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7:00 PM ET, May 15, 2021

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Associated Press:
Israel strike in Gaza destroys building with AP, other media  —  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets hours after another Israeli air raid on a densely populated refugee camp killed …
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Lauren Easton / The Definitive Source:
AP statement on destruction of Gaza bureau  —  UPDATED 3:40 P.M. ET: AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt issued this statement Saturday after AP's Gaza bureau was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike:  —  Director of Media Relations  —  We are shocked and horrified that the Israeli military …
Associated Press:
AP statement on Israeli attack on building housing AP office  —  NEW YORK (AP) — An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets on Saturday.  All AP employees and freelancers evacuated the building safely.
Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
What Is Happening in Israel and Gaza? Here's What to Know.
Discussion: Brookings, Vox and Forbes
Al Jazeera:
Israeli air raid flattens Gaza building housing Al Jazeera: Live
Wall Street Journal:   Almost Nothing You've Heard About Evictions in Jerusalem Is True
Barbara Plett Usher / BBC:
Israeli-Palestinian conflict gives Biden foreign policy headache
Discussion: The Economist
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The purging of Liz Cheney is about much more than the future of the GOP  —  It was just another week in Donald Trump's Republican Party, and once again, truth was a casualty.  —  House Republicans replaced a 2020 election truth-teller with a 2020 election truth-denier as the third-ranking member of their leadership.
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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
The G.O.P.'s Big Cancellation
Discussion: USA Today
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
Why personality cults and democracy don't mix
Discussion: The US Sun and LifeZette
Madeleine Ngo / New York Times:
Covid Live Updates: Major U.S. Retailers Drop Mask Requirements  —  Walmart, Costco, Publix and Starbucks are among the retail giants effectively moving to an honor system.  In parts of the U.S., nearly all older adults have been vaccinated.  —  RIGHT NOW Taiwan hits a daily case record.
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Washington Post:
‘The right decision wrongly handled’: Inside the Biden administration's abrupt reversal on masks
Discussion: Bloomberg
Marisa Iati / Washington Post:   The new mask guidance relies on an honor system. Do we trust each other enough to make it work?
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Why the CDC Changed Its Advice on Masks
Discussion: HotAir
Marc Caputo / Politico:
McKissick whips Wood in South Carolina GOP race  —  Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood's bid to bring “chaos” to South Carolina's GOP was halted on Saturday when he failed to unseat the party's chairman after baselessly accusing the incumbent of voter fraud and a host of other slurs.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Stolen election myth rattles key GOP race
Discussion: Forbes, Raw Story and KTAR.com
New York Daily News:
Make it Mayor Garcia: New Yorkers should choose Kathryn Garcia in the Democratic primary  —  The next mayor of New York will assume leadership of America's largest city at a hinge in its history, and not only because the five boroughs are still reeling from the loss of more than 30,000 lives …
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Neo-Nazi Dumps 3 Dead Bodies at Albuquerque Hospital Then Flees: FBI  —  Richard Kuykendall drove to hospital, removed his shirt and told a security officer “that there were three dead guys in the Chevy,” according to a criminal complaint.  —  A suspected white supremacist is facing charges …
Discussion: Raw Story
Joe Walsh / Forbes:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Allegedly Broke Georgia Law By Taking Tax Exemptions On Two Homes  —  Controversial freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) may have violated property tax laws in her home state of Georgia by listing two different houses as her primary residence, an Atlanta television station alleged Friday.
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Kimberly Leonard / Insider:
How Marjorie Taylor Greene became the Voldemort of Congress. Few lawmakers even want to say her name.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Paulina Porizkova on Instagram, Aaron Sorkin and Aging  —  The veteran supermodel is contesting the will of her late husband, Ric Ocasek — and writing herself a splashy new chapter.  —  When the writer and model Paulina Porizkova was asked by Aaron Sorkin to join him at the Oscars …
Barry Meier / New York Times:
Secret Sharers: The Hidden Ties Between Private Spies and Journalists  —  A booming, renegade private intelligence industry is increasingly shaping (and misshaping) the news.  —  Some journalists are happy to knock on the doors of strangers.  I was never one of them, but Christopher Steele …
Discussion: Washington Post
Oriana Pawlyk / Military.com:
Space Force CO Who Got Holiday Call from Trump Fired Over Comments Decrying Marxism in the Military  —  A commander of a U.S. Space Force unit tasked with detecting ballistic missile launches has been fired for comments made during a podcast promoting his new book, which claims Marxist ideologies …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Conservatives Excommunicated the Last Republican President Who Lost  —  One of the rationalizations Republicans have made for their party's refusal to disavow Donald Trump's authoritarianism is that asking a party to renounce a former president is categorically unreasonable.  “He's an ex-president.
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Lexi Lonas / The Hill:
McCarthy dings Biden after meeting: Doesn't have ‘energy of Donald Trump’  —  Share to Facebook Share to Twitter  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that President Joe Biden doesn't have the “energy of Donald Trump” after meeting with him for the first time in Biden's presidency.
New York Times:
723 Epidemiologists on When and How the U.S. Can Fully Return to Normal  —  Government mandates are lifting, but these experts say the pandemic won't really end nationally until more people, including children, are vaccinated.  —  Covid-19 cases are decreasing in the United States …
Discussion: Forbes
 
 
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Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Romney: Capitol riot was ‘an insurrection against the Constitution’
Discussion: Breitbart and JONATHAN TURLEY
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Isolated Biden in bid to forge UN consensus on conflict
Jen Murphy / Wall Street Journal:
Bald Eagles Are Back. And They Want to Eat Your Pets.
Matt Purple / spectator.us:
How Jon Stewart killed comedy
Discussion: Instapundit
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Biden admin reroutes billions in emergency stockpile, Covid funds to border crunch
Discussion: Insider and HotAir
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Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Mississippi justices toss voter-backed marijuana initiative
Discussion: Mississippi Today and Raw Story
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
Former Apple Engineer Accuses Company of Defamatory Statements Over Dismissal
MSNBC:
‘Maximum pressure’: NY prosecutors work to flip Trump money man
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
McCarthy leadership PAC made payments to Luntz firm
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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