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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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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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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Bipartisanship for infrastructure is great. Don't expect it for much else. — The bipartisan infrastructure bill the Senate passed on Tuesday is a big deal, but let's say it upfront: Not everything that's bipartisan is good, and not everything that's good is bipartisan.
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 — 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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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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David Dayen / American Prospect:
Infrastructure Summer: Bipartisan Bill Boosts Corporate Giants
Infrastructure Summer: Bipartisan Bill Boosts Corporate Giants
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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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'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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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Chris Cuomo apparently lied to his viewers. Again.
Chris Cuomo apparently lied to his viewers. Again.
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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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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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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
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
Republicans are seizing on backlash to new mask and vaccine mandates
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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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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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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Florida to receive hundreds of ventilators from U.S. government to help state's record hospitalizations — The federal government is sending hundreds of ventilators and other equipment to Florida — a response to the record number of coronavirus hospitalizations in a state that has become the epicenter of the U.S. pandemic.
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Nathaniel Rodriguez / WFLA-TV:
White House plans to fund Florida schools who defy DeSantis' order against mask mandates
Jim Abbott / Daytona Beach News-Journal Online:
WNDB official: Radio host Marc Bernier hospitalized with COVID-19
WNDB official: Radio host Marc Bernier hospitalized with COVID-19
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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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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 …
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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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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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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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Republicans in 2 Wyoming counties vote to stop recognizing Cheney as party member
Republicans in 2 Wyoming counties vote to stop recognizing Cheney as party member
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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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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 …
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 …
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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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
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?
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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