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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin just threatened to derail Biden's big win. Please proceed, Senator. — Barely hours after Senate Democrats passed their $3.5 trillion reconciliation budget resolution, Sen. Joe Manchin III issued a statement that unleashed waves of dread across Twitter.
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
McConnell Credits Biden for Infrastructure Breakthrough, Dismisses Trump Criticism — But the Senate GOP leader doesn't anticipate many more opportunities for bipartisan deals — WASHINGTON—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell credited President Biden with helping to get the roughly …
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Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Trump Just Won't Stop Messing With Mitch McConnell — Trump won't stop picking fights with the Senate's most powerful Republican, and control of the Senate is at stake. — As the Senate closed in on passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill, President Trump couldn't resist taking one more poke …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden defies expectations. Again. — The Senate on Tuesday passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal with 19 Republican votes. Had someone polled the White House press corps a month ago, few would have expected any bipartisan deal possible. — Journalists at mainstream media outlets are creatures of habit laced with cynicism.
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
How Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans learned to stop worrying about a Biden victory and love the infrastructure bill — What happened Tuesday in the Senate might seem like nothing short of a political miracle: Nineteen Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP prays Sinema and Manchin pare back Dems' big spending bill
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Senate Passes $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan, Advancing Sweeping Safety Net Expansion
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Li Zhou / Vox:
Democrats' infrastructure gamble actually seems like it could be working
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Washington Post:
U.S. officials warn collapse of Afghan capital could come sooner than expected — The Biden administration is preparing for Afghanistan's capital to fall far sooner than feared only weeks ago, as a rapid disintegration of security has prompted the revision of an already stark intelligence …
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Inside the Biden administration as Afghanistan collapses
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Jeff Schogol / Task & Purpose:
The White House is not being honest about how bad things are in Afghanistan
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Federal judge says Trump's accountants must turn over tax records to House panel — A federal judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump's accountants must turn over two years' worth of his tax and financial records to a House committee investigating whether Trump and his businesses profited from his service in the White House.
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David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg:
Trump Accounting Firm Must Release Some Records to Congress — A federal judge in Washington ruled that Donald Trump must disclose certain financial records held by his accounting firm Mazars in response to a subpoena from congressional Democrats. — But in an order on Wednesday …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
YouTube suspends Sen. Rand Paul over a video falsely claiming masks are ineffective — WASHINGTON — YouTube suspended Sen. Rand Paul's account on Tuesday for posting a video claiming cloth face masks are ineffective against the coronavirus. — “A badge of honor ... leftwing cretins …
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Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Rand Paul suspended one week by YouTube over COVID-19 mask claims
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Melanie Zanona / CNN:
Republicans are seizing on backlash to new mask and vaccine mandates
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Christopher Brito / CBS News:
Rand Paul suspended from YouTube for 7 days after COVID mask claims
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ProPublica:
Secret IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump's “Big, Beautiful Tax Cut” — The Secret IRS Files … In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen. Ron Johnson stunned his colleagues by announcing he would vote “no.”
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Kylee Zempel / The Federalist:
How Many Other Andrew Cuomos Are Elites Covering For? — The media played cheerleader instead of investigator, enabling a powerful man to exploit women and elderly people for personal pleasure and political points. Who else are they covering for? — All eyes were on Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday …
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Chris Cuomo apparently lied to his viewers. Again.
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Michaeleen Doucleff / NPR:
The Delta Variant Isn't As Contagious As Chickenpox. But It's Still Highly Contagious — In a leaked report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a surprising claim about the delta variant of the coronavirus: It “is as transmissible as: - Chicken Pox,” the agency wrote …
CNN:
Federal government sends ventilators to Florida as DeSantis says he's unaware of shipment — (CNN)The Biden administration sent hundreds of ventilators to Florida in recent days as the state responds to a dramatic new increase in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, an official from the Department …
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Florida to receive hundreds of ventilators from U.S. government to help state's record hospitalizations
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Nathaniel Rodriguez / WFLA-TV:
White House plans to fund Florida schools who defy DeSantis' order against mask mandates
YaleNews:
Donald Kagan, celebrated historian of the ancient world and revered teacher — Share this with Facebook Share this with Twitter Share this with LinkedIn Share this with Email Print this — Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics and History, prominent for his scholarship …
CNN:
Federal prosecutors came to suspect Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg lied, and considered charging him with perjury — New York (CNN)New York federal prosecutors came to suspect the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, lied in testimony during their investigation …
Tom Lawrence / The Daily Beast:
‘No One I Know Is Vaccinated’: Sturgis Rally Bikers Are Coming for America — SUM OF ALL FEARS — Thousands of unvaccinated, unmasked people traveling across the country. An ultra-contagious new variant. Overloaded hospitals. If you thought it could get no worse, think again.
Wall Street Journal:
California Teachers Must Be Vaccinated or Tested Weekly for Covid-19 — First-in-the-nation rule garners support from unions and comes amid growing nationwide disagreements over Covid-19 safety rules in schools — California will require school teachers and staff to show proof of vaccination …
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Christopher F. Rufo / New York Post:
Lie of credit — American Express tells its workers capitalism is racist — American Express, which made a $2.3 billion profit last quarter, invited the great-grandson of the Nation of Islam's founder to tell its employees that capitalism is evil. — It was part of the credit-card giant's …
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New York Times:
China Sentences Canadian Businessman to 11 Years in Prison — The prosecution of Michael Spavor has been widely seen as political retaliation by China against Canada for the detention of a Chinese technology executive. — For years, as Michael Spavor tried to expand his business in North Korea …
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Jackie Salo / New York Post:
Italian Americans mad at Cuomo for dismissing creepy behavior as cultural — Italian Americans are outraged that Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared to try to write off his creepy behavior with women as “cultural behavioral differences.” — “We Italians refuse to acknowledge Cuomo as a member of la famiglia …
Maurice Richards / The Hill:
Demonizing the police risks public safety and gets cops killed — Last Saturday night, two Chicago Police Department (CPD) officers were shot while making a traffic stop on the city's Southside. Officer Ella French, 29, three years on the job, was killed and her partner, a six-year veteran, was critically wounded.
Reuters:
Suspected saline switch sparks vaccine stir in Germany — Authorities in northern Germany appealed to thousands of people on Tuesday to get another shot of COVID-19 vaccine after a police investigation found that a Red Cross nurse may have injected them with a saline solution.
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
A first: Judge delivers a blow to Abbott's ban on mask mandates in schools with temporary restraining order — There's rarely a dull moment in Texas these days. Between the state Democrat fleebaggers drama and the coronavirus pandemic, things are popping.
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Julio Rosas / Townhall:
‘This Is Lunacy’: Frustrated Border Patrol Agents Take Pictures of Overcrowded Detention Facilities — The Biden administration's handling of the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border continues to flounder as the massive influx of people illegally crossing into the U.S. remains at an all-time high …
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Joshua Miller Globe / The Boston Globe:
Scott Brown resigns as head of New England Law Boston after less than a year, says he will get back into the political arena — Former US senator Scott Brown, who has led New England Law Boston since January, announced his resignation from the law school Wednesday and said he would re-engage in the political arena.
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Joshua Ceballos / Miami New Times:
UM Students Outraged by Former Trump Official Alex Azar's Hire — The decision to hire former President Donald Trump's HHS Secretary Alex Azar has incensed faculty, staff, and students. — On its surface, the hiring of a former federal health official would seem like a smart move for the University of Miami.
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