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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Trump Pressed Justice Dept. to Declare Election Results Corrupt, Notes Show — “Leave the rest to me” and to congressional allies, the former president is said to have told top law enforcement officials. — WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump pressed top Justice Department officials late …
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Washington Post:
CDC study shows three-fourths of people infected in Massachusetts covid-19 outbreak were vaccinated — A sobering scientific analysis published Friday of an explosive Massachusetts covid-19 outbreak fueled by the delta variant found that three-quarters of the people who became infected were fully vaccinated.
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Cdcmmwr / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings — Barnstable County, Massachusetts, July 2021 — Catherine M. Brown, DVM1; Johanna Vostok, MPH1; Hillary Johnson, MHS1; Meagan Burns, MPH1; Radhika Gharpure, DVM2 …
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Vaccinated People May Spread the Virus, Though Rarely, C.D.C. Reports — The agency cited an outbreak in Provincetown, Mass., in which most of the infected were immunized. Unpublished internal documents paint an even more harrowing picture of the variant.
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
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The Hill:
Justice Department says Trump's tax returns should be released — The Justice Department on Friday said the Treasury Department must turn over former President Trump's long-sought tax returns to the Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee. — In a memo from the Justice Department's Office …
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CNBC:
Trump tax returns must be released by IRS to Congress, Justice Department says — The income tax returns of former President Donald Trump must be released by the IRS to Congress, the Department of Justice said. — The DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel said Congress had made a legitimate request to see Trump's tax returns.
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Washington Post:
Trump to acting AG, according to aide's notes: ‘Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me’ — President Trump pressed senior Justice Department officials in late 2020 to declare the election corrupt even as those officials pushed back, warning the president that many of the claims …
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Associated Press:
Justice Department says IRS must give Trump tax returns to Congress
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Trump pressured DOJ to call election ‘corrupt,’ ex-official wrote
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump asked top Justice Department officials to declare 2020 election ‘corrupt,’ notes show
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Trump to DOJ last December: ‘Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me’
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Newly revealed notes drag congressional Republicans into Trump's election-subversion effort
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Kim Passoth / FOX5 Las Vegas:
‘I should have gotten the damn vaccine’: Las Vegas father of 5 dies from COVID-19 — LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Two weeks ago, life was great for Jessica DuPreez. She was on vacation in San Diego with her fiancé Michael Freedy, (better known as Big Mike at the M Resort where he worked) …
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NBC News:
What's in it for McConnell? Why the ‘grim reaper’ is backing a Biden priority … WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the self-proclaimed “grim reaper” of progressive priorities, broke character Wednesday to advance a major $550 billion deal on infrastructure.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Would Have Made a Great House Republican
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Politico:
Pelosi and Sanders brace for Democratic upheaval over Biden agenda
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
How Biden Got the Infrastructure Deal Trump Couldn't
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Fact check: Is Kevin McCarthy a ‘moron’? — After Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy this week decried the House's new face mask requirement, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) replied with a considered response: “He's such a moron.” — Mean! But if the dunce cap fits ...
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Jan. 6 Committee Carries History's Weight — Its members need to nail down what happened on the Capitol—including in their colleagues' offices. — 'It happened, move on. " “It wasn't so bad. ” “It was just a protest that got out of hand. ” A lot of the rioters were screwballs in antlers—crazy uncles, unhappy sons.
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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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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John Whitehouse / Media Matters for America:
Mike Lindell says he's pulling MyPillow ads from Fox News. Here's what that means.
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
The Senate Has Confirmed The First Woman Of Arab And Mexican Descent To Direct US Citizenship and Immigration Services — Ur Jaddou will become the first woman and first person of Arab and Mexican descent to be sworn in as director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services after the Senate confirmed her nomination on Friday.
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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Jack Healy / New York Times:
Some vaccine hesitant now express regret — People who once rejected the vaccine or simply waited too long are now grappling with the consequences, often in raw, public ways. — PROVO, Utah — As Mindy Greene spent another day in the Covid intensive care unit, listening to the whirring machines …
BBC:
Covid in Sydney: Military deployed to help enforce lockdown — Australia has deployed hundreds of soldiers to Sydney to help enforce a Covid lockdown. — A Delta outbreak which began in June has produced nearly 3,000 infections and led to nine deaths. — Australian Defence Force soldiers …
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Roger Severino / National Review:
How Biden's COVID-Testing Mandate Violates Civil Rights — Yesterday President Biden announced that all federal workers who do not get vaccinated for COVID-19 will face a series of burdens and intrusions designed to raise the costs of not submitting to the shot(s).
Washington Post:
How Ashli Babbitt went from Capitol rioter to Trump-embraced ‘martyr’ — Her phone rang on that day in early July, nearly six months after a police officer's bullet killed her daughter as she and a mob of rioters seeking to overturn the election stormed a barricaded door deep inside the U.S. Capitol.
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John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Everyone presumes a backlash is coming for the Democrats. The electorate has changed, though — Consider “law and order.” — 2 hr ago — There had been a question of whether the Republicans were going to stick with the losing president. That question seems settled now.
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ProPublica:
What Philadelphia Reveals About America's Homicide Surge — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — Reported with Miles Bryan and Jillian Weinberger as part of a collaboration for Vox's “Today, Explained” podcast.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Vaccine Hesitancy and U.S. Public Opinion — The percentage of Americans who get a COVID-19 vaccine is directly related to important pandemic outcome metrics — cases, hospitalization and deaths. This, in turn, makes vaccine hesitancy (or vaccine refusal as some now call it) …
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Michael Paulson / New York Times:
Broadway Audiences Will Need Proof of Vaccination and Masks — Children under 12, who cannot be vaccinated, can show a negative test to attend. But the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall plan to bar them for now. — Broadway's theater owners and operators, citing the ongoing dangers …
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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 …
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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