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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Katie Porter's epic beatdown of Kyrsten Sinema reveals an important truth — However the battle over President Biden's agenda turns out, this ugly saga will accomplish something crucial: It will separate Democrats who take their role as public servants seriously from those who are operating …
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Washington Examiner, Insider, NBC News, Vanity Fair, Daily Kos, TheBlaze and Power Line
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
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Manchin Seeks Big Cuts to Safety Net Plan; Congress Passes Spending Bill
Manchin Seeks Big Cuts to Safety Net Plan; Congress Passes Spending Bill
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Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Bloomberg, Mediaite, CNN, Washington Times, GovExec.com, UPI, Raw Story, CNBC, The Guardian and justoneminute.typepad.com
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Manchin Sets $1.5 Trillion Ceiling For Democrats' Reconciliation Bill
Manchin Sets $1.5 Trillion Ceiling For Democrats' Reconciliation Bill
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The Hill, Insider, OpenSecrets.org and Washington Times
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
White House ‘working toward’ successful Thursday vote on infrastructure
White House ‘working toward’ successful Thursday vote on infrastructure
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Washington Examiner, Common Dreams and NBC Los Angeles
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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Politico, HotAir, National Review, The Last Refuge and Ace of Spades HQ
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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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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.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Congress approves funding bill hours before shutdown deadline, Biden expected to sign — The House voted 254-175 to advance the measure. Just hours earlier, the Senate voted 65-35 — a display of bipartisanship in both chambers. The bill will now go to President Joe Biden's desk for his signature.
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Washington Examiner, HuffPost, The Hill and Associated Press
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Gordon Klein / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Why I Am Suing UCLA — I refused to discriminate against my students. Then the problems began. — Recently, I was suspended from my job for refusing to treat my black students as lesser than their non-black peers. — Let me back up: I teach at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, and I've been doing this for 40 years.
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HotAir, The Lid and JONATHAN TURLEY
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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National Review, The American Independent, Fox News, CNN, Associated Press, CNBC, Washington Post, The Hill, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, RedState, RADAR, KSFY/KDLT, Mediaite and IJR
Task & Purpose:
US Marine who says he rescued baby at Kabul airport investigated for appearing at Trump rally [Updated] — A Marine who says he saved a baby in Kabul by lifting the infant over the walls outside Hamid Karzai International Airport is now under investigation for appearing on stage …
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RedState, Mediaite, Raw Story, Todd Starnes, The Gateway Pundit, Townhall and Twitchy
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Sharon Osbourne says Carlos Watson lied when he claimed the Osbournes invested in Ozy Media after court fight — Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson boasted on CNBC in 2019 that Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne had invested in his company. It was a lie, according to Sharon Osbourne.
Politico:
Harris' office does damage control over student's Israel ‘ethnic genocide’ comment — Vice President Kamala Harris' office is working behind the scenes to mend relationships with pro-Israel Democrats after not pushing back on a student who, in asking her a question, accused Israel of “ethnic genocide.”
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Washington Free Beacon, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Wire, pjmedia.com, The Times of Israel and HotAir
Lauren Weber / NBC News:
Covid is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of people in urban areas — Unvaccinated Covid patients still overwhelming health care workers — Rural Americans are dying of Covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts — a divide that health experts say is likely …
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Daily Montanan
Katie Pavlich / The Hill:
A border crisis Biden is comfortable with — Americans are watching in horror as towns like Del Rio, Texas, continue to be overrun with a historic wave of preventable illegal immigration. Drone images recently captured by Fox News shocked the nation as 12,000 illegal immigrants from Haiti built …
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
A Border Town's Democratic Mayor Has Had Enough
A Border Town's Democratic Mayor Has Had Enough
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Associated Press, Washington Examiner, HotAir, The Daily Caller, Fox News, U.S. Customs …, TheBlaze and NewsBreak
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 …
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 …
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The Hill, Daily Kos, Joe.My.God. and abc7NY
CDC:
COVID-19 Vaccination for Pregnant People to Prevent Serious Illness, Deaths, and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes from COVID-19 — Distributed via the CDC Health Alert Network — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends urgent action to increase Coronavirus Disease 2019 …
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw bypassed Capitol security, police say. He's the latest lawmaker to be hit with a $5,000 fine. — Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tex.) must pay a $5,000 fine for skipping security procedures as he entered the Republican cloakroom inside the U.S. Capitol last week …
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story and National Review
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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 …
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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Yahoo News:
Pompeo: Sources for Yahoo News WikiLeaks report ‘should all be prosecuted’ — Former CIA Director and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called for the criminal prosecution of sources who spoke to Yahoo News — for a story detailing proposals by the intelligence agency …
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Jacobin and Shadowproof
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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The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Dan Vergano / BuzzFeed News:
A Declassified 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.
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Rolling Stone and Mediaite
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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Townhall, BizPac Review, Joe.My.God., Breitbart and The Federalist
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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CBS News, The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair and Full Feed
Luis Ferré-Sadurní / New York Times:
A 2nd Cuomo Investigation Is Expected to Confirm Harassment Claims — The final report, expected in October, could revive calls for lawmakers to impeach Andrew Cuomo, the former governor, to prevent him from running again, though that seems unlikely. — Read in app
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The Hill, CBS New York and THE CITY
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.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, RedState, KRON4 and Associated Press
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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Idaho Secretary of State, Bonner County Daily Bee, CNN, Raw Story, National Review and Rolling Stone
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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Techno Fog / The Reactionary:
IG Horowitz discovers more FBI abuses of FISA process — A bad day for FBI Director Wray — Today, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued a damning new report on the FBI's “Execution of its Woods Procedures for Applications Filed with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Relating to US Persons.”
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The Federalist
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Stephanie Grisham's Book Won't Save Her From Her Sins — Read in app — Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years. — I did not and will not crack open the cover of Stephanie Grisham's White House memoir …
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HuffPost and The Guardian