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Adela Suliman / Washington Post:
Texas Gov. Abbott sends miles of cars along border to deter migrants — Abbott said this “steel wall” of vehicles was meant to stop migrants from crossing the dam. — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has sent a fleet of state-owned vehicles to line up for miles as a barricade along the border with Mexico …
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The Hill, Office of the Texas Governor, The Daily Signal and CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
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Associated Press:
Officials: Many Haitian migrants are being released in US — DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S. officials said, undercutting the Biden administration's public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion.
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Politico:
Biden slips into political quicksand amid Haitian migrant buildup — The mass of thousands of Haitians at the U.S. southern border has put the Biden administration in the exact place it's tried to avoid: knee deep in immigration politics. — In the past 24 hours, the White House has responded …
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Washington Examiner, Daily Kos, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Guardian
Patrice Lawrence / CNN:
An outrage at America's border
An outrage at America's border
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Columbia Journalism Review, Human Rights Watch and IJR
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
ICE officers injured by Haitian migrants after deportation flights land in Port-au-Prince
ICE officers injured by Haitian migrants after deportation flights land in Port-au-Prince
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The Gateway Pundit, BizPac Review, NBC News, The Bulwark, National Review and TheBlaze
The Daily Beast:
Trump Sues NYT and Niece—Who Calls Him ‘F*cking Loser’ — The ex-president claims there was an “insidious plot to obtain confidential and highly-sensitive records.” … Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against The New York Times, three of its reporters, and his niece …
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Former GOP treasury secretaries tried defusing debt ceiling bomb in private talks with McConnell, Yellen — Paulson and Mnuchin have warned political leaders about the consequences of default, but the Biden administration and Senate Republicans don't appear close to a deal.
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Stephen Moore / The Hill:
Republicans have moral and financial reasons to oppose raising the debt ceiling
Republicans have moral and financial reasons to oppose raising the debt ceiling
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Nick Ehli / Missoulian:
Postcard from an overrun ICU: ‘The problem is we are running out of hallways’ — BILLINGS — Nurses fill the hospital room to turn a patient from his stomach to his back. The ventilator forcing air into him is most effective when he's on his stomach, so he is in that position most hours of the day, sedated and paralyzed by drugs.
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Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Wuhan scientists planned to release coronaviruses into cave bats 18 months before outbreak — Leaked documents reveal researchers applied for $14m to fund controversial project in 2018 — Wuhan scientists were planning to release enhanced airborne coronaviruses into Chinese bat populations …
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New York Post and Human Events
Andrew Boryga / The Daily Beast:
Lawyer Forces Ivermectin on Hospitals—and Drives Docs Crazy
Lawyer Forces Ivermectin on Hospitals—and Drives Docs Crazy
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Wall Street Journal, Beacon and Raw Story
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Biden's Approval Rating Hits New Low of 43%; Harris' Is 49% — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eight months after President Joe Biden's inauguration, his job approval rating has fallen six percentage points to 43%, the lowest of his presidency. For the first time, a majority, 53%, now disapproves of Biden's performance.
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Mediaite and The Moderate Voice
Gabriella Borter / Reuters:
‘Critical race theory’ roils a Tennessee school district — Robin Steenman, an Air Force veteran and white mother of three, is fed up with the way public schools in her community of Franklin, Tennessee are teaching kids about race. — She believes that the reading materials and teachers' manuals …
Wall Street Journal:
Liz Cheney's Re-Election Bid Pits Trump Against Bush — George W. Bush to hold fundraiser for Wyoming congresswoman who has sparred with Donald Trump — WASHINGTON—The race for Wyoming's single U.S. House district has pitted two of the biggest names in Republican politics against one another …
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Why I'm a Single-Issue Voter — I'll vote against the party threatening the republic—simple as that. — In a few weeks, Virginia will hold an election and I will have to make a decision. Both the Democratic and the Republican candidates for governor could be described as moderates.
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Raw Story
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
$3.5 Trillion Is Not a Lot of Money — For weeks, the Democratic Party's progressive and right-wing flanks have been locked in a staring contest over spending. The latter contingent is eager to pass the bipartisan infrastructure legislation that passed the Senate in August.
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Politico, CNBC, NBC News, CBS News, Florida Politics, The Daily Beast, Daily Kos and Digby's Hullabaloo
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Democrats launch $30 million field organizing program to keep Senate control in 2022
Democrats launch $30 million field organizing program to keep Senate control in 2022
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Crooks and Liars
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Politico: Biden's domestic agenda near collapse — and Dems know it
Politico: Biden's domestic agenda near collapse — and Dems know it
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Associated Press, Townhall, The Hill, Los Angeles Times and Politico
New York Times:
No More Apologies: Inside Facebook's Push to Defend Its Image — Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Facebook stories and to distance himself from scandals. — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, signed off last month on a new initiative code-named Project Amplify.
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Sylvie Kauffmann / New York Times:
Why France Is Angry About the U.S.'s Submarine Deal — Ms. Kauffmann, the editorial director of Le Monde, writes extensively about European and international politics. — PARIS — Make no mistake. This is a crisis, not a spat. — The new partnership announced last week between the United States …
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The Hill, The Liberal Patriot and European Council …
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Rym Momtaz / Politico:
Macron, Biden to speak amid diplomatic row
Macron, Biden to speak amid diplomatic row
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Jen Fifield / Arizona Republic:
Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Chucri resigns after election-related recording released — Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Chucri announced he will resign after a recording of him talking about the 2020 election and his county colleagues surfaced. — In the leaked recording …
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The median voter is a 50-something white person who didn't go to college — Cognitive behavioral therapy for Democrats — So much in politics is uncertain or difficult that I think even professionals tend to underrate the upside to doing things that are obvious and easy.
Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
DeSantis names doctor opposed to masks and vaccine mandates as Florida's surgeon general — Dr Joseph Ladapo attacked concern over the pandemic as ‘Covid mania’ and said ‘there is nothing special’ about vaccines — A medical professor who is opposed to mask and vaccine mandates …
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VICE and Crooks and Liars
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Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Brazilian minister tests positive for Covid after meeting maskless Johnson
Brazilian minister tests positive for Covid after meeting maskless Johnson
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New York Times, Insider, New York Post, Washington Post and UPI
Reuters:
Aide to Ukraine's president survives assassination attempt — A volley of automatic gunfire hit a car carrying a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday, an incident a senior official called an assassination attempt and Zelenskiy said may have been a message intended for him.
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New York Times, Axios, Укр …, Politico, One America News Network, Bloomberg and Political Wire
Bill Dentzer / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Dean Heller won't acknowledge Biden's election win in RJ interview — RENO — Dean Heller says he knows who the president is. He just won't name that person — no matter how the question is asked. — “I still know who the president is, but I do believe we have a problem with elections …
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Ryan Saavedra / The Daily Wire:
White House Reporters File Formal Complaint Against Biden For Refusing To Answer Questions — The White House press pool filed a formal complaint against Democrat President Joe Biden for refusing to answer questions from American media about the multiple crises that have erupted under his regime.
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RedState, BizPac Review, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and Balloon Juice
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
U.S. to buy 500 million more Pfizer doses to share with the world — The Biden administration is planning to purchase 500 million more Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine doses to donate to the world, officials said in an op-ed Wednesday. — Why it matters: The move represents …
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Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Tim Cook says employees who leak memos do not belong at Apple, according to leaked memo — The CEO says the company is doing everything in its power to track down workers — Tim Cook sent an email to Apple employees Tuesday evening about an all-hands meeting that leaked to The Verge last week.
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