News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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House Republicans overwhelmingly opposed the select committee investigating last year’s attack on the Capitol, but GOP voters are more supportive of the group's work, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey found https://t.co/QkMQwSp3YN
— POLITICO (@politico) January 2, 2022
“The Republican Party has to make a choice. We can either be loyal to our Constitution or loyal to Donald Trump, but we cannot be both,” GOP Rep. Liz Cheney tells @GStephanopoulos. https://t.co/pT88KD8tGl pic.twitter.com/OSHEEpMK8H
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 2, 2022
The U.S. Capitol Police force remains critically short-staffed nearly a year after the deadly Jan. 6 riot. https://t.co/PaQ25o4Im4
— Axios (@axios) January 2, 2022
Dr. Anthony Fauci said he anticipates "further clarification" on the CDC's updated guidelines to end the Covid-19 isolation period after five days for people who are not exhibiting symptoms. https://t.co/vAyQYJwKzB
— CNN (@CNN) January 2, 2022
Gottlieb says Omicron appears to be a "milder form" of COVID-19, but pediatric danger remains https://t.co/W9zUtVOo92
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 2, 2022
Breaking News: Twitter permanently suspended the personal account of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican of Georgia. The company said she had repeatedly violated its Covid-19 misinformation policies.https://t.co/v8LhiomB7x
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 2, 2022
BREAKING: Sudan’s prime minister says he has resigned amid political deadlock following a military coup that derailed the country’s fragile transition to democracy. https://t.co/Rs55WHBYlQ
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 2, 2022
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts says the judiciary's power to manage its own internal affairs "insulates courts from inappropriate political influence and is crucial to preserving public trust in its work." https://t.co/pwYlD23qJh
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 2, 2022
The independent Hong Kong news site Citizen News said it will be shutting down on Tuesday, citing the deteriorating media environment in the city and the need to protect its staff. https://t.co/NUOphBFNpy
— CNN (@CNN) January 2, 2022
Prince Andrew’s effort to immediately block the progression of a lawsuit by a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 — on the grounds that she no longer lives in the U.S. — was rejected by a federal judge. https://t.co/aykqLNYMVs
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 2, 2022
Bitter temperatures in western Minnesota turned bubbles on the rim of a jar into a snow globe of ice crystals. https://t.co/qyvECDrYLk pic.twitter.com/Adi37vVrsr
— ABC News (@ABC) January 2, 2022
