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CBS Miami:
Four Broward County Educators Lose Battle With COVID-19 In Less Than 24 Hours — MIAMI (CBSMiami) - When it comes to picking its victims, COVID-19 does not discriminate. — The vicious virus, in less than one day this week, between Tuesday and Wednesday, claimed the lives …
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Michael Putney / WPLG-TV:
DeSantis sets plan for Regeneron monoclonal antibodies to fight COVID-19 — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out a new state treatment plan to help fight COVID-19, announcing Thursday that the state will start dispensing Regeneron monoclonal antibodies through mobile clinics.
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Matthew Loh / Insider:
4 teachers died of COVID within 24 hours in Broward County, Florida. Schools there are defying Gov. DeSantis' ban on mask mandates. — Four teachers from Broward County, Florida died from COVID-19 on Tuesday and Wednesday. — One was a high school teacher while another taught elementary school.
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Andrew Atterbury / Politico:
DeSantis backpedals on threat to withhold salaries of defiant school officials
DeSantis backpedals on threat to withhold salaries of defiant school officials
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Tallahassee Democrat, PolitiFact and Florida Politics
Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Joe Biden's credibility has been shredded in Afghanistan — But the fall of the country to the Taliban would also create a dilemma for China — If Donald Trump were presiding over the debacle in Afghanistan, the US foreign policy establishment would be loudly condemning the irresponsibility and immorality of American strategy.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Not Our Tragedy”: the Taliban Are Coming Back, and America Is Still Leaving — President Biden made it very clear this week that we're out of Afghanistan, no matter what. — At least Joe Biden is owning it. “I do not regret my decision,” the President said this week …
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Shay Khatiri / The Bulwark:
Blame Biden for Afghanistan's Return to the Dark Ages — Executions, sex slavery, ethnic cleansing—and yet the president says “I do not regret my decision.” — The Joe Biden who promised to put human rights at the center of his foreign policy is the same Joe Biden now stubbornly paving …
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Washington Post, Financial Times, New York Post and Metro.co.uk
Spencer Ackerman / Forever Wars:
Everything That Will Follow A Taliban Victory Is Still A Part of America's War
Everything That Will Follow A Taliban Victory Is Still A Part of America's War
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New York Post:
US reportedly negotiating with Taliban to avoid embassy attack in Kabul
US reportedly negotiating with Taliban to avoid embassy attack in Kabul
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U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, Associated Press, Bangor Daily News and Los Angeles Times
New York Times:
Afghanistan Collapse Accelerates as the Taliban Move Closer to Capturing 2 Vital Cities
Afghanistan Collapse Accelerates as the Taliban Move Closer to Capturing 2 Vital Cities
Lara Jakes / New York Times:
U.S. Asks Taliban to Spare Its Embassy in Coming Fight for Kabul
U.S. Asks Taliban to Spare Its Embassy in Coming Fight for Kabul
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
The Supreme Court won't block Indiana University's vaccine mandate. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court allowed Indiana University on Thursday to require students to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. — Eight students had sued the university, saying the requirement violated …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Blocks Part of New York's Eviction Moratorium — The order applies only to a part of the law that bars the eviction of tenants who file a form saying they have suffered economic setbacks as result of the pandemic. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked part …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Divided Supreme Court sides with landlords, lifts part of New York eviction moratorium
Divided Supreme Court sides with landlords, lifts part of New York eviction moratorium
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US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Additional Vaccine Dose for Certain Immunocompromised Individuals — Other fully vaccinated individuals do not need an additional vaccine dose right now — For Immediate Release: — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Moderates Threaten Stalemate Over Budget Vote and Infrastructure — The letter from nine Democrats, enough to block passage, threatens their party's two-track plan to pass both a $3.5 trillion social policy budget blueprint and an infrastructure bill. — WASHINGTON — Nine moderate House …
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Washington Post:
Census data shows Maryland is now the East Coast's most diverse state, while D.C. is Whiter — Maryland, one of the two states in the country to flip from majority White to majority non-White over the last decade, is now the most diverse state on the East Coast, according to new data from the 2020 Census.
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US Census / The United States Census Bureau:
2020 Census Statistics Highlight Local Population Changes and Nation's Racial and Ethnic Diversity
2020 Census Statistics Highlight Local Population Changes and Nation's Racial and Ethnic Diversity
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
GOP Strategist Arrested for Underage Sex Trafficking — The feds just arrested wealthy Republican strategist and frequent Fox News guest Anton Lazzaro on five counts of underage sex trafficking. — Anton Lazzaro, a young Republican strategist and former congressional campaign manager in Minnesota …
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Paul Walsh / Star Tribune:
Feds allege Minneapolis GOP strategist trafficked minors for sex
Feds allege Minneapolis GOP strategist trafficked minors for sex
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Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Inside Fox News, DeSantis is ‘the future of the party.’ And he's taking advantage. — Emails show the Florida governor is in high demand on the network — and gets his way. — Updated Just now — Early in Florida's vaccine rollout, during a period marked by confusion and images of seniors …
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Zachary Petrizzo / Salon:
Lindell-apalooza melts down: MyPillow guy claims antifa sabotaged his “cyber symposium” — Mike Lindell produces no evidence of election fraud at South Dakota shindig; blames invisible antifa infiltrators — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, on the final day of his …
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Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Colorado Republican official accused after voting system passwords are leaked to right-wing site — A bizarre security breach of a rural Colorado county's voting system has in a matter of days escalated into a criminal probe of the clerk's office, a ban on the county's existing election equipment …
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Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Greene waves off concerns of hospital overcrowding: 'We can't live forever' — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday waved off concerns over hospitals exceeding capacity due to COVID-19, saying “we can't live forever.” — During an interview with right-wing network “Real America's Voice …
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Report: Matt Gaetz's Wingman Has Given the Feds “Years of Venmo Transactions” and “Thousands of Photos and Videos” — So that can't be good. — When we last checked in with Matt Gaetz, things were going less than swimmingly for the Florida congressman. And in the interim, they haven't improved!
CNN:
New intel reports indicate fresh efforts by Russia to interfere in 2022 election — Washington (CNN)The Biden administration is receiving regular intelligence reports indicating Russian efforts to interfere in US elections are evolving and ongoing, current and former officials say, and in fact …
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Pearl River High School Quarantines 40% Of Students In First Week, District Going Virtual — An entire Mississippi school district is going virtual after Pearl River Central High School ordered 40% of its student body to quarantine after just one week of school.
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Fraudster Smears Dems Using Decoy TMZ — “That is not our site nor part of the TMZ brand and they are not authorized to use our name or logo. We have sent a cease and desist letter to the website,” a TMZ spokesperson. — Serial MAGA fraudster Jack Burkman has embarked on a new political venture …
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Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Biden comes to Newsom's recall defense as White House mulls larger role — OAKLAND — President Joe Biden resoundingly endorsed Gov. Gavin Newsom against a looming recall vote on Thursday, telegraphing that the White House could come to Newsom's aid in the race's critical final weeks.
Washington Examiner:
Biden maims US energy industry, then begs OPEC for oil — During the pre-COVID-19 Trump era, the low price of gas helped sustain an economic boom that brought wage increases for lower-class workers and spurred unprecedented low levels of unemployment. — The main reason for the low gas prices …
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National Review
Harrison Smith / Washington Post:
John Rizzo, CIA lawyer who approved torture program, dies at 73 — John Rizzo, a self-described “company man” who worked as a CIA lawyer for more than three decades, laying the legal groundwork for proxy wars, drone strikes and the “enhanced interrogation” program, in which suspected terrorists …
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New York Times
CNBC:
Rand Paul's wife bought shares in Covid treatment maker Gilead in early days of virus, the couple's only individual stock purchase in years — Republican Sen. Rand Paul and his wife had not bought stock in an individual company in at least 10 years before Kelley Paul purchased shares of the drug company Gilead Sciences in early 2020.
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MSNBC:
Dean: Covid-19 will end mini-Trump's Florida career like it ended Trump's presidency — As Florida's Covid-19 caseload breaks the state's own all-time records, doctor and former governor Howard Dean appraises the troubled record of Florida Governor DeSantis, giving him an ‘F’ on substance.
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Mocks AOC's Fears of Sexual Assault During 1/6 Riot: ‘Get a Therapist, Honey’ — Earlier this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told CNN's Dana Bash that she not only feared for her life during the January 6 Capitol insurrection, she thought some of the violence would be carried out in a “sexualizing” way.
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Annie Correal / New York Times:
New York City adds 629,000 people, defying predictions of its decline. — New York City has grown by more than 629,000 people — or nearly 8 percent — since 2010, reaching 8.8 million and defying predictions that its population was on the decline. — “The Big Apple just got bigger!”
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Reese Oxner / The Texas Tribune:
Texas children and children's hospitals are under siege from two viruses: RSV and COVID-19 — More children are being treated in Texas hospitals for COVID-19 than ever before, and an unseasonable outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus is adding to the stress on children's hospitals. — Copy link
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Sally Satel / Persuasion:
When Therapists Become Activists — Mental health professionals are replacing evidence-driven therapeutics with political ideology. — Until roughly five years ago, people seeking mental health care could expect their therapists to keep politics out of the office.