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Jessica Levinson / MSNBC:
Investigations into classified docs should leave Trump more worried than Biden  —  Don't focus on the headlines in the investigations into classified documents held by Donald Trump and Joe Biden.  Focus on the details.  —  There's a line in an old song that goes “Lawyers dwell on small details.”
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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
Tal Axelrod / ABC News:
Biden classified documents could have national security implications, Schiff says
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
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 …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
The Importance of Being Biden: How Hunter Reached a New Low in Seeking to Bar Daughter From Using His Name  —  In Oscar Wilde's “The Importance of Being Ernest,” the main character's search for his true name comes to a head when he finally demands “would you kindly inform me who I am?”
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Jacob Geanous / New York Post:
Hunter Biden asks court to stop love child from taking his sullied surname
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: UPI, Reuters, The Guardian and TASS
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 …
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
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
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
The GOP's 2024 freeze  —  Questions about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' political resilience — and fears of going toe-to-toe with former President Trump — have all but frozen the 2024 Republican field, delaying most of the leading prospects' timelines for entering the race.
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 …
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
 
 
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