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Washington Post:
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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The Hill, Rolling Stone, NOTUS, MS NOW, JURIST and The Independent
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.
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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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Sudiksha Kochi / The Hill:
Cook Political Report shifts Max Miller seat to toss-up — The nonpartisan Cook Political Report shifted Rep. Max Miller's (R-Ohio) seat from “Likely Republican” to “Toss Up” on Monday, underscoring the growing political fallout from allegations of domestic violence against the incumbent.
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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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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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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 …
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
Oil in U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve falls below 300 million barrels, lowest since 1983
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Washington Post:
Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat — The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel. — Summary
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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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MS NOW, Axios, TMZ.com, Garfield County Sheriff …, The Independent, Colorado Politics, LGBTQ Nation, Newsweek and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Trump Wants to Move On From the Middle East. It's Not Letting Him. — President Trump is eager to declare success in Iran and Gaza, but he is struggling to impose his will in either conflict. — President Trump may want to let go of the Middle East. But it won't let go of him.
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Reason, Semafor, Ace of Spades HQ, Washington Examiner and NewsMax.com
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David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner:
Chris Murphy says he'd ‘support a bad deal’ to end Iran war: ‘Trump has lost’
Chris Murphy says he'd ‘support a bad deal’ to end Iran war: ‘Trump has lost’
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PBS NewsHour, Middle East Monitor, HuffPost, Breitbart and Washington Times
Sarah N. Lynch / CBS News:
Judge grants DOJ's request to dismiss charges against billionaire Adani, but sharply criticizes DOJ officials — Add CBS News on Google — A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and several of his co-defendants …
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Luc Cohen / Reuters:
US judge dismisses criminal case against Indian billionaire Adani
US judge dismisses criminal case against Indian billionaire Adani
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NewsMax.com
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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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.
Media Matters for America:
Megyn Kelly rages at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “This bitch thinks she's going to be president” — How Fox News is trying to cover up the Rep. Max Miller alleged domestic abuse scandal — Newsmax's Michael Savage: “ICE is not going after the worst of the worst. ... They're going after innocent people.”
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Megyn Kelly and National Review
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
How Fox News is trying to cover up the Rep. Max Miller alleged domestic abuse scandal
How Fox News is trying to cover up the Rep. Max Miller alleged domestic abuse scandal
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NOTUS, Staff Stories, UPI and CNBC
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
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
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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LGBTQ Nation
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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CNBC, Forbes and The Independent
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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The Daily Beast, New York Magazine and New Republic
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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The Hill, Staff Stories, Crooked Media and CNN
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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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 …
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The Guardian
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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Washington Examiner
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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Gothamist, TheGrio and Mother Jones
Claire Carter / Washington Examiner:
Indiana recount commission finds Trump-backed challenger victorious — The Indiana Recount Commission on Monday moved to overturn the results of the May Republican primary election by throwing out three votes, handing the victory to a challenger backed by President Donald Trump in that state's west-central Senate district.
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The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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.
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Stokes Islamophobia by Calling Democratic Candidates ‘Jihadists’ — Along with his comments about Muslim candidates, Mr. Trump spoke disparagingly of Somalis in the United States, saying “they're not smart.” — President Trump on Monday described Democratic candidates in the midterm elections as …
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New York Post:
Mamdani forced to pause pied-à-terre tax roll-out — and pull down ‘shame the rich’ list in win for NYC homeowners — The reign of pied-à-terror is on pause. — Big Apple homeowners fighting the controversial pied-à-terre tax notched an early victory Monday …
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