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Rep. Schiff reveals impeachment regrets, tensions on Capitol Hill after insurrection NPR.org October 10, 2021 Nine months after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., says the Capitol is a “different place.” “I think the relationships that we had with our [GOP] colleagues before that day, which were already fraying, reached a real breaking point,” Schiff, who made the case for President Donald Trump’s impeachment at the first trial in 2020, told NPR’s Michel Martin. He said that even relationships with Republican colleagues that had previously been amicable are now compromised, including…

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Is my immunity waning? Doctors advise Pfizer vaccine recipients not to worry By Maggie Fox CNN October 10, 2021 (CNN)There’s little doubt now — study after study, in real life and in lab dishes, in the US and elsewhere — that people’s immunity starts to wane just months after they finish the two-dose series of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. While getting two doses of vaccine creates a strong immune response that reduces the risk of severe disease by more than 90%, the protection against milder and asymptomatic infections drops off gradually. That’s why Pfizer has asked for and received…

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Kamala Harris skips US-Mexico border-security meeting, goes to New Jersey instead By Brie Stimson Fox News October 9, 2021 Several top members of the Biden administration were in Mexico City on Friday for a meeting with Mexican officials regarding security along the U.S.-Mexico border. But Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t among them. Harris, whom President Biden appointed in March to manage the U.S. response to the migrant crisis along the border, went to New Jersey instead. Attending Friday’s high-level talks in Mexico’s capital were Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Attorney General…

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California helped create Tesla, Newsom says after Musk reveals HQ move Los Angeles Times October 9, 2021 “Our regulatory environment helped create that company and grow that company,” Newsom said. “I have reverence and deep respect for that individual. But I also have deep reverence and respect for this state and what we’ve done.” Newsom was asked whether a tweet sent last year by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez in which she invoked Musk’s name with an expletive was appropriate or contributed to his decision to move to Texas. Musk tweeted “exactly” on Friday when the comments were pointed out…

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By Analysis by Harry Enten CNN October 8, 2021 (CNN)President Joe Biden won the 2020 election in large part because he was able to win the center. He emerged with a 13-point win with independent voters, a group that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lost by 4 points in 2016. (House Democratic candidates, for their part, took independents by 9 points in 2020.) That’s why it should be alarming to Biden that the recent downturn in his approval rating has come disproportionately from independents, as the Washington Post’s Henry Olsen first pointed out. This slide could have major electoral…

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Sanders declined to sign statement condemning protests against Sinema: report TheHill October 7, 2021 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) declined to sign a proposed statement condemning recent protests against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) because it did not address her resistance to prescription drug reform and the Democrats’ budget reconciliation package, Axios reported. Footage circulated over the weekend of activists following Sinema into a bathroom at Arizona State University, where she teaches, and calling on her to support the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. Sinema blasted the move in a statement on Monday saying it “was not legitimate protest.” Jeff Giertz,…

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CNN’s Jake Tapper calls President Biden’s new poll numbers ‘brutal’ By Lindsay Kornick Fox News October 7, 2021 CNN anchor Jake Tapper called new poll numbers for President Biden “brutal” on Wednesday. Quinnipiac University released its results from its latest survey which show Biden’s approval numbers underwater. The president’s approval rating is at 38%, down from 42% last month. The survey, which was conducted Oct. 1-4, also showed disapproval of the president rising from 50% up to 53%. For his first six months in the White House, the president’s approval rating stayed around the low to mid 50s.…

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