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7:05 AM ET, January 24, 2022

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New York Times:
Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics  —  The president is also considering deploying warships and aircraft to NATO allies, in what would be a major shift from its restrained stance on Ukraine.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden is considering deploying …
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US draws down Ukraine embassy presence as war fears mount  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Sunday ordered the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine to leave the country amid heightened fears of a Russian invasion.  —  The department told the dependents …
Washington Post:
U.S. threatens use of novel export control to damage Russia's strategic industries if Moscow invades Ukraine  —  The Biden administration is threatening to use a novel export control to damage strategic Russian industries, from artificial intelligence and quantum computing to civilian aerospace …
John Hudson / Washington Post:
State Department orders diplomats' families to leave U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, citing ‘threat of Russian military action’  —  The United States ordered the departure of family members of U.S. Embassy personnel serving in Kyiv on Sunday, citing the “threat of Russian military action,” the State Department said in a statement.
Discussion: New York Post and Politico
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Biden weighs troop deployment near Ukraine as U.S. orders embassy families out, issues travel warnings  —  Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin briefed President Joe Biden on Saturday about U.S. options for responding if Russia invades Ukraine as well as options for U.S. military movements …
Discussion: CBS News, CNN and The Daily Wire
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Top Jan. 6 Investigator Fired From Post at the University of Virginia  —  Democrats in Virginia denounced the action as a partisan move aimed at helping former President Donald J. Trump undercut the investigation of the Capitol riot.  —  The top staff investigator on the House committee scrutinizing …
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Washington Post:
Va.'s new attorney general fires U-Va. counsel who was on leave working as top investigator for Jan. 6 panel  —  Virginia's new Republican attorney general has fired University of Virginia's counsel, who was on leave from the job to work as the top investigator for U.S. House …
Lauren O'Neil / The Cavalier Daily:
University Counsel Tim Heaphy removed by Attorney General Jason Miyares
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Start the Steal: New MAGA Emails Reveal Plot to Hand Arizona to Trump  —  Exclusive emails obtained by Rolling Stone expose an attempt to recertify the state as a victory for Donald Trump — and reveal top Trumpworld figures were complicit  —  The technology was complicated, but the plan was simple …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Financial Times:
China's extended naval reach in western Pacific fuels Taiwan tensions  —  Deployment of warships near southern Japan and east of Taipei is big expansion of Beijing's military presence  —  China has established a constant naval presence close to southern Japan and eastern Taiwan …
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Reuters:
Taiwan reports new large-scale Chinese air force incursion  —  Taiwan on Sunday reported the largest incursion since October by China's air force in its air defence zone, with the island's defence ministry saying Taiwanese fighters scrambled to warn away 39 aircraft in the latest uptick in tensions.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Sarah Palin v. New York Times Spotlights Push to Loosen Libel Law  —  The trial comes at a time when those who argue that news outlets should pay a steeper price for getting something wrong are more emboldened than they've been in decades.  —  When Donald J. Trump called for scrapping laws …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Sarah Palin v. New York Times goes to trial
Kara Voght / Rolling Stone:
'I'm a Full Anti-Vaxxer Now': How the Conspiracists Are Winning Over Fresh Converts  —  When thousands of protesters gathered on the National Mall on Sunday morning to protest Covid vaccine mandates, they did so, they insisted, to preserve personal freedoms.
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Katie Kyros / wusa9.com:
Thousands rally in DC Sunday against vaccine mandates
Discussion: The Hill
Reuters:
Exclusive: Iran nuclear agreement unlikely without release of U.S. prisoners, negotiator says  —  The United States is unlikely to strike an agreement with Iran to save the 2015 Iran nuclear deal unless Tehran releases four U.S. citizens Washington says it is holding hostage, the lead U.S. nuclear negotiator told Reuters on Sunday.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Tom Rogan / Wall Street Journal:
Is Germany a Reliable American Ally?  Nein  —  Berlin goes its own way, prizing cheap gas, car exports to China, and keeping Putin calm.  —  As Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine looms, most Western allies are acting to support Kyiv and reassure vulnerable members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Tom Emmer's on a roll.  He won't say where to.  —  Tom Emmer has the hottest political hand in the House GOP right now.  And if he can win a sizable majority this fall, he'll have even more chips to cash in.  —  Halfway through his second cycle as House Republicans' campaign chief …
Discussion: ABC News
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Israeli soldiers blindfolded and gagged elderly Palestinian American later found dead: Leaked report  —  Details of an army investigation obtained by Israeli media indicate troops didn't seek aid for the unresponsive detainee, but none are likely to be prosecuted.
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
D.C. Is a Donut.  There Is No Center in Washington Politics  —  Pundits blame progressives for Biden's sagging approval ratings, but the left represents more of America than it does in Congress. … “Blame the left” is Washington's latest craze.  —  It would not be surprising if it were just coming from the GOP.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Sanders: ‘anti-democratic’ Republicans to blame for Biden woes, not just Manchin and Sinema
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The question is no longer Donald Trump's criminality but whether America will care  —  America still had the naïve ability to be shocked back on Nov. 16, 1973, when a rambling then-President Richard Nixon stood up before 400 Associated Press journalists.
Discussion: Slate, Bloomberg, CNN and Washington Post
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Discussion: The Hill
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Al Jazeera:
Turkish journalist arrested for insulting President Erdogan
Discussion: CNN and WTOP News
 Earlier Items: 
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
If the media treated Biden like they did Trump, Trump would've been reelected
Discussion: TheBlaze, OutKick and The Wrap
Louisa Loveluck / Washington Post:
U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces battles to regain control of prison for Islamic State suspects
Discussion: New York Times
Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Harriet Hageman wins big in congressional straw poll held by Wyoming GOP activists
Discussion: Breitbart, New York Post and The Hill
Isabella Grullón Paz / New York Times:
Litter Boxes for Students Who Identify as Furries? Not So, Says School Official
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San Francisco Chronicle:
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Reuters:
After oral arguments, SCOTUS appeared wary of curbing US government contacts with social media platforms in the First Amendment case of Murthy v. Missouri

 
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