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11:15 PM ET, January 10, 2022

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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Home COVID tests to be covered by insurers starting Saturday  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans.  The Biden administration announced the change Monday as it looks …
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Washington Post:
U.S. poised to break record 142,000 covid-19 hospitalizations … The United States is poised to surpass its record for covid-19 hospitalizations as soon as Tuesday, with no end in sight to skyrocketing case loads, falling staff levels and the struggles of a medical system trying to provide care amid …
Discussion: Reuters, NBC Los Angeles and CalMatters
CMS:
Biden-Harris Administration Requires Insurance Companies and Group Health Plans to Cover the Cost of At-Home COVID-19 Tests, Increasing Access to Free Tests  —  As part of its ongoing efforts across many channels to expand Americans' access to free testing, the Biden-Harris Administration …
Amy Graff / SFGATE:
Head of UCSF's ER dept.: Hospital surge isn't what you may think  —  Tahoe man who went missing during storm found dead near homes  —  Why Klay Thompson's biggest sponsor barely recognized his return  —  The weird reason Draymond was only in for one play on Klay Day
Discussion: NBC Bay Area, BizPac Review and FOX40
Sarah Zhang / The Atlantic:
Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID
Discussion: The Federalist
Davey Alba / New York Times:
Covid Test Misinformation Spikes Along With Spread of Omicron
Discussion: FOX40, KXAN-TV and NBC4 Washington
Maggie Astor / New York Times:   Covid Live Updates: U.S. Hospitalizations Break Record as Omicron Surges
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
West Virginia's coal miners just made Joe Manchin's life a lot harder  —  For months, Sen. Joe Manchin III has sold his opposition to the Build Back Better proposal as driven uniformly by a brave and hardheaded assessment of the national interest.  He has warned that BBB will fuel inflation …
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Jeff Goodell / Rolling Stone:
Manchin's Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew  —  The senator from West Virginia is bought and paid for by Big Coal.  With his help the dying industry is pulling one final heist — and the entire planet may pay the price  —  One of the hardest things to grasp about the climate crisis is the connectedness of all things.
Discussion: The Mahablog
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Mocking anti-vaxxers' deaths is ghoulish, yes — but necessary  —  Among all the ways that COVID-19 affects our lives, the pandemic confronts us with a profound moral dilemma:  —  How should we react to the deaths of the unvaccinated?  —  On the one hand, a hallmark of civilized thought is the sense that every life is precious.
New York Times:
Mike Pence Seen as Key Witness in Jan. 6 Investigation  —  Getting the former vice president to answer questions under oath could be crucial as the House panel focuses on Donald Trump's responsibility for the Capitol riot.  —  As the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault …
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New York Times:
Voting Rights Groups Skipping Biden's Speech in Georgia Over Inaction  —  Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, also will not be there, but she cited a scheduling conflict.  —  When President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris deliver major speeches on voting rights …
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MSNBC:   CEO of the New Georgia Project wants Biden's GA speech to be a ‘recognition of the crisis moment’
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
In pivot to voting rights, Biden risks falling short on a second big goal
Discussion: CNN, NBC News, RedState and The Hill
Associated Press:
Speaker: Nashville US House seat to split in redistricting  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republicans plan to carve fast-growing Nashville into multiple congressional seats, making it potentially easier for the state's Republican-dominated congressional delegation to flip …
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Melissa Brown / The Tennessean:
Tennessee Republicans plan to split Nashville congressional seat
Discussion: Breitbart
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Mitch McConnell's Electoral Count Act offer is a poison pill for voting rights  —  Fate of voting rights legislation rests on pressure from ‘spotlight of history’  —  The Electoral Count Act, the law governing how Congress certifies presidential elections, is filled with gaps and ambiguities.
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
McConnell Issues Threat to Democrats on Filibuster Changes
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Wire
Politico:
Dems' filibuster conundrum: It's not just Manchin and Sinema  —  A Democratic senator from Arizona is still not sold on changes to the filibuster.  And it's not Kyrsten Sinema.  —  Mark Kelly is not yet committed to a change in the Senate rules that would allow elections reform legislation to pass by a simple majority.
Discussion: Fox News and National Review
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Fox, MSNBC and CNN show differing directions with new hosts and shows  —  New York (CNN Business)On Monday morning CNN, MSNBC and Fox all made programming announcements that doubled as statements about each network's positioning in the news and talk marketplace.
Discussion: Variety
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Gary D. Robertson / Associated Press:
North Carolina voters dispute Cawthorn candidacy over Jan. 6  —  A group of North Carolina voters want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified as a congressional candidate  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — A group of North Carolina voters told state officials on Monday they want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified …
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Jeff Asher / The Atlantic:
The Data Are Pointing to One Major Driver of America's Murder Spike  —  After murders in the United States soared to more than 21,000 in 2020, researchers began searching for a definitive explanation why.  Many factors may have contributed, such as a pandemic-driven loss of social programs …
Washington Post:
More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people.  This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.  —  The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents
Discussion: Supercreator
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
GOP steps up bid to convince Hogan to run for Senate in Md.  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans are stepping up a personal campaign to persuade Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to run for the Senate and help the party's chances of regaining control of the chamber.
Discussion: Political Wire
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
How do we know Trump's election fraud claims are bogus?  Take a look at Pennsylvania.  —  Former president Donald Trump, like a tone-deaf musician, used the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot last week to once again allege, without evidence, that the 2020 election was rigged.
Discussion: Election Law Blog
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Trump calls GOP senator a ‘jerk’ after he rejects former president's false claims of widespread election fraud
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Greg Gutfeld has risen to the top at Fox News — and that's no joke  —  NEW YORK — Greg Gutfeld is picking through a long, narrow closet.  He wrenches a painting from the depth of the clutter.  A painting of himself.  That familiar arched right eyebrow.  That sideways grin.
Nic Newman / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2022  —  1. The business of journalism is looking up for some |  2. Audience strategies and publisher innovation |  3. The practice of journalism: hybrid newsrooms, generational change, and new agendas |  4. Government regulation, privacy, and the future of platforms |
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
Fed vice chair to resign over stock trading controversy  —  Richard Clarida is the third Federal Reserve official to quit over questionable behavior during the coronavirus pandemic  —  Richard Clarida, the Federal Reserve's vice chair, announced Monday that he will resign …
Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Two coups and no election later, West Africa cuts off Mali  —  DAKAR, Senegal — Eighteen months ago, military officers in Mali ousted the president and seized power in a coup d'etat.  Seven months ago, they did it again.  The West African nation of 20 million was supposed to hold a new election …
Jacob Holmes / Alabama Political Reporter:
Doug Jones calls for building “pro-democracy coalition”  —  Although Jones placed the events of Jan. 6 on the radical right, he called for voters to avoid electing extreme candidates on either side.  —  Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones is calling on citizens to “build a pro-democracy coalition” …
Adam Beam / Associated Press:
California's Newsom wants health coverage for all immigrants  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Backed by soaring revenues amid the pandemic, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday proposed a budget that would pay for the health care of all the state's low-income residents living in the country illegally …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Kevin McCarthy Plans to Strip Ilhan Omar off Foreign Affairs, Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff off Intelligence Committee  —  House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News that as speaker of the House he would strip Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) …
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
America has rejected fascism before  —  The 2020s are similar to the 1940s.  —  Editorial Board readers are familiar with my obsession with political time - or how one party and its ideas prevail with a majority of Americans for four or five decades before falling into a period of transition …
 
 
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia Airs Bizarre Jan. 6 Spectacle Featuring Ashli Babbitt's Mom
Discussion: Raw Story and TASS
CNN:
Democrats scramble to sink Cruz's plan to impose sanctions over Nord Stream pipeline
Discussion: The Hill and Wall Street Journal
Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
US ‘Unequivocal’ to Russia on Right of Ukraine, Others, to Join NATO
Faye Higbee / The Lid:
Antifa Member Arrested With Explosives in Florida
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Lisa Murkowski Mocks Trump's ‘Very Bizarre’ Endorsement Of Alaska Governor
Evita Duffy / The Federalist:
Disgraced FBI No. 2 Andrew McCabe Calls For Feds To Treat ‘Mainstream’ Conservatives Like Domestic Terrorists
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Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
Yale, Georgetown, Other Top Schools Illegally Collude to Limit Student Financial Aid, Lawsuit Alleges
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Why More Americans Are Saying They're ‘Vaxxed and Done’
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
I Spent Insurrection Week Listening to Steve Bannon
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish steps down; Brian Robbins, Chris McCarthy, and George Cheeks will run Paramount on an interim basis as an “Office of the CEO”

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Shari Redstone agreed to take less than $2B for her Paramount stake as part of Skydance's “best and final” offer, lower than what was initially offered

 
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