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10:40 AM ET, January 9, 2022

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Ron Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Seeking a Third Senate Term  —  I'd like to retire, but I think the country is in too much peril.  —  I decided to run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 because growing entitlements and out-of-control federal spending had exploded our national debt to $14 trillion.
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Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Republican leadership bars journalists from Iowa Senate floor, worrying press advocates  —  When Iowa's 2022 legislative session commences Monday, there will be a notable absence on the floor of the state Senate: reporters.  —  Republican leaders in the state Senate told journalists last week …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Ron Johnson, G.O.P. Senator From Wisconsin, Will Seek Re-election  —  The renewed bid for office by Mr. Johnson, who has spread many false claims about the 2020 election and Covid, ensures that both parties will be highly invested in Wisconsin's 2022 Senate race.
Discussion: NBC News
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
How a Simple Twist of Fate Could End Democrats' Control of the Senate
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
U.S. experts offer a sensible strategy for living with covid.  Biden should listen.  —  Quite understandably, the coronavirus pandemic at first was a dire emergency.  But it can't be one forever.  The crisis will have to shift to a manageable health threat without massive disruption and overwhelming anxiety.
Wall Street Journal:
How the Trump Social-Media Ban Paid Off for Trump, Platforms  —  One year after being kicked off Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, the former president is raking in campaign cash and planning his own social-media company  —  For an entire year, Donald Trump has been banned from mainstream social-media outlets.
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Graham: 'These are the most dangerous times since the late ‘30s’  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted on Sunday that in 2022 Americans will vote “not based on what happened on January 6th, but based on this failed Democratic radical agenda,” claiming that because of that agenda the nation …
Discussion: The National and New York Post
Washington Post:
Trump's Cable Cabinet: New texts reveal the influence of Fox hosts on previous White House  —  Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to President Donald Trump, remembers the challenges that came from so many Fox News hosts having the direct number to reach Trump in the White House residence.
Dawn Fallik / Washington Post:
They bought a blender.  Three weeks later, their cats continue to hold it hostage.  —  On Black Friday, Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves bought a blender.  It was a Vitamix blender, a professional-grade splurge, and the couple was looking forward to a winter of smoothies and soups.
Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Biden shied away from news conferences, interviews in Year 1  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In what's become a familiar scene President Joe Biden lingered after delivering a recent speech on the pandemic as reporters fired a barrage of questions.  —  He bristled at a query about the shortage …
Carter Walker / LancasterOnline:
Militia, ‘patriots’ met in Lancaster County 3 days before Jan. 6 Capitol attack; here's a look at why  —  On a cold January day last year, more than two dozen people gathered inside a meeting hall at the Solanco Fairgrounds in Quarryville, a wide-open room that typically hosts …
Reuters:
EXCLUSIVE Baby lost in chaos of Afghanistan airlift found, returned to family  —  An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturday.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
White Supremacist Group Patriot Front Heckled Out of Chicago March for Life  —  RUN OUT THE RACISTS  —  A white supremacist group encountered a less-than-receptive crowd during an anti-abortion march in Chicago on Saturday.  Clad in khaki pants, blue jackets, and white balaclavas …
Discussion: Insider
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
A Rise in Deadly Border Patrol Chases Renews Concerns About Accountability  —  The increasing number of deaths adds urgency to questions about when and how agents should engage in high-speed chases as they pursue smugglers and migrants.  —  WASHINGTON — Angie Simms had been searching …
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Obama, Biden pay tribute to Harry Reid: ‘Brilliant, sometimes irascible, deeply good’  —  LAS VEGAS — President Biden and former president Barack Obama, speaking at former Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid's memorial service Saturday, lavished praised on Reid's pragmatic, dealmaking style …
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John Wright / Raw Story:
Pence wants to testify in Jan. 6 probe but fears backlash from MAGA base: Former aide
Discussion: HuffPost
Bhavan Jaipragas / South China Morning Post:
Myanmar military's massacres mount as activists call for arms embargo
Discussion: Barbed Wires
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
Next Target for Epstein Prosecutors Could Be His Assistant Sarah Kellen
Discussion: Raw Story
Theo Wayt / New York Post:
Jon Ossoff expected to snub Pelosi by pushing ban on Congress stock trades
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Cyber Ninjas, Derided for Arizona Vote Review, Says It Is Shutting Down
Associated Press:
Explosives found at Florida man's home after arrest at rally
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
New York hospitals admit that nearly HALF of their ‘covid’ patients were admitted for other reasons after Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered them to disclose the key statistic
Discussion: lewrockwell.com
Jacob Fraden / American Thinker:
Why are Caucasians Vanishing in TV Commercials?
Discussion: lewrockwell.com
New York Post:
NYPD commissioner blasts Manhattan DA's lenient agenda in letter to NYPD officers
Discussion: Breitbart and TheGrio
Andreas Rinke / Reuters:
German SPD official defends pro-Nord Stream 2 policy
Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Was January 6 an Inside Job?
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Where was Justice Neil Gorsuch's mask?
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
C-SPAN's own business choices keep the network from being offered on streaming TV platforms like YouTube TV, as it stays reliant on cable and satellite funding

John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times:
Studies show a negativity bias in US coverage of the economy and gas prices, particularly cable news, as the tone of economic news moves away from reality

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Memo: Spotify's head of podcast studios, Julie McNamara, is leaving the company after nearly three years, emphasizing Spotify's reduced ambitions in podcasts

 
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