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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin just threatened to derail Biden's big win. Please proceed, Senator. — Barely hours after Senate Democrats passed their $3.5 trillion reconciliation budget resolution, Sen. Joe Manchin III issued a statement that unleashed waves of dread across Twitter.
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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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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.
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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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Senate Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan, Advancing Sweeping Safety Net Expansion
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Infrastructure Summer: Bipartisan Bill Boosts Corporate Giants
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The Hill, Wall Street Journal, The American Independent and Axios
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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Christopher Christopher / CBS News:
Rand Paul suspended from YouTube for 7 days after COVID mask claims
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Melanie Zanona / CNN:
Republicans are seizing on backlash to new mask and vaccine mandates
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
YouTube suspends Rand Paul for a week over a video disputing the effectiveness of masks.
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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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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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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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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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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Chris Cuomo apparently lied to his viewers. Again.
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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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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Florida to receive hundreds of ventilators from U.S. government to help state's record hospitalizations
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Biden administration raises alarm on rising energy prices
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Washington Examiner, National Review, Breitbart and WTOP
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 …
Michaeleen Doucleff / NPR:
The CDC Said The Delta Variant Is As Contagious As Chickenpox. That's Not Accurate — In a leaked report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a surprising claim about the delta variant of the coronavirus: It “is as transmissible as: - Chicken Pox,” the agency wrote …
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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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CNN:
Senate Republicans block effort by Democrats to advance voting and election bill — Dems race to revive election bill as DOJ targets GA law — (CNN)Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by Democrats to advance their signature voting and elections overhaul bill in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Bipartisanship for infrastructure is great. Don't expect it for much else.
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Massachusetts Start-Up Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion — The company, founded by scientists at M.I.T., has been testing an extremely powerful magnet necessary to generate immense heat. — A start-up founded by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology …
YaleNews:
Donald Kagan, celebrated historian of the ancient world and revered teacher — Share this with Facebook Share this with Twitter Share this with LinkedIn Share this with Email Print this — Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics and History, prominent for his scholarship …
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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Joshua Ceballos / Miami New Times:
UM Students Outraged by Former Trump Official Alex Azar's Hire — The decision to hire former President Donald Trump's HHS Secretary Alex Azar has incensed faculty, staff, and students. — On its surface, the hiring of a former federal health official would seem like a smart move for the University of Miami.
Rebecca Jacobs / CREW:
Candidates have visited Trump properties more than 60 times since he left office … Though Donald Trump is no longer the president, he's still the de facto leader of the Republican Party. While in office, Trump made it clear that the best way to get into his good graces is by spending money at his properties.
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.
Joshua Miller Globe / The Boston Globe:
Scott Brown resigns as head of New England Law Boston after less than a year, says he will get back into the political arena — Former US senator Scott Brown, who has led New England Law Boston since January, announced his resignation from the law school Wednesday and said he would re-engage in the political arena.
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American Greatness:
How States Could Constitutionally Assume Abandoned Responsibilities of the National Government — The doctrine of protective resumption offers a way to safeguard the rights of citizenship when the issue is not how powers are being exercised but how they are not.
Stephen Gutowski / The Reload:
Black ATF Agent Says Biden Nominee Falsely Accused Him of Cheating on Promotion Assessment — A black former ATF agent says President Joe Biden's director nominee claimed he must have cheated after performing well on a promotion assessment. — The agent said David Chipman baselessly alleged …
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Dom DiFurio / Dallas Morning News:
Texas has millions in COVID-19 rent relief. Here's how Dallas renters and landlords can get it — The CDC's ban on evictions for not paying rent was recently extended by the federal government, and there's still a wealth of assistance available to Texans.
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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 …
Casey Michel / American Prospect:
The Investigator: Sen. Carl Levin (1934-2021) — The anti-kleptocracy campaigns of the Michigan lawmaker were ahead of their time. — Levin at a Permanent Investigations Subcommittee hearing on tax havens in 2006 — After the Cold War's end, chatter about a supposed “end of history” rebounded across the West.
Anya van Wagtendonk / Axios:
Wyoming GOP leaders will no longer recognize Liz Cheney over Trump vote — Two Wyoming Republican leaders voted to no longer recognize Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) as a member of their party, six months after she voted to impeach former President Trump, per the Casper Star-Tribune.
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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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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?
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