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Dan Hinkel / New York Times:
Reconstructing the Rittenhouse Shootings: How Kenosha Echoed America's Polarization — A police officer in Kenosha, Wis., shoots a Black man named Jacob Blake seven times from behind, leaving him partially paralyzed. [gunshots] “Black lives matter!” Crowd: “Black lives matter!”
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Nathan Layne / Washington Free Beacon:
Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted of All Charges — KENOSHA, Wis. (Reuters) — A jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on Friday on charges that he murdered two men and attempted to kill a third with his semi-automatic rifle during chaotic 2020 racial justice protests in Wisconsin, determining that the teenager acted in self-defense.
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Nathan Layne / Reuters:
Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty of all charges in Wisconsin murder trial
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Washington Post:
‘No one tells me what to do’: Sinema praises infrastructure, questions spending and inflation in wide-ranging interview — Kyrsten Sinema says she is worried about inflation. The U.S. senator from Arizona says new tax hikes could harm businesses still struggling in the wake of the pandemic.
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
House passes roughly $2 trillion spending package that would expand social benefits and fight climate change — Republicans delayed the vote but Democrats pushed ahead on one of Biden's key priorities. The battle now moves to the Senate. — More than a year after President Biden clinched …
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Washington Post:
McCarthy's overnight speech — longest in modern history — underscores rancor in the House — By the time House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) yielded the floor at 5:11 a.m. Friday, completing a speech that began some 8 ½ hours earlier, he had repeatedly taken aim …
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
What Disarray? Democrats Are Getting Stuff Done — House approval of the party's big climate and spending bill shows that the messy public squabbling over its particulars has actually been constructive negotiation. — The House of Representatives finally voted Friday morning to approve the …
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: McCarthy filibusters, Biden dithers and Fauci unmasks — DRIVING THE DAY — If a “New York minute” is a few passing seconds, then the opposite is a “McCarthy minute” — something that drags on and on for hours. — On Thursday night, at 8:38 p.m. …
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
House Democrats Roast Kevin McCarthy on Twitter for Marathon Speech: ‘Please Saw Me in Half and Put Me Out of My Misery’
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
What Does the Future Hold for Kevin McCarthy and Kamala Harris?
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
McCarthy's record rant throws wrench in Pelosi's plans ... temporarily
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
House passes expensive social spending bill that now faces big Senate hurdles
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Kate Sullivan / CNN:
For 85 minutes, Kamala Harris became the first woman with presidential power — (CNN)President Joe Biden on Friday temporarily transferred power to Vice President Kamala Harris while he was under anesthesia for a routine colonoscopy for one hour and 25 minutes, according to the White House.
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Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
Kamala Harris makes history, again, as first woman with presidential power — for 85 minutes
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Molly Nagle / ABC News:
Biden gets first physical as president, power to be transferred to VP Harris
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Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Biden expected to replace Ron Bloom, USPS board chair and key DeJoy ally, on postal board — Bloom, a Democrat, has backed the postmaster general as the agency slowed mail delivery standards and raised prices — President Biden is expected to announce Friday that he will not renominate Ron Bloom …
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Washington Post:
Fauci's office flooded with attacks over beagle experiments — Covid chief's phone line rings 3,600 times in 36 hours after campaign by little-known animal rights group — Anthony S. Fauci was swamped by so many angry messages and threats that in late October his assistant quit answering the phone for two weeks.
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Rachel Roubein / Washington Post:
NIH director: ‘Conspiracies are winning here’
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wisconsin Republicans Push to Take Over the State's Elections — Led by Senator Ron Johnson, G.O.P. officials want to eliminate a bipartisan elections agency — and maybe send its members to jail. — Republicans in Wisconsin are engaged in an all-out assault on the state's election infrastructure …
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CNN:
Peng Shuai: UN calls for proof of Chinese tennis star's whereabouts; WTA chairman willing to pull out of China — Hong Kong (CNN)China is facing pressure from the United Nations over Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai's whereabouts as the organization called for an investigation into her allegations of sexual assault.
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Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
The WTA cares enough about Peng Shuai to stand up to China. Does anyone else?
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CNN:
Trump's ire grows as DeSantis' popularity with Republicans takes off — People close to both men first noticed the palpable shift in Trump's posture toward DeSantis earlier this year as enthusiasm for the Florida governor swelled among donors and GOP operatives who praised his laissez-faire response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
‘Typical Bullsh*t’: Fox News Host Melts Down When Mediaite Asks About Fox's Vaccine Policy and Whether Trump Lost in 2020 — Fox News host Pete Hegseth was my guest on this week's episode of The Interview. Hegseth is the co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend and a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Christina Wyman / NBC News:
Schools face parents who want to ban critical race theory — and don't get how teaching works — An educator's top goal is to teach students to think. Parents who dictate curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies and biases hinder that goal. — CRT outrage & the VA governor's race
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
‘Tiger mother’ Amy Chua: ‘Boldness is my downfall’ … Owing to my forgetfulness, my lunch with Amy Chua starts awkwardly before it even begins. On the train to New Haven, home of Yale University where Chua has been a tenured professor for 20 years, I realise that I forgot to reserve …
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:
I Made the World's Blandest Facebook Profile, Just to See What Happens — In 2019, a researcher at Facebook conducted an experiment to see whether the platform really has a tendency to send users down a rabbit hole of extreme and conspiratorial content. The employee set up a pair of fake profiles …
US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Expands Eligibility for COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters — For Immediate Release: — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amended the emergency use authorizations (EUA) for both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines authorizing use …
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: FDA authorizes mRNA boosters for all adults
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Scoop: Surprise Trump book, ‘Our Journey Together’ — Former President Donald Trump today shocked the publishing world that has tried to cancel his administration by revealing that he is releasing his first post-White House book in December, titled Our Journey Together.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
The Ugly New Charges Against Jan. 6 Rioter ‘Baked Alaska’ — “No more ‘Happy Hanukkah,’ only ‘Merry Christmas,’” racist livestreamer Baked Alaska allegedly said as he tore down a Jewish group's signage. — A notorious U.S. Capitol riot suspect and white supremacist livestreamer who goes by the alias …
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Joe Sneve / Argus Leader:
Gov. Kristi Noem losing another chief of staff, taps attorney Mark Miller to assume position — An attorney advising Gov. Kristi Noem for the last 13 months is taking on a larger role in her administration. — High-ranking state officials and staff in the South Dakota governor's office …
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