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Kari Paul / The Guardian:
TikTokers flood Texas abortion whistleblower site with Shrek memes, fake reports and porn — Critics of Texas' new law have been filing hundreds of fake reports to the whistleblowing website in hopes of crashing it — Pro-choice users on TikTok and Reddit have launched a guerrilla effort …
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Wall Street Journal:
Texas's Abortion Law Blunder — The Supreme Court was right not to interfere for now, but the statute won't survive scrutiny on the merits. — By The Editorial Board — America is back fighting its endless legal war over abortion. A new front opened late Wednesday when five Justices issued …
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Axios:
1 big thing: Biden wants abortion fight — President Biden is eager for a fight over abortion — an issue he sees as politically advantageous after the conservative Supreme Court left in place the near-ban in Texas, senior officials tell Axios. — Why it matters: The Supreme Court appears …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
SCOTUS Delenda Est
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Carlie Porterfield / Forbes:
Bumble, Match Launch Funds To Cover Abortion Costs In Texas
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Joshua C. Wilson / Washington Post:
In Texas abortion law, conservatives adopted the progressive playbook — and used it against them
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Time for Democrats to Go Nuclear Was Yesterday
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
Senate panel will probe Supreme Court's Texas abortion ruling, ‘shadow docket’
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Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
The Texas abortion ban could force tech to snitch on users
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Did Texas Hand Biden a Lifeline?
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New York Times:
Health Officials Advise White House to Scale Back Booster Plan for Now — Federal regulators warned on Thursday they may not have enough data to recommend boosters for anyone except certain recipients of the Pfizer vaccine by late September. — WASHINGTON — Top federal health officials …
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Is Unlikely to Get Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Shot — Former president has urged his supporters to get vaccinated but tells WSJ he 'probably won't' get a booster shot when it is available — WASHINGTON—Former President Donald Trump, who received a Covid-19 vaccination …
Washington Post:
Americans support Afghanistan pullout — but not the way it was done, a Post-ABC poll finds — Americans overwhelmingly support President Biden's decision to end the war in Afghanistan, but by a 2-to-1 margin they disapprove of how he handled the chaotic and ultimately deadly withdrawal …
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Jim Huylebroek / New York Times:
The Two Afghanistans — The journalist Anand Gopal has long reported for The New York Times …
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
It's Still All About COVID — For the last couple of weeks, I've been watching focus groups. Two of those groups included independent-leaning voters who don't align themselves strongly with either party. One other group was comprised of so-called Democratic “surge” voters …
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KVOA-TV:
Police on-scene at Vail elementary school after group threatens to zip-tie principal over COVID-19 protocols — TUCSON (KVOA) - A conflict over the COVID-19 quarantine policy at a Vail Unified School District elementary school has been resolved shortly after protesters threatened …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Jobs report disappoints — only 235,000 positions added vs. expectations of 720,000 — Job creation for August was a huge disappointment, with the economy adding just 235,000 positions, the Labor Department reported Friday. — Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for 720,000 new hires.
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Spencer Brown / Townhall:
‘Big Miss’: Weak August Jobs Report ‘Terrible News’ for Economy
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Katelyn Ogle / KFOR-TV:
Patients overdosing on ivermectin backing up rural Oklahoma hospitals, ambulances — SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA, Okla. (KFOR) - A rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance back ups.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin's new threat to destroy Biden's agenda is worse than it seems — When President Biden travels to storm-ravaged Louisiana on Friday, he will continue amplifying the case for getting much more serious about tackling the climate change that is fueling such extreme weather events.
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Washington Post:
Biden names former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell to serve as point person on Afghan resettlement in the United States — President Biden has tapped a former governor of his home state, Jack Markell, to temporarily serve as his point person on resettling Afghan evacuees in the United States, White House officials said Friday.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Biden signs executive order requiring review, release of some classified 9/11 documents — President Biden on Friday signed an executive order that would require the review, declassification and release of classified government documents related to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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John Mueller / Responsible Statecraft:
What if the US didn't go to war in Afghanistan after 9/11?
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Horned, Furred, and Face-Painted ‘Shaman’ of the U.S. Capitol Siege Pleads Guilty in Federal Court — The man who stood behind former Vice President Mike Pence's Senate dais in a horned, coyote-fur headdress, red, white and blue face paint and a shirtless display of his tattooed torso dropped his ceremony of innocence on Friday.
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley pleads guilty to felony in US Capitol riot
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
At odds with boss, some Biden aides privately alarmed as millions of workers head over jobless benefits cliff — Some White House officials are split on what will happen when the benefits cease next week, but advisers downplayed any rift. — The Biden administration faces internal dissatisfaction …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says — Right-leaning pages also produce more misinformation, the forthcoming study found. — A new study of user behavior on Facebook around the 2020 election is likely …
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Adela Suliman / Washington Post:
Here's what we know about the mu variant … A coronavirus variant known as “mu” or “B.1.621” was designated by the World Health Organization as a “variant of interest” earlier this week and will be monitored by the global health body as cases continue to emerge across parts of the world.
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Katherine J. Wu / The Atlantic:
What We Actually Know About Waning Immunity — Reports of vaccines' decline have been greatly overstated. — Vaccines don't last forever. This is by design: Like many of the microbes they mimic, the contents of the shots stick around only as long as it takes the body to eliminate them …
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Washington Post:
Trump Tower's key tenants have fallen behind on rent and moved out. But Trump has one reliable customer: His own PAC. — NEW YORK — Inside Trump Tower, swank suit-maker Marcraft Clothes once rented the entire 18th floor, outfitting its offices with fireplaces, mahogany-lined closets and two bars for schmoozing customers.
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Sarah Chayes / Foreign Affairs:
Afghanistan's Corruption Was Made in America … In 2005, I visited a branch of Afghanistan's national bank in Kandahar to make a deposit. I was launching a cooperative that would craft skin-care products for export, using oils extracted from local almonds and apricot kernels …
CNN:
‘This is imaginary’: CNN fact-checks Kevin McCarthy's Fox News interview claim — CNN's Daniel Dale fact-checks a claim made by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy during a Fox News interview where he asserted thousands of Taliban fighters left Afghanistan and are trying to enter the US.Source: CNN
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Afghan evacuation raises concerns about child trafficking — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as “brides” or otherwise sexually abused.
The Federalist:
Arizona Needs Real Leaders On Election Reform, Not Passive Politicians Like Attorney General Mark Brnovich — Mark Brnovich, when in a position of power and able to actually do something, is not the kind of true fighter the people of Arizona deserve. — For many inside the Republican Party base …
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Audacy:
Caitlyn Jenner polling at 1% in race for California governor — California gubernatorial recall candidate Caitlyn Jenner described herself as a moderate alternative to rival Larry Elder in an interview with KNX on Thursday. — “I've known Larry for years,” the gold-medal Olympian and reality TV star said …
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