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January 6 panel to focus on Trump’s relentless pressure on justice department

The ex-president pushed the department to more aggressively investigate debunked claims of fraud with threats

The Guardian - US

EXPLAINER: How Biden's proposed gas tax holiday would work

Facing stubbornly high gas prices that average about $5 a gallon nationwide, President Joe Biden has urged Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months

The Independent UK

Critics say proposed Biden gas tax holiday gives billions to oil companies but won’t lower prices at pump

Plan likely wouldn’t lower gas price, experts say

The Independent UK

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U.S. working on normalization "road map" for Saudi Arabia and Israel

The White House thinks that any road map for normalization will take time and will be a long-term process, a source told Axios.

Axios

Jan 6 hearings: Key takeaways we’ve learned from the committee

The final public presentation from the House investigation into the Capitol riot and Donald Trump’s role in provoking it starts at 1pm ET on Monday 19 December

The Independent UK

US importing baby formula from Mexico to ease shortage

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing logistical support to import the equivalent of about 16 million 8-ounce baby formula bottles from Mexico

The Independent UK

Biden calls for three-month gas tax holiday as prices continue to rise

The federal gas tax funds highway maintenance and costs consumers 18 cents per gallon of gasoline and 24 cents per gallon of diesel fuel

The Independent UK

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Brexit: unilateral action on NI protocol ‘not conducive’ to trade deal, warns US

Exclusive: officials’ comments put paid to idea displeasure with UK is limited to Irish caucus on Capitol Hill

The Guardian - UK

Raffensperger says he wishes Fox News carried every Jan. 6 hearing

"I think it would have helped our party heal, given [people] more facts."

Axios

Commentary: Biden’s risky trip to the Mideast is also pointless

President Joe Biden has a politically risky itinerary for his scheduled trip to Israel, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia in mid-July. The question is, why he is doing this?

Tribune News Service

Biden to call for three-month suspension of federal gas taxes - Roll Call

President Joe Biden on Wednesday will call on Congress to suspend federal gas taxes through September to help motorists.

Roll Call

Commentary: If Biden gives up on climate, it’s a white flag for the planet

At one point in Al Gore’s seminal 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth,” the former vice president laments that his tobacco-farming parents didn’t stop raising tobacco until after their beloved daughter Nancy died of lung cancer in Tennessee.

Tribune News Service

The First Lady review: Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Viola Davis can’t save this confused period drama

Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama get the crusty, historical treatment in this plodding 10-part show

The Independent UK

Trump lawyers contacted a top Pa. Republican every day during 2020 pressure campaign, Jan. 6 committee says

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler received daily phone calls from former President Donald Trump’s lawyers and saw protests outside his house amid a pressure campaign to overturn the results of the state’s 2020 presidential election, he told the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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The Independent UK

Biden, Chevron chief trade sharp words over gas prices

In a pointed back and forth, the head of Chevron has complained that President Joe Biden has vilified energy firms at a time when gasoline prices are at near record levels and the president responded that the oil company CEO was being “mildly sensitive.”

Reason

After $6 Trillion in COVID Spending, Team Biden Is Still Complaining About a Lack of Pandemic Funds

Democrats passed trillions in pandemic relief but continue to cry poor.

Chicago Sun-Times

State Department will reschedule phone call between Brittney Griner and wife Cherelle

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the State Department was working to arrange a new call but did not say when that would be.

Axios

Meadows wanted to send Georgia election investigators “a sh**load of POTUS stuff," Jan. 6 panel says

“White House staff intervened to make sure that didn’t happen,” Adam Schiff said on Tuesday.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Vice President Kamala Harris visits Illinois on Friday: stops in Chicago, Plainfield

Harris will highlight the administration’s work on maternal health and will speak at a convention of Latino officials.

The Independent UK

Mark Meadows wanted to bribe Georgia investigators by sending them ‘a s***load of POTUS stuff’, aide says

‘White House staff intervened to make sure that didn’t happen’

The Independent UK

Phone call between WNBA's Griner and wife being rescheduled

The White House says a phone call between jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner and her wife is being rescheduled after an earlier attempt to connect on the couple’s anniversary failed because of an “unfortunate mistake."

Salon

Bowers: Rudy didn't have any evidence

Trump told him "just do it and let the courts sort it out," Bowers told the Jan. 6 committee

Roll Call

Officials tell panel how they impeded Trump’s demands to overturn election

GOP state officials detailed for the Jan. 6 select committee their resistance to Donald Trump's demands they overturn the 2020 election.

Reuters

White House: Suggestion Americans captured in Ukraine should face death penalty is 'appalling'

A White House official said on Tuesday it is "appalling" that a public official in Russia would suggest the death penalty for Americans captured in Ukraine.

Mic

Demi Lovato opened up about Mac Miller’s death and survivor’s guilt

“I’ve lost friends that were around my age, and those hurt so deeply because we’ve been in the trenches together,” she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.

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