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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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Wall Street Journal:
CDC Urges Schools to Welcome Kids Back, Vaccinated or Not — Face masks for unvaccinated teachers and students recommended as Covid-19 Delta variant spreads — Schools should stay open this fall with some precautions in place, even where Covid-19 cases are rising, federal officials said …
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Erika Edwards / NBC News:
Unvaccinated hospitalized patients say they regret not getting the shot … To describe Dr. Ryan Dare as frustrated would be a gross understatement. — Dare and his colleagues at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock are dealing with a surge in extremely ill Covid-19 patients …
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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Biden to Urge More Scrutiny of Big Business — An order reflects the administration's growing embrace of warnings by some economists that declining competition is hobbling the economy's vitality. — WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday will sign an executive order aimed …
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Margaret Harding McGill / Axios:
Biden takes aim at Big Tech, broadband with sweeping competition order
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Leah Nylen / Politico:
Biden launches assault on monopolies
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
New study on delta variant reveals importance of receiving both vaccine shots, highlights challenges posed by mutations — New laboratory research on the swiftly spreading delta variant of the coronavirus is highlighting the threats posed by viral mutations, adding urgency to calls to accelerate vaccination efforts across the planet.
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New York Post:
Don't buy the hysteria: The Delta variant is actually less dangerous — On Wednesday, the Delta variant became America's dominant COVID strain. Yet it's no cause for panic: The numbers — especially in Britain, which Delta hit hard — show it causes far fewer hospitalizations and deaths …
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Reuters:
Pfizer to ask FDA to authorize booster dose of COVID vaccine as Delta variant spreads
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Michaeleen Doucleff / NPR:
The Delta Variant Isn't Just Hyper-Contagious. It Also Grows More Rapidly Inside You
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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 …
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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 — On Thursday morning, a few hours after the world marked the 4 millionth known coronavirus death, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade offered a critique of President Joe Biden's response to the pandemic.
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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 …
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New York Times:
Scripps Spelling Bee 2021: Live Updates — Zaila Avant-garde spells her way to victory! — The last few words were rattled off fast between the two final finalists, Chaitra Thummala and Zaila Avant-garde. — First was fewtrils (things of little value), which Chaitra got right.
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Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
The Biden Administration Will Limit The Detention And Arrest Of Pregnant Immigrants — The Biden administration is limiting the detention and arrest of pregnant immigrants in the US, according to a notice sent to congressional staffers on Friday. — The policy — which states that ICE …
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Biden directs ICE to limit arrests of pregnant, nursing women
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
ICE to avoid detaining pregnant, nursing and postpartum women
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump, after agreeing to sit for a raft of book interviews, declares them a ‘total waste of time’ — Former president Donald Trump, who reportedly agreed to sit for at least a dozen interviews in recent months for forthcoming books about his tenure, said Friday that he considered doing so “a total waste of time.”
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.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans believe Covid leaked from lab — Most Americans now believe that the coronavirus leaked from a laboratory in China, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard poll that found a dramatic shift in public perception of Covid-19's origins over the last year.
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National Review and Political Wire
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 …
Saeed Shah / Wall Street Journal:
Pakistan, After Rooting for Afghanistan's Taliban, Faces a Blowback — Islamabad wants a negotiated agreement, fears that outright Taliban takeover would galvanize Pakistani jihadists — ISLAMABAD—For two decades, a large part of the Pakistani security establishment rooted for the Taliban in the Afghan war.
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Denise Roland / Wall Street Journal:
In Children, Risk of Covid-19 Death or Serious Illness Remains Extremely Low, New Studies Find — The findings come from some of the most comprehensive research on the risks of the coronavirus for those 18 years and younger — Children are at extremely slim risk of dying from Covid-19 …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer: Democrats ‘ready to expeditiously fill’ any Supreme Court vacancy — Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Friday that Democrats are ready to fill a Supreme Court seat if one becomes vacant, amid progressives pressure for Justice Stephen Breyer to retire.
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson's Extremely Mad That Journalists FOIA'd His FOIA Request to NSA — The idea that reporters would use basic journalistic tools to verify his claims about the NSA set Carlson off on Thursday night—and he took specific aim at Ken Klippenstein. — Fox News host Tucker Carlson …
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Politico:
Feds agree to pay $6.1M to create database for Capitol riot prosecutions — The Justice Department has agreed to pay $6.1 million to a technology contractor to create a massive database of videos, photographs, documents and social media posts related to the Capitol riot as part of the process …
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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Biden to deliver voting speech in Philadelphia next week … WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will deliver remarks in Philadelphia on Tuesday about his administration's actions “to protect the sacred constitutional right to vote,” a source familiar with the matter tells NBC News.
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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 …
Associated Press:
2 US men, ex-Colombia soldiers held in Haiti assassination — PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Seventeen suspects have been detained so far in the stunning assassination of Haiti's president, and Haitian authorities say two are believed to hold dual U.S.-Haitian citizenship and Colombia's government …
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City Journal:
Progressive Policies Won't Stop the Crime Wave — An approach to crime-fighting that scorns policing and incarceration relies on empirical and conceptual errors. — Public safety — With last year's devastating homicide spike continuing, some proponents of “progressive” …
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Brian Kemp's first ad focus: “Stacey Abrams and the liberal mob” — Even though Stacey Abrams has not announced what her plans are for a 2022 rematch against Gov. Brian Kemp, you get the strong sense that Republicans can't wait to run against her.Look no further …
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
The press's Avenatti humiliation is 100% of their own making — Nobody knows how to humiliate the press quite like the press. — Not even former President Donald Trump. — Former media darling and convicted felon Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort Nike.
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Legally, Trump's tech lawsuit is a joke. But it raises a serious question. — Former president Donald Trump's lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have been rightly derided as wrong on the facts, preposterous on the law and doomed to be thrown out of court.
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Kyle Smith / New York Post:
California and Florida battle for the soul of a nation — Thanks to the blessings of decentralization, life can vary greatly in America depending on where you sit. Those differences are growing into a chasm of philosophical and practical contrasts between two basic models for the American future.
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