —  I find President Biden's unpopularity puzzling.  He is rounding out his first year in the White House with the lowest end of first-year approval ratings of any elected president in modern times with the exception of Donald Trump.  Why?
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The Economist:
Young Americans are turning against Joe Biden
Discussion: Townhall
Joe Kukura / SFist:
Six Bay Area Men Arrested For a Staggering 70 Attacks on Asian Women  —  The suspects allegedly targeted Asian women exclusively, according to the Santa Clara DA, and had a pattern of attacking women walking alone to their cars.  —  In the wave of attacks on Asian Americans since …
Nick Anderson / Washington Post:
Harvard won't require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows  —  The fast-spreading movement aims to limit the role of the standardized exams in college admissions  —  Harvard University will extend for four years a policy begun soon after the coronavirus pandemic emerged …
The Daily Beast:
Kanye West's ‘Independent’ Campaign Was Secretly Run by GOP Elites  —  The campaign took steps, experts say, to mask its connections to GOP operatives.  That could violate federal election laws.  —  New documents show Kanye West's doomed White House campaign—styled as an “independent” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Senate confirms Nicholas Burns as ambassador to China  —  The Senate voted 75-18 on Thursday to confirm Nicholas Burns, a widely respected former career diplomat, as U.S. ambassador to China.  —  Why it matters: Burns — the first Senate-confirmed ambassador in Beijing in more than 14 months …
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Josh Christenson / Washington Free Beacon:
NFL Marks Taiwan as Part of China
Select Committee to Investigate …:
Select Committee Subpoenas James P.  “Phil” Waldron  —  Washington—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) today announced that the Select Committee has issued a subpoena to James P.  “Phil” Waldron for records and testimony.  Mr. Waldron appears to have been involved with efforts to promote claims about fraud in the 2020 election.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Herschel Walker's campaign falsely claimed he graduated from college  —  Republican Herschel Walker's campaign deleted a false claim that he graduated from the University of Georgia hours after it was posted on a website promoting his U.S. Senate bid.  —  The former football star's campaign removed …
Washington Post:
Omicron outbreak inducing whiplash for many Americans  —  With the omicron variant sending coronavirus cases spiking across the country, the pandemic is once again upending daily life and evoking the early days of the outbreak as scientists race to understand the still-unknown implications of this new type of coronavirus.
Wall Street Journal:
Washington Post Grasps for New Direction as Trump-Era Boom Fades  —  News outlet's audience is down sharply, amid sector-wide declines; subscription growth has stagnated as readers look beyond politics  —  Top Washington Post officials gathered last week and discussed how to respond …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Why Are Republicans Siding With Russia?  —  Because Putinism is catnip to a new breed of American losers.  —  There's been a lot of anger this week over Fox News's born-again populist, Tucker Carlson, going all in on attacking NATO and siding with Russia at the very moment …
BuzzFeed News:
The FBI Said It Busted A Plot To Kidnap Michigan's Governor.  Then Things Got Complicated.  —  The case seemed like a lock — until an informant and one FBI agent were charged with crimes, another was accused of perjury, and a third was found promoting a private security firm.  And that wasn't all.
Christian Esch / Spiegel Online:
“I Started Seeing Agents Everywhere”  —  Her father was persecuted, poisoned and imprisoned.  Now Daria Navalnaya discusses her experience during the attack on her father, what he wrote to her from prison and how she feels about the perpetrators. … I wrote to him: You've got to understand …
Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
Chris Noth Accused of Sexual Assault by Two Women  —  Triggered by the recent ‘Sex and the City’ reboot, the women allege two incidents of misconduct they say took place more than a decade apart.
New York Times:
Why 1,320 Therapists Are Worried About Mental Health in America Right Now  —  As Americans head into a third year of pandemic living, therapists around the country are finding themselves on the front lines of a mental health crisis.  Social workers, psychologists and counselors from every state …
 
 
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Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
The Fed's words still don't measure up to the challenge of inflation
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
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Dallas Morning News:
‘Prison gerrymandering’: How inmates are helping the Texas GOP maintain its power
Discussion: Washington Post
Rasmussen Reports:
Generic Congressional Ballot
Discussion: pjmedia.com, Power Line and Instapundit
Rachael Levy / Politico:
Biden admin asks Supreme Court to allow nationwide health worker vax mandate
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Jack Wittels / Bloomberg:
Giant Kites That Drag Cargo Ships Across Oceans Go on Trial
Discussion: Twitchy
Capital Research Center:
BREAKING: New IRS Disclosures Confirm Flood of Private Money to Elections Offices from Zuckerberg Grantee
Discussion: The Federalist
Washington Post:
The Biden administration has been sidelining vaccine experts
Mary Anne Franks / The Boston Globe:
Redo the first two amendments  —  Speech and guns: two of the most contentious issues in America today …
Discussion: Twitchy and The Gun Writer
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Vaccine Holdouts in Army and Navy Will Be Dismissed, Military Says
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Meta:
Taking Action Against the Surveillance-For-Hire Industry