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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name — Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the metaverse — Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Lexi Lonas / The Hill:
Cheney: Bannon's actions suggest Trump was involved in Capitol riot planning — Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Ky.) said late Tuesday that former White House strategist Steve Bannon's refusal to cooperate with the House committee investigating the Capitol riot suggests President Trump was …
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
How Trump can sink Democrats' request for his January 6 docs
How Trump can sink Democrats' request for his January 6 docs
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Raw Story, NBC News, New Republic and The Daily Beast
New York Times:
Trump Organization, Already Under Indictment, Faces New Criminal Inquiry — The investigation, by the Westchester County district attorney's office, increases the legal scrutiny of the former president and his family business. — Former President Donald J. Trump's family business …
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Insider, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix Co-CEO Says He ‘Screwed Up’ When Defending Dave Chappelle Special — ‘I should have recognized the fact that a group of our employees was really hurting,’ Ted Sarandos says in interview — Netflix Inc. Co-Chief Executive Ted Sarandos said he “screwed up” in his efforts to communicate …
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Sam Janney / Twitchy:
Terry McAuliffe's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad campaign gets WORSE as he flips out during interview, scolds reporter and storms off (watch) — Terry McAuliffe's campaign seems to be in a world of hurt right now. From his recent ad claiming NO NO, he really does think parents …
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WJLA-TV:
WATCH: 7News goes one-on-one with Virginia gubernatorial candidates McAuliffe and Youngkin
WATCH: 7News goes one-on-one with Virginia gubernatorial candidates McAuliffe and Youngkin
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HotAir, New York Post, National Review, Townhall, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Biden discusses $1.9 trillion top line for economic package and tells Democrats free community college is out — (CNN)President Joe Biden informed House progressives Tuesday afternoon that the final bill to expand the social safety net is expected to drop tuition-free community college …
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Elena Kadvany / San Francisco Chronicle:
In-N-Out blasts S.F. over vaccine mandate shutdown: ‘We refuse to become the vaccination police’ — Beloved California burger chain In-N-Out is firing back against San Francisco's vaccine mandate. The company blasted the city after the Department of Public Health temporarily shut …
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Washington Post:
White House unveils plans to roll out coronavirus vaccines for children ages 5 to 11 — The White House on Wednesday announced its plan to roll out coronavirus vaccines for children ages 5 to 11, pending the vaccine's approval by federal health officials, which the Biden administration anticipates will happen within weeks.
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Schiff ‘vehemently’ disagrees with Attorney General Garland's reluctance to pursue Trump — American judge and 86th United States Attorney General — In unusually pointed comments about a member of President Biden's Cabinet, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff says he …
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Soldier with ‘Hitler mustache’ is first to be thrown out of military after Capitol riot charges — An Army reservist charged in the Justice Department's sweeping investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot was quietly demoted and discharged earlier this year, becoming the first known service member …
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Raw Story
Quinnipiac University Poll:
78% Of Republicans Want To See Trump Run For President In 2024, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Americans Now Split On Border Wall As Opposition Softens — mail_outline — Nearly one year after the 2020 presidential election, a majority of Americans (58 - 35 percent) …
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Mayor de Blasio announces COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all city workers — All New York City municipal employees will be required to have the COVID-19 vaccine under a new mandate announced by Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday. — The city workers — including firefighters and cops …
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Shea Johnson / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Embroiled in controversies, Michele Fiore announces run for governor — Las Vegas Councilwoman Michele Fiore said Tuesday she will seek the Republican nomination for governor, casting herself as a champion for conservative values amid a cascade of controversies that figure to be election cycle targets.
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Politico:
Why Biden's not doing interviews — Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. With Allie Bice. — President JOE BIDEN is not doing one-on-one interviews. — In the first nine months of his presidency, he has participated in just 10, none since Labor Day.
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Washington Examiner and National Review
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Coup memo’ think tank encouraging ‘secession-by-sheriff’ with latest project: report — A right-wing Claremont Institute is undermining law and order and encouraging secession one county at a time. — The think tank, where coup memo author John Eastman remains a member in good standing …
Tablet Magazine:
Lectures From Limousine Liberals — The same people who sat at home praising essential workers as heroes now repay them with exclusion and sneering condescension
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HotAir and Instapundit
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Commerce Department announces new rule aimed at stemming sale of hacking tools to Russia and China — The Commerce Department on Wednesday announced a long-awaited rule that officials hope will help stem the export or resale of hacking tools to China and Russia while still enabling cybersecurity collaboration across borders.
Associated Press:
Fox News' Cavuto tests positive for COVID-19, urges vaccines — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fox News Channel anchor Neil Cavuto tested positive for COVID-19, which he said was surprising but made him grateful that he was vaccinated. — Cavuto, who learned of the test results after Monday's episode of …
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Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Epstein Said With a Straight Face That He Was a ‘Firm Believer’ in Time's Up — IS THAT A JOKE — In what can only be described as a death blow to irony, Jeffrey Epstein told Steve Bannon that he supported a charity dedicated to ending sexual harassment.
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HuffPost, New York Post and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Larsen / TYT Network:
Fortenberry, a Family Insider, Indicted on Federal Charges — Nebraska Congressman Is The Latest Family Member Embroiled in Ethical Scandal … Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), indicted Tuesday on charges of lying to the FBI, has deep connections to The Family, the secretive Christian group …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Omaha World-Herald and Associated Press
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Jake Sullivan discussed Saudi-Israel normalization with MBS — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan raised normalization with Israel during his recent meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, three U.S. and Arab sources tell Axios.
Washington Examiner:
COVID-19 is plummeting in Florida — DeSantis's critics hardest hit — Late this summer, COVID-19 finally took off in Florida and began ravaging its elderly population, courtesy of the delta variant. Some people were very pleased about it. — Critics of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis were positively gleeful.
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New York Times:
Trump's Pentagon Chief Ruled Out Ramping Up Troops at US-Mexico Border — Top national security aides to former President Trump also talked him out of launching military raids against drug cartels inside Mexico. — WASHINGTON — President Trump's defense secretary thought the idea was outrageous.
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Washington Post:
Rep. Andy Harris, a doctor, says he's prescribed ivermectin as a covid-19 treatment — Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), a practicing anesthesiologist, said he has prescribed ivermectin, a medication typically used to treat parasites in livestock and humans, as a covid-19 treatment …
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Mark Winne / WSB-TV:
Police say hospital discharged seriously ill man, left him on the street — CONYERS, Ga. — Police want answers after a local hospital discharged a sick man and left him alone on the sidewalk. — Channel 2′s Mark Winne was in Conyers Friday, where someone called 911 after finding …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
China's Bullying Is Becoming a Danger to the World and Itself — 阅读.体中 文.閱讀.體 中文. — Ever since Deng Xiaoping opened China to the world in the late 1970s, many in the West wanted to see the country succeed …
Daily Mail:
REVEALED: Accused rapist who ‘attacked’ woman on SEPTA train in Philadelphia as passengers ‘filmed it’ is an illegal Congolese immigrant with prior convictions for sex abuse and drugs who should have been deported in 2015 — Alleged rapist Fiston Ngoy, 35, has been present in the US illegally since 2015
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Fox News and New York Post
Kevin Duggan / AM New York:
SEE IT: Video shows maskless cops in Manhattan shove rider out of subway platform for asking them to cover faces — Two police shove a rider out the emergency exit at the 8th Street Station in Manhattan. — Instead of “serve” and “protect,” these cops shove and eject!
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Page Six:
Kanye West dons bizarre mask for second Michael Cohen meeting — Who was that masked man? — Kanye West was spotted meeting again with former Trump fixer Michael Cohen for coffee on the Upper East Side on Tuesday — but this time, West was wearing the same strange prosthetic mask he'd been seen wearing at JFK Airport a day earlier.
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Raw Story, Washington Examiner, Rolling Stone and Mediaite
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Border arrests have soared to highest levels since 1986, new CBP data shows — U.S. authorities detained more than 1.7 million migrants along the Mexico border during the 2021 fiscal year that ended in September, and arrests by the Border Patrol soared to the highest levels since 1986 …
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Greg B. Smith / THE CITY:
Adams: ‘I Was Wrong.’ Mayoral Leader Finally Apologizes for Sexist Smear of Whistleblower Cop — Democratic mayoral nominee Eric Adams publicly apologized Tuesday to a former transit cop whose reputation he smeared with words and pictures after she accused members of a fraternal group he once co-led of cheating on a police exam.