By Attacking Me, Justice Alito Proved My Point  —  Last month, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the Supreme Court's critics are wrong.  The Court is not “a dangerous cabal” that is “deciding important issues in a novel, secretive, improper way, in the middle of the night, hidden from public view,” he said.

CBS News poll: Vaccine and economy fights driving tight Virginia governor's race  —  The Virginia governor's race is but one state contest, an entire year before the midterms.  So why are the nation's political eyes all watching it so intensely?  Because, as our poll finds …

A Southwest Pilot Explains What Happened over the Weekend … Southwest blamed “air traffic control issues” and inclement weather for the cancelled flights, but the problems were actually a direct result of the airline's announcement on October 4 that all of its 56,000 U.S. employees were required …

Marine who criticized U.S. handling of Afghanistan withdrawal will plead guilty, seek favorable discharge  —  A Marine officer whose viral videos criticizing senior officials for how they withdrew from Afghanistan created a political uproar will plead guilty to several charges and seek …

Kyrie Irving and his vaccine stance clarified: Why the Nets star has made a decision that will sideline him  —  Kyrie Irving believes he is fighting for something bigger than basketball — and the unintended consequences are that his mission is conflicting with his career and his franchise, the Brooklyn Nets.

A record number of workers are quitting their jobs, empowered by new leverage  —  4.3 million people quit their jobs in August, nearly 3 percent of the workforce.  —  The number of people quitting their jobs has surged to record highs, pushed by a combination of factors …

Bashar Assad's Playboy Cousin Spotted Driving $300K Ferrari in Beverly Hills  —  Ali Makhlouf, whose one-time billionaire father is on multiple U.S. sanctions list for financing the Syrian regime, told “what do you do for a living” Instagram star Daniel Mac he was doing an internship.  —  MP

Trump Close to a Deal to Sell Marquee Washington, D.C., Hotel  —  Miami-based CGI Merchant Group in talks to pay ex-president's family company around $370 million for property in former Old Post Office  —  Former President Donald Trump's family company is in advanced discussions to sell …

Unruly customers threaten economic recovery  —  The pace of the economic recovery hinges in part on workers returning to jobs that involve dealing with an unpredictable public.  But many of those workers say increasingly combative customers — angry about everything from long wait times to mask mandates — have prompted them to quit.

BREAKING: Pelosi caves on reconciliation?  —  Get ready for the recriminations, because this won't end the internecine warfare taking place among Democrats.  A few moments ago in her daily presser, Nancy Pelosi apparently signaled a retreat on the $3.5 trillion price tag on the progressive wish-list reconciliation bill:

“There will be things that people can't get,” at Christmas, White House warns  —  White House officials, scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks choking U.S. ports, highways and railways, warn Americans may face higher prices and some empty shelves this Christmas season.

Jon Gruden exposes the NFL's woke hypocrisy  —  Former head coach John Gruden of the Las Vegas Raiders (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)  —  Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned Monday after insensitive emails he'd sent a decade ago were leaked to the media, gifting us the latest example of woke mob hypocrisy.

What the Future May Hold for the Coronavirus and Us  —  Viral evolution is a long game.  Here's where scientists think we could be headed.  —  On Jan. 9, 2020, about a week after the world first learned of a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in central China, authorities announced …

DHS secretary orders ICE to halt mass workplace raids  —  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday issued a memo ordering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop mass worksite raids.  —  Driving the news: Mayorkas said the Biden administration would instead focus …

Hundreds of Police Officers Have Died From Covid.  Vaccines Remain a Hard Sell.  —  Far more law enforcement officers in the U.S. have died from Covid-19 than from any other work-related cause in 2020 and 2021.  Even so, police unions are fighting vaccine mandates.

Tucker Carlson makes a great point about Fox News's vaccination policy  —  If only such nuance were a feature of the criticisms of Biden's policy  —  A Fox News host on Monday night offered a rare — if brief — commentary on his company's own vaccination policy, even as he and others continue …

How Not to De-Trumpify the GOP  —  Jonah Goldberg's plan to create a conservative third party would likely exacerbate the problems it's meant to solve.  —  In the Los Angeles Times, Jonah Goldberg proposes that the best way to fix the now-terminally “Trumpified” GOP is to establish …

An Ocean Away, I Found Some Common Sense on Mask Wearing  —  Mr. MacGillis is a reporter for ProPublica and a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.  —  BERLIN — You see it everywhere here in Germany, day in and day out: People taking the subway or bus or train put masks on as they prepare to board.

Leaked Docs: Prestigious DC School Poised To Crack Down on ‘Harmful’ Humor  —  Students at one of the oldest and most prestigious boys schools in the United States could soon face expulsion for a single “misplaced” joke, according to a draft “anti-bias” policy circulating among school administrators …

Trump Won the County in a Landslide.  His Supporters Still Hounded the Elections Administrator Until She Resigned.  —  Co-published with The Texas Tribune … An elections administrator in North Texas submitted her resignation Friday, following a monthslong effort by residents and officials loyal …

State School Board Associations' Responses to the NSBA Letter  —  On October 11, Parents Defending Education emailed 47 state school board associations for comment on the NSBA's September 29 letter (Hawaii and Washington DC are not members of NSBA, and Virginia & Louisiana had already made public statements).

Mark Meadows's deranged Jan. 6 musings on Fox unmask the GOP's corrupt core  —  By now, it should be clear to even the most determined both-sidesing observer that the fate of democracy has itself become a starkly partisan issue.  For Democrats, anti-majoritarian abuses and the future subversion …

Florida Department of Health Issues Notice of Fine to Leon County Totaling More Than $3.5 Million for Violation of Florida Law  —  Contact:  —  Communications Office  —  NewsMedia@flhealth.gov  —  850-245-4111  —  The County's illegal employee vaccine mandate results in 714 counts of violating law

Catholic Troops Can Refuse COVID Vaccine, Archbishop Declares  —  “No one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience,” Broglio wrote.  —  Catholic U.S. troops should be allowed to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine based solely …

Pro-Trump PAC fined over foreign money offer  —  A pro-Trump political group has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle allegations it illegally solicited $2 million from reporters posing as intermediaries for a Chinese national.  —  Why it matters: A key player in the scheme, a veteran Republican operative …

Blue Line train car derails between Rosslyn, Arlington Cemetery stations  —  Several riders were stuck on a Metro train going toward Franconia-Springfield Station in Virginia after a single train car derailed Tuesday.  —  It happened just before 5 p.m. Metro received a report …

CIA Funding Arm Gave Encrypted App Wickr $1.6 Million  —  The funding solidifies Wickr's position as an encrypted chat platform for government agencies.  —  Joseph Cox  —  In-Q-Tel, a nonprofit investment firm started by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), recently poured more than $1.6 million …

Abandon ship: Dem chair of House Budget Committee not running for reelection  —  Ah, a tradition unlike any other — the drumbeat of retirement announcements among the governing party ahead of an expected bloodletting in the midterms.  —  John Yarmuth of Kentucky is the first into the lifeboats as the S.S. Biden begins to sink.