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The Hill:
House appears poised to pull infrastructure vote amid stubborn stalemate — House Democrats appear poised to miss a second vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill this week, highlighting the stubborn stalemate over the larger social benefits package at the core of President Biden's agenda.
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Manchin trashes Democratic spending bill: ‘Fiscal insanity’ — Sen. Joe Manchin, a key centrist Democrat whose approval is required to pass the party's massive social welfare spending package, firmly rejected the proposal on Wednesday, criticizing the $3.5 trillion cost and the vast new entitlements it would provide.
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U.S. Senator Joe Manchin …, HotAir, Breitbart, National Review, Politico, RedState, NOQ Report, The Hill, National Review, Washington Post, Salon, The Mahablog, New York Times and Twitchy
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Biden sticks to his dealmaking strategy, as some Democrats want him to do more to bring holdouts on board — President Biden is navigating the most perilous week for his legislative agenda yet with an approach he's honed over his decades in Washington: Hear out the warring factions …
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ABC7, The Hill, UPI, Althouse, Twitchy, Daily Kos, Yahoo Finance, New York Times and National Review
John McCormack / National Review:
Manchin: Reconciliation ‘Dead on Arrival’ If It Doesn't Include Hyde Amendment
Manchin: Reconciliation ‘Dead on Arrival’ If It Doesn't Include Hyde Amendment
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The Hill, HotAir, RedState, POLITICUSUSA, LifeNews.com, Washington Post, Breitbart, Patterico's Pontifications and NPR
Politico:
White House gives a wink to progressives as they threaten Biden's infrastructure bill
White House gives a wink to progressives as they threaten Biden's infrastructure bill
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Rolling Stone, Washington Post and Real Clear Politics
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Democrats divided: Progressives, centrists say trust is gone
Democrats divided: Progressives, centrists say trust is gone
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CNN, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, No Labels and WTOP
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Waiting for ‘Manchema’: House liberals grow exasperated with two Democratic senators as Biden agenda struggles
Waiting for ‘Manchema’: House liberals grow exasperated with two Democratic senators as Biden agenda struggles
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Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal
CBS News:
What's in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill?
What's in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill?
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New Republic, IJR and Mediaite
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Right to Health — Immunization mandates aren't new. One helped win the American Revolution. — The United States owes its existence as a nation partly to an immunization mandate. — In 1777, smallpox was a big enough problem for the bedraggled American army that George Washington thought it could jeopardize the Revolution.
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The Daily Caller and The Hill
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Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll finds deep divide over Biden vaccine mandate — A survey of Americans on President Joe Biden's plan to require most workers to get either vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19 finds a deep and familiar divide: Democrats are overwhelmingly for it, while most Republicans are against it.
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The Daily Caller, Associated Press, Rolling Stone and New York Times
Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
After its mandate, Tyson Foods reaches a 91 percent vaccination rate.
CDC:
COVID-19 Vaccination for Pregnant People to Prevent Serious Illness, Deaths, and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes from COVID-19
COVID-19 Vaccination for Pregnant People to Prevent Serious Illness, Deaths, and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes from COVID-19
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The Hill, Twitchy, Associated Press, KVIA-TV, NPR, WGN-TV, Axios and New York Post
Jonathan Levin / Bloomberg:
U.S. Covid Recovery Spreads as Prospects Improve in 47 States
U.S. Covid Recovery Spreads as Prospects Improve in 47 States
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Balloon Juice and HotAir
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Leader of Prestigious Yale Program Resigns, Citing Donor Pressure — The historian Beverly Gage, who has run the Grand Strategy course since 2017, says the university failed to stand up for academic freedom amid inappropriate efforts to influence the curriculum.
Wall Street Journal:
the facebook files — Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents …
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The White House:
President Biden Names Eighth Round of Judicial Nominees — The President is announcing fourteen judicial nominees, including ten new candidates for the federal bench. All of the nominees are extraordinarily qualified, experienced, and devoted to the rule of law and our Constitution.
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NBC News:
Senate reaches deal to avoid government shutdown, Schumer announces — Congress racing to prevent government shutdown — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that senators have reached a deal on a stopgap government funding measure to prevent a shutdown.
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Justice Sonia Sotomayor: ‘There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount’ — (CNN)Days before the start of a tumultuous term, and after the Supreme Court justices divided bitterly over a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned …
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LifeNews.com, Washington Post, Reason, Insider and Associated Press
The Markup:
There's a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone's Location Data — A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people's movements — Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on your mobile phone.
Axios:
Scoop: Milley's blunt private blame for the State Department — In a classified briefing with senators on Tuesday, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley directly blamed the State Department for a botched evacuation from Afghanistan, saying officials “waited too long” to order the operation …
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Politico, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, The Bulwark, HotAir, The Daily Signal, Insider, The National Interest, The Hill, New York Post, National Review and Breitbart
Jennifer McEachern / Tennessee Department …:
Governor Lee, Commissioner Rolfe Announce Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. to Relocate Headquarters and Other Major Operations to Tennessee — Leading U.S.-based firearms manufacturer will invest more than $125 million to relocate from Springfield, Massachusetts to Maryville, Tennessee
KMVT-TV:
Idaho Secretary of State refutes Mike Lindell's statewide election manipulation claims — BOISE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Staff from the Idaho Secretary of State's office visited two Idaho counties last week following receipt of information that alleged statewide manipulation of Idaho's election results.
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National Review, Bonner County Daily Bee and Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Super PAC Removes Corey Lewandowski After Sexual Harassment Claim — The move came after a donor to former President Donald J. Trump said that Mr. Lewandowski had made unwanted sexual advances and touched her inappropriately. — Corey Lewandowski, a longtime political adviser to Donald J. Trump …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
My favorite Covid counterfactuals — Ross Douthat published a couple of speculative columns on Covid Counterfactuals. As someone who loves alternate history as a genre and also took a whole very serious philosophy class about the importance of counterfactual analysis for thinking about history, I like this type of column.
CNN:
January 6 committee targets organizers of Stop the Steal rally in latest batch of subpoenas — (CNN)The select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has issued its second round of subpoenas, this time targeting individuals involved in the planning and organization of the …
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
New Initiative Explores Deep, Persistent Divides Between Biden and Trump Voters — The University of Virginia Center for Politics has partnered with Project Home Fire, a new initiative dedicated to finding common ground in American politics, on an innovative new data analytics and polling project …
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CNN
American Greatness:
The Coordinated Attack on Ivermectin Is a Crime Against Humanity — Make no mistake, the evil, deadly, coordinated globalist attacks we are currently witnessing on ivermectin will go down in history as a vicious crime against humanity. — Just as we saw with hydroxychloroquine last summer …
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Joe.My.God.
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw Fined $5,000 for Skirting House Metal Detector — PRICEY PASSTHROUGH — Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) has been fined $5,000 for refusing to go through metal detectors en route into the chambers of the House of Representatives. According to a notice from the House Committee on Ethics …
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House Committee on Ethics, Breitbart, HotAir and BizPac Review
Wall Street Journal:
Comptroller of the Economy — Biden's nominee to regulate banks really, really hates . . . banks. — By The Editorial Board — President Biden checked off another progressive identity box last week by nominating Saule Omarova as Comptroller of the Currency.
Kirsten Grieshaber / Associated Press:
Former Nazi camp secretary in German trial, 96, on the run — BERLIN (AP) — A former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was being sought on an arrest warrant Thursday after skipping the planned start of her trial in Germany on more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder, officials said.
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Associated Press, The Daily Beast, New York Post, Mediaite, Agence France-Presse and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Philip Jaffa / The Bulwark:
My Father and the Birth of Modern Conservatism — The inspiration for the 1964 “Extremism in the defense of liberty” speech he wrote for Barry Goldwater. — On July 16, 1964 Barry Goldwater strode to the podium at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California and accepted the Republican party's nomination for president.
Aurelien Breeden / New York Times:
Ex-President Sarkozy Convicted for Campaign Spending Violations — Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of illegally financing his 2012 presidential bid by exceeding France's strict electoral rules and sentenced to a year of house arrest. He said he would appeal.
Christina Coulter / Daily Mail:
Black student is revealed to have written N-word graffiti that called for death of black people and led to walk-out at Missouri high school — A black student scrawled racist graffiti featuring the N-word that led to walk-outs at Parkway Central High School in Missouri, school officials said Tuesday
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The Gateway Pundit and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Black Lives Matter Killed 2,000 Black People — The number of black murder victims rose 62% in one year. — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.