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MSNBC panel laughs at Rick Scott's panicky 'I'm not the one doing it' excuse about 'lunatic' GOP candidates

The panel on MSNBC's "The Sunday Show" took great joy at watching Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) scrambling on Sunday morning to avoid responsibility for a slate of Republican U.S. Senate candidates who were generously described as "troublesome."

In the clip from CBS' "Face The Nation," host Margaret Brennan asked the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee about candidates like Georgia's Herschel Walker and Arizona's Blake Masters and their controversial comments.

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'Just not true!' Maria Bartiromo unspools after Alan Dershowitz says Biden doing 'great things'

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo lost her cool after attorney Alan Dershowitz praised the "great things" accomplished by President Joe Biden.

"He's done great things in Ukraine," Dershowitz told Bartiromo in a Sunday interview. "I think he has done good things on domestic policy, gotten some very good things passed."

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Child separation mastermind Stephen Miller says Biden deserves 'eternal shame of history'

The Trump adviser who pushed a plan to separate migrant children from their families now says that President Joe Biden deserves the "eternal shame of history" over his border policies.

During an interview on Fox News, former Trump adviser Stephen Miller blasted Biden for dismantling Trump-era immigration policies.

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Fox News shamed for trying to spin 'blockbuster' jobs report

Fox News editors tried to spin Friday’s surprisingly strong jobs report into an attack on President Joe Biden and Democrats — and it didn't go well.

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the July jobs numbers, which showed that the U.S. economy added more than 500,000 new jobs.

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DC insider: Deleted Jan. 6 texts are ‘very clearly a conspiracy’

While President Barack Obama gave the executive order for the operation that resulted in Osama bin Laden’s death in Pakistan on May 11, 2011, it was under President Joe Biden’s watch that another top al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 31, 2022. Afghanistan is now under the control of the far-right Taliban, but al-Zawahiri’s death sends out a message that even in a Taliban-controlled country, a leader al-Qaeda terrorist can’t hide from U.S. forces.

Leon Panetta, who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and later, secretary of defense under Obama, discussed al-Zawahiri’s death during an August 3 appearance on MSNBC — whose Andrea Mitchell noted now how “astonishing” it was that “as far as we know, they were no civilian deaths” even though the operation was carried out in the middle of Downtown Kabul. And Mitchell also brought up the January 6 committee’s investigation and the disappearance of Secret Service texts.

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U.S. Senate Democrats fend off amendments to $430 billion climate and drug bill

By Richard Cowan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Sunday repelled attempts to amend a $430 billion measure sought by President Joe Biden, as Democrats forged ahead with efforts to pass a bill aimed at controlling climate change and cutting prescription drug costs for the elderly.

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Pacific Islands solidarity is a Biden priority, U.S. diplomat tells Solomons

SYDNEY (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden sees strong ties with Pacific Island countries as a priority, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said in the Solomon Islands on Sunday, underscoring the stakes of the visit as tensions have been mounting in the region.

At a World War Two memorial event in the Solomons' capital, Honiara, Sherman rebuked governments that she said sought to dismantle the rules-based international order. She did not specify which governments she was criticizing, but tensions in the region have been mounting between U.S. allies and China.

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Senate Dems' climate, health and energy bill clears first hurdle to passage with VP's vote

The U.S. Senate voted along party lines Saturday night to advance to debate on Democrats’ sweeping energy, health and taxes bill, clearing a major hurdle to passage.

The 51-50 vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie, cleared the chamber to debate and vote on amendments to the measure and indicated that it had enough support from Democrats to overcome unified Republican opposition.

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Texas activists show Trump loyalty at CPAC — and support for 2024 presidential run: report

In the corner of the brightly lit, heavily bannered conference hall for this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, an empty jail cell sets the scene of a Make America Great Again performance art piece. A sign fixed to the exterior of the cell warns “#younext.” The would-be prisoner is an actor playing the part of a Jan. 6 insurrectionist.

The diorama painted a sympathetic portrait of the rioters arrested for their roles attacking the nation’s Capitol in protest of an election that saw the defeat of former President Donald Trump.

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Pink Floyd's Roger Waters snaps at CNN host while defending Russian invasion of Ukraine

Early Saturday morning, CNN host Michael Smerconish shared a clip from an extensive interview with Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters that grew heated when the interviewer brought up the Russian invasion of Ukraine which brought a virulent rebuke from the rock star.

Smerconish introduced the segment by noting that Waters is known for his controversial political views and twice during the interview the Pink Floyd frontman snapped at the CNN host.

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'We are at war': CPAC speakers filling their speeches with 'veiled calls for violence' while downplaying Jan. 6

According to a report from Rolling Stone, the speeches thus far at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas have been larded with "dark" threats of coming violence as the speakers brushed aside any discussion about the Jan 6 Capitol riot.

With Donald Trump --who instigated the Capitol insurrection -- taking the stage on Saturday, Tim Dickinson wrote that in many cases the speeches, "...menaced America with what seemed to be thinly veiled calls for violence."

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After Kansas win, abortion rights advocates call ballot measures the 'next frontier'

Following an "enormous" win in Kansas this week, reproductive freedom advocates see ballot measures as a tool to protect—and potentially even expand—abortion rights under attack by anti-choice policymakers.

"We know that Kansas will not be our last fight, or our last victory."

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What's in Biden's big climate and health bill?

Hundreds of billions of dollars for clean energy projects, cheaper prescription drugs and new corporate taxes are a few of the key items in US President Joe Biden's massive investment plan, which the Senate will begin debating on Saturday.

Here's a closer look at the signature elements of the plan, which could offer the Democratic leader a big political win heading into November's crucial midterm elections.

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