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Washington Post:
Biden announces sweeping new vaccine mandates for businesses, federal workers — President Biden announced sweeping new coronavirus vaccine mandates Thursday designed to affect tens of millions of Americans, ordering all businesses with more than 100 employees to require their workers to be immunized or face weekly testing.
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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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The White House:
President Biden's COVID-19 Plan — President Biden is implementing a six-pronged, comprehensive national strategy that employs the same science-based approach that was used to successfully combat previous variants of COVID-19 earlier this year. This plan will ensure that we are using every available tool …
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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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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Federal mandate takes vaccine decision off employers' hands
Federal mandate takes vaccine decision off employers' hands
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CNN:
Fox trashes “authoritarian” Biden
Fox trashes “authoritarian” Biden
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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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Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
RNC to sue Biden administration over vaccine mandates
RNC to sue Biden administration over vaccine mandates
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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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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
FBI Seizes Phone Of Oath Keepers Lawyer In ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Investigation
FBI Seizes Phone Of Oath Keepers Lawyer In ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Investigation
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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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The Daily Beast
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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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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Edward Rhodes / The Hill:
Justice Ginsburg's parting gift?
Justice Ginsburg's parting gift?
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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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The Daily Caller
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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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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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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Associated Press:
As flights resume, plight of Afghan allies tests Biden's vow — WASHINGTON (AP) — Evacuation flights have resumed for Westerners, but thousands of at-risk Afghans who had helped the United States are still stranded in their homeland with the U.S. Embassy shuttered, all American diplomats and troops gone and the Taliban now in charge.
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Americans refuse to leave Afghanistan without their families as evacuation flights resume
Americans refuse to leave Afghanistan without their families as evacuation flights resume
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New York Times, Breitbart and KTLA
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 …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
18 Trump appointees have either resigned or been terminated from military service academy boards, White House official says — Eighteen Trump administration appointees serving on the advisory boards of military service academies have either resigned from their positions or were terminated …
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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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Daily Kos and Canon City Daily Record
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Andrew Yang to launch a third party — Former presidential and New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is set to launch a third party next month, according to two people familiar with the matter. — Yang is expected to start the party in conjunction with the Oct. 5 release of his new book …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Producer inflation accelerated in August, as wholesale prices rose record 8.3% from a year ago — The producer price index increased 0.7% in August from a month ago, above the 0.6% Dow Jones estimate. — Final demand prices rose 8.3% from a year ago, the biggest increase on record going back to 2010.
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National Review
Washington Post:
False, toxic Sept. 11 conspiracy theories are still widespread today — The facts of Sept. 11, 2001, are uncontested: Terrorists hijacked four jetliners, flew two into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon, while passengers on the fourth plane helped crash it in Pennsylvania.