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5:15 PM ET, August 4, 2021

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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
$5,800 Whiskey Bottle, a Gift From Japan to Pompeo, Is Missing, U.S. Says  —  The State Department is investigating what happened to it.  —  The State Department is investigating the whereabouts of a $5,800 bottle of whiskey the Japanese government gave to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019 …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Mediaite
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Pompeo got $5,800 whisky gift from Japan, but where is it?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The DOJ Official Who Tried to Steal the Election for Trump Has a Sweet New Gig  —  On Tuesday, ABC News reported that Jeffrey Bossert Clark—the Justice Department official who spearheaded an effort to overturn the 2020 election—sought to convince the Georgia General Assembly to throw …
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and Raw Story
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Lisa Martine Jenkins / Morning Consult:   Bipartisan Infrastructure Package Has True Bipartisan Backing: Democratic, GOP Voters Support Array of Proposals in Bill
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Biden Has a Growing Problem With Independents
Discussion: Breitbart
Wilson Wong / NBC News:
White woman in viral video says she had no choice but to call police on Black bird-watcher … The white woman who was recorded on video calling police to claim that a Black bird-watcher was threatening her in New York City's Central Park last year said she felt she was backed into a corner.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Boston mayor compares NYC's vaccine mandate to slavery, birtherism  —  The mayor of Boston said the city won't be following New York's lead requiring proof of vaccination at many indoor businesses, claiming the move is reminiscent of “slavery” and birtherism.
Discussion: The Boston Globe and Breitbart
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Emma Colton / Fox News:
Boston mayor uses slavery, Trump to shoot down questions about vaccine passports
Discussion: TheBlaze and Boston Herald
Cameron Cawthorne / Fox News:
Cori Bush, Democrat demanding eviction halt, was sued for not paying rent  —  Rep. Bush was sued for not paying thousands of dollars in rent in 2015  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 4  —  “Squad” member Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, who has been demanding a halt in evictions since last week …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
Poll: Most Americans now favor mask mandates to slow Delta's rapid spread  —  hypercontagious Delta variant of the coronavirus continues to fuel  —  a new wave of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the U.S. — and as scientists discover that vaccinated people can experience
Discussion: Townhall
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Michael Wilner / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Fauci warns COVID-19 cases may double in delta variant surge  —  Coronavirus cases driven by the delta variant are rising in a “very steep fashion” across the United States and may double in the coming weeks to 200,000 cases a day, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday.
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Jon Jackson / Newsweek:
Lambda vs. Delta COVID Variant: What We Know So Far About the Different Strains
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Andrew and Chris Cuomo's media love-ins come back to bite them  —  Live by the press conference, die by the press conference.  Last year, as the pandemic ravaged his state, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, was widely lauded for the way he communicated.
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Lisa Gray / Houston Chronicle:
‘Dark times’: Houston's fourth COVID-19 wave to be the largest yet, medical leaders predict  —  Fueled by the delta variant, a surge in Houston COVID-19 hospitalizations is growing as fast as at any time during the pandemic so far, and is projected to pass previous records by mid-August …
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Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Is the Delta Variant Making Younger Adults ‘Sicker, Quicker’?
Discussion: Forbes
Galveston County Daily News:
Dickinson councilman H Scott Apley, hospitalized with COVID-19, dies at 45  —  H Scott Apley, a Dickinson city council member and official in the Galveston County Republican Party, has died after being hospitalized with COVID-19, officials said Wednesday in a post on the party's Facebook page.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
These corporations just donated to a Republican group that helped create the January 6 mob  —  Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby … That was an excerpt from robocalls sent on January 5 by the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), through its self-described “policy branch,” the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF).
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Rosalind Helderman / Washington Post:
‘The stuff of which violent insurrections are made:’ Federal judge sanctions Colorado lawyers for 2020 election lawsuit  —  A federal judge in Colorado has sanctioned two lawyers who filed a lawsuit challenging the 2020 election late last year, finding that the case was “frivolous,” …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Obama Significantly Scales Back 60th Birthday Party as Virus Cases Rebound  —  Hundreds of former Obama administration officials, celebrities and Democratic donors had been planning to attend the huge bash on Martha's Vineyard on Saturday.  —  WASHINGTON — The party plans had been months …
The Texas Tribune:
Two House Democrats who broke quorum missing from Washington, D.C., reportedly vacationing in Portugal  —  Their vacation does not affect the lack of quorum that the House has in Austin to pass the elections bill.  But it is at odds with Democrats' insistence that they would use their time away …
Marist Poll:
Marist Poll Results & Analysis: Governor Andrew Cuomo  —  The post Marist Poll Results & Analysis: Governor Andrew Cuomo first appeared on Home of the Marist Poll.
Daily Mail:
Selfie shows Andrew Cuomo SMIRK moments after he 'grabbed and rubbed trembling assistant's butt' as embattled NY Governor refuses to resign despite prosecutors claiming he sexually harassed 11 women  — A selfie released in the official report into sexual harassment allegations against NY …
Nolan Hicks / New York Post:
NYC vaccine campaign surges 40 percent amid mandates, new incentives  —  Sometimes it takes a carrot — and a stick!  —  The Big Apple's vaccination campaign has surged 40 percent after Mayor Bill de Blasio offered $100 gift cards for shots and ordered city employees to get vaccinated …
Luke Money / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. will consider requiring vaccine proof at restaurants, gyms, indoor sporting events  —  Los Angeles will consider a proposal to require proof of COVID-19 inoculation as a condition of entry at a host of indoor public spaces in what, if passed, would be the widest-ranging vaccination-verification effort in the city yet.
Discussion: KTLA
The Intellectualist:
How Trump Destroyed The GOP: It Can't Live With Him, And It Can't Live Without Him  —  CNN senior political analyst John Avlon noted during his “Reality Check” segment on CNN's New Day Tuesday that Republicans are stuck in a humiliating position, thanks to their seemingly undying fealty to former President Donald Trump.
Sara Randazzo / Wall Street Journal:
Former Theranos Patients Can Testify at Elizabeth Holmes Trial, Judge Rules  —  Startup founder fought to exclude testimony from patients  —  Former Theranos Inc. patients will be allowed to testify at the criminal fraud trial of the defunct blood-testing startup's founder, Elizabeth Holmes, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Alexander Sammon / American Prospect:
Nina Turner Lost to the Redbox  —  How Shontel Brown used questionably legal campaign finance tactics to take a House seat  —  A cardboard cutout likeness of Nina Turner atop a campaign vehicle  —  As recently as June, the special election to replace Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge …
Eesha Pendharkar / Education Week:
A $5 Million Fine for Classroom Discussions on Race?  In Tennessee, This Is the New Reality  —  Remove  —  Tennessee aims to levy fines starting at $1 million and rising to $5 million on school districts each time one of their teachers is found to have “knowingly violated” …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Tucker Carlson Has Seen the Future, and It Is Fascist Orban's Hungary is the road map for American authoritarianism.  —  In 1919, the progressive journalist Lincoln Steffens visited the nascent Soviet Union and declared, “I have seen the future and it works.”
Discussion: The Time of Monsters
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Buzzy media startup Puck launches in beta  —  Puck, a splashy new digital media company, is coming out of stealth mode, Axios has learned.  The company debuted its landing page, puck.news, on Wednesday, and will officially launch its website in September.
Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
The ‘Cuomosexual’ phenomenon was disgraceful.  We're politicians' bosses, not their fans.  —  Is there a more embarrassing recent entry to the American lexicon than “Cuomosexual?”  The portmanteau burst into the public imagination last spring, when New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's briefings …
 
 
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
John Kerry on the Unfathomable Stakes of the Next U.N. Climate-Change Conference
Anthony L. Fisher / Insider:
Don't let public sector unions off the hook when it comes to vaccine mandates
Discussion: Virginia Mercury and Townhall
Washington Free Beacon:
Infrastructure Bill Would Require Alcohol Monitors for All New Cars
Adam Gurri / Liberal Currents:
End America's Institutional Provincialism
Bloomberg:
Ex-Carlyle Boss Racked Up Bad Bets Before Switching to Politics
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Gallup:
No Preferred Racial Term Among Most Black, Hispanic Adults
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 Earlier Items: 
The Dworkin Report:
Reality Winner's lawyer lays out the case for her freedom
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Trump seeks to block Treasury Department from giving his tax returns to Congress
Jack Dutton / Newsweek:
Rashida Tlaib Accused of ‘Antisemitic Dog Whistling’ in Detroit Remarks
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Mary Beth Sheridan / Washington Post:
Mexico to sue U.S.-based gunmakers over flow of arms across border
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
The Myth of the Golden Years
C. Ryan Barber / Insider:
How a tiny legal office inside the Justice Department is tormenting Trumpworld
Suzanne Ciechalski / NBC News:
Virginia Covid patient goes from ‘invincible’ to hospital-bed vaccine advocate
Janelle Irwin Taylor / Florida Politics:
Shock poll: Charlie Crist leads Ron DeSantis amid COVID-19 surge
Discussion: Mediaite, Gizmodo and Crooks and Liars
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
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