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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Americans Give President Biden Lowest Marks Across The Board, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Majority Say The Biden Administration Is Not Competent  — mail_outline  —  President Joe Biden receives a negative 38 - 53 percent job approval rating, the lowest score he's received …
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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Biden's Approval Rating Isn't Bouncing Back
Discussion: HotAir
Alayna Treene / Axios:
McConnell proposes debt limit deal  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is offering Democrats a deal that could help the country avoid defaulting on its debt.  —  Driving the news: The proposal includes two options, which McConnell laid out in a statement on Wednesday …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
As Debt Ceiling Vote Looms, Democrats Reconsider Filibuster  —  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 …
Politico:
Dems take GOP's short-term debt fix offer, kicking deadline to December
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 …
Amina Dunn / Pew Research Center:
Two-thirds of Republicans want Trump to retain major political role; 44% want him to run again in 2024  —  Two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they would like to see former President Donald Trump continue to be a major political figure for many years to come …
Discussion: CNN and USA Today
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Former Supreme Court Justice Gableman, head of Wisconsin election review, says he does not understand how elections work  —  Patrick Marley Natalie EilbertMilwaukee Journal Sentinel  —  GREEN BAY - The attorney leading a partisan review of Wisconsin's 2020 election acknowledged this week …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Trump threat may soon get worse. Here's the under-the-radar reason for it.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Politico
New York Times:
Why Democrats See 3 Governor's Races as a Sea Wall for Fair Elections
Discussion: Detroit Free Press
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 …
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Tom LoBianco / Yahoo News:
Trump struggles to find a new social media platform amid talk of third White House run
Discussion: Raw Story
Eliza Relman / Insider:
Stephanie Grisham says when Trump ‘needed someone to tell him how awesome he was’ he'd call Matt Gaetz, who would ‘sing for his supper’
Discussion: Raw Story
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Hospital system says it will deny transplants to the unvaccinated in ‘almost all situations’  —  A Colorado-based health system says it is denying organ transplants to patients not vaccinated against the coronavirus in “almost all situations,” citing studies that show these patients are much more likely to die if they get covid-19.
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Cold case team says Zodiac Killer ID'd, linking him to another murder  —  The Zodiac Killer terrorized the San Francisco area in the late 1960s and has never been caught  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 5  —  A team of specialists who investigate cold cases says it has identified …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Chuck Grassley Congratulates Korean American Judicial Nominee: ‘Your People’ Have A Good Work Ethic  —  The GOP senator told Lucy Koh that her background reminds him of his daughter-in-law telling him Koreans “can make a lot out of nothing.”  —  Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Wednesday told Lucy Koh …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
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Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Sen. Grassley congratulates Korean American judge on her work ethic. Some Asian Americans say it echoes divisive stereotypes.
Discussion: The Hill
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
South Dakota Is a Moral Sewer and Should Be Abolished  —  South Dakota is in the news because a consortium of journalists exposed shady doings there that take advantage of the state's status as a notorious tax haven, and because the state's governor, Kristi Noem, is caught …
Jessica Anderson / Baltimore Sun:
Maryland man allegedly fatally shot his pharmacist brother for ‘killing people’ with the COVID vaccine, court records show  —  A Cumberland man allegedly killed his brother and sister-in-law in their Ellicott City home last week because his brother, a pharmacist, administered COVID-19 vaccines …
Discussion: Raw Story, WTOP and CBS Baltimore
Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times:
Tampa Oath Keeper stays jailed after judge finds he threatened cops  —  Jeremy Brown, a one-time congressional candidate, attended the Jan.6 Capitol riot.  Agents say they found unregistered guns, and hand grenades, in his home.  —  Published Earlier today
Discussion: Raw Story
Rodrigo Viga Gaier / Reuters:
Brazil police find 3 mln euro Nazi haul at home of suspected pedophile  —  Police in Rio de Janeiro said on Wednesday they had found a haul of Nazi memorabilia and weapons worth an estimated 3 million euros at the home of a Brazilian man suspected of raping a minor.
Discussion: Forbes and Political Wire
Craig Jenkins / Vulture:
Dave Chappelle's Endless Feedback Loop  —  The first time I saw Dave Chappelle on television, I thought, This guy is funny, but he's getting canceled.  I'd seen Half Baked, Blue Streak, and 200 Cigarettes, and I came to Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show expecting more caustic stoner wit.
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Manchin's ‘red line’ on abortion splits Democrats  —  Democrats are clashing over whether to include in their sweeping spending plan a decades-old amendment that blocks Medicaid and other federal health programs from being used to cover abortions.  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) …
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Charles Cooke / HotAir:
No reconciliation bill could be “too small”
Discussion: Washington Post
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
GOP governors unveil 10-point plan to end border crisis, urging Biden to act  —  Texas Gov. Abbott says Biden ‘has caused a humanitarian crisis and chaos on our border’  —  Report: 60,000 Haitian migrants coming to southern border  —  Republican governors on Wednesday unveiled a 10-point plan …
Discussion: National Review and BorderReport
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Associated Press:
In Idaho, a power play while the governor's away
Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Caught on Video: Rashida Tlaib Admits She Only Wears Mask for Cameras  —  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) thinks masks only need to be worn if someone is there to catch you without one, according to remarks caught on video during a Detroit community event.  —  The “Squad” member told attendees …
Aya Elamroussi / CNN:
Texas man sentenced to 15 months in prison for posting Covid-19 hoax on social media  —  (CNN)A Texas man was sentenced to more than a year in federal prison for spreading a hoax related to Covid-19 on social media, prosecutors said.  —  Evidence showed Christopher Charles Perez, 40 …
Adam Schiff / Vanity Fair:
Screaming Matches, Oxygen Masks, and Wild Stampedes: A Congressman Describes January 6 From the House Floor  —  “This is because of you!” a Democrat yelled at a Republican as protesters battered at the doors and Capitol police officers urged lawmakers to “move!”
Discussion: CNN, Insider and Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Troubled student loan forgiveness program gets an overhaul  —  The Biden administration is moving to relax the rules for a student loan forgiveness program that has been criticized for its notoriously complex requirements — a change that could offer debt relief to thousands of teachers …
Deborah Haynes / Sky News:
NATO expels eight Russian ‘undeclared intelligence officers’ in response to suspected killings and espionage  —  The move, which is understood to have been agreed on Tuesday, comes after revelations emerged about suspected Moscow involvement in a deadly explosion at an ammunition depot in the Czech Republic in 2014.
Politico:
Former Trump DOJ No. 2 sits for interview with Jan. 6 committee  —  Richard Donoghue — formerly the Justice Department's second-in-command — appeared for a closed-door interview on Friday with the select panel investigating Jan. 6, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Pro-Trump social media influencer and speaker at Jan. 5 rally pleads guilty to disorderly conduct in Capitol riot  —  A social media influencer who spoke at a pro-Donald Trump rally in Washington on Jan. 5 pleaded guilty Wednesday to disorderly conduct during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Targets False Claims by For-Profit Colleges
Discussion: Insider
Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Revealed: Wuhan and US scientists planned to create new coronaviruses
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Gorsuch, Breyer grill US lawyer on whether Guantanamo detainee can testify about ‘black site’ interrogation
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
CNN spent nearly 80% of September under 1 million viewers
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Cotton joins growing list of lawmakers demanding answers from DOJ about investigations into parents
Discussion: Townhall
Santi Ruiz / Washington Free Beacon:
Klobuchar Staffer Announces Apple Gig Hours After Senator Slams Big Tech Revolving Door
Jessica Donati / Wall Street Journal:
A Secret CIA Gate at Kabul Airport Became an Escape Path for Afghans
Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
Former FBI Agents Blame ‘Misogynist’ Culture For Botched Larry Nassar Investigation
Discussion: Raw Story and NBC News
 Earlier Items: 
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Mike Lee may finally pay for his Trump sycophancy
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
How Tight Is Trump's Grip on the GOP? Take a Look at the Ohio Senate Primary
Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
Both of These Politicians Opposed Iron Dome Funding. Only One Was Called Antisemitic
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.
Politico:
Top Covid experts privately urge Biden admin to scale back booster campaign
 

 
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OpenAI:
OpenAI says its board of directors is evaluating its corporate structure, including a plan to turn its for-profit arm into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation

Zachary Small / New York Times:
Video game executives say making cinematic games is getting so expensive and time-consuming that investing in graphics is providing diminished financial returns

Bloomberg:
Montenegro says Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will be extradited to the US, potentially ending a standoff over competing demands by the US and South Korea
 
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