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Minnesota Department of Health:
Lab testing confirms state's first COVID-19 case involving Omicron variant — Infected Minnesota resident recently returned from domestic travel; variant was found through MDH variant surveillance program, which is one of the strongest surveillance programs in the nation
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Andrew Joseph / STAT:
Second U.S. case of Omicron variant indicates domestic transmission — Health officials on Thursday reported the country's second Covid-19 infection from the Omicron variant in a Minnesota resident who notably did not travel internationally recently, unlike the first case.
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CBS Los Angeles, Science, Bloomberg, Iowa Capital Dispatch, CBS News, HotAir, UPI, WHTM-TV, New York Times and KRON4
Washington Post:
As world focuses on omicron, delta variant overwhelms parts of U.S.
As world focuses on omicron, delta variant overwhelms parts of U.S.
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CBS News, Shore News Network and Vox
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
White House says domestic travel vaccine requirements on the table due to omicron variant
White House says domestic travel vaccine requirements on the table due to omicron variant
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Politico, Washington Examiner, New York Times, National Review, The Hill and TheBlaze
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: Biden to Announce New Virus Plan as Omicron Reaches U.S.
Covid Live Updates: Biden to Announce New Virus Plan as Omicron Reaches U.S.
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Andrew Miller / Fox News:
New York confirms 5 cases of the omicron coronavirus variant
New York confirms 5 cases of the omicron coronavirus variant
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New York Times, Politico, Bloomberg, Associated Press, New York Post, Boston.com, NBC New York, CBS New York and KGET-TV
Joe Biden / USA Today:
President Biden: My winter plan fights COVID with testing and vaccines and without lockdowns
President Biden: My winter plan fights COVID with testing and vaccines and without lockdowns
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CNBC, The Hill, New York Times and Associated Press
The White House:
President Biden Announces New Actions to Protect Americans Against the Delta and Omicron Variants as We Battle COVID-19 this Winter
President Biden Announces New Actions to Protect Americans Against the Delta and Omicron Variants as We Battle COVID-19 this Winter
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
John Kennedy Tells Biden Nominee Dale Ho He's Too ‘Angry’ To Be A Federal Judge — “We don't need federal judges who are angry,” said the GOP senator, who voted to put angry guy Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. — Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told President Joe Biden's judicial nominee Dale Ho …
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
In case you missed the abortion argument, here's about how it went — What a great day for a light oral argument yesterday was! All nine of the Supreme Court justices were there, including both the Georgetown Prep graduate who has been accused of sexual assault and the Georgetown Prep graduate who hasn't!
Mariel Fernandez / NAACP Legal Defense …:
LDF Issues Statement on Misleading References to Brown v. Board of Education by Supreme Court Justices
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Dobbs Arguments Revealed Why the Supreme Court Should Stay Out of Abortion
The Dobbs Arguments Revealed Why the Supreme Court Should Stay Out of Abortion
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
The Betrayal of Roe — The aftermath of the Supreme Court's oral arguments this week …
The Betrayal of Roe — The aftermath of the Supreme Court's oral arguments this week …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Why a Pollster is Warning Democrats About the 2022 Midterm Elections — Focus groups with Virginia voters led to a bluntly worded memo on what Democrats need to do going into the midterms. — Brian Stryker, a Democratic pollster, didn't work for Terry McAuliffe's campaign in the Virginia governor's race.
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Politico:
Meadows' book possible ‘waiver’ of executive privilege, Jan. 6 investigators say — Jan. 6 investigators have tried to pry information from Mark Meadows for months. Now, excerpts from his forthcoming book have piqued the select committee's interest. — In interviews, members of the committee …
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Far-Right Shock Jock Confronts Mark Meadows on Alleged Ties to China
Far-Right Shock Jock Confronts Mark Meadows on Alleged Ties to China
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Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The bombshell about Trump testing positive also implicates the Trump family
The bombshell about Trump testing positive also implicates the Trump family
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Military Times, Washington Examiner, HotAir, Snopes.com, Mock Paper Scissors and Raw Story
CNN:
Exclusive: Sinema won't commit to voting for Biden's sweeping social safety net expansion — (CNN)Kyrsten Sinema, the influential moderate Democratic senator from Arizona, did not commit to voting for President Joe Biden's sweeping social safety net legislation in a sit-down interview with CNN on Thursday …
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HotAir, Politico and Patterico's Pontifications
Allahpundit / HotAir:
U.S. hedge-fund billionaire on China disappearing people: They're behaving like a “strict parent” — I missed this yesterday. If you did too, make amends. Not just because the contrast this clip draws with the moral righteousness displayed by the Women's Tennis Association is so sharp …
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Insider, Axios, The Racquet and The Federalist
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
A CIA Report Shows Trump Abandoned His Duty as Commander in Chief — The CIA is too polite to say this directly, but it has issued a report that shows that Donald Trump, while obsessing over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, abandoned one of his primary duties as president …
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Washington Post, Lawfare and Washington Examiner
Joshua Malina / The Atlantic:
Cancel Mel Gibson — Every day, as dawn's rosy fingers reach through my window, I arise and check in with Twitter, to see what fresh hell awaits. Generally, by about 6:30, I've been made furious by the outrage du jour. But recently, I experienced more of a sense of bemusement than ire …
Commsdirector / Democratic Socialists of America:
On the Question of Expelling Congressman Bowman — As a socialist organization building mass, working class power for the freedom of all oppressed peoples under capitalism and imperialism, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is committed to the Palestinian fight for freedom.
Insider:
Kayleigh McEnany says she didn't lie in the White House briefing room because she went to Oxford, Harvard, and Georgetown and is a Christian — Former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany claims she didn't lie in the White House briefing room. — She writes in her upcoming book …
Ailan Evans / The Daily Caller:
CIA Covered Up Staff Sex Crimes Committed Against Minors — The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was aware that at least 10 members of its staff allegedly committed sex crimes against children, though only one employee was ever prosecuted, according to released documents first reported by BuzzFeed News.
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Major news outlets side with Steve Bannon on one part of his legal fight. — A coalition of the nation's largest media companies and news organizations has filed a legal brief in support of Stephen K. Bannon, asking a federal court not to bar him from publicly releasing documents related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Jan. 6 Legal Strategy: ‘Blowing Up the Whole System’
Steve Bannon's Jan. 6 Legal Strategy: ‘Blowing Up the Whole System’
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New York Post:
Ex-Gov. Cuomo under federal probe over sexual harassment claims — Federal authorities are probing the sexual harassment claims against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo that forced him from office, The Post has learned. — The stunning development is contained in a legal services contract signed …
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Washington Post, NBC News, Washington Examiner, Fox News, CNBC, Insider, RedState, Breitbart, Political Wire and Twitchy
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Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
Andrew Cuomo Under Federal Investigation Over Sexual-Assault Allegations
Andrew Cuomo Under Federal Investigation Over Sexual-Assault Allegations
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Aaron E. Carroll / The Atlantic:
We Opened the Schools and ... It Was Fine — When the coronavirus pandemic first hit, many states and towns closed everything, including schools. Public-health experts didn't know enough about how COVID was spread or how contagious it was, and the health-care system was overwhelmed in parts of the country.
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Twitchy
Brent Johnson / New Jersey Online:
Republicans defy COVID vaccine policy at the N.J. Statehouse, ignoring troopers who tried to stop them — 1,456 — A number of Republican members of the state Assembly openly defied a new COVID-19 vaccine policy at the New Jersey Statehouse on Thursday and took their seats to cast votes anyway …
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Politico:
Senate sinks deeper into quagmire of dysfunction — The House is beset by historically deep personal animus and vitriol. The Senate is plumbing its own depths of straight-up gridlock. — Democratic leaders' decision to kick some critical business until the end of the year allowed …
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William D. Cohan / Puck:
Carlos Watson Has a Cold — A tale of the embattled Ozy founder, a turkey club sandwich, and a misadventure in crisis management. — On Wednesday, November 10, Carlos Watson, the embattled founder and C.E.O. of Ozy Media, told me that he was flying from his home in Mountain View, California …
Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Texas now bans medical abortions after seven weeks of pregnancy — Beginning today, a new law restricts abortion-inducing medication, the most common abortion method in Texas. — Copy link — A new law limiting the use of abortion-inducing medication in Texas goes into effect Thursday.
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Lauren Effron / ABC News:
Alec Baldwin exclusive: 'The trigger wasn't pulled. I didn't pull the trigger' — George Stephanopoulos' exclusive interview airs Thursday on ABC, streams on Hulu — Actor Alec Baldwin told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview that he had “no idea” …
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Far right is using Twitter's new rule against anti-extremism researchers — Researchers fear the new ban on posts sharing people's private information will be ‘emboldening to the fascists’ eager to keep their identities concealed. ‘Things now unexpectedly work more in our favor,’ one Nazi sympathizer wrote.
Orlando Sentinel:
Florida Power & Light execs worked closely with consultants behind ‘ghost’ candidate scheme, records reveal | Special Report — Top executives at utility giant Florida Power & Light worked closely with the political consultants who orchestrated a scheme to promote spoiler candidates …
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Florida Politics and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Max Read / Read Max:
Is web3 bullshit? — And is that even the right question? … Is web3 bullshit? The hazy vision of new decentralized internet, built on the blockchain, to succeed the “Web 2.0” of Google and Facebook seems to be reaching a threshold of ambient cultural awareness such that non-tech pundits …