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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Manchin proposed $1.5T top-line number to Schumer this summer — Joe Manchin proposed a deal to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer this summer to limit the total cost of Democrats' sweeping spending bill to $1.5 trillion, according to a copy of the agreement obtained by POLITICO.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Manchin Just Might Finally Be Onto Something Glimmers of hope in his quasi-plan. — Joe Manchin attracted a great deal of press attention last night by issuing a long statement expressing his list of mostly familiar grievances with Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda.
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The Left Coaster and Balloon Juice
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.
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.
Politico:
White House gives a wink to progressives as they threaten Biden's infrastructure bill
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CNN, HotAir, Rolling Stone, Washington Post, Newsbusters, The Daily Beast and Mediaite
Politico:
Pelosi mounts eleventh-hour push for infrastructure vote
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Manchin trashes Democratic spending bill: ‘Fiscal insanity’
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HotAir, National Review, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin …, Breitbart, Power Line, Politico, NOQ Report, RedState, The Hill, New York Times, National Review, Washington Post, Twitchy, The Mahablog and Salon
John McCormack / National Review:
Manchin: Reconciliation ‘Dead on Arrival’ If It Doesn't Include Hyde Amendment
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Biden sticks to his dealmaking strategy, as some Democrats want him to do more to bring holdouts on board
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CBS News:
What's in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill?
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Commentary Magazine, Mediaite, New Republic and IJR
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Democrats divided: Progressives, centrists say trust is gone
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Wall Street Journal, NBC News, CNN, Los Angeles Times, No Labels and WTOP
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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HotAir, 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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AP-NORC, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, New York Times and Rolling Stone
CDC:
COVID-19 Vaccination for Pregnant People to Prevent Serious Illness, Deaths, and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes from COVID-19
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Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
After its mandate, Tyson Foods reaches a 91 percent vaccination rate.
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Forbes
Jonathan Levin / Bloomberg:
U.S. Covid Recovery Spreads as Prospects Improve in 47 States
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New York Times, 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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Forbes, Politico, Bloomberg and Washington Post
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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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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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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Kristi Noem cuts ties with adviser Corey Lewandowski after donor alleged unwanted sexual advances
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Washington Post, The Hill, RADAR, Mediaite and WTOP
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
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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 …
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Top Republicans rub shoulders with extremists in secretive rightwing group, leak reveals — Wealthy entrepreneurs and media moguls also named on membership list for influential Council for National Policy — A leaked document has revealed the membership list of the secretive Council for National Policy …
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Biden's Approval Rating Recovers Some From Last Month's Low, An NPR Poll Finds — Since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan a month ago, President Biden's approval rating has recovered some in the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. — Last month, just 43% of survey respondents approved …
New York Times:
Trump Server Mystery Produces Fresh Conflict — A recent indictment suggested that researchers who found strange internet links between a Russian bank and the Trump Organization did not really believe their own work. They are pushing back. — Read in app
Jennifer Hassan / Washington Post:
Shakira says wild boars in Barcelona attacked her and stole her purse — Grammy Award-winning singer Shakira says two wild boars pounced on her bag as she visited a Barcelona park with her son, running off into the forest with it. — In a series of videos posted to her Instagram story Wednesday …
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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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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, Washington Post, Breitbart and HotAir
Dan Vergano / BuzzFeed News:
A Secret State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn't Cause “Havana Syndrome” — Noises linked to mysterious injuries among US diplomats in Cuba were most likely caused by crickets — not microwave weapons — according to a declassified scientific review commissioned by the US State Department and obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Gothamist:
Hack Of Oath Keepers Militia Group Includes Names Of Active NYPD Officers, De Blasio Launches Investigation — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said it will scrutinize NYPD ranks following a WNYC/Gothamist investigation of online records that appears to tie several …
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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Rolling Stone, Bonner County Daily Bee, National Review and Raw Story
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.
Lioness.Co:
Bezos Wants to Create a Better Future in Space. His Company Blue Origin Is Stuck in a Toxic Past. — We are a group of 21 former and current employees of Blue Origin. Many of us have spent our careers dreaming of helping to launch a crewed rocket into space and seeing it safely touch back down on Earth.
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.
Maxwell Meyer / The Stanford Review:
Review Analysis: Stanford students are more likely to wear masks on bicycles than helmets — In April of this year, I witnessed something on the Stanford campus that will be seared into my memory forever: a student on a bicycle, wearing flip-flops, AirPods in ear, going the wrong way through …
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