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Politico:
‘Time to move on’: Infrastructure talks near collapse — Washington's bipartisan infrastructure talks may soon look a lot like its cicada population: squashed after staggering around haplessly. — Senate Republicans negotiating with the White House sounded dour notes on Monday evening …
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Washington Post:
Infrastructure talks hit a wall as Senate GOP and White House exchange blame — Republicans allege that Biden's aides reversed course — The prospects for a bipartisan infrastructure deal dimmed even further Monday, as Senate Republicans alleged that the White House had agreed to narrow …
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Fox News, Roll Call, RedState, New York Post, Common Dreams and Insider
Todd Neikirk / POLITICUSUSA:
Mitt Romney Becomes the First GOP Senator to Publicly Support 1/6 Commission Bill
Mitt Romney Becomes the First GOP Senator to Publicly Support 1/6 Commission Bill
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KEYT-TV and New York Times
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Romney first GOP senator to say he would vote for Jan. 6 commission bill
Romney first GOP senator to say he would vote for Jan. 6 commission bill
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ABC News, NC Policy Watch, RedState and Washington Times
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP's shifting arguments against a Jan. 6 commission
The GOP's shifting arguments against a Jan. 6 commission
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Forbes, Deseret News, The Hill, Reuters, Common Dreams and Raw Story
David McCabe / New York Times:
Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates — The new law is a direct response to Facebook's and Twitter's suspensions of former President Donald J. Trump. — WASHINGTON — Florida on Monday became the first state to regulate how companies like Facebook …
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spectator.us, Sun-Sentinel, Florida Politics, TechCrunch and Forbes, more at Mediagazer »
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Florida governor signs bill barring social media companies from blocking political candidates — Tech trade groups say law is unconstitutional, conflicts with federal law — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that aims to punish social media companies for their moderation decisions …
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CBS Miami, Joe.My.God., New York Post, WSVN-TV, Washington Times, The Verge and RedState
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
McGahn Is Likely to Testify Next Week on Trump's Efforts to Obstruct Russia Inquiry — A delay is said to have stemmed from an initial threat by former President Donald J. Trump to intervene, but he apparently reversed course. — WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump's former White House counsel …
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Insider, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth and Political Wire
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Biden's DOJ appeals order to release full memo on why Trump wasn't charged with obstruction — (CNN)The Justice Department is partially appealing an order to publicly release a pivotal 2019 memo about whether then-President Donald Trump obstructed the Russia investigation.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Biden Justice Department fights release of legal memo on prosecuting Trump
Biden Justice Department fights release of legal memo on prosecuting Trump
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BuzzFeed News, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Bloomberg and Washington Examiner
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Terror vs. the Truth in Belarus — What the hijacking of a reporter means for us all — No matter how important you are, it is unlikely that a dictator has scrambled a fighter plane to force down a passenger flight so that he can arrest you. This just happened to the young Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich.
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Politico, Common Dreams and The Guardian
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The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on Diversion of Ryanair Flight and Arrest of Journalist in Belarus
Statement by President Joe Biden on Diversion of Ryanair Flight and Arrest of Journalist in Belarus
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New York Times, Mediaite, The Hill, The Moscow Times and Radio Free Europe/Radio …, more at Mediagazer »
Associated Press:
EU leaders agree on Belarus sanctions after plane diversion
EU leaders agree on Belarus sanctions after plane diversion
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Other Regimes Will Hijack Planes Too
Other Regimes Will Hijack Planes Too
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The Dispatch, CNN, NPR, Raw Story, Financial Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, KEYT-TV and Instapundit
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
How the Liberal Media Dismissed the Lab-Leak Theory and Smeared Its Supporters — When Nicholson Baker wrote a cover story for New York laying out the evidence that COVID-19 may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, the hypothesis was still highly controversial.
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Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera, Fox News, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Summit News, The Federalist and Althouse
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Wall Street Journal:
The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage
The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage
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globaltimes.cn, Washington Post, Japan Times, Raw Story, National Review, Summit News, USA Today, Forbes, CNBC, Breitbart and New York Post
Stephen L. Miller / spectator.us:
Don't let the media get away with U-turning on the lab leak theory
Don't let the media get away with U-turning on the lab leak theory
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National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog and El American
Fox News:
Rand Paul receives death threat package with white powder and violent, profane message — On the outside of the envelope was a picture of a bruised and bandaged Paul with a gun to his head — Biden facing investigation over $87M migrant hotel housing contract
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Suspicious package sent to Rand Paul's home — The FBI and Capitol Hill police are investigating a suspicious package containing white powder that was delivered to the home of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday, according to a senior adviser to the senator. — A large envelope arrived …
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Arrested insurrectionist visited Ted Cruz's house — and brought 11 molotov cocktails to Jan. 6 riot: report — Lonnie Coffman of Alabama will remain in a Washington, DC-area jail until his trial, I federal judge ruled on Monday. — “A north Alabama man facing multiple charges in connection …
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali / UnHerd:
How influencers enabled anti-Semitism — In July 2005, Mohammed Bouyeri stood trial for the murder of Theo van Gogh. A year earlier, in broad daylight on a street in Amsterdam, he shot Theo eight times, and then attempted to decapitate him. Theo's crime, for which Bouyeri meted out a death sentence …
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Houston Keene / Fox News:
Tlaib ally, former Sanders surrogate says, ‘Stop condemning anti-Semitism’
Tlaib ally, former Sanders surrogate says, ‘Stop condemning anti-Semitism’
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National Review and The Daily Caller
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Support for Israel among young US evangelical Christians drops sharply — survey — Since 2018, backing for Israel down from 75% to 33% now; nearly half of evangelicals aged 18-29 say they favor establishment of Palestinian state, voted for Biden over Trump
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Jen Psaki Smashes Peter Doocy As He Tries To Blame Biden For COVID Deaths — Video: … Doocy asked, “On the origins of covid, there is a new Wall Street Journal story that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of urology were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with covid-19 and common seasonal illness of November 2019.
Juliet Macur / New York Times:
Simone Biles Dials Up the Difficulty, ‘Because I Can’ — The Olympic gold medalist's new vault is so dangerous that gymnastics, for now, limits the scoring rewards for trying it. Biles says that's unfair. — INDIANAPOLIS — Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history …
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KEYT-TV, Associated Press, Page Six and Defector
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘The final straw’: How the pandemic pushed restaurant workers over the edge — Jim Conway started working in restaurants in 1982, making $2.13 an hour, plus tips. — And though the world has changed significantly in the nearly 40 years since then, his hourly wage has not.
Reuters:
53% of Republicans view Trump as true U.S. president -Reuters/Ipsos — A combination picture shows U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaking during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate, held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic …
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The Moderate Voice, The Daily Caller, The Guardian and IJR
CNN:
American journalist detained in Myanmar while trying to fly out of country — (CNN)An American journalist working in Myanmar was detained by local authorities Monday, his family and his news organization told CNN. — Danny Fenster, 37, was stopped at the Yangon airport as he tried to board …
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The Guardian, Kyodo News+, Al Jazeera, Reuters, Washington Examiner and The Daily Caller
Mary Chastain / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
National Guard Starts Departing D.C. This Week After Four Months — They've been in D.C. since January after the Capitol Hill riots. — Parler — Gab — MeWe — Buffer — Pocket — Blogger — Yahoo Mail — Viber — Skype — Copy Link — More Sharing Options
Elana Schor / Politico:
The difference between Ilhan Omar and MTG — A DIVIDE OVER ANTISEMITISM — The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants, which ended 11 days of conflict, is holding. But America is now grappling with the painful specter of antisemitism after a flurry of reported new attacks against Jews.
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Los Angeles Times, HotAir and Breitbart
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
“Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating — Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do — The news business just can't stop clowning itself. The latest indignity is an international fact-checking debacle originating …
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Fox News, FOX News Radio and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Nears Deal to Buy Hollywood Studio MGM — Deal for the ‘Rocky’ and ‘James Bond’ studio would mark tech company's second largest-ever acquisition — Amazon.com Inc. is nearing a deal to buy the Hollywood studio MGM Holdings for almost $9 billion including debt, said people familiar with the matter …
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Jim Mustian / Associated Press:
AP: Top cop in Black man's deadly arrest withheld cam video — NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In perhaps the strongest evidence yet of an attempted cover-up in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, the ranking Louisiana State Police officer at the scene falsely told internal investigators …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon Crowd Convinced UFOs Are a Diversion From Voter Fraud — “They want you talking about aliens because they don't want you talking about Maricopa,” Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson tweeted. — It's never been a better time to believe in UFOs.
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Michael E. Kanell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Labor shortages end when wages rise, say some local businesses — As his six restaurants started ramping up for a post-pandemic world, Brian Will was struggling to find employees, so he went with the classic economics response for hard-to-find things. — He paid more.