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12:10 PM ET, September 9, 2021

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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 …
Discussion: Insider, Mediaite and Raw Story
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump's closest White House adviser to release book
Discussion: The Hill
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
Discussion: 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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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:   Sen. Amy Klobuchar reveals breast cancer diagnosis
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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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 …
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”  —  Six in 10 Americans favor the call by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) for a “strategic pause” on Democrats' $3.5 trillion spending plan, according to new polling by the bipartisan policy group No Labels shared with Axios.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The Democrats' trillion-dollar question
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Biden's six-prong COVID-19 plan includes vaccine and mask mandates: preview of Thursday speech  —  Details unclear, but president will also emphasize economic recovery and keeping schools open  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for September 9  —  President Biden's six-prong plan to fight COVID-19 …
Discussion: The Hill and National Review
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Wall Street Journal:   Biden to Require All Federal Workers, Government Contractors to Be Vaccinated Against Covid-19
CNN:
Biden to announce that all federal workers must be vaccinated, with no option for testing
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Biden faces hard truths of the pandemic ahead of major speech
Discussion: USA Today
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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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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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 …
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
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 …
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
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Josh Haskell / ABC7:
Larry Elder tours homeless encampment in Venice, but leaves due to angry crowd
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: USA Today and Fox News
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Twitchy and YouTube
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.
Discussion: The Hill and Forbes
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 …
Discussion: CBS News and Bookshop
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
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Guardian
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 and The Hill
 
 
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Politico:
White House approves ‘partnership’ with vets evacuating U.S. citizens, Afghan allies
Dale Peck / The Baffler:
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Thomas Lecaque / The Bulwark:
The Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for Your Schools
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Big Tech Companies Helped Fund Far-Right Groups Pushing for Texas Abortion Ban
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Howard Stern rips vaccine opponents: ‘F— their freedom, I want my freedom to live’
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Kourosh Ziabari / Asia Times:
Raisi's economic plan lacks rhyme or reason
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Legislating in the Name of God
Discussion: National Review
 Earlier Items: 
Travis Caldwell / CNN:
The US could easily return to some level of normalcy if everybody would do their part against Covid-19, expert says
Discussion: Axios and Fox News
Don Walton / Lincoln Journal Star:
Senators wrestle over Republican congressional redistricting plan dividing Omaha
Discussion: Political Wire
Bruce Thornton / Front Page Magazine:
Suicide by ‘Replacement Migration’
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Send the Incompetent Brass a Message: Don't Enlist
Hillman Foundation:
Jane Mayer wins September Sidney for Revealing the Republican Megabucks Behind the Big Lie of Election Fraud
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
It is far too soon for people to write off Joe Biden
RealClearInvestigations:
Introducing RealClearInvestigations' Jan. 6-BLM Riots Dataset
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
The new 99%: These are the people who are getting serious cases of COVID-19
 

 
From Mediagazer:

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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