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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:
C.D.C. Internal Report Calls Delta Variant as Contagious as Chickenpox — Infections in vaccinated Americans also may be as transmissible as those in unvaccinated people, the document said, and lead more often to severe illness. — The Delta variant is much more contagious …
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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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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.
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The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, NPR and Healthy Skeptic
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 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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Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
America gone nuts, &c. — On air rage, extremism, Simone Biles, January 6, Iran, Fidel Castro, 800 numbers, and more — I have a friend who is a flight attendant. I love to hear stories about her travels, and travelers. Also, I send her stories I see in the media.
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Jan. 6 Committee Carries History's Weight
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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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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CNN:
‘I am furious with myself’: Unvaccinated Covid patient describes the exhausting illness — (CNN)Sitting in her hospital room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Aimee Matzen struggled to breathe as she described how exhausting it is to have Covid-19. — “The fact that I am here now …
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
House primary in Ohio takes nasty turn as national Democrats descend — CLEVELAND — The two leading Democratic candidates in Ohio's 11th Congressional District have turned the final days of a special election primary that has captured the national spotlight into a slugfest.
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
The Democratic Establishment Is Going All Out To Beat Nina Turner
The Democratic Establishment Is Going All Out To Beat Nina Turner
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New York Times:
How Europe, After a Fumbling Start, Overtook the U.S. in Vaccination — Just a few months ago, European Union efforts were a mess, but its problems were temporary. The United States turned out to have the more lasting challenge. — Early on, while the United States and a handful of others surged ahead …
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Tom Joyce / Washington Examiner:
Biden is paying the price for his Harris mistake — President Joe Biden made a promise — and the result of that promise isn't looking great right now. — Biden vowed that he would pick a female vice president, pigeonholing himself into having limited options for his running mate.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Sinema's vacation plans, Manchin gets booed and megadonor drama — DRIVING THE DAY — On Thursday night, as President JOE BIDEN boarded Marine One, he made some news. — First, he reiterated that immigration reform should be included in the reconciliation bill.
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The Hill:
Constitutional rights are the exception — From South Carolina's Lowcountry to the suburbs of New York City, we represent much of the diversity that is America. In many ways, we reflect the multiracial, multi-generational coalition that came together last year to deliver Democratic control …
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KTLA:
LAUSD to require COVID-19 testing for all students and staff, regardless of vaccination status — The Los Angeles Unified School District will require all students and employees who are returning for in-person instruction to participate in weekly COVID-19 testing — regardless of vaccination status, the district announced Thursday.
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CNN:
Trump faces another primary test in Ohio House race — (CNN)Donald Trump has a lot on the line in suburbs and small towns south of Columbus, Ohio. — After the Trump-backed candidate in Texas' 6th Congressional district runoff election lost this week, the pressure is now on the former President …
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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.
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Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
South Carolina lawmaker to challenge US Rep. Tom Rice — A South Carolina state lawmaker is mounting a primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Tom Rice, saying the five-term Republican broke his constituents' trust by voting to impeach former President Donald Trump earlier this year.
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Yes, Covid-19 vaccine mandates are legal — What the law says about vaccine mandates, explained. — In 1902, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, faced a smallpox outbreak. In response, the local health board ordered the city's residents over the age of 21 to be vaccinated against this disease.
Marianna Bacallao / Nashville Public Radio:
Conservative Radio Host Phil Valentine Is On A Ventilator; His Brother Says It's Time To ‘Go Get Vaccinated’ — Conservative radio talk show host Phil Valentine has been placed on a ventilator, according to his radio station, SuperTalk 99.7 WTN. He's been hospitalized now for more than two weeks.
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Charlie Cook / The Cook Political Report:
NON-PARTISAN, INDEPENDENT COOK POLITICAL REPORT UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP: SEASONED ANALYST & COLUMNIST AMY WALTER TO BECOME PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF — For almost 40 years, The Cook Political Report, founded by Charlie Cook, has provided authoritative analysis of campaigns, elections and political trends in the United States.
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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Issues & Insights:
Biden's ‘Accomplishments’ So Far: A Troubling Tale In 8 Charts — Months after President Joe Biden supposedly “rescued” the country from the COVID-19 pandemic and promised that he'd bring the country together, how is the nation doing? Well, there are several indicators on the rise.
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Raw Story, Washington Examiner and Instapundit
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump's false election fraud claims fuel Michigan GOP meltdown — Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by more than 150,000 votes in Michigan last November. — Trump and the Michigan Republican Party still aren't over it. — The outcome — and the former president's obsessive efforts to dispute it …
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Election Law Blog, New York Magazine, Washington Times and Raw Story
Donna Brazile / USA Today:
Joe Biden and I are Democrats who want Republicans to stay alive and vote — COVID vaccines were Donald Trump's greatest victory. Yet Republicans are resisting and sometimes dying instead of celebrating him and getting the shot. — I've dedicated my life to working on political campaigns to elect Democrats.
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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 …
New York Times:
Qaddafi's Son Is Alive. And He Wants to Take Libya Back. — In his first meeting with a foreign journalist in a decade, Seif al-Islam described his years in captivity — and hinted at a bid for Libya's presidency. — اقرأ باللغ ة …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Would Have Made a Great House Republican — Will the performative confrontation of the former President and his congressional allies overwhelm Joe Biden's Senate style? — For the past few years, it's become a political truism to speak of two Americas—the Red America of Donald Trump …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
COVID-19 Has Given Us Progressivism Unleashed — Thankfully, if history is any guide, the backlash will last a lot longer than the pandemic. — arlier this week, the investor Paul Graham took to Twitter to criticize the many millions of Americans who have grown skeptical of the scientific establishment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Washington Post:
Kensington woman arrested on a charge of killing her 92-year-old roommate — A 26-year-old woman killed her 92-year-old roommate in their Kensington home Wednesday morning, according to the Montgomery County Police Department. — Julia Birch called 911 to report that she had killed Nancy …
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