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2:40 PM ET, July 18, 2021

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Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide … Dana Priest, a reporter at The Washington Post for 30 years, covers national security issues.  Recently, she has investigated Russian disinformation operations, censorship around the world …
Discussion: The Verge
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David Pegg / The Guardian:
FT editor among 180 journalists identified by clients of spyware firm  —  Data leak and forensics suggest NSO's surveillance tool used against journalists at some of world's top media companies  —  David Pegg and Paul Lewis in London, Michael Safi in Beirut, Nina Lakhani in Ciudad Altamirano
Haaretz:
Project Pegasus: A new investigation by Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International together with 17 news outlets reveals how Israel's NSO's cyber spy tech is used against journalists Credit: Forbidden Stories  —  Khadija Ismayilova's home in Baku had become like a prison.
The Guardian:
Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon  —  Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests  —  Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by authoritarian governments …
Discussion: Washington Post
Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
Viktor Orbán using NSO spyware in assault on media, data suggests
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Michael Levenson / New York Times:
Nationals Game in Washington Is Halted After Shooting Outside Stadium  —  Fans poured out of Nationals Park in a scene of fear and confusion.  The police said three people had been injured in a shootout.  —  Three people were shot outside of Nationals Park in Washington on Saturday night during …
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AWR Hawkins / Breitbart:
D.C. Has Universal Background Checks, Gun Registration, and Shootings Outside Nationals' Park  —  Democrat-run Washington, DC, has stringent gun controls including universal background checks and gun registration, yet three people were shot outside Nationals' Park on Saturday night in a game against the Padres.
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
In Undervaccinated Arkansas, Covid Upends Life All Over Again  —  While much of the nation tiptoes toward normalcy, the coronavirus is again swamping hospitals in places like Mountain Home, in a rural county where fewer than one-third of residents are vaccinated.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Twitchy
Associated Press:
Sorting out Trump's comments on the Arizona audit  —  PHOENIX — Former President Donald Trump issued three statements in two days falsely claiming that voting fraud and irregularities cost him Arizona's electoral votes.  —  Trump relied on comments made Thursday by contractors hired …
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CNN:
Fact check: Arizona audit chief baselessly raises suspicion about 74,000 ballots
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
52 years after the moon landing, Republicans reject science and America is unraveling  —  There is no Democratic or Republican way to land on the moon.I was 10 years old on the Sunday afternoon of July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 made its more-hairy-than-we-realized touchdown on the lunar surface …
Discussion: Washington Post
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Facebook Tells Biden: ‘Facebook Is Not the Reason’ Vaccination Goal Was Missed  —  The social network hit back at the president's criticism of social media for spreading vaccine misinformation.  —  WASHINGTON — Facebook pushed back on Saturday against the Biden administration's denouncing …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden is right. Purveyors of vaccine disinformation are killing people.
Discussion: NBC News, Mother Jones and RedState
Guy Rosen / About Facebook:
Moving Past the Finger Pointing
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
In this summer of covid freedom, disease experts warn: ‘The world needs a reality check’  —  Maria Van Kerkhove, a World Health Organization epidemiologist, was in her Geneva office last weekend preparing for a keynote address when a simple phrase came to mind.
Discussion: The Week
CBS News:
Biden nets positive marks for handling pandemic, but vaccine resistance, Delta concern remains - CBS News poll  —  Six months into President Biden's administration, Americans are less apprehensive about the year than they were at the start of it.  —  They think the battle against the pandemic …
Discussion: Insider, Politico and Political Wire
Daria Litvinova / Associated Press:
Rights group in Russia shuts down amid government crackdown  —  MOSCOW (AP) — A rights group in Russia announced Sunday that it was shutting down, citing fear of prosecution of its members and supporters after Russian authorities blocked its website for allegedly publishing content from an “undesirable” organization.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Can the Southwest Survive With Less Water?  —  Sometime next month, for the first time, the federal government is likely to declare a water shortage at Lake Mead.  —  This vast turquoise reservoir, formed in 1935 when the Hoover Dam corked the Colorado River in Arizona and Nevada …
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Hits Highest Number of Daily New Coronavirus Cases in the World Again: Nearly 80,000  —  FEELS FAMILIAR  —  The United States recorded 79,310 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University.  The number is the highest in the world, exceeding recorded totals from Indonesia …
Associated Press:
Radio host Larry Elder not on list of CA recall candidates  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — California on Saturday released a list of 41 candidates running in the recall election targeting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom that was striking for who wasn't on it: conservative radio talk show host Larry Elder.
Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country  —  If any nook of American agriculture has the means and incentive to outwit the climate crisis, it is Napa Valley.  But so far, vineyards here show the limits of adapting to a warming planet.
Washington Post:
Police search for killer of 6-year-old girl remembered for her energy and smile  —  She liked to mimic her grandmother, so a week ago, Nyiah Courtney got her hair braided.  —  “We twins now,” the smiling 6-year-old told Andrea Courtney.  —  It was one of the last times the two talked.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
New York Times:
U.S. Habit of Backing Strongman Allies Fed Turmoil in Haiti  —  Washington dismissed warnings that democracy was unraveling under President Jovenel Moïse, leaving a gaping leadership void after his assassination.  —  As protesters hurled rocks outside Haiti's national palace and set fires …
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Texas Democrats to spotlight national voting rights with week of events  —  The Texas Democrats who fled the state last week to block voting restrictions are planning a week of events with national advocates and labor leaders, election officials and other Democrats as they seek to keep …
Discussion: Politico, MSNBC and Washington Post
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Democrats are making headlines on voting rights, but little more to counter restrictive efforts by Republicans
Discussion: ABC News and Vox
CNN:
Klobuchar: Some voting rights could pass in reconciliation package  —  Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar tells CNN's Dana Bash that “part of the solution” to the voting rights gridlock could be passing “election infrastructure” via reconciliation.Source: CNN  —  FOLLOW CNN POLITICS
Isaac Schorr / National Review:
College Republicans Poised for Splinter after ‘Stolen’ Election  —  The election is over, but the stakes are still quite high.  —  Courtney Britt, the candidate who incumbent College Republican National Committee Chairman Chandler Thornton hoped would succeed him, triumphed today over Judah Waxelbaum.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
 
 
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