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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Key to Biden's Climate Agenda Likely to Be Cut Because of Manchin Opposition — The West Virginia Democrat told the White House he is firmly against a clean electricity program that is the muscle behind the president's plan to battle climate change. — WASHINGTON — The most powerful part …
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Slate:
Biden's Supreme Court Commission Walked Straight Into the Legitimacy Trap — The Supreme Court is struggling with a “legitimacy crisis.” According to the polls, Americans have lost confidence in the branch that requires public confidence to exercise power.
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Bloomberg Law:
Biden's Supreme Court Commission Loses Two Conservatives — President Joe Biden's bipartisan commission studying changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including court expansion, lost two of its conservative members ahead of a Friday meeting to review preliminary findings.
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Mynewsdesk:
Counter Terrorism Command leading investigation into Sir David Amess murder — The fatal stabbing in Leigh-on-Sea has tonight been declared as a terrorist incident, with the investigation being led by Counter Terrorism Policing. — The investigation is being led by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command …
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Sir David Amess stabbing: What we know so far
Sir David Amess stabbing: What we know so far
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New York Times:
David Amess, Conservative Lawmaker in U.K., Is Fatally Stabbed
David Amess, Conservative Lawmaker in U.K., Is Fatally Stabbed
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Doug Faulkner / BBC:
Sir David Amess killing was terrorist incident, Met Police say
Sir David Amess killing was terrorist incident, Met Police say
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Peter Hasson / Fox News:
Loudoun County superintendent apologizes, board member resigns as backlash grows over alleged sexual assaults — Loudoun County Public Schools has faced intense public pressure after Scott Smith revealed his daughter was allegedly assaulted in a school bathroom — Loudoun father claims city concealed sex assault
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Eric Quintanar / The Daily Wire:
Loudoun County School Board Member Resigns Following Daily Wire Investigation — Beth Barts, a far-left member of the Loudoun County School Board, has resigned from her position. — First elected in 2019, Barts has been criticized by parent groups over Critical Race Theory and transgender policies in the school system.
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WJLA-TV:
Loudoun schools superintendent: we ‘failed’ to provide safe environment after assaults — Loudoun County Public Schools superintendent Dr. Scott Ziegler responded Friday after parents were outraged with how the schools handled reports of two sexual assaults inside schools.
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Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Netflix just fired the organizer of the trans employee walkout — The company suspects they leaked metrics about the Dave Chappelle special to the press — Netflix has fired a leader of the trans employee resource group who was organizing the upcoming October 20th walkout.
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Woman becomes ‘combative’ attempting assault on Capitol Police officers with baseball bat — A woman in Washington, D.C. , “became combative” and attempted to assault Capitol Police officers on Friday using a baseball bat , authorities said Friday. — The woman, who was identified …
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Sinema rakes in Pharma and finance cash amid reconciliation negotiations — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) raised more campaign money in the last three months than in any quarter since she became a senator. And she hit that $1.1 million haul with a big assist from the pharmaceutical …
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Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
What Is Kyrsten Sinema Doing?
What Is Kyrsten Sinema Doing?
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Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Politico's New Owner Plans to Grow Staff, Launch Paywall — Axel Springer, whose $1 billion acquisition of Politico is expected to close next week, also eyes foreign-language editions — BERLIN— Axel Springer SE plans to eventually put Politico's content behind a paywall and immediately boost …
Michael Wolff / The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Epstein Bragged Bill Barr was in Charge, Not Trump — The pedophile told Ehud Barak he had “direct knowledge” that Barr was in charge in DC, according to a new book that also claims Steve Bannon gave Epstein advice on his PR strategy. — On a morning in early 2019, with spring in the air …
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Megan Carpentier / Oxygen Official Site:
Native American Woman In Oklahoma Convicted Of Manslaughter Over Miscarriage — Brittney Poolaw faces four years in prison for a miscarriage she suffered less than halfway through her pregnancy. — Prosectors in Oklahoma successfully argued to a jury this month that a woman who had a miscarriage …
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New York Times:
Science vs. bureaucracy — For the 15 million Americans who have received the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine, the confusing messages from the federal government just keep coming. — An F.D.A. advisory panel is scheduled to vote today on whether J. & J. recipients should receive a booster shot.
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Johnny Diaz / New York Times:
Texas Superintendent Apologizes After Official's Holocaust Remarks — State lawmakers and the Anti-Defamation League condemned a school official's advice to “make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives.”
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Terry Spencer / Associated Press:
Attorney: Cruz to plead guilty to Parkland school massacre — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The gunman who killed 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school will plead guilty to their murders, his attorneys said Friday, bringing some closure to a South Florida community …
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Sen. Bernie Sanders / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Let's stand together to protect working families (Opinion) — THE MOUNTAIN STATE'S TRUSTED NEWS SOURCE. — In America today, the very rich are becoming richer while millions of working families are struggling to put food on the table or pay their bills. We now have the absurd situation …
Brett Simpson / The Atlantic:
Why Cars Don't Deserve the Right of Way — On a hot June evening in Berkeley, California, last year, while his groceries sweated on the couch, 24-year-old Darrell Owens sent a tweet that changed his city. — “Traffic enforcement needs to be totally removed from the police ...” it began.
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump allies eye election law push should he be reelected — Even before he lost his reelection bid, former President Donald Trump has been obsessed with challenging and changing election laws. Should he find himself back in the White House, his allies are hoping to turn that obsession into legislative action.
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CREW:
CREW files Hatch Act Complaint against Psaki — White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki appears to have violated the Hatch Act by endorsing Terry McAuliffe's gubernatorial campaign in Virginia from the podium in the White House Briefing Room. — During a press briefing, Psaki said of McAuliffe …
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Tampa Bay Times:
Trump won Florida, but online and at your door, his supporters are trying to force an audit — The push for a recount began months ago in states like Arizona, where Trump lost by a narrow margin. But the movement is now bleeding into states Trump won comfortably, including Florida.
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Jonathan Levinson / opb:
Oath Keepers in Oregon law enforcement — The earliest law enforcement officer in the state to join was Multnomah County Sheriff's Deputy Phillip Farrell, who signed up in 2009, according to the hacked records. Farrell retired from the Sheriff's office in 2014 and, until 2019 …
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Deidre McPhillips / CNN:
New CDC data shows the risk of dying from Covid-19 is 11 times higher for unvaccinated adults than for fully vaccinated adults — (CNN)Throughout August, the risk of dying from Covid-19 was 11 times higher for unvaccinated adults than for fully vaccinated adults in the United States …
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Davis Winkie / Military Times:
Day 1 of outspoken Marine's trial brings guilty plea and political sideshow — CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina — When Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller's defense team called Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, to the virtual witness stand Thursday afternoon, the tablet showing her Zoom testimony …
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Spencer Ackerman / Forever Wars:
Terrorism, Structural Racism, And Facebook — The ‘radical indifference’ of the surveillance-capitalist giant reflects and entrenches a racialized understanding of political violence. — Buy REIGN OF TERROR: How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
CNN praises Dr. Sanjay Gupta for interview with Joe Rogan, buries viral moments — Gupta admitted his CNN colleagues should not have referred to Rogan's COVID treatment as ‘horse de-wormer’ — CNN showered its chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta with praise for daring to sit …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Is a Democratic Wipeout Inevitable? — It's common now for Democrats to argue that the agenda they are struggling to implement on Capitol Hill represents the party's most ambitious since the “Great Society” Congress convened in 1965. That's a reasonable assessment—but one that the party today …
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Marco Rubio / Fox News:
It's time to fire John Kerry, Biden's ethically challenged climate czar — President Biden has a choice: stand by the man profiting from slave labor or fire him — Fox News reads climate czar John Kerry's emissions report on air — Sometimes the most obvious explanation is the right one.
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