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Washington Post:
‘The war has changed’: Internal CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta infections likely more severe — The internal presentation shows that the agency thinks it is struggling to communicate on vaccine efficacy amid increased breakthrough infections — The delta variant …
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Behind the Masks, a Mystery: How Often Do the Vaccinated Spread the Virus? — The C.D.C.'s new masking advice was based in part on data showing that the virus can thrive in the airways of vaccinated people. The findings are expected on Friday. — The recommendation that vaccinated people …
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The Last Refuge and Political Wire
ABC News:
CDC mask decision followed stunning findings from Cape Cod beach outbreak — Viral load of vaccinated beachgoers changed what we know about the delta variant — A week after the crowds descended upon Provincetown, Massachusetts, to celebrate the Fourth of July — the holiday President Joe Biden hoped …
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HotAir, Breitbart, BizPac Review, The Gateway Pundit and New York Times
Washington Post:
CDC reversal on indoor masking prompts experts to ask, 'Where's the data?' — New recommendations from federal health officials this week on when vaccinated Americans should don face masks came with a startling bolt of news: People who have had their shots and become infected with the delta variant …
Julie Zauzmer / Washington Post:
D.C. reinstates indoor mask mandate as virus cases rise
D.C. reinstates indoor mask mandate as virus cases rise
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
What the Biden Administration Fears
What the Biden Administration Fears
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Washington Free Beacon, Washington Examiner, HotAir, Power Line and The Verge
Wall Street Journal:
MyPillow to Pull Ads From Fox News in Disagreement With Network — Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, says Fox News refused to run ad promoting an event linked to claims of widespread election fraud — The chief executive of MyPillow Inc., one of Fox News's big advertisers …
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The MyPillow Guy Really Could Destroy Democracy — When you contemplate the end of democracy in America, what kind of person do you think will bring it about? Maybe you picture a sinister billionaire in a bespoke suit, slipping brown envelopes to politicians.
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The Dispatch, Raw Story, Florida Politics, Trending Politics and The Gateway Pundit
The Daily Beast:
Trump: Jan. 6 Cops Who Spoke to Congress Are ‘Pussies’ — DEFILE THE POLICE … Donald Trump has expressed anger that the officers blamed him for the riot he clearly inspired and speculated they were being used as pawns by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. — In the months since the U.S. Capitol assault …
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Slate, The Editorial Board, Raw Story and TIME
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Wall Street Journal:
Two False Narratives About the Capitol Riot — As the Jan. 6 committee meets, politics drowns out the actual story. — By The Editorial Board — The House inquiry on the events of Jan. 6 held its opening hearing Tuesday, and it showed why no Republican should try to brush aside the ugliness of the Capitol riot.
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New York Times:
Biden to meet with top Democrats on voting rights as senators ready scaled-back proposal. — President Biden and the top Democrats in Congress are expected to meet at the White House on Friday to discuss their party's faltering efforts to pass major voting rights legislation …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Schumer says he has votes for moving $3.5 trillion package
Schumer says he has votes for moving $3.5 trillion package
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and Breitbart
Doug Jones / USA Today:
Pass ‘Manchin Plus’ voting and election protection with or without Republicans
Pass ‘Manchin Plus’ voting and election protection with or without Republicans
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HuffPost, NBC News, Common Dreams and Washington Post
Scott Wong / The Hill:
House GOP stages mask mandate protest — Nearly 40 maskless House Republican lawmakers walked across the Capitol and onto the Senate floor in protest of the Capitol physician's decision to reinstate a mask mandate in the lower chamber but not in the upper chamber.
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Teaganne Finn / NBC News:
House Freedom Caucus wants Cheney, Kinzinger kicked out of Republican conference
House Freedom Caucus wants Cheney, Kinzinger kicked out of Republican conference
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
In an America of ‘suicide shifts’ and toxic work culture, Simone Biles speaks for all of us — There has never been a more fraught time to be mid-air than 2021. I'm thinking, of course, about what aviation officials are calling an “off the charts,” roughly seven-fold increase in so-called …
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Galaxy Brain, New Republic, Salon and NBC New York
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Shelley Murphy Globe / The Boston Globe:
Defrocked cardinal Theodore McCarrick charged with sexually assaulting teenager in 1970s — Defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy during a wedding reception at Wellesley College in the 1970s, making him the highest-ranking …
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Biden's planned vaccine rule meets resistance from large groups of federal workers — Groups representing law enforcement, postal workers and IRS managers issue statements raising concerns about a government mandate — President Biden's expected announcement of a vaccine mandate …
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Catherina Gioino / The US Sun:
LAX ‘Jet Pack guy’ spotted AGAIN flying 15 miles from Los Angeles airport at 5,000 feet as FAA and FBI investigates — A MAN on a possible jet pack was spotted flying 15 miles from Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday - nearly a year since a spate of previous sightings sparked panic.
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Washington Examiner, CBS Los Angeles, CBS News and New York Post
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Haley Yamada / ABC News:
Pilot reports ‘possible jet pack man’ near Los Angeles
Pilot reports ‘possible jet pack man’ near Los Angeles
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NBC Los Angeles
Wall Street Journal:
Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over ‘Black Widow’ Streaming Release — Star alleges simultaneous release of the latest Marvel movie in theaters and on Disney+ service was a breach of contract — Black Widow has a new enemy: the Walt Disney Co. — Scarlett Johansson, star of the latest Marvel movie …
Mike Spies / New Yorker:
How the Head of the N.R.A. and His Wife Secretly Shipped Their Elephant Trophies Home — The couple had their names removed from the shipment, and placed an order for the animals' feet to be turned into “stools,” an “umbrella stand,” and a “trash can.” — In the early fall of 2013 …
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Emily Davies / Washington Post:
At doggie daycare, a pandemic puppy spends his first day without mom and dad — After more than four months of interrupting mom's Zoom calls, pulling dad around the block and napping in earshot of his two-legged parents, Pluto was buckled up in the back seat of a car en route to his first solo adventure.
John Wright / Raw Story:
Trump supporters going door to door in Pennsylvania demanding to know which candidate voters backed — Donald Trump supporters calling themselves an “election integrity committee” are going door to door in Pennsylvania and demanding to know whom residents voted for in the November election.
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Washington Examiner, York Dispatch and The Intellectualist
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Associated Press:
Ravages of COVID surge evident inside Missouri hospital — OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) — Daryl Barker was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination, and so were his relatives. Then 10 of them got sick and Barker, at just 31, ended up in a Missouri intensive care unit fighting for his life.
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Miami Herald:
Florida COVID update for Wednesday: 16,038 new cases, highest reported since January — ORDER REPRINT → — Florida has entered a peak of COVID-19 cases not seen since January's surge as the state reported 16,038 new cases Tuesday to the federal government, the seventh consecutive …
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Miami Standard
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
The Democratic Establishment Is Going All Out To Beat Nina Turner — And the left is desperate to get her over the finish line in Ohio's special primary election. — Moderate Democratic groups, donors and even some Republicans are flooding Ohio's 11th Congressional District with millions …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
‘Comically Minimal Ego-Stroking’: Inside The Bumble Takedown Of A Violent Capitol Rioter — Andrew Taake was arrested for pepper-spraying and attacking police officers with a whip at the U.S. Capitol. Here's how a Bumble dating app user reeled him in. — Six months ago, on a cold Wednesday night …
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Raw Story
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
How Republican Jake Ellzey's bipartisan appeal, positive campaign helped him upset Trump's pick for Congress — Wright's coveted endorsement from Trump — which appeared so powerful in propelling her to the top in the initial election — may have contributed to her undoing in the runoff …
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Raw Story, CNN, DCReport.org, Inside Elections and Roll Call
Gabby Deutch / Jewish Insider:
Deborah Lipstadt to be named State Dept antisemitism envoy — The Holocaust historian will take the role amid a recent rise in antisemitic incidents in the U.S. — DAVE BENETT/GETTY IMAGES — After months of deliberation and calls from congressional and Jewish community leaders …
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The Hill
Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
Meet the Corporations That Went Back on Their Word Not to Support the Sedition Caucus — They promised not to support Republicans who voted not to certify the election results. And then they changed their minds and hoped Americans wouldn't notice. — Following the January 6 insurrection …
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Michael Anton / The American Mind:
David French and the Conservative Case for Hereditary Bloodguilt — A prominent “Never Trumper” argues that the sins of the fathers must be visited upon the sons. — In early 2019, I published a short book that, gingerly, argued that the inevitable end-point of leftist arguments …
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Chief DC federal judge questions misdemeanor deals for US Capitol rioters — New video of riot shown at House hearing — (CNN)The chief judge in DC's federal court questioned the Justice Department's decision to offer misdemeanor plea deals to nonviolent US Capitol rioters …
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FiveThirtyEight:
Gavin Newsom Has Reason To Worry — It's official: For only the fourth time in U.S. history, a state will hold an election on whether to recall its governor midterm. The long-expected gubernatorial recall election in California is set for Sept. 14, and 46 candidates (not including the governor himself …
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Sacramento Bee, Washington Post and RedState
Project On Government Oversight:
The January 6 Select Committee Must Remove David Buckley as Staff Director — Media Contacts: Danielle Brian, Executive Director at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), [email protected]; or Caitlin MacNeal, Director of Communications at POGO, [email protected]
The Hill:
Harris's bad polls trigger Democratic worries — Vice President Harris has some ground to make up in order to be perceived more favorably by the public, a complicating factor for the Biden administration as it maps out its midterm strategy. — Six months into office …
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