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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 US Sun and The Last Refuge
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 and The Gateway Pundit
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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New York Times, CNBC, National Review and KXAN-TV
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
What the Biden Administration Fears
What the Biden Administration Fears
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Washington Free Beacon, Power Line, HotAir, Washington Examiner 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, Florida Politics, Trending Politics, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Biden, Schumer, And Pelosi Are Meeting On A Battering Ram To Bust Voting Rights Filibuster — Democrats Have A New Voting Rights Bill In The Works — The New York Times reported: … The New Bill Undercuts GOP Voter Suppression Laws — The new bill guarantees 15 days of early in-person voting …
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New York Times:
Biden to meet with top Democrats on voting rights as senators ready scaled-back proposal.
Biden to meet with top Democrats on voting rights as senators ready scaled-back proposal.
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Michigan Advance, CNN, Associated Press and Washington Times
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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The Hill, Washington Examiner 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, Washington Post and NBC News
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Carl Levin, the Senate Scourge of Corporate America, Dies at 87 — The longest-serving U.S. senator in Michigan history, Mr. Levin was regarded by colleagues and Washington observers as a paragon of probity. — Carl Levin, a liberal Michigan Democrat who served 36 years in the Senate …
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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Carl Levin, Michigan's longest serving U.S. senator, dies at 87
Carl Levin, Michigan's longest serving U.S. senator, dies at 87
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Washington Post, CNN, The Hill, Associated Press, Fox News and Roll Call
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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Raw Story, Slate, The Editorial Board, TIME and The Guardian
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Republicans moving to block University of Wisconsin virus testing, vaccination rules — MADISON - A Republican-controlled committee plans to block the University of Wisconsin from instituting COVID-19 testing, masking and vaccination protocols on campuses across the state …
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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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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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
GOP lawmaker challenges McCarthy over ‘bulls—’ mask mandate enforcement
GOP lawmaker challenges McCarthy over ‘bulls—’ mask mandate enforcement
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Fox News, HotAir, Raw Story, Washington Examiner and The Hill
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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Washington Post, New York Post, Law & Crime, National Review, USA Today, The Daily Caller, NBC4 Washington, Insider, UPI and The Hill
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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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 …
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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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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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Raw Story
Phelim Kine / Politico:
Lawmakers: NBA players profiting from ‘slave labor’ in China — More than a dozen National Basketball Association stars may soon be facing off against a formidable new opponent: Congress. Some Republicans are demanding that NBA players sever endorsement contracts with Chinese sportswear firms Anta …
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New York Times, Breitbart and The Daily Caller
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Suzy Weiss / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Bearing Witness to China's ‘Orwellian Dystopia’
Bearing Witness to China's ‘Orwellian Dystopia’
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Why Evolution Is True and The Atlantic
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.
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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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, DCReport.org, CNN, Inside Elections, RedState and HotAir
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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Glenn H. Reynolds / New York Post:
No, Karen, we're not masking again: A winning GOP message for 2022 & beyond — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest confused pronouncement about masks is another blow to the embattled agency, whose track record hasn't been exactly brilliant.
Washington Post:
CDC breakthrough infections — An internal CDC document urges officials to “acknowledge the war has changed” and improve the public's understanding of breakthrough infections.
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 …
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Arkansas Guv Declares COVID-19 Emergency—but No Restrictions — JUST LIVE WITH IT? — New cases of COVID-19 are spiking in Arkansas, thanks to a combination of the Delta variant and the state's paltry vaccination rate. In response to the rising numbers, Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Thursday …
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
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, RedState, Los Angeles Times and Trending Politics
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 …