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Washington Post:
As world focuses on omicron, delta variant overwhelms parts of U.S. — While the U.S. braces for the unknowns of omicron, which has now been detected in Minnesota, St. Cloud Hospital in the central part of the state is still deep in a battle with the delta variant of the coronavirus.
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Minnesota Department of Health:
Lab testing confirms state's first COVID-19 case involving Omicron variant
Lab testing confirms state's first COVID-19 case involving Omicron variant
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, New York Times, National Review, Washington Examiner, The Hill and TheBlaze
Andrew Joseph / STAT:
Second U.S. case of Omicron variant indicates domestic transmission
Second U.S. case of Omicron variant indicates domestic transmission
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CBS Los Angeles, Science, CBS News, HotAir, Iowa Capital Dispatch, WHTM-TV, Axios, KRON4, New York Post and New York Times
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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The Guardian, New York Post, Associated Press, NBC New York, Boston.com, UPI and KGET-TV
Politico:
Biden takes the fight to Omicron. But the toolkit is growing bare.
Biden takes the fight to Omicron. But the toolkit is growing bare.
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The Daily Caller, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Voice of America and NBC New York
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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Florida Phoenix, Washington Monthly, The Daily Beast, Fox News, Summit News, CBS News, The Daily Wire, NBC News, ⚡️ …, USA Today and STAT
Axios:
McConnell: No legislative agenda for 2022 midterms — Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won't release a legislative agenda before next year's midterms, according to people who've attended private meetings with the minority leader.
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Political Wire
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NBC News:
Avoiding shutdown, Congress approves bill to fund government through Feb. 18
Avoiding shutdown, Congress approves bill to fund government through Feb. 18
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Forbes, GovExec.com, Roll Call, New York Post, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, The Gateway Pundit, New York Times, NPR, Bloomberg and Associated Press
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
GOP tactics herald a grim new era of governing for Biden and Democrats
GOP tactics herald a grim new era of governing for Biden and Democrats
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HuffPost and Talking Points Memo
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Senate sends Biden legislation funding government through Feb. 18 after defeating vaccine mandate ban
Senate sends Biden legislation funding government through Feb. 18 after defeating vaccine mandate ban
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Bloomberg, National Review, Insider, Politico, One America News Network and Shore News Network
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate cuts deal to clear government funding bill
Senate cuts deal to clear government funding bill
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Washington Times, New York Times and Political Wire
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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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
More Democratic senators are willing to weigh changes to Supreme Court — This week's Supreme Court argument on abortion has accelerated an urgency among Senate Democrats to fundamentally alter how the court operates, fueled in part by lingering anger over Republican confirmation maneuvers …
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The American Independent
Mariel Fernandez / NAACP Legal Defense …:
LDF Issues Statement on Misleading References to Brown v. Board of Education by Supreme Court Justices
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, TheBlaze, Patterico's Pontifications and Twitchy
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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HotAir, CNN, Balloon Juice, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Hill
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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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Raw Story, The Guardian and Insider
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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
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
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, The Racquet and The Federalist
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Christian Shepherd / Washington Post:
Facing Olympic boycott calls, China presses U.S. companies to speak up in its defense
Facing Olympic boycott calls, China presses U.S. companies to speak up in its defense
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en.people.cn, Breitbart, Common Sense, The Daily Caller, Axios and Washington Free Beacon
BuzzFeed News:
CIA Files Say Staffers Committed Sex Crimes Involving Children. They Weren't Prosecuted. — Over the past 14 years, the Central Intelligence Agency has secretly amassed credible evidence that at least 10 of its employees and contractors committed sexual crimes involving children.
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Breitbart, RedState, Louder With Crowder and Ace of Spades HQ
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Stephen Gutowski / The Reload:
Alec Baldwin's Gun Could Have Fired Without Him Pulling the Trigger, But Did It? — In his first major interview since being involved in a fatal shooting on the set of his latest movie, Alec Baldwin made a surprising new claim about his actions that day. — Baldwin said the gun went off without him ever actually pulling its trigger.
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ABC News, Deadline, Breitbart, The Daily Beast and BizPac Review
General Michael Hayden / The Cipher Brief:
My Worry for America — OPINION — I was a Brigadier General 30 years ago, assigned in Europe as the head of intelligence. Most of the time I was looking at the Balkans because there was a war going on. Yugoslavia lasted for 72 years and then it was gone; it fell apart. — These were bitter rivalries.
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 …
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 …
Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
Liberty University professor charged in alleged abduction, sexual battery of student — A professor at Liberty University is accused in the abduction and sexual battery of a student, according to the evangelical school and court records in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: No COVID in Cabo! California governor Gavin Newsom does it again - with a Thanksgiving vacation at $29,000-a-night villa owned by Russian oligarch who admitted dodging $248M in taxes - days after extending state's state of emergency — Governor Gavin Newsom spent Thanksgiving …
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Snopes.com, California Globe and The Gateway Pundit
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Congress needs to act on Xi Jinping's genocide now — This week, a private U.K.-based investigative panel released what it says are classified Chinese government documents that appear to show how Chinese President Xi Jinping personally laid the groundwork for the systematic forced assimilation of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
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CNN, Bloomberg, Mediaite and The New York Times Company
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.
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Senate candidate Mehmet Oz says he's a Pennsylvania resident now. So why's he still hanging out in his New Jersey mansion? — Mehmet Oz lived in North Jersey for more than three decades. The celebrity known as “Dr. Oz” has invited magazines and TV cameras to his home overlooking …
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Politico
Phoebe Wall Howard / Detroit Free Press:
School districts across metro Detroit closed Thursday due to threats — In the wake of a deadly school shooting at Oxford High School on Tuesday, school districts across the area began announcing late Wednesday plans to call off classes on Thursday. — Superintendent Pat Watson …
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Breitbart, UPI, New York Post, Jezebel, Detroit Metro Times and Metro.co.uk
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.
Sophie Cocke / Honolulu Star-Advertiser:
Rep. Kai Kahele calls Navy water contamination ‘a crisis of astronomical proportions in Hawaii’ — Hawaii Rep. Kai Kahele today said that the Navy “is currently experiencing a crisis of astronomical proportions in Hawaii” as military officials scramble to respond to hundreds of reports …
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The Hill and Associated Press
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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Fox News, New Jersey Globe, The Hill, Raw Story, Washington Times, CBS Philly and Political Wire
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Facebook sold ads comparing vaccine to Holocaust — New York (CNN Business)Facebook has sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages, comparing the US government's response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany, casting doubt on the result of the 2020 election, and even pushing political violence.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds could release ‘alternative’ Mueller report soon — “Primary processing” of compendium mentioned in Mueller aide's book should be complete next month, court filing says. — An unpublished investigative compilation sometimes referred to as the “Alternative Mueller Report” …
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 …