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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.
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HotAir, ArkansasTimes and TheBlaze
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Politico:
‘A tough slog’: White House struggles to increase vaccination rates as Delta variant surges
Dov Lieber / Wall Street Journal:
Delta Variant Outbreak in Israel Infects Some Vaccinated Adults
Delta Variant Outbreak in Israel Infects Some Vaccinated Adults
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HuffPost, Forbes, HotAir, NOQ Report, Common Dreams, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
Delta Coronavirus Variant Prompts Limits in Australia, Israel, as India Warns of New Mutation
Delta Coronavirus Variant Prompts Limits in Australia, Israel, as India Warns of New Mutation
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HotAir
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
WHO Says Keep Your Mask on Even If You're Vaccinated as Delta Variant Spreads
WHO Says Keep Your Mask on Even If You're Vaccinated as Delta Variant Spreads
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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?
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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Mother Jones, LifeZette and Salon
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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.
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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CBS News, Associated Press, The Guardian, Honolulu Star-Advertiser and CNN
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’
Democrats Trying to Rewrite History on ‘Defund the Police’
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The Gateway Pundit
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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The Guardian, Associated Press, The Hill, Raw Story, One America News Network, The Daily Caller, The Sun, NPR, Mediaite, USA Today and Florida Politics
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 …
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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 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.
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BizPac Review and Raw Story
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 …
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.
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The Other McCain, RedState, TheBlaze, WSVN-TV and WINK NEWS
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.
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People.com and The Hill
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 …
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Why Evolution Is True
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 …
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Twitchy
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 …
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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