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Scoop - Manchin: Delay Biden plan to '22 — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is privately saying he thinks Congress should take a “strategic pause” until 2022 before voting on President Biden's $3.5 trillion social-spending package, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
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POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Sinema issues ultimatum to Biden — DRIVING THE DAY — PAS SI DIPLOMATE — The indoor dining area of Le Diplomate closed early Sunday night due to a violent disturbance caused by a man that lasted 15 minutes, an employee told our tipster.
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Senate parliamentarian deals blow to Dems' immigration push — WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats can't use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs for their plan to give millions of immigrants a chance to become citizens, the Senate's parliamentarian said late Sunday …
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Sinema tells White House she's opposed to current prescription drug plan — The White House has a new headache as it struggles to get its multitrillion-dollar party-line spending bill passed: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's objections to drug pricing reforms that are already struggling to make it through the House.
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Meet Manchin's K Street whisperers — Salutations, Early birds. Tips, comments, recipes? Send them to earlytips@washpost.com and we'll post the best gastronomic delight that comes our way. — 🚨: President Biden seeks a phone call with Emmanuel Macron as the U.N. General Assembly starts tomorrow.

This Powerful Democrat Linked to Fossil Fuels Will Craft the U.S. Climate Plan — Senator Joe Manchin is already a crucial swing vote in the Democrats' sweeping budget bill. But he will also write the details of its climate change program. — WASHINGTON — Joe Manchin …
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Covid Vaccine Prompts Strong Immune Response in Younger Children, Pfizer Says — Vaccinated kids aged 5 to 11 showed evidence of protection against the virus, the company said. The data must be reviewed by the F.D.A. before children can be inoculated. — The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine …
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Low dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is safe and effective in children ages 5 to 11, companies' study finds — A lower dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine — one-third the amount given to adults and teens — is safe and triggered a robust immune response in children as young as 5 years old …
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Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Positive Topline Results From Pivotal Trial of COVID-19 Vaccine in Children 5 to 11 Years — Results are the first from a pivotal trial of any COVID-19 vaccine in children under 12 years of age — In participants 5 to 11 years of age, the vaccine was safe …
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Covid-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds is safe and shows ‘robust’ antibody response, Pfizer says — (CNN)In a highly anticipated announcement, Pfizer said on Monday a Phase 2/3 trial showed its Covid-19 vaccine was safe and generated a “robust” antibody response in children ages 5 to 11.
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Democrats unlikely to get immigration measure in $3.5 trillion budget proposal after Senate parliamentarian ruling — ‘Absolutely not acceptable’: Sanders on Manchin's push to cut Dems' $3.5T bill — Washington (CNN)Senate Democrats likely will not be able to include a pathway to legalization …
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‘Big Blow To Biden’: Senate Parliamentarian Rules Citizenship Path For Illegals Cannot Be In $3.5 Trillion Bill, Report Says
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Democrats Dealt a Blow on Immigration Plans
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Democrats blocked from including immigration reform in party-line spending bill
Democrats blocked from including immigration reform in party-line spending bill
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Tate Reeves and the high cost of covid incompetence — When naming the poster child for irresponsible leadership on covid-19, there are plenty of governors to choose from. You could make a strong case for South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R) or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
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The Indictment of Hillary Clinton's Lawyer is an Indictment of the Russiagate Wing of U.S. Media — The DOJ's new charging document, approved by Biden's Attorney General, sheds bright light onto the Russiagate fraud and how journalistic corruption was key. — A lawyer for Hillary Clinton's …
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Bill Barr's Still Making a Mockery of Justice. Merrick Garland's Letting Him.
Bill Barr's Still Making a Mockery of Justice. Merrick Garland's Letting Him.
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How the U.S. Helped, and Hampered, the Escape of Afghan Journalists — The secretary of state cites a “massive effort” by the government, but people involved in the evacuation instead describe bureaucratic snags. — As American news organizations scrambled to evacuate their Afghan journalists …
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Eric Adams' Townhouse Trouble: Tax Filing ‘Mistake’ and Blown-Off Buildings Inspector — Campaign says mayoral nominee will amend tax returns for a second time after THE CITY pointed out irregularities concerning filings on his Bed-Stuy residence. Adams also overlooked …

Ignoring Haitians' humanity exposes Biden's broken promise — and a looming crisis — They seemed to come out of literally nowhere and then they just kept coming — Haitian refugees, suddenly crammed by the thousands in the shade under a highway overpass in Del Rio, Texas …
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'It's spreading': Phony election fraud conspiracies infect midterms — It started as one big, false claim — that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. — But nearly a year later, the Big Lie is metastasizing, with Republicans throughout the country raising the specter of rigged elections …
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Peter Thiel's Origin Story His ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man. — Sometime around the spring of 1988, several members of the Stanford University chess team traveled to a tournament in Monterey, California, in an old Volkswagen Rabbit.

In the Heart of Nashville, Rolling Parties Rage at Every Stoplight — As Nashville's popularity has grown, so has the “transportainment” business — a motley assortment including old buses, farm tractors and a truck with a hot tub. Many think it has gotten out of hand.

After 20 years of waging religious guerrilla warfare, Taliban fighters in Kabul say they miss the battle — KABUL — Since celebrating the fall of Kabul a month ago, after years of waging a holy war to overthrow the U.S.-backed government, the 250 Taliban fighters under Abdulrahman Nifiz's command …
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Gabby Petito's Disappearance: a Timeline — The authorities said they had found human remains in Wyoming consistent with a description of Gabrielle Petito, 22. The search continues for her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. — Here's what you need to know:
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Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee personally vetted Trump's fraud claims, new book says. They were unpersuaded. — “Peril,” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, reveals the lengths the two Republicans went to in examining the president's baseless claims. — Sen. Lindsey O. Graham agreed to hear Rudolph W. Giuliani out.
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Threats against members of Congress are skyrocketing. It's changing the job — A few months ago Rep. Norma Torres (D-Pomona) received an anonymous video of someone following her car. The camera pans down to a 9mm handgun on the seat as a male voice says: “I see you. I got something for you.”

The Afghanistization of America — We are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes. — The United States should be at its pinnacle of strength.
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When the Taliban Teamed Up With Bill Gates and UNICEF — Is taxpayer money going to train the terrorists of tomorrow? — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

The Democrats War on Blacks Keeps Growing in the Pandemic — One of the key reasons I left the Democratic Party years ago was the atrocious way they treated black people. — I'm not just talking about “Jim Crow” or LBJ's well-known patriarchal and racist use of the “n-word” …
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