Today's Top Stories:
President Biden will grant Jan. 6 investigators access to Trump records
The president "concluded that it would not be appropriate to assert executive privilege" on Trump's behalf, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
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"Vigilante treatments": Anti-vaccine groups pushing people to leave ICUs
As the anti-vaccine movement escalates its rhetoric, doctors warn that they're dealing with the fallout: "They’re starting to target people, the messengers — nurses and doctors."
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Democrat Veronica Escobar is holding Texas Republicans accountable
Veronica Escobar: During a devastating power outage, Ted Cruz jetted off to Cancun. Now, with a pandemic surging, Texas Republicans are focused on passing draconian abortion bans, suppressing minority voters, and demonizing immigrants. Luckily Veronica Escobar, the Democratic congresswoman from the border, isn't letting them get away with it!
70 million Americans remain unvaccinated
"I want to be clear: We will not boost our way out of this pandemic," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky warned.
Biden urges Americans to get boosters, says he will soon do the same
The decision capped a highly unusual process in which top administration health officials in August announced a plan to start giving boosters this week before the career scientists at the FDA and the CDC had reviewed the data. But the officials said data from Israel and the UK showed troubling signs of protection waning, particularly in the elderly, and there was a need to act quickly.
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Texas begins pointless election "audit" despite Arizona embarrassment for Trump
Texas officials instantly capitulated to the disgraced ex-president's demand despite admitting the election was "smooth and secure."
QAnon congresswoman starts screaming match with Democrats over abortion rights bill
The outburst by Marjorie Taylor Greene came after the House passed legislation that would codify abortion rights protections amid threats to Roe v. Wade.
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Centrists pull FATAL stunt
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Beyond dangerous.
Marjorie Taylor Green's chief of staff announces resignation
Patrick Parsons announced his resignation after less than nine months working for the QAnon congresswoman.
Radical right-wing mom’s group demands school censor book over "sexy" seahorse drawings
The very people who have spent the past two years weeping and moaning about "cancel culture" are now on an ideological crusade to cancel anything and every kind of thought that they don’t like.
Rudy Giuliani outraged by reported Fox News decision to ban him
The former Time Magazine Man of the Year is so radioactive even Fox won't go near him anymore.
All-out search, media attention for Gabby Petito reveals glaring disparity for Wyoming's Indigenous people
710 Indigenous people were reported missing in the state over the past decade, with none receiving anything close to the incessant coverage seen in the Petito case.
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