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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
‘I Was Part of Something Unusually Evil’ In Kansas with Stephanie Grisham, who does not believe she will be redeemed.  —  Stephanie Grisham saw the pickup outside and yelped, “That's Larry!”  She grabbed a small package and raced out her front door, down the steps of the porch …
Discussion: Insider, The Hill and Jezebel
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Cory Shaffer / Plain Dealer:
Ex-Trump staffer Max Miller files defamation lawsuit against Stephanie Grisham over abuse allegations  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Max Miller, the White House staffer under former President Donald Trump who is running for Congress in Northeast Ohio, sued former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham …
Stephanie Grisham / Washington Post:
I told the Trumps my relationship with a White House staffer had turned abusive. They didn't seem to care.
New York Post:
Ed Mullins, bombastic NYPD union chief, resigns amid federal probe  —  Ed Mullins, the controversial head of the NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association, stepped down on Tuesday night amid a federal probe into the alleged misappropriation of union funds.  —  His resignation …
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NBC News:
New York City police union leader resigns after FBI raid on headquarters  —  FBI raids Manhattan office of New York City police union, home of outspoken union leader  —  The FBI raided the Manhattan offices of a New York City police union Tuesday, and hours later, the union's outspoken leader resigned.
Discussion: CBS News, WTOP, NBC New York and The Hill
New York Daily News:
FBI raids NYPD sergeants union Manhattan headquarters
Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Taylor Swift fans are getting caught up in the Virginia gubernatorial race  —  Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin was involved in the controversial sale of Swift's master recordings  —  Weeks before Virginia's gubernatorial election, the campaign for Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:   First look: McAuliffe calls on Taylor
Julia Manchester / The Hill:   Youngkin calls for audit of voting machines in Virginia
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
The Cocooning of Kyrsten Sinema  —  The Arizona senator has undergone a political metamorphosis.  —  In February 2018, I went to Arizona to report on what progressive Democrats there thought about Kyrsten Sinema, the centrist whose Senate vote is key in the fight over President Biden's agenda and political prospects.
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United States Department of State:
Transparency in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stockpile  —  The United States is releasing newly declassified information on the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile to update the information previously released in September 2017.  Increasing the transparency of states' nuclear stockpiles is important …
Discussion: UPI
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
State Department discloses number of nukes in US stockpile
Discussion: The Hill
Kathryn Rubino / Above the Law:
Law School Student Famous For Saying ‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’ Now Has Prestigious Federal Clerkship  —  Hate doesn't seem to be slowing down her career prospects.  —  I'd say Crystal Clanton just keeps failing upwards, but given that outrage is currency in right-wing circles …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
The whistleblower came to advocate for humans over algorithms  —  Facebook needs to be less “twitchy.”  This digital monster that has taught the culture how to overreact and fly off the handle needs to be tamed.  Regulate it.  Open it up.  Slow it down and make it more human.
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Jack Posobiec / Human Events:
Human Events Exclusive: Fmr. Facebook Official Frances Haugen Plans to Testify to EU, Called Her Friend Conspiracy Theorist After Becoming a Men's Rights Advocate/Red Pill Supporter
Discussion: Page Array and Louder With Crowder
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Donald Trump Falls Off The Forbes 400 For First Time In 25 Years  —  Donald Trump is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, leaving him $400 million short of the cutoff to make this year's Forbes 400 list of America's richest people.  The real estate mogul is just as wealthy as he was a year ago …
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump is no longer one of Forbes' 400 richest people in America
Discussion: Forbes, Twitchy and POLITICUSUSA
Callie Patteson / New York Post:
Yellen defends IRS rule requiring banks to report all transactions over $600  —  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is defending a Biden administration proposal that would require banks to report data to the Internal Revenue Service on transactions over $600, calling the collection of information …
Discussion: Power Line and MyStateline.com
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As the U.S. Hurtles Toward a Debt Crisis, What Does McConnell Want?  —  Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has a long record of tying debt ceiling increases to policy demands.  But with a catastrophic default two weeks away, he has yet to make any.
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Newsweek:
The Sackler Family Wants Immunity on Opioid Crisis and Here's Who's Helping Them  —  As a coalition of lawmakers tries to hold the billionaire Sackler family accountable for its role in the opioid crisis, Washington's most powerful business lobby group has now jumped into the intensifying battle …
Jon Ralston / The Nevada Independent:
The clear and present danger  —  Last week, a veteran, hard-working journalist was attacked by a candidate for high office in Nevada.  —  Click on the link above if you will but I am not going to mention either name here, lest it detract from the message I want to impart or be used as a bludgeon by partisans on either side.
Jay R. Jordan / Houston Chronicle:
Texans asked to turn off lights after bird ‘mass mortality’ event  —  National Audubon Society calls for ‘Lights Out’ after ‘mass mortality’ event of migratory birds  —  Following the deaths of migratory of birds caused by bright city lights on the East Coast, Texas advocates call for late-night dimming in Lone Star State.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats Lost the Most in Midwestern ‘Factory Towns,’ Report Says  —  The party's struggles in communities that saw declines in manufacturing and union jobs, and health care, could more than offset its gains in metropolitan areas.  —  WASHINGTON — The share of the Democratic presidential vote …
Emily Singer / The American Independent:
Hawley defends violent anti-mask protesters as FBI launches probe  —  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said that responding to threats and violence against school board officials is an effort to ‘chill’ free speech.  —  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is up in arms after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
An Ohio COVID patient treated with ivermectin after wife sued hospital has died  —  An Ohio man diagnosed with COVID-19 whose wife sued to force a hospital to give him the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin has died, his attorney said.  —  Jeffrey Smith, 51, died on Sept. 25, his attorney …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, KXAN-TV and Balloon Juice
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Victor Davis Hanson: Why I Left National Review  —  Victor Davis Hanson, author of “The Dying Citizen,” speaks with FNC's Tucker Carlson about why he no longer writes for the National Review.  —  VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I didn't know much about Donald Trump, I wasn't a supporter of his in the primaries, but I knew he was going to win.
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
David Harsanyi / New York Post:
How left-wing protesters are justified, but angry moms are ‘domestic terrorists’  —  When is a protester “angry and justified” and when are they a “domestic terrorist”?  It all depends on how far left they are.  —  This week, activists stalked Sen. Krysten Simena into a women's restroom …
New York Times:
New Top Federal Prosecutors in Manhattan and Brooklyn Are Confirmed  —  One of the two, Damian Williams, will be the first Black person to lead the powerful U.S. attorney's office for New York's Southern District.  —  The U.S. Senate confirmed Damian Williams late Tuesday as the new U.S. attorney …
Jonathan Tamari / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Republican Senate candidate Sean Parnell is seeking a gag order against his wife and her attorney as their dispute spills into the campaign  —  Republican Senate candidate Sean Parnell has asked a judge to seal records in his ongoing custody case and to ban his wife and her attorney …
Discussion: Raw Story
USA Today:
US deaths from virus in 2021 surpass 2020 total; Johnson & Johnson seeks FDA clearance for booster shots: COVID updates  —  Jorge L. Ortiz Ryan W. Miller Grace HauckUSA TODAY  —  In the history of the pandemic in the U.S., 2020 will be remembered as the most disruptive year …
Discussion: The Hill, UPI and New York Post
Josie Duffy Rice / Balls and Strikes:
The Supreme Court Can't Deliver Justice for William Wooden  —  The Court's preoccupation with the precise definition of “occasion” obscures a multitude of deeper failures of the criminal legal system.  —  It was around 1:00 AM on a November night when William Wooden heard someone knocking on his door.
Reuters:
Biden says he and China's Xi agree to abide by Taiwan agreement  —  U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Taiwan and they agreed to abide by the Taiwan agreement, as tensions have ratcheted up between Taipei and Beijing.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Al Jazeera
US Food and Drug Administration:
Potential for False Positive Results with Certain Lots of Ellume COVID-19 Home Tests Due to a Manufacturing Issue: FDA Safety Communication  —  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting test users, caregivers, health care personnel, and the public of the potential …
Discussion: KRON4
WAGA-TV:
Ahmaud Arbery murder suspect requests court ban photo of Confederate flag license plate  —  Travis McMichael (Glynn County Detention Center)  —  SAVANNAH, Ga.. - One of the men accused of chasing and murdering Ahmaud Arbery is fighting to ban certain photo evidence from his upcoming trial.
Discussion: Raw Story
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Why Trump wants to tweet  —  Donald Trump's post-office online engagement is hitting new lows, according to exclusive data from SocialFlow provided to Axios.  It helps explain why the former president recently asked a federal judge to have Twitter restore his signature account.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jay Caspian Kang / New York Times:
The Myth of Asian American Identity  —  We're the fastest-growing demographic group in the U.S. But when it comes to the nation's racial and ethnic divisions, where do we fit in?  —  During the first days of the Trump administration, when my attention was split between the endless scroll …
 
 
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Biden's new health challenge: Find another Francis Collins
Discussion: Bloomberg Law
Shannon Vavra / The Daily Beast:
Border Officials Seize Ivermectin Pills and Fake Vaccine Cards
Discussion: Raw Story
Grant Stern / The Dworkin Report:
Reality Winner's sister talks about growing up with an American patriot
Antonio Planas / NBC News:
Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans disproportionally killed by Covid-19 last year, study says
Discussion: CNN
Juana Summers / NPR:
Senate Democrats are making a fresh push to strengthen the Voting Rights Act
Michael McCarthy / Front Office Sports:
ESPN Anchor Sage Steele Removed From Air
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
‘Everyone here hated the Americans’: Rural Afghans live with the Taliban and a painful U.S. legacy
Discussion: New York Times
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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