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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
President Joe Biden: The 2022 60 Minutes Interview — Summer was going so well for the president; the White House threw a party last week with a concert by James Taylor. Mr. Biden's streak began in June when he signed a bipartisan gun safety law. Then, in August, over Republican objections …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What two new polls tell us about the midterms — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — HAPPENING NOW — The funeral of QUEEN ELIZABETH II is underway. Watch live via BBC ... WaPo: World watches Britain lay its longest-reigning monarch to rest …
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Politico:
Biden on ‘60 Minutes’: ‘The pandemic is over’ — President Joe Biden said “the pandemic is over” in discussing Covid during an interview that aired on Sunday evening on CBS' “60 Minutes.” — “The pandemic is over,” the president told Scott Pelley as they talked last week at the Detroit Auto Show.
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Biden tells 60 Minutes U.S. troops would defend Taiwan, but White House says this is not official U.S. policy
Biden tells 60 Minutes U.S. troops would defend Taiwan, but White House says this is not official U.S. policy
Kevin Tober / Newsbusters:
State-Run TV: 60 Minutes Drools Over Biden in Syrupy Interview
State-Run TV: 60 Minutes Drools Over Biden in Syrupy Interview
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
On 60 Minutes, President Biden Admits His Student-Loan Order Is Illegal
On 60 Minutes, President Biden Admits His Student-Loan Order Is Illegal
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CBS News:
President Biden says he hasn't decided on 2024 reelection run
President Biden says he hasn't decided on 2024 reelection run
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Rolling Stone:
Trump Fumes: DeSantis Stole My Plan for Shipping Migrants — Conservative pundits are fawning over DeSantis' cruel political stunt to fly immigrants to Massachusetts. Trump thinks the “credit” should be his — IN RECENT DAYS, Donald Trump has privately voiced his anger over Florida Republican …
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The smoking gun in Martha's Vineyard — Popular Information has obtained documentary evidence that migrants from Venezuela were provided with false information to convince them to board flights chartered by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R). The documents suggest that the flights …
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
After Texas Sent Him to Washington, One Migrant Launches a New Life — Lever Alejos, who was delivered to the nation's capital courtesy of Gov. Greg Abbott, has found plenty of work. ‘I feel fortunate the governor put me on a bus to Washington.’ — When Lever Alejos of Venezuela arrived …
Yoav Gonen / All:
Most-Complained-About NYPD Cop Retires, Avoiding Penalties — Lt. Eric Dym faced discipline on 52 allegations, but he won't be terminated for misconduct. Only one CCRB probe in the past decade has led to that outcome — for the officer who killed Eric Garner.
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Associated Press:
Family of American says he was freed by Taliban in swap — An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released, his family said Monday, as a Taliban drug lord jailed by the United States was also freed and returned to Kabul.
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Wall Street Journal:
We Have a Bill to Help Prevent Another Jan. 6 Attack — It's past time to reform the Electoral Count Act to make clear Congress can't overturn an election result. — WSJ Opinion: Inflation Reduction Act Not Working So Far — Skip Ad — in 15 — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
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Washington Post:
Why Elise Stefanik may be moving up by moving down — Good morning, Early Birds. Frank Zappa, John Denver and Dee Snider of Twisted Sister testified before the Senate Commerce Committee 37 years ago today. “A circus atmosphere pervaded the Russell Senate Office Building …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and Punchbowl News
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations — Complaints about the U.S. military's influence operations using Facebook and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies. — The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping audit of how it conducts …
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Proud Boys memo reveals meticulous planning for ‘street-level violence’ — Document of 23 pages shows the lengths to which the far-right group goes to prepare for potentially violent encounters and exposes the militaristic structure and language it has adopted
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Trump ally goes on trial for ‘espionage lite’ and obstruction — Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a former Donald Trump adviser whom authorities allege was involved in a two-year effort to try to influence the policy decisions of the Trump campaign and administration to benefit the United Arab Emirates.
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Members / The Dispatch:
Kevin D. Williamson Joins The Dispatch — And we have a special membership offer for the occasion. — We've written to you in recent weeks about some big things coming down the pike here at The Dispatch: — Our post-election What's Next conference will feature Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey …
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
Iran's president rails against Israel and U.S. sanctions — The United States first placed financial sanctions on Iran back in 1979, during the hostage crisis. For nearly four decades the U.S. State Department has designated Iran one of the world's leading state sponsors of terrorism.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Youngkin to hold Arizona events supporting Lake — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is expected to stump for Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake next month, escalating his midterm campaign efforts ahead of a prospective 2024 presidential bid. — Youngkin is embarking on the Arizona trip …
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NBC News:
Putin's new Ukraine problem: Even the war's biggest supporters are growing dissatisfied — LONDON — Russian President Vladimir Putin has a problem. — For more than two decades now, Putin's expanding grip on power has been predicated on his portrayed strength and justified as essential to Russia's existence.
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Emily Jacobs / Washington Examiner:
Biden warns Putin: 'Don't' use nuclear weapons in Ukraine
Biden warns Putin: 'Don't' use nuclear weapons in Ukraine
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María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post:
GOP senator says he won't back Graham's proposed national abortion ban — Another Republican senator says he won't support the bill Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) introduced that would ban most abortions nationwide after 15 weeks of pregnancy. — Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) …
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Glenn Gamboa / Associated Press:
Bill Clinton: 'The world's on fire,' but teamwork can help — Former President Bill Clinton is calling on governments, businesses, philanthropies and other prominent institutions to draw together and help a world that is “on fire” as he reconvenes the Clinton Global Initiative …
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