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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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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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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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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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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.
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Infrastructure Summer: Bipartisan Bill Boosts Corporate Giants
Infrastructure Summer: Bipartisan Bill Boosts Corporate Giants
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The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Axios and The American Independent
Kylee Zempel / The Federalist:
How Many Other Andrew Cuomos Are Elites Covering For? — The media played cheerleader instead of investigator, enabling a powerful man to exploit women and elderly people for personal pleasure and political points. Who else are they covering for? — All eyes were on Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday …
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USA Today:
Andrew Cuomo is resigning, but the investigations into his conduct will continue
Andrew Cuomo is resigning, but the investigations into his conduct will continue
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Chris Cuomo apparently lied to his viewers. Again.
Chris Cuomo apparently lied to his viewers. Again.
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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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Washington Post:
How Cuomo's flexing of political power became his undoing
How Cuomo's flexing of political power became his undoing
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Benjamin Parker / The Bulwark:
Andrew Cuomo Resigned Because the Democrats Aren't a Cult
Andrew Cuomo Resigned Because the Democrats Aren't a Cult
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New York Times:
Railing at Enemies and Pleading for Time: Inside Cuomo's Final Days
Railing at Enemies and Pleading for Time: Inside Cuomo's Final Days
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Alec Baldwin responds to Cuomo resignation: ‘This is a tragic day’
Alec Baldwin responds to Cuomo resignation: ‘This is a tragic day’
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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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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
YouTube suspends Sen. Rand Paul over a video falsely claiming masks are ineffective — WASHINGTON — YouTube suspended Sen. Rand Paul's account on Tuesday for posting a video claiming cloth face masks are ineffective against the coronavirus. — “A badge of honor ... leftwing cretins …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Poll: Majorities support vaccine, mask mandates — but not Republicans
Poll: Majorities support vaccine, mask mandates — but not Republicans
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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
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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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 …
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?
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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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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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Biden nominates Elizabeth Prelogar to be solicitor general — (CNN)President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated acting US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar to permanently take on the role of representing the US government in cases before the Supreme Court.
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Joshua Fechter / The Texas Tribune:
“I am frightened by what is coming:” Texas hospitals could soon be overwhelmed by COVID-19 caseload, officials say — The number of COVID-19 patients in Texas hospitals is rising too fast for hospitals to keep up with, hospital leaders told state lawmakers Tuesday. — Copy link
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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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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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Watchdog to Scrutinize Fox News Host's Claim the N.S.A. Spied on Him — Tucker Carlson accused the government of intercepting his emails without disclosing that he had been reaching out to the Kremlin. — WASHINGTON — The office of the National Security Agency's inspector general …