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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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Cheney: What Trump did ‘is a line that cannot be crossed’ — Liz Cheney hits back at Trump: 2020 election was not stolen — Washington (CNN)Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, said on Monday her party cannot accept the “poison” of the idea that the 2020 election was stolen and should not …
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Cheney stokes GOP rift with ‘big lie’ rebuke of Trump
Cheney stokes GOP rift with ‘big lie’ rebuke of Trump
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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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Over Thomas dissent, high court rejects West Point case — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a woman who says she was raped as a West Point cadet — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a woman who says she was raped as a West Point cadet …
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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 …
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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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:
Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Landmark Legislation to Ban Vaccine Passports and Stem Government Overreach — St. Petersburg, Fla. - Today, Governor Ron DeSantis was joined by local legislators and small business owners in St. Petersburg where he signed Senate Bill (SB) 2006 …
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The F.D.A. is set to authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for those 12-15 years old by early next week. — The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to authorize use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in adolescents 12 to 15 years old by early next week, according to federal officials familiar …
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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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Biden raises refugee cap to 62,500 after blowback — The Biden administration will raise the refugee ceiling to 62,500 people this fiscal year, the White House confirmed, 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
Biden White House reverses on its refugee cap reversal
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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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Norman Eisen / USA Today:
Rudy Giuliani raids signal accountability is coming for the Donald Trump era
Rudy Giuliani raids signal accountability is coming for the Donald Trump era
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Corporate News Outlets Again “Confirm” the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it — Journalists with major outlets know they spread a false, retracted story about the FBI and Giuliani but refuse to remove it, because their real job is spreading disinformation.
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Biden administration picks Richard Cordray to oversee federal student loans — The Biden administration is planning to install Richard Cordray, the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as the head of the nation's $1.6 trillion portfolio of federal student loans …
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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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Hillary Clinton warns of ‘huge consequences’ in Afghan US troop withdrawal — Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned of “huge consequences” of President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. — Mrs Clinton told CNN there was a risk the Taliban …
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
Day 1 of the End of the U.S. War in Afghanistan
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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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Isaac Saul / Tangle:
Tim Scott and the politics of race
Tim Scott and the politics of race
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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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HotAir and New York Times
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Biden says people earning less than $400,000 won't pay taxes in new slip-up — President Joe Biden said those who make under $400,000 per year “will not pay a single penny in taxes.” — The comment, made during a speech on Monday, is the 78-year-old's latest blunder.
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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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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
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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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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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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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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Debate Erupts at N.J. Law School After White Student Quotes Racial Slur — A Rutgers Law student repeated an epithet from a legal case, and now Black students at the New Jersey school are calling for a policy on slurs — and apologies. — The controversy over the use of a racial slur …
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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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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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CVS, Walgreens have wasted more Covid vaccine doses than most states combined — Two national pharmacy chains that the federal government entrusted to inoculate people against Covid-19 account for the lion's share of wasted vaccine doses, according to government data obtained by Kaiser Health News.
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‘I Listened to Too Much Propaganda’: Trump Voter Gets Probation After Voting for His Dead Mother and Registering Another Dead Woman as a Republican in Pa. — A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to five years probation after he admitted to illegally casting his dead mother's ballot …
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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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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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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 …