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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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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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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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CNN, Washington Examiner, Breitbart and Protocol
Billie Kanfer / Data For Progress:
Biden's New Executive Orders Will Promote the Competitive Economy Americans Want
Biden's New Executive Orders Will Promote the Competitive Economy Americans Want
Leah Nylen / Politico:
Biden launches assault on monopolies
Biden launches assault on monopolies
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BizPac Review, Roll Call, Bloomberg, Alternet.org and Political Wire
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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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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POLITICUSUSA, Daily Kos, Alternet.org, Raw Story and Politico
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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HotAir, Mercury News, WTOP and The Daily Caller
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Associated Press:
Vaccinated teachers and students don't need masks, CDC says
Vaccinated teachers and students don't need masks, CDC says
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Washington Post and The Progressive Pulse
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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Politico, ABC7, Just The News and Toledo Blade
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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National Review, Associated Press and Reason
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 — The arrangement is meant to prevent ethics questions but has also raised some. — A New York gallery owner will facilitate sales of Hunter Biden's original artwork, an arrangement meant to diffuse concerns …
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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.
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.
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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The Election Wizard
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
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
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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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Washington Examiner, Political Wire, Joe.My.God., Raw Story and The Intellectualist
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
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
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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer: Democrats ‘ready to expeditiously fill’ any Supreme Court vacancy
Schumer: Democrats ‘ready to expeditiously fill’ any Supreme Court vacancy
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HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA, The Western Journal and Townhall
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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PIIE, Wall Street Journal and CBS News
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 …
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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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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Associated Press and Deadline
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
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.
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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New York Magazine and Washington Post
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 …
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
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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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.
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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The Intellectualist, Insider and Townhall
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, Mother Jones and Joe.My.God.