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Annie Karni / New York Times:
The 20-Somethings Who Help the 70-Somethings Run Washington — The story of Cassidy Hutchinson, who became the first Trump White House aide to testify publicly in the Jan. 6 inquiry, showed the outsize influence of youngsters in the nation's capital. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Put a Fork in Donald Trump—the Ex-President Is Done — As bad as his political position looks today, it is only likely to get worse—and his imminent announcement of a presidential campaign is just another sign of his collapse. … Mark it on your calendars.
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Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Cassidy Hutchinson and the all-knowing presence of Washington's aides — The former West Wing insider testified to the latent power of multitasking assistants. — Washington is run by aides, or at least it runs on the work of aides: the gophers, the schedulers, the advisers, the consiglieres …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
‘Take me up to the Capitol now’: How close Trump came to joining rioters — Trump's demands to lead a march to Capitol Hill sheds new light on his mindset as the siege began. — Toward the end of 2020, then-President Donald Trump began raising a new idea with aides: that he would personally lead …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Rudy Giuliani Deletes Tweet Insisting Cassidy Hutchinson Was Not Present When He Asked for a Pardon — Rudy Giuliani insisted on Twitter that Cassidy Hutchinson was “never present” when he asked former President Donald Trump when he asked for a pardon, and then deleted it.
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ABC News:
Hutchinson's testimony raises fresh questions about Secret Service's handling of Jan. 6 — The testimony “raises highly disconcerting questions,” says an ex-DHS official. — 7:4 — A video of President Trump's motorcade leaving the January 6th rally on the Ellipse is displayed as Cassidy Hutchinson …
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Politico:
New details of Jan. 6 panel's mystery messages emerge
New details of Jan. 6 panel's mystery messages emerge
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Joel Burgess / The Asheville Citizen Times:
On Hutchinson's Jan. 6 bombshell: Local Dems opine, while GOP members silent
Jeffrey C. Isaac / The Bulwark:
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: Defeating Trumpism
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: Defeating Trumpism
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Washington Times, Raw Story and nationalinterest.org
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Mark Meadows' associate threatened ex-White House aide before her testimony
Mark Meadows' associate threatened ex-White House aide before her testimony
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Is Biden Handling Putin Better Than He's Handling Trump?
Is Biden Handling Putin Better Than He's Handling Trump?
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Financial Times
Joe Sonka / Courier-Journal:
Kentucky federal judge to step down, opening seat for Biden's anti-abortion GOP nominee — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A longtime Kentucky federal judge has announced she will step down, clearing a path for President Joe Biden's controversial nomination of an anti-abortion Republican to replace her.
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Biden-McConnell Deal to Make an Anti-Abortion Advocate a Federal Judge Is Still On — President Joe Biden struck a deal with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to nominate Chad Meredith, a Republican anti-abortion advocate, to a federal judgeship on the Eastern District of Kentucky, Slate has confirmed.
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Talking Points Memo, Townhall and RADAR
The White House:
President Biden Announces Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom — WASHINGTON - Today, President Biden named seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. — The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals …
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Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Biden to award Medal of Freedom to McCain, Biles and more
Biden to award Medal of Freedom to McCain, Biles and more
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Emerson Polling:
National Poll: Biden With Higher Approval Than US Congress & Supreme Court; Trump Leads GOP Nomination Contest — Home Blog National Poll: Biden With Higher Approval Than US Congress & Supreme Court; Trump Leads GOP Nomination Contest — The latest Emerson College Polling national survey …
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Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
Abortion, women's rights grow as priorities: AP-NORC poll
Abortion, women's rights grow as priorities: AP-NORC poll
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The Hill, AP-NORC, Althouse, Opinion Today and The Daily Caller
G. Elliott Morris / Democracy:
An analysis claiming one million voters switched to the GOP last year was fatally flawed
An analysis claiming one million voters switched to the GOP last year was fatally flawed
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Catalist
Evan Gershkovich / Wall Street Journal:
In Russia's Biggest Cities, Ukraine War Fades to Background Noise — Bars are packed out, film and jazz festivals are sold out and Moscow's police officers are busier handing out fines for public drinking than putting down dissent — MOSCOW—Dima Karmanovsky had just finished his second DJ set …
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Politico, The Guardian, National Review and New York Times
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Congress has let the Supreme Court run amok — Biden accuses Supreme Court of ‘outrageous behavior’ following Roe v. Wade reversal — The Supreme Court ended its term Thursday having produced a string of decisions that with casual brutality threatened Americans' privacy, health and well-being.
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Who's In Charge? — “Which way am I going?” asked President Biden when he ended Thursday's …
Who's In Charge? — “Which way am I going?” asked President Biden when he ended Thursday's …
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Mediaite, The Atlantic and Truth and Consequences
Yascha Mounk / Persuasion:
America Is Headed For Disaster — Donald Trump is on course to reconquer the White House. To save the republic, we need a radical change of direction. … Most of the time, politics is like a jumble of puzzle pieces. On any given day, there are hundreds of news stories, some promising, others ominous.
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Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn Railed Against Brooklyn's Democratic Machine. Then She Became It. — The borough's political players hoped the Assemblymember would unite the party. Instead, as Democrats head into a vulnerable midterm election, New York's biggest local political organization is in free fall.
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Neo-Nazi publisher Andrew Anglin gives ‘forceful endorsement’ of Blake Masters' Senate bid — The move by The Daily Stormer publisher is a play to try to exert influence in a GOP moving to the right, experts in extremism contend — Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi publisher of The Daily Stormer …
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Raw Story
Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
McDonald's Dollar Drinks Deal Fades in the Face of Inflation — More restaurants remove any-size-soda-for-a-buck promotion as the company recommends keeping it to drive traffic — Inflation is coming for McDonald's MCD 1.51%▲ dollar drinks. — Some McDonald's Corp. locations …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
The Sleeper ‘Wire Fraud’ Scheme That Could Nail Trumpworld — The Jan. 6 committee has already laid out a convincing case of wire fraud against the Trump campaign. — the day television networks called the election for Joe Biden—then-President Donald Trump's campaign manager was trying …
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Washington Post, Raw Story and The Federalist
Neda Toloui-Semnani / VICE:
'It's Scary': Students Fear Going to College in Red States After Roe — “Location has never before been more important to me,” said Ashley Huynh, 17, a rising high school senior in Montgomery County, Maryland. — NT — TORONTO, CA — AU — When Sasha Rosenfeld walked onto …
Josh Hammer / Newsweek:
After Dobbs, What Comes Next for the Conservative Legal Project? — , NEWSWEEK OPINION EDITOR AND HOST, “THE JOSH HAMMER SHOW” — This past week and a half has been truly remarkable. From a conservative perspective, and a legal conservative perspective more specifically …