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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Dobbs Arguments Revealed Why the Supreme Court Should Stay Out of Abortion — At times, you might have been forgiven for thinking that oral arguments over the Dobbs case were being held before the Health and Human Services Committee of the Pennsylvania state Senate, or some other legislative body.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
Andrew Cuomo Under Federal Investigation Over Sexual-Assault Allegations — Justice Department opened civil-rights probe into former New York governor's executive chamber — The Justice Department opened a civil-rights investigation into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive chamber …
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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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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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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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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” …
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
‘Magic dirt’: How the internet fueled, and defeated, the pandemic's weirdest MLM — The social media posts started in May: photos and videos of smiling people, mostly women, drinking Mason jars of black liquid, slathering black paste on their faces and feet, or dipping babies and dogs in tubs of the black water.
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 …
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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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.
Fox News:
Waukesha parade suspect Darrell Brooks says he feels ‘dehumanized,’ ‘demonized’ in first jailhouse interview — Darrell Brooks Jr. spoke to Fox News Digital on Wednesday in Waukesha County Jail — The latest on Waukesha parade tragedy — WAUKESHA, Wis. - EXCLUSIVE …
Murray Waas / The Guardian:
Revealed: how Sidney Powell could be disbarred for lying in court for Trump — The former lawyer filed cases across America for the former president, hoping to overturn the results of the 2020 election — Sidney Powell, the former lawyer for Donald Trump who filed lawsuits across America …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump intervenes in Ohio Senate primary — for himself — The Ohio Senate race is turning into one of the most brutal contests of next year's midterm elections — and former President Donald Trump is worried it could hurt him if he waged a 2024 comeback bid.
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