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Mike Allen / Axios:
America's civil war of 2021 — Top Republicans are calling for a public uprising to protest President Biden's broad vaccine mandates, eight months after more than 500 people stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to overturn the election. — Why it matters: It has been decades since America …
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Robby Soave / New York Times:
Biden's Vaccine Mandate Is a Big Mistake — Mr. Soave, a senior editor at Reason, has written extensively about law, public policy and free speech. — There's one person that President Biden desperately needs to consult about his new federal vaccine mandate: President-elect Biden.
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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Federal mandate takes vaccine decision off employers' hands — Larger U.S. businesses now won't have to decide whether to require their employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Doing so is now federal policy. — President Joe Biden announced sweeping new orders Thursday …
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: Scientists Say Biden's Vaccine Mandates Will Need Time to Slow the Pandemic — India curbs crowds at religious festivals to avoid third wave as festivals in September and October are typically huge draws. But after previous celebrations were blamed for spreading the virus, some states have imposed crowd limits.
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Joe Biden's incoherent, fear-mongering COVID vaccine speech
Joe Biden's incoherent, fear-mongering COVID vaccine speech
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Washington Post:
Biden announces sweeping new vaccine mandates for businesses, federal workers
Biden announces sweeping new vaccine mandates for businesses, federal workers
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CNN:
Fox trashes “authoritarian” Biden
Fox trashes “authoritarian” Biden
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The White House:
President Biden's COVID-19 Plan
President Biden's COVID-19 Plan
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Patricia McCarthy / American Thinker:
Biden's vaccine mandate speech!
National Review:
Biden's Desperate COVID Overreach
Biden's Desperate COVID Overreach
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Leana Wen / Washington Post:
Biden's six-step covid strategy does not go far enough to compel vaccinations
Biden's six-step covid strategy does not go far enough to compel vaccinations
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Kevin D. Williamson / New York Times:
The Trump Coup Is Still Raging — Mr. Williamson writes extensively about politics and more at National Review. — What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was not a coup attempt. It was half of a coup attempt — the less important half. — The more important part of the coup attempt …
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Hundreds of law enforcement officials were prepped early for potential Jan. 6 violence — Just two days before armed rioters stormed and ransacked the Capitol, about 300 law enforcement officials got on a conference call to talk about the possibility that Donald Trump's supporters would turn violent on Jan. 6.
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Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
New poll finds Newsom could easily beat recall thanks to motivated Democrats — Momentum has turned strongly against the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom with just days to go before voting ends, a change that comes after a deluge of political ads and support from leading Democrats …
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Opposition to California recall widens in new poll
Opposition to California recall widens in new poll
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Wall Street Journal:
Journalism Schools Leave Graduates With Hefty Student Loans — Students take on debt for master's degrees in hope of news jobs even as opportunities diminish — News reporting has lost thousands of jobs over the past decade, with a further slide predicted.
Dan Bloom / Mirror.co.uk:
Britain will now see ‘permanent food shortages’ and it's ‘going to get worse’ — Food and Drink Federation chief Ian Wright said the country won't run out of food, but the days of shoppers knowing they can get whatever they like at the supermarket are gone forever
John Nichols / The Nation:
Susan Collins, Brett Kavanaugh, and Texas's Abortion Ban — Collins cleared the way for Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court, and Kavanaugh cleared the way for this new assault on reproductive rights. — Susan Collins recognizes that the Texas law banning abortion after the first six weeks …
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Politico:
Texas ban spotlights Democrats' generational divide on abortion and trans issues
Texas ban spotlights Democrats' generational divide on abortion and trans issues
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Edward Rhodes / The Hill:
Justice Ginsburg's parting gift?
Justice Ginsburg's parting gift?
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Kellyanne Conway didn't belong on the Air Force Academy board — President Joe Biden is cleaning house. On Wednesday, the White House asked for resignations from more than 10 of former President Donald Trump's appointees to boards that advise three military service academies.
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
18 Trump appointees have either resigned or been terminated from military service academy boards, White House official says
18 Trump appointees have either resigned or been terminated from military service academy boards, White House official says
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W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
Biden tries to build back his poll numbers with domestic issues
Biden tries to build back his poll numbers with domestic issues
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CNN:
CNN launches new polling methodology — (CNN)The landscape of political polling is changing, and so too is the way CNN carries out its polls. Beginning with Friday's newly released CNN poll conducted by SSRS, the network is implementing a new methodology for measuring public opinion.
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Politico:
They Created Our Post-9/11 World. Here's What They Think They Got Wrong. — The sense of vulnerability and fear — yes, terror — was palpable. In the hours and days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the consensus was that more deadly attacks were being prepped.
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Lawfare:
Remembering the Gains of the Afghanistan War
Remembering the Gains of the Afghanistan War
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Krishnadev Calamur / NPR:
Breyer Warns Against Remaking The Court: ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’ — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has a warning to those who want to remake the court: Be careful what you wish for. — In his new book, The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics …
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Jordan Green / Raw Story:
Ex-Marines in neo-Nazi terror cell planned to attack power grid as precursor to assassination campaign: government — A neo-Nazi terror cell enmeshed in the US Marine Corps made plans to attack the power grid last fall, hoping the could set the stage to carry out assassinations in their quest …
CNN:
Trump's House GOP enemies get boost from McCarthy's leadership team — ‘Disgraceful’: Former President Trump's niece reacts to what he's doing on 9/11 — (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his leadership team are quietly working to prop up some of the GOP incumbents targeted …
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Tim Alberta / The Atlantic:
‘I Was Responsible for Those People’ — On the evening of September 4, 2021, one week before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Glenn Vogt stood at the footprint of the North Tower and gazed at the names stamped in bronze. The sun was diving below the buildings across the Hudson River in New Jersey …
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Americans refuse to leave Afghanistan without their families as evacuation flights resume — In the days and weeks before the U.S. military's hectic departure from Afghanistan, two former interpreters for the American military already resettled in the United States — one a naturalized U.S. citizen …
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