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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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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The Pro-Life Cause Deserves Better Than the Texas Law
The Pro-Life Cause Deserves Better Than the Texas Law
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New York Times, National Review, Associated Press, Washington Post, New York Magazine and HotAir
Axios:
Scoop: The most dangerous Trump exposé — Stephanie Grisham has quietly written a top-secret memoir of her four years in Donald Trump's White House, and a publishing source says she'll reveal “surprising new scandals.” — What to watch: The book — “I'll Take Your Questions Now …
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Does Pence really call his wife ‘mother’? Aide says it's ‘a myth that drives me crazy’ — An aide to former Vice President Mike Pence is dispelling what she's calling the “myth” that he refers to his wife as “mother.” — “This is a myth that drives me crazy,” Alyssa Farah …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Proponents of Post-Trump Curbs on Executive Power Prepare New Push — House Democrats are framing their efforts as a rebuke of Donald J. Trump's record as would-be reformers seek Senate Republican support. — WASHINGTON — As Donald J. Trump's norm-busting presidency careened through two impeachments …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump's closest White House adviser to release book
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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Los Angeles Times:
Taliban beats protesters and arrests journalists at women's rally in Kabul
Taliban beats protesters and arrests journalists at women's rally in Kabul
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Jeremy Beaman / Washington Examiner:
Flags memorializing 13 troops killed in Kabul taken down after being vandalized
Flags memorializing 13 troops killed in Kabul taken down after being vandalized
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Riverside Police Department, Breitbart and National Review
Erin Coulehan / KTSM-TV:
Ivermectin causes sterilization in 85 percent of men, study finds — EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The effects of Ivermectin therapy on human males can have an effect on men's reproductive health. — Researchers at three universities in Nigeria studied the effects of Ivermectin …
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Associated Press:
COVID-19 surge in the US: The summer of hope ends in gloom
COVID-19 surge in the US: The summer of hope ends in gloom
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Axios, The Guardian, Florida Politics and The Western Journal
Buzz Hollander / RealClearScience:
Lessons From the Ivermectin Debacle
Lessons From the Ivermectin Debacle
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Raw Story, RedState, Insider and Real Clear Politics
Joe Schoffstall / Fox News:
CDC tightened masking guidelines after threats from teachers union, emails show
CDC tightened masking guidelines after threats from teachers union, emails show
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Tyler McCarthy / Fox News:
Jimmy Kimmel says unvaccinated people shouldn't get ICU beds in his return to his late-night show
Jimmy Kimmel says unvaccinated people shouldn't get ICU beds in his return to his late-night show
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Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
L.A. is poised to become the first major U.S. school district to mandate vaccinations for students.
L.A. is poised to become the first major U.S. school district to mandate vaccinations for students.
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Los Angeles Times, HuffPost and Washington Post
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
What Biden can learn from FDR, JFK and LBJ — With the nation continuing to be bitterly divided, attacks against voting rights reaching epic proportions, Roe v. Wade endangered by a new plan to turn tens of millions of Americans into private police and compensated vigilantes against fellow Americans …
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Politico:
How the Delta variant bottlenecked Biden's presidency — The resurgence of Covid-19 is rapidly dominating Joe Biden's administration, putting into question the future of his broader legislative agenda and increasingly steering Democrats into treacherous political territory.
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ABC News, New York Times, USA Today and Gizmodo
Manu Raju / CNN:
Manchin lays out long list of demands as key Senate chairs move to win his vote
Manchin lays out long list of demands as key Senate chairs move to win his vote
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Slow Boring, Daily Kos and Political Wire
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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Dan Merica / CNN:
Larry Elder baselessly raises possibility of election ‘shenanigans’ in California recall
Larry Elder baselessly raises possibility of election ‘shenanigans’ in California recall
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Washington Post, Townhall, USA Today, RedState and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Taliban to Allow 200 Americans, Other Foreigners to Fly Out of Kabul — No Afghans without foreign citizenship are expected to be allowed on the flight to Qatar — KABUL—Afghanistan's Taliban authorities are allowing some 200 Americans and other foreign citizens to leave the country …
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CNN, Reuters, Bloomberg, New York Times and KTLA
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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Amy Klobuchar:
Statement from Senator Amy Klobuchar — I wanted to share an update about my health. — In February of this year, doctors at Mayo Clinic found small white spots called calcifications during a routine mammogram. After this was discovered, I had a biopsy at Piper Breast Center in Minneapolis …
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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Rolling Stone, Fox News and New York Post
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Christie steps out of Trump's shadow — and stokes 2024 buzz — Chris Christie announces he will seek the 2016 Republican nomination for president June 30, 2015, at Livingston High School, his alma mater, in Livingston, N.J. — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is launching a comeback tour …
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The Hill
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David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
Donald Trump May Still Destroy the GOP, After All
Donald Trump May Still Destroy the GOP, After All
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story, MSNBC and HotAir
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 …
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Rep. Ron Kind / The Hill:
When it comes to reconciliation, let's learn from our past mistakes — The health and economic crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have been devastating for millions of Americans. Although Congress took action to help provide relief to families across the nation, the pandemic …
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 …
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The Dispatch, New Republic and Political Wire
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.
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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. …
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Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
The new 99%: These are the people who are getting serious cases of COVID-19 — They are the new 99 percenters — the vast majority of Americans who are getting serious cases of COVID-19 or dying are unvaccinated. — While COVID-19 cases continue to spike across the US …