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New York Times:
An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives — A low-profile Republican financier donated his company to a new group run by the influential operative Leonard A. Leo. — WASHINGTON — A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor …
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:
Statement by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. — I am announcing today that I will be stepping down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.
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Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Fauci plans to step down in December after half a century in government — Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's preeminent infectious-disease expert who achieved unprecedented fame while enduring withering political attacks as the face of the coronavirus pandemic response under two presidents …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Fauci Says He Will Step Down in December to Pursue His ‘Next Chapter’ — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who has advised seven presidents and spent more than half a century at the National Institutes of Health, will leave government service by the end of the year. — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said on Monday …
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Politico:
Fauci will step down in December
Fauci will step down in December
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Politico:
‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump — In years past, it would have been a political Waterloo moment for Republicans: President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats racing frantically to finalize sweeping legislation …
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Rich Lowry / New York Times:
A Defense of G.O.P. Paranoia — The reaction to the F.B.I. search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property created an immediate and furious backlash among Republicans. Even after two years of making political hay out of left-wing calls to defund the police, voices on the right are calling …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Judge Reinhart formally rejects DOJ argument to keep Trump affidavit sealed, calls raid ‘unprecedented’ — Reinhart ruled ‘given the intense public and historical interest’ — Fox News Flash top headlines for August 22 — Judge Bruce Reinhart on Monday admitted the FBI's raid …
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Rachel M. Cohen / Vox:
There's a bipartisan bill to codify Roe — and abortion rights groups can't stand it — The Reproductive Freedom for All Act reveals deeper debates about post-Roe America. — Amid threats over the last year that the Supreme Court might abolish the right to an abortion …
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Lauren Gambino / The Guardian:
‘The world flipped upside down’: will end of Roe galvanize Democrats' base in midterms?
‘The world flipped upside down’: will end of Roe galvanize Democrats' base in midterms?
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Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Hawkish Russian Commentator Is Killed in Car Bombing — The daughter of a prominent ultranationalist, herself a hawkish commentator, was killed by a car bomb deep in Russian territory. — A brazen car bombing in a Moscow suburb that killed the daughter of a prominent backer …
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
What Russians See in the News: A War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them
What Russians See in the News: A War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them
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New York Times:
Eric Adams After Dark: A Private Table and Tarnished Friends — New York's mayor vowed to boost nightlife establishments in every corner of the city. But again and again, he returns to the same spot, run by friends with troubled pasts. — Before he took office, Eric Adams vowed to boost …
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Associated Press:
Kansas recount confirms results in favor of abortion rights — A decisive statewide vote in favor of abortion rights in traditionally conservative Kansas was confirmed with a partial hand recount, with fewer than 100 votes changing after the last county reported results Sunday.
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
The left's mask slips on brazen Trump bias — Sam Harris deserves our gratitude. With dazzling honesty, the liberal atheist public intellectual from LA has said out loud what we all knew but which his ilk have blurred for the past two years: once you decide Donald Trump is the second coming …
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Andrew Welsh-Huggins / Associated Press:
Wanted: 7,000 construction workers for Intel chip plants — Ohio's largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there's also a national shortage of people working in the trades.
Gallup:
In U.S., Poor Life Ratings Reach Record High — The “suffering” rate has climbed for both Democrats and Republicans — The percentage of adults classified as “thriving” has dropped again, to 51.2% — Daily stress and worry remain steady and near pre-pandemic levels
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Senate Candidates Say Better Call Mitch (McConnell) — Struggling nominees in swing states turn to the Republican Leader to save their campaigns. — WSJ Opinion: The Mar-a-Lago Raid Heads Into Overtime — Skip Ad — in 15 — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
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Chris Giles / Financial Times:
UK inflation to hit 18.6% next year according to Citi — Investment bank raises forecast as wholesale gas prices surge — UK inflation is on course to hit 18.6 per cent in January — the highest peak in almost half a century — because of soaring wholesale gas prices …
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Andrew Stanton / Newsweek:
Trump Allies Will Betray Him, Former Lawyer Predicts: ‘So Much Flipping’ — Former President Donald Trump's allies will eventually turn on him to avoid prison, his former attorney Michael Cohen said on Sunday. — Cohen's comment came nearly two weeks after FBI agents executed a search warrant …
BBC:
Imran Khan: Pakistan police charge ex-PM under terrorism act — Pakistan's police have charged the country's former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, under anti-terror laws. — Their investigation comes after he accused the police and judiciary of detaining and torturing a close aide.
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