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Luis Ferré-Sadurní / New York Times:
Cuomo's Top Aide, Melissa DeRosa, Resigns as He Fights to Survive — The governor's confidante helped lead efforts to retaliate against one of the women who accused him of sexual harassment, the attorney general's report found. — ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's top aide …
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Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Kathy Hochul, Cuomo's No. 2, Quietly Prepares to Step Into the Limelight — After working mostly in the background since joining Gov. Andrew Cuomo's team in 2014, Ms. Hochul is poised to replace him if he steps down or is forced out. — When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was holding his marathon sessions …
CBS News:
Executive assistant who accused Cuomo of groping speaks publicly for the first time: “The governor needs to be held accountable” — An executive assistant to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — in her first public comments since accusing Cuomo of sexual harassment — told “CBS This Morning” …
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul Prepares for a Cuomo Resignation
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul Prepares for a Cuomo Resignation
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Nick Lindquist / Washington Examiner:
Andrew Cuomo has always been corrupt
Andrew Cuomo has always been corrupt
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New York Post
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Trump's coup attempt grows even more worrisome as new details emerge — What happened on Jan. 6 was horrifying: an attempted coup, inflamed by social media, incited by the defeated president and televised in real time. What happened before Jan. 6, we are coming to learn, was equally horrifying …
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Biden speeds ahead on installing judges
Biden speeds ahead on installing judges
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Pam Belluck / New York Times:
‘This Is Really Scary’: Kids Struggle With Long Covid — Lingering physical, mental and neurological symptoms are affecting children as well as adults, including many who had mild reactions to the initial coronavirus infection. — Will Grogan stared blankly at his ninth-grade biology classwork.
Jesse O'Neill / New York Post:
DJ posts stealth pics of Obama's ‘epic’ birthday party — before being forced to delete them — A performer at former President Barack Obama's birthday party managed to take stealth pictures of the opulent Martha's Vineyard event and share them with Instagram followers.
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Yahoo Finance:
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. Is Granted Preliminary Injunction Allowing it to Sail from Florida with 100% Vaccination of Guests and Crew — Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. — Company Goes to Great Lengths to Prioritize Health and Safety of its Guests, Crew and the Communities Visited
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
Too many people are dying right now. — A few weeks ago, in a back-of-the-envelope calculation during an interview with Eric Topol of Scripps, I suggested that because of widespread vaccination of the most vulnerable elderly, we may have reduced overall mortality risk in the country by 90 percent.
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Jackie Salo / New York Post:
COVID-19 cases among kids overwhelming Florida hospitals: doc — Pediatric hospitals in Florida have become “completely overwhelmed” with young patients battling COVID-19 amid the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, a doctor says. — The grim development comes as Florida …
New York Times:
As Taliban Capture Cities, U.S. Says Afghan Forces Must Fend for Themselves — The muted American response to the Taliban siege shows in no uncertain terms that the U.S. war in Afghanistan is over. — WASHINGTON — If the Taliban had seized three provincial capitals in northern Afghanistan a year ago …
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The Taliban seize Kunduz, a major city in northern Afghanistan.
The Taliban seize Kunduz, a major city in northern Afghanistan.
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Dave Mistich / NPR:
The Taliban Has Seized 2 More Provincial Capitals In Afghanistan As U.S. Exit Nears
The Taliban Has Seized 2 More Provincial Capitals In Afghanistan As U.S. Exit Nears
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Washington Post:
For first time, average pay for supermarket and restaurant workers tops $15 an hour — $15 an hour is suddenly the rule, not the exception, for U.S. workers. It's a major shift from pre-pandemic norms. — The U.S. labor market hit a new milestone recently: For the first time …
David French / New York Times:
Andrew Sullivan, No One's Ally, Tells It as He Sees It … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. — OUT ON A LIMB — Selected Writing, 1989-2021 — It's truly hard to provide a short description of “Out on a Limb,” Andrew Sullivan's newest book.
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Trump Spox Attacks Fox News for Editing Election Lie Out of Trump Interview With Dan Bongino on YouTube — Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington went on the attack against Fox News after finding that they edited former President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated election claims out of an interview he gave to the network.
DeNeen L. Brown / Washington Post:
‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’ — JACKSON, Miss. — Since 2000, there have been at least eight suspected lynchings of Black men and teenagers in Mississippi, according to court records and police reports. — “The last recorded lynching in the United States was in 1981,” …
Wall Street Journal:
The Case Against Masks for Children — It's abusive to force kids who struggle with them to sacrifice for the sake of unvaccinated adults. — Do masks reduce Covid transmission in children? Believe it or not, we could find only a single retrospective study on the question, and its results were inconclusive.
CNN:
The rule of law is pushing back against Trump's big lie — Opinion by Norman Eisen and Joanna Lydgate — Norman Eisen, a former ambassador to the Czech Republic and former President Barack Obama's “ethics czar,” was special impeachment counsel to House Judiciary Committee in 2019-2020.
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Criminal-Justice Reformers Chose the Wrong Slogan — “Defund the Police” is a disaster. Under-policing is a form of oppression too. … after george floyd's murder, when sweeping criminal-justice reforms seemed more possible than ever, many Black Lives Matter activists and their allies settled …
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Olivia Solon / NBC News:
Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance — Colombia-based call center workers who provide outsourced customer service to some of the nation's largest companies are being pressured to sign a contract that lets their employer install cameras in their homes …
Aleksandar Brezar / Haaretz:
A Bosnian woman walks among gravestones at the Potocari Memorial Center to victims of the Bosnian genocide near SrebrenicaCredit: AP Photo/Amel Emric — The most cynical form of genocide denial has to be the use of Jews as a means to downplay war crimes. — But that's exactly what Serb ethnonationalist politicians are doing.
Harry Enten / CNN:
What some progressive activists fail to realize: Democrats like their party — (CNN)Mainstream Democrats have been winning a lot of big primaries in 2021. Their latest win came on Tuesday in the primary for Ohio's 11th Congressional District special election: local legislator …
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Hannah Beech / New York Times:
The U.S. edges China for the most gold medals. — The United States has won the most medals at the Tokyo Olympics and will be the only country to take home more than 100. But on the last day of competition, the race for the most gold medals was a tight contest between the United States and China.
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