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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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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 …
Sean McElwee / Data For Progress:
Biden's New Executive Orders Will Promote the Competitive Economy Americans Want  —  Today, President Biden announced a new executive order to promote competition across the U.S. economy.  Arriving on the heels of several key antitrust appointments in the White House and Federal Trade Commission …
Margaret Harding McGill / Axios:
Biden takes aim at Big Tech, broadband with sweeping competition order
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Insider:
‘F— him’: Rupert Murdoch personally made the call to declare Arizona for Biden on election night, enraging Trump, book says  — A new book says Rupert Murdoch approved Fox News' decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden.  — “F— him,” the Fox News proprietor is said to have declared of Donald Trump at the time.
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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.
Discussion: CNN, Vanity Fair, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
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 …
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: Alternet.org and Raw Story
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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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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
The Supreme Court's Term Appeared To Be Cautious. The Numbers Tell A Different Story
Howard Husock / The Hill:   The Supreme Court donor ruling is a defeat for Kamala Harris
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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Reuters:
Pfizer to ask FDA to authorize booster dose of COVID vaccine as Delta variant spreads
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 …
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.
Discussion: Slate, Snopes.com and The Root
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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Associated Press:
2 US men, ex-Colombia soldiers held in Haiti assassination
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.
Steve Stewart / Tallahassee Reports:
Report: Crist Used Condo Repeal Bill to “Woo” Democratic Voters  —  A report from 2010 indicates that then Governor Charlie Crist signed a condo repeal bill, which is now being investigated for playing a role in the Surfside condo collapse, to “woo” democratic voters in his race for the U.S Senate.
Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:
“We're (expletive) idiots”: Some Democrats regret Colorado's new redistricting process now that their party is in charge  —  If Y and Z hadn't passed, Democrats would now have nearly unfettered power to draw new congressional districts ahead of the 2022 election, and more say over how legislative districts are drawn.
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.”
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 and Politico
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.
Rick Newman / Yahoo Finance:
Why corporate America can't quit the ‘sedition’ Republicans  —  caught flak for making political donations to 38 members of the “sedition caucus,” as critics refer to the  —  147 Republican members of Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
Rhodium Group:
Pathways to Build Back Better: Maximizing Clean Energy Tax Credits  —  Policymakers in Washington, DC are continuing conversations on a host of policy proposals aimed at cutting the country's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.  President Biden and a bipartisan group of senators released a framework …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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 …
Discussion: HotAir, Yahoo News and NPR
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 …
Cassidy Morrison / Washington Examiner:
Biden aims for Canadian prescription imports in new drug price executive order  —  President Joe Biden will direct the Food and Drug Administration to work with states on developing a plan to import cheaper versions of prescription drugs from Canada, a controversial move that fizzled under the Trump administration.
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Discussion: Fox News
KFF:
The Red/Blue Divide in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates is Growing  —  One of the main factors driving differences in COVID-19 vaccination rates across the country is partisanship.  Our surveys consistently find that Democrats are much more likely to report having been vaccinated than Republicans …
CNN:
Taliban makes gains in Afghanistan, taking over key border crossing to Iran  —  Biden defends pulling US out of Afghanistan as Taliban advances  —  Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)The Taliban have made further territorial gains in Afghanistan over the past day, capturing two strategic border crossings …
 
 
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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Biden to deliver voting speech in Philadelphia next week
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
U.S. Slaps Curbs on 34 Entities, Faults China Firms on Abuses
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Brian Kemp's first ad focus: “Stacey Abrams and the liberal mob”
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
The press's Avenatti humiliation is 100% of their own making
Discussion: Townhall, Raw Story and IJR
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
California and Florida battle for the soul of a nation
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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Legally, Trump's tech lawsuit is a joke. But it raises a serious question.
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Issues & Insights:
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Cammy Pedroja / Newsweek:
GOP Women's Group Shuns ‘Carnival Barkers’ Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert
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