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What to expect as the Jan. 6 committee hearings begin today

WASHINGTON — Hearings detailing the largest-scale investigation in congressional history begin Thursday, as the House Jan. 6 select committee works to explain how former President Donald Trump's false claims that the election was stolen boiled over to a riot in which more than a thousand Americans overwhelmed police and stormed…

Los Angeles Times

Super Moustache: how a Venezuelan cartoon turned into a political campaigner

“Stupid idiots! Can’t you overthrow him? He’s just a bus driver!” rages a blonde, coiffed character from inside a White House-style building located “somewhere on planet Earth”. The cartoon villain looks like a cross between Donald Trump and The Incredibles antagonist Syndrome. He’s shrieking in Spanish, with a heavy US…

The Conversation

America begins rationing COVID resources

The U.S. is raiding its COVID piggybank to ensure new vaccines and treatments remain available to Americans.

Axios

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Can the Jan. 6 hearings save America?

History will judge these hearings by the result: Will Trump and his minions finally face some kind of justice?

Salon

The Jan. 6 committee's Trump targets

The committee is keenly interested in how Trump's tweets shaped extremist groups' actions before and on Jan. 6.

Axios

U.S. Capitol riot hearing shows Trump allies, daughter rejected fraud claims

The congressional committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat presented testimony on Thursday showing that close allies - even his daughter - rejected his false claims of voting fraud.

Reuters

5 key questions the Jan. 6 committee will tackle in its hearings

It's been nearly a year of gathering information — via depositions, subpoenas, hearings, document dumps and court challenges — for the House select committee investigating the siege of the Capitol.

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Officials: Millions of COVID-19 shots ordered for youngest

White House officials say orders have been coming in for COVID-19 vaccine doses for small children

The Independent UK

Hearings to focus on Jan. 6, but also what Congress can do about it

The Jan. 6 hearings give the House a chance to build support for laws Congress could pass to prevent another attack on the election process.

Roll Call

Testimony from Ivanka and close Trump confidantes could be shown at January 6 committee opening hearing

A committee staffer says the panel’s opening presentation will ‘include senior Trump White House officials, senior Trump administration officials, Trump campaign officials, and indeed, Trump family members’

The Independent UK

Sky meet with former President Barack Obama ahead of 84-82 loss to Mystics

Tuesday’s meeting was planned by Sky ownership and did not take the place of the team being honored at the White House

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan. 6 panel's 1,000 witnesses: From Trump aides to rioters

The House Jan. 6 panel has interviewed more than 1,000 people who were directly or indirectly involved in the U.S. Capitol insurrection as it's probed the violent attack and former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented efforts to overturn his election defeat

The Independent UK

Biden to open Summit of the Americas with economic pitch amid tensions over guest list

LOS ANGELES — President Joe Biden arrived in Los Angeles Wednesday to formally open the Summit of the Americas with a plan to revive Latin American economies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as his administration is navigating fallout from a partial boycott of the conference by key regional…

Los Angeles Times

Biden, en route to summit, spoke by phone to Venezuela opposition leader

President Joe Biden on Wednesday spoke by phone with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido and expressed U.S. support for restarting negotiations between President Nicolas Maduro's government and the opposition, the White House said.

Reuters

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Miami Herald

Biden speaks with Venezuela’s Juan Guaidó after declining to invite him to Americas summit

President Joe Biden called Juan Guaidó from Air Force One on his way to Los Angeles for the Summit of the Americas on Wednesday after declining to invite the Venezuelan opposition leader to participate, a source familiar with the matter told McClatchy.

The Independent UK

Biden sidelines Venezuela's pro-democracy leader from summit

A little more than two years ago, Juan Guaidó was showered with bipartisan applause when President Donald Trump during his state of the union speech praised the Venezuelan opposition leader as a “very brave man” who carries on his shoulders the democratic hopes of an entire nation

Tribune News Service

Matthew McConaughey isn’t the only celebrity speaking out after Uvalde

Actor Matthew McConaughey took to the stage in the White House briefing room Tuesday to implore politicians to enact stricter gun laws after 19 children and two teachers were killed in his hometown of Uvalde during a mass shooting at an elementary school on May 24.

The Independent UK

‘Great resignation’ reaches White House with staff turnover

Not even the White House is immune from the economic trend that's been called the "great resignation” as employers struggle to fill vacancies and workers jump to new jobs at record rates

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The Independent UK

Jared Kushner reportedly began plotting move to Miami before Trump had even lost his bid for reelection

‘There’s a pretty good chance we come up short,’ Kushner confided to a senator’s aide following the countless lawsuits the former president lodged after the 2020 election

The Independent UK

White House condemns actions of armed suspect near Justice Kavanaugh’s home

‘Public officials ... must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety or that of their families’

The Guardian - US

Kushner wrote memoir instead of pushing Trump to concede, book says

Jared Kushner took MasterClass from James Patterson and ‘batted out’ part of a first draft in two-week stretch after election

Salon

House probes missing Trump admin gifts

Reports "raise concerns about the potential for undue influence over former President Trump by foreign governments"

Al Jazeera

Summit of the Americas: Biden to address regional leaders, envoys

Washington has brushed off boycotts by several leaders as Biden aims to restore US clout at the regional event.

The Independent UK

Then and now: GOP lawmakers' evolution on the Capitol riot

Most every Republican lawmaker expressed outrage in the days after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021

The Independent UK

US diverts COVID-19 funds to secure vaccines amid stalemate

More than $10 billion in coronavirus relief funds is being diverted from orders of at-home rapid tests and other pandemic-related efforts

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