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4:40 PM ET, July 9, 2021

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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy … The economy is booming under President Biden's leadership.  The economy has gained more than three million jobs since the President took office—the most jobs created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history.
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Billie Kanfer / Data For Progress:
Biden's New Executive Orders Will Promote the Competitive Economy Americans Want
Discussion: ABC7 and NBC News
The White House:
Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia … President Biden spoke today with President Putin.  The leaders commended the joint work of their respective teams following the U.S.-Russia Summit that led to the unanimous renewal …
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ABC News:
White House officials arrange confidential sales of Hunter Biden's art
Washington Post:
Biden tells Putin the U.S. will take ‘any necessary action’ after latest ransomware attack, White House says
The Atlantic:
The Biggest Threat to Democracy Is the GOP Stealing the Next Election  —  The greatest threat to American democracy today is not a repeat of January 6, but the possibility of a stolen presidential election.  Contemporary democracies that die meet their end at the ballot box, through measures that are nominally constitutional.
Discussion: Alternet.org
New York Times:
C.D.C. to Issue New School Guidance, With Emphasis on Full Reopening  —  The guidance acknowledges that many students have suffered from months of virtual learning.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to release new guidance on Friday urging schools to fully reopen in the fall …
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Associated Press:
Vaccinated teachers and students don't need masks, CDC says
Reuters:
Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as U.S. withdraws  —  Afghan Air Force Major Dastagir Zamaray had grown so fearful of Taliban assassinations of off-duty forces in Kabul that he decided to sell his home to move to a safer pocket of Afghanistan's sprawling capital.
Discussion: The Hill, ABC News and RedState
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Wall Street Journal:
Afghanistan's Taliban, Now on China's Border, Seek to Reassure Beijing
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and Forbes
New York Post:
Eric Adams breaks bread with GOP heavyweights at Rao's  —  It was an offer he didn't refuse.  —  Just days after winning the Democratic nomination for mayor, Eric Adams broke bread at storied Italian eatery Rao's with billionaire Republican John Catsimatidis.
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Biden taps Eric Garcetti for India ambassador post  —  President Biden plans to nominate Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve as ambassador to India and Denise Bauer, a former ambassador to Belgium and prominent Biden donor, to serve as ambassador to France, the White House announced Friday.
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Los Angeles Times:
Biden nominates L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti as U.S. ambassador to India  —  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has led the city during a period of booming development, a worsening homelessness crisis and a devastating pandemic, is President Biden's nominee to become ambassador to India, the White House announced Friday.
Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic:
There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory  —  The United States is not in the midst of a “culture war” over race and racism.  The animating force of our current conflict is not our differing values, beliefs, moral codes, or practices.  The American people aren't divided.  The American people are being divided.
Discussion: Fox News
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
GOP and Fox News rush to turn vaccine door-knockers into terrifying straw men  —  It has been three days since President Biden announced an initiative to send people door-to-door trying to get more people vaccinated, and Republicans and their conservative media allies have wasted no time turning …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox's ongoing assault on the coronavirus vaccination campaign is going to kill its viewers
Discussion: CNN, Vanity Fair and Raw Story
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
New Evidence Indicates Enough Illegal Votes In Georgia To Tip 2020 Results  —  In Georgia, there was both an audit and a statewide recount confirming Biden's victory, but ignored in the process was evidence that nearly 35,000 Georgians had potentially voted illegally.
Discussion: The Election Wizard
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas  —  The measure bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.  And it effectively deputizes ordinary citizens to sue people involved in the process.  —  People across the country may soon be able to sue abortion clinics …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Former GOP Hill aide pleads guilty in child porn case  —  A former GOP staffer and Republican National Committee aide pleaded guilty Friday to a child pornography charge and is facing 12 years or more in prison under a plea deal with prosecutors.  —  Ruben Verastigui, 27 …
Sarah Rankin / Associated Press:
Charlottesville set to remove Lee statue that sparked rally  —  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that became a rallying point for white supremacists and helped inspire their infamous 2017 rally in Charlottesville will be hoisted off its pedestal this weekend …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Charlottesville to take down Robert E. Lee statue, focus of 2017 Unite the Right rally
Discussion: Charlottesville, VA
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How a hidden Biden victory could deal a big blow to Trumpian nationalism  —  When President Biden recently announced a deal with 130 countries to combat tax avoidance by multinational corporations, you probably didn't connect the news to the poisonous impact that Donald Trump continues to wield over our politics.
Discussion: PIIE, Wall Street Journal and CBS News
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It's Taking America With It  —  The presidency of George W. Bush may have been the high point of the modern Christian right's influence in America.  White evangelicals were the largest religious faction in the country.
Discussion: Religion News Service
Jonathan A. Greenblatt / Newsweek:
It's Time to Admit It: The Left Has an Antisemitism Problem  —  In our super-charged partisan times, it is often said that every issue has become politicized, with each side of the spectrum lining up on “their” side.  This is also true of antisemitism which, like so many other issues in society …
John Wright / Raw Story:
GOP lawmakers caught on undercover video gleefully thanking Manchin and Sinema for preserving Senate filibuster  —  Progressive activists erupted in anger on Friday after several Republican GOP lawmakers were caught on camera praising Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) …
Zachary Petrizzo / Salon:
White nationalists prep for “physical” altercation with security at Dallas CPAC conference  —  “Groyper” guru and Charlottesville celeb Nick Fuentes looks to lead white nationalist invasion at CPAC gathering  —  DALLAS —White nationalist and Unite the Right attendee Nicholas Fuentes …
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Chief Guantánamo Prosecutor Retiring Before Sept. 11 Trial Begins  —  Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins had held the job longest, and was for many years the public face of military commissions.  —  WASHINGTON — The Army general who has led war crimes prosecutions at Guantánamo Bay …
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
What Happened To You?  —  The radicalization of the American elite against liberalism  —  “What happened to you?”  —  It's a question I get a lot on Twitter.  “When did you become so far right?”  “Why have you become a white supremacist, transphobic, misogynistic eugenicist?”  Or, of course: “See!
Sen. Richard Durbin / The Hill:
American freedom is on the line  —  On the day President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law, he declared it, “one of the most monumental laws in the entire history of American freedom.”  —  That declaration has stood the test of time.  With the stroke of his pen …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Trump Organization Indictment May Spell Trouble for Trump Spawn  —  The indictment against the Trump Organization named seven specific companies within the overall business.  Guess who's connected to those companies.  —  The indictment filed last week against the Trump Organization …
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Clara Hendrickson / Detroit Free Press:
AG accepts GOP lawmaker's request to investigate those peddling election lies  —  Michigan's chief law enforcement officer, along with state police, will launch an investigation into those who have allegedly peddled disinformation about the state's Nov. 3 election for their own financial gain.
 
 
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