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12:25 AM ET, October 13, 2021

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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
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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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:   More women are tuning out politics — a danger sign for Democrats in Virginia and beyond
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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Jerry Zremski / Buffalo News:
U.S. side of Canadian border to open to vaccinated travelers in November
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Politico
Justice News:   U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest Of Iranian Large-Scale Heroin Trafficker
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
Discussion: Above the Law and Insider
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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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Jayapal fundraising off Pelosi comments about smaller spending package
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: 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
Discussion: Fox Business and Townhall
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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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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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
Discussion: 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
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: Metro.co.uk
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 …
Discussion: HotAir and The Indian Express
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.
Discussion: NBC4 Washington and DCist
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
 
 
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Will Georgia voting laws reduce turnout? Maybe not, studies show
Discussion: The Dispatch
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Abandon ship: Dem chair of House Budget Committee not running for reelection
Discussion: Fox News and FiveThirtyEight
Alec MacGillis / New York Times:
An Ocean Away, I Found Some Common Sense on Mask Wearing
Joseph Cox / VICE:
CIA Funding Arm Gave Encrypted App Wickr $1.6 Million
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Afghan interpreter who helped rescue Biden in 2008 is evacuated from Afghanistan
Discussion: BuzzFeed News and MyStateline.com
 Earlier Items: 
Dirk VanderHart / opb:
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof forms committee for Oregon gubernatorial run
David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Case for Deliverism  —  Democrats can no longer skate by simply on talking about popular issues.
Discussion: The Message Box
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Leaked Docs: Prestigious DC School Poised To Crack Down on ‘Harmful’ Humor
Discussion: RedState and Fox News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mark Meadows's deranged Jan. 6 musings on Fox unmask the GOP's corrupt core
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Close to a Deal to Sell Marquee Washington, D.C., Hotel
 

 
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions

Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider:
Apple adds an Apple News Live Activity widget to track the 2024 US election results in real time on iPhone and iPad lock screens and the Apple Watch widget view

 
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