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2:15 PM ET, January 8, 2022

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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Capitol attack panel investigates Trump over potential criminal conspiracy  —  Messages between Mark Meadows and others suggest the Trump White House coordinated efforts to stop Joe Biden's certification  —  The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack is examining whether Donald Trump oversaw …
Discussion: Raw Story, CNN and National Zero
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Claudia Grisales / NPR:
The chair of the Jan. 6 panel says the committee will ask Mike Pence to appear
NBC News:   Jan. 6 committee indicates it will ask Pence to appear this month
Eugene Daniels / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Civil rights leaders see a turning point for Biden  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  SPOTTED: Speaker NANCY PELOSI, Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER and wife, IRIS WEINSHALL, Sens. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-Minn.) and DICK DURBIN (D-Ill.) dining together at Le Diplomate on Friday night.
Discussion: Todd Starnes and Eschaton
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Bryan Marquard / The Boston Globe:
Lani Guinier, civil rights champion and Harvard law professor, dies at 71
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Manchin's $1.8 trillion spending offer appears no longer to be on the table  —  The West Virginia Democrat, who has consulted Mitt Romney and Trump's former economic adviser, had backed climate and education spending, but talks are now on ice  —  The week before Christmas …
New York Times:
Conflict Quickly Emerges Between Top Prosecutor and Police Commissioner  —  A memo by New York City's new police leader sharply questioned Manhattan's new district attorney over his strategy for prosecuting crime.  —  New York City's new police commissioner has expressed severe dissatisfaction …
Discussion: NBC New York and Bloomberg
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The ongoing mortification of Ted Cruz  —  Have you ever watched a wind sock deflate until it is just a sad polyester shell crumpled on the pavement?  Have you ever left some soft cheese near a hot stove and come back to find a demoralized puddle in its place?
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:   Ted Cruz Debases Himself for the Base
Kansas City Star:
Mike Pompeo didn't lose all that weight the way he claims  —  OPINION AND COMMENTARY  —  Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters.  —  BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR EDITORIAL BOARD
New York Times:
As More Teachers' Unions Push for Remote Schooling, Parents Worry.  So Do Democrats.  —  Chicago teachers have voted to go remote.  Other unions are agitating for change.  For Democrats, who promised to keep schools open, the tensions are a distinctly unwelcome development.
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Amanda Prestigiacomo / The Daily Wire:
Matt Walsh Suspended From Twitter Over Transgender Tweets.  Here's What Twitter Has Censored.  —  The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh on Friday night was suspended from Twitter over tweets he posted recognizing biological realities and not so-called “gender identity.”
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Where was Justice Neil Gorsuch's mask?  —  Where was Justice Neil M. Gorsuch's mask?  If you think this sounds like a trivial question, I dissent.  I believe it goes to the heart of our fraying social fabric.  —  When the Supreme Court justices took their seats Friday morning …
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Slate:
COVID Is an Emergency. To SCOTUS's Conservatives, It's Also an Opportunity.
Ninfa Saavedra / Click2Houston.com:
Cy-Fair ISD teacher put 13-year-old son in her trunk while driving to testing site for fear of COVID-19 exposure, documents reveal  —  Ninfa Saavedra, Digital Content Specialist  —  HOUSTON - A mother has been charged after her 13-year-old son was found in the trunk of her car …
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
The racist 1890 law that's still blocking thousands of Black Americans from voting  —  Revealed: Fewer than 200 of those affected have been able to regain their voting rights in the last quarter-century  —  The Mississippi officials met in the heat of summer with a singular goal in mind: stopping Black people from voting.
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Former Elections Boss Now Questions Social Media's Impact on Politics  —  Katie Harbath says she left Facebook disillusioned; now she pushes for more online guardrails  —  Katie Harbath joined Facebook more than a decade ago as the first Republican employee in the company's Washington …
Austin Jenkins / Northwest News Network:
Inslee says lying about elections should be a crime  —  In a surprise announcement Thursday, the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced that he's drafting legislation to make it a crime for elected officials and candidates …
Sam Rosenfeld / Washington Post:
Democracy is on the brink of disaster.  For voters, it's politics as usual. … It was the scariest of times, it was the stablest of times.  —  Contemporary American politics offers an unsettling study in contrasts.  On the one hand, Donald Trump's lies about a stolen presidential election …
wusa9.com:
‘The last straw’ |  After months of curfew violations and threats, DOJ wants Proud Boy locked up  —  Federal prosecutors say Joshua Pruitt has shown he won't abide by court-ordered restrictions while he awaits trial on charges related to January 6.  —  WASHINGTON — The Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune, an ally of McConnell who has been criticized by Trump, will seek reelection  —  Sen. John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, announced Saturday he will run for reelection in 2022, ending months of speculation about whether he would seek to remain in the Senate.
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Covid may raise the risk of diabetes in children, C.D.C. researchers reported.  —  Children who have recovered from Covid-19 appear to be at significantly increased risk of developing Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday.
Discussion: Forbes
 
 
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Washington Post:
CDC director, under fire for confusing guidance, seeks to reshape messaging
Discussion: NPR
Lexi Lonas / The Hill:
Amazon shortens paid leave policy for employees infected with COVID-19
Discussion: UPI and Mother Jones
Natalie Swaby / KING-TV:
Just 1% of the 7 million US climbers are African American, study finds
Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Texas National Guard struggles to pay soldiers, while slashing tuition help by more than half
Discussion: The Texas Tribune
 Earlier Items: 
William Bredderman / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Sought Bizarre Loan as His Jan. 6 Woes Spiraled
Discussion: Raw Story
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Biden, funerals and a bygone America
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Biden, surveying Colorado fire damage, comforts families and promotes agenda
Discussion: UPI, Washington Post and Reuters
Human Rights Watch:
UAE: State Security Retaliates Against Ahmed Mansoor
Discussion: middleeastmonitor.com
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
America's Omicron Wave Already Looks More Severe Than Europe's
Politico:
Drudge hits ‘mute’ on Biden
 

 
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Rodney Tiffen / Inside Story:
Court discovery docs from the UK's News Group phone hacking cases give more detail about evidence destruction and indicate the company gathered political intel

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: WBD continues to hold talks with the NBA about keeping the rights, but it's more likely the league signs papers with NBCUniversal, forcing WBD to match

BBC:
Tony O'Reilly, one of Ireland's leading businessmen, who had owned the Independent, Belfast Telegraph, and over 100 newspapers, dies at 88 after a short illness
 
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