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12:55 PM ET, June 26, 2021

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New York Times:
Engineer Warned of ‘Major Structural Damage’ at Florida Condo Complex  —  A consultant in 2018 urged the managers to repair cracked columns and crumbling concrete.  The work was finally about to get underway when the building collapsed.  —  Three years before the deadly collapse …
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
WHO urges fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks as delta Covid variant spreads  — The WHO urged fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks and practice other Covid-19 pandemic safety measures as the highly contagious delta variant spreads rapidly across the globe.
Discussion: ArkansasTimes
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Dov Lieber / Wall Street Journal:
Delta Variant Outbreak in Israel Infects Some Vaccinated Adults  —  Government reimposes indoor mask requirement in light of preliminary findings  —  TEL AVIV—About half of adults infected in an outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in Israel were fully inoculated with the Pfizer Inc. vaccine …
Politico:   ‘A tough slog’: White House struggles to increase vaccination rates as Delta variant surges
Wall Street Journal:
Delta Coronavirus Variant Prompts Limits in Australia, Israel, as India Warns of New Mutation
Discussion: HotAir
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
WHO Says Keep Your Mask on Even If You're Vaccinated as Delta Variant Spreads
Discussion: HotAir
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Mike LaChance / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Democrats Trying to Rewrite History on ‘Defund the Police’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Jen Psaki Makes Republicans Look Like Fools For Lying About Infrastructure Bill
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Michael Wines / New York Times:
In Arizona, G.O.P. Lawmakers Strip Power From a Democrat  —  The State Legislature shifted legal authority from the secretary of state to a Republican attorney general, and enacted election measures it said would stop fraud.  —  WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled State Legislature …
Discussion: LifeZette, Salon and Washington Post
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
2 secretaries of state undercut Trump's fraud claims in key, GOP-controlled states.  Republicans have now voted to strip both of power.  —  Update: The Republicans in Arizona's state legislature voted this week to move forward with stripping Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) of a key power related to election lawsuits.
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Officer Injured in Capitol Riot Asks McCarthy to Disavow Lies About It  —  Officer Michael Fanone, who was seriously injured by the pro-Trump mob, said he came away disappointed from his meeting with the top House Republican.  —  WASHINGTON — For weeks, Michael Fanone …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump kicks off revenge tour with eyes on one Ohio Republican  —  Cleveland (CNN)Donald Trump on Saturday will kick off his revenge tour against Republicans who defied him in the aftermath of the 2020 election and January 6 insurrection, hoping to convince his supporters to fire Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez.
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
No ET, no answers: Intel report is inconclusive about UFOs  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-awaited U.S. government report on UFOs released Friday makes at least one thing clear: The truth is still out there.  —  Investigators did not find extraterrestrial links in reviewing 144 sightings …
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Washington Post:   U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying objects, but new report finds no evidence of alien life
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
U.S. Has No Explanation for Unidentified Objects and Stops Short of Ruling Out Aliens
Brett Forrest / Wall Street Journal:   UFO Report Cites ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ That Defy Worldly Explanation, U.S. Official Says
Politico:
Government report can't explain UFOs, but offers no evidence of aliens
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How Deceptive Campaign Fund-Raising Ensnares Older People  —  Older Americans, a critical source of political donations, often fall victim to aggressive and misleading digital practices.  A broad Times analysis points to the scope of the problem.  —  William W. Vaughan Jr …
Politico:
House Dems head off retirement crisis — for now  —  Rep. Stephanie Murphy was hiring staff for an all-but-declared Senate bid in Florida.  Rep. Madeleine Dean consulted with Democratic leaders about a potential statewide run in her home state of Pennsylvania.
John McWhorter / It Bears Mentioning:
IT IS JUST HYPE TO CALL ELECTISM A RELIGION?  —  Some think it's just that I don't like religion and haven't studied it.  And they're right.  But that doesn't mean we haven't watched a religion emerge since last year.  —  13 hr ago  —  I am flattered to see that a person …
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Progressives' Urgent Question: How to Win Over Voters of Color  —  A yearslong challenge for the left was starkly illustrated this week as its hopes faded in the New York mayor's race.  —  Can progressives win broad numbers of the Black and brown voters they say their policies will benefit most?
Discussion: HotAir
Graham Cunningham / The American Mind:
The Will to Kneel  —  Our intellectual elite would break us by demanding our assent to the absurd.  —  Opponents of “Wokeness” devote much more energy to cataloguing its specific lunacies than to understanding its underlying psychology.  What links (for instance) a belief that the major threat faced …
New York Times:
Trump Aides Prepared Insurrection Act Order During Debate Over Protests  —  President Donald Trump never invoked the act, but fresh details underscore the intensity of his interest last June in using active-duty military to curb unrest.  —  Responding to interest from President Donald J. Trump …
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Harris plays it safe at US-Mexico border and releases pressure valve  —  El Paso, Texas (CNN)After four hours in this city on the US-Mexico border, Vice President Kamala Harris was all smiles as she walked across the tarmac to Air Force Two.  —  “Let's take a picture!” …
Discussion: Politico
U.S. Department of Justice:
Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against the State of Georgia to Stop Racially Discriminatory Provisions of New Voting Law  —  The U.S. Justice Department announced today that it filed a lawsuit against the State of Georgia, the Georgia Secretary of State, and the Georgia State Election Board …
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New York Times:
Justice Dept. Sues Georgia Over Voting Restrictions Law
 
 
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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
House Panel Upholds $500 Fines For Republicans Who Violated Mask Rule
Washington Examiner:
Defund someone else's police
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The Archivists of Lebanon's Amnesia
Los Angeles Times:
Conservative activists push voter fraud claims to recruit an army to police California recall polls
American Greatness:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls for Release of January 6 Surveillance Footage
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The left is anti-anti-Critical Race Theory
Los Angeles Times:
Sheriff's Department ordered to release misconduct, use-of-force records in response to Times lawsuit
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
France and U.S. Agree on the Perils of a Rising China, Blinken Says
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Frustration Mounts in Search for Survivors of Condo Collapse Near Miami
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Amanda Coletta / Washington Post:
Canada labels the Three Percenters a terrorist entity
 

 
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