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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Walker's wife voted in Georgia as couple lives in Texas, records show — Potential U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker and his wife live in Texas, but she voted in Georgia's election for president last fall. — The absentee ballot cast by Julie Blanchard raises questions about whether …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Three GOP senators who backed bipartisan framework oppose resulting infrastructure bill — Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) have announced they would not support the final infrastructure bill. — Sen. Mike Rounds was one of three GOP senators …
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Senate passes massive infrastructure package that is centerpiece of Biden agenda … WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping $550 billion infrastructure bill that would make a huge investment in the nation's roads, public transit, water and broadband.
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Senate Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Handing Biden a Bipartisan Win
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Senate passes $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Trump rips McConnell as ‘overrated’ ahead of infrastructure bill's passage
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Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Dominion Sues Newsmax, One America News Network, Others Over Election Claims — Voting-machine company seeks billions of dollars in damages, citing lost profit and other costs — WASHINGTON—One of the largest voting-machine companies in the U.S. on Tuesday sued two conservative media networks …
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Gov. Greg Abbott asks Texas hospitals to delay nonessential procedures as COVID-19 patients strain capacity — Abbott's request was one of several steps to address rising coronavirus case numbers and hospitalizations. He did not back down from his refusal to allow local mask mandates. — Copy link
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz calls for ‘zero’ coronavirus mandates, while Rand Paul urges defiance amid delta variant surge
Madeline Holcombe / CNN:
US vaccination rate is at its highest in weeks. But mandates may be needed for kids going back to school, expert says
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Andrew Cuomo's War Against a Federal Prosecutor — A call to the Obama White House that some legal experts say is impeachable fits a pattern of the Governor smearing those who scrutinize him. — In April, 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo placed a call to the White House and reached Valerie Jarrett …
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CNN:
Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for one week — (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) has suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for one week following another violation of the platform's rules, the company said Tuesday. — Greene tweeted on Monday that the Food and Drug Administration …
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Davey Alba / New York Times:
Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for 7 days over vaccine misinformation.
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Lawyer for House conservatives suing Pelosi has his own rap sheet
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Deceptions and lies: What really happened in Afghanistan — Part one of an excerpt from “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War.” Whitlock will discuss the book during a Washington Post Live event on Aug. 31. — The suicide bomber arrived at Bagram air base in a Toyota Corolla late in the morning on Feb. 27, 2007.
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Associated Press:
US vows to isolate Taliban if they take power by force — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A U.S. peace envoy brought a warning to the Taliban on Tuesday that any government that comes to power through force in Afghanistan won't be recognized internationally after a series of cities fell to the insurgent group in stunningly quick succession.
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Monica Buchanan Pitrelli / CNBC:
Vaccines are being required for travel — here's how unvaccinated people feel about that — Unvaccinated people are eager to travel again. But more and more, the rules make that harder. — Travelers are increasingly required to show proof of vaccination before they can cruise …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Next Face of the Democratic Party — Sometime in the not-so-distant future, probably after next year's midterm elections, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce that she's stepping down. Her top deputies, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, aspire to her job …
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Rachel Pannett / Washington Post:
Anti-vaccine protesters tried to storm the BBC's offices. But they had the wrong address. — A group of coronavirus vaccine protesters attempted to storm the offices of British public broadcaster BBC on Monday. But they had one big problem: the wrong address.
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Erin Banco / Politico:
'We're in trouble': Rural America can't escape Delta — EVANSTON, Wyo. — Steven was finally getting his Covid-19 shot because Mama told him to. And nobody crosses Mama. — Standing between the fried bread and slushie stands at the Uinta County fairgrounds in southwestern Wyoming …
David Smith / The Guardian:
Trump was ‘in pain and afraid’ during post-Covid display of bravado, niece's book says — Mary Trump's new book The Reckoning, seen by the Guardian, describes a national trauma worsened by her uncle — Donald Trump was “afraid” when he put on a display of bravado at the White House …
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Bjorn Lomborg / New York Post:
Don't buy the latest climate-change alarmism — The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released its latest climate report, and reactions from politicians and media pundits could not have been more predictable. — Fitting the apocalyptic narrative many have spun lately …
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Tucker Carlson's Spying Allegations Being Investigated by National Security Agency Watchdog — The Fox News host says the spy agency had improperly targeted his communications — WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency's internal watchdog is conducting a review of recent allegations …
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Kaylee McGhee White / Washington Examiner:
The media's DeSantis hysteria intensifies — Every time there's a bout of bad news out of Florida regarding the coronavirus pandemic, the media work itself into a tizzy to try and pin everything on Gov. Ron DeSantis and make him out to be some sort of villain.
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Rose Adams / The Intercept:
UnitedHealthcare Guided Yale's Groundbreaking Surprise Billing Study … In 2016, an academic study from some of the most respected scholars in health care economics prompted a national outcry. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Yale University researchers …
Vanessa Romo / NPR:
Florida's Governor Says School Leaders' Salary May Be Withheld If They Require Masks — As the majority of Florida's K-12 schools prepare to reopen campuses at full capacity this week — many of them on Tuesday — Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that the state Board of Education could withhold pay …
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Gov. Ron DeSantis' Office: State Education Board Could Withhold Salaries Of Superintendents, School Board Members Who Implement Mask Mandates
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Washington Post:
All population growth in U.S. driven by minorities, upcoming census data likely to reveal — For the first time in the history of the country's census taking, the number of White people in the United States is widely expected to show a decline when the first racial breakdowns from the 2020 Census are reported this week.
Michael Sneed / Chicago Sun-Times:
Chicago cops give cold shoulder to Mayor Lightfoot at hospital after two officers shot — The officers were waiting inside at the University of Chicago Medical Center when the mayor approached them and they turned their backs on her, sources said. — They turned away and gave her their backs.
MSNBC:
Mehdi: Why hasn't Trump been charged for attempting to overturn election? — “Many Democrats, many journalists, are still so nervous about simply stating what we are stating tonight: Donald Trump's many attempts to overturn the election were criminal, were violations of the law,” says Mehdi Hasan.
Brian Stieglitz / Daily Mail:
CNN and ‘Squad’ member Cori Bush are blasted for fake news story that helped to raise $230,000 for ‘single mom of three facing homelessness over eviction moratorium’ - but who was actually just a BABYSITTER — CNN recently came under fire for a story about a ‘single mom of three’ children who turned out to just be a babysitter
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Michael Lee / Fox News:
Rashida Tlaib spotted dancing maskless at large indoor gathering in CDC ‘orange’ zone — Tlaib was captured on video in the Instagram story of a Dearborn band that plays weddings — Fox News Flash top headlines for August 9 — Rep. Rashida Tlaib danced maskless next to members …
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David Gilbert / VICE:
These Women Helped Incite the Capitol Riot. Now They Want to Steal Georgia for Trump. — Women for America First obtained the permit for the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally. Now they're raising cash for an Arizona-style “audit” in Georgia. — As attendees made their way into the Save America rally …
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