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Dana Priest / Washington Post:
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 …
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The Hill, The Times of Israel and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
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David Pegg / The Guardian:
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
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Bloomberg and Radio Free Europe/Radio …, more at Mediagazer »
Haaretz:
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.
The Guardian:
Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon — Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests — Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by authoritarian governments …
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Washington Post and AppleInsider
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Saudis behind NSO spyware attack on Jamal Khashoggi's family, leak suggests — Forensic analysis shows phones of those close to journalist were targeted before and after he was murdered — In the wake of the brutal murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the NSO Group emphatically denied …
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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
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Washington Post and Politico
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
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 …
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Harris visits Walter Reed for ‘routine’ doctor appointment days after meeting with infected Texas Democrats — Three of the Democratic lawmakers tested positive for COVID-19 — Three Texas Democrats who fled Texas test positive for COVID — Vice President Kamala Harris …
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Breitbart, ABC News, RedState, New York Post and Washington Post
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Matthew Brown / USA Today:
Lindsey Graham says he'd ‘leave town’ to stop Democrats' reconciliation bill, citing Texas
Lindsey Graham says he'd ‘leave town’ to stop Democrats' reconciliation bill, citing Texas
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Insider, New York Post, Raw Story, Mediaite and IJR
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Texas Democrats to spotlight national voting rights with week of events
Texas Democrats to spotlight national voting rights with week of events
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Washington Examiner, Politico, MSNBC and Washington Post
Joe Concha / The Hill:
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.”
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RedState, Twitchy, Victory Girls Blog and Louder With Crowder
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden is right. Purveyors of vaccine disinformation are killing people.
Biden is right. Purveyors of vaccine disinformation are killing people.
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CNBC, NBC News and Mother Jones
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 …
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Associated Press:
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 …
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Insider, Raw Story, Arizona Republic, Washington Examiner, News Corpse and Associated Press
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CNN:
Fact check: Arizona audit chief baselessly raises suspicion about 74,000 ballots — Arizona's Senate held a Thursday briefing on the ongoing Republican-initiated “audit” of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, where Joe Biden outperformed Donald Trump by enough of a margin to win the state.
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
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.
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The Week
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
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
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Associated Press, Wall Street Journal and New York Post
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
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.
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Mother Jones and Twitchy
CBS News:
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 …
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POLITICUSUSA, Insider, Politico and Political Wire
Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
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.
John Cooper / Washington Examiner:
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.
Financial Times:
Delta variant takes hold in developing world as infections soar — Poorer countries with low vaccination rates face surge in Covid cases and deaths — The Delta coronavirus variant that has rapidly become dominant across much of the world is exacting a grim toll on dozens of developing countries …
Peter Vicenzi / Washington Examiner:
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.
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Jorge Felipe Gonzalez / The Atlantic:
Black Lives Matter Misses the Point About Cuba
Black Lives Matter Misses the Point About Cuba
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Alpha News and Washington Post
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
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 …