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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Why Our Monsters Talk to Michael Wolff — In his new book, the author of “Fire and Fury” continues his specialty: teasing out stories from men in power. — It's early 2019, a few months before Jeffrey Epstein will be arrested on sex charges, and he is sitting in the vast study …
Washington Post:
House Democrats circulate new tax plan as party tries to unify behind huge economic package — Democrats sparred in the Senate but House Democrats were trying to reach a consensus on some of the thorniest issues. — A powerful panel of House Democrats on Sunday circulated a draft plan …
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Warner warns he may vote against $3.5 trillion budget — Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is warning that he could vote against the $3.5 trillion budget package, if more money isn't added for housing assistance to close the racial wealth gap in the current House version of the bill, Axios has learned.
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Watch CNN's Dana Bash Call Out Joe Manchin's Infrastructure Game — Joe Manchin's Can't Name A Spending Amount For Reconciliation Bill — Video: … CNN's Dana Bash asked Manchin to be specific and asked if he had a specific number in mind. — Manchin talked about he wanted to raise corporate taxes back to 25%.
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
House Democrats Consider 26.5% Corporate Tax Rate — Lawmakers are expected to propose a smaller capital-gains tax increase than Biden wants — WASHINGTON—House Democrats expect to propose raising the corporate tax rate to 26.5% from 21% and imposing a 3-percentage-point surtax …
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Julia Cherner / ABC News:
Manchin, Sanders at odds over $3.5 trillion budget resolution
Manchin, Sanders at odds over $3.5 trillion budget resolution
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
False Election Claims in California Reveal a New Normal for G.O.P. — In an echo of 2020, Republicans are pushing baseless allegations of cheating in the state's recall race even before Election Day. — The results of the California recall election won't be known until Tuesday night.
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Washington Post:
Democrats wanted Trump gone. Now they want him on the ballot.
Democrats wanted Trump gone. Now they want him on the ballot.
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Larry Elder Spoke At A Conference With White Nationalist Kyle Chapman
Larry Elder Spoke At A Conference With White Nationalist Kyle Chapman
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Kana Ruhalter / The Daily Beast:
'They're All In on It!' Rose McGowan Slams Dems at Larry Elder Campaign Event — The actress, campaigning for Republican Larry Elder ahead of California's recall election, aired damning accusations against Gov. Gavin Newsom's wife. — At a press conference in Los Angeles on Sunday …
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Rose McGowan to join Larry Elder amid Harvey Weinstein-related allegation against Newsom's wife
Rose McGowan to join Larry Elder amid Harvey Weinstein-related allegation against Newsom's wife
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David Marcus / Fox News:
Newsom, Dems all about racism until Larry Elder is attacked
Newsom, Dems all about racism until Larry Elder is attacked
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Washington Post:
Texas wanted to be the tech haven of the U.S. Its new abortion bill and other measures are causing workers to rethink their move. — Tech workers are marking Texas off the list of places they'd consider working after the state passed the nation's most restrictive abortion law
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as covid packs ICUs, family says — When Ray DeMonia was having a cardiac emergency last month, his Alabama family waited anxiously for a nearby hospital with available space in its intensive care unit.
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Sam Raskin / New York Post:
Rudy Giuliani rambles during 9/11 memorial dinner — Ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani at a 9/11 commemoration on Saturday called a top US general an “idiot” and “a-hole,” imitated Queen Elizabeth and distanced himself from Prince Andrew, in a series of rambling soliloquies, video shows.
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Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
I spent 5 years inside DC's foreign policy ‘blob.’ Here's why the experts keep getting us into unwinnable wars like Afghanistan. … One autumn afternoon a few years ago, I took the subway from my Brooklyn apartment to a mansion on the Upper East Side. I was nervous.
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Douglas E. Schoen / The Hill:
Without drastic changes, Democrats are on track to lose big in 2022 — The marked decline in support for President Biden and his administration nationally and in key swing states indicates that the Democratic Party could endure a blowout defeat in the 2022 midterm elections.
NBC News:
Senate Democrats near agreement on new voting rights legislation — WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are close to an agreement on updated voting rights legislation that can get the support of all 50 Democrats, three Democratic aides familiar with negotiations tell NBC.
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Biden Tells Top Democrats He's Preparing Lobbying Blitz on Filibuster Reform, Voting Rights
Biden Tells Top Democrats He's Preparing Lobbying Blitz on Filibuster Reform, Voting Rights
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Why Americans Die So Much — U.S. life spans, which have fallen behind those in Europe, are telling us something important about American society. — About the author: Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, technology, and the media.
Alyssa Lukpat / New York Times:
The U.S. is falling to the lowest vaccination rates of the world's wealthiest democracies. — Japan initially struggled to get its Covid-19 vaccination program into full gear, but now that it has, the percentage of its population that has received at least one dose has edged past the level achieved …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
George W. Bush's dreadful 9/11 speech — President Joe Biden was silent during Saturday's 9/11 commemoration events. So were former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Former President Donald Trump visited a New York City police precinct and fire station, where he made a few impromptu remarks.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
If another 9/11 happened in a divided 2021, could national unity be achieved again? — As we look back to the day after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the U.S., it's worth asking a question: If America were attacked again on the same scale, would we be able to unify nationally as well as we did two decades ago?
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Judges Are Playing A Huge Role In Upholding Anti-Abortion Laws Across The Country — WASHINGTON — In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump pitched to Republican voters that even if they didn't like him, they needed him for one big reason: the US Supreme Court.
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Behind the Texas Abortion Law, a Persevering Conservative Lawyer
Behind the Texas Abortion Law, a Persevering Conservative Lawyer
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
A make-or-break moment for our democracy — It's a habit of journalism to declare nearly every impending period as a turning point, a “defining moment” that will set a nation or even the world on a course for years or decades to come. — The routinization of the momentous is mostly harmless, but over time it has a cost.
Scott Gottlieb / The Atlantic:
A Second Major Seasonal Virus Won't Leave Us Any Choice — Businesses and schools must adapt, because the dual threat from COVID and the flu will be too severe. … He is the author of the forthcoming book Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic.
Justin Gomez / ABC News:
Murthy calls Biden's new COVID-19 actions an ‘appropriate response’ to tackle pandemic — The surgeon general said it's not an “unusual phenomenon” to mandate vaccines. — U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy defended President Joe Biden's new mandates to vaccinate 100 million Americans against COVID-19 …
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