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10:45 AM ET, August 9, 2021

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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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CBS News:
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.
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 …
Josefa Velasquez / THE CITY:
Cuomo Trying to Cut a Deal to Avoid Impeachment, Source Says
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Politico
Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Kathy Hochul, Cuomo's No. 2, Quietly Prepares to Step Into the Limelight
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Who is Cuomo accuser Brittany Commisso?
Discussion: Fox News, CBS News and Breitbart
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 …
Discussion: NBC News
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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.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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.
Razzan Nakhlawi / Washington Post:   In western New York, the far right tries to make inroads with vaccine skeptics
Wall Street Journal:
The Case Against Masks for Children
Discussion: Cafe Hayek, New York Post and HotAir
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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.
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 …
Discussion: CNN
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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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
Discussion: Kansas Reflector
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Democrats release $3.5 trillion budget blueprint as Senate prepares to finish infrastructure debate  —  Senate Democrats released a sweeping $3.5 trillion budget blueprint on Monday that proposes to expand Medicare, boost federal child care and education programs, and invest new sums to combat climate change …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Bloomberg, Fox News, UPI and The Hill
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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: Morning Shots
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 …
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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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Olympics were not the patriot games
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Judge rules Florida can't ban Norwegian Cruise Line ‘vaccine passport’
Kat Rosenfield / UnHerd:
How cancel culture hurts the Left
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
‘Havana Syndrome’ Attacks Still a Mystery
Discussion: CNN
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP megadonors flock to Tim Scott, building 2024 buzz
Discussion: Raw Story
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
The U.S. government is designed for failure. And, a new study shows, it's getting worse.
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
J.D. Vance Converted to Trumpism. Will Ohio Republicans Buy It?
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
GOP Cash Machine's Behavior Is ‘Nothing Short of Scandalous’
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Richard Milne / Financial Times:
Latvia warns of risk of ‘incident’ between Nato and Russia
Discussion: Lenta.ru and Marginal REVOLUTION
Erich J. Prince / The Hill:
Has the pandemic put property rights in the crosshairs?
Olivia Solon / NBC News:
Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance
Aleksandar Brezar / Haaretz:
Abusing the Holocaust to Deny Genocide: The Serb ‘Truth Commissions’ and Their Israeli Helpers
Hannah Beech / New York Times:
The U.S. edges China for the most gold medals.
Washington Post:
For first time, average pay for supermarket and restaurant workers tops $15 an hour
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Criminal-Justice Reformers Chose the Wrong Slogan
Discussion: The National Interest