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John Shiffman / Reuters:
How AT&T helped build far-right One America News — As it lauded former President Donald Trump and spread his unfounded claims of election fraud, One America News Network saw its viewership jump. Reuters has uncovered how America's telecom giant nurtured the news channel now at the center …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
As Debt Ceiling Vote Looms, Democrats Reconsider Filibuster — Top Democrats say the Republican refusal to allow a vote to avert a federal default is the most powerful argument yet for weakening the Senate's signature procedural weapon. — WASHINGTON — With a federal default projected …
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Life After Default … The credit of the United States is built on centuries of stability and responsibility. This country has never intentionally defaulted on its obligations because of the debt limit. But the U.S. Treasury Department estimates that it will have very limited resources …
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Biden summons bank CEOs, other business leaders as debt ceiling showdown with GOP escalates
Biden summons bank CEOs, other business leaders as debt ceiling showdown with GOP escalates
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Biden says changing filibuster rules to raise debt ceiling is a ‘real possibility’
Biden says changing filibuster rules to raise debt ceiling is a ‘real possibility’
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Top Trump aides set to defy subpoenas in Capitol attack investigation — Source says Meadows, Bannon and others will move to undercut House select committee inquiry - under instructions from Trump — Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top aides subpoenaed …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump praises Pence for criticism of Jan. 6 coverage
Trump praises Pence for criticism of Jan. 6 coverage
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Why Trump wants to tweet
Why Trump wants to tweet
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Politico:
Top Covid experts privately urge Biden admin to scale back booster campaign — A vocal contingent of prominent doctors and scientists is pressing the Biden administration to scrap its plans to provide booster shots to all previously vaccinated adults, according to five people familiar with the matter.
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Natalie Prieb / The Hill:
Jason Aldean says Californians ‘should be outraged’ over school vaccine mandate
Jason Aldean says Californians ‘should be outraged’ over school vaccine mandate
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Timothy Noah / New Republic:
South Dakota Is a Moral Sewer and Should Be Abolished — South Dakota is in the news because a consortium of journalists exposed shady doings there that take advantage of the state's status as a notorious tax haven, and because the state's governor, Kristi Noem, is caught …
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Wall Street Journal:
Science Closes In on Covid's Origins — Four studies—including two from WHO—provide powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory. — Where did Covid-19 come from? The answer can be found in the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself. To get to the truth, we need only unleash the power of science.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Search for a Covid Test
The Search for a Covid Test
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
The Cocooning of Kyrsten Sinema — The Arizona senator has undergone a political metamorphosis. — In February 2018, I went to Arizona to report on what progressive Democrats there thought about Kyrsten Sinema, the centrist whose Senate vote is key in the fight over President Biden's agenda and political prospects.
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POLITICO Playbook: What's Chuck's Plan B?
POLITICO Playbook: What's Chuck's Plan B?
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Mark Zuckerberg:
I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company. — Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you. — First, the SEV that took down all our services yesterday was the worst outage we've had in years.
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Brenda Alexander / Yahoo News:
Sage Steele removed from ESPN following comments on Obama, vaccine; former colleague Jemele Hill calls her out — Hill called Steele a “clown” after Steele made references to Obama's ethnicity. — Sage Steele has been temporarily removed from ESPN for her comments on a podcast …
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Armond White / National Review:
The Many Saints of Newark Is Trash — The culture of corruption, romanticized for RINOs and rotten Dems — For some of us, The Sopranos epitomizes everything that went wrong with American popular culture this millennium. Those of us who realize that mainstream media operate by different rules …
HuffPost:
Senate Republicans Shrug Off Candidates' Domestic Violence Allegations — Three GOP Senate candidates, including two with Trump's backing, have been accused of violence against women. Republicans don't seem to mind. — Republicans could end up backing three candidates accused of domestic …
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Trump True Believers Have Their Reasons — Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality. — Just who believes the claim that Trump won in 2020 and that the election was stolen from him? Who are these tens of millions of Americans …
Andrew Egger / The Dispatch:
Federal Probe Scrutinizes Financial Dealings of the American Conservative Union — Sources say that investigators are looking into possible criminal campaign-finance misdeeds by the political organization headed by Matt Schlapp. — The American Conservative Union, the political organization …
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Washington Post:
How Trump's health department fell in love with charter jets — Documents offer new insight into the strategy of shuttling former HHS secretary Tom Price around America — In April 2017, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services grappled with an urgent request …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier. — Rich countries contribute an average of $14,000 per year for a toddler's care, compared with $500 in the U.S. The Democrats' spending bill tries to shrink the gap. — Typical 2-year-olds in Denmark attend child care during the day …
Associated Press:
In Idaho, a power play while the governor's away — BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Gov. Brad Little said he will rescind an executive order involving Covid-19 vaccines by Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, and the commanding general of the Idaho National Guard also on Tuesday told McGeachin she can't activate troops to send to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Callie Patteson / New York Post:
US government ordering Google to provide users' search data: report — The US federal government is secretly ordering Google and other search engines to track and provide data on anyone who searches certain terms through “keyword warrants,” according to a new report.
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Andrew Ujifusa / Education Week:
Justice Department Says FBI Will Address Violent Threats Against School Leaders — Remove — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday that the FBI will work with federal attorneys, as well as state and local leaders, to discuss strategies for countering threats against teachers …
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Callie Patteson / New York Post:
Yellen defends IRS rule requiring banks to report all transactions over $600 — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is defending a Biden administration proposal that would require banks to report data to the Internal Revenue Service on transactions over $600, calling the collection of information …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Anybody Fighting Joe Biden Is Helping Trump's Next Coup All Republican politics is now functionally authoritarian. — In the aftermath of Donald Trump's bid to secure an unelected second term, his former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, in an extensive interview with Tim Alberta, registered her disgust …
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Kamala Harris Might Have to Stop the Steal — For a few hours inside the ransacked Capitol on January 6, then-Vice President Mike Pence helped to preserve the democratic order by insisting that he was powerless to change the outcome of the election. On January 6, 2025 …
New York Times:
Bill de Blasio Thinks He Could Be Governor. Does Anyone Else? — A run for higher office by New York City's mayor might be viewed skeptically across the state, but he says he wants to remain in public life. — Mayor Bill de Blasio has begun to tell people privately that he plans to run …
The Daily Beast:
‘Trumpcoin’ Scam From Fake Celebrity Accounts Is Fooling QAnon — The “Caligula”-esque coins are being peddled by faux celebrity accounts purporting to be Elon Musk, Mel Gibson, Kirstie Alley, and even Denzel Washington. — QAnon world is being flooded with a currency scam in the form …
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Patrick Leahy / U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont:
Leahy Leads 48 Senators In Introducing John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Tuesday along with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) …
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
State Department discloses number of nukes in US stockpile — WASHINGTON (AP) — In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department on Tuesday disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile. It said this will aid global efforts to control the spread of such weapons.
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