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3:45 PM ET, January 31, 2023

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Washington Post:
Rep. George Santos is stepping down from committees amid fabrications about his biography  —  Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) told House Republicans on Tuesday that he will step down from his committee assignments, according to a person familiar with the discussion.
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CNN:
George Santos tells House Republicans he wants off of his committees until issues are resolved
CBS News:
FBI searched the Penn Biden Center in mid-November  —  Washington — The FBI searched the Penn Biden Center offices in mid-November, according to two sources familiar with the investigation, after lawyers for President Biden had found about 10 documents marked classified there on Nov. 2.
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NBC News:
Trump revamps his fundraising operation after struggling to raise money for 2024  —  Former President Donald Trump is strapped for campaign cash following the mid-November launch of his 2024 presidential campaign, according to end-of-year figures obtained exclusively by NBC News.
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Politico:
Trump's slow-rolling 2024 bid cobbles together new Senate support  —  Donald Trump's endorsement helped push J.D. Vance and Eric Schmitt into the Senate.  Now they're nearly ready to return the favor.  —  Vance has told allies over the last few months that he anticipates endorsing Trump …
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley Need to Find the Strength to Attack Trump
Graham Kates / CBS News:
Video of Trump deposition in New York fraud probe shows former president taking the Fifth, repeating “same answer”  —  Newly released video obtained by CBS News provides the first look at former President Donald Trump's deposition last summer in the New York attorney general's civil fraud investigation.
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
In Debt Limit Fight, Republicans Won't Say What Spending Cuts They Want
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The House GOP's growing pains
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and NBC News
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Hide your books to avoid felony charges, Fla. schools tell teachers  —  Unsure what titles violate new state rules, two school districts tell educators to conceal every book for now  —  Students arrived in some Florida public school classrooms this month to find their teachers' bookshelves wrapped …
Janai Nelson / New York Times:
Ron DeSantis Wants to Erase Black History.  Why?  —  An unrelenting assault on truth and freedom of expression in the form of laws that censor and suppress the viewpoints, histories and experiences of historically marginalized groups, especially Black and L.G.B.T.Q. communities …
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Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:
Polls reveal the real reason Ron DeSantis is fighting the teaching of Black history
Julia Rock / The Lever:
Fear And Loathing Among The Union Busters  —  At a gathering of the National Restaurant Association's legal arm, lawyers and executives grappled with a worker uprising.  —  “Comrades,” said Chappell Phillips, as he grabbed the microphone, “please do not leave the conference.  It's all better from here.”
Discussion: Bloomberg and Jacobin
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Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
‘It can be scary’: how corporate America is hitting back against unions
Discussion: Deadline, Jacobin and American Prospect
Politico:
Mitch Daniels opts against a run for the Senate  —  Mitch Daniels is passing on a potential bid for an open Indiana Senate seat, forgoing what would have been one of the most hotly contested primaries in the 2024 cycle.  —  In an exclusive statement to POLITICO, the former Indiana governor …
J.D. Vance / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Best Foreign Policy?  Not Starting Any Wars  —  He has my support in 2024 because I know he won't recklessly send Americans to fight overseas.  —  A few days before America's 2022 midterm elections, Ukraine's President Volodomyr Zelensky accused Russia of firing a rocket into Poland.
Kaylee McGhee White / Washington Examiner:
With Mark Houck, as with Jack Phillips, the persecution is the whole point  —  On Monday, a jury acquitted a Catholic father and pro-life activist after the federal government had brought trumped-up charges against him for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances or FACE Act.
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Bill Gates: 'I shouldn't have had dinners with' Jeffrey Epstein  —  Billionaire Bill Gates said that he regretted having dinners with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a new interview with Australia's ABC 7.30.  —  “I will say for the over a hundredth time, I shouldn't have had dinners with him,” Gates said in the interview.
Larry Elliott / The Guardian:
Britain the only G7 economy forecast to shrink in 2023  —  IMF says UK economy is likely to contract 0.6% as rising interest rates and higher taxes take toll  —  Britain is expected to be the only major industrialised country to see its economy shrink this year after the impact …
Discussion: New Statesman
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Tara Palmeri / Puck:
Kellyanne's Future & the G.O.P.'s First '24 Strike  —  News and notes from the nascent presidential trail, on Conway's green room game theory and the House Republican plan to bork the Democratic bench. … I wrote extensively last summer about the campaign's org chart and management philosophy …
Stefan Bondy / New York Daily News:
James Dolan enlists former Trump aide Hope Hicks for PR help  —  James Dolan, who recently re-emerged in the media to fight a PR battle over his use of Facial Recognition Technology, has been consulting Donald Trump's former communications director Hope Hicks, the Daily News has learned.
Discussion: New York Times and New York Post
Max Burns / The Third Degree:
As Twitter's Legal Woes Mount, It's Elon vs. Everyone  —  Twitter's terminally-online CEO has kicked up legal trouble from California to Germany.  Those lawsuits will be devastating for a company still struggling to survive.  —  Last month, I warned that Twitter CEO and Russian election …
Discussion: The Forward
Sharon Zhang / Latest - Truthout:
McCarthy May Not Have the Votes to Unseat Omar From Committees  —  Three Republicans have indicated they are against ousting Omar from committees — potentially enough to sink the vote.  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-California) plot to appease the most extremist lawmakers in his caucus …
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Biden administration mulls public health emergency declaration on abortion  —  The Biden administration is weighing a plan to declare a public health emergency that would free up resources to help people access abortions. … - The lawmakers argued that such a move would allow the administration …
Washington Post:
Hunter Biden's allies weigh legal-defense fund for president's son  —  With Hunter Biden facing GOP investigations and financial challenges, his circle contemplates an option that carries risks and sensitivities  —  Hunter Biden's allies have held initial discussions about creating …
United States Capitol Police:
USCP, USSS Capture Suspected Police Impersonator with Stash of Knives  —  The United States Capitol Police (USCP) caught a suspected police impersonator with a stash of knives on Monday after receiving a tip from the United States Secret Service (USSS).  —  At approximately 6:20 p.m. …
 
 
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Matt Schlapp accuser files a second suit against top conservative operative
Discussion: Raw Story
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Meet The Man Behind George Santos
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump's Well-Worn Legal Playbook Starts to Look Frayed
Discussion: Raw Story
Bloomberg:
Trump-Backed Dream of a Venezuela Coup Dies With Maduro Gaining Power
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Black Americans Are Much More Likely to Face Tax Audits, Study Finds
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Judge revokes bond for Navy reservist who praised Hitler
Patti Smith / New Yorker:
He Was Tom Verlaine  —  Patti Smith remembers her friend, who possessed the child's gift …
Discussion: Althouse
USA Today:
Exclusive: Extremists raised $6.2 million on crowdfunding websites in ‘heyday’ of financing
Discussion: Raw Story
Ramon Antonio Vargas / The Guardian:
Yale honors Black girl, 9, wrongly reported to police over insect project
Discussion: Raw Story
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