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5:05 PM ET, January 12, 2023

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Second Set of Classified Documents Were Found at Biden's Wilmington Home, White House Says  —  A statement by the president's special counsel confirmed reports that more documents had been uncovered after a previous batch was found at a think tank.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House …
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NBC News:
Multiple Biden aides have been interviewed by federal law enforcement in classified document review  —  WASHINGTON — Multiple aides who worked for President Joe Biden in the final days of the Obama administration have been interviewed by federal law enforcement officials reviewing …
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Garland Names Special Counsel to Oversee Biden Documents Probe  —  Attorney General Merrick Garland said he has appointed a special counsel to oversee the investigation of the documents matter associated with President Joe Biden from his time as vice president.
Fox News:
Democrat suggests classified docs in Biden's home, office may have been ‘planted’ after second batch found  —  ‘Things can be planted in places and then discovered conveniently.  That may be what has occurred here,’ Rep. Johnson told Fox  —  Rep. Hank Johnson suggests classified docs …
New York Times:
Biden says he takes classified documents seriously and is cooperating with the Justice Department.
Washington Post:
Garland appoints special counsel to probe Biden classified documents
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Garland appoints special counsel to review Biden documents
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
More classified documents found at Biden's Wilmington home, in garage, White House special counsel says
New York Times:
The Mysterious, Unregistered Fund That Raised Big Money for Santos  —  A review of records and newly uncovered documents reveals that efforts to elect George Santos may have run afoul of campaign finance rules.  —  A month before George Santos was elected to Congress, one of his large donors received …
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Mother Jones:
Another Santos Money Mystery: He Struck a Curious Business Deal With a Veteran GOP Operative
Discussion: Washington Post
Josh Barro / Very Serious:
Gas Stoves Should Be a Matter of Individual Choice  —  Appliances are important, and politicians and the public need to be brought in on sweeping regulation.  —  Dear readers,  —  Douglas has written in with a timely question: … “There is this misconception that if you want to do fine-dining kind …
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Axios:
Right's new fight: Gas stoves
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Exclusive: Alex Jones Phone Dump Reveals Text Convos With Tucker Carlson  —  “Everyone who thought it was fine that they deplatformed Alex Jones will look like a f**king moron,” Tucker Carlson told the Infowars boss in a text.  —  In early March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic began …
Rodric Hurdle-Bradford / Raw Story:
‘Lost their minds’: Missouri Dems cry foul over GOP-proposed dress code for female state lawmakers  —  The Missouri House of Representatives has started off 2023 receiving scrutiny nationwide as they have debated the proper attire that women legislators should wear when they are on the floor …
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NBC News:
Rep. George Santos says he'll resign if ‘142 people’ ask him to  —  Rep. George Santos, the newly sworn-in New York Republican under fire for fabricating large parts of his résumé, told NBC News on Thursday that “if 142 people ask for me to resign, I will resign.”
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Jeffries to GOP on Santos: ‘Clean up your house’
Washington Post:
Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in U.S.  —  At points in the past half-century, many U.S. antisemitism experts thought this country could be aging out of it, that hostility and prejudice against Jews were fading in part because younger Americans held more accepting views than did older ones.
Discussion: Haaretz
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Axios:
Historic transportation crises haunt Buttigieg  —  A historic string of air, rail and supply-chain meltdowns has plagued Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's first two years in office, placing him — for better or worse — at the center of crises affecting millions of people.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:   Heck of a Morning, Axios!
Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
First on CNN: US Navy veteran released from Russian custody  —  An American Navy veteran who has been detained in Russia for nearly a year was released from Russian custody on Thursday, his family's spokesperson told CNN, after months of negotiations spearheaded by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Exxon Scientists Predicted Global Warming, Even as Company Cast Doubts, Study Finds  —  Starting in the 1970s, scientists working for the oil giant made remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the planet.  —  In the late 1970s, scientists at Exxon fitted …
Sam Fleming / Financial Times:
Sweden discovers biggest rare earths deposit in EU  —  Lapland mine could help reduce Europe's dependence on China imports  —  Sweden's state-owned mining company LKAB has said it has discovered Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals.  The discovery bolsters the continent's ambition …
SBF / SBF's Substack:
FTX Pre-Mortem Overview  —  Summary  —  In mid November, FTX International became effectively insolvent.  The FTX saga, at the end of the day, is somewhere between that of Voyager and Celsius.  —  Three things combined together to cause the implosion:
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Party Preferences Evenly Split in 2022 After Shift to GOP  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' party preferences were evenly divided in 2022, with 45% of U.S. adults identifying as Republican or saying they were Republican-leaning independents, and 44% identifying as Democrats or saying they were Democratic-leaning independents.
Politico:
What to do about Sotomayor  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  Back in 2013, then President BARACK OBAMA quietly met with Supreme Court Justice RUTH BADER GINSBURG to subtly encourage …
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Climate Startup Removes Carbon From Open Air in Industry First  —  Climeworks cashes in on new technology by selling carbon credits to Microsoft and others  —  One of the most important technologies to address climate change got a boost Thursday when a startup said it pulled carbon dioxide from the open air and stored it underground.
Discussion: CBS News and Washington Examiner
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump discussed using a nuclear weapon on North Korea in 2017 and blaming it on someone else, book says  —  WASHINGTON — Behind closed doors in 2017, President Donald Trump discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea and suggested he could blame a U.S. strike …
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
Minnesota Poised To Ban Christians, Muslims, And Jews From Teaching In Public Schools  —  New licensing rules in Minnesota that require teachers to ‘affirm’ students' transgender identities will meet immediate court challenges from civil liberties advocates.
Discussion: American Experiment and RedState
Chris Morris / Fast Company:
The seismic shift that has brands like Sony and Sennheiser disrupting the hearing aids market  —  Once the Food and Drug Administration announced last August that it would let some hearing aids be sold over the counter for the first time, it seemed clear that the technology would be all over the Consumer Electronics Show this year.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
McCarthy says he's willing to look at expunging a Trump impeachment  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he's willing to take a look at expunging an impeachment of former president Donald Trump by the Democratic-led House.  —  Trump — now a 2024 candidate …
Discussion: Politico
David Strom / HotAir:
I can't unhear this, so I share the pain with you  —  I have tried assiduously to avoid all the Harry and Meghan, and failed as miserably as every online person in the world.  —  Americans love the Royals, and I have to admit that I loved The Crown and have opinions about King Charles that are unflattering …
Insider:
Steve Bannon has ghosted his ‘We Build The Wall’ defense lawyers for months in what prosecutors call a delay tactic  — Steve Bannon was in Manhattan court Thursday for a hearing in his border wall charity scam case.  — His lawyers told the judge that Bannon has refused to talk to them for months.
Eric Nagourney / New York Times:
The wife of a jailed Russian opposition leader urges he be given medical treatment.  —  Yulia Navalny said that her ailing husband, Aleksei Navalny, was being held in a small cell with a sicker person to infect him, and was not allowed to lie down throughout the day despite having a fever.
Discussion: The Moscow Times and UPI
New York Times:
U.S. Deficit Fell to $1.4 Trillion in 2022  —  The deficit was down from $2.6 trillion a year earlier, as pandemic emergency spending slowed, the economy reopened and tax revenue rose.  The new figures come as spending fights loom in a divided Congress.  —  WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit fell …
Ari Blaff / National Review:
‘Not An Accurate Description’: MSNBC Anchor Chides Reporter for Using ‘Pro-Life’ On-Air  —  MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell chided the network's senior Capitol Hill correspondent, Garrett Haake, on Thursday for using the term “pro-life” during an on-air discussion of the Republican-backed Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act.
 
 
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Politico:
Ro Khanna says he's looking at the Senate. His allies are talking about the White House.
Discussion: USA Today
Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
Anger brews in Italy over Ireland's plans for alcohol health warnings
Discussion: National Review
Umar A Farooq / Middle East Eye:
‘Criticise Israel, you can be cancelled’: Outrage after former HRW chief denied Harvard fellowship
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Joe Manchin's top aide to join oil and gas lobbying group
Oliver O'Connell / The Independent:
Canada suffers same mysterious air system outage as US, delaying more flights
Discussion: BRIGHT
 Earlier Items: 
Gwynn Guilford / Wall Street Journal:
December Inflation Report to Show Whether Price Increases Continued to Moderate
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Man arrested at gunpoint in DeSantis voter fraud crackdown, video shows
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Gabby Deutch / Jewish Insider:
Josh Shapiro to use Tree of Life Bible at Pa. governor inauguration
Discussion: PennLive
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump prepares to open next phase of 2024 campaign in South Carolina
 

 
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