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Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
Senate passes $739bn healthcare and climate bill after months of wrangling — Inflation Reduction Act will reduce planet-heating emissions and lower prescription drug costs - and give Biden a crucial victory — Senate Democrats passed their climate and healthcare spending package on Sunday …
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Politico:
The Sinema-Manchin split that shaped Dems' deal — For months, Joe Manchin was the Democrat with all the leverage. At the end, even he had to cede some ground. — After Manchin agreed with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the party-line tax, health care and energy bill …
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Popular Information:
The people behind the bizarre non-profit trying to kill Biden's climate agenda — This story is being published in partnership with FWIW, a newsletter tracking digital spending, strategy, and trends in our elections. — For more than a week, a group called United for Clean Power has run …
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Pro-SALT deduction House Democrats say they'll back Senate bill — House Democrats who are pushing to lift a $10,000 fixed cap on state and local taxes (SALT) said they will support the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed the U.S. Senate on Sunday, even without the SALT deduction.
Virginia Aabram / Washington Examiner:
‘We are elated:’ Chuck Schumer revels in Inflation Reduction Act's passage
‘We are elated:’ Chuck Schumer revels in Inflation Reduction Act's passage
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Chuck Schumer Delivers on Climate Change and Health Care Deal
Chuck Schumer Delivers on Climate Change and Health Care Deal
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New Yorker:
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals — How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief. — In the summer of 2017, after just half a year in the White House, Donald Trump flew to Paris for Bastille …
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Nathan Layne / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, documents show — The Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general led a team that gained unauthorized access to voting equipment while hunting for evidence to support former President Donald …
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Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
Michigan AG calls for special prosecutor in case now involving her Trump-backed opponent — Michigan's attorney general is requesting a special prosecutor be named to investigate her Trump-endorsed opponent, citing evidence tying him to a potentially criminal scheme to seize and tamper with voting machines …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive photos: Trump's telltale toilet — Remember our toilet scoop in Axios AM earlier this year? Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet — and believed the former president …
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Insider, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Mediaite
Trita Parsi / MSNBC:
Biden already has two foreign crises on his hands. It's not too late for him to avoid a third. — The last thing America needs right now is a three-front foreign crisis. Yet here we are. — Americans are tired, at odds with themselves and in no shape to handle more foreign entanglements …
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Laurence Norman / Wall Street Journal:
Iran, U.S. Close In on Nuclear Deal Text but Hurdles Remain
Iran, U.S. Close In on Nuclear Deal Text but Hurdles Remain
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Wisconsin, G.O.P. Voters Demand the Impossible: Decertifying 2020 — Donald Trump's supporters have turned anger over his defeat two years ago, and the false notion that it can still be reversed, into central campaign issues ahead of the battleground state's primary.
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Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘No One Can Convince Me’ Jan. 6 Rioters Weren't Antifa
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘No One Can Convince Me’ Jan. 6 Rioters Weren't Antifa
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German Lopez / New York Times:
A Drop in Murders — Despite the grim headlines, 2022 is less violent so far than last year. — Crime, murder and mass shootings have dominated headlines this year. Just over the weekend, a shooting in Cincinnati wounded nine people, and another in Detroit killed one and wounded four.
The White House:
Statement by President Biden on the Ceasefire in Gaza — I welcome the announcement tonight of a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza-based militants after three days of hostilities. — Over these last 72-hours, the United States has worked with officials from Israel, the Palestinian Authority …
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Brittany Gibson / Politico:
‘Nobody wants a runoff’: Georgia braces for chance of overtime — again — All of the pieces are falling into place for Georgia to decide control of the Senate again. And just like in 2020, it might take extra weeks of campaigning to do it. — Public polling data shows the race between …
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New Republic
Alexander Vindman / Foreign Affairs:
Stop Tiptoeing Around Russia … For the last three decades, the United States has bent over backward to acknowledge Russia's security concerns and allay its anxieties. The United States has done so at the expense of relations with more willing partners in Eastern Europe—Ukraine in particular.
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Washington Post:
Abortion bans complicate access to drugs for cancer, arthritis, even ulcers — Some chronically ill women face questions about critical medications that could be used to end a pregnancy. — Becky Hubbard, 46, has decided to get sterilized so that she can go back on the only medication …