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New York Times:
Raiders Coach Resigns After Homophobic and Misogynistic Emails — A trove of emails in a separate workplace misconduct case shows Raiders Coach Jon Gruden went beyond previously disclosed racist comments to issue broad tirades. — Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach …
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Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says — On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Trump's Coup Attempt Is Far From Finished — Trump's preparing to run in 2024, but a new Senate report detailing his sedition gives officials the evidence they need to disqualify him from completing the coup. — “Subverting Justice,” the 394-page report released last week …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The Trump nightmare looms again
The Trump nightmare looms again
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Biden 2020 win ‘tainted,’ 56% say it was a cheater's paradise
Biden 2020 win ‘tainted,’ 56% say it was a cheater's paradise
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
I'm no Democrat — but I'm voting exclusively for Democrats to save our democracy
I'm no Democrat — but I'm voting exclusively for Democrats to save our democracy
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Deseret News, HotAir, USA Today, Newsweek and The Week
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Kamala Harris's NASA video featured child actors — The first installment of Vice President Kamala Harris's YouTube Originals space series featured child actors who auditioned for their roles in the project. — Trevor Bernardino, a 13-year-old actor from Carmel, California …
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Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
VP Kamala Harris starred in NASA space video with child ACTORS who had to audition for the part despite being presented as normal kids
VP Kamala Harris starred in NASA space video with child ACTORS who had to audition for the part despite being presented as normal kids
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Fox News, The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Cortney O'Brien / Fox News:
Samantha Bee admits she didn't want to challenge ‘hero’ narrative about Andrew Cuomo last year
Samantha Bee admits she didn't want to challenge ‘hero’ narrative about Andrew Cuomo last year
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New York Times
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
John Eastman's employer tries to whitewash his road map for overturning Trump's loss — John Eastman, it seems, is the victim of one big misunderstanding. — The conservative Claremont Institute, which employs the lawyer who provided a road map for then-President Donald Trump …
Saeed Jones / GQ:
Dave Chappelle's Betrayal — Poet Saeed Jones used to consider himself a longtime fan of the comedian. But Chappelle's new Netflix special “The Closer,” which fixates on gay and trans people, feels like a stab in the back. — You ever hear the one about the famous Black comedian …
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Tatiana Tenreyro / The A.V. Club:
Netflix chief Ted Sarandos defends Dave Chappelle comedy special, says it won't be removed
Netflix chief Ted Sarandos defends Dave Chappelle comedy special, says it won't be removed
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Washington Post:
In search for covid origins, Hubei caves and wildlife farms draw new scrutiny — ENSHI, China — Hundreds of caves are spread throughout the mountains of Enshi prefecture, an agricultural corner of China's Hubei province. The most majestic, Tenglong, or “flying dragon,” …
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Texas Gov. Abbott issues order banning Covid vaccination mandates in rebuke of Biden — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday prohibiting any entity, including private businesses, from imposing Covid-19 vaccination requirements on employees or customers.
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Miami Herald:
Miami manager moves to fire police chief — City Manager Art Noriega moved to fire embattled Police Chief Art Acevedo Monday night, ending weeks of speculation and tumult at City Hall and after a pair of circus-like public hearings in which commissioners lashed out at the chief for everything …
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Election Workers in Georgia Are Fired for Shredding Voter Registration Forms — A previous investigation of the Fulton County office could eventually replace the elections board with a temporary superintendent with sweeping powers to oversee the vote. — The elections office …
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Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots — The number of eligible people still weighing whether to get a Covid vaccine has sharply dwindled, leaving an unvaccinated population that is mostly hard-core refusers. — Vaccinated people have been burning …
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Balloon Juice, HotAir and Honolulu Star-Advertiser
New York Times:
Clear Differences Remain Between France and U.S., French Minister Says — Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says the two countries remain at odds over China and various security issues, even if they had effectively cooperated on overhauling the international tax system.
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Deseret News
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Dear Democrats: Only 10% of People Even Know What You Are Fighting For — Even if Democrats can pass their big bill, they won't be able to sell it. — (PHOTOS: GETTYIMAGES / SHUTTERSTOCK) — Quick: What is in the Democrats' $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better,” “Human Infrastructure,” …
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Women wield the power — Women will decide President Biden's fate — in Congress and beyond. — Biden's recent slide in the polls really comes down to slack in his support from women. The New York Times reports a recent nine-percentage point drop for support of Biden among women in an average of polls.
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Washington Examiner:
Restoring America — America is going wrong. That is the stark but necessary starting point for this editorial. Many people know it to be true; they can feel our politics and culture turning ever more sour, taste the bitter reality of national decline. — But fewer people acknowledge it …
Jeremy Schwartz / ProPublica:
Trump Won the County in a Landslide. His Supporters Still Hounded the Elections Administrator Until She Resigned. — Co-published with The Texas Tribune … An elections administrator in North Texas submitted her resignation Friday, following a monthslong effort by residents and officials loyal …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Biden's ‘tough month’ looms over Democratic campaigns in 2021 — (CNN)The federal headwinds against Democrats on the ballot this November have never been stronger. — Democrats who were once buoyant that a well-liked President Joe Biden and popular agenda moving through Congress could propel …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The next legislative pile-up is coming — DRIVING THE DAY — WHAT WE'RE WATCHING — With the exception of today — when the House briefly returns to clear the Senate-passed, short-term debt ceiling stopgap — Congress is out on recess this week after lawmakers kicked the can on their entire legislative to-do list.
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Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
Racial Bias Skewed Small-Business Relief Lending, Study Says — Black business owners were more likely to get Paycheck Protection Program loans from online lenders than from banks, according to new research. — From the very start of the Paycheck Protection Program last year …
New York Times:
Biden's Proposal to Empower I.R.S. Rattles Banks and Their Customers — To help fund its new initiatives, the Biden administration wants banks to report more customer information. Account holders aren't happy. — When the Biden administration looked for ways to pay for the president's …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Another Facebook whistleblower says she is willing to testify before Congress — San Francisco (CNN Business)Sophie Zhang, who said she felt like she had “blood on her hands” after working at Facebook, is willing to testify before Congress about her former employer, she told CNN Sunday.
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
‘Hiding the Ball’: Hunter Biden Complicates White House Anti-Corruption Push — During the presidential campaign, liberals had plenty of reason to tune out the Hunter Biden story. — For one, it was being pushed by Donald Trump, whose administration was awash in ethics scandals of its own …
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Michael Doran / Wall Street Journal:
Azerbaijan's Defiant Message to Iran — Washington should take note of its alliance with Israel. — A picture is worth a thousand policy briefs. On Oct. 4, Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, mugged for the cameras. Beaming before reporters, he stroked, patted …
Nonzero Newsletter:
Toward a Unified Theory of Blob-dom — “The Blob” isn't a coherent concept, according to some blobsters. Well they would say that, wouldn't they? … The term “Blob” has arrived. Within the past two months this recent addition to our foreign policy vocabulary has appeared in the New York Times …
Associated Press:
Justice Department again presses to halt Texas abortion law — AUSTIN, Texas — The Biden administration urged the courts again to step in and suspend a new Texas law that has banned most abortions since early September, as clinics hundreds of miles away remain busy with Texas patients making long journeys to get care.
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Wall Street Journal:
Strange Quiet Arrives in Afghanistan After Decades of War — Residents are returning to Taliban-controlled regions after years of displacement, visiting homes and relatives they haven't seen in years — SANGIN, Afghanistan—Eighteen years after his bakery was destroyed in an American airstrike …
Simon Miles / Globe and Mail:
KGB archives show how Chrystia Freeland drew the ire (and respect) of Soviet intelligence services — The Soviet Union's secret police, the infamous KGB, praised her savvy and erudition, even as she frustrated their attempts to spy on her in Cold War Ukraine. They tagged her with the code name Frida.
Jan Egeland / New York Times:
Afghanistan Is in Economic Freefall. It Needs Aid. — Mr. Egeland is secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council and has 30 years experience working as a humanitarian. — Traveling around Kabul a few weeks ago, the city felt worlds apart from my last visit in 2019 — and not just because a 20-year war had finally ended.