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Washington Post:
Navy nuclear engineer and his wife charged with trying to share submarine secrets with a foreign country — A Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with repeatedly trying to pass secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines to a foreign country, in an alleged espionage plot discovered by the FBI, according to court documents.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Maryland Nuclear Engineer and Spouse Arrested on Espionage-Related Charges — Jonathan and Diana Toebbe, both of Annapolis, Maryland, were arrested in Jefferson County, West Virginia, by the FBI and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) on Saturday, Oct. 9.
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump holds fast to his election lies as the GOP establishment hugs him tighter — DES MOINES, Iowa — Nine months ago, Republicans were questioning Donald Trump's place as the lead fixture of their party. Saturday night provided the clearest evidence yet that they want him right there.
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
GOP hands Trump the party — DRIVING THE DAY — “Nine months ago, Republicans were questioning DONALD TRUMP's place as the lead fixture of their party. Saturday night provided the clearest evidence yet that they want him right there.” — This morning's must-read piece comes from Meridith McGraw …
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RedState
Des Moines Register:
Donald Trump tells thousands at a rally in Iowa, 'We're going to take America back'
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Trump rallies in Iowa as he eyes 2022 and 2024
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HotAir, Washington Times, Iowa Capital Dispatch, Rolling Stone, Washington Examiner and The Guardian
Norm Ornstein / New York Daily News:
Fix the Senate, save America — It is a measure of the shattered state of the American political system that a deal proposed by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell simply to postpone by two months a dangerous confrontation over the debt ceiling — one that could result in a default …
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Fox News, Washington Post, The Guardian, NPR, Newsbusters, Talking Points Memo, Conservative Brief and In Saner Thought
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Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Treasury Secretary Yellen warns debt ceiling battle could spell ‘catastrophe’
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and The Hill
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Most Senate Republicans don't want to see Trump run again
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CNN, The Gateway Pundit and Los Angeles Times
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
In scramble for votes in Virginia, emotions flare over Trump, covid and race — Bruce Carlson considers himself mainly a Democrat. He voted for Bill Clinton and Barack Obama for president and for Terry McAuliffe for governor back in 2013. But he won't be voting to make McAuliffe Virginia's governor for a second time.
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Politico, Fox News, National Review and Breitbart
Grant Stern / The Dworkin Report:
Reporter reveals Facebook paid Eastern European troll farms and the sinister secrets behind its algorithm — Scott speaks with Karen Hao the senior Artificial Intelligence editor for MIT Technology Review whose groundbreaking work looking into Facebook just got validated in a massive …
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Deseret News
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have not yet complied with vaccine mandate as deadlines near — Hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members remain unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Pentagon's first compliance deadlines near …
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The Gateway Pundit
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Nobel Peace Prize for Maria Ressa, Dmitry Muratov also a warning to U.S. journalists: Do better — Journalists have not had a lot to celebrate in the 21st century. The economic model for news has mostly collapsed, the birth of social media has meant competing too often with misinformation …
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Nina Jankowicz / Washington Post:
Why the Nobel Peace Prize award is a huge blow to Facebook
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One America News Network
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Trump Asked His Top Intelligence Official to Explore Insane Conspiracy Theory That Chinese Thermostats Changed Votes in the 2020 Election: New Book — A new book reports that former President Donald Trump asked his top intelligence official to investigate an absurd conspiracy theory …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Georgia election official takes the fight to Trump — Donald Trump never wastes an opportunity to attack Georgia's top statewide Republican officeholders for failing to help him overturn the 2020 election results in the key swing state. — Brad Raffensperger is the only one who refuses to shut up and take it.
American Greatness:
Garland Just Tipped Over the Dominos — Parents across the country have suddenly woken up to the wokeness haunting their schools and poisoning the minds of their children. — Destruction of the family has always been at the center of the collectivist project.
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Educator's Black Lives Matter Email Upends Her District — A Black superintendent's email to parents after the killing of George Floyd engulfed a small, predominantly white Maryland community in a yearlong firestorm. — CENTREVILLE, Md. — When Andrea Kane sat down to write a letter …
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
A Year After ‘Defund,’ Police Departments Get Their Money Back — The abrupt reversals have come in response to rising levels of crime, the exodus of officers and political pressures. — DALLAS — The demonstrators came at night, chanting and blowing whistles outside the home of Mayor Eric Johnson …
CBS News:
What's in Democrats' Build Back Better plan? A lot of Americans don't know - CBS News poll — While congressional Democrats negotiate within their ranks over the “Build Back Better” plan, the public is more likely to have heard about what it would cost than about the specific policies that would be in it.
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Raymond T. Odierno, Army general who helped devise Iraq War strategy, dies at 67 — Raymond T. Odierno, a four-star Army general who was a key architect of the “surge” in U.S. forces during the Iraq War that was credited with reducing violence and increasing stability in the country …
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Politico, Military.com, Associated Press and New York Post
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Gen. Raymond T. Odierno Dies at 67; Oversaw Iraq Surge
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Associated Press, Army Times, Florida Politics, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, CNN, Just The News and ausa.org
Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Abdul Qadeer Khan, Father of Pakistan's Nuclear Program, Dies at 85 — Starting from scratch in 1976, he acquired the technology and knowledge that allowed Pakistan to detonate its first nuclear device in 1998. — Abdul Qadeer Khan, a metallurgist who became known to Western intelligence services …
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BBC, The Indian Express, One America News Network and Al Jazeera
Matt Bruenig Dot Com:
Popularism and the Child Tax Credit — Ezra Klein did a piece last week about David Shor and so-called “popularism,” which was ultimately defined this way: … I thought Ezra did a good job with the piece and I left the piece mostly unshaken in my views about what messaging wins elections, which are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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