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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
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.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Divided Supreme Court considers who can defend abortion restrictions
Divided Supreme Court considers who can defend abortion restrictions
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Washington Post and Washington Examiner
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Focuses on Procedure in Kentucky Abortion Case
Supreme Court Focuses on Procedure in Kentucky Abortion Case
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Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Zandar Versus The Stupid and UPI
Joshua Douglas / Washington Monthly:
Maybe Supreme Court Judges Really Are Driven by Politics
Maybe Supreme Court Judges Really Are Driven by Politics
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Washington Post, Digby's Hullabaloo and Slate
CBS News:
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 …
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New York Times:
The U.S. will open the Canada and Mexico borders for fully vaccinated travelers. — WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will lift travel restrictions at the land borders with Canada and Mexico starting in November for fully vaccinated travelers, reopening the door of the United States …
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Roll Call, The Daily Caller and Just The News
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American Greatness:
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 …
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Reuters:
Rebuffing Texas governor, American Airlines, Southwest stand by vaccine mandate
Rebuffing Texas governor, American Airlines, Southwest stand by vaccine mandate
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Karl Evers-Hillstrom / The Hill:
Texas airlines defy Abbott, comply with Biden vaccine order
Texas airlines defy Abbott, comply with Biden vaccine order
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Wall Street Journal, The Texas Tribune and Washington Times
Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
Southwest, American airlines workers will have to get vaccinated, despite Texas order
Southwest, American airlines workers will have to get vaccinated, despite Texas order
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USA Today, Trending Politics, The Daily Wire and Washington Examiner
Will Marshall / The Hill:
Democrats need a win — now — In politics, success tends to beget success. That truism apparently eluded leftwing Democrats on Sept. 30 when they refused to vote for President Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. — Instead of basking in accolades for having passed …
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Pelosi caves on reconciliation?
BREAKING: Pelosi caves on reconciliation?
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Jayapal fundraising off Pelosi comments about smaller spending package
Jayapal fundraising off Pelosi comments about smaller spending package
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Political Wire
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
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 …
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Washington Examiner and Fox News
Jesse O'Neill / New York Post:
Walgreens closes five more San Francisco locations, citing ‘organized retail crime’ — Walgreens is closing five more San Francisco locations as drug stores from the Bay Area to the Big Apple are besieged by rampant shoplifting and lax enforcement. — San Fran shoplifters have been emboldened …
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Tessa McLean / SFGATE:
Walgreens closing 5 SF stores due to ‘organized retail crime’ — Dodgers pitcher promotes ‘prophet’ who says Democrats are wicked — 'There's a lot to hate': A local's review of Fisherman's Wharf — Even Giants players thought Dodgers hit home run on final play
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Shams Charania / The Athletic:
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.
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Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Suspended Trump Appointee: Pentagon Is Keeping My Job in Limbo — OUT OF WORK — A top Pentagon official appointed by former President Donald Trump sued Tuesday over her suspension from the Defense Department, alleging that it is stalling her return and that she has not been allowed …
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Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Trump-Era Pentagon Official Sues as Suspension Reaches 5 Months
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The ‘New York Times of the right’ is ... the New York Times — CNN's Brian Stelter touched off a bit of social media controversy on his show “Reliable Sources” Sunday. Citing low trust in the media among Americans, Stelter called on folks to draw a distinction between reporters …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson makes a great point about Fox News's vaccination policy
Tucker Carlson makes a great point about Fox News's vaccination policy
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HotAir, BizPac Review, Townhall and Mediaite
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
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 …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
A record 4.3 million workers quit their jobs in August, led by food and retail industries
A record 4.3 million workers quit their jobs in August, led by food and retail industries
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HotAir and The Daily Wire
Mitchell Prothero / VICE:
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
Reuters:
“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.
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
White House tells states to prepare for Covid vaccinations in young children
White House tells states to prepare for Covid vaccinations in young children
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NBC Chicago and Political Wire
Axios:
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.
Amber Athey / spectatorworld.com:
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.
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Elizabeth Howe / Defense One:
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 …
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
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.
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Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Past Pandemics Remind Us Covid Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades — The skeletons move across a barren landscape toward the few helpless and terrified people still living. The scene, imagined in a mid-16th-century painting, “The Triumph of Death” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, illuminated the psychic impact of the bubonic plague.
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
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 …
Emily Anthes / New York Times:
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 …
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Abigail Constantino / WTOP:
Buses replace trains on 3 Blue Line stations as Metro investigates derailment — There will be no rail service between Rosslyn and Pentagon Metro stations on the Blue Line Wednesday, as Metro continues to investigate a derailment that left several riders stranded during the Tuesday afternoon rush.
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Mollie Hemingway / Fox News:
What happened during the 2020 election must be investigated and discussed — The last time Democrats fully accepted the legitimacy of a presidential election they lost was in 1988 — Mollie Hemingway calls for ‘accountability’ after the Afghanistan exit — Editor's note …
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New York Times
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
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 …
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