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11:55 AM ET, October 10, 2021

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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 …
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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Most Senate Republicans don't want to see Trump run again
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.
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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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 …
Discussion: Deseret News
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Blinken to hold trilateral meeting with Israeli and UAE counterparts  —  Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold a trilateral meeting at the State Department on Wednesday with the foreign ministers of Israel and the United Arab Emirates.  —  Why it matters: This is the first such meeting since …
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.
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Canadian Admits Fabricating Terrorism Tale Detailed in New York Times Podcast  —  In exchange for the admission of the man, Shehroze Chaudhry, Canada dropped criminal charges against him.  —  OTTAWA — A Canadian man admitted in court on Friday that he made up tales about serving as an Islamic State fighter and executioner in Syria.
Discussion: The Indian Express
Will Englund / Washington Post:
An energy crisis is gripping the world, with potentially grave consequences  —  How China and Europe are catching the brunt of it  —  Energy is so hard to come by right now that some provinces in China are rationing electricity, Europeans are paying sky-high prices for liquefied natural gas …
BBC:
China-Taiwan tensions: We will not bow to Beijing pressure, says leader  —  Taiwan will not bow to pressure from China and will defend its democratic way of life, President Tsai Ing-wen has said in a defiant speech amid heightened tensions over the island.  —  “The more we achieve …
Harry Siegel / New York Daily News:
Past is prologue for New York mayors  —  In quite the tale of two cities, Bill de Blasio talked in his first year as mayor, after the NYPD had killed Eric Garner, about how he'd “literally had to train” his then 16-year-old son Dante “to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him.”
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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