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•• Axios • Jonathan Swan,Alayna Treene • 14 hours ago • axios.com
McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms
McConnell prefers to skewer Democrats for their perceived failures.
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•• The Washington Post • Paul Kane • 21 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Analysis | Don Young is the rare Republican who’s not afraid of Trump — or of saying he needs to ‘shut up’
Entering his 49th year in Congress, the Alaska Republican said he’s not worried about political retribution for supporting the recent infrastructure package.
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• CNN • Jim Sciutto and Natasha Bertrand, CNN • 1 hour ago • cnn.com
Russia positions more forces, supply lines as fears rise of potential Ukraine invasion
Russian forces have capabilities in place along the Ukraine border to carry out a swift and immediate invasion, including erecting supply lines such as medical units and fuel that could sustain a drawn-out conflict, should Moscow choose to invade, two sources familiar with the latest intelligence assessments told CNN.
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•• The Washington Post • Josh Rogin • 16 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Congress needs to act on Xi Jinping’s genocide now
Economic reasons at home are no reason to slow passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
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•• The Washington Post • Seung Min Kim • 15 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
More Democratic senators are willing to weigh changes to Supreme Court
Senators of both parties have long been reluctant to consider adding more justices or limiting their tenure. But this week’s abortion argument, added to liberals’ anger about recent confirmations, is prompting some to rethink.
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• POLITICO • Michael Kruse • 6 hours ago • politico.com
The Origins of Herschel Walker’s Complicated Views on Race
He has often remained silent when asked to take sides. Running for Senate in Georgia, that might not be possible.
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• POLITICO • Marianne LeVine, Burgess Everett • 6 hours ago • politico.com
Senate Republicans wonder whether Dr. Oz is their Pennsylvania remedy
The surgeon-turned-talk-show-host has name recognition and cash, but also hours of TV for his opposition to use against him.
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•• CNN • Lauren Fox, Clare Foran and Ali Zaslav, CNN • 18 hours ago • cnn.com
Sinema won't commit to voting for Biden's sweeping social safety net expansion
Kyrsten Sinema, the influential moderate Democratic senator from Arizona, did not commit to voting for President Joe Biden's sweeping social safety net legislation in a sit-down interview with CNN on Thursday, the latest sign that Senate Democrats do not yet have the votes to pass one of the party's top legislative priorities even as leadership hopes to approve the measure before Christmas.
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••• The New York Times • Jonathan Martin • 1 day ago • nytimes.com
A Pollster’s Warning to Democrats: ‘We Have a Problem’
Focus groups with Virginia voters led to a bluntly worded memo on what Democrats need to do going into the midterms.
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The Washington Post • Perry Stein • 5 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Those new covid measures Biden announced? Europe’s been doing that and more for a while.
Biden’s new coronavirus measures, like refunding fast tests and imposing travel quarantines, have been a pandemic standard in places like Germany, Britain and Belgium.
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POLITICO • Natalie Allison • 13 hours ago • politico.com
Senate Republicans quietly buck Trump in Alabama race
Despite Trump’s strong support for Rep. Mo Brooks, GOP senators have donated to Katie Britt and appeared with her at events.
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• CNN • Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Business • 14 hours ago • cnn.com
Facebook sold ads comparing vaccine to Holocaust
Facebook has sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages, comparing the US government's response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany, casting doubt on the result of the 2020 election, and even pushing political violence.
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The New York Times • Elizabeth Spiers • 5 hours ago • nytimes.com
Opinion | I Was Adopted. I Know the Trauma It Can Inflict.
What Amy Coney Barrett doesn’t realize is that adoption is often infinitely more difficult, expensive, dangerous and potentially traumatic than terminating a pregnancy in its early stages.
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The Washington Post • Editorial Board • 17 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Donald Trump: Superspreader in chief
Trump kept secret his positive covid test in 2020. He endangered others.
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The New York Times • Jennifer Steinhauer • 21 hours ago • nytimes.com
With No Resources, Authority or Country, Afghan Ambassador Presses On
Adela Raz arrived in Washington just before her country fell and has struggled to keep her embassy going. A dinner with U.S. veterans was a priority.
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POLITICO • Adam Cancryn, Jonathan Lemire • 15 hours ago • politico.com
Biden takes the fight to Omicron. But the toolkit is growing bare.
The policies previewed by the president are continuations or modest expansions of existing initiatives. And he’s yet to embrace the further reaching proposals.
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The Washington Post • Philip Bump • 22 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Analysis | The minoritarian third of the Supreme Court
Three justices — those nominated by President Donald Trump — were appointed by a president who lost the popular vote and confirmed by senators representing a minority of the country and who earned fewer votes than confirmation opponents.
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• Missouri Independent • Rudi Keller • 1 day ago • missouriindependent.com
Missouri health department found mask mandates work, but didn’t make findings public • Missouri Independent
Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the delta variant wave, an analysis shows.
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The Washington Post • Dana Hedgpeth • 2 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Maryland homeowner uses smoke to battle snakes, burns down house
A Montgomery County Fire Department spokesman said the homeowner used “smoke to manage a snake infestation” but ended up causing $1 million in damage.
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Intelligencer • David Wallace-Wells • 19 hours ago • nymag.com
Waiting for Omicron
The new variant comes to a country that still does not have the pandemic under control.
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The Washington Post • Isabelle Khurshudyan, John Hudson • 3 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Amid heightened tensions, Russia and U.S. make quiet breakthrough on staffing at Moscow embassy
The tentative agreement could stave off a dire situation in which the U.S. Embassy would be effectively shuttered.
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The New York Times • Nelson D. Schwartz, Talmon Joseph Smith • 5 hours ago • nytimes.com
U.S. employers added 210,000 jobs in November.
The figures, which predate the emergence of the latest coronavirus variant, follow a succession of mixed economic signals.
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Associated Press • Lisa Mascaro • 9 hours ago • apnews.com
Roe 'settled' law? Justices' earlier assurances now in doubt | AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — During his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh convinced Sen. Susan Collins that he thought a woman’s right to an abortion was “settled law,” calling the court cases affirming it “precedent on precedent” that could not be casually overturned.
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San Francisco Chronicle • Erin Allday • 20 hours ago • sfchronicle.com
‘You sure it’s the real thing?’ The dramatic story of S.F. scientists’ all-night race to sequence first U.S. omicron variant
After spending the night in the lab, watching the genetic testing results spool out hour...
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The Washington Post • David Ignatius • 16 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Opinion | How the presidents look to the CIA officers who brief them
A revealing agency study contains some zingers about how our leaders behave within veil of secrecy
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The New York Times • Merritt Tierce • 1 day ago • nytimes.com
The Abortion I Didn’t Have
I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.
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•• POLITICO • Alex Isenstadt • 1 day ago • politico.com
Trump intervenes in Ohio Senate primary — for himself
The former president was upset about ads in the race featuring anti-Trump comments a candidate made in 2016.
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POLITICO • Josh Gerstein • 12 hours ago • politico.com
Feds could release 'alternative' Mueller report soon
"Primary processing" of compendium mentioned in Mueller aide's book should be complete next month, court filing says.
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•• Associated Press • Kristin M. Hall, Justin Pritchard • 1 day ago • apnews.com
AP: US military explosives vanish, emerge in civilian world | AP News
The Marine Corps demolition specialist was worried — about America, and about the civil war he feared would follow the presidential election. And so, block by block, he stole 13 pounds (6 kilograms) of C4 plastic explosives from the training ranges of Camp Lejeune.
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The Washington Post • Drew Harwell • 17 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Far right is using Twitter’s new rule against anti-extremism researchers
Neo-Nazis and far-right activists have coached followers on how to abuse a new Twitter rule to force the service to remove photos of them shared by anti-extremism researchers and journalists.
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POLITICO • Kyle Cheney, Nicholas Wu • 17 hours ago • politico.com
Meadows’ book possible ‘waiver’ of executive privilege, Jan. 6 investigators say
"It'd be very difficult for him to maintain ‘I can't speak about events to you, but I can speak about them in my book,’” said Rep. Adam Schiff.
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STLtoday.com • Jack Suntrup • 17 hours ago • stltoday.com
Missouri officials planned to thank Post-Dispatch before threatening newspaper, emails show
Records also show the FBI told the state the incident was ‘not an actual network intrusion.’
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BuzzFeed News • Jason Leopold • 1 day ago • buzzfeednews.com
CIA Files Say Staffers Committed Sex Crimes Involving Children. They Weren’t Prosecuted.
Declassified CIA inspector general reports show a pattern of abuse and a repeated decision by federal prosecutors not to hold agency personnel accountable.
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The Washington Post • Felicia Sonmez • 20 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Two Georgia election workers targeted by Trump sue far-right conspiracy site Gateway Pundit for defamation
The women allege that the website and its owners knowingly published false stories about them that instigated a relentless campaign of harassment and threats.
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CNN • Zachary Cohen, Paula Reid and Sara Murray, CNN • 22 hours ago • cnn.com
New details shed light on ways Mark Meadows pushed federal agencies to pursue dubious election claims
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' new cooperation with the January 6 House select committee could give investigators a valuable window into how former President Donald Trump and his allies tried to enlist government officials to pursue baseless election conspiracy theories -- an effort new CNN reporting reveals Meadows was central to in the weeks after the 2020 election.
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The Reload • 1 day ago • thereload.com
Analysis: Yes, Alec Baldwin’s Gun Could Have Fired Without Him Pulling the Trigger
In his first major interview since being involved in a fatal shooting on the set of his latest movie, Alec Baldwin made a surprising new claim about his actions that day.
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The Atlantic • John Hendrickson • 23 hours ago • theatlantic.com
The Struggle to Overcome Mass-Shooting Cynicism
“If I end my public-service career and haven’t passed a significant federal firearms-reform bill, I’ll consider my time in public service a failure,” Senator Chris Murphy says.
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VICE • David Gilbert • 2 hours ago • vice.com
Tucker Carlson Asked Hunter Biden to Help His Son Get Into College
The email exchange was leaked as a part of the ongoing civil war inside QAnon.
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Axios • Dave Lawler • 15 hours ago • axios.com
COVID case surge in South Africa warns of coming Omicron wave
The data out of South Africa is getting scary.
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POLITICO • Betsy Woodruff Swan, Zack Colman • 1 hour ago • politico.com
How to blow up a podcast
A Texas intel bulletin on a New Yorker podcast with a fringe environmentalist raises concerns over defining domestic terrorism.
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POLITICO • https://www.facebook.com/rachael.bade.9 • 4 hours ago • politico.com
POLITICO Playbook: Crisis averted after conservatives cave
And Nikki Haley kisses Donald Trump’s ring.
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The Washington Post • Eli Rosenberg • 2 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
U.S. economy adds just 210,000 jobs in November
Overall labor market growth has been encouraging this year: The country has been averaging adding more than 500,000 jobs a month.
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The Intercept • Rachel M. Cohen • 4 hours ago • theintercept.com
After Michigan Shooting, Democrats Weigh Competing Approaches to School Safety
Parents of school shooting victims and civil rights groups disagree over threat assessment, a controversial model designed by the Secret Service.
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NWLC • 3 days ago • nwlc.org
Reporting Guidance for the Build Back Better Act | NWLC
Read more about Reporting Guidance for the Build Back Better Act from NWLC.
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POLITICO • Hailey Fuchs • 6 hours ago • politico.com
Biden embraces his one-time foe: Walmart
Not so long ago, it would have been unimaginable for a Democratic president to ally himself with the retail giant. But that’s what this one has done.
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The Washington Post • Rachel Roubein, Alexandra Ellerbeck • 3 hours ago • washingtonpost.com
Analysis | Want that free coronavirus test Biden is promising? You gotta buy it first.
The administration is working through private insurance to make at-home tests available.
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The Intercept • Sara Sirota, Austin Ahlman • 20 hours ago • theintercept.com
Marijuana Banking Reform in Defense Bill on the Brink of Collapse as Democrats Split
With some members demanding an all-or-nothing approach to cannabis reform, consensus legislation may be axed from the National Defense Authorization Act.
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• The Atlantic • Aaron E. Carroll • 1 day ago • theatlantic.com
We Opened the Schools and ... It Was Fine
Many parents feared the worst, but so far, no widespread COVID crisis has come to America’s classrooms.
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Axios • Alexi McCammond,Sarah Mucha • 5 hours ago • axios.com
Burnout, money, fear drive turnover in Harris's office
Harris allies say she has a terrific chance to reset and downplay the early stumbles.
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The New York Times • Lisa Lerer, Jeremy W. Peters • 17 hours ago • nytimes.com
How the Politics of Abortion Are Poised to Intensify
The anti-abortion and abortion rights movements are already beginning to mobilize for a new, deeply unsettled post-Roe political reality.
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