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Trump demands major changes to childhood vaccine recommendations — The president signed an order instructing states to revise their rules. He also called for narrowing which vaccines are administered to children and splitting shots into multiple appointments.
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The White House:
Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Pursuant to the Presidential Memorandum of December 5 …
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Cassidy blasts vaccine order, saying Trump has no ‘expertise to make these changes’ — Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) blasted an executive order signed by President Trump Monday that splits the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot across three separate visits. — “I'm a doctor. This executive order is wrong.
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence — “The future is for everyone,” Zuckerberg says, describing future that is primarily good for Meta. — Mark Zuckerberg, whose superyacht apparently spent the weekend ignoring or missing the distress signal …
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Mark Zuckerberg / Meta:
The Future is for Everyone — We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. In the next few years, people will be able to use superintelligence beyond human capacity to create and discover extraordinary new things, build new businesses, express new ideas, learn new concepts, and advance our health and quality of life.
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him — You'd be forgiven for thinking the saga involving Donald Trump's vile prosecutions of innocent people over his Reflecting Pool fiasco has finally come to an ignominious end. On Thursday, a judge officially threw …
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Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Trump nominates loyalist to office that would oversee Reflecting Pool review
Trump nominates loyalist to office that would oversee Reflecting Pool review
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Sabrina Siddiqui / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators Release Fauci Texts Discussing Covid Vaccine Risk to Pregnant Women — Exchange shows Fauci and top health officials debating pros and cons of the shots — WASHINGTON—A pair of Senate Republicans leading the congressional investigations into Dr. Anthony Fauci released …
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Politico:
White House officials tamped down efforts to oust Max Miller in final days — Members of President Donald Trump's political team asked Ohio Republicans last week not to wage a public pressure campaign against embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller, after they became increasingly convinced he wouldn't end his reelection bid.
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Eli Okun / Politico:
Trump fumes over latest Iran demands — BREAKING: President Donald Trump plans to sign a childhood vaccines executive order today, CBS' Richard Escobedo and Jennifer Jacobs report. — WAR REPORT: Oil has Trump over a political barrel ahead of the midterms.
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Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
Oil in U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve falls below 300 million barrels, lowest since 1983
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Mallory Wilson / The Hill:
Trump demands compensation for US from Iran
Trump demands compensation for US from Iran
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Too Fun to Check: El-Sayed Refuses to Renounce Hasan ‘America Deserved 9/11’ Piker — Give Abdul El-Sayed at least some credit for consistency. After tossing red meat during primaries to drive base turnout, most politicians will shift to the center afterward to compete in the general election.
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Mark Jacob / Stop the Presses:
25 must-follow people in pro-democracy media — Negativity is a trap we can fall into during times like these. But we need to stay optimistic and motivated if we're going to defeat the criminals who are trying to steal our country. — Here's my subjective list of 25 bright stars of pro-democracy media …
Denver Post:
Lauren Boebert's son arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, court records show — Tyler Boebert faces 5 felony charges and was released from jail Sunday, records show — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert's son was arrested last week on three felony charges related to sexual exploitation of a child, court records show.
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
How a Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trump's Russia Ties Was Derailed — Documents released by the White House shed new light on the demise of an often-overlooked 2017 F.B.I. investigation. — For the last year, the Trump administration's efforts to seek retribution against intelligence officials …
Politico:
A record Trump shouldn't want to beat — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump's unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond.
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The Hill
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
How Fox News is trying to cover up the Rep. Max Miller alleged domestic abuse scandal — No mentions on primetime shows, and the network also isn't asking Republicans about it on air — RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TYLER MONROE & ROB SAVILLO — Fox News is keeping its viewers in the dark …
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Maureen Farrell / New York Times:
Private Equity Is Stuck With 33,575 Unsold Businesses — Even amid a booming deal-making environment, private equity firms are unable to exit a growing number of investments at values their investors require. — The long-awaited deal-making boom has finally arrived.
Tyler Austin Harper / The Atlantic:
Why I Quit the Tenure Track — The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia — As you cross the Androscoggin River into Lewiston, you pass on your left the waterfalls that once set the mills to humming. On your right, affixed to a pockmarked brick mill—now defunct …
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The Hill
Dara Lind / New Yorker:
The Great Delegalization — More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away. — In early 2010, an earthquake devastated Haiti—but, even as Haitians in the U.S. had far less to return to, they received a new opportunity to stay.
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Lauren McGaughy / New York Times:
One Source of Paxton's Wealth: A Cell Tower at a Hospital He Knew Well — Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, makes six-figure income from a cellphone tower on the grounds of a hospital where he was a board member. — Over the course of Ken Paxton's decade-long rise to prominence …
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Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
Traffic to Trump's Truth Social Falls Sharply This Summer — President Trump's social media platform has had double-digit declines in visitors in June and July, according to estimates from a widely cited online tracking firm. — President Trump is a commanding presence on Truth Social, the platform he co-founded in 2022.
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New York Times:
Ukrainian Drone Attack Deep Into Russia Is Among Its Deadliest of the War — The strike, on an industrial center in Tatarstan, killed at least 13 people. — A Ukrainian drone attack Monday on an industrial city about 550 miles east of Moscow was among the deadliest on Russian territory since …
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Reuters:
Taylor Farms recalls salsa, guacamole on salmonella outbreak, intensifying food-safety fears — Taylor Farms is recalling prepared foods containing jalapenos from retailers including Walmart and Whole Foods in several states over potential salmonella contamination, the second major foodborne illness linked …
Rhian Lubin / The Independent:
Trump posted touched-up version of his golf photo to look younger and slimmer — Trump appears to have undergone an computer-generated glow-up — President Donald Trump posted a touched-up photograph of himself from his weekend golf trip, where he appeared much more youthful, instead of sharing the original image.
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Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
D.C.-Area Airport to Close for 3 Hours for Grand Prix Event — The Federal Aviation Administration has imposed other closures at Reagan National Airport over events marking the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding. — The Federal Aviation Administration announced on Monday …
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Noah White / Washington Post:
Patriot Games open with dodgeball, lots of MAGA caps and even more questions — The youth contest for $250,000 — part of the White House's Freedom 250 festivities — featured over 120 competitors drawn from a murky selection process. — Summary — GENEVA, Ohio — In a swift motion …
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Florida attorney general threatens charges after Cunningham is fouled in WNBA game — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) threatened to charge WNBA players with assault after a hard foul against star Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham over the weekend.
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez on Hong positions: ‘Woke 1 was crazy’ — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday quoted a New York City Council member in describing Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong's (D) past positions, saying “Woke 1 was crazy.” — ABC News's “This Week” …
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Ilhan Omar Says ICE Agent Sat Outside Her Town Hall In Car With Mismatched Plates — This “raises serious and uncomfortable questions,” the Minnesota Democrat wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security. — WASHINGTON — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is demanding answers …
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
US judge dismisses criminal case against Indian billionaire Adani — A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, but said the Justice Department's decision to abandon the fraud and bribery case was concerning. — Brooklyn-based U.S. District …
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David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:
Chris Murphy says he'd ‘support a bad deal’ to end Iran war: ‘Trump has lost’ — Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said he would back a “bad deal” to conclude the Iran war, which he believes President Donald Trump “has lost.” — The senator's statement comes as Trump seeks an endgame to the war …
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Why Is Iran Acting Like It Is Holding All the Cards in Hormuz Talks? — Plus, voters' impressions on the economy pose a midterm challenge for the GOP, and Netanyahu breaks with Trump over the peace plan for Gaza — Good morning. On Tuesday morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went …
Kiki Intarasuwan / CBS News:
Contiguous U.S. breaks its record for hottest month ever, NOAA says — Add CBS News on Google — July was “a wild weather month,” setting a record as the warmest month ever for the contiguous United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday.
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Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
Precision Has a Price — FOR GENERATIONS, SENIOR MILITARY officers attending professional military education have been taught a simple but enduring truth: Logistics establishes the art of the possible. No commander can conduct operations without the fuel, ammunition, and other resources needed to sustain the fighting force.

