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Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
CDC recommends shorter COVID isolation, quarantine for all — NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine.
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Philip Klein / National Review:
CDC's New Isolation Guidance Treats Unvaccinated the Same as Un-boosted — The Centers for Disease Control has moved one step closer to changing the definition of fully vaccinated to include only those who have received a booster. — Earlier, I noted how the CDC arbitrarily halved its quarantine guidance from ten days to five.
CDC:
CDC Newsroom — CDC Updates and Shortens Recommended Isolation and Quarantine Period for General Population — Given what we currently know about COVID-19 and the Omicron variant, CDC is shortening the recommended time for isolation from 10 days for people with COVID-19 to 5 days …
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Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:
CDC Shortens Quarantine Period to 5 Days for Those Without Symptoms
CDC Shortens Quarantine Period to 5 Days for Those Without Symptoms
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Now he tells us: There's no federal solution to COVID, says Biden
Now he tells us: There's no federal solution to COVID, says Biden
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Lays Out How He and Bannon Planned to Overturn Biden's Electoral Win — “It started out perfectly. At 1 p.m., Gosar and Cruz did exactly what was expected of them...” … A former Trump White House official says he and right-wing provocateur Steve Bannon …
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Polina Ivanova / Financial Times:
Russia's Supreme Court orders closure of Memorial civil rights group — Organisation has documented Soviet-era atrocities for more than three decades — Russia's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Memorial, the country's oldest civil rights group, after prosecutors accused …
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Sarah Rainsford / BBC:
Russian court orders oldest civil rights group Memorial to shut — Russia's Supreme Court has ordered the closure of International Memorial, Russia's oldest human rights group. — Memorial worked to recover the memory of the millions of innocent people executed, imprisoned or persecuted in the Soviet era.
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Felix Light / The Moscow Times:
Russian Court Orders Closure of Renowned Rights Group Memorial
Russian Court Orders Closure of Renowned Rights Group Memorial
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Matt Taibbi / TK News:
The Democrats' Education Lunacies Will Bring Back Trump — Terry McAuliffe lost the Virginia governor's race by saying, “I don't think parents should be telling schools what to teach.” If that was no gaffe, Democrats have a lot more significant losing ahead
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Political Life of Dr. Oz … Dr. Oz for Senate is headquartered in a patch of strip mall next to a Mexican restaurant in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where the candidate's father-in-law, Dr. Gerald Lemole, maintains a medical office down the road from the Lemole family farm …
New York Times:
The Peanut Butter Secret: A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy — A tax break aimed at small businesses has become a popular way for Silicon Valley founders and investors to avoid taxes on their investment profits. — This is the story of the incredible cloning tax break.
David Axelrod / New York Times:
It's Not Over for Joe Biden — Mr. Axelrod was a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns. — Joe Biden must be having flashbacks. — In early 2010, when Democrats lost a special election for the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat …
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Helen Branswell / STAT:
10 lessons I've learned from the Covid-19 pandemic — On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, just hours from when 2019 was going to segue into 2020, I read an email about some unusual pneumonia cases in China's Hubei province. Over the past couple of decades, China has been a wellspring …
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: There Was ANOTHER Rally Planned On Jan. 6 ... At The Supreme Court — The same people who organized Trump's fateful rally on the Ellipse had something else in store on Jan. 6: a rally planned in front of the Supreme Court. — The same people who organized Trump's fateful rally …
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Keith Coffman / Reuters:
Gunman kills four in Denver-area shooting spree before he is killed by police — A lone gunman shot four people to death and wounded three, including a police officer, on Monday in a Denver-area shooting spree that unfolded at several locations and ended with police killing the suspect, authorities said.
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Reuters:
U.S., Russia set for Jan. 10 security talks amid Ukraine tensions — U.S. and Russian officials will hold security talks on Jan. 10 to discuss concerns about their respective military activity and confront rising tensions over Ukraine, the two countries said.
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Thomas Colson / Insider:
Trump's struggling Scottish golf resorts lost nearly $9 million in 2020, new filings show — Trump's two Scottish golf courses lost nearly $9 million combined in 2020, new filings show. — The filings, signed by Eric Trump, show that the clubs lost money even after claiming UK government pandemic aid.
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Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Hispanic Voters in This Pennsylvania City Are Shifting Toward the GOP. Both Parties Want to Know Why. — Republican gains among Hispanics in Reading mirror those in other parts of the country, but Democrats think they still have important advantages with this growing demographic