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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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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump's closest White House adviser to release book — Melania Trump's chief of staff resigns in wake of riots — (CNN)Stephanie Grisham, whose career with the Trump administration included stints as East Wing communications director, White House press secretary and chief of staff …
Discussion:
The Hill and The Daily Caller
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Does Pence really call his wife ‘mother’? Aide says it's ‘a myth that drives me crazy’
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Trump White House tried to play down US injuries in attack by Iran, says ex-official
Trump White House tried to play down US injuries in attack by Iran, says ex-official
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Al Jazeera and Raw Story
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 …
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Wall Street Journal, CBS News, HuffPost, New York Times, Insider, Fox News, Washington Post, CNBC, CNN, Politico, Washington Examiner, NPR, Associated Press, UPI, Breitbart, New York Post, USA Today, The Daily Caller, Jezebel, The Hill, Mediaite, Forbes and POLITICUSUSA
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Sen. Amy Klobuchar reveals breast cancer diagnosis
Washington Post:
White House pulling nomination of ATF chief amid pushback over gun-control advocacy — The White House is planning to withdraw David Chipman's nomination to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this week amid bipartisan pushback over his gun control advocacy …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
White House planning to withdraw ATF nominee — The White House is planning to withdraw David Chipman's nomination to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, according to three sources close to the process. — Chipman is currently a senior policy advisor to Giffords …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Americans favor Manchin's “strategic pause”
Exclusive poll: Americans favor Manchin's “strategic pause”
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Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Politico, The Hill and Breitbart
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Biden to announce additional vaccine mandates as he unveils new Covid strategy — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will seek to ramp up pressure on the unvaccinated on Thursday by announcing additional federal vaccine mandates, calling for the private sector to do the same …
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Washington Examiner, New York Times, Bloomberg, CBS News, The Daily Caller, KFOR-TV, One America News Network and KETK.com
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CNN:
Biden to announce that all federal workers must be vaccinated, with no option for testing
Biden to announce that all federal workers must be vaccinated, with no option for testing
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HotAir, Politico, New York Times, Associated Press, 6abc, UPI, NPR, Breitbart, Townhall, Washington Times, Mediaite, New York Post, Common Dreams, Rolling Stone, Twitchy, Bangor Daily News, POLITICUSUSA and NBC10 Philadelphia
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Biden's six-prong COVID-19 plan includes vaccine and mask mandates: preview of Thursday speech
Biden's six-prong COVID-19 plan includes vaccine and mask mandates: preview of Thursday speech
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The Hill and National Review
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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NBC News, Fox News, The Guardian, CNN, Fortune, The Western Journal, Bipartisan Report, NPR, Alternet.org, Politico, New York Post, ABC News, Associated Press, Reason, Mediaite, Raw Story and Insider
Erin Aubry Kaplan / Politico:
The Off-Mic Moment That Changed My View of Larry Elder — Larry Elder, the surprising front-running candidate to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in next week's California recall election, has had quite a summer. Mostly, it's because of the peculiarity of the recall itself: If less than half …
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Josh Haskell / ABC7:
Larry Elder tours homeless encampment in Venice, but leaves due to angry crowd
Larry Elder tours homeless encampment in Venice, but leaves due to angry crowd
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National Review, HotAir, Twitchy, The American Independent, TheGrio, The Moderate Voice, Breitbart, Mediaite, Fox News, ABC30, Breitbart, Insider, CNN, Townhall, New York Post, RedState, Washington Times, KTLA, Instapundit, TheBlaze, Breitbart, Raw Story, Todd Starnes, TMZ.com, National Review, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, Washington Examiner, Fox News and The Daily Caller
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Taliban to allow around 200 dual nationals to leave Afghanistan — The Taliban have agreed to allow around 200 Afghans with dual citizenship, including about 30 Americans, to leave the country Thursday on a flight from Kabul, according to the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Discussion:
Washington Post and NPR
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
The Capitol Police Said Jan. 6 Unrest On Capitol Grounds Would Be “Highly Improbable” — The chief of the Capitol Police and its top intelligence officer personally approved permits for six demonstrations to be held on Jan. 6, 2021, despite signs that one of the applications was filed …
Adrian Carrasquillo / Newsweek:
As Biden Popularity Falls, Democrats Fear Losing Senate, 30 to 50 House Seats — It wasn't supposed to be this way. — President Joe Biden was supposed to usher in the era of adults in charge again, after a Donald Trump presidency that saw scandal after scandal and seemed to thrive on chaos.
Discussion:
HotAir
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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
Discussion:
Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Slow Boring, Daily Kos and Political Wire
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A perfect distillation of Trump's malleable, always-be-closing approach to politics — As Abraham Lincoln spoke at the Gettysburg battlefield in November 1865, the corpses of thousands of men were buried nearby, men who were among the 23,000 Americans killed there that summer.
Discussion:
Donald J. Trump and Insider
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI releases new footage of possible RNC, DNC pipe-bomb suspect — The FBI on Wednesday released new video of a person believed to have placed pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters in D.C. the night before the U.S. Capitol riot and revealed that investigators …
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Federal Bureau …, CNN, CBS Boston, NPR, 6abc, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News and HuffPost
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Wealth Lobby Is Buying Up Democrats to Defeat Biden's Tax Reform “One of the biggest scams in the history of forever.” — Last week, Democratic senator turned anti-tax lobbyist Heidi Heitkamp, who represented North Dakota for one term before losing in 2018, appeared on CNBC …
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New Republic, Washington Post, Alternet.org, HuffPost and Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
The Latest: US says al-Qaida could regenerate in Afghanistan — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday the al-Qaida extremist group that used Afghanistan as a staging base to attack United States 20 years ago may attempt to regenerate there following an American withdrawal that has left the Taliban in power.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Defense One, HotAir, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review, Breitbart and KTLA
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Brazil's President Bans Social Networks From Removing Some Posts — The new rules in Brazil appear to be the first national policy that restricts how tech companies can control their sites, analysts say. — President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is temporarily banning social media companies …
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HuffPost, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and CNN, more at Techmeme »
Lily Kuo / Washington Post:
Xi Jinping's crackdown on everything is remaking Chinese society — The orders have been sudden, dramatic and often baffling. Last week, “American Idol”-style competitions and shows featuring men deemed too effeminate were banned by Chinese authorities. Days earlier, one of China's …
Discussion:
New York Times and UnHerd
Kevin Carey / New York Times:
Men Fall Behind in College Enrollment. Women Still Play Catch-Up at Work. — Women are overrepresented in low-paying professions that require college credentials. — The coronavirus upended the lives of millions of college students. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that men …
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Independent Women's Forum, WV MetroNews, The James G. Martin Center … and The Week
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
Meghan McCain joins DailyMail.com as a columnist: TV host says she wants to share her opinions ‘without fear or favor’ after sparring with co-hosts on The View over her conservative views — Meghan McCain's first DailyMail.com column will be published the week of September 20
Discussion:
Deadline, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and The Hill
Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost:
Trump Insiders Are Quietly Paying Teen Memers For Posts — Documents show that meme accounts rife with disinformation have also become shadowy advertising tools for some notable Republicans. — In the fever swamps of Instagram, a network of right-wing meme accounts run by teenage boys …
Discussion:
Raw Story and Political Wire
Eileen Drage O'Reilly / Axios:
Monster risk: Fauci says COVID cases 10x too high — Americans are now getting infected with COVID-19 at 10 times the rate needed to end the pandemic, which will persist until more people get vaccinated, NIAID director Anthony Fauci tells Axios. — Threat level: “The endgame is to suppress the virus.
Joe Cunningham / RedState:
Refusing Health Care to the Unvaccinated Is Awfully Close to Death Panels, Isn't It? — Jimmy Kimmel made a return to his late-night show earlier this week and opened things up by taking cheap shots at those who have remained unvaccinated against COVID-19. — Kimmel's comments echoed …
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The Daily Caller, Twitchy and YouTube
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Christie steps out of Trump's shadow — and stokes 2024 buzz — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is launching a comeback tour as he considers whether to mount a 2024 presidential bid that could put him on a collision course with Donald Trump. — The former governor is set to deliver …
Discussion:
HotAir, The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
Joshua Prager / The Atlantic:
The Roe Baby — Nearly half a century ago, Roe v. Wade secured a woman's legal right to obtain an abortion. The ruling has been contested with ever-increasing intensity, dividing and reshaping American politics. And yet for all its prominence, the person most profoundly connected …
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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The Western Journal, Reason, Alternet.org, Axios, Trending Politics, New York Times, RealClearScience, Fox News and Fox News
Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
Pro-Trump lawyers face $200,000 legal bill for ‘frivolous’ election case — Michigan officials on Wednesday demanded that lawyers who unsuccessfully sued to overturn former President Donald Trump's election defeat in the state pay about $200,000 to reimburse for legal fees and related costs.
CNN:
Last known member of Afghanistan's Jewish community leaves country, taking dozens of women and children with him — (CNN)The last known member of Afghanistan's Jewish community left the country on Friday, taking 30 other people with him — including 28 women and children …
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The Guardian