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 …

Charlottesville Removes Robert E. Lee Statue That Sparked A Deadly Rally  —  got a news tip?  —  At NPR, we welcome your news tips.  Here's a guide to getting in touch with our newsroom and how to share sensitive information.  —  INVESTIGATIONS  —  Chief Guantánamo Prosecutor …

Investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will resurrect democracy  —  On July 4, we celebrated the dawn of American democracy.  This past Tuesday, July 6, marked the half-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, which many mourned as the democracy's sunset.

Stewart Rhodes, founder of right-wing Oath Keepers militia, spotted at CPAC  —  Multiple federal agencies are investigating the Oath Keepers for their alleged role in the Jan. 6 insurrection  —  DALLAS — Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers …

Top Biden ally pleads with him to scrap filibuster for election reform  —  After months of setbacks and gridlock on voting rights, one of President Joe Biden's top allies in Congress is calling for him to support amending the Senate filibuster.  —  House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) …

A Landlord Says Her Tenants Are Terrorizing Her.  She Can't Evict Them.  —  A landlord in Queens says her tenants curse and spit at her and owe more than $23,000 in rent.  But an eviction moratorium keeps them from being kicked out.  —  For more than a year, Vanie Mangal …

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.”

Texas AG's Office Arrests Houston Voter Hervis Rogers For Alleged Illegal Voting  —  Rogers captured national attention in March 2020 when he waited for hours to vote on Super Tuesday.  —  When Hervis Rogers went viral on social media for being the last person in line at Texas Southern University …

Disingenuous defenses of critical race theory  —  The latest defense for teaching our children to be racially divisive?  It's free speech!  —  Last week, The New York Times published an opinion piece by commentators David French, Kmele Foster, Thomas Chatterton Williams and Jason Stanley …

South Florida men arrested in Haiti assassination said they were translators for operation  —  Details and a timeline began emerging late Friday, filling in blanks about how two South Florida men became entangled in the killing of Haiti's president.  —  Photos released in Haiti …

Biden Warns Putin to Act Against Ransomware Groups, or U.S. Will Strike Back  —  Mr. Biden's phone call appeared to be a pointed ultimatum to stop the hackers, who have attacked computer networks in the United States with relative impunity.  —  President Biden warned President Vladimir V. Putin …

The Hunter Biden Laptop Is Real  —  Our ‘newspapers of record’ become something else when they conspire to deny facts and hide truth.  —  The problem isn't Hunter Biden —it's Joe—as major media outlets may be discovering, sort of, with the White House's absurd intervention in the younger …

Eric Adams Has Plans for New York, Beyond Public Safety  —  Mr. Adams, the Democratic mayoral nominee, has stances on policing, transportation and education that suggest a shift from Mayor Bill de Blasio.  —  In the afterglow of winning the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City …

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!

The wretched Xavier Becerra wants to control your life  —  How to weigh the rights of the individual versus the authority of the government?  —  That question became trickier over the past 18 months.  In an otherwise free country, governments forbade us from gathering to worship …

New legal trouble for Trump?  Arizona eyes criminal probe for election scheme  —  Arizona's top elections official is calling for a criminal investigation into potential election interference by Donald Trump and his allies.  Secretary of State Katie Hobbs joins MSNBC's Dr. Jason Johnson …

GOP's Madison Cawthorn: Biden may use door-to-door vaccine program to ‘take your Bibles’  —  Republican efforts to keep Americans from getting vaccinated continue to escalate despite the surge in Delta variant infections.  —  On Tuesday, President Joe Biden announced “door-to-door outreach” …

Like in ‘Postapocalyptic Movies’: Heat Wave Killed Marine Wildlife en Masse  —  An early estimate points to a huge die-off along the Pacific Coast, and scientists say rivers farther inland are warming to levels that could be lethal for some kinds of salmon.  —  Dead mussels and clams coated rocks …

Los Angeles County sees exponential growth in Covid-19 cases as Delta variant becomes dominant, worrying officials  —  (CNN)The most populous county in the US is seeing “exponential growth” of Covid-19 cases as the Delta variant takes over as the dominant coronavirus strain, health officials in Los Angeles County said.

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