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6:35 PM ET, January 15, 2023

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Eugene Daniels / Politico:

POLITICO Playbook: Three storylines to watch in Biden's document drama — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — HAPPENING NOW — “Biden speech at Ebenezer to bring focus to King's legacy, likely to president's as well,"by The Atlanta Journal …

Discussion: CNN, Forbes and CBS News

United States House Committee on Oversight …:

Comer Calls on White House to Release Biden's Wilmington Residence Visitor Log, Questions Why Biden Aides Continue to Search Properties in Wake of Special Counsel — WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today is calling on White House Chief …

Discussion: The Hill, Vanity Fair, Fox News, CBS News, Townhall, Breitbart, Washington Times, RedState, Washington Post, BizPac Review, CNBC, Bloomberg, ABC News, CNN, New York Times and Wall Street Journal

Daniella Cheslow / Wall Street Journal:
House GOP Seeks Biden Residence Visitor Logs as Classified-Document Saga Continues

Discussion: Associated Press, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Bloomberg, CBS News, The Guardian, Media Matters for America and Japan Times

Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Biden speech at Ebenezer to bring focus to King's legacy, likely to president's as well

Discussion: USA Today, UPI, The Guardian and CNN

Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Biden documents bungle seen as political black eye before 2024 launch

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Hill, The Truth Patrol and Fox News

Stephanie Saul / New York Times:

What College Admissions Could Look Like Without Affirmative Action — Schools may need to rethink everything, including recruitment, scholarships, standardized testing and alumni preferences. — MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — In 1964, hoping to erase its image as a privileged cloister for white rich families …

Discussion: RedState and WISH-TV

Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:

Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who's Winning? — The outsider streaming site that just partnered up with Donald Trump Jr. is growing — but not in the way most people think — TO RING IN 2023, the social video site Rumble announced an exclusive partnership with Donald Trump Jr. Beginning …

Washington Post:

Harbor City called George Santos a ‘perfect fit.’ The SEC called the company a fraud. — The inside story of the New York congressman and the now-shuttered Florida firm that employed him for more than a year — In July 2020, a small Florida-based investment firm announced …

Discussion: Raw Story, Crooks and Liars, Insider, Washington Examiner, Wall Street Journal and The Hill

Jacob Geanous / New York Post:

Hunter Biden asks court to stop love child from taking his sullied surname — He doesn't want to give her his bad name. — Hunter Biden asked a judge to deny his 4-year-old daughter from taking his surname — claiming it's a lightning rod for criticism and would rob the child of a “peaceful existence.”

Discussion: HotAir, RedState, Trending Politics Conservative, BizPac Review, The Post Millennial, Insider, Just The News, Breitbart, Daily Mail, The Gateway Pundit and Althouse

JONATHAN TURLEY: The Importance of Being Biden: How Hunter Reached a New Low in Seeking to Bar Daughter From Using His Name

Bryan Pietsch / Washington Post:

Former Russian president says Japanese leader should disembowel himself — Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and a senior security official in President Vladimir Putin's administration, said Saturday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida should perform a ritualistic suicide …

Discussion: Reuters, UPI, The Guardian and TASS

Holly Otterbein / Politico:

A GOP postmortem: What went so wrong in Pennsylvania? — PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania GOP is trying to figure out what went so horribly wrong in 2022. — After the party's disastrous midterm races, Republicans in the critical battleground state are conducting a postmortem …

Newsday:

Records show George Santos made questionable payments to vendors, experts say — Campaign committees tied to Rep. George Santos paid tens of thousands of dollars to newly formed companies with opaque histories and meager track records of working for other candidates, a Newsday review of state and federal filings shows.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:

Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over social media use — Court documents reveal reasons for Awad Al-Qarni's arrest - even though rulers are major investors in social media platforms — A prominent pro-reform law professor in Saudi Arabia is facing the death penalty …

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:

Hand Recount of 2020 Election Results in Lycoming County Showed Little Change — Lycoming County, Pa., officials were persuaded to conduct a 2020 recount, a three-day undertaking that showed almost no change, but left skeptics just as skeptical. — WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. …

Discussion: Raw Story

Malu Cursino / BBC:

Ukraine war: Chances of more survivors from Dnipro strike minimal - mayor — The mayor of Dnipro has warned there may be no further survivors after Saturday's Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian city. — The attack left 29 dead while a further 44 are missing, city officials said.

Discussion: Reuters, Al Jazeera, Politico and The Hill

Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:

Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans' Rocky Road Ahead — With members of the House G.O.P. caucus still pulling in all directions, does anyone know where the Party is headed? — The simplest thing, usually, for a new congressional majority to do is elect a Speaker of the House.

Discussion: Washington Examiner

E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:

The House GOP's retread tactics have blown up in Republicans' faces before — Political energy is hard to define but easy to recognize. Attentive citizens can usually tell which side is rising, dominating the public discussion and laying ownership to the future.

Discussion: Raw Story