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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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The Democratic Establishment Is Going All Out To Beat Nina Turner
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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.


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.


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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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.


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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Carl Levin, Michigan's longest serving U.S. senator, dies at 87
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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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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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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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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 …


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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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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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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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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