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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.
Reuters:
U.S. Navy engineer, wife charged with selling submarine secrets
Discussion: Associated Press and Al Jazeera
New York Times:
Navy Nuclear Engineer Attempted Espionage, FBI Says
Discussion: CBS News
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 …
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
Why the Latest Campus Cancellation Is Different  —  Following a Twitter outcry, a scientist was stopped from giving a lecture at MIT for reasons that had nothing to do with the lecture itself.  —  About the author: Yascha Mounk is a contributing writer at The Atlantic …
Discussion: Reason
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 …
Discussion: The Independent
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Julia Cherner / ABC News:   Trump boasted of crowd size at Jan. 6 riot, new book says
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Taylor Nicole Rogers / Financial Times:   US workers overwhelmingly comply with Covid vaccine mandates
Michael Starr / Jerusalem Post:
BBC describes Alfred Dreyfus as ‘notorious Jewish spy’  —  Alfred Dreyfus, subject of the antisemitic Dreyfus Affair that inspired Zionist founding father Theodor Herzl, was described in a BBC drama summary as a “Jewish spy” despite being exonerated.  —  The BBC described Alfred Dreyfus …
David Browne / Rolling Stone:
Eric Clapton Isn't Just Spouting Vaccine Nonsense—He's Bankrolling It  —  Eric Clapton went from setting the standard for rock guitar to making ‘full-tilt’ racist rants to becoming an outspoken vaccine skeptic.  Did he change?  Or was he always like this?  —  Cambel McLaughlin thought he was being punked.
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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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Iowa's GOP leaders stand by Trump as he repeats false claims
Des Moines Register:
Donald Trump tells thousands at a rally in Iowa, 'We're going to take America back'
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.
The Intercept:
Steven Mnuchin Stepped In to Prevent Ivanka Trump World Bank Appointment … In January 2019, Jim Yong Kim threw the global financial development sector into a state of disarray: The former academic and health official announced he would be stepping down the following month from his role …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
David Brunnstrom / Reuters:
U.S. says Taliban talks in Doha were ‘candid and professional’  —  The United States said on Sunday the first face-to-face meeting between senior U.S. and Taliban officials since the hardline group retook power in Afghanistan was “candid and professional” and that the U.S. side reiterated …
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Biden administration competency doubts increase  —  One quality Joe Biden brought to the presidency was competency, certainly compared to his predecessor, a low bar.  More than a few Republicans concurred.  —  That's why the most alarming number in the Quinnipiac poll this past week was …
Financial Times:
Moscow's EU envoy urges Europe to fix ties to avoid gas shortages  —  Supply crisis would be resolved more quickly if bloc stopped treating Russia as ‘adversary’, says ambassador  —  The Kremlin's ambassador to the EU has called on Europe to mend ties with Moscow in order to avoid future gas shortages …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Amos Harel / Haaretz:
President Joe Biden, right, and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a meeting at the Oval Office at the White House, August 27, 2021.Credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters  —  Both Israel's government and its defense establishment are increasingly disappointed by America's approach to resuming negotiations on Iran's nuclear program.
Laura Bicker / BBC:
Drugs, arms, and terror: A high-profile defector on Kim's North Korea  —  The old habits of secrecy haven't left Kim Kuk-song.  —  It has taken weeks of discussions to get an interview with him, and he's still worried about who might be listening.  He wears dark glasses for the camera …
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Fiona Hill says January 6 was a “dress rehearsal” for future political violence  —  Foreign affairs and national security expert Fiona Hill warned that the U.S. is in a “dangerous moment” and has already reached a constitutional crisis as political actors try to undermine elections and call for violence.
Discussion: Raw Story
Joe Concha / The Hill:
The Biden-Harris train wreck may have its savior: 2024 GOP nominee Donald Trump  —  Former President Trump recently declared he would beat Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a potential Republican primary match-up for the party's 2024 presidential nomination.  And based on current polling, he's almost certainly right.
New York Times:
'It's Not Sustainable': What America's Port Crisis Looks Like Up Close  —  An enduring traffic jam at the Port of Savannah reveals why the chaos in global shipping is likely to persist.  —  SAVANNAH, Ga. — Like toy blocks hurled from the heavens, nearly 80,000 shipping containers are stacked …
Abigail Spanberger / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Abigail Spanberger column: The bipartisan infrastructure bill is good for Virginia: Why it needs a vote now  —  I represent 10 counties across central Virginia that are geographically, economically and politically diverse, and my constituents — no matter where they are on the political spectrum …
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 …
Discussion: TheGrio
Garry Kasparov / Wall Street Journal:
Celebrate Columbus's Achievements  —  We should acknowledge his flaws, but his treatment by the left is reminiscent of communist propaganda.  —  Friends, Americans, citizens of the world, lend me your ears.  I come to bury Christopher Columbus, not to praise him.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Insider
 
 
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Biden needs a reboot. Fighting for democracy is the key.
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Coronavirus:
Italian police arrest far-right party leaders after anti-vaccination riot
Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
Families separated by Trump administration at the border still waiting for reunification
Discussion: The Hill
Shannon Thaler / Daily Mail:
Fauci warns vaccinated people to wear masks OUTSIDE this winter even though Covid deaths are decreasing down at same fast rate as hospitalizations
Discussion: New York Post and The Hill
Jonathan S. Tobin / Haaretz:
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in WashingtonCredit: Stefani Reynolds,AP
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Popularism and the Child Tax Credit
Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times:
California will require large retailers to provide gender-neutral toy sections
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CBS News:
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Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
American Greatness:
Garland Just Tipped Over the Dominos
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Georgia election official takes the fight to Trump
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit