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Washington Post:
Virginia governor's race a toss-up as Election Day nears, Post-Schar School poll finds — RICHMOND — Virginia's race for governor is a toss-up as Tuesday's election draws near, with 49 percent of likely voters favoring Democrat Terry McAuliffe and 48 percent favoring Republican Glenn Youngkin …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
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 …
Tyler O'Neil / Fox News:
Team McAuliffe emails reveal effort to ‘kill this’ Fox News story
Team McAuliffe emails reveal effort to ‘kill this’ Fox News story
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Pence wades into school debate roiling Va governor's race
Pence wades into school debate roiling Va governor's race
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Washington Examiner and Washington Times
Tyler Hayden / The Santa Barbara Independent:
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 …
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New York Post and Pharyngula
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Rep. Adam Kinzinger won't seek reelection next year — The Illinois lawmaker is one of the most prominent Trump critics among House Republicans. — Adam Kinzinger, one of 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach the then-president in January after the riot at the Capitol …
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Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee allows Trump DOJ official to postpone appearance after he loses his lawyer
Jan. 6 committee allows Trump DOJ official to postpone appearance after he loses his lawyer
William Saletan / Slate:
The Entire Republican Leadership Is Covering Up Trump's Coup Attempt
The Entire Republican Leadership Is Covering Up Trump's Coup Attempt
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Bloomberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN and The American Independent
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
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 …
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Al Qaeda Courier: CIA Agents Hosed Water Into My Rectum During Years of Torture
Ex-Al Qaeda Courier: CIA Agents Hosed Water Into My Rectum During Years of Torture
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Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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Politico:
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 …
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Suzi Ring / Bloomberg:
Vaccinated People Also Spread the Delta Variant, Yearlong Study Shows — Study found similar peak viral load with or without shots — Immunized household contacts have a 25% chance of infection — People inoculated against Covid-19 are just as likely to spread the delta variant …
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RedState, Reuters and The Guardian
Bloomberg:
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 …
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
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.
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Lori Aratani / Washington Post:
Flight attendant suffers broken bones in ‘one of the worst displays of unruly behavior’ in the skies — The incident prompted the pilots to divert the flight to Denver, where a passenger was detained — A flight attendant for American Airlines suffered broken bones in her face …
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Althouse, Insider, CBS Los Angeles and ABC7
Joseph Tanfani / Reuters:
Trump's real-estate empire pays the price for poisonous politics — Former U.S. president Donald Trump's slashing rhetorical style and divisive politics allowed him to essentially take over the Republican Party. His supporters are so devoted that most believe his false claim that he lost the 2020 election because of voter fraud.
Chris Truax / The Bulwark:
Truth Social Violated Mastodon's ToS; Trump's Entire Platform Might Now Be DOA — Mar-a-Lago, we have a problem. — Donald Trump's latest business venture, Truth Social, is a brand-new social media platform that is going to be a publicly-traded company via a reverse merger with a SPAC.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Build Back Better Framework: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly — The White House's quest for a legislatively viable version of its Build Back Better agenda has officially reached the “fake it till you make it” stage. — After a months-long negotiation with his party's most moderate senators …
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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
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) …
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Raw Story
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
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 …
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American Greatness, Washington Post and Joe.My.God.
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
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 …
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The Hill, Outside the Beltway, Task & Purpose and UPI
Rachael Bade / Politico:
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) …
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Jon Brown / Fox News:
Biden admin barred from firing unvaccinated employees after DC judge issues injunction — The attorney for the plaintiffs said the Biden administration has shown ‘an unprecedented, cavalier attitude toward the rule of law’ — Fox News Flash top headlines for October 28
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Robin Bravender / Insider:
Kamalaworld is worried about a difficult, messy Democratic primary if it's Harris versus Pete Buttigieg in 2024 — Democratic insiders are quietly discussing a 2024 race if Joe Biden opts out. — Kamala Harris' allies think she would face a tough primary against Pete Buttigieg.
CNN:
The world's most powerful Catholics hold lengthy talks as Biden and Pope Francis meet at the Vatican — Rome (CNN)The world's most powerful Catholics — President Joe Biden and Pope Francis — renewed their close relationship on Friday, holding a 90-minute meeting that was twice as long …
Hiawatha Bray / The Boston Globe:
MIT to discuss academic freedom after canceling prestigious lecture over professor's views — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was set to hold a faculty forum on Wednesday in an effort to resolve an intense dispute over academic freedom after the cancellation of a speech …
Jason Koebler / VICE:
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 …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
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.
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Here We Go Again: Mark Levin Insists Terry McAuliffe is Plotting to ‘Steal the Election’ — Just days ahead of the vote in the race for Virginia governor, Mark Levin is sharing a conspiracy theory that Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe is plotting to “steal the election.”
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Emily Atkin / HEATED:
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 …
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New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, BuzzFeed News and Washington Post
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Politico Employees Seek Union Vote, Claiming 80% Support — Unions says 80% of eligible U.S. employees have signed up — Journalists at Politico, E&E News to make requests on Friday — Journalists at Politico are petitioning the U.S. government for a vote on unionizing …
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
White Supremacists Used Racist Slurs And Cursed In Bizarre Opening Statements For The Charlottesville Trial — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — “Check. Check. Check,” neo-Nazi shock jock Christopher Cantwell spoke into the courtroom microphone. — Wearing a blue shirt without a tie or jacket …
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Albany Times Union:
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 …
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
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 …
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Christopher F. Rufo / City Journal:
“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 …
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