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7:10 AM ET, May 13, 2021

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CNN:
Behind the scenes with Liz Cheney  —  US Rep. Liz Cheney sits in her office as she prepared to give a speech on the House floor on Tuesday.David Hume Kennerly/Center for Creative Photography/University of Arizona  —  After being voted out as the third-ranking member of the House's Republican leadership …
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The Daily Beast:
The Real Reason Liz Cheney Had to Go  —  TRUTH TO POWER  —  “That says more about the state of the conference and its fealty to Trump's ludicrous BS than it does about her,” said one GOP aide.  —  Minutes before her removal from House leadership on Wednesday, Liz Cheney told her colleagues …
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Liz Cheney's Unforgivable Sin  —  One of the many Republican principles that Donald Trump obliterated was what was known as Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.”  Like several of the stone-tablet dictates (the prohibitions on committing adultery …
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
The GOP's past election lies led to Trump's big one
John McCormack / National Review:
House Republicans Boot Liz Cheney from Leadership, Then Give Her a Standing Ovation
Discussion: Washington Times and Breitbart
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Freedom Caucus Republican says Cheney was ‘cancelled’
Yousef Munayyer / Foreign Policy:
Green-Lined Vision Is Blurring Reality in Israel-Palestine  —  Policymakers can no longer rely on an imaginary border that supposedly divides two states as a one-state reality takes shape on the ground.  —  Just as events in Jerusalem and Gaza put the Palestinian struggle for freedom back on center stage …
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Abraham Gutman / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
As my family shelters in Tel Aviv, I'm unsettled that progressive Americans aren't speaking up for Palestinians | Opinion
Discussion: The Nation, spiked, Yahoo News and Jacobin
Associated Press:
Escalating Mideast violence bears hallmarks of 2014 Gaza war
New York Times:
Mysterious Ailments Are Said to Be More Widespread Among U.S. Personnel  —  The Biden administration has begun more aggressively investigating episodes that left spies, diplomats, soldiers and others with brain injuries.  —  WASHINGTON — Mysterious episodes that caused brain injuries in spies …
Discussion: HotAir, Raw Story and The Hill
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Lara Seligman / Politico:
Trump ‘Havana syndrome’ probe found more than a dozen instances in 5 years
Discussion: ABC News
NBC News:
Republican loyal to Trump claims Capitol riot looked more like ‘normal tourist visit’  —  Multiple Republican members of Congress on Wednesday offered a false retelling of the devastating events that occurred during the Capitol riot, with one calling the entire event a “bold faced lie” …
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Michael Gartland / New York Daily News:
Andrew Yang back on top of mayoral field, clocks 21% support in latest poll  —  With just weeks until the primary election, Andrew Yang has regained his lead in the contest to become the next mayor of New York City, a new poll revealed Wednesday.  —  Yang, a former entrepreneur who's dominated …
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Jake Dobkin / Gothamist:   What Is The Best New York Book Of All Time?
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Ex-WH counsel McGahn to testify behind closed doors about Trump efforts to obstruct Russia investigation  —  Washington (CNN)Former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn will testify before the House Judiciary Committee behind closed doors about then-President Donald Trump's attempts to obstruct …
Discussion: NPR, Washington Post and KIFI-TV
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple Says Ads Engineer Leaves Company After Comments Draw Fire  — Antonio Garcia Martinez made remarks considered sexist, racist  — Apple employees were in uproar about hire, sent memo to execs  —  Apple Inc. said Antonio Garcia Martinez, a former Facebook Inc. product manager …
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The Verge:
Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into ‘misogynistic’ new hire  —  ‘We demand an investigation into how his published views on women and people of color were missed or ignored’  —  A group of Apple employees has written a petition asking for an investigation …
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Inhofe tells EPA nominee, 'if you don't behave, I'm going to talk to your daddy'  —  (CNN)Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe told a female Environmental Protection Agency nominee on Wednesday that if she did not “behave,” then “I'm going to talk to your daddy.”  —  The awkward exchange …
Discussion: KIFI-TV
Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Rep. Greene aggressively confronts Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, causing New York congresswoman to raise security concerns  —  Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene aggressively confronted Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday and falsely accused her of supporting “terrorists,” …
Discussion: Fox News
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Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:
Playing American Race Politics in the Middle East  —  New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman and others are grafting a domestic psychodrama onto a foreign region—and endangering American Jews in the process
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
WATCH: Ex-Secretary of Defense says Trump wanted the National Guard ‘to protect the demonstrators’  —  Former Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller said Wednesday that Donald Trump was interested in the deployment of the National Guard during their Jan. 3 discussion.
Eric Geller / Politico:
Biden orders federal cyber upgrade after barrage of hacks  —  President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered a sweeping overhaul of the federal government's approach to cybersecurity, from the software that agencies buy to the security measures that they use to block hackers, as his administration …
The White House:
Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity … By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:  —  Section 1.  Policy.  The United States faces persistent and increasingly sophisticated …
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: President Signs Executive Order Charting New Course to Improve the Nation's Cybersecurity and Protect Federal Government Networks
Discussion: CNBC, Bloomberg and NBC 6 South Florida
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: FEC drops first of several election complaints against Trump  —  The Federal Election Commission has voted not to investigate allegations that Trump campaign representatives — including Donald Trump Jr. — solicited illegal foreign assistance in 2016, Axios has learned.
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Former U.S. Military Leaders Sign Bizarre Open Letter Pushing Election Lies  —  Over 120 retired generals and admirals signed on to a letter falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen in a move other veterans say erodes democratic norms.  —  Over 120 retired U.S. generals and admirals published …
The Hill:
Biden's infrastructure plan builds a stronger foundation for seniors  —  Share to Facebook Share to Twitter  —  Infrastructure is not the only thing that's aging in America.  Every day, 10,000 Americans turn 65.  And like countless communities and across the U.S., our growing senior population …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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