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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Collins to Back Jackson for Supreme Court, Giving Her a G.O.P. Vote  —  Senator Susan Collins, a centrist from Maine, said a second meeting with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson alleviated her concerns.  It is unclear if other Republicans will join her.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
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Washington Post:
Frustrations with Garland grow among Jan. 6 committee members
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and The Hill
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
GOP Sen. Collins says she'll back Jackson for Supreme Court
Washington Post:
Inside Hunter Biden's multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company … The deal was years in the making, the culmination of forging contacts, hosting dinners, of flights to and from China.  But on Aug. 2, 2017, signatures were quickly affixed, one from Hunter Biden, the other from a Chinese executive named Gongwen Dong.
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Washington Post:
Here's how The Post analyzed Hunter Biden's laptop … Thousands of emails purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden, President Biden's son, are authentic communications that can be verified through cryptographic signatures from Google and other technology companies …
Discussion: HotAir and Twitchy
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Hunter Biden saga: Washington Post authenticates laptop after dismissing ‘fake’ scandal in 2020  —  The paper published a lengthy report about Hunter Biden's multimillion-dollar ties to a Chinese company  —  Hunter Biden story resurrected  —  The Washington Post has authenticated thousands …
Washington Post:
Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok … Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok.  —  The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor …
Jon Walker / American Prospect:
Democrats Creating Their Own October Surprise  —  Imminent congressional inaction on Affordable Care Act subsidies will doom 14 million people, the party's midterm chances, and health care reform for a decade.  —  Demonstrating outside the Supreme Court in support of the Affordable Care Act, November 2020
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NBC News:
Senate scrambles to reach funding deal for Covid vaccines, testing and treatment
Discussion: Political Wire
Associated Press:
AP sources: Asylum limits at border expected to end May 23  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is expected to end the asylum limits at the U.S.-Mexico border by May 23 that were put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
President of BlackRock investment firm warns an ‘entitled generation’ needs to brace for shock of shortages and higher inflation: Experts warn Americans will pay an EXTRA $433 a month for basic goods this year  — BlackRock President Rob Kapito made the remark at a conference on Tuesday
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Households Face $5,200 Inflation Tax This Year
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Why Russian troops are using tree branches for camouflage in Ukraine  —  Russian troops in Ukraine have scrambled to avoid detection and attack by using tree branches and straw, even swaths of carpeting, to conceal tanks and other armored vehicles, in what analysts call a surprising lack …
Discussion: New York Times and Reuters
Bloomberg:
Half of Russia's 20 Richest Billionaires Are Not Sanctioned  —  Data and graphics by Raeedah Wahid, Mira Rojanasakul, Marion Halftermeyer and Alex McIntyre  —  Half of Russia's 20 richest people have not been sanctioned over its war in Ukraine, leaving a group of super-rich …
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
The Attacks On Clarence And Ginni Thomas Are Merely Latest In A Decades-Long Smear Campaign  —  Not only are the attacks on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni purely political, they're deeply hypocritical.  —  While claiming its aggressive collection of confidential information …
Discussion: HotAir, The Hill and Washington Post
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Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:   The Hypocritical Attack on Justice Clarence Thomas
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Scoop: FEC fines DNC and Clinton for Trump dossier hoax  —  The Federal Election Commission has fined the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for lying about the funding of the infamous, and discredited, Russian “dossier” used in a smear attempt against Donald Trump weeks …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
Why People Are Acting So Weird  —  Everyone is acting so weird!  The most obvious recent weirdness was when Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the Oscars.  But if you look closely, people have been behaving badly on smaller stages for months now.  Last week, a man was arrested after he punched a gate agent at the Atlanta airport.
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
‘This war is far from over’: History says Russia isn't really interested in peace  —  WASHINGTON — Russian and Ukrainian diplomats appeared to reach the outlines of a ceasefire deal on Tuesday that would halt Moscow's monthlong assault on its much smaller neighbor.
New York Times:
How War in Ukraine Roiled Facebook and Instagram  —  The rules over what war content is permitted on Facebook and Instagram keep changing, causing internal confusion.  —  Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, took an unusual step last week: It suspended some of the quality controls …
Antoinette Siu / Yahoo Entertainment:
Trump's Truth Social App Plummets in Traffic, Sees 93% Drop in Signups Since Launch Week (Exclusive)  —  Former president Donald Trump's Truth Social app is seeing a 93% drop in signups and similarly steep decline in traffic after a rocky rollout last month fraught with technical issues …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Could Trump blow the midterms for the GOP?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  He's back.  —  All signs point to a typical midterm election this year in which the president's party suffers double-digit losses in the House.  The GOP has the big structural advantages on its side …
MSNBC:
Biden approval rating falls despite booming economy  —  The U.S. economy keeps growing at the fastest rate since 1987, the unemployment rate is down, and job growth is up.  But it doesn't seem to be resonating with American voters.  Biden's approval rating has fallen to lowest level of his presidency …
Discussion: Twitchy
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans' Energy Worries Surge  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are significantly more worried about the energy situation in the U.S. than they have been in a decade.  Nearly half of Americans, 47%, say they worry a great deal about the availability and affordability of energy.
Discussion: Washington Examiner, Townhall and IJR
Associated Press:
GOP's Senate campaign chief won't back down from party fight  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Rick Scott likes to think of himself as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War.  —  Barely halfway through his first Senate term, the Florida Republican is already leaning into a fight …
Discussion: Insider and Florida Politics
Bloomberg:
Biden Poised to Invoke Cold-War Powers to Boost Battery Metals  —  President Joe Biden is poised to invoke as soon as this week Cold War powers to encourage domestic production of critical minerals for electric-vehicle and other types of batteries, according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Koch Industries' valentine to Vladimir Putin  —  Give Koch Industries credit for consistency: It's aiding the foes of democracy at home and abroad.  —  In the two weeks since I wrote about U.S. companies that remained in Russia despite Vladimir Putin's savage invasion of Ukraine …
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Buttigieg slams 'Don't Say Gay' bill and ‘nonsensical’ Marjorie Taylor Greene speech  —  American politician and businesswoman from the state of Georgia  —  American teacher, writer, LGBTQ rights advocate  —  Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg sharply criticized Florida's new …
Discussion: The Hill
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
The Government Made This Fake News Broadcast About a Nuclear Attack on Indianapolis  —  Watch a never-before-seen video from Mighty Derringer, a Department of Energy training exercise simulating a nuclear terrorist attack on a major U.S. city.  —  Alerts  —  In December of 1986, the Pentagon …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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