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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.
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New York Post, BizPac Review, Mediaite and Twitchy
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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Seth A. Richardson / Plain Dealer:
Outside actors descend on Northeast Ohio in final weekend before Aug. 3 Democratic primary for 11th Congressional District special election — CLEVELAND, Ohio - It's contentious. It's close. It's divisive. And it's almost over. — The Democratic primary for the 11th Congressional …
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Timothy Noah / Washington Monthly:
Bidenizing the Democrats — The president scores a victory against his party's Sanders wing.
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Slow Boring, Politico and New York Times
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 …
Politico:
Jihadists flood pro-Trump social network with propaganda — Just weeks after its launch, the pro-Trump social network GETTR is inundated with terrorist propaganda spread by supporters of Islamic State, according to a POLITICO review of online activity on the fledgling platform.
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Raw Story
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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HuffPost, Political Flare, Insider, Raw Story and Political Wire
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 …
New York Times:
Biden's Climate Plans Are Stunted After Dejected Experts Fled Trump — Hundreds of scientists and policy experts left the government during the Trump administration. The jobs remain unfilled nearly six months into President Biden's term. — WASHINGTON — Juliette Hart quit her job …
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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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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NBC News, Balloon Juice, HuffPost, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Washington Examiner and New York Post
Annie Grayer / CNN:
Tensions in the House of Representatives boil over after 1/6 hearing and mask rule
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
McCarthy jokes it will be hard not to ‘hit’ Pelosi with gavel if he becomes Speaker
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Salon, POLITICUSUSA, Fox News, Washington Post, Main Street Nashville, Slate, Talking Points Memo and Crooks and Liars
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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HuffPost, Tallahassee Democrat, The Hill and New York Post
Politico:
Tensions rise within Biden team over mask reversal — CHICAGO - A sea of maskless, sweaty, thrashing bodies filled Chicago's Grant Park, pushing up against the performance stage as acts like Miley Cyrus screamed into the microphone. — Roughly 100,000 people a night poured into the four …
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Nancy A. Youssef / Wall Street Journal:
Fauci Warns on Covid-19 That ‘Things Are Going to Get Worse’
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Reuters, Political Wire, Al Jazeera and Mediaite
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Citing Taliban violence, US expands Afghan refugee program — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday expanded its efforts to evacuate at-risk Afghan citizens from Afghanistan as Taliban violence increases ahead there of the U.S. military pullout at the end of the month.
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Politico, Washington Examiner, CNN and New York Times
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 …
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.
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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