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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Former Trump lawyer admits post-election misrepresentations — One of Donald Trump's high-profile lawyers pushed his post-election lies. She's now acknowledged that many of her claims simply weren't true. — As recently as 2016, Jenna Ellis was not a Donald Trump admirer.
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Quentin Young / Colorado Newsline:
Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis censured in Colorado for false election claims — Jenna Ellis, the Colorado attorney who was former President Donald Trump's senior legal advisor as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss, has been censured by a Colorado judge for misconduct.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump 2020 lawyer admits misrepresenting stolen election claims — Jenna Ellis, an attorney for Donald Trump who helped drive his false claims about the 2020 election results, has admitted in a Colorado disciplinary proceeding that she misrepresented evidence at least 10 times during Trump's frantic bid to subvert his defeat.
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Ex-Trump attorney admits statements about 2020 election were false and is censured by judge
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Budget Would Cut Deficits by $3 Trillion Over 10 Years, Raise Taxes on Businesses — Proposal will kick off talks on government spending with Republicans — WASHINGTON—President Biden will outline a plan to reduce federal budget deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade …
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Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Biden dumps budget onus on House Republicans in debuting $1.7T plan
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Laura Davison / Bloomberg:
In Biden's Tax-the-Rich Budget, Capital-Gains Rates Near 45%
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Tamara Keith / NPR:
Biden is using his budget as a cudgel in the debt ceiling fight — and for 2024
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ProPublica:
Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance” — A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project. Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court …
NBC News:
Republicans launch an investigation into the Jan. 6 committee that examined the riot — WASHINGTON — A Republican-controlled House committee launched an inquiry Wednesday into the Democratic-controlled Jan. 6 committee, which a staff member said will review whether pertinent information …
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Thank you, Kevin McCarthy and Tucker Carlson — Certain political leaders inspire grudging respect or even fear from their opponents, but let's face it: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is not among them. His latest political gambit, a ham-handed attempt to rewrite the history …
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
An egregious denial of due process for Jan. 6 protesters
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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo is front and center in Dominion's defamation suit — How do you solve a problem like Maria Bartiromo? — Fox News executives may be asking themselves that question as she emerges as a central figure in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6-billion defamation suit against the conservative news network.
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The Daily Beast:
Fox News Journalists Sound Off on ‘Soul-Crushing’ Dominion Filings
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Matthew Sheffield / TYT Network:
Republican Elites and Their Fox Counterparts Hate Trump, But They Can't Get Rid of Him
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
A Startling Document Predicted Jan. 6. Democrats Are Missing Its Other Warnings. — Weeks before the 2020 election, a secret 87-page document outlined in matter-of-fact language the threat posed by Donald Trump's still-to-come campaign of election denial.
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Topic Biden Keeps Dodging — President Joe Biden is following a strategy of asymmetrical warfare as the 2024 presidential race takes shape. — Through the early maneuvering, the leading Republican candidates, particularly former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden zeroing in on candidates to be his 2024 campaign manager
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Caitlin Gibson / Washington Post:
The fear and fury of these Florida parents — The state has introduced new laws that affect nearly every stage of parenting. Some families are choosing between fight and flight. — One afternoon a few weeks ago, Alicea Hotchkiss's 14-year-old son, Eli, came home from his high school …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump publishing private letters from Oprah, other celebrities — Former President Trump, in a new book, plans to reveal 150 private letters sent to him — including one from Oprah Winfrey in 2000 in which she says: “Too bad we're not running for office. What a team!”
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Washington Post:
Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests — A group of philanthropists poured money into a Denver nonprofit that obtained dating and hookup app data and shared it with bishops around the country, a Post investigation has found — A group of conservative Colorado Catholics …
Collin Binkley / Associated Press:
Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college — When he looked to the future, Grayson Hart always saw a college degree. He was a good student at a good high school. He wanted to be an actor, or maybe a teacher. Growing up, he believed college was the only route to a good job, stability and a happy life.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Details in a lawsuit against Texas's abortion ban shock the conscience — Five pregnant women and two doctors filed suit in Texas this week claiming that the state's six-week abortion ban violates the state constitution's due process and equal protection guarantees.
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Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
Oscars Reject Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's Bid to Appear on Telecast (EXCLUSIVE) … For the past year, Volodymyr Zelensky has been greeted with open arms by awards shows, film festivals and even the New York Stock Exchange. But when it comes to landing airtime on the most coveted telecast …
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New York Times:
Newly Empowered Michigan Democrats Move on Labor, Gay Rights and Guns — Despite Republican objections, the Michigan House of Representatives voted to repeal a right-to-work law, codify L.G.B.T.Q. rights and expand gun background checks. — LANSING, Mich. — Democrats in Michigan pressed ahead …
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Beth LeBlanc / The Detroit News:
Michigan House passes right-to-work repeal, prevailing wage restoration
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Michael Worobey / Los Angeles Times:
I called for more research on the COVID ‘lab leak theory.’ Here's what I found out — Recent reports that Department of Energy and FBI officials think the COVID-19 pandemic originated with a so-called lab leak appear to have provided all the “evidence” many require.
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Internal text reveals Tucker Carlson reads the work of a Holocaust denier at a white nationalist hub — Fox News host Tucker Carlson shared the work of David Cole, a Holocaust denier who writes for a white nationalist hub that carries headlines like “The Trouble with Blacks” and “Our De Facto Antiwhite Apartheid.”
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Dafna Linzer abruptly steps down as Politico's executive editor — The award-winning journalist had clashed with another top executive amid a new corporate owner's plans for global expansion. — Dafna Linzer is leaving her role as executive editor of Politico a year after she took the job.
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Rachel Pannett / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell hospitalized after falling at hotel — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been hospitalized following a fall at a hotel in Washington, his spokesperson said late Wednesday. — The 81-year-old Senator was attending a private dinner at a local hotel when he tripped …
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Greg Woodfield / Daily Mail:
Cocaine cowboys: American man killed in Mexico border kidnap was jailed in 2015 for ‘drugs manufacture’ - while the other three ALL have lengthy drug raps — Four U.S. citizens kidnapped by the Gulf Cartel - Latavia McGee, Eric Williams, Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard - had lengthy rap sheets
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Cloistered at Walter Reed, Fetterman Runs His Senate Operation From Afar — A dozen miles from the Capitol, the first-term Democrat from Pennsylvania is keeping up with his work while being treated for severe clinical depression. — WASHINGTON — In a cheerfully decorated common room …
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Matthew Desmond / New York Times:
Why Poverty Persists in America — A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem. — In the past 50 years, scientists have mapped the entire human genome and eradicated smallpox. Here in the United States, infant-mortality rates and deaths …
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
House Republicans defend Musk from FTC's ‘harassment campaign’ — Republicans are hosting a hearing on the ‘Twitter Files’ on Thursday, where they are expected to attack the government watchdog — For more than six months, the Federal Trade Commission has been investigating Twitter's security practices …
Justin Kanew / THE TENNESSEE HOLLER:
Anti-LGBTQ Tennessee Lt. Gov. McNally Comments On Racy Instagram Pics of Young Gay Male — UPDATE TO THIS STORY: Lt. Governor Randy Mcnally has issued a statement blaming us for calling out his hypocrisy - but, importantly, not denying he's the one who made these comments, not claiming he was hacked, and not blaming an underling.
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