Fox News Poll: Youngkin pulls ahead of McAuliffe among Virginia likely voters  —  The race is largely focused on education, and this has energized Republicans  —  Concha: McAuliffe, Biden fixate on Trump in desperate attempt to win Virginia race  —  Republican Glenn Youngkin has moved ahead …

Weary Dems keep reliving Infrastructure Week  —  House liberals left the Capitol triumphant on Thursday night after once again scuttling a major vote.  Every other Democrat was fuming.  —  For the second time in less than a month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team had to delay …

The Facts on Trump's Fraud Letter  —  His 2020 monomania is news, and it reflects on his fitness for 2024.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  The progressive parsons of the press are aflutter that we published a letter to the editor Thursday from former President Trump, objecting …

Criminal summons erroneously issued against former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo  —  ALBANY — A summons charging former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo with misdemeanor forcible touching was prematurely issued by Albany City Court on Thursday after a sheriff's investigator filed paperwork with the court summarizing …

Biden Administration in Talks to Pay Hundreds of Millions to Immigrant Families Separated at Border  —  Government is considering payments of $450,000 per person affected by Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy in 2018 for asylum seekers illegally crossing border

Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company  —  Facebook's new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it's done to our existing reality.  —  Jason Koebler  —  Moments before announcing Facebook …

Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm  —  Criticizes Munger Hall as Social and Psychological Experiment with Unknown Consequences  —  A consulting architect on UCSB's Design Review Committee has quit his post in protest over the university's proposed Munger Hall project …

Air Force is first to face troops' rejection of vaccine mandate as thousands avoid shots  —  Up to 12,000 Air Force personnel have rejected orders to get fully vaccinated against the coronavirus despite a Pentagon mandate, and officials say it is too late for them to do so by the Tuesday deadline …

Jan. 6 committee allows Trump DOJ official to postpone appearance after he loses his lawyer  —  Jeffrey Clark, the Trump-era Justice Department official who sought to support President Donald Trump's false claims of massive voting fraud in the 2020 election, has received a postponement …

For First Time in Public, a Detainee Describes Torture at C.I.A. Black Sites  —  In a sentencing hearing, Majid Khan, a Pakistani who lived in suburban Baltimore before joining Al Qaeda, detailed dungeonlike conditions and episodes of abuse.  —  GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba …

Unlimited Sand and Money Still Won't Save the Hamptons  —  If you happened to be in Montauk, N.Y., when the trucks started rolling in this summer, you'd get a sense of how much sand $171,000 buys.  Load after load tumbled onto Ditch Plains Beach, one of the Atlantic Coast's better surfing spots …

He's Writing Tucker's Deranged Jan. 6 Movie—After Directing a Pizzagater's Opus  —  Beyond Tucker's bonkers new “documentary” about the Capitol riot, Scooter Downey has made movies for other hate-mongers on the far right.  —  The writer of Tucker Carlson's controversial documentary series …

POLITICO Playbook: Why Joe Biden already won  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BIDEN GETS IT DONE, DESPITE HIMSELF — To say Thursday was a roller coaster for President JOE BIDEN's agenda wouldn't do justice to how truly head-spinning the day was.  The White House releases a Build Back Better (BBB) …

Chief federal judge in D.C. assails ‘almost schizophrenic’ Jan. 6 prosecutions: ‘The rioters were not mere protesters’  —  The chief judge presiding over the federal court in Washington on Thursday unleashed a blistering critique of the Justice Department's prosecution of Capitol rioters …

Big Oil is getting subpoenaed  —  The House Oversight Committee will issue subpoenas to oil companies for documents detailing their role in spreading climate misinformation.  —  The CEOs of Exxon, Chevron, Shell and BP revealed very little about their company's past and current efforts …

“White People, You Are the Problem”  —  AT&T's new racial reeducation program promotes the idea that “racism is a uniquely white trait.”  —  Economy, finance, and budgets  —  The Social Order  —  AT&T Corporation has created a racial reeducation program that promotes the idea that …

It's not a ‘Sputnik moment’ and we should not feed Cold War paranoia  —  Have we witnessed another Sputnik moment?  The Financial Times has reported that China tested a hypersonic missile this summer, though China denies this.  Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff …

Judge Says GOP Congressman Can't Be Left Alone With Evidence  —  The judge was so concerned that Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) might compromise the case that he prohibited Fortenberry from looking at the evidence against him by himself.  —  After Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) …

Ideologues exist on the left and the right.  Only one side threatens the country.  —  If the American experiment dies, the cause will be terminal bothsidesism.  —  This is not to deny that our politics is ideologically bipolar.  There is a party of the left that advocates ambitious government and progressive social values.

The country needs a dose of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to battle COVID-19  —  Florida has the lowest COVID-19 case rate in the country.  They did it without vaccine mandates, without mask mandates in school and with no restrictions on businesses.  Life simply went on.

Oklahoma executes inmate who dies vomiting and convulsing  —  McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma administered the death penalty Thursday on a man who convulsed and vomited as he was executed for the 1998 slaying of a prison cafeteria worker, ending a six-year execution moratorium brought on by concerns over its execution methods,

The Reductive Practice of Assigning Book Reviews by Identity  —  Every once in a while, it might be healthy for progressives to stop, look up from the work of making the world a more equitable place and ask, “Wait, is this specific thing we're doing right now really going to help?”

The Trailer: Not just Virginia: From county to county, an off-year battle for the suburbs  —  In this edition: A preview of Tuesday's battle for the suburbs, cash flows in next week's special elections and why “IRS snooping” is going to be a 2022 campaign ad mantra.