THE CAUCUS
- N.S.A. Installs Trump Loyalist as Top Lawyer Days Before Biden Takes Office
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 18 2021 - 12:33 AM:)
<>The acting defense secretary ordered the spy agency to appoint Michael Ellis, who has been accused of having a hand in one of the Trump administration’s most contentious legal decisions.
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- Migrant Caravan, Now in Guatemala, Tests Regional Resolve to Control Migration
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 10:57 PM:)
<>As many as 7,000 migrants from Central America are hoping to reach the United States to escape poverty intensified by hurricanes and the pandemic. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has pledged to ease asylum rules.
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- Prospect of Pardons in Final Days Fuels Market to Buy Access to Trump
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 10:02 PM:)
<>The president’s allies have collected tens of thousands of dollars — and potentially much more — from people seeking pardons.
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- What’s It Like to Have Kamala Harris as ‘Momala’? We Asked Her Stepkids
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 9:20 PM:)
<>A Zoom interview with Ella and Cole Emhoff.
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- How Republicans Are Warping Reality Around the Capitol Attack
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 8:26 PM:)
<>Loyalists to President Trump are increasingly relying on conspiracy theories and misinformation, drawing false equivalence with last summer’s racial protests and blaming outside agitators.
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- Far-right activist is among the latest Capitol rioters to be arrested.
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 3:38 PM:)
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- Loews Hotels Says it Won't Host a Fund-Raiser with Senate Josh Hawley
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 2:06 PM:)
<>The decision to call off the event was the latest indication that many companies are distancing themselves from Republicans who voted to overturn the election results.
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- Biden, Harris to Introduce Members of White House Science Team
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 2:06 PM:)
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- Sonia Sotomayor will swear in Kamala Harris on Inauguration Day.
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 2:06 PM:)
<>Justice Sotomayor has sworn in a vice president before.
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- A man with a gun arrested by Capitol Police at a security checkpoint calls it an ‘honest mistake.’
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 2:42 AM:)
<>The man was arrested on Friday with more than 500 rounds of ammunition in his truck, the police said. He told a reporter he was heading to a security job in Washington and got lost.
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FIVE THIRTY EIGHT
- N.S.A. Installs Trump Loyalist as Top Lawyer Days Before Biden Takes Office
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 18 2021 - 12:33 AM:)
<>The acting defense secretary ordered the spy agency to appoint Michael Ellis, who has been accused of having a hand in one of the Trump administration’s most contentious legal decisions.
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- Migrant Caravan, Now in Guatemala, Tests Regional Resolve to Control Migration
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 10:57 PM:)
<>As many as 7,000 migrants from Central America are hoping to reach the United States to escape poverty intensified by hurricanes and the pandemic. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has pledged to ease asylum rules.
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- Prospect of Pardons in Final Days Fuels Market to Buy Access to Trump
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 10:02 PM:)
<>The president’s allies have collected tens of thousands of dollars — and potentially much more — from people seeking pardons.
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- What’s It Like to Have Kamala Harris as ‘Momala’? We Asked Her Stepkids
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 9:20 PM:)
<>A Zoom interview with Ella and Cole Emhoff.
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- How Republicans Are Warping Reality Around the Capitol Attack
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 8:26 PM:)
<>Loyalists to President Trump are increasingly relying on conspiracy theories and misinformation, drawing false equivalence with last summer’s racial protests and blaming outside agitators.
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- Far-right activist is among the latest Capitol rioters to be arrested.
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 3:38 PM:)
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- Loews Hotels Says it Won't Host a Fund-Raiser with Senate Josh Hawley
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 2:06 PM:)
<>The decision to call off the event was the latest indication that many companies are distancing themselves from Republicans who voted to overturn the election results.
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- Biden, Harris to Introduce Members of White House Science Team
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 2:06 PM:)
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- Sonia Sotomayor will swear in Kamala Harris on Inauguration Day.
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 2:06 PM:)
<>Justice Sotomayor has sworn in a vice president before.
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- A man with a gun arrested by Capitol Police at a security checkpoint calls it an ‘honest mistake.’
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(NYT > U.S. > Politics - January 17 2021 - 2:42 AM:)
<>The man was arrested on Friday with more than 500 rounds of ammunition in his truck, the police said. He told a reporter he was heading to a security job in Washington and got lost.
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