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11:00 AM ET, July 9, 2021

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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 …
Reuters:
Pfizer to ask FDA to authorize booster dose of COVID vaccine as Delta variant spreads  —  Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) plans to ask U.S. regulators to authorize a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine within the next month, the drugmaker's top scientist said on Thursday, based on evidence of greater risk …
Michaeleen Doucleff / NPR:
The Delta Variant Isn't Just Hyper-Contagious. It Also Grows More Rapidly Inside You
Mary Louise Kelly / NPR:
Fauci Says Current Vaccines Will Stand Up To The Delta Variant
Discussion: HotAir and KOIN-TV
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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New York Times:
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 …
Discussion: HotAir, Insider and Deadline
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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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story, Politico and Insider
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 …
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
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Bloomberg:
Weisselberg Quits Trump's U.K. Golf Business After Charges  — Trump CFO was charged with tax crimes by Manhattan DA  — Weisselberg and Trump Organization both pleaded not guilty  —  Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer …
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.
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
ICE to avoid detaining pregnant, nursing and postpartum women  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain most pregnant, nursing and postpartum women for deportation, reversing a Trump-era rule that permitted officials to jail thousands of immigrants in those circumstances …
Discussion: New York Times
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Biden directs ICE to limit arrests of pregnant, nursing women
Discussion: Insider
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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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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Washington Post
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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.
Discussion: National Review
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.”
Discussion: Insider, Townhall and Mediaite
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.
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com
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 …
Discussion: The Hill and Joe.My.God.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer warns August recess in danger as infrastructure work piles up  —  Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned colleagues in a letter Friday to be prepared to work long nights, over the weekends and into the scheduled August recess so that they can finish work …
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Democrats' New Voting-Rights Obstacle  —  There is a gnawing anxiety among voting-rights advocates that even if Democrats find a way to roll back the Senate filibuster and pass new federal legislation safeguarding access to the ballot, the Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court might still strike it down.
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Associated Press:
Amid growing frustration, White House pushes voting rights
Issues & Insights:
The Nation That Wouldn't Get Out Of Bed And Go To Work  —  A country of roughly 330 million has more than 9 million job openings, and 9.5 million unemployed.  This is a disgrace, a clear indication that our American character and work ethic are slipping, a rolling tragedy that's been authored by the Democrats.
Discussion: New Republic
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” …
Sky Palma / Raw Story:
Lincoln Project scores a win against the ‘Sedition Caucus’ after latest ad targeting Toyota  —  This Thursday, the anti-Trump conservative PAC Lincoln Project released a new ad targeting Toyota for being part of a string of corporations “lavishing massive campaign donations on Republicans …
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 …
SFGATE:
Too hot to hike?  Yosemite to hit 111 degrees this weekend.  —  The mercury in Yosemite hit 103 degrees Thursday at 2 p.m., and it's still rising.  The national park is forecast to hit 106 degrees today at the start of a heat wave that will broil the U.S. West Coast through Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
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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Deanna Paul / Wall Street Journal:
New York City Opens Cyberattack Defense Center
Discussion: The Hill
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
The press's Avenatti humiliation is 100% of their own making
Discussion: Townhall, Raw Story and IJR
New York Post:
After $5.1M book deal, Cuomo calls pandemic ‘tremendous personal benefit’
Discussion: Power Line
Cammy Pedroja / Newsweek:
GOP Women's Group Shuns ‘Carnival Barkers’ Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert
Discussion: HuffPost, National Review and The Hill
Howard Husock / The Hill:
The Supreme Court donor ruling is a defeat for Kamala Harris
spectatorworld.com:
What does Vladimir Putin have on Joe Biden?
Discussion: The National Interest and NPR
 Earlier Items: 
Noah Millman / HotAir:
Europe is becoming a right-wing continent
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Media Matters for America:
Sean Hannity says “it's inevitable” that “America's streets will run with blood”
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Mica Soellner / Washington Times:
Va. GOP demands ethics probe of polisci heavyweight Larry Sabato's ‘bitter partisanship’ on Twitter
Discussion: Raw Story
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Toyota to cease donations to election objectors
The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani's Legal Fund Was a Bust. Now, Its Donation Page Has Disappeared.
Discussion: Boing Boing and Raw Story