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9:35 AM ET, October 12, 2021

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New York Times:
Raiders Coach Resigns After Homophobic and Misogynistic Emails  —  A trove of emails in a separate workplace misconduct case shows Raiders Coach Jon Gruden went beyond previously disclosed racist comments to issue broad tirades.  —  Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach …
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Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Prompted by Abbott primary challenger, Texas agency removed webpage with suicide hotline, other resources for LGBTQ youth  —  In late August, one of Gov. Greg Abbott's primary challengers, Don Huffines, accused Texas' child welfare agency of “promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth” …
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Texas Gov. Abbott issues order banning Covid vaccination mandates in rebuke of Biden  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday prohibiting any entity, including private businesses, from imposing Covid-19 vaccination requirements on employees or customers.
Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans coronavirus vaccine mandates, including for private businesses  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday banned any entity in his state — including private businesses — from mandating coronavirus vaccines for workers or customers, expanding prior executive orders …
Jeremy Schwartz / ProPublica:
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 …
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Kamala Harris's NASA video featured child actors  —  The first installment of Vice President Kamala Harris's YouTube Originals space series featured child actors who auditioned for their roles in the project.  —  Trevor Bernardino, a 13-year-old actor from Carmel, California …
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Cortney O'Brien / Fox News:
Samantha Bee admits she didn't want to challenge ‘hero’ narrative about Andrew Cuomo last year
Discussion: New York Times
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The GOP alliance with Europe's far-right deepens  —  You're reading an excerpt from the Today's WorldView newsletter.  Sign up to get the rest, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday.  —  Toward the end of last month …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Dear Democrats: Only 10% of People Even Know What You Are Fighting For  —  Even if Democrats can pass their big bill, they won't be able to sell it.  —  (PHOTOS: GETTYIMAGES / SHUTTERSTOCK)  —  Quick: What is in the Democrats' $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better,” “Human Infrastructure,” …
Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Election Workers in Georgia Are Fired for Shredding Voter Registration Forms  —  A previous investigation of the Fulton County office could eventually replace the elections board with a temporary superintendent with sweeping powers to oversee the vote.  —  The elections office …
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots  —  The number of eligible people still weighing whether to get a Covid vaccine has sharply dwindled, leaving an unvaccinated population that is mostly hard-core refusers.  —  Vaccinated people have been burning …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
John Eastman's employer tries to whitewash his road map for overturning Trump's loss  —  John Eastman, it seems, is the victim of one big misunderstanding.  —  The conservative Claremont Institute, which employs the lawyer who provided a road map for then-President Donald Trump …
Aliya Uteuova / The Guardian:
What sea level rise will do to famous American sites, visualized  —  New images show what areas of the world can be saved or lost if carbon emissions aren't curbed  —  The land on which 10% of the world's population lives could be lost to sea level rise if carbon emission trends continue, new maps and visualizations show.
Washington Examiner:
Restoring America  —  America is going wrong.  That is the stark but necessary starting point for this editorial.  Many people know it to be true; they can feel our politics and culture turning ever more sour, taste the bitter reality of national decline.  —  But fewer people acknowledge it …
Aaron Schaffer / Washington Post:
U.S. and Russian candidates both want to lead the U.N.'s telecom arm  —  Good morning and welcome to The Cybersecurity 202!  Read to the bottom for an important cybersecurity warning from The Post's own TikTok Guy.  —  Below: Hackers went after companies using Microsoft Office 365 software …
Washington Post:
In search for covid origins, Hubei caves and wildlife farms draw new scrutiny  —  ENSHI, China — Hundreds of caves are spread throughout the mountains of Enshi prefecture, an agricultural corner of China's Hubei province.  The most majestic, Tenglong, or “flying dragon,” …
Discussion: Breitbart, Fox News and New York Post
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Washington Post:
To prevent the next pandemic, we must find the source of covid-19. China's stonewalling is unacceptable.
Discussion: HotAir
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The Trump nightmare looms again  —  It is increasingly evident that the nightmare prospect of American politics — unified Republican control of the federal government in the hands of a reelected, empowered Donald Trump in 2025 — is also the likely outcome.  —  Why this is a nightmare should be clear enough.
Miami Herald:
Miami manager moves to fire police chief  —  City Manager Art Noriega moved to fire embattled Police Chief Art Acevedo Monday night, ending weeks of speculation and tumult at City Hall and after a pair of circus-like public hearings in which commissioners lashed out at the chief for everything …
Discussion: UPI and New York Post
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The next legislative pile-up is coming  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WHAT WE'RE WATCHING — With the exception of today — when the House briefly returns to clear the Senate-passed, short-term debt ceiling stopgap — Congress is out on recess this week after lawmakers kicked the can on their entire legislative to-do list.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Hill, CNN and UPI
MSNBC:
Biden's policies impact millions of Americans who don't know it  —  New polling shows a majority of people don't know who's responsible for the financial aid that came from President Biden's American Rescue Plan - legislation that received zero Republican support.
E. Alex Jung / Vulture:
Kumail Nanjiani's Feelings The man in the Marvel suit confronts his body.  —  Kumail Nanjiani would like to remind everyone about his brain, but I've brought him to the gym to talk about his muscles.  He gets that this is all people — especially men — have wanted to talk about since the photos.
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Another Facebook whistleblower says she is willing to testify before Congress  —  San Francisco (CNN Business)Sophie Zhang, who said she felt like she had “blood on her hands” after working at Facebook, is willing to testify before Congress about her former employer, she told CNN Sunday.
New York Times:
Clear Differences Remain Between France and U.S., French Minister Says  —  Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says the two countries remain at odds over China and various security issues, even if they had effectively cooperated on overhauling the international tax system.
Discussion: Deseret News
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
Racial Bias Skewed Small-Business Relief Lending, Study Says  —  Black business owners were more likely to get Paycheck Protection Program loans from online lenders than from banks, according to new research.  —  From the very start of the Paycheck Protection Program last year …
Michael Doran / Wall Street Journal:
Azerbaijan's Defiant Message to Iran  —  Washington should take note of its alliance with Israel.  —  A picture is worth a thousand policy briefs.  On Oct. 4, Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, mugged for the cameras.  Beaming before reporters, he stroked, patted …
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Women wield the power  —  Women will decide President Biden's fate — in Congress and beyond.  —  Biden's recent slide in the polls really comes down to slack in his support from women.  The New York Times reports a recent nine-percentage point drop for support of Biden among women in an average of polls.
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
‘Hiding the Ball’: Hunter Biden Complicates White House Anti-Corruption Push  —  During the presidential campaign, liberals had plenty of reason to tune out the Hunter Biden story.  —  For one, it was being pushed by Donald Trump, whose administration was awash in ethics scandals of its own …
Discussion: CNN
Associated Press:
Justice Department again presses to halt Texas abortion law  —  AUSTIN, Texas — The Biden administration urged the courts again to step in and suspend a new Texas law that has banned most abortions since early September, as clinics hundreds of miles away remain busy with Texas patients making long journeys to get care.
Nonzero Newsletter:
Toward a Unified Theory of Blob-dom  —  “The Blob” isn't a coherent concept, according to some blobsters.  Well they would say that, wouldn't they? … The term “Blob” has arrived.  Within the past two months this recent addition to our foreign policy vocabulary has appeared in the New York Times …
 
 
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Kerrin Jeromin / Washington Post:
Already, 18 weather disasters costing at least $1 billion each have hit the U.S. this year
Discussion: NBC News and Insider
Jan Egeland / New York Times:
Afghanistan Is in Economic Freefall. It Needs Aid.
Dan Merica / CNN:
Biden's ‘tough month’ looms over Democratic campaigns in 2021
Discussion: Fox News and New York Times
Wall Street Journal:
Strange Quiet Arrives in Afghanistan After Decades of War
MSNBC:
Rep. Scalise refuses to say 2020 election wasn't stolen
John Nichols / The Nation:
Trump's Coup Attempt Is Far From Finished
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
January 6 Was No Hoax  —  Trump abused the trust of his supporters, and the result was a disgrace.
Discussion: HotAir
Rachel Poser / New Yorker:
Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties for Fake Crimes
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Biden's Proposal to Empower I.R.S. Rattles Banks and Their Customers
Discussion: Political Wire
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show
Simon Miles / Globe and Mail:
KGB archives show how Chrystia Freeland drew the ire (and respect) of Soviet intelligence services
Niara Savage / Yahoo News:
Texas Boogaloo Boy Admits In Court He Traveled to Minneapolis After George Floyd Died, Fired 13 Shots In Police Precinct Building to Sow Chaos
Associated Press:
Fiona Hill, a nobody to Trump and Putin, saw into them both
Ellie Rushing / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
FBI raids home of Philadelphia Proud Boys' vice president to gather info about Capitol attack plans
Discussion: Raw Story
Saeed Jones / GQ:
Dave Chappelle's Betrayal
Discussion: Twitchy
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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