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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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Politico:
Pelosi mounts eleventh-hour push for infrastructure vote — Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday declared she had no plans to delay a high-profile vote on President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill, even as members of her leadership team bluntly warned the vote could fail.
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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.
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Live Updates: Senate Passes Spending Bill, and Manchin Calls for $2 Trillion Cut to Biden's Social Spending Plan
Live Updates: Senate Passes Spending Bill, and Manchin Calls for $2 Trillion Cut to Biden's Social Spending Plan
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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Katie Porter's epic beatdown of Kyrsten Sinema reveals an important truth
Katie Porter's epic beatdown of Kyrsten Sinema reveals an important truth
NBC News:
Could Sen. Kyrsten Sinema face a primary? These progressives are trying to make it happen.
Could Sen. Kyrsten Sinema face a primary? These progressives are trying to make it happen.
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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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CBS News:
What's in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill?
What's in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill?
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
Democrats divided: Progressives, centrists say trust is gone
Democrats divided: Progressives, centrists say trust is gone
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Biden sticks to his dealmaking strategy, as some Democrats want him to do more to bring holdouts on board
Biden sticks to his dealmaking strategy, as some Democrats want him to do more to bring holdouts on board
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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
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CNN:
Durham issues fresh round of subpoenas in his continuing probe of FBI investigation into Trump, Russia — Washington (CNN)Special Counsel John Durham has issued a new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with close ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, an indication that Durham …
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National Review
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.
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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Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll finds deep divide over Biden vaccine mandate
AP-NORC poll finds deep divide over Biden vaccine mandate
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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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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Kristi Noem cuts ties with adviser Corey Lewandowski after donor alleged unwanted sexual advances — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has severed ties with political strategist Corey Lewandowski, following allegations reported by POLITICO that Lewandowski made unwanted sexual advances toward a woman at a recent fundraising event.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Super PAC Removes Corey Lewandowski After Sexual Harassment Claim
Trump Super PAC Removes Corey Lewandowski After Sexual Harassment Claim
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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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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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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.
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
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 …
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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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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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 …
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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Thomas Escritt / Reuters:
Nazi war crimes suspect, 96, caught after fleeing trial
Nazi war crimes suspect, 96, caught after fleeing trial
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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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San Francisco Chronicle:
Protesters briefly shut down Golden Gate Bridge, calling on Democrats to support undocumented immigrants — As morning broke over San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge Thursday, traffic was brought to a halt as dozens of undocumented mothers, students and their allies risked arrest to engage in civil disobedience.
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 …
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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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Matthew Dowd once urged ‘White male Christians’ like himself to ‘step back,’ allow women, minorities to lead — 'Let's put the country first and our fellow humans ahead of our own egos,' Dowd told his demographic peers — Liberal pundit-turned-politician Matthew Dowd once called for …
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Politico:
Senate passes 9-week funding patch to thwart shutdown — The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday afternoon that would prevent a government shutdown come midnight and punt the funding cliff into early December. — The chamber's 65-35 vote sends the measure to the House …
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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.
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