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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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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.
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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
Schumer: Congress needs to raise debt ceiling by end of the week
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Pelosi shows her power
Pelosi shows her power
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Fauci Tells Vaccinated Americans Not to Plan for Christmas Yet
Fauci Tells Vaccinated Americans Not to Plan for Christmas Yet
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 panel braces for collision with Trump
Jan. 6 panel braces for collision with Trump
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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.
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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 …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Dems, independents join GOP to oppose taxes in Biden $3.5T plan
Dems, independents join GOP to oppose taxes in Biden $3.5T plan
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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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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