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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court, paving way for Biden appointment — Live coverage: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire — WASHINGTON — Justice Stephen Breyer will step down from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term, according to people familiar with his thinking.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire, giving Biden a chance to nominate a replacement — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, NBC News reported, giving President Joe Biden a crucial opportunity to replace the liberal justice. — Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Vacancy to Give Biden His First Chance to Nominate a Justice — The vacancy will give President Biden his first chance to name a new justice. He has promised to nominate a Black woman.
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Justice Stephen Breyer, an influential liberal on the Supreme Court, to retire — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring after serving more than two decades on the nation's highest court, Supreme Court and Biden administration sources tell NPR.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Breyer's retirement: What you need to know
POLITICO Playbook PM: Breyer's retirement: What you need to know
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify to Take Down Neil Young's Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum — The folk-rock star won't back down after discussions with his record label and Spotify — Spotify Technology SA is in the process of removing Neil Young's music, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Branko Marcetic / Jacobin:
Censoring Joe Rogan Is No Solution to Vaccine Misinformation
Censoring Joe Rogan Is No Solution to Vaccine Misinformation
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The Daily Beast:
Florida Shock Jock in Matt Gaetz Circle Pleads Guilty — The feds are closing in on Rep. Matt Gaetz for his alleged underage sex crimes with yet another criminal case, this time against a key witness: his wingman's best friend. … “Big Joe” Ellicott, a former Florida shock jock …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Plea deal for man involved in Gaetz investigation, whose attorney says he witnessed ‘sex, drugs — a whole lot of it’ — Justice Department investigators have reached a cooperation agreement with a man whose attorney says he witnessed Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) attend parties involving …
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Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
YouTube permanently bans Dan Bongino — YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension. — The Fox host uploaded a video to his main channel while his secondary channel …
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Dan Bongino Permanently Banned From YouTube
Dan Bongino Permanently Banned From YouTube
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Politico:
Will There Be a War Over Ukraine? 13 Putin Watchers Weigh In — Russian President Vladimir Putin sought a confrontation with the West and he got one. So now what? — Diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis appear to have stalled. In the past month, Putin has escalated his long proxy war …
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Kremlin TV Worries Tucker Carlson's Pro-Putin Bias Has Gone Too Far
Kremlin TV Worries Tucker Carlson's Pro-Putin Bias Has Gone Too Far
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Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
As US delivers response to Russia, Moscow escalates preparations for war
As US delivers response to Russia, Moscow escalates preparations for war
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Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
Where Is Germany in the Ukraine Standoff? Its Allies Wonder.
Where Is Germany in the Ukraine Standoff? Its Allies Wonder.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Man Who Sold Pistol Used in Synagogue Hostage Crisis Federally Charged — The man who sold Malik Faisal Akram the gun he used to kidnap hostages in a Texas synagogue earlier this month has been charged with a federal firearm crime, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
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Matthew Impelli / Newsweek:
Man Who Allegedly Sold Gun to Texas Hostage-Taker Was Previous Convicted Felon
Man Who Allegedly Sold Gun to Texas Hostage-Taker Was Previous Convicted Felon
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Georgia Potential November Showdowns: They're Already Close, Quinnipiac University Georgia Poll Finds; Only 25% Are Very Confident In Accurate 2022 Election Count — mail_outline — With Georgia in the national spotlight over its election laws along with two high profile contests in November 2022 …
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CNN:
This Silicon Valley city just voted to institute first-in-the-nation gun ownership requirements — (CNN)The San Jose, California, city council voted Tuesday night to adopt a first-in-the-nation ordinance requiring most gun owners to pay a fee and carry liability insurance …
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Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
San Jose approves forced liability insurance for gun owners
San Jose approves forced liability insurance for gun owners
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
GOP Has Congress Edge by Default — Few say either party is very concerned about ‘average Americans’ — West Long Branch, NJ - Congressional Republicans have a small edge over their Democratic colleagues on a dubious metric - they are slightly less likely to be seen as lacking concern for the average American's financial well-being.
Meghan Mccain / Daily Mail:
I finally got Covid and it was so horrible it made me doubt if America will ever recover from this pandemic. It WILL but not with moronic Biden in charge — I knew that I was tempting fate when I reposted a meme on my Instagram Stories joking about dodging golf balls at a driving range.
Aaron Gordon / VICE:
Amazon Paid for a High School Course. Here's What They Teach. — “Brainstorm ways you could motivate your employees other than large bonuses and high salaries.” — In 2019, Cajon High School in San Bernardino, California, started offering the “Amazon Logistics and Business Management Pathway …
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement — Indicators of economic activity and employment have continued to strengthen. The sectors most adversely affected by the pandemic have improved in recent months but are being affected by the recent sharp rise in COVID-19 cases.
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The Dworkin Report:
Author reveals how Peter Thiel helped Trump cut a deal with Facebook to evade fact checking — Scott talks with author and journalist Max Chafkin, who is a features editor and a tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek. Max is the author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power …
Kaylee McGhee White / Washington Examiner:
The FDA is wrong to pull life-saving COVID-19 antibody treatments — The Food and Drug Administration suddenly decided to withdraw its emergency use authorization of two COVID-19 antibody treatments this week, leaving hundreds of patients who depend on them in the lurch.
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
How Senate Dems reaped the benefits from 2 little-known GOP maneuvers — Senate Democrats lost their fight to weaken the filibuster, but they're capitalizing big on another rules change — that the GOP pushed. — After an Obama administration marked by Democratic frustration over the pace …
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Jason Rantz / MyNorthwest.com:
Downtown Seattle Target barely surviving as shoplifting ravages store — The Target department store in downtown Seattle is being absolutely ravaged by shoplifters, with one staff member telling me theft happens “about every 10 minutes.” He wasn't kidding.
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Wyatt DobrovichFago / FOX News Radio:
Nikki Haley: If Biden Loved Our Country, He Would Step Down And Take Kamala With Him — Listen To The Full Interview Below: — Nikki Haley, Former Governor of South Carolina, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Founder of Stand For America PAC joined the Guy Benson Show …
Margery Smelkinson / The Atlantic:
The Case Against Masks at School — In the panicked spring of 2020, as health officials scrambled to keep communities safe, they recommended various restrictions and interventions, sometimes in the absence of rigorous science supporting them. That was understandable at the time.
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U.S. Embassy Kyiv / U.S. Embassy in Ukraine:
Message to US Citizens: Commercial Air Availability from Ukraine — Home Почат ок | Message to US Citizens: Commercial Air Availability from Ukraine — The security situation in Ukraine continues …
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Politico:
'She was Zoom'd out:' Veep mulls escape from D.C. bubble — Sitting among some of the most influential Black women in America last month, Vice President Kamala Harris confessed to a stifling sensation that had fallen over her while in office. She was struggling to escape the D.C. bubble …
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Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
'It's just plain unconstitutional': Wisconsin GOP leaders again reject resolution to ‘pull back’ 2020 electoral votes — MADISON - Assembly leaders for the second time have rejected a proposal from a Republican lawmaker to pull back Wisconsin's electoral votes cast in the 2020 election, which is illegal.
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Brad Lendon / CNN:
US Navy wants to get crashed stealth fighter back — before China can — Seoul, South Korea (CNN)The United States Navy is trying to retrieve its most advanced fighter jet from the depths of the South China Sea, an extremely complex operation that analysts say will be closely monitored by Beijing.
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Eric Kaufmann / City Journal:
A Generational Threat to Free Expression — Survey data show that Americans under 30 prize cancel culture over liberty. — Economy, finance, and budgets — Politics and law — The Social Order — The clash between socialist and liberal economics defined the late twentieth century …
Natalie O'Neill / New York Post:
Fauci says children younger than 4 will get three doses of COVID vaccines — The White House said Wednesday that the COVID-19 vaccine regime for kids younger than 4 years old will likely be three doses when it's approved — and vowed to make millions more hard-to-find Pfizer anti-viral pills available in coming months.
Insider:
Dominion says there's no ‘realistic possibility’ that it'll settle its lawsuits with Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell, or Sidney Powell given the ‘devastating harm’ they've done to the company — Dominion Voting Systems says it's unlikely to settle its defamation lawsuits over the 2020 election.
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