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2:35 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 and TheBlaze
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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
Discussion: HotAir
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
WHO Says Keep Your Mask on Even If You're Vaccinated as Delta Variant Spreads
Discussion: HotAir
Adam Serwer / New York Times:
The Cruel Logic of the Republican Party, Before and After Trump  —  Mr. Serwer is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the forthcoming “The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America.”  —  Donald Trump has claimed credit for any number of things …
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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: Twitchy and HotAir
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.
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’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Harvard Poll: 80% see border disaster, want Trump closure restored, reject teaching Critical Race Theory  —  The Biden administration is failing big time with its inability to control illegal immigration, adding it to one of several issues that could doom Democrats if left unchecked.
Discussion: BizPac Review and Raw Story
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.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A legendary Chicago newspaper columnist bids farewell — and wonders who will be left to tell her city's tale  —  In 29 years as a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Mary Schmich was often adored and occasionally reviled by readers, as are all good newspaper columnists.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Why Evolution Is True
Diane Francis / financialpost:
Canadian Forces have right to know if they got COVID at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan  —  Two members told the Post they fell sick with symptoms  —  This week, lawmakers in the United States called for an investigation into whether the October 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan …
Discussion: Reason and HotAir
Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
The remarkably unremarkable White House Pride ceremony  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  Standing at a podium adorned with the presidential seal in the East Room of the White House, a transgender activist announced his pronouns before introducing the president.
Discussion: People.com and The Hill
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
TikTok insiders say social media company is tightly controlled by Chinese parent ByteDance  — Former TikTok employees say there is cause for concern when it comes to the popular social media app's Chinese parent company.  — They say ByteDance has access to TikTok's American user data …
Brittany Muller / WJXT-TV:
Man accused of shooting Daytona Beach officer arrested near Atlanta  —  Othal Wallace accused of attempted first-degree murder  —  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A multi-agency manhunt for Othal Wallace, 29, ended Saturday morning when the Daytona Beach Police Department announced he had been captured outside Atlanta.
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Jamaal Bowman requested special police protection for his Yonkers home  —  Defund for thee, but not for me.  —  Freshman U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman — a champion of defunding cops who claims policing is rife with “white supremacy” — asked for and received a special police detail to guard …
Discussion: Twitchy
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 …
Discussion: Fox News and Politico
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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
Discussion: Reuters
 
 
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David Ljunggren / Reuters:
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Washington Post:
Trump's endorsements: revenge against enemies, rewards for friends and purveyors of election falsehoods
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
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Discussion: Politico, Al Jazeera and OutKick
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
House Panel Upholds $500 Fines For Republicans Who Violated Mask Rule
Washington Examiner:
Defund someone else's police
Gene Marks / The Hill:
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American Greatness:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls for Release of January 6 Surveillance Footage
Discussion: Raw Story
Damon Linker / The Week:
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
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Trump Aides Prepared Insurrection Act Order During Debate Over Protests