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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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New York Times:
Biden to Urge More Scrutiny of Big Business — An order reflects the administration's growing embrace of warnings by some economists that declining competition is hobbling the economy's vitality. — WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday will sign an executive order aimed …
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Leah Nylen / Politico:
Biden launches assault on monopolies
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Margaret Harding McGill / Axios:
Biden takes aim at Big Tech, broadband with sweeping competition order
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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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Erika Edwards / NBC News:
Students don't need masks at school if they are fully vaccinated, CDC says
Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
CDC puts out new guidance on masks in schools
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Politico, ABC7, Just The News and Toledo Blade
Insider:
‘F— him’: Rupert Murdoch personally made the call to declare 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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The Hill, USA Today, Vanity Fair, The Guardian and Political Wire
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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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CNN, Vanity Fair, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
GOP and Fox News rush to turn vaccine door-knockers into terrifying straw men
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Alternet.org, Raw Story and Politico
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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NPR, New York Magazine, The American Independent and No More Mister Nice Blog
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
New study on delta variant reveals importance of receiving both vaccine shots, highlights challenges posed by mutations — New laboratory research on the swiftly spreading delta variant of the coronavirus is highlighting the threats posed by viral mutations, adding urgency to calls to accelerate vaccination efforts across the planet.
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New York Post:
Don't buy the hysteria: The Delta variant is actually less dangerous
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Emma Bowman / NPR:
Despite New COVID Variants, CDC Says You Don't Need Any Booster Doses Right Now
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The Atlantic:
The Biggest Threat to Democracy Is the GOP Stealing the Next Election — Unless and until the Republican Party recommits itself to playing by democratic rules of the game, American democracy will remain at risk. … The greatest threat to American democracy today is not a repeat of January 6 …
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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Washington Examiner, Political Wire, Joe.My.God., Raw Story and The Intellectualist
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Trump Organization Indictment May Spell Trouble for Trump Spawn — The indictment against the Trump Organization named seven specific companies within the overall business. Guess who's connected to those companies. — The indictment filed last week against the Trump Organization …
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Alternet.org and Raw Story
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The White House:
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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Politico, Radio Free Europe/Radio … and TASS
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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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Religion News Service and The Daily Caller
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
No, School Board Fights Over Critical Race Theory Are Not Going to Hurt Democrats — In red-turned-blue Loudon County, Virginia a fight over how to teach students about America's racial history has animated Fox News and conservatives. But it's faux outrage.
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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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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
The Supreme Court's Term Appeared To Be Cautious. The Numbers Tell A Different Story — Despite a cautious approach to controversy for most of the Supreme Court term, statistics for the whole term tell a different story. By the numbers, the justices swerved to the right …
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The Guardian, Rolling Stone, SCOTUSblog, BizPac Review and Reason
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer: Democrats ‘ready to expeditiously fill’ any Supreme Court vacancy
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HuffPost, The Western Journal, POLITICUSUSA and Townhall
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:
Scripps Spelling Bee 2021: Live Updates — Zaila Avant-garde spells her way to victory! — The last few words were rattled off fast between the two final finalists, Chaitra Thummala and Zaila Avant-garde. — First was fewtrils (things of little value), which Chaitra got right.
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Slate, Snopes.com and The Root
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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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump, after agreeing to sit for a raft of book interviews, declares them a ‘total waste of time’ — Former president Donald Trump, who reportedly agreed to sit for at least a dozen interviews in recent months for forthcoming books about his tenure, said Friday that he considered doing so “a total waste of time.”
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Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Charlottesville to take down Robert E. Lee statue, focus of 2017 Unite the Right rally — The city of Charlottesville will take down its two Confederate monuments Saturday, the city said, including the statue of Robert E. Lee at the center of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.
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Charlottesville, VA
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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Crooks and Liars
Steve Stewart / Tallahassee Reports:
Report: Crist Used Condo Repeal Bill to “Woo” Democratic Voters — A report from 2010 indicates that then Governor Charlie Crist signed a condo repeal bill, which is now being investigated for playing a role in the Surfside condo collapse, to “woo” democratic voters in his race for the U.S Senate.
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CNBC, Breitbart and NBC 6 South Florida
Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:
“We're (expletive) idiots”: Some Democrats regret Colorado's new redistricting process now that their party is in charge — If Y and Z hadn't passed, Democrats would now have nearly unfettered power to draw new congressional districts ahead of the 2022 election, and more say over how legislative districts are drawn.
Rick Newman / Yahoo Finance:
Why corporate America can't quit the ‘sedition’ Republicans — caught flak for making political donations to 38 members of the “sedition caucus,” as critics refer to the — 147 Republican members of Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
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Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars, The Federalist, BizPac Review, Insider and Detroit News
Clara Hendrickson / Detroit Free Press:
AG accepts GOP lawmaker's request to investigate those peddling election lies — Michigan's chief law enforcement officer, along with state police, will launch an investigation into those who have allegedly peddled disinformation about the state's Nov. 3 election for their own financial gain.
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The American Independent, The Western Journal and Bridge Michigan
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