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New York Times:
Raiders Coach Resigns After Homophobic and Misogynistic Emails  —  A trove of emails in a separate workplace misconduct case shows Raiders Coach Jon Gruden went beyond previously disclosed racist comments to issue broad tirades.  —  Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Close to a Deal to Sell Marquee Washington, D.C., Hotel  —  Miami-based CGI Merchant Group in talks to pay ex-president's family company around $370 million for property in former Old Post Office  —  Former President Donald Trump's family company is in advanced discussions to sell …
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Kara Scannell / CNN:   Trump Organization in advanced talks to sell Washington hotel lease, source says
Jeremy Schwartz / ProPublica:
Trump Won the County in a Landslide.  His Supporters Still Hounded the Elections Administrator Until She Resigned.  —  Co-published with The Texas Tribune … An elections administrator in North Texas submitted her resignation Friday, following a monthslong effort by residents and officials loyal …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Election Workers in Georgia Are Fired for Shredding Voter Registration Forms  —  A previous investigation of the Fulton County office could eventually replace the elections board with a temporary superintendent with sweeping powers to oversee the vote.  —  The elections office …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid and Age  —  An unvaccinated child is at less risk of serious Covid illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old.  —  Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University who frequently writes about parenting, published an article in The Atlantic in March that made a lot of people angry.
Discussion: Twitchy
Aliya Uteuova / The Guardian:
What sea level rise will do to famous American sites, visualized  —  New images show what areas of the world can be saved or lost if carbon emissions aren't curbed  —  The land on which 10% of the world's population lives could be lost to sea level rise if carbon emission trends continue, new maps and visualizations show.
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Kerrin Jeromin / Washington Post:
Already, 18 weather disasters costing at least $1 billion each have hit the U.S. this year
Discussion: NBC News and Insider
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Texas Gov. Abbott issues order banning Covid vaccination mandates in rebuke of Biden  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday prohibiting any entity, including private businesses, from imposing Covid-19 vaccination requirements on employees or customers.
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Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
As Southwest Airlines tries to return to normal, some flight cancellations persist.
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
I'm not asking comedians to stop telling trans jokes.  I'm asking them to stop telling *the same* trans jokes over and over.  —  How many variations on “I identify as...” do we need in this world?  —  To be entirely honest, I didn't know Dave Chappelle had a new stand-up special out until …
Discussion: RedState and CBS News
Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Cheney campaign sees second-highest fundraising quarter  —  Rep. Liz Cheney's House reelection campaign enjoyed its second-biggest fundraising quarter ever this summer, a Cheney aide told the Star-Tribune.  The donations came on the heels of Cheney's all-time fundraising record, which occurred one quarter earlier.
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
‘Hiding the Ball’: Hunter Biden Complicates White House Anti-Corruption Push  —  During the presidential campaign, liberals had plenty of reason to tune out the Hunter Biden story.  —  For one, it was being pushed by Donald Trump, whose administration was awash in ethics scandals of its own …
Discussion: CNN
Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Prompted by Abbott primary challenger, Texas agency removed webpage with suicide hotline, other resources for LGBTQ youth  —  In late August, one of Gov. Greg Abbott's primary challengers, Don Huffines, accused Texas' child welfare agency of “promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth” …
Discussion: Raw Story
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
The Purpose Of The Jan. 6 Select Committee Is To Suppress Free Speech  —  The message is clear: if you exercise your First Amendment rights for a cause that those in power have not approved, you will be targeted.  —  A third round of subpoenas issued last week by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's select committee …
Discussion: National Review
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Trump's Coup Attempt Is Far From Finished
Discussion: HotAir and Ohio Capital Journal
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Dear Democrats: Only 10% of People Even Know What You Are Fighting For  —  Even if Democrats can pass their big bill, they won't be able to sell it.  —  (PHOTOS: GETTYIMAGES / SHUTTERSTOCK)  —  Quick: What is in the Democrats' $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better,” “Human Infrastructure,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Schiff calls House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy an ‘insurrectionist in a suit and tie’  —  (CNN)Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff on Tuesday referred to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as an “insurrectionist in a suit and tie,” as he slammed the House Republican leader for having “absolutely no reverence for the truth.”
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Biden is losing COVID trust  —  Americans' trust in President Biden has eroded as they've slowed their expectations for how quickly they can get back to their pre-pandemic lives, according to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The GOP alliance with Europe's far-right deepens  —  You're reading an excerpt from the Today's WorldView newsletter.  Sign up to get the rest, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday.  —  Toward the end of last month …
Max Moran / American Prospect:
The Little-Known Power Brokers at the Federal Reserve  —  Individual senior staffers play a huge role, and may explain the Fed's insularity and governance problems.  —  Michelle Smith hands out copies of Fed Chair Ben Bernanke's speech to reporters at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, August 2012.
PNAS:
Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination  —  aDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903;  —  bUniversity of Virginia Equity Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903;
KFF:
Large Majorities Across Parties Favor Allowing the Federal Government to Negotiate Drug Prices, Even After Hearing Common Arguments About It  —  Few Buy Argument that Drug Makers Have to Charge High Prices to Invest in Research into New Drugs  —  Most of the Public Lacks Confidence that President Biden …
Discussion: Kaiser Health News
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says  —  On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
Kim Jong-un displays “invincible” weapons  —  The diminutive dictator of North Korea is back up to his old tricks this week.  Kim Jong-un released video of his tour of a number of strategic weapons yesterday, something that he hasn't done in quite a while.  He gave a speech accusing …
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Another Facebook whistleblower says she is willing to testify before Congress  —  San Francisco (CNN Business)Sophie Zhang, who said she felt like she had “blood on her hands” after working at Facebook, is willing to testify before Congress about her former employer, she told CNN Sunday.
Maxine Joselow / Washington Post:
EPA head says he'll act on climate even if Congress doesn't  —  Hello and welcome to the very first edition of The Climate 202!  🎉 I'm Maxine Joselow, a veteran climate reporter, and I'm excited to meet you in your inbox every morning.  As always, feel free to reach out with tips and feedback.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jonathan Larsen / TYT Network:
Franklin Graham Is Secretly Bankrolling the National Prayer Breakfast  —  One of a series about the Fellowship Foundation, the secretive religious group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast and is popularly known as The Family.  This series is based on Family documents obtained by TYT …
Lucy Knight / The Guardian:
Sally Rooney turns down Israeli translation on political grounds  —  The writer has refused to sell Hebrew translation rights to her latest novel Beautiful World, Where Are You due to her stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict  —  Sally Rooney has turned down an offer from the Israeli publisher …
Allahpundit / HotAir:
“We are not pretending at all.  It's real.”  —  The Fox host finally addressed the issue Monday, in response to the comments by President Biden that the network has a vaccine mandate.  —  “As a factual matter, what Joe Biden just said is completely untrue.  It is a lie, period,” he said.
Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite
MSNBC:
Biden's policies impact millions of Americans who don't know it  —  New polling shows a majority of people don't know who's responsible for the financial aid that came from President Biden's American Rescue Plan - legislation that received zero Republican support.
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots  —  The number of eligible people still weighing whether to get a Covid vaccine has sharply dwindled, leaving an unvaccinated population that is mostly hard-core refusers.  —  Vaccinated people have been burning …
Ted Osius / Salon:
Behind the scenes of Donald Trump's very strange White House meeting with Vietnam's prime minister  —  Nothing in my 30-year diplomatic career prepared me for this Trump administration event  —  In mid-May of 2017, Robert Lighthizer, the new U.S. trade representative, came to Vietnam for an APEC ministerial-level meeting.
Discussion: HuffPost and Rolling Stone
 
 
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William Doyle / The Federalist:
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American Greatness:
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New York Times:
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Michael Doran / Wall Street Journal:
Azerbaijan's Defiant Message to Iran
Jan Egeland / New York Times:
Afghanistan Is in Economic Freefall. It Needs Aid.
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Washington Post:
In search for covid origins, Hubei caves and wildlife farms draw new scrutiny
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New York Times:
Biden's Proposal to Empower I.R.S. Rattles Banks and Their Customers
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Miami Herald:
Miami manager moves to fire police chief
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Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
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