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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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POLITICO Playbook: T-minus 24 hours: The view from the W.H. — DRIVING THE DAY — Tuesday was the day it became clear either: — A) President JOE BIDEN's legislative agenda is about to implode — or — B) Biden made serious progress toward a deal to salvage his agenda.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans at Odds Over Infrastructure Bill as Vote Approaches — With a bipartisan infrastructure bill set for a Thursday vote in the House, a campaign by business groups and some Senate Republicans to secure G.O.P. support may be the measure's last hope.
NBC News:
‘Mutually assured destruction’: House liberals dig in on halting infrastructure bill — Rep. Gottheimer: Democrats will be united for Thursday infrastructure vote — WASHINGTON — House progressives are digging in on their resistance to passing the infrastructure bill this week …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans aim their fire at the military — Perhaps nothing Republican lawmakers do anymore should come as a surprise, but their treatment of Gen. Mark A. Milley on Tuesday opened a new front in the war against civilized norms. — Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee …
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Tragic cost of Biden's Afghanistan lies — Biden lied, they died. — That's no longer just an accusation. It's now a fact, with Tuesday's Senate testimony shredding President Biden's nonsensical fictions about Afghanistan and confirming that he alone made the fateful decisions that created the chaotic and deadly withdrawal.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Say, How Is Joe Biden's Memory These Days?
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Milley reveals he spoke to Woodward, other authors for books on Trump presidency
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New York Times:
Senators Question Milley and Austin on End of War in Afghanistan
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Biden opposes changing Senate rules to raise debt limit — The White House said Tuesday that President Joe Biden opposes changing the filibuster to suspend or raise the debt ceiling, closing off a break-the-glass option to avoid financial calamity. — White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell is laughing in your faces, Democrats. Do something about this.
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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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Lori Aratani / Washington Post:
United Airlines says nearly all workers met vaccine mandate deadline, 593 could face termination — The air carrier has begun the process for terminating nearly 600 workers who declined to comply with the requirement — Nearly all of United Airlines' U.S.-based employees have been vaccinated …
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
51% Of Texas Voters Say Abbott Doesn't Deserve To Be Reelected, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; President Biden's Approval Numbers Head South — mail_outline — As Governor Greg Abbott faces reelection in 2022, a slight majority of voters say 51 - 42 percent that he does not deserve …
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Biden cancels Chicago trip as negotiations continue over agenda — President Biden has canceled a trip to Chicago on Wednesday and will stay in Washington to continue negotiations on key pieces of his legislative agenda, a White House official confirmed Tuesday.
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
New evidence emerges against COVID lab-leak theory — but the press keeps pushing it — When it comes to the pandemic, pseudoscience has outweighed real science at almost every turn. One of the best examples of that is the unsupported assertion that the virus causing COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese laboratory.
Politico:
‘No major incidents of illegal activity’: DHS told Pentagon as pro-Trump mob breached Capitol — On Jan. 6, more than 30 minutes after the first attackers breached barricades erected to protect the Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security sent an incongruous update to the Pentagon.
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
N.C. hospital system fires about 175 workers in one of the largest-ever mass terminations due to a vaccine mandate — A North Carolina-based hospital system announced Monday that roughly 175 unvaccinated employees were fired for failing to comply with the organization's mandatory coronavirus …
CBS San Francisco:
Woman Accused of Starting Fawn Fire Was Attempting To Boil Bear Urine to Drink — SHASTA COUNTY (CBS SF) — According to court documents, the Bay Area woman accused of starting the Fawn Fire in Shasta County last week was attempting to boil bear urine so she could drink it when she allegedly set off the destructive blaze.
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Wall Street Journal:
Evergrande to Raise $1.5 Billion by Selling Bank Stake to State-Owned Firm — Developer will pare holding in Shengjing Bank to less than 15% — A Chinese state-owned enterprise struck a deal to buy most of China Evergrande Group's stake in a commercial bank for $1.5 billion …
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Catrin Einhorn / New York Times:
Protected Too Late: U.S. Officials Report More Than 20 Extinctions — The animals and one plant had been listed as endangered species. Their stories hold lessons about a growing global biodiversity crisis. — The ivory-billed woodpecker, which birders have been seeking in the bayous of Arkansas …
Hanna Ziady / CNN:
Boris Johnson's Brexit choices are making Britain's fuel and food shortages worse — London (CNN Business)Rising energy bills, higher prices and a critical shortage of workers leading to food and fuel supply constraints are threatening to stall Britain's recovery from the pandemic.
Washington Post:
The feared eviction ‘tsunami’ has not yet happened. Experts are conflicted on why. — Eviction filings have fallen or remained flat in many areas after the moratorium was struck down. — When the Supreme Court decided to strike down a federal ban on evictions in August …
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Brian Leiter / Leiter Reports:
Peter Singer invited to give a Zoom talk about “Pandemic Ethics” by the Philosophy Department at Rhodes College... ...and now there is an uproar because Singer holds incorrect views, for example, about euthanasia, infanticide and the disabled. An uproar is fine, what isn't fine are the demands …
Shay Khatiri / The Bulwark:
What Went Wrong with Conservatism? — Two important pieces of the puzzle: mindless anti-leftism and hackish popularizers. — Conservatism in its postwar incarnation was, for the most part, a coalition of ideologies. Chances are you know them by heart: the anti-Soviet hawks, the free marketeers, and the traditionalists.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
‘Law & Order’ Revived By NBC For Season 21 From Dick Wolf & Rick Eid — Eleven and a half years after NBC abruptly canceled Law & Order, denying its shot at making TV history, the network is bringing back Dick Wolf's Emmy-winning series for a new season, its 21st.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Dianne Feinstein to return to D.C. following husband's hospitalization — WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein was absent from the Senate for a week due to her husband's hospitalization, but the California Democrat is returning to Washington in the midst of a tumultuous legislative session.
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