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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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Cuomo accuser Brittany Commisso breaks her silence to detail groping allegations and says the governor is lying — In a damning report released last week by New York State Attorney General Letitia James, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is accused of sexually harassing 11 women.
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New York Times:
Roberta Kaplan, Who Aided Cuomo, Resigns from Time's Up — Ms. Kaplan, a prominent progressive lawyer, was involved in an effort to discredit a woman who had accused Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment, a report said. — Roberta A. Kaplan, the chairwoman of Time's Up and co-founder …
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Josefa Velasquez / THE CITY:
Cuomo Trying to Cut a Deal to Avoid Impeachment, Source Says
Cuomo Trying to Cut a Deal to Avoid Impeachment, Source Says
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Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Kathy Hochul, Cuomo's No. 2, Quietly Prepares to Step Into the Limelight
Kathy Hochul, Cuomo's No. 2, Quietly Prepares to Step Into the Limelight
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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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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.
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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.
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.
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The Case Against Masks for Children
The Case Against Masks for Children
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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 …
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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 …
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Andrew Freedman / Axios:
UN report: Effects of climate change even more severe than we thought
UN report: Effects of climate change even more severe than we thought
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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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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
New revelations expose future threat Trump poses
New revelations expose future threat Trump poses
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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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FiveThirtyEight:
What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State — An updating tracker of proposed congressional maps — and whether they might benefit Democrats or Republicans in the 2022 midterms and beyond. — National Overview — STATES WITH PROPOSED MAPS — National Overview — STATES TO WATCH
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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 …
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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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.
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 …
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 …
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Confessions …:
I Stand By My Tweet — Caitlyn Jenner is a man. Caitlyn Jenner did not run as an Olympian, Bruce Jenner did. He ran, set records, won awards, and only late in life decided he was a she. But he is not, even as he has altered his appearance, changed his name, and the world has retconned Caitlyn …