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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden defies expectations. Again. — The Senate on Tuesday passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal with 19 Republican votes. Had someone polled the White House press corps a month ago, few would have expected any bipartisan deal possible. — Journalists at mainstream media outlets are creatures of habit laced with cynicism.
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
McConnell Credits Biden for Infrastructure Breakthrough, Dismisses Trump Criticism — But the Senate GOP leader doesn't anticipate many more opportunities for bipartisan deals — WASHINGTON—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell credited President Biden with helping to get the roughly …
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NBC News, Washington Post, The Hill, One America News Network and UPI
John Feehery / The Hill:
The Bridge Over the River Kwai — House Republicans should be careful not to become like Colonel Nicholson in the movie, “The Bridge Over the River Kwai.” — Nicholson, played by Alex Guinness, was the British officer who helped the Japanese build a bridge in Burma during the Second World War …
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Washington Post, New York Times, Common Dreams and CBS News
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Senate Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan, Advancing Sweeping Safety Net Expansion — The blueprint, which would expand Medicaid, provide free preschool and community college, and fund climate change programs, passed along party lines and faces an arduous path ahead.
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
How Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans learned to stop worrying about a Biden victory and love the infrastructure bill — What happened Tuesday in the Senate might seem like nothing short of a political miracle: Nineteen Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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New York Times, ABC News, Raw Story, The Daily Beast and The Gateway Pundit
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP prays Sinema and Manchin pare back Dems' big spending bill — Senate Republicans can't stop Democrats from spending as much as $3.5 trillion more on social priorities like climate change in the coming months. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema can, though, and the GOP lobbying effort is already underway.
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Wall Street Journal:
Most GOP Senators Sign Pledge to Not Help Democrats on Debt Ceiling
Most GOP Senators Sign Pledge to Not Help Democrats on Debt Ceiling
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Politico, The Hill, Joe.My.God., Washington Times, Insider and National Review
CNN:
Senate Republicans block effort by Democrats to advance voting and election bill
Senate Republicans block effort by Democrats to advance voting and election bill
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Rick Klein / ABC News:
Democrats bet House on next spending package
Democrats bet House on next spending package
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Politico, Mother Jones, Crooks and Liars, Florida Politics, Bloomberg, Financial Times, One America News Network and KARK-TV
Washington Post:
How Cuomo's flexing of political power became his undoing — Hours after the state attorney general released a scorching report last week that found New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women and his staff had unlawfully retaliated against an alleged victim …
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Washington Examiner, Yahoo, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, CBS New York and New Republic
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New York Times:
'A Publisher's Worst Nightmare': How Cuomo's Book Became a Cautionary Tale
'A Publisher's Worst Nightmare': How Cuomo's Book Became a Cautionary Tale
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Andrew Cuomo resignation is the coda on a mean era Joe Biden ended by beating Donald Trump
Andrew Cuomo resignation is the coda on a mean era Joe Biden ended by beating Donald Trump
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New Republic, Just Above Sunset, New York Times and ABC News
Axios:
Inside the Biden administration as Afghanistan collapses — The Taliban has stunned even some seasoned military and national security officials in the U.S. government with the speed of its conquests over the past week, sources with direct knowledge of the developments tell Axios.
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Washington Post:
U.S. officials warn collapse of Afghan capital could come sooner than expected — The Biden administration is preparing for Afghanistan's capital to fall far sooner than feared only weeks ago, as a rapid disintegration of security has prompted the revision of an already stark intelligence …
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Washington Examiner:
It's the end of the world as the IPCC knows it, and we feel fine — In response to the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on global warming, the Western world's newspapers seemed to be competing to publish the most apocalyptic headlines possible.
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Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Same Climate Report, Different Day
Melanie Zanona / CNN:
Republicans are seizing on backlash to new mask and vaccine mandates — 'You do not know what you're talking about': Fauci excoriates Rand Paul — (CNN)Republicans have found a new boogeyman in t he battle for the House: the nation's top public health agency.
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Robert Siegel / NPR:
Neal Conan, Longtime Host Of NPR's ‘Talk Of The Nation,’ Dies At 71 — Neal Conan, who spent 36 years with National Public Radio and 11 years as the host of the network's Talk of the Nation died Tuesday in Hawaii of glioblastoma at the age of 71. — I met Neal almost 50 years ago …
CNN:
Federal prosecutors came to suspect Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg lied, and considered charging him with perjury — New York (CNN)New York federal prosecutors came to suspect the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, lied in testimony during their investigation …
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Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
CA college professor held in arson spree near Dixie Fire | The Sacramento Bee — A college professor suspected in a series of arson fires in remote forested areas of Northern California near the massive Dixie Fire has been charged in connection with one of the blazes in Lassen County …
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ProPublica:
Secret IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump's “Big, Beautiful Tax Cut” — The Secret IRS Files … In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen. Ron Johnson stunned his colleagues by announcing he would vote “no.”
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Tom Lawrence / The Daily Beast:
‘No One I Know Is Vaccinated’: Sturgis Rally Bikers Are Coming for America — SUM OF ALL FEARS — Thousands of unvaccinated, unmasked people traveling across the country. An ultra-contagious new variant. Overloaded hospitals. If you thought it could get no worse, think again.
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Raw Story
Glenn Greenwald:
The NSA's Inspector General Opens Investigation Into Allegations of Illegal Spying on Tucker Carlson — The NSA's independent investigator, Robert Storch, is a long-time D.C. bureaucrat, making it unlikely he'd formally investigate frivolous allegations of “unmasking.”
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Watchdog to Scrutinize Fox News Host's Claim the N.S.A. Spied on Him
Watchdog to Scrutinize Fox News Host's Claim the N.S.A. Spied on Him
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Jim Abbott / Daytona Beach News-Journal Online:
WNDB official: Radio host Marc Bernier hospitalized with COVID-19 — Jim AbbottThe Daytona Beach News-Journal — DAYTONA BEACH — Longtime radio talk-show host Marc Bernier has been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a top official at WNDB (1150 AM, 93.5 FM).
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Nathaniel Rodriguez / WFLA-TV:
White House plans to fund Florida schools who defy DeSantis' order against mask mandates — You have been added to Daily News Newsletter — WASHINGTON, D.C., (WFLA) — The White House announced Tuesday that it is planning to support schools who defy Gov. Ron DeSantis' executive order and enact mask mandates for student s.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The con is winding down — Allow me to present to you the evidence that China stole the 2020 election. Please sit down; I don't want you to be injured when you faint. — So: voilà. — Yes, you're reading that right. Looks like you owe MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell an apology. — Hm?
Timothy Noah / Washington Monthly:
Tax the Unvaxxed — People who refuse the Covid vaccine are imposing costs on society. Time to make them pay. — More than 700,000 people are flooding the South Dakota badlands this week for what will surely be the COVID-19 superspreader event of the year, the 81st annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
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Black Hills & Badlands
The White House:
President Biden to Convene Leaders' Summit for Democracy — The President has said that the challenge of our time is to demonstrate that democracies can deliver by improving the lives of their own people and by addressing the greatest problems facing the wider world.
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Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
‘The Rundown’: Gov. Cox gets letter demanding he change his ‘foul, dirty name’ — Your Monday morning Utah political cheat sheet — Good Monday morning Utah! Thanks for reading “The Rundown”. — Got a news tip? Some interesting political gossip? Just want to chat about politics?
New York Times:
See the Data on Breakthrough Covid Hospitalizations and Deaths by State — Serious coronavirus infections among vaccinated people have been relatively rare since the start of the vaccination campaign, a New York Times analysis of data from 40 states and Washington, D.C., shows.
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Gizmodo and Kevin Drum
Michael Shellenberger:
Why I Am Not A Progressive — And Why, From Climate Change to Homelessness, Liberal People Are Giving Up — For all of my adult life I have identified as a progressive. To me, being a progressive meant that I believed in empowerment. In 2002, when I co-founded a labor-environmental coalition …
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Niara Savage / Atlanta Black Star:
‘It Was Just Disbelief’: Parent Files Complaint Against Atlanta Elementary School After Learning the Principal Segregated Students Based on Race — An Atlanta mom filed a federal complaint against her daughter's Atlanta elementary school after she learned that the school was separating students on the basis of race.
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BizPac Review, RedState and Twitchy
Glenn H. Reynolds / New York Post:
Mask bullies don't want to persuade you — but to humiliate and rule you — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's rather confused masking advice is thinly supported by science. And by now, everyone who wants a COVID jab can get one. Yet elite shaming of ordinary people keeps ratcheting up.
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KFF:
KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: Parents and the Pandemic — , Mellisha Stokes , and Mollyann Brodie … Key Findings — As children around the country head back to school, nearly half of parents of children ages 12-17, the age group currently eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine …
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Washington Post and The Hill
Scott Rasmussen:
61% Say Biden Likely To Raise Middle Class Taxes — Sixty-one percent (61%) of voters believe it is likely that the Biden Administration will raise taxes on middle class Americans. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 27% consider it unlikely and 12% are not sure.
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