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12:05 PM ET, July 5, 2021

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Preston Padden / The Daily Beast:
Former Murdoch Exec: Fox News Is Poison For America  —  The Rupert Murdoch I worked for was brilliant, courageous, optimistic, and a gentleman.  Which makes his bile-filled network all the more confounding. … Rupert Murdoch, whom I served for seven years, has many business and journalistic achievements.
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:   Mark Levin, the Fox News host who won't stop criticizing other Fox News personalities
Terry Jones / Issues & Insights:
I&I/TIPP Poll: Just 36% of Young People Are Proud To Be American  —  Editor's note: Issues & Insights gratefully acknowledges its collaboration with tippinsights on the simultaneous and exclusive release of this story.  —  Is pride in America a thing of the past?  Not if you ask Americans.
Discussion: Instapundit
Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
White House reaching out to Republicans about a second bipartisan infrastructure package  —  Senior White House officials are holding “informal discussions” with outside experts and congressional officials on how to split off a second, targeted bipartisan package from a larger reconciliation package expected …
Discussion: National Review, The Federalist and NPR
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Debra J. Saunders / The Latest from Debra J. Saunders:   In defense of Biden ice cream questions
CNN:
New Woodward book to cover last days of Trump presidency
Discussion: The Hill
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
You Really Need to Quit Twitter  —  How could I have succumbed to this common, embarrassing habit that just about everyone on Earth knows is a scourge?  —  About the author: Caitlin Flanagan is a staff writer at The Atlantic.  She is the author of Girl Land and To Hell With All That.
Discussion: The Triad
Miami Herald:
Eleven days after partial collapse, remainder of Surfside condo is demolished  —  The remaining portion of Champlain Towers South has been demolished.  —  At 10:30 Sunday night, authorities detonated charges inserted into holes drilled in the part of the 12-story Surfside condo that stood tenuously …
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump biographer explains Ivanka Trump ‘is in peril’ along with Allen Weisselberg  —  President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump is in about as much trouble as Allen Weisselberg is, according to biographer Michael D'Antonio.  —  Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday …
Austin American-Statesman:
We've seen this border wall show before.  Please spare us the rerun.  —  Donald Trump's visit to the border this week had a distressingly familiar ring to it.  The ex-president made the same baseless claims that other countries are sending their murderers and drug dealers to America.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
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Robert T. Garrett / Dallas Morning News:
Gov. Abbott rebounds against possible challenger Matthew McConaughey, has razor-thin edge over actor
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook, Twitter, Google Threaten to Quit Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Laws  —  Industry group representing companies says proposed anti-doxing rules could put staff based locally at risk of criminal charges  —  HONG KONG— Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google …
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Birthday Parties as Virus Vector  —  Just how much Covid was spreading behind closed doors last year?  Quite a lot, as a new study with a simple yet creative approach found out.  —  At the height of the pandemic, it was easy to worry that strangers would give you the virus.
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
With trillions at stake, Democrats hurtle toward key decisions on Biden's agenda  —  President Biden's sweeping infrastructure, tax, climate and social policy agenda hangs on a political high-wire act now playing out on Capitol Hill at unprecedented speed.  —  The House and Senate …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
'A political Rubik's Cube': Democrats work to keep Biden's economic agenda alive
Discussion: Associated Press, Insider and Breitbart
Juan Williams / The Hill:
How the Supreme Court eroded voting rights  —  If a law is working, if it is preventing trouble, isn't that a good reason to get rid of it?  —  In a word, that is stupid.  —  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the former Supreme Court Justice, famously warned such stupidity amounts to …
Alice Bell / The Guardian:
Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)  —  The effects of ‘weird weather’ were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom  —  n August 1974, the CIA produced a study on …
Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Reflect on 75 Years of Marriage  —  Their relationship has been a constant through wins and losses, reinvention and raising a family.  At 96 and 93, they have come to rely on their bond more now than ever.  —  PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter, a midshipman in the U.S. Naval Academy …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Naomi Osaka Is Talking to the Media Again, but on Her Own Terms  —  The tennis superstar is guest-editing Racquet magazine and has written a cover essay for Time.  What's left for traditional sports journalism?  —  In early May, a couple of weeks before she tweeted that she wouldn't appear …
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Top Biden Allies Worked for Group With Close Ties to Chinese Communist Party  —  Experts worry National Committee on U.S.-China Relations could impact Biden administration policy  —  Top Biden allies including former Treasury secretary Jacob Lew and National Security Council official Kurt Campbell …
Discussion: National Review
American Greatness:
The Genesis of Our American Collective Meltdown  —  Our adversaries can't quite believe their good fortune.  Had they thought up ways to divide and impoverish America, they could not have improved on our own collective meltdown.  —  This Fourth of July holiday we might pause for a moment …
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Pandemic Wave of Automation May Be Bad News for Workers  —  The need for social distancing led restaurants and grocery stores to seek technological help.  That may improve productivity, but could also cost jobs.  —  When Kroger customers in Cincinnati shop online these days …
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
In ramp-up to 2022 midterms, Republican candidates center pitches on Trump's false election claims  —  A candidate to be Arizona's top elections official said recently he hopes a review of 2020 ballots underway in his state will lead to the reversal of former president Donald Trump's defeat there.
Discussion: VICE, The Hill, CNN and The Guardian
 
 
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Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Why Republicans Condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene, But Not Paul Gosar
David Klepper / Associated Press:
6 months after Capitol assault, corporate pledges fall flat
Discussion: Insider
Katie Lobosco / CNN:
How much money could Biden raise for infrastructure through tougher IRS enforcement? It's not clear
Discussion: Raw Story
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Hunter Biden engaged in some daddy pay care
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Vanessa Williams to sing ‘Black national anthem’ for Capitol Fourth celebration
Discussion: Townhall
David Shribman / The Boston Globe:
The following asteroid collision is only a test
 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
Moet to Label Its Champagne Sparkling Wine in Russia to Meet Law
Stephanie Armour / Wall Street Journal:
Barbershops and Hair Salons Are Enlisted in Covid-19 Vaccine Push
T. Greer / The Scholar's Stage:
Culture Wars are Long Wars
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
Fraud Claims, Unproved, Delay Peru's Election Result and Energize the Right
Caroline Melear / The Daily Caller:
Trump Says One Of His Greatest Accomplishments Was Exposing The ‘Fake News Media’
Discussion: RealClearPolitics and RedState
Daniel Shaviro / Just Security:
The Weisselberg Indictment Is Not A “Fringe Benefits” Case
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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