Top Items:
![](/210718/i26.jpg)
Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide … Dana Priest, a reporter at The Washington Post for 30 years, covers national security issues. Recently, she has investigated Russian disinformation operations, censorship around the world …
Discussion:
The Hill and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
RELATED:
![](/210718/i30.jpg)
FT editor among 180 journalists identified by clients of spyware firm — Data leak and forensics suggest NSO's surveillance tool used against journalists at some of world's top media companies — David Pegg and Paul Lewis in London, Michael Safi in Beirut, Nina Lakhani in Ciudad Altamirano
![](/210718/i21.jpg)
Project Pegasus: A new investigation by Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International together with 17 news outlets reveals how Israel's NSO's cyber spy tech is used against journalists Credit: Forbidden Stories — Khadija Ismayilova's home in Baku had become like a prison.
![](/210718/i25.jpg)
Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
Discussion:
Washington Post
Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
Viktor Orbán using NSO spyware in assault on media, data suggests
Viktor Orbán using NSO spyware in assault on media, data suggests
Discussion:
Washington Post and Politico
![](/210718/i16.jpg)
Nationals Game in Washington Is Halted After Shooting Outside Stadium — Fans poured out of Nationals Park in a scene of fear and confusion. The police said three people had been injured in a shootout. — Three people were shot outside of Nationals Park in Washington on Saturday night during …
Discussion:
CNN, NBC4 Washington, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, ABC News and ABC7
RELATED:
![](/210718/i42.jpg)
Hypocritical Psaki leads chilling effort to flag ‘misinformation’ — “We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation. We're working with doctors and medical experts...who are popular with their audience with accurate information. So, we're helping get trusted content out there.”
Discussion:
RedState, Twitchy and Victory Girls Blog
RELATED:
![](/210718/i39.jpg)
Biden is right. Purveyors of vaccine disinformation are killing people.
Discussion:
CNBC, NBC News and Mother Jones
![](/210717/i47.jpg)
In Undervaccinated Arkansas, Covid Upends Life All Over Again — While much of the nation tiptoes toward normalcy, the coronavirus is again swamping hospitals in places like Mountain Home, in a rural county where fewer than one-third of residents are vaccinated.
Discussion:
Mother Jones and Twitchy
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
52 years after the moon landing, Republicans reject science and America is unraveling — There is no Democratic or Republican way to land on the moon.I was 10 years old on the Sunday afternoon of July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 made its more-hairy-than-we-realized touchdown on the lunar surface …
Discussion:
Washington Post
![](/210718/i27.jpg)
GOP negotiator: Senators ditch tougher IRS enforcement as way to pay for bipartisan infrastructure plan — Senator explains why IRS enforcement was pulled from infrastructure proposal — Washington (CNN)A Republican senator who's helping to negotiate a bipartisan infrastructure proposal …
Discussion:
Fox News, NBC News, Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Financial Times, POLITICUSUSA, Bloomberg and One America News Network
RELATED:
![](/210718/i46.jpg)
Democrats, Republicans struggle to finish infrastructure proposal as key Senate deadline looms — Meetings between White House aides, top lawmakers continued into the weekend after senators dropped an idea to pay for infrastructure through better enforcement of tax laws
Discussion:
Associated Press, Wall Street Journal and New York Post
![](/210718/i15.jpg)
Sorting out Trump's comments on the Arizona audit — PHOENIX — Former President Donald Trump issued three statements in two days falsely claiming that voting fraud and irregularities cost him Arizona's electoral votes. — Trump relied on comments made Thursday by contractors hired …
Discussion:
Insider, Raw Story, Arizona Republic, Washington Examiner, News Corpse and Associated Press
RELATED:
![](/210718/i43.jpg)
Cuban protests expose the American Left's moral hypocrisy — It may have taken a few days for the Biden administration to finally begin using “communist” to describe the government of Cuba. Still, the State Department's initial claim that the protests were purely due to COVID-19 reveals a futile attempt to control the narrative.
RELATED:
![](/210718/i5.jpg)
Black Lives Matter Misses the Point About Cuba
Discussion:
Washington Post
![](/210718/i31.jpg)
In this summer of covid freedom, disease experts warn: ‘The world needs a reality check’ — Maria Van Kerkhove, a World Health Organization epidemiologist, was in her Geneva office last weekend preparing for a keynote address when a simple phrase came to mind.
Discussion:
The Week
![](/210718/i13.jpg)
Biden nets positive marks for handling pandemic, but vaccine resistance, Delta concern remains - CBS News poll — Six months into President Biden's administration, Americans are less apprehensive about the year than they were at the start of it. — They think the battle against the pandemic …
Discussion:
Insider, Politico and Political Wire
![](/210718/i44.jpg)
Wokeness is sabotaging the military academies — Professor Lynne Chandler Garcia recently published an op-ed in the Washington Post in which she defended indoctrinating her students on the concepts of critical race theory, or CRT. — Normally, this wouldn't raise any eyebrows.
![](/210718/i14.jpg)
Can the Southwest Survive With Less Water? — Sometime next month, for the first time, the federal government is likely to declare a water shortage at Lake Mead. — This vast turquoise reservoir, formed in 1935 when the Hoover Dam corked the Colorado River in Arizona and Nevada …
Daria Litvinova / Associated Press:
Rights group in Russia shuts down amid government crackdown — MOSCOW (AP) — A rights group in Russia announced Sunday that it was shutting down, citing fear of prosecution of its members and supporters after Russian authorities blocked its website for allegedly publishing content from an “undesirable” organization.
![](/210718/i45.jpg)
Why Inflation Panics Are Poison for Progressive Politics — When I was a freshman college debater at Emory University in the fall of 1970, the national debate topic was not Vietnam, but the desirability of wage and price control. Little did we know that just months ahead a Republican president …
![](/210718/i22.jpg)
U.S. Hits Highest Number of Daily New Coronavirus Cases in the World Again: Nearly 80,000 — FEELS FAMILIAR — The United States recorded 79,310 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number is the highest in the world, exceeding recorded totals from Indonesia …
Discussion:
Crooks and Liars and Political Wire
![](/210718/i29.jpg)
Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country — If any nook of American agriculture has the means and incentive to outwit the climate crisis, it is Napa Valley. But so far, vineyards here show the limits of adapting to a warming planet.
![](/210718/i23.jpg)
Radio host Larry Elder not on list of CA recall candidates — LOS ANGELES (AP) — California on Saturday released a list of 41 candidates running in the recall election targeting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom that was striking for who wasn't on it: conservative radio talk show host Larry Elder.
Discussion:
The Hill, Politico, abc10.com, RedState, Los Angeles Times, Breitbart, Mercury News and Washington Examiner
![](/210718/i33.jpg)
U.S. Habit of Backing Strongman Allies Fed Turmoil in Haiti — Washington dismissed warnings that democracy was unraveling under President Jovenel Moïse, leaving a gaping leadership void after his assassination. — As protesters hurled rocks outside Haiti's national palace and set fires …