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Matt Sullivan / Rolling Stone:
The NBA's Anti-Vaxxers Are Trying to Push Around the League—And It's Working — Conspiracy theories in the locker room. Mask police in the arena. Superstars trying to avoid the shot. After bringing back the culture from Covid, basketball confronts its own civil war
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump intensifies war with Georgia GOP leaders at Perry rally — PERRY - Former President Donald Trump returned to Georgia on Saturday to showcase a trio of loyalists he's endorsed in 2022 elections, deepening an internal rift among state Republicans that helped fuel upset Democratic victories …
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Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Trump says Stacey Abrams ‘might be better than existing governor’ Kemp — Former President Trump on Saturday quipped that 2018 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) may have done a better job in office than her opponent, Gov. Brian Kemp (R), who has continued to catch …
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New York Times:
At Least 50 Hurt in Amtrak Derailment in Montana, Official Says — An emergency coordinator said there was an unspecified number of fatalities in the derailment, which happened near Joplin, Mont. — At least 50 people were injured after an Amtrak train derailed in Montana on Saturday afternoon …
Cleve Wootson / Washington Post:
Harris, assigned to tackle volatile issues, quietly builds a network — Amy Hagstrom Miller, the founder of abortion provider Whole Woman's Health, worried that she was overstepping when she vented to Vice President Harris recently about the war of attrition facing her Texas clinics …
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Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Kamala Harris hires Jen Psaki's brother-in-law as adviser to help her through border crisis and keep her presidential aspirations alive as her approval numbers plunge
Kamala Harris hires Jen Psaki's brother-in-law as adviser to help her through border crisis and keep her presidential aspirations alive as her approval numbers plunge
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Beto O'Rourke / El Paso Matters:
Biden administration failures worsen the Haitian migration crisis
Biden administration failures worsen the Haitian migration crisis
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
What would Justice Ginsburg say? Her words now part of the fight over pronouns — This past week the American Civil Liberties Union honored the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the one-year anniversary of her death — by rewriting her famous defense of a woman's right to abortion to remove offensive language.
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Washington Examiner:
In NYC, the ‘equity’ brigade clashes with the vaccine ‘Gestapo’ — It was inevitable. — There has long been an underlying tension between African Americans' disproportionate vaccine hesitancy and the Left's obsession with equality of outcome (they now pretentiously call it “equity") as an indicator of discrimination.
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham: ‘I hope President Trump runs again’ — Mackinac Island — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told a crowd of Michigan Republicans on Saturday night that he hopes former President Donald Trump runs again in 2024. — The GOP senator's remark came on the second …
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Fresh calls for Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson over ‘replacement theory’ — Host dismisses Anti-Defamation League after organization urges network to drop him — After the Anti-Defamation League renewed its call for Tucker Carlson to be fired from Fox News for voicing the racist …
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Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Idaho morgues are running out of space for bodies as covid-19 deaths mount — Dave Salove has watched his morgue fill with bodies. Covid-19 victims have poured into the funeral home he runs in Boise, Idaho, in recent weeks, as the state contends with an unprecedented spike in deaths driven by the delta variant of the coronavirus.
Saeed Shah / Wall Street Journal:
Afghanistan's Taliban Warn Foot Soldiers: Behave, and Stop Taking Selfies — Men who recently spent their days in bloody battle are now frolicking in parks and the zoo, drawing admonishments from the defense minister — KABUL—Rank-and-file Taliban fighters have been having too much fun …
Washington Post:
Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep their identities secret — The colossal hack of Epik, an Internet-services company popular with the far right, has been called the “mother of all data lodes” for extremism researchers. Some of those named in the data have already lost their jobs.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Lin Wood's Ex-Partners Say He's a Fraudster. His Emails May Prove It — OOPS — Lin Wood agreed to pay his ex-partners an undisclosed amount from former Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann's settlements. But Wood's emails allegedly tell another story.
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Raw Story
Tampa Bay Times:
Teacher bonus checks are bouncing in Florida — Checks issued to at least 50 teachers in 22 different counties bounced because of a banking error, Florida Department of Education spokesman Jared Ochs said. — Updated Earlier today — TALLAHASSEE — When dozens of Florida teachers tried …
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CBS News:
Senator Tim Scott says police reform talks collapsed because Democrats supported “defunding the police” — Senator Tim Scott is blaming Democrats' push to cut funding to law enforcement for the collapse of bipartisan police reform negotiations on Capitol Hill.
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Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
How Moderate Democrats Derailed Police Reform