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Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Public Pans Texas Abortion Law — Most say leave Roe v. Wade as is — West Long Branch, NJ - Key aspects of the new Texas law restricting access to abortions receive a thumbs down from a broad majority of Americans, especially the so-called “bounty” payment provision.
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Ann Marimow / Washington Post:
Texas doctor who violated state's abortion ban is sued, launching test of constitutionality — A lawsuit that could test the constitutionality of the nation's most restrictive abortion ban was filed in Texas on Monday against a doctor who admitted to performing an abortion considered illegal under the new law.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Supreme Court sets Dec. 1 for arguments in challenge to Roe v. Wade
Supreme Court sets Dec. 1 for arguments in challenge to Roe v. Wade
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court to hear restrictive Mississippi abortion law on December 1
Supreme Court to hear restrictive Mississippi abortion law on December 1
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Political Operatives Indicted for Alleged Scheme Involving Illegal Campaign Contribution to 2016 Presidential Campaign — An indictment was unsealed today in the District of Columbia charging a Kentucky man and a Florida man both with conspiracy to solicit and cause an illegal campaign contribution …
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Politico:
Longtime GOP operatives charged with funneling Russian national's money to Trump, RNC — Two veteran Republican campaign operatives — including one who got a pardon from then-President Donald Trump one month before he left office — are charged in a new federal indictment with funneling $25,000 …
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CNN:
Memo shows Trump lawyer's six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election — Washington (CNN)A conservative lawyer working with then-President Donald Trump's legal team tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the election results on January 6 when Congress counted …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ominous new details about Trump's coup attempt require Democrats to act — In case you need more evidence of how much damage keeping the filibuster might end up doing, add this to the list: It could make a future stolen presidential election more likely. — This is thrust upon us …
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee personally vetted Trump's fraud claims, new book says. They were unpersuaded.
Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee personally vetted Trump's fraud claims, new book says. They were unpersuaded.
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Emily Green / VICE:
US Border Agents Are Removing Haitian Migrants Using Horses and Whips — “This is why your country's shit,” one Border Patrol agent on horseback yelled at a group of Haitian migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. — EG — Border Patrol officers on horseback swinging whips in the faces of Haitians.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
What one photo from the border tells us about the evolving migrant crisis — This article has been updated. — Photographer Paul Ratje was standing in the Rio Grande when he captured a remarkable image: a Border Patrol agent mounted on horseback, grabbing the shirt of a migrant unlucky enough to be within reach.
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Washington Post:
Deportees land in Port-au-Prince: ‘Nobody told us we were going back to Haiti’
Deportees land in Port-au-Prince: ‘Nobody told us we were going back to Haiti’
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Haitians on border: We're not going anywhere. CBP: Yes you are
Haitians on border: We're not going anywhere. CBP: Yes you are
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CNN:
Indicted Trump Org. ex-CFO Weisselberg expects more indictments, his lawyer says — (CNN)Allen Weisselberg — the former Trump Organization CFO who has been charged by Manhattan prosecutors for an alleged tax evasion scheme — is expecting that more indictments will be filed in the case, his lawyer said in court Monday.
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Org Prosecutors Find New Evidence—in a Basement — A lawyer for Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg revealed in open court that prosecutors have found more evidence and that more indictments are expected. — Prosecutors have discovered a tranche of evidence …
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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.
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Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
On the Special Counsel's Weird Prosecution of Michael Sussmann — Attorney General William Barr appointed John Durham, lo these increasingly-many years ago, to investigate a supposed scandal inside the FBI: There had been an attempted coup, President Trump alleged, and Barr himself hinted …
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Sussman indictment: “Bizarre coda,” or harbinger of deep-state exposure?
Sussman indictment: “Bizarre coda,” or harbinger of deep-state exposure?
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Dan Margolies / KCUR 89.3:
St. Louis Couple Who Waved Guns At BLM Protesters Face Suspension Of Their Law Licenses — Mark and Patricia McCloskey made national headlines in June 2020 when they confronted a group of mostly Black protesters who entered their gated community en route to demonstrate in front of the nearby home of a former St. Louis mayor.
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Chad Pergram / Fox News:
Democratic leaders need to worry about more than just Manchin, Sinema on spending plan: Reporter's Notebook — Lots of other lawmakers who need to be on board if congressional Democrats are going to pull this off — Fox News Flash top headlines for September 20 — Let's call them “the others.”
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Kyrsten Sinema's Final Senate Term
Kyrsten Sinema's Final Senate Term
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Bill Scher / Real Clear Politics:
Why Republicans Should Vote for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
Why Republicans Should Vote for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
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Kylie Atwood / CNN:
Member of CIA chief's team reported Havana syndrome symptoms on recent trip to India — Washington (CNN)When CIA Director Bill Burns traveled to India earlier this month a member of his team reported symptoms consistent with Havana syndrome and had to receive medical attention, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Associated Press:
Federal officer arrested at Capitol rally won't be charged — WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal law enforcement officer was arrested carrying a gun at Saturday's rally at the U.S. Capitol billed to support the suspects charged in January's insurrection but will not be prosecuted.
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Jim Treacher / Who the Hell Is Jim Treacher?:
Is the Coronavirus Stronger Than White Guilt? — We're about to find out — An odd little news story got stuck in my brain over the weekend, so I tried to figure out why. Last week, three Texas women attacked a hostess at a restaurant in New York City because the hostess asked them for proof that they're vaccinated:
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Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Glitch Reveals Ballot Choices of N.Y.C. Voters, Including Mayor's Son — The Board of Elections inadvertently allowed the mayoral primary votes of 378 New Yorkers to become public, a report found. — When a well-known 20-something New Yorker cast his Democratic primary ballot in June …
Emmanuel Camarillo / Chicago Sun-Times:
Professor yelled racial slurs, spit on Black woman and her 7-year-old daughter outside Oak Park Jewel-Osco, prosecutors say — Alberto Friedmann also sped toward the woman in his Jaguar and almost hit her, according to prosecutors. — A health sciences professor has been charged …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
WATCH: Children Tell CNN They Blame Tucker Carlson For Their Father's Covid Death — Katie and Evan Lane recently lost their 45-year-old father to Covid, and have made a public plea for others to get vaccinated. Their efforts took them to CNN New Day Monday morning, an appearance …
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Politico:
‘Cowboys for Trump’ founder's Jan. 6 case highlights challenges facing prosecutors — A New Mexico county official charged with two misdemeanors for breaching Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 expressed frustration on Monday after a federal judge set a March 2022 trial date to resolve his case.
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Bari Weiss / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Everybody Hates the Jews — A disturbing new study confirms what many Jewish Americans are feeling. — Everybody hates the Jews. That's the refrain from the brilliant satirist Tom Lehrer in “National Brotherhood Week,” a song that I had memorized by the time I was ten …
Kiran Stacey / Financial Times:
US to relax air travel restrictions for vaccinated foreign passengers — Biden administration announces new travel policy effective from November — Passengers who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to fly to the US from anywhere in the world from November …
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Kim Zetter / Zero Day:
Former NSA Hacker Describes Being Recruited for UAE Spy Program — David Evenden was hired in 2014 to work in Abu Dhabi on a defensive cybersecurity project, only to discover it was actually an offensive spy operation for a United Arab Emirates intelligence service.
Washington Post:
One lawyer's rise shows how vaccine misinformation can fuel fundraising and far-right celebrity — Thomas Renz, once a little-known attorney in Ohio with limited litigation experience, boosted his profile with lawsuits challenging coronavirus vaccines — In one of dozens of recent media appearances …
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Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How Trump mobilized women — including me — This essay was adapted from the book “Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump” by Jennifer Rubin. Copyright 2021 by Jennifer Rubin. William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers. — Donald Trump's victory in 2016 came as a shock …
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Bill McKibben / The Crucial Years:
We're Finally Catching a Break in the Climate Fight — As a new Oxford paper shows, the incredibly rapid fall in the cost of renewables offers hope—but only if movements can push banks and politicians hard enough — So far in the global warming era, we've caught precious few breaks.