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2:35 PM ET, August 2, 2022

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Nancy Pelosi / Washington Post:
Why I'm leading a congressional delegation to Taiwan  —  Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, is speaker of the House of Representatives.  —  Some 43 years ago, the United States Congress overwhelmingly passed — and President Jimmy Carter signed into law — the Taiwan Relations Act …
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Reuters:
Chinese warplanes take to skies, US warships on move before expected Pelosi visit to Taiwan  —  Chinese warplanes buzzed the line dividing the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday shortly before the expected arrival in Taipei of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a visit …
Mark Moore / New York Post:
Pelosi arrives in Taiwan, defying China threats and US military warnings  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Democratic congressional delegation landed in Taiwan on Tuesday, following through with a visit that brought condemnation and threats from China and could sever already strained relations between Washington and Beijing.
Annabelle Timsit / Washington Post:
Gingrich, last House speaker to visit Taiwan, downplays China threats  —  Nancy Pelosi is expected to touch down in Taiwan for the first visit by a U.S. House speaker to the self-ruled island since Newt Gingrich in 1997.  —  Gingrich, a Republican, is warning China not to follow through …
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Taiwanese websites hit with DDoS attacks as Pelosi begins visit
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and New York Post
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Dems ready to gamble their domestic agenda on Sinema  —  Senate Democrats will probably start a climactic series of votes on their party-line energy, tax and health care bill this week with very little public indication of where Kyrsten Sinema stands.  They're willing to risk it.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP eyes 2024 payback for Manchin's Dems-only deal
Lee Harris / American Prospect:   Inflation Reduction Bill Uses Public Finance to Stoke Energy Investment
Betsy Klein / CNN:
First on CNN: Top economists say Democrats' health care and climate package will put ‘downward pressure on inflation’
Discussion: The Hill and Democrats
Politico:
Senate GOP backtracks after veterans bill firestorm
New York Times:
Trump Faces Questions About His Net Worth in Interview He Tried to Avoid  —  Former President Donald J. Trump has embraced the verbal sparring of legal depositions in the past, but now faces significant risk.  —  For decades, Donald J. Trump has boasted with impunity about a subject close to his heart and ego: his net worth.
Discussion: Raw Story
Nick Burns / New York Times:
Elite Universities Are Out of Touch.  Blame the Campus.  —  Looking out the window of a plane flying over Boulder, Colorado, recently, I was reminded how much American universities stick out from their surroundings.  —  I'd never been to Boulder, or visited the University of Colorado's flagship campus …
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Files Lawsuit Challenging Idaho Abortion Law  —  DOJ says Idaho law conflicts with federal law covering hospitals that receive Medicare  —  The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging Idaho's near total ban on abortion, setting up the Biden administration's …
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Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Biden Justice Department sues Idaho over state's abortion restrictions in first post-Dobbs lawsuit  —  (CNN)The Biden administration filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Idaho for restricting access to abortion to patients who need lifesaving medical treatment, the first such Justice Department challenge since …
Discussion: ArkansasTimes and Political Wire
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Zawahiri's death and the war on terror's end  —  Al-Qaeda's leader lived long enough to see the world pass him by.  —  It's not clear how much the killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, announced by President Joe Biden on Monday night, will affect the terrorist group's ability to function.
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Associated Press:
Watching al-Qaida chief's ‘pattern of life’ key to his death
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
House panels: DHS officials interfered in effort to get lost Secret Service texts  —  After the inspector general's office requested the Secret Service's January 6 communications, the effort was shut down  —  Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general's office interfered …
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C. Ryan Barber / Insider:   Judge refuses to delay Oath Keepers trial due to attention around House January 6 panel
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
First to USA TODAY: Uninsured rate hit record low of 8%, HHS analysis shows  —  WASHINGTON - A record low 8% of Americans lacked health insurance at the start of the year, according to an analysis by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided first to USA TODAY.
Discussion: ASPE
Center Street:
POLL: Fetterman Takes Sizable Lead Over Dr. Oz, 52% to 38% Among Likely Voters; 10% Undecided in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate Race  —  Mayor John Fetterman leads Dr. Mehmet Oz 52% to 38% among likely voters in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race, according to a new poll from nonpartisan political …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Heather Stewart / The Guardian:
Jeremy Corbyn urges west to stop arming Ukraine  —  Ex-Labour leader also tells Beirut-based TV channel he was criticised over antisemitism because of stance on Palestine  —  Jeremy Corbyn has urged western countries to stop arming Ukraine, and claimed he was criticised over antisemitism …
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
New York 2022: Hochul Holds 16-Point Lead Over Zeldin; Schumer With 22-Point Lead in Potential US Senate Race  —  Home Polls New York 2022: Hochul Holds 16-Point Lead Over Zeldin; Schumer With 22-Point Lead in Potential US Senate Race  —  The latest Emerson College Polling survey …
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Jon Campbell / Gothamist:   NY Gov. Kathy Hochul has early lead over Republican rival Lee Zeldin, polls show
The Hub:
Family policy guru Josh McCabe on the ‘accident of history’ that turned American conservatives against family benefits  —  This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with the Niskanen Center's Josh McCabe on his interest in Canadian public policy, growing challenges …
Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
RNC links up with ‘Stop the Steal’ advocates to train poll workers  —  The Republican National Committee has been relying on a stable of the party's most prolific spreaders of false stolen-election theories to pilot a sweeping “election integrity” operation to recruit and coach thousands …
Michael Starr Hopkins / The Hill:
AOC is the Democrats' best shot against Trump in 2024  —  THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL  —  When Barack Obama came out of nowhere to win his Senate seat in 2004, it almost felt preordained.  As if he was the person we had been waiting for to breathe fresh air into the Democratic Party.
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Why Garland Should Go Big  —  He shouldn't bring a pen to the gun fight  —  “When you strike at a king, you must kill him.”  ―Ralph Waldo Emerson  —  “Gentlemen.  If you're going to take Vienna, take Vienna” ―Napoléon Bonaparte  —  Happy Tuesday.
Jennifer L. Morgan / AAIHS:
Reproductive Rights, Slavery, and ‘Dobbs v. Jackson’  —  In 1662, the Virginia legislature cast a cold, calculating eye on Black women's children.  Never mind that fewer than 150 Black women were enslaved there at the time, those legislators recognized that control of women's reproductive bodies yielded …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside the wild Bedminster lobbying spree that led to Trump's double Missouri endorsement  —  Former President Donald Trump called Republican Senate candidate Eric Schmitt Monday evening, after posting on social media that he would endorse in Missouri's GOP primary, and told him to look out for an announcement.
 
 
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MSNBC:
GOP gubernatorial candidate continues to push election lies
New York Times:
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Shibley Telhami / Brookings:
New polls: Democrats say Biden and members of Congress lean toward Israel more than they do
Kat Rosenfield / New York Times:
Book Review: “The Prophet of the Andes,” by Graciela Mochofsky
Washington Post:
The Electoral Count Act must be fixed. A new proposal doesn't go far enough.
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Senate GOP launches ads in two blue states
Discussion: Washington Post and Gallup
NBC News:
Biden administration task force reunites 400 migrant families separated under Trump
Discussion: Mediaite
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Politico:
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Selene San Felice / Axios:
Florida schools ordered to disobey federal LGBTQ protections
Discussion: Breitbart
Arno Rosenfeld / The Forward:
Holocaust 'doesn't even compare' to abortion deaths, says GOP nominee for Illinois governor
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