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FACT SHEET: Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy … The economy is booming under President Biden's leadership. The economy has gained more than three million jobs since the President took office—the most jobs created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history.
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Lauren Goode / Wired:
Joe Biden Wants You to Be Able to Fix Your Own Damn iPhones — A sweeping new presidential directive includes, among other things, an initiative to secure consumers' right to repair their own devices. — EARLY FRIDAY, PRESIDENT Joe Biden signed an executive order directing …
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Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy
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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Biden's Executive Order on Competition: A Quick Rundown
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New York Times:
Biden to Urge More Scrutiny of Big Business
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Margaret Harding McGill / Axios:
Biden takes aim at Big Tech, broadband with sweeping competition order
Reuters:
Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as U.S. withdraws — Afghan Air Force Major Dastagir Zamaray had grown so fearful of Taliban assassinations of off-duty forces in Kabul that he decided to sell his home to move to a safer pocket of Afghanistan's sprawling capital.
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The worst speech of Biden's presidency — Biden defends pulling US out of Afghanistan as Taliban advances — Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is author of the forthcoming book “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden.”
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Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia … President Biden spoke today with President Putin. The leaders commended the joint work of their respective teams following the U.S.-Russia Summit that led to the unanimous renewal …
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Biden tells Putin the U.S. will take ‘any necessary action’ after latest ransomware attack, White House says — President Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that the United States will take “any necessary action” to defend U.S. infrastructure after Russia-based hackers carried …
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Insider:
‘F— him’: Rupert Murdoch gave the go-ahead to call Arizona for Biden on election night, enraging Trump, book says — A new book says Rupert Murdoch approved Fox News' decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden. — “F— him,” the Fox News proprietor is said to have declared of Donald Trump at the time.
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox's ongoing assault on the coronavirus vaccination campaign is going to kill its viewers
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
GOP and Fox News rush to turn vaccine door-knockers into terrifying straw men
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The Atlantic:
The Biggest Threat to Democracy Is the GOP Stealing the Next Election — The greatest threat to American democracy today is not a repeat of January 6, but the possibility of a stolen presidential election. Contemporary democracies that die meet their end at the ballot box, through measures that are nominally constitutional.
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Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic:
There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory — The United States is not in the midst of a “culture war” over race and racism. The animating force of our current conflict is not our differing values, beliefs, moral codes, or practices. The American people aren't divided. The American people are being divided.
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New York Post:
Eric Adams breaks bread with GOP heavyweights at Rao's — It was an offer he didn't refuse. — Just days after winning the Democratic nomination for mayor, Eric Adams broke bread at storied Italian eatery Rao's with billionaire Republican John Catsimatidis.
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
New Evidence Indicates Enough Illegal Votes In Georgia To Tip 2020 Results — In Georgia, there was both an audit and a statewide recount confirming Biden's victory, but ignored in the process was evidence that nearly 35,000 Georgians had potentially voted illegally.
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Biden fires head of Social Security Administration, a Trump holdover who drew the ire of Democrats — President Biden on Friday fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, a holdover from the Trump administration who had alienated crucial Democratic constituencies with policies designed …
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Vera Bergengruen / TIME:
Inside One Combat Vet's Journey From Defending His Country to Storming the Capitol — The crackle of handheld radios broke the morning stillness. Sound carries in the country, and on the rural outskirts of Arab, Ala., curious neighbors stepped onto their porches, craning their necks to see what was going on.
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Oath Keepers Leader Sits for F.B.I. Questioning Against Legal Advice
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: Hunter headache for Biden White House — Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter. — Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to receive the newsletter. — HUNTER HEADACHE FOR BIDEN WHITE HOUSE. There's already been one newsletter this week …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
What Happened To You? — The radicalization of the American elite against liberalism — “What happened to you?” — It's a question I get a lot on Twitter. “When did you become so far right?” “Why have you become a white supremacist, transphobic, misogynistic eugenicist?” Or, of course: “See!
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Biden taps Eric Garcetti for India ambassador post — President Biden plans to nominate Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve as ambassador to India and Denise Bauer, a former ambassador to Belgium and prominent Biden donor, to serve as ambassador to France, the White House announced Friday.
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas — The measure bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. And it effectively deputizes ordinary citizens to sue people involved in the process. — People across the country may soon be able to sue abortion clinics …
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New York Times:
C.D.C. to Issue New School Guidance, With Emphasis on Full Reopening — The guidance acknowledges that many students have suffered from months of virtual learning. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to release new guidance on Friday urging schools to fully reopen in the fall …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Former GOP Hill aide pleads guilty in child porn case — A former GOP staffer and Republican National Committee aide pleaded guilty Friday to a child pornography charge and is facing 12 years or more in prison under a plea deal with prosecutors. — Ruben Verastigui, 27 …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How a hidden Biden victory could deal a big blow to Trumpian nationalism — When President Biden recently announced a deal with 130 countries to combat tax avoidance by multinational corporations, you probably didn't connect the news to the poisonous impact that Donald Trump continues to wield over our politics.
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Sarah Rankin / Associated Press:
Charlottesville set to remove Lee statue that sparked rally — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that became a rallying point for white supremacists and helped inspire their infamous 2017 rally in Charlottesville will be hoisted off its pedestal this weekend …
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John Wright / Raw Story:
GOP lawmakers caught on undercover video gleefully thanking Manchin and Sinema for preserving Senate filibuster — Progressive activists erupted in anger on Friday after several Republican GOP lawmakers were caught on camera praising Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It's Taking America With It — The presidency of George W. Bush may have been the high point of the modern Christian right's influence in America. White evangelicals were the largest religious faction in the country.
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Jonathan A. Greenblatt / Newsweek:
It's Time to Admit It: The Left Has an Antisemitism Problem — In our super-charged partisan times, it is often said that every issue has become politicized, with each side of the spectrum lining up on “their” side. This is also true of antisemitism which, like so many other issues in society …
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans believe Covid leaked from lab — Most Americans now believe that the coronavirus leaked from a laboratory in China, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard poll that found a dramatic shift in public perception of Covid-19's origins over the last year.
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Americans Claim They Were Just ‘Translators’ in Killing of Haiti's President, Judge Says — As the investigation into the killing of Haiti's president continued, his chief bodyguards have been called in for questioning next week, and more than a dozen people have been arrested.
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