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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Examining the Case Against the Filibuster</strong> - In a new book, Adam Jentleson blames government failures on more than a century of Southern obstruction in the Senate. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/examining-the-case-against-the-filibuster">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Joe Biden Is Playing It Cool with Benjamin Netanyahu</strong> - The Biden Administration’s support for the Abraham Accords is having unintended consequences for Israel’s Prime Minister. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/joe-biden-is-playing-it-cool-with-benjamin-netanyahu">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>On Climate, Biden’s Administration Needs to Combat Zombie Trumpism Quickly</strong> - And Montana’s Yaak Valley is a good place to start. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/on-climate-bidens-administration-needs-to-combat-zombie-trumpism-quickly">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Can a Country Control the Virus and Host a Grand Slam? Australia Is Trying</strong> - In light of Melbourne’s long stretch of stringent lockdown measures, Australia’s decision to allow more than a thousand people into the country for a tennis tournament has been controversial. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/can-a-country-control-the-virus-and-host-a-grand-slam-australia-is-trying">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How San Francisco Renamed Its Schools</strong> - The president of the San Francisco Board of Education discusses the controversies around reopening and renaming her district’s schools, including questions about how to view the legacies of complex historical figures. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-san-francisco-renamed-its-schools">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Watch: The Weeknd’s toned-down Super Bowl halftime show was mellow but satisfying</strong> -
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The typically edgy artist went for a lower-key, Covid-safe performance.
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Prior to his Super Bowl 55 halftime performance in Tampa on Sunday, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22264459/the-weeknd-super-bowl-halftime-blinding-lights-tiktok-dance-meme">The Weeknd</a> promised to keep his typically edgy fare <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/super-bowl/2021/02/04/super-bowl-2021-halftime-show-weeknd-talks-performance/4388098001/">much more family-friendly</a> for the game’s millions of viewers. Typically, the fascinating star — his real name is Abel Tesfaye — delivers a heady mix of sex, drugs, and rock and roll through his music, a cocktail of R&amp;B, hip-hop, and classic pop. The Weeknd’s halftime performance was significantly lower-key, but once it started, he had the size-limited crowd at the Raymond James Stadium fully under his thumb, with powerful vocals serving as the main draw.
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Continuing the Las Vegas theme he began with his music videos for “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DpH-icPpl0">Heartless</a>” and “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NRXx6U8ABQ">Blinding Lights</a>,” The Weeknd opened the halftime show with an ethereal robot choir accompanying him to “Starboy” and “Call Out My Name,” before segueing into a dazzling chorus of “The Hills.” In the background, the set illuminated what might be keywords for a Weeknd performance, as well as for the overall pandemic mood: “touch,” “alone,” and “empty,” among others.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/theweeknd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="TheWeeknd">@TheWeeknd</span></a> kicks off the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PepsiHalftime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PepsiHalftime</a> show with Starboy! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SBLV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SBLV</a> <a href="https://t.co/DFAi1LNtNl">pic.twitter.com/DFAi1LNtNl</a>
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— NFL (<span class="citation" data-cites="NFL">@NFL</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1358588814965538819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2021</a>
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Though The Weeknd didn’t don <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/awards/9488667/the-weeknd-bandaged-face-2020-amas-explainer">the controversial face bandages</a> he wore when performing at the American Music Awards last November, he one-upped that look for the Super Bowl. This time, in a brightly lit funhouse of golden mirrors, he manifested a whole crowd of face-bandaged doppelgangers, all colliding against the mirrors and each other in a rendition of “Can’t Feel My Face,” enacting the stumbling, drug-fueled stupor of the song’s theme. It was the main taste of the orgiastic cocktail of self-destruction The Weeknd’s performances usually proffer.
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— NFL (<span class="citation" data-cites="NFL">@NFL</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1358589395914416129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2021</a>
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Should “Las Vegas Plastic Surgery Recovery Unit” be a show on CBS? “CSI: Las Vegas Plastic Surgery Recovery Unit?” We’ll workshop it and get back to you. <a href="https://twitter.com/theweeknd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="theweeknd">@theweeknd</span></a>, call us. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PepsiHalftime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PepsiHalftime</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SBLV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SBLV</a> <a href="https://t.co/cNxYIt7wAr">pic.twitter.com/cNxYIt7wAr</a>
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— CBS (<span class="citation" data-cites="CBS">@CBS</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS/status/1358592646898327555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2021</a>
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The performance was otherwise benign — not only because The Weeknd was performing for a much larger and more all-ages audience than usual, but because Covid-19 safety protocols meant a smaller crowd at the stadium and presumably fewer opportunities for complicated onstage hijinks (or surprise cameos from guest artists). The Weeknd mostly performed solo, backed by an ensemble whose limited choreography — and at one point, violin instrumental — was mostly performed in place. When the bandaged dancers finally showed up again, it was to take over the football field like a surrealist marching band, at first all standing a rigid six feet apart.
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In the middle, The Weeknd paraded in his now-iconic red sequin jacket, skipping into an intense, bouncy rendition of “Blinding Lights” — <a href="https://www.vox.com/22264459/the-weeknd-super-bowl-halftime-blinding-lights-tiktok-dance-meme">the song that arguably won him this Super Bowl gig</a> in the first place.
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BLINDING LIGHTS <a href="https://twitter.com/theweeknd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="TheWeeknd">@TheWeeknd</span></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PepsiHalftime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PepsiHalftime</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SBLV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SBLV</a> <a href="https://t.co/Qv9yyW8wED">pic.twitter.com/Qv9yyW8wED</a>
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— NFL (<span class="citation" data-cites="NFL">@NFL</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1358591785925246981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2021</a>
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The Weeknd has frequently <a href="https://www.elitedaily.com/music/the-weeknd-michael-jackson/1198285">drawn</a> <a href="http://www.gurushetty.com/3-reasons-why-the-weeknd-is-michael-jackson-reborn/">comparisons</a> to Michael Jackson, one of his <a href="https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/here-are-all-the-similarities-between-the-weeknd-s-new-video-and-michael-jackson-1.2462256">biggest</a> artistic <a href="https://www.nme.com/news/music/weekend-3-1280196">influences</a>, and the scene gave off a definite “Thriller vibe,” with the choreography getting progressively more unhinged and erratic. The halftime show ended with The Weeknd walking off the field solo after razing the field of his dopples, who lay as if dead — perhaps felled by the force of The Weeknd’s concert intensity.
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All in all, even though this was an unlikely halftime show featuring an unlikely performer at an uncertain Super Bowl, it was exactly the halftime show we needed. The Weeknd strode through it with confidence and charm, reminding viewers that even though plenty is different in 2021, the most important things — including the music and the magic of live performance — remain the same.
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<li><strong>Trump’s impeachment trial is imminent. GOP senators are working to cast it as a Democratic plot.</strong> -
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<img alt="Johnson, in a navy suit, blue shirt, and red tie, raises his left hand, while speaking emphatically. Clean shaven, and with his white hair combed back, he sits at a desk." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/caxL88URT1wbUUUAH7YO09P9hp0=/343x0:3084x2056/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/68784638/GettyImages_1230817695.0.jpg"/>
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Sen. Ron Johnson, who asked Sunday if the Senate trial is a “diversionary operation,” speaks at Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s confirmation hearing as UN ambassador. | Michael Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
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Republicans claim the trial is constitutionally illegitimate. Most scholars disagree.
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Top Republican senators argued on Sunday that the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump set to begin this week is not constitutionally legitimate — and one even tried to suggest that Democrats might be to blame for the storming of the US Capitol.
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The dismissals and distraction tactics suggest that <a href="https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-1cf1e6c1-44d2-43f3-9aef-9496a2c8c77f.html?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top">after a brief period of uncertainty</a> about whether to censure Trump, Republicans are poised to present a fairly united front in rejecting the case that Trump should be convicted for his role in inciting the January 6 insurrection.
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) argued that 45 Republican senators already believe the Senate trial is “unconstitutional,” when speaking with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. He was referring to the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/senate-rejects-motion-declare-trump-impeachment-trial-unconstitutional/">vote total on the Senate motion brought by Sen. Rand Paul</a> (R-KY) in January to dismiss the impeachment trial on the basis that it’s unconstitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a private citizen. Five Republicans joined the Democrats in rejecting the motion, but every other Republican voted in favor of it. (Many legal scholars believe that such a trial is perfectly constitutional — more on that later.)
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But Johnson’s subsequent comments on Fox took a more shocking turn — he floated the baseless idea that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to blame in some sense for the violent assault on the Capitol.
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“Is this another diversionary operation? Is this meant to deflect away from potentially what the speaker knew and when she knew it? I don’t know, but I’m suspicious,” Johnson said.
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Ron Johnson absurdly floats that Nancy Pelosi is somehow responsible for a MAGA mob descending on the Capitol for a deadly insurrection <a href="https://t.co/hUi6SydEe1">pic.twitter.com/hUi6SydEe1</a>
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— Aaron Rupar (<span class="citation" data-cites="atrupar">@atrupar</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1358440762564898819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2021</a>
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Other senators also attempted to question the legitimacy of the trial. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said that the House vote on impeachment was all for show — and resembled the legal process in an authoritarian state.
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“There was no process. It’s almost like, if it happened in the Soviet Union, you would have called it a show trial,” Cassidy said on NBC’s <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-february-07-2021-n1256967"><em>Meet the Press</em></a><em>. </em>“The president wasn’t there, he wasn’t allowed counsel, they didn’t amass evidence, in five hours they kind of judged and boom, he’s impeached,” he said.
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The House impeachment process, in fact, does not involve a trial; the Senate trial following impeachment does. <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/2/4/22266677/house-democrats-impeachment-trump-testify-january-6-insurrection-raskin-election-biden">Trump was invited to testify</a> at his Senate trial, but declined.
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WATCH: “If it happened in the Soviet Union, you would have called it a show trial,” says <a href="https://twitter.com/SenBillCassidy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="SenBillCassidy">@SenBillCassidy</span></a> of the second impeachment trial of former Pres. Trump. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MTP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MTP</a><br/><br/>Cassidy: “The House did an incredibly poor job of building a case before their impeachment vote.” <a href="https://t.co/5Pzlrq3ROA">pic.twitter.com/5Pzlrq3ROA</a>
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— Meet the Press (<span class="citation" data-cites="MeetThePress">@MeetThePress</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1358428832630464512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2021</a>
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) argued on CBS’ <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/full-transcript-of-face-the-nation-on-february-7-2021/"><em>Face the Nation</em></a> that the trial was an “unconstitutional exercise” and that “the outcome is really not in doubt.”
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He suggested that attempts to sanction Trump’s behavior should instead be dealt with through the conventional legal system. “If you believe he committed a crime, he can be prosecuted like any other citizen; impeachment is a political process,” Graham said.
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“If you believe he committed a crime, he can be prosecuted like any other citizen,” <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="LindseyGrahamSC">@LindseyGrahamSC</span></a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="margbrennan">@margbrennan</span></a> about the second <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Trump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Trump</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Impeachment?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Impeachment</a> trial <a href="https://t.co/YScPLMQNNH">pic.twitter.com/YScPLMQNNH</a>
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— Face The Nation (<span class="citation" data-cites="FaceTheNation">@FaceTheNation</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1358443254992297989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2021</a>
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Graham is correct in asserting that the outcome of the trial is in little doubt; <a href="https://www.vox.com/22224690/senate-republicans-impeachment">17 Republicans</a> would have to join every member of the Democratic caucus for a conviction to be successful, as a conviction requires two-thirds of the Senate. As was evident Sunday, there appears to be little appetite for such a vote among the GOP.
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Impeachment, however, is about the prosecution of crimes — specifically, “high crimes and misdemeanors,” according to the Constitution, and Trump’s impeachment trial does not appear to be an “unconstitutional exercise,” as Graham suggested.
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There are historical examples of officials being tried after leaving office
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Many Republicans have argued that the Senate trial lacks constitutional legitimacy because Trump has already left office. But scholars and Democratic lawmakers have pointed out that the US Constitution is silent on the issue, and point to previous examples of federal officials, such as judges, being tried even after leaving office.
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<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-gop-set-to-argue-out-of-office-trump-cant-be-convicted-in-impeachment-11610881200">According to the Wall Street Journal</a>, a report from the Congressional Research Service — Congress’s internal research organization — found that “while the matter is open to debate, the weight of scholarly authority agrees that former officials may be impeached and tried.”
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The CRS report cited the example of Secretary of War William Belknap, who was impeached by the House and tried in the Senate in 1876, though he had already resigned after evidence emerged that he had acted corruptly.
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Laurence Tribe, a legal scholar at Harvard Law School, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/13/senate-impeachment-trial-constitutional-after-trump-leaves/">wrote</a> in the Washington Post in January that “the clear weight of history, original understanding and congressional practice bolsters the case for concluding that the end of Donald Trump’s presidency would not end his Senate trial.”
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Tribe wrote that the Constitution’s references to impeachment do not limit impeachment power based on whether an official is holding office. “Nothing in the Constitution suggests that a president who has shown himself to be a deadly threat to our survival as a constitutional republic should be able to run out the clock on our ability to condemn his conduct and to ensure that it can never recur,” he wrote.
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That isn’t to say there is a consensus on this view. Former federal appeals court judge J. Michael Luttig <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/12/once-trump-leaves-office-senate-cant-hold-an-impeachment-trial/">has argued</a> that the Senate trial would be unconstitutional, and says that he believes only the Supreme Court can make a definitive judgment on the matter.
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There is still a lot that’s uncertain about the trial
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A open question is whether any GOP senator will vote to convict Trump, particularly given that not all Republican senators have attempted to undermine the legitimacy of the Senate trial.
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Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania — one of the five Republican senators who voted against Paul’s motion — said he believes the process is constitutional on Sunday.
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“I think it’s clearly constitutional to conduct a Senate trial with respect to an impeachment. In this case the impeachment occurred prior to the president leaving office,” Toomey said on CNN’s <em>State of the Union</em>. “I still think the best outcome would have been for the president to resign. Obviously he chose not to do that.”
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“I’m going to listen to the arguments on both sides and make the decision that I think is right,” he added.
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“I think it’s clearly constitutional to conduct a Senate trial with respect to an impeachment,” Republican Sen. Pat Toomey says on fmr. Pres. Trump’s upcoming trial.<br/><br/>“In this case, the impeachment occurred prior to the President leaving office.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/SEHMh9LKBB">https://t.co/SEHMh9LKBB</a> <a href="https://t.co/jrvuQQqpWP">pic.twitter.com/jrvuQQqpWP</a>
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— State of the Union (<span class="citation" data-cites="CNNSotu">@CNNSotu</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1358430935897825280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2021</a>
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While there is some question about possible Republican conviction votes, Democrats appear far more united on the issue. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) encapsulated Democrats’ argument Sunday, defending the trial as something that’s not only allowed by the Constitution — but demanded by it.
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“There is clear precedent for the Senate moving forward on impeachment trial once being sent articles, even after an official has left office, and so my analysis here sort of begins and ends with what is my constitutional responsibility,” he said on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-murphy-we-have-a-constitutional-responsibility-to-hold-trumps-trial"><em>Fox News Sunday</em></a><em>.</em>
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“Impeachment comes not only with the provision to remove an official from office, but to disqualify them from future office,” Murphy said.
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Murphy also noted that there remain some big questions about how the trial will be conducted — including if witnesses will be brought in. He argued that since the riot was public, it wasn’t as necessary to call witnesses as it was during Trump’s first Senate impeachment trial, but that “if the House [impeachment] managers want to call witnesses, I think we should allow them to do so.”
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One broad point of agreement between the two parties is that both Democrats and Republicans want the trial — which begins Tuesday — to be quick. Republicans will favor a short trial as a damage control measure to reduce public discussion of Trump’s behavior. Democrats, on the other hand, have an ambitious legislative agenda and appointee confirmation schedule, and can’t afford to have senators wrapped up in impeachment matters for too long without slowing those down.
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“People have been lied to” about the election, Cheney told Fox News’ Chris Wallace.
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A day after being <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/06/wyoming-gop-censure-liz-cheney-466561">censured by her state’s Republican Party</a>, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, went on Fox News to defend her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump — and to argue that the GOP will have lost its way if it doesn’t reject Trump’s brand of politics.
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“People have been lied to,” Cheney <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cheney-not-resigning-state-gop-trump-impeachment-vote">told Chris Wallace on <em>Fox News Sunday</em></a> when asked about being censured. “The extent to which the president, President Trump, for months leading up to January 6, spread the notion that the election had been stolen or that the election was rigged was a lie. And people need to understand that.”
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Cheney’s decision to explain her rejection of Trump on a Fox News show suggests she’s not been swayed by weeks of intraparty criticism over her vote, or attempts to topple her from her leadership position — and that she wants to persuade Republican voters that her faction of the party offers a more authentic and sustainable vision for conservatism.
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Cheney was one of <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/13/22228964/house-republicans-trump">just 10 House Republicans</a> who joined Democrats in impeaching Trump for the charge of incitement of insurrection at the US Capitol in January. And she has been facing the consequences of that vote ever since.
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After Trump loyalists in the party called for her ouster from party leadership for turning against Trump, House Republicans held a secret ballot vote Wednesday on whether she should retain her No. 3 position among her colleagues.
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She <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/politics/liz-cheney-house-republican-meeting/index.html">handily won the vote</a> to remain in her position, 145 to 61, but the share of votes against her was not trivial, and if the vote had been public, experts say it’s quite possible that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/06/how-liz-cheney-survived-attempt-oust-her-house-leadership/">more lawmakers would’ve objected to her</a> continuing as a leader in order to signal their commitment to Trump to their constituents.
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Then, on Saturday, Cheney’s state Republican party <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/liz-cheney-wyoming-gop-censure-impeachment-vote/">approved a censure resolution by a vote of 56 to 8</a>. The resolution says that the Wyoming Republican Party won’t raise money for her going forward — and requests that she repay state party donations made to her 2020 campaign.
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But on Wallace’s show on Sunday, Cheney appeared unfazed, and defended her decision to impeach Trump without hesitation.
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“Look, I think people all across Wyoming understand and recognize that our most important duty is to the Constitution,” Cheney said. “And as I’ve explained and will continue to explain to supporters all across the state, voters all across the state, the oath that I took to the Constitution compelled me to vote for impeachment, and it doesn’t bend to partisanship, it doesn’t bend to political pressure, it’s the most important oath that we take.”
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The Wyoming lawmaker said Trump was not only a bad leader for the Republicans to embrace, but also posed an existential threat to the nation.
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“The single greatest threat to our republic is a president who would put his own self-interest above the Constitution, above the national interest,” Cheney said. “And we’ve had a situation where President Trump claimed for months that the election was stolen, and then apparently set about to do everything he could to steal it himself.”
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Cheney wants to take the GOP back from Trump. That’s an uphill climb.
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Cheney’s plea to Fox viewers to turn away from Trump — in which she said she believed the GOP was the party of Ronald Reagan, not QAnon — shows that she’s committed to fighting for the return of an older version of the party.
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The question is whether she can persuade Republican voters — and fellow lawmakers — that repudiating Trump is wise for the party after a presidency in which he cultivated an extremely devoted following among the party base.
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While polling indicates that most Republicans disapprove of the Capitol riot, it also shows that most Republicans <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/16/22234704/poll-republicans-trump-capitol-riot-blame">don’t think Trump is to blame for the event</a>, and that most Republicans align with Trump’s view <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/politics/2020-election-donald-trump-voter-fraud/index.html">that the election was rigged</a>.
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For example, a Washington Post-ABC News poll from mid-January <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/16/22234704/poll-republicans-trump-capitol-riot-blame">found</a> that most Republicans said Trump bore no responsibility for the assault, and nearly half said Republican lawmakers didn’t actually go far enough in supporting the president’s efforts to overturn the election results.
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According to the survey, about two-thirds of Republican and Republican-leaning participants thought Trump acted and spoke responsibly after the November 3 election.
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And a new ABC-Ipsos poll, taken February 5 to 6, found that <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/majority-americans-trump-convicted-barred-holding-federal-office/story?id=75729878">just 15 percent</a> of Republicans support convicting Trump in a Senate impeachment trial and barring him from running for office again.
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In other words, if Cheney hopes that the storming of the Capitol would be a wake-up call to Republicans about the dangers of backing Trump and his wing of the party, it would appear those hopes are unfounded.
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Pro-Trump lawmakers have tried to weaponize Cheney’s views against her. In the run-up to the House Republican vote on whether she should retain her leadership, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of the fiercest pro-Trump voices in the party, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/536406-gaetz-takes-aim-at-cheney-at-rally-in-her-home-state?rl=1">held an anti-Cheney rally in her home state and slammed her policy record</a>.
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“Liz Cheney is a lot like Congress — deeply unpopular and owned by special interests,” he said at the rally. “She’s taken more money from PACs than people. She works for them, not you.”
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Other lawmakers have also faced sharp pushback for voting for Trump’s impeachment. Rep. Peter Meijer — a freshman Republican from Michigan and the only first-term Republican to buck Trump — <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michigan-gop-rep-meijer-tries-to-defend-anti-trump-impeachment-vote-angers-voters">faced some angry questions</a> from constituents during his first virtual town hall this week.
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Meijer said during the event that he believed a majority of Republicans in his district — “maybe a strong majority” — disagreed with his decision to vote for impeachment. But ultimately he stuck by his decision.
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“What we witnessed at the Capitol — the attempted insurrection, the involvement of a sitting American president propagating the falsehoods that led up to that — required a significant response,” he said. A number of his constituents reportedly disagreed during the town hall, with some saying they planned to work to unseat him over his vote — and a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/liz-cheney-gop-primary-challenge-house/">primary challenge to Cheney</a> is underway as well.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Pak vs SA | Pakistan beats South Africa by 95 runs in second test, wins series</strong> - Hasan, who bagged five wickets in the first innings, tormented the Proteas again returning figures of 5-60 and South Africa collapsed to 274 all out after lunch on the last day</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ind vs Eng, 1st Test Day 4 | Ishant Sharma becomes 3rd Indian pacer to take 300 Test wickets</strong> - The Indian fast bowler reached the landmark when he trapped Dan Lawrence with a delivery that swung back sharply before hitting his pads in England’s second innings</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Australian Open | Canadian Andreescu toils to win in first match in 15 months</strong> - She faces a second-round matchup against Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Australian Open | Thiem eases into second round</strong> - Dominic Thiem overcame an early wobble before overpowering Mikhail Kukushkin 7-6(2) 6-2 6-3 to reach the second round of the Australian Open on Monday</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ind vs Eng, 1st Test Day 4 | Set world record target of 420, India in trouble at 39/1</strong> - With opener Rohit Sharma (12) back in the hut, Shubman Gill (15) and Cheteshwar Pujara (12) will begin the proceedings for India on the fifth and final day.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rajya Sabha | Modi showers praise on Azad</strong> - PM asks other members of the Upper House to follow Congress leader’s example of non-abrasive brand of politics.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>After Prime Minister’s invite, farmer leaders say ready for talks, ask government to choose date</strong> - Farmer leader Shiv Kumar Kakka said they are ready for the next round of talks and the government should tell them the date and time of the meeting.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>PM’s address masterclass in political whataboutery and rhetoric: CPI</strong> - Stating that Mr. Modi had failed to address any of the issues raised by MPs, Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam questioned his claim that the minimum support price was part of the contentious farm laws.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>TMC reacts to Modi barb, tells him to show ‘Mamta’ to farmers</strong> - The ruling TMC in West Bengal on Feb. 7 slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his hard- hitting comments against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Watch | What is happening in Uttarakhand?</strong> - A video on the sudden flood in the Dhauli Ganga, Rishi Ganga and Alaknanda rivers that has killed at least 15 persons.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Covid: Scientists developing vaccine boosters to tackle variants</strong> - An early study suggests the AstraZeneca vaccine may be less effective against the South African variant.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Storm Darcy: Netherlands hit by ‘first major snowstorm in decade’</strong> - A severe cold snap is pushing through northern Europe, bringing snow and gale-force winds.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Saharan dust: Orange skies and sandy snow in southern Europe</strong> - The sky in parts of southern Europe turns an eerie orange as wind brings sand from the Sahara desert.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Chechnya: Escaped gay men sent back by Russian police</strong> - A rights group says the men are in “mortal danger” in Chechnya, where gay people face persecution.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>French couple jailed after boy’s fatal beating revealed accidentally in call</strong> - A French couple are jailed after the cause of a toddler’s death is given away in an emergency call.</p></li>
</ul>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Marvel drops action-packed 2-minute Falcon and the Winter Soldier trailer</strong> - Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan reprise their titular roles in new Phase Four series. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1740382">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>ABL Space tapped to launch the first orbital rocket from Britain</strong> - “The ABL system is relatively easy, quick, and cost-effective to deploy.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1740153">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>As cars get heavier, even small speed differences matter in a crash</strong> - A study on speed and crashes has me pining for lightweight cars. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1740226">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 5: Catching a wave</strong> - When it comes to quantum mechanics, confinement is not necessarily bad. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1677330">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>YouTube’s lo-fi music streams are all about the euphoria of less</strong> - Lo-fi hip-hop channels have created a community for minimalist escape. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1740110">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Jack woke up with a huge hangover after attending his company’s Christmas party. He didn’t even remember how he got home from the party. As bad as he was feeling, he wondered if he did something wrong.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Jack had to force himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he saw was a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table. And, next to them, a single red rose! Jack sat up and saw his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. He looked around the room and saw that it was in perfect order, spotlessly clean. So was the rest of the house.
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He took the aspirins, and cringed when he saw a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror. Then he noticed a note hanging on the corner of the mirror written in red with little hearts on it and a kiss mark from his wife in lipstick: “Honey, breakfast is on the stove. I left early to get groceries to make you your favourite dinner tonight. I love you, darling!” He stumbled to the kitchen and sure enough, there was hot breakfast, steaming hot coffee and the morning newspaper. His son was also at the table, eating. Jack asked, “Son, what happened last night?” “Well, you came home after 3 A.M, drunk and out of your mind. You fell over the coffee table and broke it, and then you puked in the hallway, and got that black eye when you ran into the door.” Confused, he asked his son, “So, why is everything in such perfect order and so clean? I have a rose, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me??”
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His son replied, “Oh THAT! Mum dragged you to the bathroom to clean you up, and when she tried to take your pants off, you screamed, ‘Leave me alone bitch, I’m married!’”
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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.
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In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
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Nobody laughed at first, but eventually everyone got it.
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Five surgeons are discussing who makes the best patients to operate on.
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The first surgeon says, “I like to see accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.”
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The second responds, “Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is color coded.”
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The third surgeon says, “No, I really think librarians are the best! Everything inside them is in alphabetical order.”
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The fourth surgeon chimes in, “You know, I like construction workers…Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over.”
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But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he said, “You’re all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There’s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains, and no spine… Plus, the head and the ass are interchangeable!”
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