Top Items:
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop - Manchin: Delay Biden plan to '22 — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is privately saying he thinks Congress should take a “strategic pause” until 2022 before voting on President Biden's $3.5 trillion social-spending package, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
Discussion:
The Guardian, National Review, Outside the Beltway, Townhall, Common Dreams, The Hill, Breitbart, CNN and Politico
RELATED:
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Senate parliamentarian deals blow to Dems' immigration push — WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats can't use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs for their plan to give millions of immigrants a chance to become citizens, the Senate's parliamentarian said late Sunday …
Discussion:
Axios, HotAir, Insider, Politico, CBS News, Townhall, New Jersey Monitor, Wall Street Journal, Breitbart, NPR, Roll Call, Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, One America News Network, Bloomberg, The Hill and National Review
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Sinema tells White House she's opposed to current prescription drug plan — The White House has a new headache as it struggles to get its multitrillion-dollar party-line spending bill passed: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's objections to drug pricing reforms that are already struggling to make it through the House.
Discussion:
Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, American Prospect, One America News Network, New Republic, The Hill, Bloomberg and Fox News
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Sinema issues ultimatum to Biden — DRIVING THE DAY — PAS SI DIPLOMATE — The indoor dining area of Le Diplomate closed early Sunday night due to a violent disturbance caused by a man that lasted 15 minutes, an employee told our tipster.
Discussion:
HotAir, Daily Kos, Townhall, New Republic and RedState
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
This Powerful Democrat Linked to Fossil Fuels Will Craft the U.S. Climate Plan — Senator Joe Manchin is already a crucial swing vote in the Democrats' sweeping budget bill. But he will also write the details of its climate change program. — WASHINGTON — Joe Manchin …
Discussion:
Political Wire
CNN:
Democrats unlikely to get immigration measure in $3.5 trillion budget proposal after Senate parliamentarian ruling
Democrats unlikely to get immigration measure in $3.5 trillion budget proposal after Senate parliamentarian ruling
Discussion:
Fox News, Washington Post, ImmigrationProf Blog and The Last Refuge
Politico:
Dems vow to go the distance as September problems pile up
Dems vow to go the distance as September problems pile up
Discussion:
The Bulwark, Real Clear Politics and Bloomberg
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Democrats Dealt a Blow on Immigration Plans
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Democrats blocked from including immigration reform in party-line spending bill
Democrats blocked from including immigration reform in party-line spending bill
Discussion:
Common Dreams, Page Array, The Gateway Pundit and Power Line
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Covid Vaccine Prompts Strong Immune Response in Younger Children, Pfizer Says — Vaccinated kids aged 5 to 11 showed evidence of protection against the virus, the company said. The data must be reviewed by the F.D.A. before children can be inoculated. — The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine …
Discussion:
Forbes
RELATED:
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Low dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is safe and effective in children ages 5 to 11, companies' study finds — A lower dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine — one-third the amount given to adults and teens — is safe and triggered a robust immune response in children as young as 5 years old …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal
Amanda Sealy / CNN:
Covid-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds is safe and shows ‘robust’ antibody response, Pfizer says — (CNN)In a highly anticipated announcement, Pfizer said on Monday a Phase 2/3 trial showed its Covid-19 vaccine was safe and generated a “robust” antibody response in children ages 5 to 11.
James Downie / Washington Post:
Tate Reeves and the high cost of covid incompetence — When naming the poster child for irresponsible leadership on covid-19, there are plenty of governors to choose from. You could make a strong case for South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Discussion:
CNN, HuffPost, Daily Kos, USA Today, RedState, Crooks and Liars, The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast, Raw Story and The Hill
Glenn Greenwald:
The Indictment of Hillary Clinton's Lawyer is an Indictment of the Russiagate Wing of U.S. Media — The DOJ's new charging document, approved by Biden's Attorney General, sheds bright light onto the Russiagate fraud and how journalistic corruption was key. — A lawyer for Hillary Clinton's …
RELATED:
David R. Lurie / The Daily Beast:
Bill Barr's Still Making a Mockery of Justice. Merrick Garland's Letting Him.
Bill Barr's Still Making a Mockery of Justice. Merrick Garland's Letting Him.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Ben Smith / New York Times:
How the U.S. Helped, and Hampered, the Escape of Afghan Journalists — The secretary of state cites a “massive effort” by the government, but people involved in the evacuation instead describe bureaucratic snags. — As American news organizations scrambled to evacuate their Afghan journalists …
RELATED:
THE CITY:
Eric Adams' Townhouse Trouble: Tax Filing ‘Mistake’ and Blown-Off Buildings Inspector — Campaign says mayoral nominee will amend tax returns for a second time after THE CITY pointed out irregularities concerning filings on his Bed-Stuy residence. Adams also overlooked …
Politico:
'It's spreading': Phony election fraud conspiracies infect midterms — It started as one big, false claim — that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. — But nearly a year later, the Big Lie is metastasizing, with Republicans throughout the country raising the specter of rigged elections …
Discussion:
Raw Story
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Meet Manchin's K Street whisperers — Salutations, Early birds. Tips, comments, recipes? Send them to earlytips@washpost.com and we'll post the best gastronomic delight that comes our way. — 🚨: President Biden seeks a phone call with Emmanuel Macron as the U.N. General Assembly starts tomorrow.
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Ignoring Haitians' humanity exposes Biden's broken promise — and a looming crisis — They seemed to come out of literally nowhere and then they just kept coming — Haitian refugees, suddenly crammed by the thousands in the shade under a highway overpass in Del Rio, Texas …
Discussion:
The Daily Beast
RELATED:
Max Chafkin / New York Magazine:
Peter Thiel's Origin Story His ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man. — Sometime around the spring of 1988, several members of the Stanford University chess team traveled to a tournament in Monterey, California, in an old Volkswagen Rabbit.
New York Times:
In the Heart of Nashville, Rolling Parties Rage at Every Stoplight — As Nashville's popularity has grown, so has the “transportainment” business — a motley assortment including old buses, farm tractors and a truck with a hot tub. Many think it has gotten out of hand.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee personally vetted Trump's fraud claims, new book says. They were unpersuaded. — “Peril,” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, reveals the lengths the two Republicans went to in examining the president's baseless claims. — Sen. Lindsey O. Graham agreed to hear Rudolph W. Giuliani out.
Discussion:
ABC News, Raw Story, Power Line and The Western Journal
Susannah George / Washington Post:
After 20 years of waging religious guerrilla warfare, Taliban fighters in Kabul say they miss the battle — KABUL — Since celebrating the fall of Kabul a month ago, after years of waging a holy war to overthrow the U.S.-backed government, the 250 Taliban fighters under Abdulrahman Nifiz's command …
Discussion:
Insider and New York Post
New York Times:
Gabby Petito's Disappearance: a Timeline — The authorities said they had found human remains in Wyoming consistent with a description of Gabrielle Petito, 22. The search continues for her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. — Here's what you need to know:
Discussion:
New York Post, BizPac Review, Law & Crime and NBC Chicago
American Greatness:
The Afghanistization of America — We are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes. — The United States should be at its pinnacle of strength.
Discussion:
Ace of Spades HQ
Jason Gale / Bloomberg:
Bats in Laos Caves Harbor Closest Relatives to Covid-19 Virus — Pasteur Institute scientists tested hundreds of horseshoe bats — Finding moves researchers closer to pinpointing Covid origins — Bats dwelling in limestone caves in northern Laos were found to carry coronaviruses …
Roger L. Simon / theepochtimes.com:
The Democrats War on Blacks Keeps Growing in the Pandemic — One of the key reasons I left the Democratic Party years ago was the atrocious way they treated black people. — I'm not just talking about “Jim Crow” or LBJ's well-known patriarchal and racist use of the “n-word” …
Discussion:
Instapundit and The Daily Caller
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump won these counties big. His supporters question the results there, too. — Former President Donald Trump won Mesa County, Colorado, by 28 points in last fall's election. — In Barry County, Michigan, he won by more than 32 points. And in Lander County, Nevada, his victory was in excess of 61 points.