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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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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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.
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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Twitchy, ArkansasTimes, The Daily Beast, HotAir and TheBlaze
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Politico:
‘A tough slog’: White House struggles to increase vaccination rates as Delta variant surges
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HotAir
Dov Lieber / Wall Street Journal:
Delta Variant Outbreak in Israel Infects Some Vaccinated Adults
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HuffPost, HotAir, Forbes, NOQ Report, Common Dreams and The Daily Caller
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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The Guardian, CBS News, Associated Press, Honolulu Star-Advertiser and CNN
Stundin:
Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment — A major witness in the United States' Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. — bjartmar@stundin.is — ritstjorn@stundin.is
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: White House national security adviser misleadingly describes pipeline company as ‘not Russian’ — Top WH official responds to bipartisan criticism of Biden-Putin summit — full interview — Washington (CNN)Last Sunday, CNN “State of the Union” co-anchor Dana Bash pressed White …
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
Nicholas Reimann / Forbes:
Democrats Sue Texas Gov. Greg Abbott After He Strips Legislature Of Funding For 2 Years — Democrats in the Texas legislature filed a lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Friday, claiming the governor violated the state constitution when he vetoed all funding for the state legislature …
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The Texas Tribune
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Biden's approval rating falls, as both Republicans and Democrats grow more concerned about crime — Rising worries about crime among both Democrats and Republicans are starting to create a drag on President Biden's approval rating, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll …
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HotAir and The Daily Beast
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework … On Thursday, I reached a historic agreement with a bipartisan group of Senators on a $1.2 trillion plan to transform our physical infrastructure. The plan would make the largest investment in infrastructure in history …
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Townhall
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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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 …
Chris Joyner / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘Castrate, kill, remove voting rights’: Ex-Marine, Georgia deputy was in extremist cell, feds say — When FBI agents in San Diego seized the cell phone of a suspected white supremacist last year, they discovered text messages with a Georgia sheriff's deputy boasting of racial violence and preparations for a civil war.
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Digby's Hullabaloo
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
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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CNN, The Other McCain, RedState, NOQ Report, 100PercentFedUp.com and WINK NEWS
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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Raw Story and BizPac Review
Mike LaChance / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Democrats Trying to Rewrite History on ‘Defund the Police’ — “We've never taken the position as a party that we should defund the police” — The Democrats must have internal polling on ‘defund the police’ that's truly awful, because some of them are already trying to rewrite the history of the issue.
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The Gateway Pundit
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