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Spencer Ackerman / Forever Wars:
The Only Man Who Could Have Stopped The Iraq War Is Dead — Colin Powell chose to sell a war he knew was wrong. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were unavailable for comment on his death — Buy REIGN OF TERROR: How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
'Don't feel sorry for me,' Powell said as the end approached — As death approached, Colin L. Powell was still in fighting form. — “I've got multiple myeloma cancer, and I've got Parkinson's disease. But otherwise I'm fine,” he said in a July interview. — And he rejected expressions of sorrow at his condition.
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Colin Powell, first Black US secretary of state, dies of Covid-19 complications amid cancer battle
Colin Powell, first Black US secretary of state, dies of Covid-19 complications amid cancer battle
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Dodges Questions in Marathon Deposition Over Protest Violence, Lawyer Claims
Trump Dodges Questions in Marathon Deposition Over Protest Violence, Lawyer Claims
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The Moment When Colin Powell Squandered His Spectacular Career
The Moment When Colin Powell Squandered His Spectacular Career
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Tim Requarth / Slate:
What Colin Powell's Death Really Means About the Vaccines
What Colin Powell's Death Really Means About the Vaccines
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Billy Witz / New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: Washington State Fires Football Coach for Refusing to Get Vaccinated
Covid Live Updates: Washington State Fires Football Coach for Refusing to Get Vaccinated
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Colin Powell Was Nearly the Future of the GOP Before Trump
Colin Powell Was Nearly the Future of the GOP Before Trump
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Washington Post:
Colin Powell had been treated for a cancer that severely impairs the immune system, lowering coronavirus vaccine effectiveness
Colin Powell had been treated for a cancer that severely impairs the immune system, lowering coronavirus vaccine effectiveness
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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Iraq War role was a stain on Powell's record — one he openly said he regretted
Iraq War role was a stain on Powell's record — one he openly said he regretted
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Politico:
Trump sues Jan. 6 committee, National Archives — Donald Trump is suing the Jan. 6 select committee and the National Archives to block the release of his White House's records related to the Capitol attack. — The former president's lawyers filed the 26-page suit in D.C. district court on Monday …
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump files lawsuit to block release of Jan. 6 documents — WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday sought to block the release of documents related to the Jan. 6 insurrection to the congressional committee investigating the attack, challenging the decision of President Joe Biden.
Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee lays out legal arguments against Bannon's subpoena defiance in private letter to his attorney
Jan. 6 committee lays out legal arguments against Bannon's subpoena defiance in private letter to his attorney
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Select Committee to Investigate …:
Thompson & Cheney Statement on the Former President's Lawsuit
Thompson & Cheney Statement on the Former President's Lawsuit
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Aziz Huq / Politico:
Trump Can't Keep His Jan. 6 Documents Secret. And Biden Can Help.
Trump Can't Keep His Jan. 6 Documents Secret. And Biden Can Help.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump sues to keep White House records secret, claiming executive privilege
Trump sues to keep White House records secret, claiming executive privilege
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New York Times:
F.D.A. to Allow ‘Mix and Match’ Approach for Covid Booster Shots — The agency may act this week, when it is expected to authorize booster shots for recipients of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. — WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is planning to allow Americans …
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Laurie McGinley / Washington Post:
FDA to allow ‘mix-and-match’ approach on coronavirus booster vaccines — The agency is expected to say people can bolster protection by getting an extra shot, even if it is from another brand — The Food and Drug Administration is expected to say this week that people …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Supreme Court will consider fast track appeal of Texas abortion law — The Supreme Court agreed to a request from abortion-rights advocates and providers to quickly consider taking up their challenge of a restrictive Texas law that bans most abortions after as early as six weeks of pregnancy.
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Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Dennis Prager Announces He Has COVID After Hugging ‘Thousands’ to Get It — The right-wing personality offered dangerous advice to his audience about achieving natural immunity, which can kill a person in the process. — Right-wing personality and talk radio host Dennis Prager, who once …
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Joe Otterson / Variety:
‘History of the World Part II’ Variety Series Ordered at Hulu, Mel Brooks to Write and Executive Produce (EXCLUSIVE) … “History of the World, Part I” is finally getting a Part II, with Hulu ordering a variety series followup to the classic Mel Brooks comedy film, Variety has learned exclusively.
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Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
JOE ROGAN DESTROYSSSSSS CNN YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT — (We all lose) … The Least Productive Conversation — Today, I want to talk about a way that our media ecosystems can take even relatively boring exchanges and turn them into internet chum that helps basically nobody.
Huma Abedin / Vogue:
Huma Abedin on the Moment Her Private Life Went Public — To listen to this excerpt, click the play button below: … When I awoke in Buckingham Palace, it was as if I were still in a dream. I turned my head to the tall, narrow windows, where sunlight was just beginning to peek through the gray clouds.
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Chuck Culpepper / Washington Post:
Washington State football coach Nick Rolovich fired after failing to comply with vaccine mandate — In perhaps the most striking case to date of a public employee being terminated because of a coronavirus vaccine mandate, Washington State football coach Nick Rolovich was dismissed Monday …
Politico:
State IG launches investigations into end of Afghanistan operations — The State Department's inspector general is launching a series of investigations into the end of the Biden administration's diplomatic operations in Afghanistan, according to State Department and congressional officials, as well as documents viewed by POLITICO.
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New York Times:
Jefferson Statue Will Be Removed From N.Y.C. Council Chambers — After a debate over Jefferson's legacy and his history as a slaveholder, city officials delayed deciding on where to display the statue. — For more than 100 years, a 7-foot-tall statue of Thomas Jefferson has towered …
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Seth Hettena / Rolling Stone:
Steve Bannon Thought Jeffrey Epstein Was a Spy — The billionaire may have exaggerated his connections to the world of international espionage, but the tales were enough to pull in a top official in Trumpworld — In the run-up to the 2016 presidential campaign, Jeffrey Epstein told associates something …
Brian Stieglitz / Daily Mail:
Beginning at 10pm on Tuesday, the mob ran amok through the streets and shattered windows, setting fires, spraying graffiti messages like ‘anarchy means attack,’ ‘riots work,’ and ‘breaking windows is good’ — The exception to the new law is when the circumstances constitute a riot …
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Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Jerome Powell Sold More Than a Million Dollars of Stock as the Market Was Tanking — Disclosure documents reveal that the spectacle of Fed officials personally trading stocks extended to the chair himself. — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth …
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Special elections show how much the parties have changed — IOWA — There is always a bit of unchecked hubris in politics ahead of a big midterm election. Special elections, at times, lull strategists into believing their party will safely hold on to its majority or snatch it away from the other side.
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
No gold coffins or public funerals for officer Dylan Harrison — Alamo, Georgia, police officer Dylan Harrison just had his funeral. Harrison was ambushed outside the Alamo Police Department on Oct. 8. Although WGXA streamed the funeral service on Facebook, Harrison did not get a public funeral.
David Shortell / CNN:
Gaetz ally Joel Greenberg is giving investigators new information, prosecutors say — (CNN)Joel Greenberg, the former Florida official whose crimes in the state ensnared Rep. Matt Gaetz in a federal sex trafficking investigation, has been providing the Justice Department with new information …
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C. Ryan Barber / Insider:
Senate Republicans have put a ‘hold’ on Biden's pick to oversee the January 6 prosecutions — Senate Republicans have put a “hold” on Biden's pick for US attorney in Washington, DC. — Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton confirmed the block on the nominee but declined to provide details.
New York Post:
Midnight runs: Biden secretly flying underage migrants into NY in dead of night — Planeloads of underage migrants are being flown secretly into suburban New York in an effort by President Biden's administration to quietly resettle them across the region, The Post has learned.
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Trump goes after Cassidy after saying he wouldn't support him for president in 2024 — Former President Trump blasted Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Monday after the senator said in an interview he would not vote for the real estate mogul if he ran for president again in 2024.
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Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
Fox News Anchor Thoroughly Dragged For Boosting Anti-Vax Talk After Powell's Death — No vaccine can cure getting ratio'd on Twitter. — On the morning of former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell's death from complications of COVID-19 …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Manchin Hasn't Killed Biden's Climate Agenda (Yet) — The cornerstone of Joe Biden's climate agenda looks dead. — Last week, Joe Manchin told the White House that he strongly opposes the president's Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), a policy that would require all electric utilities …
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