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10:45 AM ET, July 8, 2021

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Tucker Carlson sought Putin interview at time of spying claim  —  Tucker Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him, sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios.
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Naming the Capitol Police Officer Who Killed Unarmed Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt  —  At top, pistol drawn in the House chamber, a plainclothes black officer who fits the description of Michael L. Byrd.  His name was apparently divulged at a hearing as the cop who shot Ashli Babbitt.
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Politico:
Delta variant said to be far more widespread than federal estimates  —  The more-transmissible Delta coronavirus variant is believed to be significantly more widespread than the current federal projections, according to two senior Biden administration health officials with knowledge of the situation.
Discussion: The White House
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David Wenner / PennLive:
COVID-19 vaccine rollout fast enough to save nearly 300,000, study says
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Guardian
Ashish K. Jha / The Boston Globe:
Masking indoors in the age of the Delta variant
Commonwealth Fund:   Deaths and Hospitalizations Averted by Rapid U.S. Vaccination Rollout
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Social Media Lawsuits Are Full Of Arguments Courts Have Repeatedly Rejected  —  WASHINGTON — Former president Donald Trump's latest attempt at getting back on mainstream social media platforms came in the form of lawsuits on Wednesday against Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube …
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's latest ridiculous lawsuit shows how small he has become  —  For someone who filed thousands of lawsuits during his career in business, former president Donald Trump has been rather quiet on the legal front since he left office — particularly if you don't count the criminal charges …
HuffPost:
Trump's ‘Big Tech’ Lawsuits Could Make Him Testify Under Oath About Jan. 6
Discussion: Raw Story and Ad Age
PRRI:
The 2020 Census of American Religion  —  THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE IN 2020  —  The American Religious Landscape in 2020  —  According to PRRI's 2020 American Values Atlas, seven in ten Americans (70%) identify as Christian, including more than four in ten who identify as white Christian …
Discussion: Blue Virginia
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Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service:   Survey: White mainline Protestants outnumber white evangelicals, while ‘nones’ shrink
John Solomon / Just The News:
Democrats dug themselves an election integrity hole, courts may bury them in it  —  From Supreme Court justices to district judges, Biden's early Jim Crow narrative getting cold shoulder in early rulings.  — Article  —  For months now, President Biden and key Democrats have waged endless battle …
Discussion: Human Events and CNBC
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Emma Green / The Atlantic:   How Democrats Lost the Courts
Mary Harris / Slate:   The Catastrophe of This Supreme Court Term Should Not Be Underestimated
Jake Dima / Yahoo News:
Federal judge halts effort to block portions of Georgia voting law
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg's Partnership Did Not Survive Trump  —  The company they built is wildly successful.  But her Washington wisdom didn't hold up, and neither did their close working relationship.  —  Sheryl Sandberg knew she'd be asked about the attacks on the Capitol.
Molly Ball / TIME:
Breakfast with J.D. Vance, Anti-Trump Author Turned Pro-Trump Candidate  —  “I'm not just a flip-flopper, I'm a flip-flop-flipper on Trump,” J.D. Vance says with a laugh, slicing into a half-stack of breakfast pancakes.  The Hillbilly Elegy author and newly minted Republican Senate candidate …
Discussion: Insider and NBC News
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Mike Allen / Axios:
2022's one race to watch
Discussion: Raw Story and Cincinnati.com
Maggie Fox / CNN:
Coronavirus almost certainly came from an animal, not a lab leak, top scientists argue  —  US intelligence working on report about Covid-19 origins  —  (CNN)The coronavirus pandemic almost certainly originated from an animal, probably at a wildlife market in China, and not from a laboratory leak …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Zenodo and National Review
Washington Post:
Conservative groups mount opposition to increase in IRS budget, threatening White House infrastructure plan  —  The new funding is supposed to be a cornerstone of a bipartisan deal negotiated by the White House and moderate senators  —  Conservative political groups are mobilizing …
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs asks Attorney General Mark Brnovich to investigate possible election interference by Donald Trump, allies  —  Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs on Wednesday asked Attorney General Mark Brnovich to open a criminal investigation into possible efforts …
David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump charged Secret Service nearly $10,200 in May for agents' rooms  —  Former president Donald Trump's golf club in Bedminster, N.J., charged the Secret Service nearly $10,200 for guest rooms used by his protective detail during Trump's first month at the club this summer, newly released spending records show.
Discussion: Insider, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Emily Singer / The American Independent:
Virginia GOP gubernatorial nominee admits to hiding extreme abortion views to win election  —  Glenn Youngkin said he won't talk publicly about some of his more severe positions on abortion because that 'won't win my independent votes that I have to get.'  —  Virginia's Republican nominee …
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Deal of the art: White House grapples with ethics of Hunter Biden's pricey paintings  —  White House officials have helped craft an agreement under which purchases of Hunter Biden's artwork — which could be listed at prices as high as $500,000 — will be kept confidential from even the artist himself …
Discussion: CNBC, Insider and The Hill
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Texas Is the Hardest State to Vote In.  It Could Soon Get Much Harder.  —  Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.  —  Beto O'Rourke is once again crisscrossing the state of Texas …
Alexis Nowicki / Slate:
I've Always Suspected “Cat Person” Was Based on My Life.  Now I Know It Was.
  —  Kristen Roupenian's viral story draws specific details from my own life.  I've spent the years since it published wondering: How did she know?  —  One night in December of 2017, I saw Call Me by Your Name …
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Unmasking ‘Dark Foreigner’: The Artist Who Fueled a Neo-Nazi Terror Movement  —  For years, the man who created much of the modern neo-Nazi propaganda machine was a ghost.  VICE News tracked him down to his parents' home in a suburb in Ottawa, Canada.  —  TORONTO, CA
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Saudi Arabia funds new digital news platform in U.S., launches White House lobbying effort  — Saudi Arabia is funding a digital news platform that will feature some U.S.-based media professionals as it begins a new lobbying effort aimed at the White House and Congress.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jenni Fink / Newsweek:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Shuts Down Idea That Trump Will be Reinstated in August, ‘Not True’  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is still a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump but she's not in the camp of people who believe he'll return to office before fall.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite
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Nicole Gaudiano / Insider:
A key fundraising group for Republican women is shunning Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, calling them ‘carnival barkers’
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Examiner:
Biden's global corporate tax gambit  —  The corporate tax has always been a Rube Goldberg machine, trying to accomplish some simple tasks through unnecessarily complex machinations.  So, it's fitting, in a perverse way, that the Biden administration would try to jury-rig a patch for this complex machine.
Simon Shuster / TIME:
Exclusive: Documents Reveal Erik Prince's $10 Billion Plan to Make Weapons and Create a Private Army in Ukraine  —  On the second night of his visit to Kyiv, Erik Prince had a dinner date on his agenda.  A few of his Ukrainian associates had arranged to meet the American billionaire at the Vodka Grill that evening, Feb. 23, 2020.
Ilana Kaplan / New York Times:
‘Legally Blonde’ Oral History: From Raunchy Script to Feminist Classic  —  Along the way, adult zingers were edited out, Jennifer Coolidge struggled with the “bend and snap” and the ending was changed at least three times.  —  In 2001, Reese Witherspoon was already on her way to becoming a household name.
Discussion: Insider
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Allen West's final days as state GOP chair filled with intraparty drama  —  With only days before he steps down from the helm of the state GOP, West is embroiled in a fight with his vice chair and under attack by county GOP chairs.  —  Copy link  —  Allen West's final days as Texas GOP chairman …
Henry Fountain / New York Times:
Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave's Extreme Records, Analysis Finds  —  A rapid analysis of last week's record-breaking heat found that it would have been virtually impossible without the influence of human-caused climate change.  —  The extraordinary heat wave that scorched …
Discussion: Breitbart and Kevin Drum
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Pelosi's Husband Locked In $5.3 Million From Alphabet Options
Discussion: The Hill
Natalie Jackson / FiveThirtyEight:
The Extremes Of The GOP Have Moved Beyond Fox News
Discussion: Raw Story
Valeriya Safronova / New York Times:
A Private-School Sex Educator Defends Her Methods
Discussion: The American Spectator and Twitchy
BBC:
Afghan forces say Taliban being driven out of western city
Eric Morath / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Jobless Claims Edged Up to 373,000 Last Week
Discussion: UPI and The Daily Caller
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Republicans suppressing their own voters in Arizona and Georgia
Yahoo News:
How the FBI played a role in the capture of Princess Latifa of Dubai
Discussion: USA Today
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
In Michigan, Pro-Impeachment Republicans Face Voters' Wrath
Discussion: Raw Story and Forbes
 Earlier Items: 
Bonnie Kristian / The Week:
Election fraud is the GOP's new fundamentalism
Discussion: Bloomberg, Reason and Crooks and Liars
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
From corporate America to conspiracy theory promotion: How a Minnesota man made a career out of anonymously amplifying dark plots
Discussion: Raw Story
Aidin Vaziri / San Francisco Chronicle:
California Capitol reinstates mask mandate after COVID outbreak
Discussion: HotAir, CBS San Francisco and HuffPost
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Michigan Judge Refuses to Allow Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and Other ‘Kraken’ Attorneys to Skip Sanctions Hearing
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniela Galarza / Washington Post:
Stop calling food ‘exotic’
Discussion: HotAir and Fox News