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3:30 AM ET, September 9, 2021

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Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Administration Prepares to Sue Texas Over Abortion Law  —  Lawsuit challenging law limiting procedure to first six weeks of pregnancy set to be filed in coming days  —  WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is preparing to sue Texas over its new law banning most abortions …
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CNN:
Biden administration tells ex-Trump officials to resign from military academy advisory boards or be dismissed  —  (CNN)The Biden administration has told 11 officials appointed to military service academy advisory boards by former President Donald Trump to resign or be dismissed, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN's KFile.
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Defiant Kellyanne Conway refuses to quit Air Force Academy board — and demands Biden fire her  —  Former Donald Trump senior advisor Kellyanne Conway announced on Wednesday that she was refusing to resign from a military post and that President Joe Biden would have to fire her.
Discussion: Breitbart
Joe Schoffstall / Fox News:
CDC tightened masking guidelines after threats from teachers union, emails show  —  Emails show further coordination between Biden administration and teachers unions  —  White House used deep union ties to censor criticism on school mask guidance  —  The Biden administration tightened …
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Erin Coulehan / KTSM-TV:
Ivermectin causes sterilization in 85 percent of men, study finds
Discussion: PolitiFact, Israpundit and Snopes.com
Tyler McCarthy / Fox News:
Jimmy Kimmel says unvaccinated people shouldn't get ICU beds in his return to his late-night show
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
L.A. is poised to become the first major U.S. school district to mandate vaccinations for students.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Washington Post:
Trump reaches out to families of U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan  —  When Darin Hoover traveled to Dover Air Force Base to receive the casket of his 31-year-old Marine son, who was killed in Afghanistan, he, like several other families, declined an offer to meet with President Biden.
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James Laporta / Associated Press:
A U.S. Marine, a curious Afghan boy, an unfathomable moment  —  One day not long ago, I watched my soon-to-be 3-year-old son jump up and down to the sound of “ho” and “hey.”  —  It's a song by The Lumineers, an American folk-rock band.  The lyrics and stomp reverberate throughout the kitchen and into the house.
Josh Haskell / ABC7:
Larry Elder tours homeless encampment in Venice, but leaves due to angry crowd … Larry Elder's Venice event cut short due to angry crowd  —  Larry Elder had to cut his campaign event short in Venice after he encountered an angry crowd and had an egg thrown at him.
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Trump rips removal of Robert E. Lee statue: ‘Complete desecration’  —  Former President Trump on Wednesday blasted the decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., saying the taking down would result in a “complete desecration.”
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Tess Owen / VICE:
Oath Keeper Snitched on Himself to FBI Agent During Tattoo Session, Docs Say  —  An Oath Keeper and accused Capitol rioter who owns a tattoo parlor in upstate New York unwittingly poured his heart out to an off-duty FBI agent who'd stopped by his business for an appointment.
Discussion: HuffPost
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trumper Pleads Guilty After His Mom Bragged About His Capitol Riot Antics On Facebook
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What should the Jan. 6 probe examine?  A veteran Sept. 11 investigator weighs in.  —  It is strange to think that even as we approach the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, some two decades later we're consumed with sorting through another nationally traumatic and transformative attack …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Washington Field Office Releases Video and Additional Information Regarding the Pipe Bomb Investigation  —  The FBI's Washington Field Office has released new information and video regarding the suspect who placed pipe bombs in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. …
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop  —  An internal police chief memo shows employees were directed to use ‘field interview cards’ which would then be reviewed  —  he Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect …
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
The top 1 percent are evading $163 billion a year in taxes, the Treasury finds.  —  WASHINGTON — The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans are the nation's most egregious tax evaders, failing to pay as much as $163 billion in owed taxes per year, according to a new Treasury Department report released on Wednesday.
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Haley Strack / The Federalist:
National Archives Slaps ‘Harmful Content’ Warning On Constitution, All Other Founding Documents  —  The National Archives Records Administration placed a “harmful content” warning on the Constitution, labeling the governing document of the United States as “harmful or difficult to view.”
Peter Boghossian / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology.  So Today I Quit.  —  The more I spoke out against the illiberalism that has swallowed Portland State University, the more retaliation I faced. … Dear Provost Susan Jeffords,  —  ​​I'm writing to you today to resign as assistant professor …
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
AOC's woke Biology 101 lesson: “I do know that he's not familiar with a menstruating person's body”  —  Who exactly needs a quick refresher in Biology 101 here anyway?  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered her version of a lesson in biology on CNN Tuesday night.
David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
Donald Trump May Still Destroy the GOP, After All  —  Republicans think the former president is their electoral savior, but his toxic influence over the party might just bring about its demise.  —  When Donald Trump descended the escalator on that fateful day in June 2015 …
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Sam Metz / Associated Press:
Laxalt hints at legal fights ahead of 2022 US Senate race
Discussion: Raw Story and MSNBC
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Republicans, elections experts say Wisconsin probe is flawed  —  Former Republican officeholders and election experts say that the GOP-ordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin lacks credibility, transparency and raises security risks and legal concerns
Discussion: Raw Story
Tyler Dawson / National Post:
Book burning at Ontario francophone schools as ‘gesture of reconciliation’ denounced  —  More than 4,700 books were removed from library shelves at 30 schools, and they have since been destroyed or are in the process of being recycled  —  A book burning held by an Ontario francophone school board …
Discussion: Agence France-Presse and HotAir
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Virginia GOP lt. gov. nominee lays off campaign staff ahead of election  —  Winsome Sears, the GOP candidate in Virginia's lieutenant governor race, laid off her entire campaign staff 55 days out from Election Day in the commonwealth.  —  A former Sears campaign staffer, who was laid off …
Discussion: New Republic and Political Wire
Kristen Doerer / Right Wing Watch:
Who Is Owed Reparations?  Larry Elder Argues Slave Owners Whose ‘Legal Property Was Taken Away’  —  Larry Elder becomes exasperated when a conversation arises about reparations—that is, whether African Americans are owed some compensation for centuries of slavery.
Discussion: Fox News, Breitbart and National Review
 
 
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David Reaboi / Late Republic Nonsense:
Robert E. Lee at Year Zero
Manu Raju / CNN:
Manchin lays out long list of demands as key Senate chairs move to win his vote
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Biden reiterates plan to reopen Jerusalem consulate despite Israeli objections
Discussion: The Western Journal
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How Educational Differences Are Widening America's Political Rift
Discussion: Breitbart
Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
Patton Oswalt cancels shows in Florida, Utah after venues fail to comply with his Covid requests
Discussion: TheBlaze
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Sleaze and Slime: Former Bill Clinton Intern Now Claiming to Be ‘Republican’ Launders Expunged, Dismissed Allegations After Trump Endorses Opponent
Discussion: CBS Philly and The Hill
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Is Donald Trump Finished?
Discussion: The Mahablog
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The looming chaos of Trump 2024
Discussion: Politico, HuffPost and Raw Story
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Minnesota man freed by Kamala Harris-supported bail fund now charged with murder
Garrett M. Graff / The Atlantic:
After 9/11, the U.S. Got Almost Everything Wrong
Discussion: Vanity Fair
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion
 
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