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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 …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Sen. Amy Klobuchar reveals breast cancer diagnosis
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 …
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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Biden cans Trump military academy holdovers
Biden cans Trump military academy holdovers
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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.
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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.
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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Jonathan Landay / Reuters:
Taliban to allow 200 Americans, other civilians to leave Afghanistan -U.S. official — Taliban authorities have agreed to let 200 American civilians and third country nationals who remained in Afghanistan after the end of the U.S. evacuation operation to depart on charter flights from Kabul airport, a U.S. official said.
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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 …
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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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.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Americans favor Manchin's “strategic pause”
Exclusive poll: Americans favor Manchin's “strategic pause”
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Require All Federal Workers, Government Contractors to Be Vaccinated Against Covid-19 — President set to unveil executive orders setting those requirements as part of a broader plan to combat the coronavirus — President Biden is requiring that all federal workers and millions …
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 …
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RealClearInvestigations:
Introducing RealClearInvestigations' Jan. 6-BLM Riots Dataset — AP Photo/John Minchillo; AP Photo/Julio Cortez; YouTube/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty — Many in the political and media establishment have cast the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol as one of the darkest episodes in American history …
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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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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 …
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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 …
Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
Senators wrestle over Republican congressional redistricting plan dividing Omaha — The Legislature's Redistricting Committee on Wednesday fielded a proposal from its Republican members that would move a northern chunk of Douglas County out of its Omaha moorings and into eastern Nebraska's 1st Congressional District.
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
It is far too soon for people to write off Joe Biden — He might not be a saviour but those proclaiming his presidency a failure have short memories — Put it down to a hyper-caffeinated media. A few weeks ago, Joe Biden's presidency was widely hailed as a triumph. Coronavirus was in retreat.
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo avoid documents suggesting Fauci lied to Congress about NIH funding Wuhan lab research — ABC, CBS, NBC also avoided the bombshell revelations
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