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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
West Virginia's coal miners just made Joe Manchin's life a lot harder — For months, Sen. Joe Manchin III has sold his opposition to the Build Back Better proposal as driven uniformly by a brave and hardheaded assessment of the national interest. He has warned that BBB will fuel inflation …
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Jeff Goodell / Rolling Stone:
Manchin's Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew — The senator from West Virginia is bought and paid for by Big Coal. With his help the dying industry is pulling one final heist — and the entire planet may pay the price — One of the hardest things to grasp about the climate crisis is the connectedness of all things.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Joe Manchin's former aides gain influential lobbying clients as their ex-boss battles Biden's agenda
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Manchin's Choice on Build Back Better: Mine Workers or Mine Owners
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
McConnell Issues Threat to Democrats on Filibuster Changes — Republican leader says he would force votes on GOP-sponsored legislation — WASHINGTON—Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) issued a pre-emptive threat to Senate Democrats considering an overhaul of the chamber's …
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Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Mitch McConnell's Electoral Count Act offer is a poison pill for voting rights — Fate of voting rights legislation rests on pressure from ‘spotlight of history’ — The Electoral Count Act, the law governing how Congress certifies presidential elections, is filled with gaps and ambiguities.
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Mother Jones, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Steven Greenhouse / The Guardian:
Bernie Sanders says Democrats are failing: ‘The party has turned its back on the working class’
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Houston Keene / Fox News:
RNC calls out Senate Democrats on filibuster hypocrisy in new memo
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Home COVID tests to be covered by insurers starting Saturday — WASHINGTON (AP) — Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans. The Biden administration announced the change Monday as it looks …
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CNN:
Democrats scramble to sink Cruz's plan to impose sanctions over Nord Stream pipeline — Germany suspends approval of Nord Stream 2 pipeline — (CNN)Top Senate Democrats and the Biden administration are maneuvering behind the scenes to defeat a measure from GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas …
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Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
US ‘Unequivocal’ to Russia on Right of Ukraine, Others, to Join NATO
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Kevin McCarthy Plans to Strip Ilhan Omar off Foreign Affairs, Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff off Intelligence Committee — House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News that as speaker of the House he would strip Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) …
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Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
McCarthy Again Threatens To Strip Dems Of Committee Seats If He Becomes Speaker
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Teaganne Finn / NBC News:
McCarthy says if House speaker, he would strip some Democrats of committee assignments
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
So much for ‘nothing to hide’: Jim Jordan balks at Jan. 6 probe
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Mocking anti-vaxxers' deaths is ghoulish, yes — but necessary — Among all the ways that COVID-19 affects our lives, the pandemic confronts us with a profound moral dilemma: — How should we react to the deaths of the unvaccinated? — On the one hand, a hallmark of civilized thought is the sense that every life is precious.
Washington Post:
More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. — The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents
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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
How do we know Trump's election fraud claims are bogus? Take a look at Pennsylvania. — Former president Donald Trump, like a tone-deaf musician, used the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot last week to once again allege, without evidence, that the 2020 election was rigged.
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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Greg Gutfeld has risen to the top at Fox News — and that's no joke — NEW YORK — Greg Gutfeld is picking through a long, narrow closet. He wrenches a painting from the depth of the clutter. A painting of himself. That familiar arched right eyebrow. That sideways grin.
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New York Times:
Mike Pence Seen as Key Witness in Jan. 6 Investigation — Getting the former vice president to answer questions under oath could be crucial as the House panel focuses on Donald Trump's responsibility for the Capitol riot. — As the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault …
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NBC News, Insider, Washington Times, Raw Story and PolitiFact
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
An Indiana GOP state senator said teachers ‘need to be impartial’ during lessons about Nazism and fascism — On Wednesday, during an Indiana state Senate committee hearing about a proposed bill that would ban “divisive concepts” in school classrooms, Republican Sen. Scott Baldwin …
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Daily Kos, Alternet.org, The Hill and HuffPost
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Anti-Vax Leader Urges Followers to Drink Their Own Urine to Fight COVID — ‘EVERYTHING WE NEED’ — Anti-COVID-19 “Vaccine Police” leader Christopher Key has a new quarter-baked conspiracy theory for his anti-vax followers to use to cure themselves of COVID-19: Drink their own urine.
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Jeff Asher / The Atlantic:
The Data Are Pointing to One Major Driver of America's Murder Spike — After murders in the United States soared to more than 21,000 in 2020, researchers began searching for a definitive explanation why. Many factors may have contributed, such as a pandemic-driven loss of social programs …
Allahpundit / HotAir:
No, the CDC chief didn't say that 75% of all COVID deaths involved four comorbidities — This clip, suspiciously shorn of context, has gone viral on righty Twitter today for the same reason that all content goes viral in political media, because it confirms (or appears to confirm) the audience's priors.
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Robert Durst, Real Estate Scion Convicted as a Killer, Dies at 78 — He was a suspect in three lurid murders and became a fugitive. In September, he was found guilty in the fatal shooting of a confidante and sentenced to life in prison. — Robert A. Durst, the scion …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Fox, MSNBC and CNN show differing directions with new hosts and shows — New York (CNN Business)On Monday morning CNN, MSNBC and Fox all made programming announcements that doubled as statements about each network's positioning in the news and talk marketplace.
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
Fed vice chair to resign over stock trading controversy — Richard Clarida is the third Federal Reserve official to quit over questionable behavior during the coronavirus pandemic — Richard Clarida, the Federal Reserve's vice chair, announced Monday that he will resign …
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Washington Examiner, New York Times, Forbes and New York Post
Gary D. Robertson / Associated Press:
North Carolina voters dispute Cawthorn candidacy over Jan. 6 — A group of North Carolina voters want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified as a congressional candidate — RALEIGH, N.C. — A group of North Carolina voters told state officials on Monday they want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified …
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
I Spent Insurrection Week Listening to Steve Bannon — For three hours every day, the Republican coup plotters who inspired the domestic terror attack at the U.S. Capitol last year gather to discuss their next move. On their January 6th anniversary program, the Dead Cops Society beseeched …
Sarah Zhang / The Atlantic:
Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID — When Delta swept across the United States last year, the extremely transmissible and deadlier variant threw us into pandemic limbo. The virus remained a danger mostly to unvaccinated people, but they largely wanted to move on.
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The Federalist
Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
Yale, Georgetown, Other Top Schools Illegally Collude to Limit Student Financial Aid, Lawsuit Alleges — A new federal suit adds to continuing efforts to change college admissions practices — Sixteen major U.S. universities, including Yale University, Georgetown University and Northwestern University …
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Associated Press:
Speaker: Nashville US House seat to split in redistricting — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republicans plan to carve fast-growing Nashville into multiple congressional seats, making it potentially easier for the state's Republican-dominated congressional delegation to flip …
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The Tennessean, The Hill and Dad Gone Wild Newsletter
Ambassador Daniel Fried / Just Security:
Paul Manafort's Book Deal May Breach His Plea Agreement — News that Paul Manafort has written a book (scheduled to be published later this summer) is not surprising: he had texted about doing so during the Special Counsel investigation. As a result, the government anticipated …
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