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11:30 AM ET, October 4, 2021

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Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It  —  The former Facebook employee says her goal is to help prompt change at the social-media giant  —  The former Facebook Inc. employee who gathered documents that formed the foundation …
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CBS News:
Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation  —  Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.”  Scott Pelley reports.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer wants deal on details of spending package ‘within a matter of days’  —  Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is trying to hit the gas after Democrats faced a significant setback last week over President Biden's agenda, failing to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer: Congress needs to raise debt ceiling by end of the week
Discussion: USA Today and Wall Street Journal
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Pelosi shows her power
David Dayen / American Prospect:
USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program  —  The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card.  —  The United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken the most dramatic step in a half-century to re-establish a postal banking system in America.
Discussion: Popular Information
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Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:   USPS testing paycheck cashing, which could transform how millions access money and pay bills
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: House Republican says he's facing federal prosecution  —  The top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee's agriculture panel says he's facing federal prosecution, Axios has learned.  —  Driving the news: In a new fundraising page for his legal expense fund, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry …
Discussion: Raw Story
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Exclusive: Stephanie Grisham says ‘I regret’ enabling culture of dishonesty in Trump White House  —  The former Trump aide spoke exclusively to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Stephanie Grisham, one of former President Donald Trump's …
Discussion: Insider, The Hill, Raw Story and Mediaite
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid, in Retreat  —  New cases in the U.S. have fallen by more than a third in the past month.  —  Covid-19 is once again in retreat.  —  The reasons remain somewhat unclear, and there is no guarantee that the decline in caseloads will continue.  But the turnaround is now large enough …
Discussion: Reason, Boston.com and The Guardian
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Washington Post:
Trump, talked out of announcing a 2024 bid for now, settles on a wink-and-nod unofficial candidacy  —  As turmoil in Afghanistan reached a crescendo in August, Donald Trump began talking again with advisers about whether he should announce his 2024 campaign for president right away.
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
One-time presidential candidate Evan McMullin will mount an independent bid to oust Republican Sen. Mike Lee, Robert Gehrke reports  —  A McMullin candidacy challenges the rigid two-party standard, which leaves too many Utahns unrepresented.  —  Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin speaks …
Andrew Yang:
Breaking Up with the Democratic Party  —  I changed my voting registration from ‘Democrat’ to ‘Independent’ today.  It was a strangely emotional experience.  —  I registered as a Democrat back in 1995 when I was 20 years old to vote for Bill Clinton's re-election.  It was a no-brainer for me.
Andrew Murray / Fox News:
Florida Gov. DeSantis' wife diagnosed with breast cancer  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 4  —  EXCLUSIVE - Casey DeSantis, the wife of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, has been diagnosed with breast cancer.  —  “I am saddened to report that Florida's esteemed First Lady …
Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times:
Jan. 6 rioters exploited little-known Capitol weak spots: A handful of unreinforced windows  —  Four major access points that Jan. 6 rioters used to break into and overtake the U.S. Capitol had something unusual in common: They were among a dozen or so ground-floor windows and glass-paned doors that had not been recently reinforced.
Discussion: Politico
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 panel braces for collision with Trump
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Ex-U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies  —  Former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, a conservative Missouri Republican whose comment that women's bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape” sunk his bid for the U.S. Senate and became a cautionary tale for other GOP candidates, died late Sunday.
Politico:
McConnell reactivates his connection to Biden — with a sharp debt warning  —  Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell's two-man emergency hotline had gone silent — until now.  —  The Senate minority leader on Monday morning prodded the president to talk his party into raising the debt ceiling without the GOP …
Discussion: Bloomberg, CNN and NBC News
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Dems, independents join GOP to oppose taxes in Biden $3.5T plan
Discussion: Washington Times
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Afghan ambassador decries country's “betrayal”  —  Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States, Adela Raz, has lost her country and her faith in the U.S. government — and her life's work of liberating women and girls is in shambles.  She shared her despair with “Axios on HBO” …
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Jennifer Van Laar / RedState:   EXCLUSIVE: Maj Gen Ordered 50+ Evacuees off One of Last Flights out of Kabul to Make Room for Taliban Souvenir
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
New: Whitmer vetoes GOP bills part of ‘calculated misinformation’ about the 2020 election  —  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Sunday vetoed three Republican election bills introduced after former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election as part of a nationwide right-wing effort to restrict voting and change election rules.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
What They Saw in Ozy  —  The story behind the story is about the elite investors who plowed millions into a media dream without much due diligence, persuaded by the charm of Ozy's head, Carlos Watson.  —  There's an irresistible temptation, in this age of scams and hype …
CNN:
Pro-Trump challenger's residency issues catch Murkowski's eye  —  (CNN)Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has not yet said whether she'll run for reelection in 2022 — but she is well aware of potential baggage one of her challengers could be carrying.  —  Murkowski took aim at her would-be GOP challenger …
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Sprawling Use of NDAs Now Threatens to Humiliate Him  —  For decades, Donald Trump used the same legal language in Non-Disclosure Agreements to prevent associates from saying anything bad about him.  That's bad news for Trump.  —  For decades, Donald Trump has treasured Non-Disclosure …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Dan Hannan / Washington Examiner:
Conservatives everywhere should fear a Canada-like future  —  I have a hideous premonition of the future.  I see Canada's woke politics spreading across the rest of the Anglosphere but divorced from that vast country's redeeming qualities of courtesy, generosity, and humor.
Laura Nahmias / New York Magazine:
White Riot In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall — and changed New York history.  —  This story was produced in partnership with The Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization that will address the crisis of mass incarceration and policing.
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
Dems Tuck Multibillion-Dollar Handout to Illegal Immigrants Into Reconciliation  —  Biden's $3.5 trillion spending bill gives migrants same child benefits as Americans  —  President Joe Biden's budget includes a provision that provides billions of dollars in cash to illegal aliens with children.
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
U.S. Signals Little Thaw in Trade Relations With China  —  The Biden administration said it would not immediately remove the Trump administration's tariffs and would require that Beijing uphold its trade commitments.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration offered its strongest signal yet …
Donald Ayer / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Has Gone Off the Rails  —  Mr. Ayer was a U.S. attorney and principal deputy solicitor general in the Reagan administration and deputy attorney general in the George H.W. Bush administration.  —  The Supreme Court has final authority to make difficult judgment calls articulating …
 
 
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Evan Symon / California Globe:
Homeschooling Inquiries Skyrocket After Gov. Newsom Announces Statewide Student Vaccination Mandate
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs and Daily Kos
National Review:
When Will Someone Hold Human-Rights Hearings on Australia?
Discussion: HotAir
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Matthew Dowd Gets Snippy with Brianna Keilar, Dismisses Deleted Tweets as Fox ‘Conspiracy’: ‘I Answered Three Times’
Discussion: Twitchy
New York Times:
Hungary's Leader Fights Criticism in U.S. via Vast Influence Campaign
Discussion: HuffPost
Washington Post:
An open letter to President Biden from the parents of Austin Tice
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
U.S. Election Coups? Really? Let's All Take a Deep Breath
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Examiner:
Biden must reject using the PATRIOT Act to suppress angry parents' opinions
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
U.S. Navy hit by another international bribery scandal
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Miles Himmel / Washington Examiner:
Elites think they're better than you
Jeremy Egner / New York Times:
Damian Lewis Discusses the Future of ‘Billions’
Discussion: Variety
Julie Luchetta / Arizona Republic:
Activists ambush Sen. Kyrsten Sinema at ASU over immigration, Build Back Better Act
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Flynn Secretly Paid $200,000 in Middle East Nuclear Scheme—Report
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Raw Story
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider:
A Connecticut doctor who gave patients blank, signed COVID-19 exemption forms has surrendered her medical license
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

 
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