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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 — 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.
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CNN, Washington Post, The Guardian and Informed Comment
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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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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Wall Street Journal
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 …
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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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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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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CNN:
Taliban seize fifth provincial capital in Afghanistan after string of victories
Taliban seize fifth provincial capital in Afghanistan after string of victories
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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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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.
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 …
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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.
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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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
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 …
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.
Sumantra Maitra / The Federalist:
Why Liberals Hate Hungary's Viktor Orban So Much — Hungarian President Viktor Orban was a once a dissident against communism. Then he turned to faith and flag—and became a heretic against liberalism. — “The right's entrancement with [Hungarian President Viktor] Orban has emerged fitfully over the last decade.
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Morning Shots
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Judge rules Florida can't ban Norwegian Cruise Line ‘vaccine passport’ — A judge ruled on Sunday that Norwegian Cruise Line is permitted to ask customers to show proof of vaccination before boarding a ship, dealing a blow to Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R-Fla.) law that prevented “vaccine passports” from being utilized in the state.
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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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Kansas Reflector
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 …
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Lenta.ru and Marginal REVOLUTION
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Olympics were not the patriot games — Thank goodness Team USA pulled victory from the jaws of defeat on the last day of Olympics competition and just squeaked past China in the gold-medal tally. — That solitary extra gold almost made up for all the full-blown wokery that embarrassed …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
‘Havana Syndrome’ Attacks Still a Mystery — While the leading theory in the “Havana syndrome” cases is directed microwave attacks, a classified session for senior government officials said months of investigation were inconclusive. — President Biden's top aides were told on Friday …
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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
The U.S. government is designed for failure. And, a new study shows, it's getting worse. — When President John F. Kennedy took office in 1961, he needed Senate approval for 779 of his appointments. — That was a highly irrational way to run a government.
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Center for Presidential …
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 …