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11:40 AM ET, July 5, 2021

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Preston Padden / The Daily Beast:
Former Murdoch Exec: Fox News Is Poison For America  —  The Rupert Murdoch I worked for was brilliant, courageous, optimistic, and a gentleman.  Which makes his bile-filled network all the more confounding. … Rupert Murdoch, whom I served for seven years, has many business and journalistic achievements.
Discussion: Raw Story and Insider
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:   Mark Levin, the Fox News host who won't stop criticizing other Fox News personalities
Terry Jones / Issues & Insights:
I&I/TIPP Poll: Just 36% of Young People Are Proud To Be American  —  Editor's note: Issues & Insights gratefully acknowledges its collaboration with tippinsights on the simultaneous and exclusive release of this story.  —  Is pride in America a thing of the past?  Not if you ask Americans.
Discussion: Instapundit
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump biographer explains Ivanka Trump ‘is in peril’ along with Allen Weisselberg  —  President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump is in about as much trouble as Allen Weisselberg is, according to biographer Michael D'Antonio.  —  Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday …
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Birthday Parties as Virus Vector  —  Just how much Covid was spreading behind closed doors last year?  Quite a lot, as a new study with a simple yet creative approach found out.  —  At the height of the pandemic, it was easy to worry that strangers would give you the virus.
Robert T. Garrett / Dallas Morning News:
Gov. Abbott rebounds against possible challenger Matthew McConaughey, has razor-thin edge over actor  —  The Republican incumbent holds a more robust 12-point lead in a potential matchup against Democrat Beto O'Rourke.  —  AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott, after trailing potential challenger Matthew McConaughey …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
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Austin American-Statesman:
We've seen this border wall show before. Please spare us the rerun.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Raw Story
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Allen West announces he is running against Gov. Greg Abbott in Republican primary
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook, Twitter, Google Threaten to Quit Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Laws  —  Industry group representing companies says proposed anti-doxing rules could put staff based locally at risk of criminal charges  —  HONG KONG— Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google …
Miami Herald:
Eleven days after partial collapse, remainder of Surfside condo is demolished  —  The remaining portion of Champlain Towers South has been demolished.  —  At 10:30 Sunday night, authorities detonated charges inserted into holes drilled in the part of the 12-story Surfside condo that stood tenuously …
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Juan Williams / The Hill:
How the Supreme Court eroded voting rights  —  If a law is working, if it is preventing trouble, isn't that a good reason to get rid of it?  —  In a word, that is stupid.  —  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the former Supreme Court Justice, famously warned such stupidity amounts to …
Washington Post:
‘We are in a race’: GOP governors implore residents to overcome vaccine hesitancy as delta variant rises  —  GOP governors implored their residents on Sunday to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, as polling shows that vaccine hesitancy has been driven by Republicans and as the virus's new …
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Wall Street Journal:   Delta Variant Fuels Missouri's Covid-19 Uptick
Alice Bell / The Guardian:
Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)  —  The effects of ‘weird weather’ were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom  —  n August 1974, the CIA produced a study on …
Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Reflect on 75 Years of Marriage  —  Their relationship has been a constant through wins and losses, reinvention and raising a family.  At 96 and 93, they have come to rely on their bond more now than ever.  —  PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter, a midshipman in the U.S. Naval Academy …
Chuck Ross / Washington Free Beacon:
Top Biden Allies Worked for Group With Close Ties to Chinese Communist Party  —  Experts worry National Committee on U.S.-China Relations could impact Biden administration policy  —  Top Biden allies including former Treasury secretary Jacob Lew and National Security Council official Kurt Campbell …
Discussion: National Review
American Greatness:
The Genesis of Our American Collective Meltdown  —  Our adversaries can't quite believe their good fortune.  Had they thought up ways to divide and impoverish America, they could not have improved on our own collective meltdown.  —  This Fourth of July holiday we might pause for a moment …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
With trillions at stake, Democrats hurtle toward key decisions on Biden's agenda  —  President Biden's sweeping infrastructure, tax, climate and social policy agenda hangs on a political high-wire act now playing out on Capitol Hill at unprecedented speed.  —  The House and Senate …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
'A political Rubik's Cube': Democrats work to keep Biden's economic agenda alive
Discussion: Insider and Associated Press
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Pandemic Wave of Automation May Be Bad News for Workers  —  The need for social distancing led restaurants and grocery stores to seek technological help.  That may improve productivity, but could also cost jobs.  —  When Kroger customers in Cincinnati shop online these days …
T. Greer / The Scholar's Stage:
Culture Wars are Long Wars … We are told that conservatives “lost the culture war.”  I dissent from this view: American conservatives never waged a culture war.  Conservatives certainly fought, there is no denying that.  They fought with every bit of obstruction and scandal their operatives could muster.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 
 
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Katie Lobosco / CNN:
How much money could Biden raise for infrastructure through tougher IRS enforcement? It's not clear
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Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Vanessa Williams to sing ‘Black national anthem’ for Capitol Fourth celebration
Discussion: Townhall
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The following asteroid collision is only a test
Bloomberg:
Moet to Label Its Champagne Sparkling Wine in Russia to Meet Law
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Barbershops and Hair Salons Are Enlisted in Covid-19 Vaccine Push
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New York Times:
Fraud Claims, Unproved, Delay Peru's Election Result and Energize the Right
Caroline Melear / The Daily Caller:
Trump Says One Of His Greatest Accomplishments Was Exposing The ‘Fake News Media’
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New Woodward book to cover last days of Trump presidency
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