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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Why House Democrats May Be More United Than They Seem — Two factions of the Democratic Party in Congress are currently playing tug-of-war over the centerpieces of President Biden's legislative agenda. Moderate Democrats have balked at the proposed $3.5 trillion reconciliation budget bill …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Kill the Bill — Members of Congress have begun to say explicitly in the last couple days what I think has been clear for weeks and months. Kyrsten Sinema's multiple trips to the White House yesterday just confirms it. She's not negotiating about any of this in good faith.
Politico:
Manchin, Sinema leave Dems in lurch as Biden agenda teeters — Democrats wanted clarity Tuesday from Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema after back-to-back meetings with President Joe Biden. They didn't get it. — During a private meeting with the president, Sinema made clear she's still …
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Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
Why Biden Is Patient as Democrats Panic — The president's legacy—and the outcome of the next two elections—hangs in the balance. — a faint but discernible note of alarm has been slipping into Democrats' chatter about the 2022 and 2024 elections. President Joe Biden's approval ratings …
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POLITICO Playbook: T-minus 24 hours: The view from the W.H.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans at Odds Over Infrastructure Bill as Vote Approaches
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American Greatness:
Kristi Noem Shows Why Republicans Can't Have Nice Things — Exclusive: Sources reveal the South Dakota governor and potential 2024 VP candidate is having an extramarital affair with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. — Multiple sources have informed American Greatness …
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Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
South Dakota AG reviewing Noem's meeting with daughter — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota's attorney general said Tuesday he is reviewing concerns from state lawmakers over a meeting Gov. Kristi Noem held last year that included both her daughter and a state employee who was overseeing …
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Declan Leary / The American Conservative:
The Most Dangerous Man in America — Gen. Mark Milley is ambitious, incompetent, progressive, and wildly self-assured. — Four-star General Mark A. Milley, 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and highest-ranking officer in the United States Armed Forces, is a walking answer to the unasked question …
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Jonathan Landay / Reuters:
U.S. bars flight from landing with Americans from Kabul - activists
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Mary Chastain / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Marine Who Criticized Biden Admin's Afghanistan Withdrawal is Jailed
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Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content — The Google-owned video site previously only banned misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Facebook made the same change months ago. — SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube is taking …
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Senate prepares to move on bill to prevent government shutdown — Washington — The Senate is preparing to take up a short-term government funding bill that keeps federal agencies operating through December 3, but leaves unaddressed the looming deadline for when the U.S. is projected to exhaust its borrowing authority.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi leaves room to delay infrastructure vote
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John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Voting against the full faith and credit of the United States is what you'd expect from the party of political sabotage
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Dowd for Texas Announcement — Matthew Dowd announces his campaign for Texas Lt Governor and end the reign of the cruel and craven GOP incumbent. He says enough is enough and it is time t...
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Willy Staley / New York Times:
Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’? — The show's new audience is also seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline. — To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason's Role in Human Progress … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. — For someone who so frequently and serenely proclaims that he's right, Steven Pinker can get curiously defensive.
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump plans to sue to keep White House records on Capitol attack secret — Legal strategy could delay and possibly stymie efforts by House select committee into Capitol attacks to see key documents — Donald Trump is preparing to sue to block the release of White House records …
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Reed Abelson / New York Times:
Faced with vaccine mandates, most health workers are getting immunized. — Hundreds of sought-after nurses are leaving some U.S. hospitals that have established vaccine requirements for all employees, involving some protests and legal opposition. But most workers, especially at large hospital chains …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
‘This Was a Failure’: Biden's A.T.F. Pick Says White House Left Him Open to Attack — David Chipman's defeat was a loss for gun control groups, which saw the appointment of a strong director as the most important move the president could make on guns. — David Chipman's confirmation odyssey began …
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Kamala Harris' office frustrated with ‘The View’ after last week's Covid fiasco, sources say — New York (CNN Business)The office of Vice President Kamala Harris is vexed with “The View” after the false Covid-19 positive tests revealed just before Harris was to appear on the show last week sent …
Axios:
A racist conspiracy theory goes mainstream — A growing number of elected Republicans are openly promoting “white replacement theory,” a decades-old conspiracy theory that's animated terrorist attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. — Why it matters: This mainstreams what once …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Arizona Audit Backers Turn on Each Other After Recount Flop — The Arizona audit showed that, if anything, Joe Biden won the state by even more votes than previously realized. Cue the GOP panic. — Supporters of Republicans' controversial “audit” of 2020 presidential election ballots …
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Thomas Colson / Insider:
Trump's failed attempt to enforce Omarosa's NDA in court may unleash a new wave of embarrassing disclosures, said the lawyer who beat him — Donald Trump failed in a legal bid to enforce an NDA after a judge ruled it invalid. — Trump was trying to sue Omarosa Newman for speaking out, but it didn't work.
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Richard Haass / Foreign Affairs:
The Age of America First … Donald Trump was supposed to be an aberration—a U.S. president whose foreign policy marked a sharp but temporary break from an internationalism that had defined seven decades of U.S. interactions with the world. He saw little value in alliances and spurned multilateral institutions.
Politico:
McAuliffe, Youngkin unload in feisty final Virginia debate — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin bickered their way through the second and final debate of Virginia's competitive governor's race on Tuesday, trading attacks and accusations from the start of the hourlong meeting.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
America Is Having a Violence Wave, Not a Crime Wave — As violent crime rose in 2020, property crime continued a years-long decline. — A historic rise in homicides in 2020—and continued bloodshed in 2021—has incited fears that after years of plummeting crime rates …
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