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9:55 AM ET, June 26, 2021

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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
WHO urges fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks as delta Covid variant spreads  — The WHO urged fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks and practice other Covid-19 pandemic safety measures as the highly contagious delta variant spreads rapidly across the globe.
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Politico:
‘A tough slog’: White House struggles to increase vaccination rates as Delta variant surges  —  Only about 46 percent of the U.S. population is vaccinated, and the number of doses administered has fallen by almost 300,000 per day since June 7, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Wall Street Journal:
Delta Coronavirus Variant Prompts Limits in Australia, Israel, as India Warns of New Mutation  —  Parts of Sydney lock down, Israeli government brings back indoor masking; India warns of new mutation in challenge to Covid-19 pandemic controls  —  in Tel Aviv, Rhiannon Hoyle in Sydney and Shan Li
Discussion: HotAir
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
WHO Says Keep Your Mask on Even If You're Vaccinated as Delta Variant Spreads
Discussion: CNBC
Politico:
White House scrambles to manage fallout of Biden's ‘tandem’ remarks  —  Joe Biden said the quiet part out loud and paid a price for it.  —  Reveling in his bipartisan win on infrastructure Thursday, the president declared that he would not sign the deal he'd just endorsed unless …
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Mike LaChance / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Democrats Trying to Rewrite History on ‘Defund the Police’  —  “We've never taken the position as a party that we should defund the police”  —  The Democrats must have internal polling on ‘defund the police’ that's truly awful, because some of them are already trying to rewrite the history of the issue.
Washington Post:
GOP senators are furious over Biden pledge tying infrastructure bill to huge Democratic package
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:   Jen Psaki Makes Republicans Look Like Fools For Lying About Infrastructure Bill
Politico:
Joe Biden, the anti-Sorkin
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
No ET, no answers: Intel report is inconclusive about UFOs  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-awaited U.S. government report on UFOs released Friday makes at least one thing clear: The truth is still out there.  —  Investigators did not find extraterrestrial links in reviewing 144 sightings …
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Brett Forrest / Wall Street Journal:   UFO Report Cites ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ That Defy Worldly Explanation, U.S. Official Says
Washington Post:   U.S. unable to explain more than 140 unidentified flying objects, but new report finds no evidence of alien life
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New York Times:
Trump Organization Could Face Criminal Charges in D.A. Inquiry  —  An indictment of the Trump Organization could mark the first criminal charges to emerge from an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into Donald J. Trump and his business dealings.
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Officer Injured in Capitol Riot Asks McCarthy to Disavow Lies About It  —  Officer Michael Fanone, who was seriously injured by the pro-Trump mob, said he came away disappointed from his meeting with the top House Republican.  —  WASHINGTON — For weeks, Michael Fanone …
Discussion: Honolulu Star-Advertiser and CNN
New York Times:
Trump Aides Prepared Insurrection Act Order During Debate Over Protests  —  President Donald Trump never invoked the act, but fresh details underscore the intensity of his interest last June in using active-duty military to curb unrest.  —  Responding to interest from President Donald J. Trump …
Graham Cunningham / The American Mind:
The Will to Kneel  —  Our intellectual elite would break us by demanding our assent to the absurd.  —  Opponents of “Wokeness” devote much more energy to cataloguing its specific lunacies than to understanding its underlying psychology.  What links (for instance) a belief that the major threat faced …
Washington Examiner:
Defund someone else's police  —  While juvenile activists proclaim “All cops are bastards” and their ideological champions in Congress demand we “defund the police” and their blinkered friends in the press corps tell a story of a public that wants to be unpoliced, the voters of New York City just gave us a dose of reality.
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Sues Georgia Over Voting Restrictions Law  —  The lawsuit came after Republicans blocked ambitious federal legislation this week to protect voting rights.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sued Georgia on Friday over a sweeping voting law passed by the state's Republican-led legislature …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against the State of Georgia to Stop Racially Discriminatory Provisions of New Voting Law
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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Progressives' Urgent Question: How to Win Over Voters of Color  —  A yearslong challenge for the left was starkly illustrated this week as its hopes faded in the New York mayor's race.  —  Can progressives win broad numbers of the Black and brown voters they say their policies will benefit most?
Discussion: HotAir and Washington Post
Gene Marks / The Hill:
Did the Small Business Administration discriminate against white business owners?  —  The Restaurant Revitalization Fund was setup as part of President Biden's American Rescue Plan to provide much-needed money to restaurant owners who were devastated by the economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
John McWhorter / It Bears Mentioning:
IT IS JUST HYPE TO CALL ELECTISM A RELIGION?  —  Some think it's just that I don't like religion and haven't studied it.  And they're right.  But that doesn't mean we haven't watched a religion emerge since last year.  —  13 hr ago  —  I am flattered to see that a person …
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
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American Greatness:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls for Release of January 6 Surveillance Footage
Discussion: Raw Story
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The left is anti-anti-Critical Race Theory
Los Angeles Times:
Sheriff's Department ordered to release misconduct, use-of-force records in response to Times lawsuit
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Amanda Coletta / Washington Post:
Canada labels the Three Percenters a terrorist entity
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Judge denies Derek Chauvin's request for new trial ahead of sentencing
 

 
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