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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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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.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Albany's newspaper has covered Gov. Cuomo's sexual misconduct admirably. Chris Cuomo and CNN have blown it. — Last semester, I taught a Duke University course somewhat dramatically titled “The News as a Moral Battleground.” Every Monday, we used the headlines of the day to talk …
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Alison Turkos / Medium:
Enough is Enough: An Open Letter from Survivors to TIME'S UP — To the TIME'S UP Foundation Governing Board: — We write to you as a collective group of survivors and victims who believe TIME'S UP is failing the survivor community. We believed in your mission and hoped that your investment …
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Lindsey Boylan / Medium:
It's not “our truth.” It's the truth. — Finally, the world now believes what I have known …
It's not “our truth.” It's the truth. — Finally, the world now believes what I have known …
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Luis Ferré-Sadurní / New York Times:
Cuomo's Top Aide, Melissa DeRosa, Resigns as He Fights to Survive
Cuomo's Top Aide, Melissa DeRosa, Resigns as He Fights to Survive
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Human Rights Campaign Hires Firm To Probe Its President's Work For Andrew Cuomo
Human Rights Campaign Hires Firm To Probe Its President's Work For Andrew Cuomo
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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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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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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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Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
Playing Nice With the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Climate Denial — The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released the first, nearly 4,000-page installment of its Sixth Assessment Report. The report, from a working group of over 200 scientists, distills the current consensus …
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Pentagon to require COVID vaccine for all troops by Sept. 15 — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will require members of the U.S. military to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. That deadline could be pushed up if the vaccine receives final FDA approval …
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Texas judge blocks arrest of Democratic legislators who fled the state to stop voting restrictions — Prolonging a showdown over proposed new voting restrictions, a Texas judge temporarily blocked the arrest of Democratic legislators who fled the state to stop the legislation …
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Kerry Picket / Washington Examiner:
House GOP eyes removing Democratic media stars if in the majority — Reps. Ilhan Omar and Eric Swalwell top the list of Democratic members Republicans want to see removed from their committees if the GOP takes back the House in November 2022. — Frustrated by House Democrats' removal …
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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Politico:
Dems reveal $3.5T budget that sidesteps debt ceiling — Senate Democrats released a $3.5 trillion budget on Monday morning that doesn't tackle the imminent need to raise the debt ceiling, setting the stage for a dramatic standoff with Republicans this fall.
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María Paúl / Washington Post:
Florida church reeling after six members die within 10 days amid spike in cases — For George L. Davis, a bishop at Impact Church in Jacksonville, getting vaccinated against the coronavirus was an act of faith. He says that he believes in divine creation, and that the shot is a miracle …
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Amanda Jackson / CNN:
6 members of a Florida church died of Covid-19 in 2 weeks, pastor says. On Sunday the church held a vaccination clinic
6 members of a Florida church died of Covid-19 in 2 weeks, pastor says. On Sunday the church held a vaccination clinic
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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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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 …
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Rachel Uchitel on the N.D.A. She Signed With Tiger Woods — For more than a decade, a sweeping nondisclosure agreement with Tiger Woods, brokered by Gloria Allred, has ruled her life. Now she's ready to rip it up. — Rachel Uchitel was sitting at a table in her Upper East Side apartment not long ago …
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 …
David Gilbert / VICE:
Anti-Vaxxers Got Fooled by Fake ‘Snitch on Your Unvaccinated Friends’ Site — A website purportedly offering money to people willing to snitch on their unvaccinated family, friends, and neighbors for breaching vaccine mandates has gone viral in anti-vaxxer circles.
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Lizzie Widdicombe / Vogue:
Press Secretary Jen Psaki is Good At Mending Fences. Just Don't Call Her Nice. — It's a summer Friday. President Biden is at his Delaware beach house, where he delivered a brief speech about that morning's encouraging jobs numbers. Washington, D.C., is quiet—some might say eerily so.
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Axios:
Scoop: Biden taps Russia hawk for key energy post — President Biden has appointed close former adviser Amos Hochstein as a State Department energy envoy charged with implementing a U.S.-Germany deal allowing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to be completed, sources familiar with the decision tell Axios.
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Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
Who's in the majority now? … In the summer of 2020, Georgette Gómez, the former president of the San Diego City Council who was then running for Congress in Southern California, found herself in an untenable position. Months into a competitive runoff battle against a well-funded opponent …
Roselyn Romero / Associated Press:
Fake COVID-19 vaccination cards worry college officials — SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — As the delta variant of the coronavirus sweeps across the United States, a growing number of colleges and universities are requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for students to attend in-person classes.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP megadonors flock to Tim Scott, building 2024 buzz — Republican Sen. Tim Scott boarded a plane to Hawaii earlier this year to meet with one of the richest people in the world: Tech titan Larry Ellison. — Ellison's remote Lanai Island home was well out of the South Carolina senator's way.
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