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The White House:
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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Biden to Urge More Scrutiny of Big Business
Biden to Urge More Scrutiny of Big Business
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Lauren Goode / Wired:
Joe Biden Wants You to Be Able to Fix Your Own Damn iPhones
Joe Biden Wants You to Be Able to Fix Your Own Damn iPhones
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Wall Street Journal, Roll Call and Protocol
Margaret Harding McGill / Axios:
Biden takes aim at Big Tech, broadband with sweeping competition order
Biden takes aim at Big Tech, broadband with sweeping competition order
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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
Fox's ongoing assault on the coronavirus vaccination campaign is going to kill its viewers
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CNN, Vanity Fair and Raw Story
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
GOP and Fox News rush to turn vaccine door-knockers into terrifying straw men
GOP and Fox News rush to turn vaccine door-knockers into terrifying straw men
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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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Wall Street Journal:
CDC Urges Schools to Welcome Kids Back, Vaccinated or Not
CDC Urges Schools to Welcome Kids Back, Vaccinated or Not
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Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
CDC puts out new guidance on masks in schools
CDC puts out new guidance on masks in schools
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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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ABC News:
White House officials arrange confidential sales of Hunter Biden's art
White House officials arrange confidential sales of Hunter Biden's art
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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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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.
Los Angeles Times:
Biden nominates L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti as U.S. ambassador to India — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has led the city during a period of booming development, a worsening homelessness crisis and a devastating pandemic, is President Biden's nominee to become ambassador to India, the White House announced Friday.
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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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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 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.
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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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 …
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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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
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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Zachary Petrizzo / Salon:
White nationalists prep for “physical” altercation with security at Dallas CPAC conference — “Groyper” guru and Charlottesville celeb Nick Fuentes looks to lead white nationalist invasion at CPAC gathering — DALLAS —White nationalist and Unite the Right attendee Nicholas Fuentes …
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Anti-Defamation League, Forbes, Mother Jones and Joe.My.God.
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
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.
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Chief Guantánamo Prosecutor Retiring Before Sept. 11 Trial Begins — Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins had held the job longest, and was for many years the public face of military commissions. — WASHINGTON — The Army general who has led war crimes prosecutions at Guantánamo Bay …
Sen. Richard Durbin / The Hill:
American freedom is on the line — On the day President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law, he declared it, “one of the most monumental laws in the entire history of American freedom.” — That declaration has stood the test of time. With the stroke of his pen …
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The Economist:
America's longest war is ending in crushing defeat — The consequences of the conflict for Afghans, already catastrophic, are likely to get worse — “I want to talk about happy things, man!” protested President Joe Biden in early July, when reporters asked him about the imminent withdrawal …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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