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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Pushes Back on Candace Owens Undermining Vaccine: 'People Aren't Dying When They Take the Vaccine'  —  Former President Donald Trump pushed back on Candace Jones during a recent interview when the conservative commentator appeared to be undermining the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines to hurt President Joe Biden politically.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Daily Wire
New York Times:
Kamala Harris's Allies Express Concern: Is She an Afterthought?  —  The vice president's allies are increasingly concerned that President Biden relied on her to win but does not need her to govern.  —  WASHINGTON — The president needed the senator from West Virginia on his side …
Discussion: HotAir and Outside the Beltway
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Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Biden tells ABC's David Muir ‘yes’ he'll run again, Trump rematch would ‘increase the prospect’  —  He spoke with “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir in an exclusive interview.  —  President Joe Biden said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with ABC “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir that …
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
The Obscure Charge Jan. 6 Investigators Are Looking at for Trump  —  Prosecutors have hit 240 insurrectionists with the rare charge of obstructing an official congressional proceeding.  The Jan. 6 Committee might be looking at that charge for Trump.  —  As federal prosecutors increasingly use …
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New York Times:
Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?  —  Mr. Tribe taught constitutional law at Harvard for 50 years.  Merrick Garland was one of his students.  Mr. Ayer oversaw criminal prosecutions and investigations as Ronald Reagan's U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California.
Discussion: Raw Story
Monique Beals / The Hill:
Five arrested in connection with carjacking of House Democrat  —  Five suspects were arrested on Wednesday in connection with “an armed carjacking incident” earlier in the day involving Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), authorities said.  —  Delaware State Police also announced that they had located …
Discussion: Political Wire
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon carjacked and robbed in South Philly after touring FDR Park
Jasonhatchell / Delaware State Police:
5 Suspects in Custody After Congresswoman's Stolen Vehicle Located- Newark
Discussion: Washington Post
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: US intel and satellite images show Saudi Arabia is now building its own ballistic missiles with help of China  —  Washington (CNN)US intelligence agencies have assessed that Saudi Arabia is now actively manufacturing its own ballistic missiles with the help of China …
Discussion: Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
The problem with performative centrism  —  In basically every major institution in America, there are powerful figures who I doubt voted for Donald Trump but nonetheless play down the radicalism of the Republican Party, belittle those who speak honestly about it or otherwise act in ways that make it harder to combat that radicalism.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:   Enough despair. We cannot be victims of excessive expectations.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sets special hearing for Biden's vaccine rules for health-care workers, private businesses
NBC Chicago:
Illinois State Senator Carjacked in Suburban Broadview  —  Illinois State Sen. Kimberly Lightford and her husband were the victims of a carjacking in a Chicago suburb Tuesday evening, authorities said.  —  The Broadview Police Department said three masked people driving a Durango SUV hijacked …
Kyle Blaine / CNN:
Biden says he supports filibuster carve-out for voting rights  —  Washington (CNN)President Joe Biden says he supports making an exception to the Senate filibuster rules in order to pass voting rights legislation.  —  “If the only thing standing between getting voting rights legislation passed …
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Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
President Biden to ABC's David Muir on at-home COVID testing: 'Nothing's been good enough'
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
President Biden to ABC's David Muir: Accountability needed for Jan. 6 insurrection ‘no matter where it goes’
Discussion: Fox News and Politico
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Lack of trust puts the unvaccinated at risk  —  Unvaccinated Americans' already low trust in the federal government plummeted over the course of 2021, exacerbating the challenges in getting the pandemic under control, according to a year's worth of data from the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Jim Jordan says he has ‘real concerns’ with Jan. 6 panel after sit-down request  —  Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said on Wednesday that he has “real concerns” about the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which requested to sit down with him in a letter earlier in the day.
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Conor Shaw / Just Security:   The Path to Real Accountability: The Timetable and Track Record of the Jan. 6 Select Committee
Natasha Khan / Wall Street Journal:
Hong Kong University Pulls Down Monument to Tiananmen Massacre Victims  —  Sculptor says he is shocked by actions to remove ‘Pillar of Shame’  —  HONG KONG—The governing body of the city's oldest university ordered the removal of a statue commemorating the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre …
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AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Madison Cawthorn Announces Divorce From Wife 8 Months After Wedding  —  CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING  —  Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) and his wife, Cristina Cawthorn, are divorcing after less than a year of marriage.  The North Carolina lawmaker cited his time in Congress …
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Walker's financial disclosure give us a peak into a sports icon's wealth  —  U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker's financial disclosures were posted late Wednesday, and it shows he has a number of lucrative businesses.The document shows his umbrella organization for his various business endeavors …
Angela Haupt / Washington Post:
Thousands who ‘followed the rules’ are about to get covid.  They shouldn't be ashamed.  —  For two years now, Aline, a 30-something graduate student in Ohio, has diligently — desperately, even — protected herself against the coronavirus.  Vaccinated and boosted, she took a test last week ahead of holiday travel to Atlanta.
Discussion: BizPac Review and Althouse
Politico:
Senate GOP feels another Trump effect: The rise of celeb candidates  —  The most reliable springboard to the Senate used to be House experience — before Donald Trump vaulted from reality TV to the White House.  —  Five years after Trump went from celebrity to the presidency …
Roger Scruton / The New Criterion:
The right targets  —  Introducing “Common-good conservatism: a debate.”  —  Conservatism may rarely announce itself in maxims, formulae or aims.  Its essence is inarticulate, and its expression, when compelled, sceptical.  —  A large part of this issue of The New Criterion is devoted …
New York Times:
Trump Fraud Inquiry Won't Be Resolved When Vance's Term Ends Next Week  —  After leading a three-year investigation into the former president, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., will hand it to his successor.  —  The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., has run out of time.
Gregg Gonsalves / Washington Post:
President Biden is failing on covid-19  —  Gregg Gonsalves is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and associate professor (adjunct) at Yale Law School.  He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.  —  I've lived through two pandemics in my lifetime, first AIDS and now covid-19.
Discussion: The Hill and Deseret News
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David Gilbert / VICE:
People Got Sick at a Conspiracy Conference.  They're Sure It's Anthrax.  —  The fact that the conference was likely a COVID outbreak and superspreader event has been almost entirely ignored.  —  DG  —  A group of unvaccinated people who attended a huge conspiracy conference in Dallas earlier …
 
 
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Sky Palma / Raw Story:
Mike Lindell associate insists election officials should face execution: ‘After the Nuremberg trials, there were hangings and firing squads’
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
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NBC News:
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Melissa Block / NPR:
The clear and present danger of Trump's enduring ‘Big Lie’
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Jonathan Blitzer / New Yorker:
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Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
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Peter Hamby / Puck:
The Biden Youth Bomb
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Ruby Cramer / Politico:
‘Have I Hit Bottom?’: Michael Avenatti and the Fall of a Trump-Era Antihero
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