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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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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.
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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 …
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National Review, The Federalist and NPR
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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.
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The Triad
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 …
Robert T. Garrett / Dallas Morning News:
Gov. Abbott rebounds against possible challenger Matthew McConaughey, has razor-thin edge over actor — The Republican incumbent holds a more robust 12-point lead in a potential matchup against Democrat Beto O'Rourke. — AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott, after trailing potential challenger Matthew McConaughey …
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HotAir, The Hill, Joe.My.God., Political Wire and The Texas Tribune
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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 …
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Joe.My.God., more at Techmeme »
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.
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 …
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Associated Press and The Hill
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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Wall Street Journal, Breitbart and The Daily Beast
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
'A political Rubik's Cube': Democrats work to keep Biden's economic agenda alive
'A political Rubik's Cube': Democrats work to keep Biden's economic agenda alive
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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 …
Washington Post:
‘We are in a race’: GOP governors implore residents to overcome vaccine hesitancy as delta variant rises — GOP governors implored their residents on Sunday to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, as polling shows that vaccine hesitancy has been driven by Republicans and as the virus's new …
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Alternet.org, Balloon Juice, justoneminute.typepad.com, Slate and ABC News
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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 …
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 …
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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 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 …
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.
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VICE, The Hill, CNN and The Guardian