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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.
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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 …
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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
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Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
WHO Says Keep Your Mask on Even If You're Vaccinated as Delta Variant Spreads
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Politico:
White House scrambles to manage fallout of Biden's ‘tandem’ remarks — Joe Biden said the quiet part out loud and paid a price for it. — Reveling in his bipartisan win on infrastructure Thursday, the president declared that he would not sign the deal he'd just endorsed unless …
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Mike LaChance / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Democrats Trying to Rewrite History on ‘Defund the Police’
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Joe Biden, the anti-Sorkin
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Jen Psaki Makes Republicans Look Like Fools For Lying About Infrastructure Bill
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Joe Davidson / Washington Post:
Biden executive order aims to further equity, inclusiveness in federal hiring
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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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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
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?
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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 …
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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!” …
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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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