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7:40 AM ET, July 4, 2021

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Kerry J. Byrne / New York Post:
11 in ‘heavily armed’ fringe group arrested after standoff in Massachusetts  —  Eleven “heavily armed” members of a fringe group called Rise of the Moors were arrested on a Massachusetts highway Saturday following a bizarre nine-hour standoff with law enforcement that included hostage negotiators.
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Associated Press:
11 people in custody after hourslong armed standoff on I-95  —  WAKEFIELD, Mass. (AP) — An hourslong standoff with a group of heavily armed men that partially shut down Interstate 95 ended Saturday with 11 suspects in custody, Massachusetts state police said.
CBS Boston:
Wakefield Standoff Suspects Claim To Be Part Of Group Called ‘Rise Of The Moors’  —  WAKEFIELD (CBS) — Interstate 95 in Wakefield was shut down by a standoff between Massachusetts State Police and a group of heavily armed men Saturday morning.  The men claim to be part of a group called …
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
A Fourth of July Symbol of Unity That May No Longer Unite  —  In a Long Island town, neighbors now make assumptions, true and sometimes false, about people who conspicuously display American flags.  —  SOUTHOLD, N.Y. — The American flag flies in paint on the side of Peter Treiber Jr.'s potato truck …
Washington Examiner:
Happy birthday to a great and good nation, the USA  —  As this great nation celebrates its 245th birthday, it is time to fight back, hard, against the critical race theory and 1619 Project lies claiming that the founding was motivated largely by racism and slavery.
Discussion: National Review
Washington Post:
Post-ABC poll: Biden earns high marks for handling the pandemic, but many Republicans resist vaccination  —  President Biden has earned high marks for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but the government's effort to vaccinate as many Americans as possible continues to face hurdles …
Discussion: The Guardian and Political Wire
Nolan Rappaport / The Hill:
Most Americans think surge of illegal border crossings is a crisis  —  Is there a border crisis?  According to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, there isn't — but the illegal crossing numbers indicate that there is.  —  Illegal border crossings have reached a 20-year high.
Kevin Drum:
If you hate the culture wars, blame liberals  —  On Thursday I posted a series of charts that all documented a similar theme: Since roughly the year 2000, according to survey data, Democrats have moved significantly to the left on most hot button social issues while Republicans have moved only slightly right.
Discussion: Page Array
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Trump appears to acknowledge tax schemes while questioning whether alleged violations are crimes  —  Former president Donald Trump lashed out at Manhattan prosecutors Saturday night for indicting his organization and its chief financial officer for tax fraud, calling it “prosecutorial misconduct” …
The Guardian:
Joe Biden cherry-picks audience to promote bipartisan infrastructure deal  — President visits National Cherry Festival in Michigan  —  Associated Press in Traverse City, Michigan  —  Joe Biden used a visit to a cherry farm in Michigan on Saturday to talk up his bipartisan infrastructure package …
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI launches flurry of arrests over attacks on journalists during Capitol riot  —  Nearly six months after the U.S. Capitol riot, the Justice Department has begun arresting a new category of alleged criminals — those who attacked reporters or damaged their equipment as journalists documented …
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Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Climate change has gotten deadly.  It will get worse.  —  Researchers say they are ‘virtually certain’ that warming from human greenhouse gas emissions played a pivotal role in recent fatalities  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — The emergency department at Oregon Health Sciences University had rarely been this busy …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Axios
Dan Goldberg / Politico:
‘Wasting my breath’: Southern faith leaders wary of promoting vaccines  —  Biden administration and state officials hoped that pastors would play an outsized role in promoting Covid-19 vaccines, but many are wary of alienating their congregants and are declining requests to be more outspoken.
Discussion: Raw Story
ABC News:
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Caroline Anders / Washington Post:
15 million people in the U.S. have missed their second dose of the coronavirus vaccine, CDC says
Daily Mail:
REVEALED: Flag-snubbing ‘activist athlete’ Gwen Berry's history of racially-charged rape jokes and tweets mocking white, Mexican and Asian people
Discussion: New York Post and HotAir
Maggie Fox / CNN:
Unvaccinated people are ‘variant factories,’ infectious diseases expert says
MSN:
The Real Problem With Critical Race Theory
Washington Post:
Craving freedom from virus, U.S. heads into July 4 with sharply divided risk
Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Harris, in optimistic speech, says America ‘getting back to work’
Discussion: RedState
The Guardian:
‘Idiotic’: Fury in Ukraine after female soldiers made to march in heels
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Hypocrite's Elegy: J.D. Vance Is an Avatar of GOP Corruption
Washington Post:
In Virginia governor's race, a raging debate about education takes center stage
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Wall Street Journal:
Yes, Trump Really Did Lose Michigan
Aaron Wherry / CBC News:
A hotter future is already here — and Canada is not ready
Dana Liebelson / New York Times:
How to Vaccinate Wyoming Against Covid
Reuters:
‘Eye of fire’ in Mexican waters snuffed out, says national oil company
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Prime Video users will be able to watch local PBS stations and PBS Kids for free in coming months, and two new free PBS channels with ads starting November 26

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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