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Your Woke Money Is No Good Here — Corporations have taken advantage of Republicans for too long. I won't take their PAC dollars anymore. — Georgia's new election law runs 98 generously spaced pages. A fast reader can get through it in one sitting. If you're the CEO of a major corporation …
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New York Magazine and ABC News
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‘Tired of getting whupped’: GOP convention voters offer competing visions for a red Virginia — Republicans around Virginia streamed into voting sites Saturday to choose their nominee for governor, and in Caroline County, Don Denton was first in line. — He said he was backing Amanda Chase …
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Warren says she will run for reelection in 2024 — In a move that may surprise some ambitious Massachusetts Democrats, Sen. Elizabeth Warren says that she's going to run for reelection in 2024. — “Yep,” the 71-year-old said simply in a POLITICO interview Friday, when asked if she planned to make the run.
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Elizabeth Warren's Book Shows She Has No Idea Why Her Campaign Failed
Elizabeth Warren's Book Shows She Has No Idea Why Her Campaign Failed
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Washington Monthly and Scripting News
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I survived brain surgery—and the American health care system — CNN commentator after brain surgery: I am grateful to be here — Karen Finney is a Democratic strategist and CNN commentator. The opinions expressed in this commentary are hers. View more opinion on CNN.
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Ransomware attack leads to shutdown of major U.S. pipeline system — The attack on top U.S. operator Colonial Pipeline appears to have been carried out by an Eastern European-based criminal gang — A ransomware attack led one of the nation's biggest fuel pipeline operators to shut …
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Gov. Hogan grants posthumous pardons to 34 Maryland lynching victims, including 15-year-old Howard Cooper — Gov. Larry Hogan granted posthumous pardons Saturday to 34 Maryland lynching victims, including Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old Black boy who was hanged outside the Towson jailhouse by a white mob in 1885.
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4 dead, 1 injured in Woodlawn shooting and explosion; Baltimore County police kill suspect — Four people died and one was injured in a shooting and explosion Saturday in a townhouse neighborhood in Woodlawn, including the alleged gunman, whom Baltimore County Police said they killed.
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NBC Chicago
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Fox News is already distorting the American Families Plan — Biden's proposal would invest $1.8 trillion in education, paid leave, and other programs — On Wednesday night, President Joe Biden unveiled the American Families Plan — a proposal designed to expand access to education, paid leave, child care, and certain tax credits.
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New York Magazine, American Prospect and IJR
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Philly DA Candidate Forced to Address Paralegal Found Dead in His Mansion — It's just the latest twist in an eventful, bitter race for Philadelphia's District Attorney. — On first look, the campaign website for Charles Peruto Jr., a bombastic Republican attorney running …
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The Hill, Political Wire and Raw Story
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New York City Government Workers Offered Travel Buddies — Municipal employees who feel unsafe taking the subway to their offices can sign up for a commuting partner under a new program — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says that crime on the subway is low, but his office is still launching …
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Vaccination rates lag in communities of color, but it's not only due to hesitancy, experts say — Focusing on hesitancy, rather than access, is looking at the problem backward. — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. — CJ Gunther/EPA via Shutterstock — It started with the op-eds.
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South Carolina may bring back electric chair, once used to execute a 14-year-old boy later exonerated — Barely 5 feet tall and not yet 100 pounds, George Stinney Jr. sat so small in the electric chair that the straps were too big to contain him. — The 14-year-old had to sit on books for his head to reach the headpiece.
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Police investigating armed confrontation on North Portland street — Police are investigating an armed confrontation between a motorist who pulled a handgun and at least two pedestrians dressed in black and armed with what appear to be assault rifles that erupted Thursday in the middle of a residential street in North Portland.
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New York Post, Twitchy and HotAir
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Chinese Rocket Debris Reportedly Crashes Into Indian Ocean — See update at end of article; the rocket debris has reportedly crashed into the Indian Ocean. — We now have more details about the 22-ton Chinese rocket that is expected to crash to Earth soon, including an approximate window of time and expected risk zone.
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UK Labour descends into civil war after dismal election results — LONDON — The U.K.'s opposition Labour party was plunged into civil war after leader Keir Starmer sacked his deputy Angela Rayner from her frontbench role as chair following dismal local election results.
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The Guardian, The Nation, Talking Points Memo, LabourList and Political Wire
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Miami-Dade police lieutenant and union official charged with rape in Palm Beach County — A Miami-Dade police lieutenant and high-ranking union member was booked into a Palm Beach County jail late Friday on rape charges, records show. — Lt. John Jenkins , who last week resigned …
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Raw Story
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Nina Turner Opponent Shontel Brown Is Low-Key Pleading for Super PAC Support … Shontel Brown's campaign for Congress is blaring one of the least subtle messages sent to a super PAC since the outside money groups were legalized by the Supreme Court in its Citizens United v. FEC decision.
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Mass murder and the sin of silence — A Libyan militia brutalized this town for years. No one stopped them. No one held them to account. — TARHUNA, Libya — When the militiamen abducted Abdul Ali al-Falus and his four sons last year, their family had every reason to fear the worst.
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Reps. Greene, Gaetz push Trump's grievances, ‘America First’ message at Florida rally — Two Republican members of Congress who have been among the most outspoken supporters of former president Donald Trump sought to carry the torch for his “America First” movement, holding a rally …
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Defense One, New York Magazine, Washington Examiner, Digby's Hullabaloo, Joe.My.God. and The Hill
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Auditors won't knock on voters' doors in Arizona election review, Senate president tells DOJ — The Arizona Senate is dropping, for now, a controversial plan to go door-to-door to ask local residents about their voting history as part of its audit of Maricopa County's election.
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HuffPost, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, Raw Story, NPR and Washington Post
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A Baby Boom Would Be Bad — The 2020 census reported the lowest rate of population growth in the U.S. since the post-Depression decade, inspiring a chorus of economic Cassandras who want to reverse this trend. To shore up economic growth, they argue, we need to “raise fertility” and …
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Obama family dog Bo dies — Bo and Sunny were highly popular in the Obama White House — US Marine veteran heals with help from his dog Fred — Former President Barack Obama announced Saturday that the family's dog Bo, who lived with the Obamas while they were in the White House, passed away.
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On the Ground … The Wokest Place on Earth — Disney mounts an internal campaign against “white privilege” and organizes racially segregated “affinity groups.” — The Social Order — The Walt Disney Corporation famously bills its amusement parks as “the happiest place on Earth,” …
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Yahoo News, Townhall, Washington Examiner, New York Post, OutKick, TheBlaze and Breitbart
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The DOJ's Abusive Indictment of the Police Who Killed George Floyd — Federal prosecution of these defendants makes no sense — except as a political matter. — t best, the Justice Department's indictment of Derek Chauvin and the three other former Minneapolis cops involved in George Floyd's killing nearly a year ago is overkill.
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HotAir and Power Line