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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in January, 2022Note: Excerpts are from the authors' words except for subheads and occasional "Editor's notes" such as this.
Jan. 19
Top Headlines
- New York Times, Live Reports: Biden Says He Expects Russia Will Invade Ukraine
- New York Times, In Rebuke to Trump, Supreme Court Won’t Block Release of Jan. 6 Files, Adam Liptak
- New York Times, Opinion: How Being Sick Changed My Health Care Views, Ross Douthat
Washington Post, N.Y. attorney general alleges Trump’s business inflated property values, wealth statements- Palmer Report, Opinion: Court filing from New York AG Letitia James is devastating for Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Bill Palmer
- Palmer Report, Analysis: The New York AG just put Ivanka Trump right in the center of the Trump Organization’s Deutsche Bank scandal, Bill Palmer
- Washington Post, White House to distribute 400 million free N95 masks starting next week
- Washington Post, Federal website for rapid tests goes live a day early
New York Times, Russia and U.S. to Meet in Effort to Break Deadlock Over Ukraine
U.S. Elections, Politics, Governance
New York Times, Live Updates: Senate Debates Voting Rights Bill, Setting Up Filibuster Clash- New York Times, Prominent Democrats are irate at their party’s two filibuster holdouts: Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin
- Washington Post, Biden’s First Year: Inside Biden’s declining popularity as he struggles with multiple crises
- Washington Post, Opinion: Biden needs to rework his messaging. Here are some suggestions,
New York Times, Biden Administration Announces Plan to Spend Billions to Prevent Wildfires- New York Times, Hochul Outpaces Foes by Raising Record-High $21.6 Million for Campaign
- Washington Post, Nick Saban, Jerry West urge Manchin to support voting rights bill
- Axios Sneak Peek, Scoop: Migrant mandate
- Axios Sneak Peek, Biden to GOP: "Here I come"
- New York Times, Emily’s List threatened to pull support from Senator Kyrsten Sinema over her stance on the filibuster change
- Palmer Report, Opinion: Looks like Donald Trump is beating up Ron DeSantis for nothing, Bill Palmer
- Washington Post, Fla. governor proposes special police agency to monitor elections
- Washington Post, House Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump-allied attorneys Giuliani, Powell and others, Jacqueline Alemany
Virus Victims, Responses
- New York Times, Commentary: When My Mom Got Covid, I Went Searching for Pfizer’s Pills, Rebecca Robbins
New York Times, Live Updates: Omicron May Be Peaking in Parts of U.S., but Hospitals Are Strained- Washington Post, Opinion: Glenn Youngkin’s awful first moves are already sparking a rebellion, Greg Sargent
New York Times, Opinion: Why a Blue City Is Feeling the Blues, Paul Krugman
New York Times, Will Omicron Bring Pandemic’s End? It’s Too Soon to Know, Fauci Says- HuffPost, Unvaccinated Novak Djokovic Now Faces French Open Ban
New York Times, The Chinese public will not be allowed to buy tickets to the Olympics- Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals: U.S. Deaths: 877,240
Washington Post, 209.5 milliion in U.S. fully vaccinated- New York Times, Opinion: How Being Sick Changed My Health Care Views, Ross Douthat
U.S. Law, Courts, Crime
- New York Times, University of Michigan to Pay $490 Million to Settle Sexual Abuse Cases
- New York Times, Judge Approves Deal to Resolve Puerto Rico Bankruptcy
- New York Times, Britney Spears Fights Father’s Fee Claim, Alleging Financial Misconduct
- Washington Post, Lawsuit against a retired professor roils the well-to-do from D.C. to R.I.
- New York Times, Ghislaine Maxwell’s Bid for a New Trial Faces a Major Hurdle
- Washington Post, Family of Otto Warmbier, American who died after N. Korea detention, awarded $240,000 in seized assets
- New York Times, 3 Police Officers Charged in Fatal Shooting of Child Outside Football Game
- Al.com, Investigation: Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole,’ John Archibald
World News, Human Rights, Disasters- Washington Post, Opinion: How the U.S. helps vulnerable Afghans without recognizing the Taliban, David Ignatius
- New York Times, Belgium Convicts 18 in People-Smuggling Case Tied to U.K. Truck Deaths
- Washington Post, Tonga faces weeks cut off as volcanic activity imperils repair of fiber-optic cable
- Washington Post, Israel demolishes Palestinian home, arrests family in flash-point Jerusalem neighborhood
New York Times, Silvio Berlusconi Angles for Italy’s Presidency, Bunga Bunga and All
U.S. Media, Sports, Education News
WhoWhatWhy, Investigative Commentary: Why Can’t the Media Get the Story of the JFK Documents Right? Robert Smith- Washington Post, Wireless carriers to limit 5G near airports after airlines warn of major disruptions
- Washington Post, China warns foreign Olympic athletes against speaking out on politics at Winter Games
Top Stories
New York Times, Live Reports: Biden Says He Expects Russia Will Invade Ukraine, Staff Reports, Jan. 19, 2022. President Biden shared his forecast in a news conference taking stock of his year in office, in which he also accused Republicans of stalling his agenda. On Capitol Hill, a debate over voting rights legislation has divided the Senate, setting up a clash over filibuster rules. Here’s the latestPresident Biden on Wednesday said he expected President Vladimir Putin of Russia would invade Ukraine, delivering a grim assessment of the ability of the United States and its European allies to persuade the Russian leader not to send troops across the border.
“Do I think he’ll test the West, test the United States and NATO, as significantly as he can? Yes, I think he will,” Mr. Biden told reporters during a near two-hour news conference in the East Room of the White House, adding: “But I think he will pay a serious, and dear price for it that he doesn’t think now will cost him what it’s going to cost him. And I think he will regret having done it.”
Asked to clarify whether he was accepting that an invasion is coming, Mr. Biden said: “My guess is he will move in. He has to do something.”
The president’s comments came as Russia has marshaled more than 100,000 troops to the border with Ukraine over the past several months. Mr. Biden has vowed extensive sanctions if an invasion happens, but he suggested that they would not be enough to keep Mr. Putin from moving forward with military action.
“I probably shouldn’t go any further. But I think it will hurt him badly,” he said.
Later, Mr. Biden offered less certainty, saying that he was not sure whether Mr. Putin had made up his mind on invading.
“I suspect it matters which side of the bed he gets up on in the morning as to exactly what he’s going to do,” Mr. Biden said.
Earlier in the news conference, Mr. Biden accused Republicans of refusing to get “in the game” on governing the country and insisted that he did not over promise to the American people despite his failure to pass wide-ranging social spending legislation or voting right protections.
“I did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that President Biden didn’t get anything done,” he said.
“What are Republicans for?” he asked in response to a question about his stalled agenda. “What are they for? Name me one thing that they are for.”
Mr. Biden did not mention that much of his agenda has been blocked by Democratic lawmakers, not Republicans. And he insisted that he would not pare back his ambitions in the face of difficult odds in Congress.
“We just have to make the case what we’re for and what the other team’s not,” he said.
Mr. Biden’s comments came as he faced reporters in a formal news conference for only the second time in his presidency and less than a day before the first anniversary of his inauguration amid a stalled agenda and low approval ratings.
In that year, Mr. Biden succeeded early in passing a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill, getting millions of Americans vaccinated, and negotiating a bipartisan bill to invest $1 trillion in the nation’s roads, bridges, pipes and broadband.
But the president had a series of failures since the summer, including a rushed and chaotic exit from Afghanistan, a monthslong battle with two Democratic senators over his far-reaching social spending legislation, and the inability to pass voting rights protections he describes as crucial to the fate of democracy in the country.
Mr. Biden was defensive about his legislative failures, saying that he intended to continue to press for passage of his social policy legislation.
“It’s clear to me that we’re going to have to probably break it up,” he said, suggesting that parts of the $2.2 trillion bill passed by the House would be able to find support in the Senate. He did not say how he thought he could get Republicans to back those provisions.
New York Times, In Rebuke to Trump, Supreme Court Won’t Block Release of Jan. 6 Files, Adam Liptak, Jan. 19, 2022. The case was a constitutional clash on the scope of executive privilege and whether a former president may invoke it when the current one has waived it.The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused a request from former President Donald J. Trump to block the release of White House records concerning the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Only Justice Clarence Thomas, right, noted a dissent.A special House committee investigating the attack sought the records from the National Archives, which gave ...
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