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10:05 PM ET, July 11, 2021

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Frances Robles / New York Times:
Cubans Denounce ‘Misery’ in Biggest Protests in Decades  —  The rallies, widely viewed as astonishing for a country that limits dissent, were set off by economic crises worsened by the pandemic.  —  MIAMI — Shouting “Freedom” and other anti-government slogans, hundreds of Cubans took …
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Miami Herald:
‘Freedom!’  Thousands of Cubans take to the streets to demand the end of dictatorship  —  Thousands of people took to the streets at several locations in Cuba including the capital Havana on Sunday to call for the end of the decades-old dictatorship and to demand food and vaccines as shortages …
CBS Miami:
‘We Are Not Afraid’: Thousands Of People Protesting On The Streets Of Cuba  —  MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Chanting “we are not afraid,” thousands of Cubans took to the streets Sunday to demand the end of the communist dictatorship.  —  The COVID crisis has only exacerbated the unrest on the island nation …
Kelly Hooper / Politico:
Adams to meet with Biden Monday for gun violence discussion  —  President Joe Biden and New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Eric Adams will meet in Washington on Monday to discuss gun violence — a growing problem in New York City and the centerpiece of Adams' recent successful campaign.
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Caller
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Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Biden and Eric Adams to Discuss Curbing Gun Violence  —  The president will meet with the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, Attorney General Merrick Garland and local leaders  —  President Biden will meet with Eric Adams, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor …
Hunter Walker / The Uprising:
Eric Adams Is Set To Meet With Joe Biden At The White House  —  This is a special breaking news issue of The Uprising, an unconventional and exclusive daily politics newsletter.  If you enjoyed this story and want to read more like it, please sign up!  —  Get 20% off for 1 year
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
New polling shows Democrats alarmed about crime, too
Discussion: Power Line
Jake Dima / Washington Examiner:
Eric Adams cautions Democrats not to be ‘so idealistic’ that they're ‘not realistic’
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
TheDenverChannel.com:
4 arrested at Maven Hotel, police feared a ‘Las Vegas-style shooting’ during All-Star Game in Denver  —  Sources tell Denver7 16 long guns, body armor and 1,000+ rounds of ammo found inside hotel room  —  DENVER - Police feared a “Las Vegas-style shooting” during the All-Star Game in Denver …
David Cohen / Politico:
Trump on Jan. 6 insurrection: ‘These were great people’  —  Former President Donald Trump on Sunday widely praised those who attended the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the insurrection at the Capitol, repeatedly using the word “love” to describe the tone of the event.
Melissa Ryan / CtrlAltRightDelete:
Six months out of the White House and Trump's power, reach, and stature continues to shrink.  —  Donald Trump returns to CPAC today, to give a headline speech.  It's the biggest opportunity he'll have to command mainstream media attention in quite some time, in front of a crowd that adores him.
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Trump easily wins CPAC 2024 GOP presidential nomination straw poll  —  The former president improved on his straw poll performance from CPAC Orlando in February  —  Former President Trump to speak at CPAC  —  DALLAS - Former Presidentv Donald Trump easily won the 2024 GOP presidential nomination poll …
Keith Naughton / The Hill:
The Democrats are stuck with Kamala Harris, like it or not  —  For vice president, Kamala Harris checked all the boxes.  But just because she made perfect political sense as President Biden's running mate did not mean her elevation would work out for the Democrats.  So far, the reviews are not good.
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Trump slams Democrats over calls to pack the Supreme Court, alleges intimidation  —  Trump made the comments in his keynote address at CPAC Dallas  —  CPAC attendees call for action against critical race theory  —  DALLAS - Former President Donald Trump Sunday alleged that Democrats …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Washington Post:
Texas Republicans advance voting restrictions in special session  —  AUSTIN — New voting restrictions in Texas moved a step closer to becoming law this weekend after two committees advanced the legislation in a special session, setting up a floor vote in the coming days on a GOP proposal …
Discussion: The Hill and Insider
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Associated Press:
Texas GOP advances voting restrictions as hundreds push back
Discussion: The Daily Beast and HuffPost
New York Times:
Prominent Lawyer Makes Moves to Represent Britney Spears  —  Mathew Rosengart, a former federal prosecutor, plans to attend a hearing on Wednesday and make the case that the singer should be permitted to hire him for her conservatorship battle.  —  A prominent Hollywood lawyer has had discussions …
Discussion: TMZ.com
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Amanda Morris / New York Times:
Britney Spears's Case Calls Attention to Wider Questions on Guardianship
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Voters Chose Boring Over Bombast.  They Got Biden's Penchant for Pontificating.  —  Even the president labeled a speech boring recently, an admission that highlights a tendency toward delivering minutiae-filled discourse over scaling oratorical heights.  —  CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. — Even President Biden thought he had been ponderous.
John L. Dorman / Insider:
The Trump team was anxious about a ‘delay’ with the Wisconsin election results, but they had the time zones wrong: book  — Trump waited earnestly for updated results from Wisconsin on election night, per a forthcoming book.  — White House attendees thought there was a “delay” in the election results from the Midwestern state.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Sarah Jones / New York Magazine:
How to Manufacture a Moral Panic Christopher Rufo helped incite an uproar over racism education with dramatic, dodgy reporting.  —  Los Angeles public school teacher R. Tolteka Cuauhtin had Googled his discipline, ethnic studies, in March when he discovered he wanted children to honor the Aztec gods of human sacrifice and cannibalism.
Maya Wiley / Washington Post:
I lost the NYC mayoral race, but women and minorities win with ranked-choice voting  —  Maya Wiley is a civil rights lawyer and a former candidate for New York mayor.  —  A Black middle-aged woman, slender and with a purposeful walk, approached me on a Harlem street corner.
Lauren Lumpkin / Washington Post:
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates appointments signal new era for Howard University  —  The recent growth at Howard University comes a few years after students waged a nine-day protest over conditions at the school and called for their president's resignation  —  The past year has been very good to Howard University.
 
 
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Young Americans Aren't Getting Vaccinated, Jeopardizing Covid-19 Fight
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Tommy Hicks / Washington Examiner:
Over 100 days of failure at the border
Shannon Prince / The Hill:
Moves to silence critical race theory have only amplified its virtues
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A Defeat in the Courts for Biden's Racist ‘Equity’ Policies
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