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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

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.”

The Independent UK

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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.

Reason

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Axios

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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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."

The Independent UK

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

Salon

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.

Roll Call

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.

Reuters

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.

Mic

Biden restricts landmine use in reversal of Trump-era policy

Trump lifted US restrictions on anti-personnel landmine use, which had been banned in almost all of the world.

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Tribune News Service

Jan. 6 panel plans to detail Trump pressure to alter 2020 election results

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is set Tuesday to outline aggressive efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to pressure state officials to help overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: The insurrection won’t end until Trump is prosecuted and disqualified from future office

In a powerful warning Thursday, the patron saint of the conservative legal movement, former federal appellate Judge J. Michael Luttig, testified before the Jan. 6 Committee and pronounced former President Donald Trump and his allies a “clear and present danger” to American constitutional democracy. As Luttig knows better than most,…

Reuters

No Biden move on Chinese tariffs likely before G7 meeting -sources

U.S. President Joe Biden is considering scrapping tariffs on a range of Chinese goods to curb inflation, but no decision is likely before next week's Group of Seven summit, people familiar with the matter said.

Tribune News Service

Former US Marine jailed in Venezuela attempts suicide, is hospitalized in Caracas

Matthew Heath, a former U.S. Marine jailed under terrorism charges by the Nicolàs Maduro regime in Venezuela, has been hospitalized after trying to take his life on Saturday by using a piece of porcelain broken off from a sink to try to cut his veins, persons close to his defense…

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The Guardian - US

Donald Trump plotted fake electors scheme, January 6 panel set to show

Committee also expected to probe Trump’s pressure on officials in crucial states to corruptly reverse his election defeat

Chicago Tribune

In Chicago speech, Mike Pence delivers a withering rebuke of Biden’s economic policies, makes no direct references to Donald Trump

CHICAGO — Sounding like a potential presidential candidate, former Vice President Mike Pence contended Monday that the nation’s economic woes were almost entirely the result of Democratic President Joe Biden’s policies, and told an audience at the University Club of Chicago that without a turnaround, Americans will “change leadership very…

The Independent UK

Britain has taken stronger view than US on Ukraine, says ex-White House adviser

John Bolton will claim the UK now has a ‘independent role’ in Nato due to its departure from the ‘smoothie-making’ EU decision process.

The Independent UK

Texas’s Greg Abbott has spent more than $3m busing migrants out of the state

Texas governor’s plan has been criticised as expensive publicity stunt by Democrats

Reason

The Defense Production Act Has Become a License for Central Planning

If home insulation is a "critical technology item essential to the national defense," then what isn't?

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Mark Meadows wasn’t there, but he had a really bad Jan. 6 hearing

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was not at Thursday’s latest hearing by the Jan. 6 committee hearing. But his presence loomed as witnesses reconstructed the events leading up to and on the day that supporters of then-President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol.

Tribune News Service

Martin Schram: How a Watergate punishment might have averted our Jan. 6 hell

On June 17, Americans found ourselves at the convergence of two crises of shattering assaults on our democracy.

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