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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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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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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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Covid Live Updates: Scientists Say Biden's Vaccine Mandates Will Need Time to Slow the Pandemic
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Right-wing vaccine disinformation is killing people, and the propagandists are furious Biden is fighting back
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Joe Biden's incoherent, fear-mongering COVID vaccine speech
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Biden's Desperate COVID Overreach
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Biden's six-step covid strategy does not go far enough to compel vaccinations
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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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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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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.


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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Opposition to California recall widens in new poll
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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


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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Remembering the Gains of the Afghanistan War
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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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Texas ban spotlights Democrats' generational divide on abortion and trans issues
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Justice Ginsburg's parting gift?
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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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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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In speech taking on Trump, Christie calls on Republicans to renounce conspiracy theories and discredit extremists “in our midst” — Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who was once a close adviser to former President Trump, told Republicans gathered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential …
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‘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 …


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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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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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 …


A dangerous trend among GOP candidates shows the Trump threat is here to stay — So is this really how it's going to be? Are more and more Republican candidates across our great land going to treat it as a requirement that they cast any and all election losses as dubious or illegitimate by definition?
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Norton Denies Responsibility for Setting Zebras Free, Supports Freedom Generally — Norton says the charges are understandable, but for the first time offers an alibi. The six zebras escaped from a D.C.-area farm early this week — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton …
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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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