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Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
Chinese spy balloons under Trump not discovered until after Biden took office — The transiting of three suspected Chinese spy balloons over the continental US during the Trump administration was only discovered after President Joe Biden took office, a senior administration official told CNN on Sunday.
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Financial Times:
China's military keeps rivals on edge with balloon strategy
China's military keeps rivals on edge with balloon strategy
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden Administration Decision to Delay Shootdown of Chinese Balloon Questioned
Biden Administration Decision to Delay Shootdown of Chinese Balloon Questioned
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, National Review, The Daily Caller, Politico, Washington Times and Weapons and Strategy
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon reports past Chinese surveillance balloons near Florida, Texas
Pentagon reports past Chinese surveillance balloons near Florida, Texas
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The Chinese balloon story is even bigger than it seems
The Chinese balloon story is even bigger than it seems
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Politico:
Playbook: China deflates Biden's SOTU swagger
Playbook: China deflates Biden's SOTU swagger
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Daniel Greenfield / Frontpage Mag:
The UFO Craze is a Chinese Spy Balloon Crisis
Washington Post:
Americans not feeling impact of Biden agenda, Post-ABC poll finds — More than 6 in 10 say the president has not accomplished much, despite the passage of numerous bills — Two years into a presidency that the White House casts as the most effective in modern history …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Record numbers of people are worse off, a recipe for political discontent: POLL — 4 in 10 Americans say they are worse off financially since Biden took office. — Four in 10 Americans say they've gotten worse off financially since Joe Biden became president, the most in ABC News/Washington Post polls dating back 37 years.
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Associated Press:
Biden 2024? Most Democrats say no thank you: AP-NORC poll — A majority of Democrats now think one term is plenty for President Joe Biden, despite his insistence that he plans to seek reelection in 2024. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Biden or bust: Democratic insiders are all in for Biden 2024
Biden or bust: Democratic insiders are all in for Biden 2024
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David M. Drucker / The Dispatch:
Ranks of Republicans Refusing a ‘Clean’ Debt Ceiling Hike Grows … Republican pragmatists in the House of Representatives have a message for President Joe Biden: We don't support a clean debt ceiling increase, either. — Rep. Dusty Johnson says that the group of pragmatic conservatives …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP critic dials up pressure on McConnell: ‘Tired of caving’ — Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says he is “tired of caving” on the debt limit and is dialing up the pressure on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) not to swoop in to strike a last-minute deal with President Biden.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Gut spending? Slash the IRS budget? 7 GOP ideas for debt limit talks.
Gut spending? Slash the IRS budget? 7 GOP ideas for debt limit talks.
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The Hill, Raw Story, Vox, New Yorker, Fox News and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Live updates: Earthquake kills more than 2,000 in Turkey, Syria; second massive quake follows — The first earthquake occurred in Kahramanmaras province, north of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border. A second was recorded in southeastern Turkey, near Ekinozu.
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Powerful quake rocks Turkey and Syria, kills more than 2,300
Powerful quake rocks Turkey and Syria, kills more than 2,300
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New York Times:
Musk Pledged to Cleanse Twitter of Child Abuse Content. It's Been Rough Going. — Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views. “Sewer rats,” as one regulator described bad actors, remain. — Over 120,000 views of a video showing a boy being sexually assaulted.
New York Times:
Kamala Harris Is Trying to Define Her Vice Presidency. Even Her Allies Are Tired of Waiting. — Ms. Harris is struggling to carve out a lane for herself in what may be one of the most consequential periods in the vice presidency. — WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris was frustrated.
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Max Moran / American Prospect:
Whatever Happened to ‘Helping the Sh*t’ out of People? — The Biden administration might not have learned enough from the bad old days of the early 2010s. — President Joe Biden talks with reporters after speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 20, 2023.
Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg:
US Plans 200% Tariff on Russian Aluminum as Soon as This Week — The US is preparing to impose a 200% tariff on Russian-made aluminum as soon as this week to keep pressure on Moscow as the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine nears, according to people familiar with the situation.
Rana Foroohar / Financial Times:
Letting the public decide is key to Big Tech regulation — The US Department of Justice is insisting that its new Google suit be tried by a jury — Complexity is often used to obfuscate. Industries like finance, pharmaceuticals and particularly technology are rife with examples.
Politico:
Trump's '24 game plan: Be the dove among the hawks — Donald Trump is settling on a simple foreign policy pitch in his second bid for the White House: Want World War 3? Vote for the other guy. — Over the past week, Trump has assailed President Joe Biden's handling of Afghanistan.
Semafor:
Inside Harvard's misinformation meltdown — The highest-profile scholar of misinformation is being forced out at Harvard's premier public policy school, and interviews and internal documents reviewed by Semafor illustrate the institution's discomfort with her high-profile and politically charged work.
Michelle Toh / CNN:
Disney won't show ‘Simpsons’ episode in Hong Kong that mentions ‘forced labor’ — Hong Kong CNN — An episode of “The Simpsons” that includes a line about “forced labor camps” in mainland China has been pulled from Disney's streaming platform in Hong Kong.
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
THE VILLAGES VENDETTA — How a Grassroots Revolt in the Iconic Retirement Community Ended With a 72-Year-Old Political Prisoner The trouble began in 2019 when residents of The Villages were suddenly hit with a 25 percent hike in their property taxes. Historically, nobody under 55 …
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