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Sarah Mucha / Axios:
Obama plans Martha's Vineyard birthday bash as Delta variant rages on — The party will be held outdoors, all guests are asked to be vaccinated and there will be a COVID-coordinator.
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Senate finishing crafting $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure proposal, setting delicate debate in motion — Senate Democrats and Republicans on Sunday finalized a roughly $1 trillion proposal to improve the country's roads, bridges, pipes, ports and Internet connections …
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Matthew Brown / USA Today:
Susan Collins says Trump shouldn't testify to Jan. 6 panel, criticizes it as ‘partisan’ — WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., over the House's select committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack, while lamenting the collapse …
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CNN:
McCarthy jokes ‘it will be hard not to hit’ Pelosi with gavel if he becomes House speaker
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
McCarthy jokes it will be hard not to ‘hit’ Pelosi with gavel if he becomes Speaker
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Annie Grayer / CNN:
Tensions in the House of Representatives boil over after 1/6 hearing and mask rule
ABC News:
Kinzinger supports issuing subpoenas for members of Congress, including McCarthy
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Craig Howie / Politico:
Kinzinger: ‘Significant amount’ of subpoenas likely in Jan. 6 probe
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New York Times:
How Local Media Spreads Misinformation From Vaccine Skeptics — Facebook and other social media have been under scrutiny for vaccine misinformation, but local outlets have also sometimes been active. — The Freedom's Phoenix, a local news site in Phoenix, and The Atlanta Business Journal …
Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
GOP lawmaker who once spurned masks urges people to take covid-19 seriously after eight-month illness — A Tennessee legislator who went from unmasked gatherings with fellow legislators to being placed on ventilator days later has emerged with a message for constituents after a harrowing eight-month experience with long-haul covid-19:
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Alexander Vindman / The Atlantic:
What I Heard in the White House Basement — One phone call changed my life. — On Thursday, July 25, 2019, I was seated at the table in one of the two Situation Rooms in the basement of the West Wing. The bigger room is famous from movies and TV shows, but this room is smaller …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Don't Let Anyone Normalize January 6 — While he was president of the United States, Donald Trump tried to overthrow the election of 2020, first by fraud, then by violence. His efforts were defeated in great part because of the integrity and courage of state-level Republican officials.
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Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Florida breaks record for COVID-19 hospitalizations — ORLANDO, Fla. - A day after it recorded the most new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, Florida on Sunday broke a previous record for current hospitalizations set more than a year ago before vaccines were available.
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Tallahassee Democrat, HuffPost, The Hill and New York Post
Leslie Eastman / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Federal Government Issued $783.5M in Stimulus Checks for Prisoners — Convicted sexual abuser Larry Nassar's two stimulus checks totaled $2,000. — Parler — Gab — MeWe — Buffer — Pocket — Blogger — Yahoo Mail — Viber — Skype — Copy Link
The Daily Beast:
Behind the Bombshell Allegation Buried in the WaPo Lawsuit — DISCLOSURE FOR THEE... A star reporter's lawsuit against her employer has dredged up a years-old allegation against another WaPo reporter—and newsroom concerns about managerial hypocrisy.
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Future president? Kamala Harris now ‘underwater’ as sinking popularity alarms Democrats — Vice president to be sent abroad to raise her profile — Kamala Harris has become the most unpopular US vice president six months into an administration since at least the 1970s, according to polls.
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Julia Ingram / Washington Post:
A tsunami of deferred debt is about to hit homeowners no longer protected by a foreclosure moratorium — Over 2 million homeowners are delinquent on their mortgage, and billions in federal aid has yet to be distributed — Only one week after New Orleans enacted a citywide stay-at-home order in March 2020 …
Brooke Harrington / The Atlantic:
The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable — Something very strange has been happening in Missouri: A hospital in the state, Ozarks Healthcare, had to create a “private setting” for patients afraid of being seen getting vaccinated against COVID-19. In a video produced by the hospital …
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Ashley Rindsberg / UnHerd:
Did the New York Times stifle lab leak debate? — The world's verdict on the lab leak seems to be shifting. The Biden Administration now thinks there is a credible possibility that Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. WHO chief Tedros Adhanome Ghebreyesus has admitted …
BBC:
Sky News Australia barred for week by YouTube over Covid misinformation — YouTube has barred Sky News Australia from uploading new content for a week, saying it had breached rules on spreading Covid-19 misinformation. — It issued a “strike” under its three-strike policy, the last of which means permanent removal.
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Emanuel Fabian / The Times of Israel:
US, UK blame Iran for deadly strike on ship with Israel ties, weigh response — Blinken: ‘We are confident that Iran conducted this attack’; Britain's FM Dominic Raab condemns ‘unlawful and callous attack’ that killed a Briton and a Romanian — This Jan. 2, 2016 file photo shows …
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Nancy A. Youssef / Wall Street Journal:
Fauci Warns on Covid-19 That ‘Things Are Going to Get Worse’ — Infectious-disease expert cites more contagious variant and surge of new cases — The Biden administration's chief medical adviser said he didn't believe the U.S. would return to lockdowns but warned that “things are going to get worse” …
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Jackie Salo / New York Post:
Dr. Fauci warns latest COVID-19 wave is ‘going to get worse’
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