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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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Matthew Hoye / CNN:
FBI sting operation nets couple accused of trying to sell US nuclear secrets
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Graeme Massie / The Independent:
Trump asked director of national intelligence to probe whether Chinese thermostats changed votes, book claims — One-term president ‘intrigued’ by conspiracy theory — Trump's Georgia election challenge is ‘insanity,’ CNN commentator says — Donald Trump asked intelligence officials …
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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.
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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Taylor Nicole Rogers / Financial Times:
US workers overwhelmingly comply with Covid vaccine mandates
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Biggest U.S. Retailers Charter Private Cargo Ships to Sail Around Port Delays — Home Depot, Costco and Walmart resort to private charters in push to stock shelves for holiday shoppers — Global supply-chain delays are so severe that some of the biggest U.S. retailers have resorted to an extreme …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Two Journalists Started an Argument in Boston in 1979. It's Not Over Yet. — A writer for an alt-weekly called out a Boston Globe editor for his “fealty” to the idea of objectivity in a column that reads as if it was written yesterday. — In 1979, two journalists got into an argument.
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 …
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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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.
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 …
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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.
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 …
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 …
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Liz Cheney Accuses Scalise of ‘Attack’ on U.S. After He Refuses to Say Election Wasn't Stolen — Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, accused House Minority Whip Representative Steve Scalise of being part of an “attack” on the U.S. after he declined repeatedly in a Sunday interview to say the 2020 election wasn't “stolen.”
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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 — Anthony Fauci 'strongly suspects that you're going to start seeing the deaths go down similar to the hospitalizations'
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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 …
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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
Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
Families separated by Trump administration at the border still waiting for reunification — Migrant children separated from their parents at the border were supposed to be reunited with their parents by the government within 30 days, according to an order from a federal judge. That was in 2018.
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