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USCP Officers Arrest California Man with Bayonet & Machete — This morning the United States Capitol Police arrested a California man who had multiple knives in his truck near the Democratic National Committee headquarters. — “This is good police work plain and simple,” said Chief Tom Manger.
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Capitol Police arrest man with bayonet and machete in truck near DNC headquarters
Capitol Police arrest man with bayonet and machete in truck near DNC headquarters
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Temporary fencing to surround Capitol ahead of September 18 right-wing rally
Temporary fencing to surround Capitol ahead of September 18 right-wing rally
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Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That's Exempt. — A program known as XCheck has given millions of celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users special treatment, a privilege many abuse — Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said Facebook Inc. allows …
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Trump says Dems ‘disparaged’ COVID-19 vaccine while he was president: ‘Now they wonder why’ some are hesitant — Trump criticizes Biden's new COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employers — Joe Biden's Massive Vaccine Mandates — EXCLUSIVE: Former President Donald Trump blamed Democrats …
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Tensions mount between CDC and Biden health team over boosters — Top Biden Covid-19 officials are increasingly clashing with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the administration pushes to begin distributing booster shots widely by Sept. 20.
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Most People Don't Need a Covid Vaccine Booster, New Review Says
Most People Don't Need a Covid Vaccine Booster, New Review Says
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Help! I Couldn't Stop Writing Fake Dear Prudence Letters That Got Published — Sometime at the tail end of 2018, shortly after abandoning yet another draft of what was supposed to be my fifth Young Adult novel, I took up a different form of fiction: I started writing fake letters to Dear Prudence, Slate's long-running advice column.
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George W. Bush just threw a whole lot of shade at Donald Trump — (CNN)The man who was president during the attacks of September 11, 2001, used a speech commemorating the 20th anniversary of that terrible day to call out the “malign force” coursing through the country thanks to the presidency …
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Trump takes aim at George W. Bush, saying he shouldn't ‘lecture’ about threat of domestic terrorism — Former president Donald Trump lashed out Monday at former president George W. Bush, saying his fellow Republican had “a failed and uninspiring presidency” and shouldn't be “lecturing” …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump is showing just how divisive a new White House run would be
Trump is showing just how divisive a new White House run would be
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett argues Supreme Court isn't ‘a bunch of partisan hacks’ — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In the wake of a controversial decision on abortion rights, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told a crowd of more than 100 here that she doesn't believe the highest court in the land is politically driven.
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Homeland Security chief of staff abruptly resigns — Karen Olick, chief of staff to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, announced on Monday that she will be leaving for a new, undisclosed opportunity. — Jennifer Higgins, the current associate director of Refugee …
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What the Never Trumpers Want Now — Many of the conservatives and Republicans appalled by Donald Trump's presidency clutched a hope through the bewildering years: Someday this would all be over and politics would return to normal. — But normal has not returned.
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Veronica Wolski, Woman Who QAnoners Demanded Hospital Treat COVID With Ivermectin, Dies — A woman who became the center of a harassment campaign against a Chicago hospital as QAnon supporters demanded they treat her COVID-19 diagnosis with ivermectin has died, according to reports.
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POLITICO Playbook: Grisham dishes on Melania — DRIVING THE DAY — THE WEEK AHEAD: JOE BIDEN campaigns with GAVIN NEWSOM in Long Beach, Calif., tonight before voters there decide Tuesday whether Newsom should be recalled (polls show him up by double digits) ... Secretary …
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Lab-grown woolly mammoths could walk the Earth in six years if geneticist's new start-up succeeds — Tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm is helping to fund a project by Harvard geneticist George Church to revive the woolly mammoth. — The project, called Colossal, aims to create a calf in as little as six years, Church told CNBC.
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A New Company With a Wild Mission: Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth
A New Company With a Wild Mission: Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth
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California couple die of covid, leaving five kids behind. Their newborn is 3 weeks old. — Davy Macias, 37, was intubated and dying of complications from covid-19 when doctors helped her give birth to her daughter. She would never see her baby. — Her husband, Daniel Macias, 39 …
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Ron DeSantis and Tom Cotton are winning the Fox News primary — The Florida governor can already thank the network for his current position in the lead — Fox News helped make Donald Trump president, providing him a weekly outlet for years before the 2016 election and then promoting …
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The F.E.C. dismisses claims that Twitter illegally blocked a Hunter Biden article. — The Federal Election Commission has dismissed Republican accusations that Twitter violated election laws in October by blocking people from posting links to an unsubstantiated New York Post article …
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Chris Wallace's grilling of a GOP governor exposes a much bigger scam — When Chris Wallace grilled the Republican governor of Nebraska over his opposition to vaccine mandates on Sunday, the Fox News anchor did a fine job of exposing the incoherence of one GOP lawmaker's positioning on the issue.
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It made me sick to watch a once-male special forces combat veteran beat up a woman on TV - it's time to stop this trans sport insanity before women start being killed — It was the moment ideology met cold, hard reality. — Alana McLaughlin, 38, the second transgender MMA fighter to compete in the sport …
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California Democrats ponder reforms amid Newsom recall effort — Even before California voters finish casting their ballots in a recall election targeting Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), state Democrats are contemplating changes to raise the threshold for future recalls in an attempt to bring order to what has been a chaotic process.
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Spencer Silva / Media Matters for America:
Right-wing media are already crying foul on the California recall
Right-wing media are already crying foul on the California recall
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Afghan American woman's escape highlights secretive CIA role in Kabul rescues — Five days after Afghanistan's fall, Shaqaiq Birashk, holed up in her Kabul apartment, was contacted by a stranger offering to have her picked up and escorted to the airport for evacuation.
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Schools facing critical race theory battles are diversifying rapidly, analysis finds — Downingtown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, has been changing. And the school district has tried to change with it. — In 1994, students of color made up just 5 percent of the enrollment in the Downingtown Area School District.
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Seven reasons to think Senate Democrats will actually change the filibuster — The party has to pass voting rights legislation. Changing the rules is the only way to do it. — In the middle of a brazen nationwide assault on voting rights, of a kind we have not seen since Jim Crow …
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USA-POLICING/MINNEAPOLIS — After the brutal killing of a Black man went viral and triggered national protests, Minneapolis police underwent an abrupt shift: Officers began making fewer traffic stops, drug and gun checks, Reuters found. With the city engulfed in violence, citizens ask: Where are the police?
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GOP ‘Moderate’ Blasted Capitol Riots — and Cozied Up to a Jan. 6 Bus Trip Organizer — Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick called Jan. 6th a “coup attempt,” but that didn't stop him from attending a fundraiser at the home of a man who helped bus hundreds of people to Washington for a “Million MAGA March”
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Former US Sen. Al Franken talks political downfall, return to comedy before Northampton show — The past few years have been unsettling for many — and Al Franken is no exception. — After a successful career in comedy, including a lengthy stint on NBC's “Saturday Night Live,” …
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POLITICO Playbook PM: Americans back Biden's vaccine mandates — DEVELOPING — The Capitol Police arrested a white supremacist with knives in his truck near the DNC headquarters early this morning. DONALD CRAIGHEAD of Oceanside, Calif., allegedly had a bayonet and machete inside his pickup …
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Fauci says he supports vaccine mandates for air travel — Top infectious-disease expert Anthony S. Fauci says air travelers should get the coronavirus vaccine to fly. — “I would support that if you want to get on a plane and travel with other people, that you should be vaccinated,” he told theSkimm.
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Lauren Boebert Says Government Should Be Run by ‘Righteous Men and Women of God’ — Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado spoke Saturday at a conference held by the Truth & Liberty Coalition, a religious-right political organization founded by right-wing pastor Andrew Wommack.
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Simone Biles to testify before Senate about Larry Nassar — WASHINGTON — Gold medalist Simone Biles and other star gymnasts will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the investigation into Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics doctor who was accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of girls and women.
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