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Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe — Widely circulating coronavirus variants and persistent hesitancy about vaccines will keep the goal out of reach. The virus is here to stay, but vaccinating the most vulnerable may be enough to restore normalcy.
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The mask slips, revealing the truth about the GOP voter suppression game — Republicans are responding to their 2020 losses by doing everything they can to restrict the size of the electorate wherever possible, in ways they think will advantage them. To disguise this ugly game …
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Florida Republicans rushed to curb mail voting after Trump's attacks on the practice. Now some fear it could lower GOP turnout. — Republican operatives worth their salt remember well the Sunshine State's 1988 U.S. Senate race. — Floridians went to sleep that Nov. 8 believing …
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The Week, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, spectator.us and Election Science
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Senate Dems agonize over voting rights strategy — Senate Democrats made a major commitment to muscle through Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ethics and voting reform bill. Yet many say they have no idea how to pass it and wonder what exactly the end game is for a signature Democratic priority.
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National Review, The Guardian, The Daily Caller and RedState
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Biden is talking to Republicans, but for only so long
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Matthew Cooper / Washington Monthly:
Where Are the Filibusters? — Psst. Don't tell anyone but the Senate is passing bills and Biden has been signing them.
Where Are the Filibusters? — Psst. Don't tell anyone but the Senate is passing bills and Biden has been signing them.
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Las Vegas Sun, Washington Post and NBC News
Olivier Knox / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Biden's answer to GOPers rejecting his victory: Press on
The Daily 202: Biden's answer to GOPers rejecting his victory: Press on
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Inside Elections, The Beinart Notebook, New York Sun, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Bloomberg, National Review and The Wrap
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ESPN's Kevin Merida named L.A. Times executive editor — The Los Angeles Times has named veteran journalist Kevin Merida as its top editor and tasked him with transforming the storied 139-year-old newspaper into a digital powerhouse that thrives for decades to come.
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Rudy Giuliani raids signal accountability is coming for the Donald Trump era — The FBI raids of Giuliani's home and office should worry former President Trump and all who followed his lead in playing fast and loose with the law. — Former President Donald Trump and his cronies should beware.
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Rudy Giuliani slams raid on apartment as ‘out of control,’ says feds trying to ‘frame’ him — Giuliani fights allegations he violated Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) — Federal probe into Giuliani raises questions about lack of attention on Hunter Biden: Caldwell
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Millions Are Saying No to the Vaccines. What Are They Thinking? — Several days ago, the mega-popular podcast host Joe Rogan advised his young listeners to skip the COVID-19 vaccine. “I think you should get vaccinated if you're vulnerable,” Rogan said. “But if you're 21 years old, and you say to me, ‘Should I get vaccinated?’
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Cheney stokes GOP rift with ‘big lie’ rebuke of Trump — Rep. Liz Cheney on Monday escalated her feud with former President Donald Trump and his supporters in Congress, issuing a less-than-subtle swipe at the former president's latest attempt to claim the 2020 election was stolen from him.
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New York, New Jersey, Connecticut ending most restrictions on May 19 — New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are lifting most Covid-19-related restrictions on May 19, signaling a denouement for some of the country's strictest lockdown orders and social distancing protocols imposed during the pandemic.
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Lin Wood Is Just Asking Questions — On a late pandemic Friday night, the Richland County Republican Party held its convention in a drab, windowless conference room, with the AC blowing full blast. — Among the overwhelmingly maskless congregants was Lin Wood, candidate for state party chairman …
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Post and Courier, The Week and Raw Story
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Mitch McConnell: 1619, American slavery starting point, not an important date in history — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday he doesn't think 1619 is one of the most important points in U.S. history. — That's the year the first enslaved Africans …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell: No Senate Republicans will back Biden on $4T
McConnell: No Senate Republicans will back Biden on $4T
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Insider, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA, IJR, The Guardian and Washington Times
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Justice Clarence Thomas, Long Silent, Has Turned Talkative — The Supreme Court's orderly telephone arguments, prompted by the pandemic, have given the public a revealing look at its longest-serving member. — WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas, who once went a decade without asking …
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Bonchie / RedState:
The Biden Administration's Latest Hypocrisy on the Courts Will Have You Seeing Cross-Eyed
The Biden Administration's Latest Hypocrisy on the Courts Will Have You Seeing Cross-Eyed
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Fox News, The Dispatch and Townhall
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‘A troubled man’: Kansas Senate leader decries Rep. Mark Samsel's ‘deranged rantings’ — Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson on Sunday condemned the “deranged rantings” of Rep. Mark Samsel, caught on video Wednesday talking to high school students about religion, sex and suicide.
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Talking Points Memo, Pharyngula, Los Angeles Blade, TheGrio and NBC News
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Biden administration to reunite four migrant families separated under Trump — WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will reunite four migrant families separated during the Trump administration this week, while its reunification task force estimates that over 1,000 families remain separated …
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Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
US begins reuniting some families separated at Mexico border
US begins reuniting some families separated at Mexico border
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Department of Homeland …, HotAir and The Hill
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San Francisco archbishop suggests Pelosi, Biden be denied Communion — He warned public figures who support abortion ‘should not come forward to receive Holy Communion’ — Planned Parenthood files lawsuit over South Carolina abortion ban — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hometown bishop …
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National Review and Crux
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Reis Thebault / Washington Post:
Pelosi's archbishop says prominent Catholics who support abortion rights should be denied Communion
Pelosi's archbishop says prominent Catholics who support abortion rights should be denied Communion
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The Hill and The Western Journal
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Swiss Billionaire Quietly Becomes Influential Force Among Democrats — Hansjörg Wyss, who recently dropped his bid to buy Tribune Publishing, has been a leading source of difficult-to-trace money to groups associated with Democrats. — WASHINGTON — He is not as well known …
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‘Good Jewish boy’ or chief ‘infiltrator’? NJ man spent years as fake rabbi in Israel, groups say — A self-professed “good Jewish boy from New Jersey,” Rabbi Michael Elkohen had come a long way. — In the ultra-Orthodox enclave in Jerusalem where Elkohen now lives …
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Raw Story
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Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance — The trouble with waiting to address problems long after you know that they exist. — When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to nasa administrators' disregard of the flaw …
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American Politics Now Has Two Big Racial Divides — There's been a recent flurry of studies and analyses that take a deeper look at the results of the 2020 election. These examinations don't contradict our early interpretation of the results from the days and weeks immediately following Election Day …
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Political Wire
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In bitterly divided election in Southlake, Texas, opponents of anti-racism education win big — SOUTHLAKE, Texas — Nine months after officials in the affluent Carroll Independent School District introduced a proposal to combat racial and cultural intolerance in schools …
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There's not just one kind of vaccine hesitancy — Around 10% of Americans aren't very eager to get the vaccine, but they're not really hesitant either — they're just waiting to get it until they get around to it, according to new Harris polling. — Why it matters: Making vaccination …
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Bloomberg, Forbes, WINK NEWS, CNBC and Political Wire
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Voices on the Vote — Impediments and Confidence in the 2020 Election — Elections, Political Parties, Race & Ethnicity — TABLE OF CONTENTS: — Changes in Voting Methods — Confidence in Accurate Vote Counts — Informing Election Reforms — Appendices — Key Findings
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Canadian chapter of the Proud Boys, designated a terrorist group by the government, says it has ‘dissolved’ — TORONTO — Nearly three months after Canada declared the Proud Boys a terrorist entity, the Canadian chapter of the militant far-right group claims it has “officially dissolved.”
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Push against trans athletes in girls' sports fails in Kansas — TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Conservative Republican legislators in Kansas failed Monday to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a proposed ban on transgender athletes in girls' and women's school sports.
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Day 1 of the End of the U.S. War in Afghanistan — The scenes over the weekend were almost as if a trillion-dollar effort had morphed into a garage sale. — KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — On the morning of May 1, an Afghan transport aircraft landed at this sprawling military base in the country's south.
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The slow, painful death of Trump allies' voting-machine conspiracy theories — Among the many wild conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, few rank as high when it comes to both baselessness and reach as those involving voting machines. The theory that voting machines were programmed …
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Raw Story
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In South Texas, Hispanic Republicans Try to Cement the Party's Gains — Conservative Hispanic leaders, especially women, are ascendant in the Rio Grande Valley, where Republicans are trying to forge lasting bonds with voters who swung sharply to the right in 2020.
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