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QAnon Anti-Vaxxer Called COVID a Hoax Even as His ‘Lungs Stopped Functioning’ — Robert David Steele, a former CIA officer turned conspiracy theorist who claimed to be the first person to call COVID-19 a hoax, has died from COVID-19. — Steele, who was among the earliest QAnon promoters …
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The Daily Beast, New York Post and Raw Story
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Judge orders Cinci hospital to treat COVID-19 patient with Ivermectin, despite CDC warnings — A Butler County judge ruled in favor of a woman last week who sought to force a hospital to administer Ivermectin — an animal dewormer that federal regulators have warned against using in COVID-19 patients …
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HotAir, Boston.com, Crooks and Liars and Mock Paper Scissors
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Who's Skipping the Vaccine? The Answer May Surprise You
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Balloon Juice, One America News Network and Financial Times
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider:
An 88-year-old professor in Georgia resigned in the middle of class because a student refused to wear a mask over her nose: 'That's it, I'm retired'
An 88-year-old professor in Georgia resigned in the middle of class because a student refused to wear a mask over her nose: 'That's it, I'm retired'
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HotAir, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Daily Caller, Georgia Recorder, New York Post and TheBlaze
James Osborne / Houston Chronicle:
You want tyranny? A war hero died because hospitals were full of COVID patients.
You want tyranny? A war hero died because hospitals were full of COVID patients.
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Reason
Dan Levin / New York Times:
The U.S. reaches 100,000 average daily Covid hospitalizations for the first time since winter.
The U.S. reaches 100,000 average daily Covid hospitalizations for the first time since winter.
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Fox News, WATE-TV and Associated Press
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Rand Paul Claims ‘Hatred for Trump’ Hindering Research Into Ivermectin as COVID Treatment
Rand Paul Claims ‘Hatred for Trump’ Hindering Research Into Ivermectin as COVID Treatment
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Axios, Jerusalem Post, New York Times, Florida Politics, POLITICUSUSA and The Hill
Elian Peltier / New York Times:
Unvaccinated U.S. visitors could soon face new restrictions on travel to Europe.
Unvaccinated U.S. visitors could soon face new restrictions on travel to Europe.
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USA Today, CNN, consilium.europa.eu, Human Events, NBC4 Washington and Insider
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Biden Deserves Credit, Not Blame, for Afghanistan — America's longest war has been by any measure a costly failure, and the errors in managing the conflict deserve scrutiny in the years to come. But Joe Biden doesn't “own” the mayhem on the ground right now.
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Pentagon prepared for ‘mass casualty’ attack at Kabul Airport hours before explosion — Just 24 hours before a suicide bomber detonated an explosive outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, senior military leaders gathered for the Pentagon's daily morning update on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
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Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing
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Mark MacKinnon / Globe and Mail:
Ukrainian troops rescue Canada-bound Afghans in daring operation
Ukrainian troops rescue Canada-bound Afghans in daring operation
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Washington Examiner
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Trump's lies will lead us to the truth — Norm Eisen: Substantial risk for former President Trump ahead — Norman Eisen served as former President Barack Obama's ethics czar and ambassador to the Czech Republic, and was special impeachment counsel to the House Judiciary Committee in 2019-2020.
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Raw Story
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Trump's political operation paid more than $4.3 million to Jan. 6 organizers but questions remain about the full extent of its involvement
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POLITICUSUSA and The Daily Caller
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A judge asked a mother if she got the coronavirus vaccine. She said no, and he revoked custody of her son. — When Rebecca Firlit joined a virtual court hearing with her ex-husband earlier this month, the Chicago mother expected the proceedings to focus on child support. — But the judge had other plans.
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Another conservative anti-vaccine radio talk show host succumbs to COVID, third in a month — A conservative Florida radio host who was dead-set against taking a coronavirus vaccine is now dead. — Marc Bernier died Saturday of COVID-19 after a three-week battle, his bereft radio station announced.
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Morning Shots, The Root, Mediaite, HuffPost and Talking Points Memo
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Cheyenne Ubiera / The Daily Beast:
COVID Claims the Life of Third Anti-Vaxx Conservative Radio Host
COVID Claims the Life of Third Anti-Vaxx Conservative Radio Host
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New York Post, The American Independent, CNN and Politico
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Laurence Tribe: If Garland doesn't prosecute Trump, the rule of law is “out the window” — Eminent constitutional law expert: If Biden and Garland won't go after Trump, country is in “desperate trouble” — If American democracy were a hospital patient, the diagnosis would be “critical”.
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How To Live BULLSHIT-FREE, American Prospect, Conservative Brief and POLITICUSUSA
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Hurricane Ida Is a Manmade Disaster — “The wind is tearing Pointe-Aux-Chenes apart,” Albert Naquin told me Sunday afternoon. He was standing in his carport, watching as the first eyewall of Hurricane Ida passed over the bayou where he has lived for almost his entire life.
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Axios, WVUE-TV and Snopes.com
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Ivermectin Demand Surges Though It Doesn't Work for Covid-19 — Prescriptions for ivermectin have jumped to more than 88,000 per week, some pharmacists are reporting shortages and people are overdosing on forms of the drug meant for horses. — For the past week, Dr. Gregory Yu …
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Boston.com
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Rand Paul: ‘Hatred for Trump’ blocks Covid study of horse drug ivermectin
Rand Paul: ‘Hatred for Trump’ blocks Covid study of horse drug ivermectin
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HuffPost, Washington Post, The Root, Vanity Fair, PinkNews, POLITICUSUSA and IJR
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Former NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, a rising right-wing radio star, doesn't care if you call her a murderer — OUTSIDE OF DALLAS — Dana Loesch strides with purpose in chunky black unlaced boots. Past the wrought-iron chandelier and red upholstered dining-table chairs that evoke some medieval castle.
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Twitchy
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AOC, Tlaib, Pressley call on Biden to dump Powell as Fed chair — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley on Monday called for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to be replaced, stepping up the pressure on President Joe Biden as he draws closer to a decision on the government's most powerful economic post.
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Revolving Door Project
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Margaritaville and the Myth of American Leisure — Margaritaville, as Parrotheads will tell you, is a state of mind. But it's also — delightfully, sometimes inexplicably — a real place now open in Times Square. — The 5 o'Clock Somewhere Bar does not open until 5 o' Clock …
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Substack Farewell — Man bites dog, quitting Substack to work for magazine. — A little more than a year ago I lost my job at a mainstream publication and put out my shingle on Substack. I titled my newsletter Backbencher, a term I knew many potential readers in the United States wouldn't know …
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How Turf Wars Mucked Up America's Exit From Afghanistan — In July, at Antony Blinken's State Department, bureaucratic decisions affecting the Afghan withdrawal, one insider said, were “slightly more organized than a Choose Your Own Adventure novel.” — On the afternoon of July 9, 2021 …
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Partisan divides in media trust widen, driven by a decline among Republicans — In just five years, the percentage of Republicans with at least some trust in national news organizations has been cut in half - dropping from 70% in 2016 to 35% this year. This decline is fueling the continued widening …
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Statement by President Joe Biden — I want to thank our commanders and the men and women serving under them for their execution of the dangerous retrograde from Afghanistan as scheduled - in the early morning hours of August 31, Kabul time - with no further loss of American lives.
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Biden breaks promise to ‘stay’ in Afghanistan until every American evacuated — Biden promised in interview: 'If there's American citizens left, we're gonna stay to get them all out' — Lawmakers' demand action against Biden over Afghanistan crisis — President Biden appears to have broken …
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No, Biden Didn't Fall Asleep Listening to Israel's Prime Minister. Yes, You Fell for Fake News — Right-wing politicians and activists in Israel and the U.S. spread a false claim that the U.S. president fell asleep in his meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett last week. Here's what actually happened
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Last U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan After Nearly 20 Years — Historic airlift concludes with a departure, as American forces fly out a day before their formal deadline — WASHINGTON—A U.S. military aircraft carried the last American troops out of Afghanistan on Monday …
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Los Angeles Magazine Gives Union President the Profile She's Earned — Something's spreading through newsrooms and it's not the coronavirus. — Soon after Emma Green of The Atlantic challenged the well-worn talking points of NEA President Becky Pringle, we get Jason McGahan of Los Angeles Magazine …
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Giuliani's PR Guru Resigns as Legal Walls Close In — Rudy Giuliani's high-profile, 22-year-old communications director has resigned amid Giuliani's mounting legal troubles. … As Rudy Giuliani navigates an increasingly lonely and stormy world amid a federal investigation …
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Raw Story and The New Civil Rights Movement
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EXCLUSIVE: Convicted rapist reached the U.S. on Afghan evacuation flight — A man who'd been convicted of rape and had previously been deported from the U.S. was allowed to board an Afghan evacuation flight and reach America, according to law enforcement sources.
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The Daily Caller, Associated Press and The Western Journal
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Jeff Colyer diagnosed with prostate cancer, ends campaign for Kansas governor — TOPEKA — Jeff Colyer announced Monday he was ending his campaign for Kansas governor and receiving treatment for prostate cancer. — Colyer's departure from the race clears the way for Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt …
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The Hill and Political Wire
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EU to Reimpose Travel Curbs on U.S. Amid Rise in Covid Cases — The move will come as a blow to airlines banking on reopening — New American cases exceed the limit set earlier by the bloc — European Union countries voted to subject the U.S. to fresh restrictions on nonessential travel amid …
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, National Review and Financial Times
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Wealthy Lobbyists Have Already Slashed Biden's Tax Reform by Three-Quarters Moderate Democrats have quietly knifed the president's legacy bill. — The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress, reports that business lobbyists are pleased that they have watered down President Biden's proposed tax increases …
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The Hill and The National Interest
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China Limits Videogames to Three Hours a Week for Young People — New regulation will ban minors from playing videogames entirely between Monday and Thursday — SINGAPORE—China has a new rule for the country's hundreds of millions of young gamers: No videogames during the school week …
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U.S. completes withdrawal from Afghanistan — The last U.S. military planes have taken off from Kabul's airport, marking the end of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan and of the efforts to airlift thousands of U.S. citizens and vulnerable Afghans as the country fell to the Taliban …
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