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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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Biden set to raise refugee cap to 62,500 after blowback, source says — (CNN)The Biden administration is set to raise the refugee ceiling to 62,500 this fiscal year, according to a source familiar with the discussions, after receiving swift criticism last month when President Joe Biden kept the lower Trump-era cap in place.
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Biden White House reverses on its refugee cap reversal — The new cap is the same as the old cap: 62,500. It's yet another twist in an extremely rocky policy rollout. — Weeks after abandoning the number, President Joe Biden once again set a 62,500 cap on refugees allowed into the United States …
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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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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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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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Vanity Fair, Washington Times and Raw Story
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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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Over Thomas dissent, high court rejects West Point case
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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, Townhall and The Dispatch
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Disneyland's new Snow White ride adds magic, but also a new problem — Let's get this out of the way first: Snow White's Enchanted Wish, the revamped ride that replaced Snow White's Scary Adventures in Disneyland, is really good. The attraction preserves much of the charm of what originally opened …
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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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Florida Gov. DeSantis suspends all remaining Covid restrictions: ‘We are no longer in a state of emergency’ — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order on Monday that immediately suspends the state's remaining Covid-19 public health restrictions.
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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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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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Sharpton responds to Tim Scott: ‘The practice of America was built on racism’ — Share to Facebook Share to Twitter — Al Sharpton on Monday argued that “the practice of America was built on racism,” while addressing GOP Sen. Tim Scott's (S.C.) claim last week that “America is not a racist country.”
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Tim Scott and the politics of race
Tim Scott and the politics of race
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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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The Week, Raw Story and Post and Courier
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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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Migrants Separated From Their Children Will Be Allowed Into U.S.
Migrants Separated From Their Children Will Be Allowed Into U.S.
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Is America slipping to autocracy? — Share to Facebook Share to Twitter — Last Wednesday, President Joe Biden delivered a 65-minute speech to a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) historically flanking him.
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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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Media Matters for America, National Review and Crux
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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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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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The Hill
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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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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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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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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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The COVID Culture War Will Never End — Pandemics end; culture wars are forever. — 3 hr ago — 1. The COVID Culture War — Donald Trump responded to the pandemic by turning COVID into a culture war. He demonized mitigation efforts, peddled a constant stream of misinformation …
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New York Times
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Meet the Man Now at the Center of the Debate Over Student Debt — Richard Cordray, the consumer financial protection chief under President Obama, will now head the federal student aid office in the Education Department. — Richard Cordray, a close ally of Senator Elizabeth Warren who served …
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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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‘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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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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Interview With Hillary Clinton On Biden's First 100 Days; One Of India's Top Writers Said Situation On The Ground Constitutes “A Crime Against Humanity.” — FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN ANCHOR: This is GPS, the GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.