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New York Times:
A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us. — Some devastating impacts of global warming are now unavoidable, a major new scientific report finds. But there is still a short window to stop things from getting even worse. — Nations have delayed curbing …
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IPCC, Crooks and Liars, Joe.My.God. and The Guardian
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Andrew Freedman / Axios:
UN report: Effects of climate change even more severe than we thought — Global warming is happening so fast that scientists now say we'll cross a crucial temperature threshold as early as 2030 — up to a decade sooner than previously thought — according to a sweeping new UN-sponsored review of climate science published Monday.
Discussion:
The Guardian and Informed Comment
CNN:
Earth is warming faster than previously thought, scientists say, and the window is closing to avoid catastrophic outcomes — (CNN)As the world battles historic droughts, landscape-altering wildfires and deadly floods, a landmark report from global scientists says the window is rapidly closing …
Washington Post:
Humans have pushed the climate into ‘unprecedented’ territory, landmark U.N. report finds … More than three decades ago, a collection of scientists sanctioned by the United Nations first warned that humans were fueling a dangerous greenhouse effect and that if the world didn't act collectively …
Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
‘Unequivocal’ that human influence has warmed the planet, UN climate panel finds — A new UN report issued a dire warning about worsening impacts of climate change. — A United Nations climate panel has confirmed — in its strongest language ever — that the impacts of human-caused climate change …
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Politico, UPI, Gizmodo, The Verge and NBC4 Washington
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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CBS News:
Cuomo accuser Brittany Commisso breaks her silence to detail groping allegations and says the governor is lying
Cuomo accuser Brittany Commisso breaks her silence to detail groping allegations and says the governor is lying
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The Daily Beast, New York Times, KRON4, WTOP and NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Kathy Hochul, Cuomo's No. 2, Quietly Prepares to Step Into the Limelight
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Who is Cuomo accuser Brittany Commisso?
Who is Cuomo accuser Brittany Commisso?
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Politico, New York Post and Breitbart
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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New York Post and HotAir
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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Persuasion, Boston Herald, Just Above Sunset, Responsible Statecraft, Washington Post and Kevin Drum
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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
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Gizmodo, New York Times, NPR and UPI
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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CNN, Talking Points Memo, Insider, Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice, Fox News, emptywheel, The Hill, USA Today, Raw Story, HotAir and Mediaite
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.
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 …
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 …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What Biden, Schumer, McConnell, Sinema and Portman learned from BIF — DRIVING THE DAY — BREAKING: Treasury Secretary JANET YELLEN weighs in on Congress' handling of the debt ceiling. — “In recent years Congress has addressed the debt limit through regular order …
Kat Rosenfield / UnHerd:
How cancel culture hurts the Left — There's a running joke on the Left about people who claim to have been silenced for their conservative views — while standing atop the platform of a podcast, TV show, or newspaper column that has an audience of millions.
Jennifer Senior / The Atlantic:
What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind — When Bobby McIlvaine died on September 11, 2001, his desk at home was a study in plate tectonics, coated in shifting piles of leather-bound diaries and yellow legal pads. He'd kept the diaries since he was a teenager, and they were filled with the usual diary things …
Richard Milne / Financial Times:
Latvia warns of risk of ‘incident’ between Nato and Russia — Belarus ‘border crisis’ and military exercise could cause ‘misunderstanding’, says foreign minister — The “weaponisation” of migration by Belarus on its border with Lithuania and an imminent military exercise involving Russian …
Discussion:
Lenta.ru and Marginal REVOLUTION
Mike Rowe:
Off the Wall — Here's a delightful headline, followed by a charming article, written by a guy named Jonathan V. Last. I don't think he likes me. Strap in. It's a doozy. — MIKE ROWE'S DIRTY LIES — The voice of the working class goes anti-anti-anti-vaxx.
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.
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BizPac Review
Yen Nee Lee / CNBC:
The world is nowhere near the end of the pandemic, says famed epidemiologist Larry Brilliant — The pandemic is not coming to an end soon — given that only a small proportion of the world's population has been vaccinated, said Larry Brilliant, a well-known epidemiologist.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Sails Away as Rudy Giuliani Drowns in Legal Bills — As Rudy Giuliani struggles with mounting legal bills, the former president's longtime friend can't even get a Retweet. — As Rudy Giuliani's legal bills have piled up in recent months—and as federal investigators intensify …
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Raw Story
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 …
Washington Post:
‘Goldilocks virus’: Delta vanquishes all variant rivals as scientists race to understand its tricks — The variant battle in the United States is over. Delta won. — Since late last year, the country has been overrun by a succession of coronavirus variants, each with its own suite …
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NBC News
Erich J. Prince / The Hill:
Has the pandemic put property rights in the crosshairs? — On Aug. 3, amid pressure from members of the Democratic Party's progressive wing, President Joe Biden announced a new moratorium on evictions after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s previous ban expired on July 31.