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2:15 PM ET, July 11, 2021

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TheDenverChannel.com:
4 arrested at Maven Hotel, police feared a ‘Las Vegas style shooting’ during All-Star Game in Denver  —  Sources tell Denver7 16 long guns, body armor and 1,000+ rounds of ammo found inside hotel room  —  DENVER - Police feared a “Las Vegas style shooting” during the All-Star Game in Denver …
Samantha Davenport / Anchorage Daily News:
Alaska Republican Party leaders endorse Tshibaka in U.S. Senate race  —  The Alaska Republican State Central Committee on Saturday endorsed Kelly Tshibaka in the 2022 race for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Lisa Murkowski.  —  The committee approved Tshibaka's endorsement …
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Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Alaska GOP endorses Murkowski primary challenger
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Wall Street Journal:
Young Americans Aren't Getting Vaccinated, Jeopardizing Covid-19 Fight  —  Slow uptake of Covid-19 shots among 18-to-29-year-olds is complicating mass vaccination campaign; U.S. ramps up outreach to young adults  —  Millions of Americans have rolled up their sleeves to get vaccinated against Covid-19 …
Discussion: HotAir and Mock Paper Scissors
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
‘U-S-A’ chants drown out boos as Trump enters arena for UFC match  —  Loud chants of “U-S-A” drowned out scattered boos at the UFC fight between Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier late Saturday as former President Trump entered the arena.  —  As can be heard in videos shared online …
Lauren Lumpkin / Washington Post:
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates appointments signal new era for Howard University  —  The recent growth at Howard University comes a few years after students waged a nine-day protest over conditions at the school and called for their president's resignation  —  The past year has been very good to Howard University.
Discussion: ArkansasTimes and Crooks and Liars
David French / The Dispatch:
Lost Friendships Break Hearts and Nations  —  We were not created for power and prosperity, but for community and fellowship.  —  5 hr ago  —  I want to start by talking about a friend.  His name is Leo, and it's hard to imagine a person more different from me.
Human Rights Watch:
Saudi Arabia: New Details of Alleged Torture Leaked  —  Prison Guards Describe Harrowing Scenes Concerning Political Detainees  —  (Beirut) - New accounts have emerged of alleged torture of high-profile political detainees in Saudi prisons, Human Rights Watch said today.
Shannon Prince / The Hill:
Moves to silence critical race theory have only amplified its virtues  —  Recently, a number of states have passed laws banning critical race theory — or what legislators with willful ignorance or outright malice misspeak of as critical race theory — as well as teaching about past and present racism in its systemic form.
David Cohen / Politico:
Trump on Jan. 6 insurrection: ‘These were great people’  —  Former President Donald Trump on Sunday widely praised those who attended the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the insurrection at the Capitol, repeatedly using the word “love” to describe the tone of the event.
Kelly Hooper / Politico:
Fauci: ‘There should be more’ local vaccine mandates  —  Anthony Fauci on Sunday advocated for more mandates at the local level for businesses and schools to require Covid-19 vaccinations.  —  “I have been of this opinion, and I remain of that opinion, that I do believe at the local level …
Discussion: Washington Times
Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian:
Forget the geopolitics.  Let's focus on the human cost of the exit from Afghanistan  —  As the Taliban exploits the hasty US withdrawal, the fallout on  —  the ground could be disastrous, especially for women  —  arges and Hasina - not their real names - are 15-year-old best friends I met recently in Kabul.
Jake Dima / Washington Examiner:
Eric Adams cautions Democrats not to be ‘so idealistic’ that they're ‘not realistic’  —  New York City mayoral nominee Eric Adams, a centrist, cautioned fellow Democrats not to be “so idealistic” that they become unrealistic.  —  Adams, who won his party's nomination last week, said the …
Discussion: Politico
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Anna Gronewold / Politico:
‘We all wait with bated breath’: Secretive Cuomo inquiry leaves New York politics in limbo  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — Few governors in recent New York history have dominated the news cycle — and the levers of government — like Andrew Cuomo, the state's three-term governor.
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Texas Gov. Abbott: Proposed voting reforms will make it ‘easier to vote’ and ‘harder to cheat’  —  The Texas state legislature is in a special session right now to discuss voting reforms and other issues  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for July 11  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott claims …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 
 
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Melanie Notkin / New York Post:
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Steve Cuozzo / New York Post:
Eric Adams' win in high-crime areas proves liberals are out of touch
Washington Post:
In Haiti, rivals claw for power as crisis escalates after assassination
Tommy Hicks / Washington Examiner:
Over 100 days of failure at the border
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National Review:
Republicans Are Right to Push Back against CRT in the Classrooms
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Miriam Berger / Washington Post:
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Jennie Taer / The Daily Caller:
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New York Times:
Biden Administration Shows Little Appetite for Haiti's Troop Request
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
The Big Question of the 2022 Midterms: How Will the Suburbs Swing?
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
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