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12:45 PM ET, January 17, 2023

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Albuquerque Journal:
Failed Republican candidate arrested in shootings targeting Democratic politicians' homes  —  Albuquerque SWAT officers take a man into custody Monday afternoon in Southwest Albuquerque.  (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)  —  Albuquerque police on Monday arrested the man they say is the …
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Remy Tumin / New York Times:
Republican Ex-Candidate Arrested in Shootings Targeting New Mexico Democrats  —  The authorities in Albuquerque said Solomon Peña, who lost his bid for a State House seat in November, was behind a series of recent shootings targeting Democratic elected officials.
Rio Yamat / Associated Press:
Ex-GOP candidate arrested in shootings at lawmakers' homes  —  A failed Republican candidate who authorities said was angry over his defeat and made baseless claims the election last November was “rigged” against him was arrested in connection with a series of drive-by shootings targeting …
Deon J. Hampton / NBC News:
Failed GOP candidate visited homes of New Mexico Democratic politicians to dispute election prior to shootings, officials say  —  Solomon Peña is accused of paying four men to carry out shootings at Albuquerque-area homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators.  No one was hurt.
Discussion: MSNBC and PoliticusUSA
Washington Post:
Former GOP candidate arrested in shootings at N.M. Democrats' homes
Discussion: Insider and NPR
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Losing candidate arrested in string of shootings at New Mexico Democrats' homes
Discussion: The Daily Beast and New York Post
Washington Post:
What the Jan. 6 probe found out about social media, but didn't report  —  The House committee investigating the riot avoided detailed discussion in its report for fear of offending Republicans and tech companies, sources say  —  The Jan. 6 committee spent months gathering stunning new details …
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Politico:
Revealed: Who visited the Trump White House before Jan. 6  —  The Trump administration never publicly released White House visitor records.  But new data released by the Jan. 6 committee offers a never-before-seen glimpse.  —  Donald Trump spent his time in office fighting the release of his White House visitor logs.
Rolling Stone:
Secret Video Reveals Twitter Team Warned of ‘Shooting in the Streets’ Ahead of Jan. 6
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
The Daily Beast:
The Bathroom Fight Fueling Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert's Break-Up  —  A shouting match in a bathroom.  Kevin McCarthy.  Donald Trump.  Ukraine aid.  They're all contributing to the split between two of the far right's most high-profile figures.
Tara Palmeri / Puck:
Feeling the Vern  —  Vern Buchanan exploded after losing Ways & Means to a McCarthy ally, fueling anxiety that he could retire out of pique—and that McCarthy's favor trading has eroded his narrow margin of support.  —  As I wrote last week, Republicans have been fixated on whether 71-year-old …
Discussion: Raw Story and Florida Politics
Anna Skinner / Newsweek:
Donald Trump's Telltale Sign He Knows He'll Be Indicted: Kirschner  —  Former president Donald Trump is showing his cards through his plethora of social media posts, according to attorney and former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner.  —  In a Sunday episode of Kirschner's podcast Justice Matters …
Discussion: Washington Press and Raw Story
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Ron DeSantis Takes On the Likability Issue (Sort Of)  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When a couple hundred major donors to Gov. Ron DeSantis's inauguration arrived at a candlelight dinner to the sounds of a solo saxophonist the night before his swearing-in last week they found a pair of surprises waiting for them.
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
White House to McCarthy: ‘Come clean’ on your backroom speaker deals  —  The White House is escalating its fight with newly empowered congressional Republicans, with officials Tuesday calling on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to “come clean” about secretive deals he made with hardline members that helped him eventually land the top job.
Discussion: The Guardian
New York Times:
How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low  —  The National Restaurant Association uses mandatory $15 food-safety classes to turn waiters and cooks into unwitting funders of its battle against minimum wage increases.  —  WASHINGTON — For many cooks, waiters and bartenders …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Record High in U.S. Put Off Medical Care Due to Cost in 2022  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of Americans reporting they or a family member postponed medical treatment in 2022 due to cost rose 12 points in one year, to 38%, the highest in Gallup's 22-year trend.  —  ###Embeddable###
Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Hill and KTLA
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House Republicans gear up for a debt ceiling fight, clashing with Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House has planted the seeds for a debt-ceiling showdown, with Speaker Kevin McCarthy endorsing a push by his hard-liners to demand spending cuts as part of any extension of the country's borrowing authority.
Brian Klaas / The Atlantic:
Asymmetrical Conspiracism Is Hurting Democracy  —  As an American living in Britain for the past decade, I've had a front-row seat to two dysfunctional democracies hell-bent on embarrassing themselves.  President Donald Trump warned that a hurricane was “one of the wettest we've ever seen, from the standpoint of water.”
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Two things can be true: Biden broke no laws.  His lawyers made a mess.  —  Two things can be simultaneously true: 1.)  President Biden committed no crime regarding classified documents he retained from the Obama administration; and 2.) his lawyers' failure to conduct a thorough …
Celeste Springer / Spectrum News 13:
Appeal over federal transportation mask mandate heads to court  —  MIAMI, Fla. — The Eleventh Circuit of Appeals will hear arguments over a federal mask mandate on Tuesday, Jan. 17.  —  Back in April, a federal judge in Florida struck down a mask mandate for planes and other transportation.
Discussion: Twitchy and ☕️ …
Jonathan Rothwell / Institute for Family Studies Blog:
Scarred Boys, Idle Men: Family Adversity, Poor Health, and Male Labor Force Participation … Young and middle-aged American men are less likely to be working now than at any time in U.S. history.  —  Childhood adversity is strongly related to current health, and adversity, parental marriage …
New York Times:
China's Population Falls, Heralding a Demographic Crisis  —  Deaths outnumbered births last year for the first time in six decades.  Experts see major implications for China, its economy and the world.  —  The world's most populous country has reached a pivotal moment …
Jesse Singal / New York Times:
Diversity Trainings Don't Work.  Here's What Could.  —  Diversity trainings have been around for decades, long before the country's latest round of racial reckoning.  But after George Floyd's murder — as companies faced pressure to demonstrate a commitment to racial justice …
Daily Mail:
At last!  Diocese of Des Moines bans preferred pronouns in schools and parishes and rules students and worshipers must use toilets and locker rooms of their biological sex - triggering woke fury at ‘un-Christian’ move  — The diocese has 17 Catholic schools and 80 churches in southern Iowa
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
The McCarthy-Jordan Plan to Weaponize the House  —  A November report on Republican grievances provides a roadmap for years of hyperpartisan investigations.  —  If you want to know how twisted things already are under Kevin McCarthy's days-long tenure as speaker of the House …
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal on Use of Covid Aid for Tax Cuts  —  The US Supreme Court turned away a Missouri appeal that sought to ensure states can cut taxes even as they receive $195 billion in federal pandemic-relief money.  —  The justices without comment left in place …
Discussion: CBS News
Punchbowl News:
1/17/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM … Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has named Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) as a counselor on his leadership team for the 118th Congress.  —  The addition of Tillis comes after the North Carolina Republican stood out as a common denominator …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Rosen tells Israel she doesn't want to meet with members of 2 far-right parties  —  U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) told the Israeli government she doesn't want the bipartisan Senate delegation she is leading to Israel this week to meet with any members of two Israeli far-right parties …
Discussion: Haaretz and The Times of Israel
U.S. Department of Defense:
Readout of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. Colin Kahl's Travel to Ukraine  —  Pentagon Spokesman Lt. Col. David Herndon provided the following readout:  —  Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. Colin Kahl joined Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Principal Deputy …
Discussion: TASS
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Billions at stake as online fundraising practices turn off voters  —  When Lloyd Cotler worked on texting programs for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, it was a relatively new campaign frontier — a blank canvas where Clinton's digital staffers answered questions about voting …
Washington Post:
McCarthy and McConnell, seen as polar opposites, must lead a fractious GOP  —  Colleagues say their styles are completely different.  But fiscal showdowns on the horizon mean the duo will need to work together.  —  Newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) …
Gerrard Kaonga / Newsweek:
Video of Joe Biden Singing ‘Happy Birthday’ Sparks Avalanche of Jokes  —  President Joe Biden has been the victim of ridicule online after forgetting the name of the wife of Martin Luther King III while singing her happy birthday.  —  While at an event to commemorate civil rights leader …
 
 
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