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2:20 PM ET, July 31, 2021

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Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Chart: Less than 0.1% of vaccinated Americans infected with COVID-19  —  Of the 164 million vaccinated Americans, less than 0.1% have been infected with the coronavirus, and 0.001% have died, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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CNN:
White House blasts Covid coverage  —  The White House is frustrated with what it views as alarmist, and in some instances flat-out misleading, news coverage about the Delta variant.  That's according to two senior Biden administration officials I spoke with Friday, both of whom requested anonymity …
Oregonian:   Masks, vaccines could stop COVID delta variant spike within two weeks, CDC director says
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
WATCH: Mark Meadows Says Trump Meeting with ‘Cabinet Members’ at Jersey Golf Club About ‘Moving Forward in a Real Way’  —  Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said that former President Donald Trump has been meeting with “cabinet members” at his New Jersey golf resort …
Discussion: Raw Story
Joel Burgess / Asheville Citizen Times:
Rep. Madison Cawthorn tried to board plane with gun; could face fine, status loss  —  ASHEVILLE - U.S. House member Madison Cawthorn had his gun taken by airport police and will likely face a federal fine and loss of a special security status, local and federal officials said.
Discussion: Law & Crime and Insider
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Cawthorn vs. McKinley: Another intra-GOP spat breaks out on House floor  —  “I said, ‘Your district will remember that,’” the North Carolina conservative freshman recalled telling his West Virginia Republican colleague.  —  Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) speaks during the Conservative …
Discussion: Salon, New York Post and Raw Story
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn Tried to Get on a Plane With a Glock
New York Times:
Already Distorting Jan. 6, G.O.P. Now Concocts Entire Counternarrative  —  In the Republicans' disinformation campaign, the arrested Capitol rioters are political prisoners and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is to blame for the attack.  —  In the hours and days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol …
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Washington Post:
‘A rush to get shots’  —  Vaccine holdouts in coronavirus hot spots including Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri are rolling up their sleeves as the delta variant hits home.  —  They were unmoved by the urgings of President Biden to get vaccinated.  They've spurned calls from the nation's leading doctors …
Caroline Anders / Washington Post:
A lawyer hoped history books would help her Capitol riot clients grow.  She was called a traitor — and worse.  —  Defense attorney Heather Shaner said her first client from Jan. 6 wanted to invoke “the Constitution from 1776.″ When she tried to explain that the document was ratified years later …
Abby Luby / The Examiner News:
Local Outrage at Trump Winged Foot Gala Goes National  —  Protests Expected Over Westchester Golf Club Flap  —  Larchmont resident Jenny Geer may see a security detail of cars snaking its way past her house heading to the nearby Winged Foot Golf course next Wednesday, August 4.
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
Eviction moratorium expires as renters face rising covid cases and lack of aid  —  Moody's data shows there are still well over 6 million renters behind on payments  —  The federal ban on evictions expires Saturday, marking a new, worrisome phase in the race to keep people in their homes amid …
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Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Activist Shaun King lives lavishly in lakefront New Jersey home  —  Shaun King has built his image on being a champion of the poor and disenfranchised, but the controversial civil rights activist lives like a one-percenter in a sprawling lakefront home, records show.
Associated Press:
Justice Department says Russians hacked federal prosecutors  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Russian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign broke into the email accounts some of the most prominent federal prosecutors' offices around the country last year, the Justice Department said Friday.
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Justice Department sues Texas over COVID-19 migrant transport order
Politico:
McConnell stirs GOP intrigue with support for Biden's infrastructure bill  —  Moments before the Senate took a pivotal vote on its bipartisan infrastructure deal, negotiators zeroed in on the most important undecided member: Mitch McConnell.  —  The Senate minority leader stayed quiet …
Discussion: Raw Story
Zaid Jilani / MSN:
Progressives' New Racialism Isn't Just Repulsive.  It's Dangerous  —  This week, a bipartisan group of Senators came to an agreement over a new infrastructure bill that totals $550 billion, offering some hope to Americans that excessive partisanship won't doom the legislation America needs …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Require the vaccine.  It's time to stop coddling the reckless.  —  Pay people to get vaccinated, no matter whether that is unfair to those who didn't receive checks for jabs.  Require them to do so as a condition of going to work or enrolling in school.  Do whatever it takes — and …
Discussion: Vox
American Greatness:
‘Unprecedented, Unreasonable, Unconstitutional, and Wrong’  —  The Justice Department won't have January 6 evidence ready until 2022.  —  During a status hearing Friday afternoon for Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, an Army reservist arrested on January 15 for his involvement in the January 6 protest in Washington …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Maher: Maybe the “woke Olympics” shouldn't have taken its cues from the Oscars  —  Is that why the ratings for this Summer Olympiad have fallen to nearly half of those for the Rio Olympics in 2016?  Bill Maher diagnoses wokery as the culprit, but he has a tough slog bringing his audience along on the argument.
Discussion: The Hill, Insider and MSN
Will Wright / The Charlotte Observer:
Trump's candidate lost a Texas special election.  NC political operatives were watching.  —  The loss of a Donald Trump-backed candidate in a Texas special election is giving pause to some political operatives in North Carolina's Senate race.  —  On Tuesday, a Navy veteran supported …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
David Sacks / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Get Ready for the ‘No-Buy’ List  —  First Big Tech censored speech.  Now they want to shut deplorables out of the financial system.  —  8 hr ago … When I helped create PayPal in 1999, it was in furtherance of a revolutionary idea.  No longer would ordinary people be dependent on large financial institutions to start a business.
Discussion: Instapundit
Washington Examiner:
The dark side of transgenderism: Moral monsters are mutilating children without parental involvement  —  The Left's long-standing effort to substitute government power for parental authority is picking up ominous strength, as signified by the trend toward state-ordered mutilation …
Washington Post:
Glenn Youngkin's economic plan would run Virginia ‘into a ditch’  —  As Virginia Democrats have run the table in every statewide election since 2009, Republican gubernatorial aspirants have reverted to the same failed three-step playbook:  — Declare the state's economy is in a tailspin.
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Fraternal Order of Police:
NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE  —  NATIONAL PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR  —  Thank you for your outreach - it is appreciated.  —  Even with the changes incorporated into your most recent draft, I believe that the provisions in this CJS bill could have a disastrous effect on the ability …
Discussion: Fox News and Townhall
 
 
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Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.
Houston Keene / Fox News:
White House walks back previous statement on possibility of new COVID lockdowns
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Sylvia Poggioli / NPR:
A Once-Forgotten Port Of Italy Is Alive With A Diverse Cultural And Literary Legacy
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Emails Show UM Officials' Concern Over Fired Historian Criticizing Private Prison Ties
Laken Bowles / WTVF-TV:
Conservative talk radio host Phil Valentine still hospitalized amid COVID battle
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Chuck Todd is dead wrong: Liberal bias defines modern journalism
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Ann Saphir / Reuters:
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Vaccine mandates are popular
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Mike Lindell is now hoping Supreme Court allows a do-over election: 'Maybe that's a thing'
Emily Langer / Washington Post:
Ruth Pearl, seeker of justice for her murdered journalist son, Daniel, dies at 85
Discussion: New York Times
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
Let It Rip  —  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Live With The Virus  —  It started with a text.
 

 
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