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Brett Kelman / The Tennessean:
Tennessee abandons vaccine outreach to minors — not just for COVID-19 — The Tennessee Department of Health will halt all adolescent vaccine outreach - not just for coronavirus, but all diseases - amid pressure from Republican state lawmakers, according to an internal report and agency emails obtained by the Tennessean.
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CNN:
Tennessee vaccine official's story reveals an ugly truth about GOP and children's rights
Tennessee vaccine official's story reveals an ugly truth about GOP and children's rights
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CBS News, The Tennessean, Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘Killing kids to own the libs’: Americans horrified after Tennessee shuts down all child vaccination programs
Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Top Tennessee Vaccine Official Says She Was Fired Over Shots for Teens
Top Tennessee Vaccine Official Says She Was Fired Over Shots for Teens
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Daily Kos, NPR and Vanity Fair
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, Prosecutors Say — Masih Alinejad spoke critically of her native country's autocracy. Now an Iranian intelligence official and three others have been indicted in New York. — An Iranian American journalist living in Brooklyn …
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Insider, NBC News, Justice News, The Daily Caller, CBS New York, NPR, Mediaite, Twin Cities, UPI, HotAir, The Hill and Political Wire
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Iranian Intelligence Officials Indicted on Kidnapping Conspiracy Charges — Iranian Intelligence Services Allegedly Plotted to Kidnap a U.S. Journalist and Human Rights Activist from New York City for Rendition to Iran — A New York federal court unsealed an indictment today charging four Iranian nationals …
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Washington Examiner, The Guardian, Power Line, Associated Press, Politico, Insider, Forbes and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
Deanna Paul / Wall Street Journal:
Iranian Intelligence Plotted to Kidnap U.S.-Based Activist, Prosecutors Say
Iranian Intelligence Plotted to Kidnap U.S.-Based Activist, Prosecutors Say
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Bloomberg and Washington Post
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Ken Starr helped Jeffrey Epstein with ‘scorched-earth’ campaign, book claims — Book by Miami Herald journalist details extraordinary efforts by special prosecutor who hounded Bill Clinton to aid sex trafficker — Ken Starr, the lawyer who hounded Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Ken Starr's Completely Inexcusable Career Has a New Chapter Titled ‘Jeffrey Epstein’ — If there is a less excusable human being walking upright than Ken Starr, head huntsman of the Great Penis Chase of 1998, then I'm hard pressed to think of who it is. Since his salacious moment in the national spotlight, Starr has presided over a
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The Hill
Judi Hershman:
Ken Starr, Brett Kavanaugh, Jeffrey Epstein and Me — As a former professional partisan, I never thought I'd look back decades to my political beginnings and find the map that points to our current moment, when there is serious doubt whether the democracy we took for granted at the time will continue to exist.
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Joe.My.God., Crooks and Liars and ArkansasTimes
Natalie Fertig / Politico:
Schumer launches long-shot bid for legal weed — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer released sweeping draft legislation Wednesday to legalize weed, officially kickstarting a difficult debate in his chamber that also makes a major splash for one of his campaign promises.
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ABC News, Althouse and Political Wire
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NBC News:
Senate Democrats reveal $3.5 trillion plan to invest in health care, climate change and more
Senate Democrats reveal $3.5 trillion plan to invest in health care, climate change and more
Politico:
Democrats unveil $3.5T go-it-alone plan to fulfill Biden's agenda
Democrats unveil $3.5T go-it-alone plan to fulfill Biden's agenda
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Washington Post, Associated Press, Breitbart, Forbes, New York Post, Sky News Australia, Fox News and One America News Network
Washington Post:
Inside the secret plan for the Texas Democratic exodus: A phone tree, a scramble to pack and a politically perilous trip — They activated the plan with a phone tree late Sunday: Pack your bags — and make sure they weigh no more than 45 pounds. Be ready to leave Austin at noon tomorrow.
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Politico, NBC News, New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Examiner, CBS News, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, One America News Network, KXAN-TV, Althouse, ABC7 and Forbes
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The Texas Tribune:
Senate presses forward passing GOP voting and bail bills, as Texas House in chaos over Democrats' decampment
Senate presses forward passing GOP voting and bail bills, as Texas House in chaos over Democrats' decampment
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HotAir, National Review, Houston Public Media, Louder With Crowder, HuffPost, The Hill, Off the Kuff, Townhall, oann.com, WATE-TV, Lucianne, Fox News and Just The News
Washington Examiner:
President Biden's pathetic attempt to rig the rules
President Biden's pathetic attempt to rig the rules
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Washington Post, Bloomberg, New York Post, The Stream, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Sputnik News and KARK-TV
Donna Brazile / USA Today:
Ramp it up: It's time for Biden and all of us to mobilize like MLK to save voting rights.
Ramp it up: It's time for Biden and all of us to mobilize like MLK to save voting rights.
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Washington Post, The Hill, National Review, BizPac Review, GOP.com and Mother Jones
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Norwegian Cruise Line sues Florida over prohibition on vaccine requirements. — The fight over requiring vaccinations for travel is heating up. — Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings sued Florida's surgeon general on Tuesday, accusing the state of preventing it from “safely and soundly” …
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NBC 6 South Florida, Bangor Daily News and WSVN-TV
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Washington Post:
William Barr clashes with former Trump appointee from Pa. over handling of election-fraud claims — A war of words broke out Tuesday among former senior Justice Department officials over Pennsylvania politics and the aftermath of the 2020 election, fueled by former president Donald Trump's release …
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Politico, RedState, Talking Points Memo and Sputnik News
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Christina Maxouris / CNN:
‘We are seeing people passing quicker than before’: What hospitals look like in US Covid hot spots — (CNN)Dr. Sergio Segarra says when Covid-19 patient numbers in the Miami hospital he works in dipped below 20 last month, he began feeling optimistic. — “I remember seeing articles …
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NewsNation Now, WAPT, The Hill and Wall Street Journal
Sarah Jackson / Insider:
Facebook staffers were told by execs to scrap any mention of Russia in a 2017 white paper on the platform's security concerns: ‘We started to feel like we were part of a cover-up’ — Facebook's 2017 white paper initially mentioned Russian election interference, a new book says.
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Breaking News USA, more at Techmeme »
Matt Johnson / WSB-TV:
‘He wished he had gotten the vaccine:’ Local man battling COVID-19 from ICU for months — GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Blake Bargatze, 24, was the only one in his family to not get vaccinated and now he remains in a hospital ICU more than three months after contracting COVID-19, according to his family.
W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
Democrats face these major headwinds in 2022 elections — History and a handful of issues threaten the Democrats' narrow congressional majorities in next year's midterm elections. — Even though President Joe Biden's job approval ratings remain solid if unspectacular …
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Breaking News USA and Houston Public Media
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
House GOP reelection committee smashes fundraising records, outpacing Democrats
House GOP reelection committee smashes fundraising records, outpacing Democrats
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Washington Examiner, CNN and Breitbart
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance — Tucker Carlson huddled in a low-ceilinged dungeon that had served as a holding pen for Africans bound for enslavement in the United States. It was a July day in 2003 in Ghana, and Carlson stood alongside some of America's most prominent civil rights leaders.
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Raw Story and Breaking News USA
David Frum / The Atlantic:
There's a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming — “I became worse.” That's how double impeachment changed him, Donald Trump told a conservative audience in Dallas last weekend, without a trace of a smile. This was not Trump the insult comic talking. This was the deepest Trump self.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Miami Herald:
DeSantis' anti-riot law didn't apply as Cuba protesters shut down a Miami-Dade road. Hmmm . . . Gov. DeSantis should have just laid it on the line when a reporter asked about the hundreds upon hundreds of Cuban-American demonstrators and their supporters who shut down a portion of the Palmetto Expressway in Miami-Dade County.
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Sun-Sentinel, Joe.My.God. and TheGrio
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
The tedium of the Trump-books news cycle — “The Trump books are coming.” Late last month, Katie Rogers, a White House correspondent at the New York Times, warned us that we could soon expect a raft of new titles about Trump's final months in office to hit bookstores …
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New York Times, The Daily Beast and Joe.My.God.
AMAC:
Storm Clouds Brewing for Terry McAuliffe as Democrats Face Reckoning Nationally — There's no doubt about it - Terry McAuliffe is in trouble in Virginia. After previously serving as governor from 2014 to 2018, McAuliffe presumably believed he could simply cruise back into the position he once won by nearly three points.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Sacha Baron Cohen, Showtime win dismissal of Roy Moore defamation lawsuit — British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen on Tuesday won the dismissal of a $95 million defamation lawsuit by Roy Moore, a former U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama who claimed he was tricked into being portrayed falsely …
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Politico, Sputnik News, Washington Examiner, POLITICUSUSA, Courthouse News Service, New York Post and Insider, more at Mediagazer »
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Emails Reveal Cops Fanned Flames as FBI Debunked Antifa Hoax — LIE SEASON … Wildfires are back and could be worse than ever. Just don't tell the cops manufacturing wild rumors about how they start. — On Sept. 11, 2020, the same day the Federal Bureau of Investigation released …
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Raw Story
Marina Villeneuve / Associated Press:
New York takes conservative approach counting virus deaths — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The federal government's count of the COVID-19 death toll in New York has 11,000 more victims than the tally publicized by the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which has stuck with a far more conservative approach to counting virus deaths.
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The Hill, New York Magazine and New York Post
Kenny Xu / HotAir:
Critical Race Theory has no idea what to do with Asian-Americans — However, with the emergence of several racial groups that have come to be just as successful as whites, critical race theorists have come up with the term, “white adjacency.” Robin DiAngelo, author of the now-infamous book White Fragility …
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The Federalist and Newsweek
American Greatness:
As the Left's Power Rises, Its Legitimacy Is Falling — When the Left requires brute force to win, it alienates apolitical America. — I can recall only three instances of gasping aloud in response to a plot twist. Being a child of the 1980s, I had the privilege of seeing Darth Vader announce …