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John Shiffman / Reuters:
How AT&T helped build far-right One America News  —  As it lauded former President Donald Trump and spread his unfounded claims of election fraud, One America News Network saw its viewership jump.  Reuters has uncovered how America's telecom giant nurtured the news channel now at the center …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Weigh Filibuster Change to Solve Debt Ceiling Fight  —  Top Democrats say the Republican refusal to allow a vote to avert a federal default is the most powerful argument yet for weakening the Senate's signature procedural weapon.  —  WASHINGTON — With a federal default projected …
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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 this time, he has made none.  —  WASHINGTON — In March 2006, as the government veered dangerously close …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Biden says changing filibuster rules to raise debt ceiling is a ‘real possibility’
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Biden Calls Curbing Filibuster to Raise Debt Limit ‘a Real Possibility’
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Top Trump aides set to defy subpoenas in Capitol attack investigation  —  Source says Meadows, Bannon and others will move to undercut House select committee inquiry - under instructions from Trump  —  Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top aides subpoenaed …
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:
House committee investigating January 6 can't find Trump aide to serve subpoena  —  Washington (CNN)More than a week after subpoenaing former Donald Trump aide Dan Scavino to cooperate with its investigation into the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, the House select committee investigating …
Mark Zuckerberg:
I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company.  —  Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.  —  First, the SEV that took down all our services yesterday was the worst outage we've had in years.
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
The whistleblower came to advocate for humans over algorithms
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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What's Chuck's Plan B?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BAD NEWS FOR BIDEN — Democrats who were hoping that the monthly $300-per-child checks the federal government started sending to families over the summer would be a winner in the midterms won't like the findings of our latest poll with Morning Consult.
Discussion: HotAir and Washington Post
HuffPost:
Senate Republicans Shrug Off Candidates With Domestic Violence Allegations  —  Three GOP Senate candidates, including two with Trump's backing, have been accused of violence against women.  Republicans don't seem to mind.  —  Republicans could end up backing three candidates accused …
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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
Discussion: Raw Story
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Biden and Xi agree to abide by Taiwan agreement
Discussion: HotAir
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Anybody Fighting Joe Biden Is Helping Trump's Next Coup All Republican politics is now functionally authoritarian.  —  In the aftermath of Donald Trump's bid to secure an unelected second term, his former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, in an extensive interview with Tim Alberta, registered her disgust …
The White House:
Life After Default … The credit of the United States is built on centuries of stability and responsibility.  This country has never intentionally defaulted on its obligations because of the debt limit.  But the U.S. Treasury Department estimates that it will have very limited resources …
Discussion: The Hill
Associated Press:
In Idaho, a power play while the governor's away  —  BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Gov. Brad Little said he will rescind an executive order involving Covid-19 vaccines by Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, and the commanding general of the Idaho National Guard also on Tuesday told McGeachin she can't activate troops to send to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Legal Architects of Trump's Failed Coup May Finally Face Real Consequences  —  The intellectual ringleaders of Donald Trump's failed coup are finally facing the threat of serious consequences for their integral roles in the legal plot to overturn the 2020 election.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Andrew Egger / The Dispatch:
Federal Probe Scrutinizes Financial Dealings of the American Conservative Union  —  Sources say that investigators are looking into possible criminal campaign-finance misdeeds by the political organization headed by Matt Schlapp.  —  The American Conservative Union, the political organization …
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Kamala Harris Might Have to Stop the Steal  —  For a few hours inside the ransacked Capitol on January 6, then-Vice President Mike Pence helped to preserve the democratic order by insisting that he was powerless to change the outcome of the election.  On January 6, 2025 …
Wall Street Journal:
Climate Change Is Melting Russia's Permafrost—and Challenging Its Oil Economy  —  Across Russia, the thawing of earth thought to be forever frozen cracks buildings, infrastructure; 'It's all on the line.'  —  | Photographs and video by Arthur Bondar for The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal:
Science Closes In on Covid's Origins  —  Four studies—including two from WHO—provide powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory.  —  Where did Covid-19 come from?  The answer can be found in the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself.  To get to the truth, we need only unleash the power of science.
Discussion: Power Line
Washington Post:
How Trump's health department fell in love with charter jets  —  Documents offer new insight into the strategy of shuttling former HHS secretary Tom Price around America  —  In April 2017, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services grappled with an urgent request …
Natalie Prieb / The Hill:
Jason Aldean says Californians ‘should be outraged’ over school vaccine mandate  —  Country singer Jason Aldean wrote in an Instagram post Sunday that Californians should be “outraged” by Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) vaccine mandate for schools.  —  “So let me get this straight!
Discussion: Page Array
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.
Politico:
Top Covid experts privately urge Biden admin to scale back booster campaign  —  A vocal contingent of prominent doctors and scientists is pressing the Biden administration to scrap its plans to provide booster shots to all previously vaccinated adults, according to five people familiar with the matter.
Discussion: HotAir and The Atlantic
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Search for a Covid Test  —  Rapid tests will soon be more available in the U.S.  —  I tried to buy a rapid at-home Covid test yesterday, and the search did not go well.  —  My local CVS did not have any.  On CVS's website, I found a store several miles away that claimed to have the tests in stock …
The Daily Beast:
‘Trumpcoin’ Scam From Fake Celebrity Accounts Is Fooling QAnon  —  The “Caligula”-esque coins are being peddled by faux celebrity accounts purporting to be Elon Musk, Mel Gibson, Kirstie Alley, and even Denzel Washington.  —  QAnon world is being flooded with a currency scam in the form …
Discussion: Raw Story
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
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
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
How Other Nations Pay for Child Care.  The U.S. Is an Outlier.  —  Rich countries contribute an average of $14,000 per year for a toddler's care, compared with $500 in the U.S. The Democrats' spending bill tries to shrink the gap.  —  Typical 2-year-olds in Denmark attend child care during the day …
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: Raw Story and Political Wire
CBS News:
Antisemitic graffiti found on Auschwitz Nazi death camp barracks  —  Warsaw — Antisemitic graffiti has been found spray-painted on nine wooden barracks at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, the museum said on Tuesday.  The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum called the inscriptions …
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 …
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
State Department discloses number of nukes in US stockpile  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department on Tuesday disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile.  It said this will aid global efforts to control the spread of such weapons.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court considers whether information widely known can be ‘state secret’  —  The Supreme Court is set to consider Wednesday whether something that most everyone knows can still be a “state secret” the government cannot be compelled to reveal.  —  The case involves a request …
Discussion: Vox, ABC News, NBC News, NPR and WTOP
 
 
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Rachel Janfaza / CNN:
Arnold Schwarzenegger says January 6 insurrection is what happens ‘when people are being lied to about the elections’
Discussion: Raw Story
Anna Gustafson / Michigan Advance:
Conservative activist who ‘invented’ clash over ‘critical race theory’ leads Senate hearing
New York Times:
Why Democrats See 3 Governor's Races as a Sea Wall for Fair Elections
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Organization Honcho Allen Weisselberg Has One Defense: Gross Incompetence
Discussion: Raw Story
Akil Vicks / Jacobin:
The Use of Ivermectin to Treat COVID Has Roots in Our Broken Health Care System
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Texas Board Recommends Posthumous Pardon for George Floyd
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
 Earlier Items: 
Media Matters for America:
Fox has undermined vaccines nearly every day in the last six months
Discussion: HuffPost and Mediaite
Newsweek:
The Sackler Family Wants Immunity on Opioid Crisis and Here's Who's Helping Them
New York Post:
Ed Mullins, bombastic NYPD union chief, resigns amid federal probe
Jon Ralston / The Nevada Independent:
The clear and present danger
Grant Stern / The Dworkin Report:
Reality Winner's sister talks about growing up with an American patriot
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats Lost the Most in Midwestern ‘Factory Towns,’ Report Says
 

 
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

CBS News:
Greg Gumbel, a CBS Sports anchor and commentator who covered the NFL and college basketball for more than 20 years, died at 78 of cancer

Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg:
Shares of South Korean entertainment companies related to Squid Game drop 20%+ following a less-than-perfect debut for the new season of the series on Netflix

 
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