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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Biden Tells Top Democrats He's Preparing Lobbying Blitz on Filibuster Reform, Voting Rights — The president, sources say, has promised to lean on centrists to change the filibuster rules and save Democrats' imperiled effort to pass a new voting rights bill
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Julia Cherner / ABC News:
Manchin, Sanders at odds over $3.5 trillion budget resolution — Sen. Joe Manchin and Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared on ABC's “This Week” Sunday. — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., reiterated his call on Sunday for a strategic pause on the $3.5 trillion budget resolution, while Sen. Bernie Sanders …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats see $3.5T spending goal is slipping away — There's a growing realization among Democrats that their plans for a $3.5 trillion spending package to reshape the nation's social safety net and to tackle climate change will have to be slimmed down because of anxious centrists worried about the 2022 midterms.
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Justin Gomez / ABC News:
Murthy calls Biden's new COVID-19 actions an ‘appropriate response’ to tackle pandemic
Murthy calls Biden's new COVID-19 actions an ‘appropriate response’ to tackle pandemic
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CNN:
Most Republicans want Trump as the GOP's leader but are divided about whether he'd help them retake the White House — Donald Trump is ‘99, 100 percent’ likely to run for president in 2024 — (CNN)Most Republicans want former President Donald Trump to remain their party's leader, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
Axios:
Bush alludes to Capitol rioters' “determination to defile national symbols” in 9/11 speech — Former President George W. Bush on Saturday warned of homegrown violent extremism while speaking at the Flight 93 memorial on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Yes, the Jan. 6 insurrectionists were terrorists. George W. Bush just indicted them.
Yes, the Jan. 6 insurrectionists were terrorists. George W. Bush just indicted them.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Bush alludes to US Capitol rioters when condemning violent extremists behind 9/11 attacks
Bush alludes to US Capitol rioters when condemning violent extremists behind 9/11 attacks
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Justice Breyer opposes politics surrounding Supreme Court, supports one possible reform — Breyer, 83, plans to retire from the court, but he has not said when that will happen — Justice Breyer reacts to Biden's Supreme Court commission on ‘Fox News Sunday’
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Where the Meaning of Flight 93 Can Never End The national memorial was built to allow multiple interpretations. — Paul Murdoch did not set out to heal the wound in the Earth, but to preserve it as a scar. The architect of the Flight 93 National Memorial has spent most of the last two decades refining …
KIRO 7 News Seattle:
NY hospital to pause baby deliveries after staffers quit over vaccine mandate — LOWVILLE, N.Y. — An upstate New York hospital said it will pause the delivery of babies in two weeks because of a spate of resignations by maternity unit workers who are objecting to COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
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Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
Republicans never had a COVID plan. They just wanted us to accept mass death. — When COVID-19 first paralyzed our nation last winter, many Republican leaders blasted stay-home orders, arguing they would kill businesses and inconvenience folks who had to pause going to the mall or the movies.
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
FBI releases newly declassified record on Sept. 11 attacks — WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI late Saturday released a newly declassified document related to logistical support given to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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NBC News:
‘Overall crime decreased in 2020’ in the United States, report finds — WASHINGTON — After crime rates in the United States surged in the second half of the 20th century, moderate Democrats persuaded the party to toughen up its platform in the 1990s to channel widespread voter concerns spreading from big cities to the suburbs.
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider:
Doctor says ‘death is imminent’ for a woman on a hospital bed in Michigan who refused the COVID-19 vaccine ‘adamantly’ — Dr. Nicole Linder from Michigan said she watched a patient's COVID-19 symptoms worsen for weeks. — Her patient, Kathy, refused to get vaccinated, and now it's too late, Linder said.
United States Capitol Police:
USCP's January 6 Internal Investigations — After January 6, the United States Capitol Police promised to provide an update on its internal investigations related to the attack. — This week, the USCP provided the Department of Justice the administrative cases as part of the ongoing discovery production …
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Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
The 9/11 Era is over. Good. — A few last words as my generation's defining event recedes into history — I think this is the last post I'll write about 9/11. The reason is not just that I, and the world, are running out of things to say about that awful event — although that is certainly true.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP's halting, uneven journey toward becoming the anti-vaccine mandate party — Or in this case, toward opposing something that isn't a vaccine mandate at all. — There are a couple of perplexing things about the political opposition to the Biden administration's decision …