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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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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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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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Republicans usually lose shutdown fights. So why are they going there again?
Stephen Moore / The Hill:
Republicans have moral and financial reasons to oppose raising the debt ceiling
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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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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Donald Trump sues niece Mary Trump, New York Times reporters over disclosure of tax documents
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Wall Street Journal:
Bipartisan Police-Overhaul Talks End With No Deal — Lawmakers had sought to address abuses by law-enforcement in wake of protests over killings of Black Americans — WASHINGTON — Bipartisan talks aimed at overhauling police tactics and accountability have ended with no agreement …
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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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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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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 …
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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New York Times:
Top Adviser to Ukrainian President Is Targeted in an Assassination Attempt — President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would return to Ukraine from New York immediately. The adviser, Serhiy Shefir, was unharmed, but his driver was shot and wounded in the attack.
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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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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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Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Brazilian minister tests positive for Covid after meeting maskless Johnson — Marcelo Queiroga sat close to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss at New York meeting — Brazil's health minister, Marcelo Queiroga, has tested positive for Covid and gone into isolation, 24 hours after meeting …
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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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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Charter schools boomed during the pandemic — Charter schools picked off hundreds of thousands of public school students across the U.S. during the pandemic, according to a new analysis from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. — Why it matters: The pandemic …
Reed Abelson / New York Times:
High Covid Hospitalizations Have Delayed Elective Surgeries — In areas inundated with coronavirus patients, hospitals have postponed treatments and surgeries for people with other serious conditions. — In chronic pain, Mary O'Donnell can't get around much.
Andrius Sytas / Reuters:
Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns — Lithuania's Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities.
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Lili Loofbourow / Slate:
The Unbelievable Grimness of HermanCainAward, the Subreddit That Catalogs Anti-Vaxxer COVID Deaths — This is not a forum that attempts to change minds. It's much darker. — HermanCainAward, one of the fastest-growing subreddits on Reddit.com, is exactly what it sounds like …
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Jeff Asher / New York Times:
Murder Rose by Almost 30% in 2020. It's Rising at a Slower Rate in 2021. — The increase in murders this summer does not appear to be as large as the record spike last summer. — The United States in 2020 experienced the biggest rise in murder since the start of national record-keeping in 1960 …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Chaos Theory Is the Future of American Politics — A website changes its algorithm and a game show host becomes president. — 1. A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings in Peking . . . I've pointed you to the Margins before and I'm going to do it again with this essay from Ranjan Roy about Reddit.
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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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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 …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
'It's Become Increasingly Hard for Them to Feel Good About Themselves' — Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. — Is there a whole class of men who no longer fit into the social order? — A decade ago, Marianne Bertrand …
Adam Barnes / The Hill:
Washington governor to Idaho officials: ‘Stop clogging up my hospitals’ — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) criticized neighboring Idaho's leadership late last week, saying that Idaho Gov. Brad Little's (R) policies were “clogging up” Washington's hospitals. — “Today in my state …
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Jay Willis / Balls and Strikes:
Book Review: ‘The Authority of the Court and the Peril of How Much I Love My Job,’ by Stephen Breyer — The 83-year-old leader of the Court's liberal wing is facing significant public pressure to step down from the bench. He decided to write a book instead.
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.
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. government buying risky Chinese drones — Federal law enforcement agencies are purchasing surveillance drones from a Chinese company the Pentagon has deemed a potential national security threat, Axios has learned. — Why it matters: Efforts to purge military and law enforcement agencies …
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Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career — Most people haven't heard of James Zimmermann, but most have heard him. A decorated musician with a long string of acoustic accolades, Zimmermann, 39, has made the sound of his clarinet difficult to avoid.
Lauren Gibbons / MLive.com:
Michigan lawmaker accused of harassing colleague can come to work, but will need escort — A Michigan lawmaker accused of harassing his colleague will need to be escorted by House sergeants to the House floor and his office to prevent potential violations of a personal protection order …
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