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Politico:
Manchin, Sinema leave Dems in lurch as Biden agenda teeters — Democrats wanted clarity Tuesday from Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema after back-to-back meetings with President Joe Biden. They didn't get it. — During a private meeting with the president, Sinema made clear she's still …
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NBC News:
‘Mutually assured destruction’: House liberals dig in on halting infrastructure bill — Rep. Gottheimer: Democrats will be united for Thursday infrastructure vote — WASHINGTON — House progressives are digging in on their resistance to passing the infrastructure bill this week …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: T-minus 24 hours: The view from the W.H. — DRIVING THE DAY — Tuesday was the day it became clear either: — A) President JOE BIDEN's legislative agenda is about to implode — or — B) Biden made serious progress toward a deal to salvage his agenda.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans at Odds Over Infrastructure Bill as Vote Approaches
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden opposes changing Senate rules to raise debt limit — The White House said Tuesday that President Joe Biden opposes changing the filibuster to suspend or raise the debt ceiling, closing off a break-the-glass option to avoid financial calamity. — White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed …
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ABC News:
Biden takes credibility hit at critical time for agenda: The Note
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Eric Kleefeld / Media Matters for America:
After seemingly hammering Republicans for blocking debt ceiling, NBC News host Chuck Todd then falsely blames “both parties”
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell is laughing in your faces, Democrats. Do something about this.
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Clay Risen / New York Times:
How the Debt Ceiling Came to Be a Political Cudgel
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans aim their fire at the military — Perhaps nothing Republican lawmakers do anymore should come as a surprise, but their treatment of Gen. Mark A. Milley on Tuesday opened a new front in the war against civilized norms. — Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee …
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Tragic cost of Biden's Afghanistan lies — Biden lied, they died. — That's no longer just an accusation. It's now a fact, with Tuesday's Senate testimony shredding President Biden's nonsensical fictions about Afghanistan and confirming that he alone made the fateful decisions that created the chaotic and deadly withdrawal.
New York Times:
Senators Question Milley and Austin on End of War in Afghanistan
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Say, How Is Joe Biden's Memory These Days?
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Axios:
A racist conspiracy theory goes mainstream — A growing number of elected Republicans are openly promoting “white replacement theory,” a decades-old conspiracy theory that's animated terrorist attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. — Why it matters: This mainstreams what once …
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Politico:
McAuliffe, Youngkin unload in feisty final Virginia debate — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin bickered their way through the second and final debate of Virginia's competitive governor's race on Tuesday, trading attacks and accusations from the start of the hourlong meeting.
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Lori Aratani / Washington Post:
United Airlines says nearly all workers met vaccine mandate deadline, 593 could face termination — The air carrier has begun the process for terminating nearly 600 workers who declined to comply with the requirement — Nearly all of United Airlines' U.S.-based employees have been vaccinated …
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
51% Of Texas Voters Say Abbott Doesn't Deserve To Be Reelected, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; President Biden's Approval Numbers Head South — mail_outline — As Governor Greg Abbott faces reelection in 2022, a slight majority of voters say 51 - 42 percent that he does not deserve …
Politico:
‘No major incidents of illegal activity’: DHS told Pentagon as pro-Trump mob breached Capitol — On Jan. 6, more than 30 minutes after the first attackers breached barricades erected to protect the Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security sent an incongruous update to the Pentagon.
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Biden cancels Chicago trip as negotiations continue over agenda — President Biden has canceled a trip to Chicago on Wednesday and will stay in Washington to continue negotiations on key pieces of his legislative agenda, a White House official confirmed Tuesday.
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
New evidence emerges against COVID lab-leak theory — but the press keeps pushing it — When it comes to the pandemic, pseudoscience has outweighed real science at almost every turn. One of the best examples of that is the unsupported assertion that the virus causing COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese laboratory.
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
N.C. hospital system fires about 175 workers in one of the largest-ever mass terminations due to a vaccine mandate — A North Carolina-based hospital system announced Monday that roughly 175 unvaccinated employees were fired for failing to comply with the organization's mandatory coronavirus …
Catrin Einhorn / New York Times:
Protected Too Late: U.S. Officials Report More Than 20 Extinctions — The animals and one plant had been listed as endangered species. Their stories hold lessons about a growing global biodiversity crisis. — The ivory-billed woodpecker, which birders have been seeking in the bayous of Arkansas …
Wall Street Journal:
Evergrande to Raise $1.5 Billion by Selling Bank Stake to State-Owned Firm — Developer will pare holding in Shengjing Bank to less than 15% — A Chinese state-owned enterprise struck a deal to buy most of China Evergrande Group's stake in a commercial bank for $1.5 billion …
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Reuters, Financial Times and One America News Network
Annelle Sheline / Responsible Statecraft:
Will Jake Sullivan bring tough love, or more of the same to MBS meeting? — Biden's top advisor should use the 3rd anniversary of Khashoggi's murder to say the US is shutting off the spigot. … Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is in the Arabian Peninsula for meetings with Saudi and Emirati officials.
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
South Dakota AG reviewing Noem's meeting with daughter — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's attorney general said Tuesday he is reviewing concerns from state lawmakers over a meeting Gov. Kristi Noem held last year that included both her daughter and a state employee who was overseeing …
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BizPac Review, South Dakota and Daily Kos
CBS San Francisco:
Woman Accused of Starting Fawn Fire Was Attempting To Boil Bear Urine to Drink — SHASTA COUNTY (CBS SF) — According to court documents, the Bay Area woman accused of starting the Fawn Fire in Shasta County last week was attempting to boil bear urine so she could drink it when she allegedly set off the destructive blaze.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Arizona Audit Backers Turn on Each Other After Recount Flop — The Arizona audit showed that, if anything, Joe Biden won the state by even more votes than previously realized. Cue the GOP panic. — Supporters of Republicans' controversial “audit” of 2020 presidential election ballots …
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Raw Story
Hanna Ziady / CNN:
Boris Johnson's Brexit choices are making Britain's fuel and food shortages worse — London (CNN Business)Rising energy bills, higher prices and a critical shortage of workers leading to food and fuel supply constraints are threatening to stall Britain's recovery from the pandemic.
Washington Post:
The feared eviction ‘tsunami’ has not yet happened. Experts are conflicted on why. — Eviction filings have fallen or remained flat in many areas after the moratorium was struck down. — When the Supreme Court decided to strike down a federal ban on evictions in August …
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Media Matters for America
Brian Leiter / Leiter Reports:
Peter Singer invited to give a Zoom talk about “Pandemic Ethics” by the Philosophy Department at Rhodes College... ...and now there is an uproar because Singer holds incorrect views, for example, about euthanasia, infanticide and the disabled. An uproar is fine, what isn't fine are the demands …
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