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11:00 AM ET, May 10, 2021

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Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Biden approval buoyed by his pandemic response  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is plunging into the next phase of his administration with the steady approval of a majority of Americans, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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AP-NORC:
Biden continues to hold on to high approval ratings  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans approve of Biden's overall job performance and a slim majority say the country is headed in the right direction. … President Biden continues to enjoy widespread job approval, as well as approval …
Discussion: The Hill
Pippa Stevens / CNBC:
Gasoline futures jump as much of vital pipeline remains shutdown following cyberattack  —  Fuel prices jumped in trading on Sunday night, as much of one of the largest pipelines in the U.S. remains closed following a cybersecurity attack.  —  Gasoline futures jumped 2% to $2.168 per gallon …
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Emergency declaration issued in 17 states and D.C. over fuel pipeline cyberattack
Discussion: Townhall and New York Times
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Russian criminal suspected in Colonial pipeline ransomware attack
Discussion: The Week, Mediaite and KIFI-TV
Washington Post:
The making of a myth  —  Russell J. Ramsland Jr. sold everything from Tex-Mex food to light-therapy technology.  Then he sold the story that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.  —  Ramsland  —  “We observed an error rate of 68.05%.  This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity.”
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Reversing Trump, US restores transgender health protections  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care, the Biden administration announced Monday, reversing a Trump-era policy that sought to narrow the scope of legal rights …
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Biden administration revives anti-bias protections in health care for transgender people
Discussion: Bloomberg, Insider and Washington Times
HHS News releases:
HHS Announces Prohibition on Sex Discrimination Includes Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Politico:
'It's not phony': Biden hungry for a jobs deal with Republicans  —  The Biden White House this week will make its most concerted push yet to find a middle ground with Republicans on the president's massive infrastructure proposal.  —  And as it does, the president's position on a potential compromise …
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
McConnell: $800B infrastructure package acceptable
Discussion: CBS News, HotAir, IJR and The Week
Associated Press:
Israeli police change route of contentious Jerusalem march  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have changed the route of a contentious march by Jewish ultranationalists in Jerusalem, in an apparent attempt to avoid confrontations with Palestinian protesters.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Israel calls on Biden administration to stay out of Jerusalem crisis
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
The Big Lie Is That Cheney Is Still A Republican  —  Good riddance to Liz Cheney - Yo Lizzy, don't go away mad, just go away rejected and humiliated back to the smoldering ruins of your failed dynasty.  Her ejection is the minimum act of political hygiene necessary to demonstrate to the base …
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
The Virginia GOP's Ridiculous Convention by Car  —  Ballots, Buicks, and a ballroom break-in?  —  Well, it's over.  The Virginia Republican Party has completed its Rube Goldberg exercise to select its slate of candidates to challenge the state's increasingly dominant Democrats.
CNN:
It may be time to relax indoor face mask mandates, Fauci says  —  (CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci says federal guidance on wearing face coverings indoors may change soon.  —  Sunday on ABC News, Fauci was asked whether it's time to start relaxing indoor masks requirements.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Chuck Grassley is the 80-something everyone's waiting on  —  OSSIAN, Iowa — Chuck Grassley still gets up at 4 a.m. every day and often goes for a 2-mile run.  The 87-year-old does push-ups, too.  —  “You want me to do 35 for you?” he responded when asked about his regimen as he waited …
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
School daze: Why Democrats are vulnerable on education  —  Between the slow pace of school reopenings and divisive curricular changes taking place in Democratic jurisdictions, the party's progressive wing is courting a backlash.  —  “Culture wars” has become a shorthand term for a series …
Discussion: Morning Shots
Ian Prasad Philbrick / New York Times:
‘We May Not Have a Full Two Years’: Democrats' Plans Hinge on Good Health  —  In a narrowly divided Congress, an illness or a death could upend the balance of power and threaten an ambitious agenda.  —  On March 21, 1950, an Illinois congressman named Ralph Church suddenly slumped in his seat while testifying before a House committee.
Discussion: CNN, Florida Politics and The Hill
Thomas Colson / Insider:
Biden must not ‘underestimate’ Trump's chances of winning in 2024, says White House chief of staff Ron Klain  — Biden's chief of staff Ron Klain said Donald Trump could prove a formidable opponent if he chooses to run for president in 2024.  — “I wouldn't want to estimate …
Discussion: The Hill, Axios and CNN
David Siders / Politico:
Why Democrats stopped stressing over big spending  —  It took a recession, a pandemic, massive demographic change and an ideological re-sorting of the two parties, but the Democratic Party has finally exorcised the ghosts of Walter Mondale's landslide 1984 defeat.  —  The proof?
Ben Smith / New York Times:
When Covid Hit, China Was Ready to Tell Its Version of the Story  —  The government has been using its money and power to create an alternative to a global news media dominated by outlets like the BBC and CNN.  —  In the fall of 2019, just before global borders closed …
Joe Drape / New York Times:
Kentucky Derby Winner Medina Spirit Fails Drug Test  —  The Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, whose horses have failed five tests in a little more than a year, was suspended, but he denied wrongdoing.  —  The 2021 Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit, failed a drug test after the race …
Washington Post:
The ‘GOP Impeachment 10’ try to navigate Cheney's demise and their own futures  —  When 10 Republicans voted to impeach President Donald Trump on Jan. 13, it marked a historic milestone: It was the most House members from a president's party to vote to remove him from office.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / UnHerd:
Tribalism has come to the West  —  Hostile and polarised, today's America reminds me of my Somalian clan  —  Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Founder of the AHA Foundation, and host of The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast.
Discussion: HotAir
Clare Malone / New York Magazine:
Andrew Yang's Insider Campaign How did he become the front-runner?  Not simply by being a national celebrity and excellent campaigner.  —  From the moment Andrew Yang sat down in the back corner of a dark restaurant in the Bronx — brow knitted, wearing an overcoat and scarf that would stay …
Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
US trashes unwanted gear in Afghanistan, sells as scrap  —  BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — The twisted remains of several all-terrain vehicles leaned precariously inside Baba Mir's sprawling scrapyard, alongside smashed shards that were once generators, tank tracks that have been dismantled into chunks of metal …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump 2020 Election Lawsuits Lead to Requests to Discipline Lawyers  —  Courts, licensing bodies consider whether attorneys abused the legal system in challenging vote results  —  Courts are weighing whether some of the failed legal challenges to the 2020 presidential election were frivolous …
Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Should Let His Viewers Know If He Got Vaccinated, Says CNN Medical Analyst: ‘I Am Tired of His Nonsense’  —  Fox News' Tucker Carlson should let his viewers know if he has received the Covid-19 vaccine, said CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner on CNN Newsroom on Sunday.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Attorneys General Are Winning a GOP Civil War  —  A Trumpist faction of the Republican Attorneys General Association tied to pre-Jan. 6 organizing is gaining steam—while more moderate members are heading for the exits.  —  Four months after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol …
 
 
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
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Discussion: Raw Story
New York Post:
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Amy Qin / New York Times:
China Targets Muslim Women in Push to Suppress Births in Xinjiang
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
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