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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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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 …
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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Julia Cherner / ABC News:
Trump boasted of crowd size at Jan. 6 riot, new book says — New book details Trump's efforts to steal the election. — While the Capitol was under attack on Jan. 6, former President Donald Trump remained out of sight from the public and watched TV in the White House private dining room …
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 …
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Reason
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
Iowa's GOP leaders stand by Trump as he repeats false claims
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Iowa Capital Dispatch
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 …
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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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
Most Senate Republicans don't want to see Trump run again
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Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Treasury Secretary Yellen warns debt ceiling battle could spell ‘catastrophe’
Treasury Secretary Yellen warns debt ceiling battle could spell ‘catastrophe’
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Talking Points Memo, HotAir, Politico and The Hill
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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Wall Street Journal
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 …
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TheGrio
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.
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 …
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 …
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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Insider and The Gateway Pundit
Leslie Josephs / CNBC:
Southwest Airlines cancels 1,800 flights, blaming weather and staffing — Southwest has cancelled more than 1,800 flights over the weekend so far. — The Dallas-based airline blamed the disruptions on air traffic control issues, bad weather and staffing shortfalls.
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The Last Refuge, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth and Bloomberg