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5:02 AM ET, October 30, 2021

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Emily / The Lincoln Project:
Statement from the Lincoln Project  —  October 29, 2021 — Today, The Lincoln Project released the following statement:  —  “Glenn Younkin has said: ‘President Trump represents so much of why I am running.’ Youngkin proves it every day by trying to divide Virginians using racial code words …
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Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Lincoln Project Posed as Charlottesville White Supremacists at GOP Event  —  Five people dressed like the white supremacists who caused the violent “Unite the Right” riots in Charlottesville four years ago showed up outside of Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin's event in the town on Friday.
Andrew Miller / Fox News:
McAuliffe spokesperson, who also worked for Harris and Biden campaigns, accused of racist tweets  —  The tweets have since been deleted  —  Glenn Youngkin holds a Fauquier ‘Get Out the Vote’ rally  —  A spokesperson for Terry McAuliffe's campaign is being accused of posting racist tweets in 2012.
Philip Klein / National Review:
McAuliffe Should Be Held Responsible for Tiki Torch Stunt, Because His Campaign Thinks Candidates Are Responsible for Supporters  —  The Lincoln Project has taken credit for an absurd stunt on Friday in which a group of people showed up at a Glenn Youngkin rally holding tiki torches and posing as supporters of the Republican.
Kay Smythe / The National Pulse:
Democrat Operatives Caught Dressing Up As White Supremacists in Desperate Last-Ditch Virginia Election Stunt.  —  Democrats dressed up as white supremacists in a last ditch attempt to smear Republican Glenn Youngkin.  —  In what quickly became a political stunt gone wrong …
Washington Post:
Lincoln Project organized a group to carry torches at Youngkin event in Charlottesville
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Times
Washington Post:
Virginia governor's race a toss-up as Election Day nears, Post-Schar School poll finds
Antonio Olivo / Washington Post:
Virginia AG presses GOP senator for proof of claims of fraud in statewide elections
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Florida Bars State Professors From Testifying in Voting Rights Case  —  After being hired as expert witnesses for groups opposing a restrictive voting law, three University of Florida academics were told they could not participate in the lawsuit against the state.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't block vaccine mandate for Maine health-care workers with religious objections  —  The Supreme Court Friday turned down a request from a group of Maine health-care workers to block a state coronavirus vaccination mandate that does not contain an exception for religious objectors.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Won't Block Maine's Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers  —  A state regulation that does not allow exemptions on religious grounds was challenged by workers who said taking a coronavirus vaccine was at odds with their faith.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday refused …
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and CNBC
Allahpundit / HotAir:   SCOTUS won't block Maine's vaccine mandate for health-care workers
Washington Post:
During Jan. 6 riot, Trump attorney told Pence team the vice president's actions caused attack on Capitol  —  As Vice President Mike Pence hid from a marauding mob during the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol, an attorney for President Donald Trump emailed a top Pence aide to say that Pence …
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Politico:
Jayapal warned Klain not to push an infrastructure vote.  Then chaos ensued.  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought President Joe Biden in this week to finally close the deal on Democrats' domestic agenda.  Rep. Pramila Jayapal had other plans.  —  As Biden prepared for the high-stakes meeting …
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New York Times:
Trump's $300 Million SPAC Deal May Have Skirted Securities Laws  —  The former president began discussing a deal with a ‘blank check’ company early this year.  Investors weren't told.  —  Just days after Donald J. Trump left the White House, two former contestants on his reality show, “The Apprentice,” approached him with a pitch.
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Kiran Stacey / Financial Times:
US intelligence report sheds new light on Wuhan lab accident theory  —  Declassified report reignites debate over whether China bears responsibility for pandemic's origins  —  A US intelligence agency has spelt out for the first time how and why it thinks the virus that causes Covid-19 …
US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use in Children 5 through 11 Years of Age  —  For Immediate Release:  —  Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 to include children 5 through 11 years of age.
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Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
A Black chief diversity officer lost a job offer after flagging racial bias  —  Joseph B. Hill was four days from starting a new position as vice president, chief equity, diversity and inclusion officer at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, when he received an email that changed the trajectory of his career.
Ross Barkan / New York Magazine:
What Happened to Matt Taibbi?  The former darling of the liberal media is now one of its loudest critics.  He says he hasn't changed.  —  Obviously, I'm anxious about why I'm being profiled," Matt Taibbi said at the end of our phone call this summer, which had already lasted an hour and a half.
Mary Ellen Klas / Miami Herald:
DeSantis decries ‘corporate wokeness’ in business speech  —  After months of getting the cold shoulder from large corporations who refused to endorse his COVID-19 policies, Gov. Ron DeSantis had harsh things to say Thursday at the annual meeting of the Florida Chamber of Commerce …
Discussion: Raw Story
David Covucci / The Daily Dot:
Fox News wants to make it ‘clear’ it isn't airing Tucker Carlson's Capitol riot documentary  —  Yesterday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson unveiled a dramatic trailer for his new special, one which will reveal the “true story” behind the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.  —  In it, he drops real truths like …
The White House:
United States-France Joint Statement  —  Today, the President of the United States and the President of the French Republic met in Rome on the margins of the G20 Summit to reaffirm their commitment to closer bilateral and transatlantic cooperation in the pursuit of peace, security, and prosperity around the globe.
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Biden tours Rome with 85-vehicle motorcade ahead of ‘climate’ summit  —  President Biden on Friday cruised through Rome with an 85-vehicle motorcade — drawing criticism for the poor optics ahead of a global warming summit in Glasgow, Scotland, to which Biden is bringing about a dozen top US officials.
Myles Miller / NBC New York:
6 Firefighters Suspended for Taking Truck to Threaten NY Senate Staff Over Vaccine Mandate  —  Six FDNY members of Ladder 113 have been suspended for allegedly driving their truck to a state senator's New York City office and threatening his staff over the vaccine mandate for city workers.
Jen Monroe / Arc Digital:
Loudoun County Sexual Assault Story Shows Danger of Media Bias  —  A right-wing outlet let ideology motivate their reporting, while the mainstream media couldn't be bothered to report on it in the first place  —  A sexual assault case in Loudoun County, Virginia involving …
Pamela Wood / Baltimore Sun:
Maryland lawmaker-doctor fined and reprimanded for tuning into legislative meetings from the operating room  —  A Maryland state delegate who is also a doctor is being reprimanded and ordered to pay a $15,000 fine by the state physicians board after she twice attended legislative meetings via Zoom while in the operating room.
Discussion: Fox News, Associated Press and WBFF-TV
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Biden's vaccine mandates might just backfire  —  President Biden's job approval ratings have been sinking for months as voters increasingly see him as out of touch with their priorities and values.  The coming clash over vaccine mandates might be another area where the president has misread the public temperament.
Discussion: New York Daily News
Megan Cloherty / WTOP:
Northern Virginia police departments increases presence amid purported ISIS threat against shopping malls  —  Police in Northern Virginia are increasing their presence around shopping malls and high-volume roads and transit areas in response to a purported threat from ISIS.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Congress Decides to Learn Almost Nothing From the Pandemic  —  The COVID pandemic has cost the United States 734,000 lives and more than $16 trillion.  Both those tallies are rising on a daily basis.  —  We can't know with certainty how many lives or livelihoods would have been saved …
Discussion: Vox
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Conservatives Are Giving Ron DeSantis the Trump Treatment Defend the imaginary version, ignore the real thing.  —  Ron DeSantis is the patron saint of a segment of the conservative Establishment that has made its peace with Donald Trump largely by pretending he does not exist.
Discussion: alicublog, HotAir and New York Post
Katya Kazakina / Artnet News:
We Got the First Look Inside Hunter Biden's Hush-Hush Gallery Show, the Least-Seen, Most-Talked About Debut in the Art World  —  “All the prices he's worth right now, 10 years from now that's going to be a cheap Hunter Biden painting,” Georges Bergès said.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and TheBlaze
New York Times:
Case Against Cuomo ‘Very Solid,’ Sheriff Says of Move to File Complaint  —  The district attorney has not committed to prosecuting the former governor, and experts called the sheriff's decision to proceed independently unusual.  —  The accumulating of evidence began more than two months ago …
Discussion: Fox News
 
 
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
An Embarrassment for Biden  —  Failure to pass the spending bills is still very much an option.
Discussion: HotAir
Jon Brown / Fox News:
Biden admin says it will not halt firing employees seeking vax exemptions before a DC court ruling
Discussion: Page Array and Townhall
Leighton Woodhouse / KERFUFFLE:
Fauci Funded Yet Another Cruel Beagle Experiment
Keith Spera / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Dave Chappelle, Joe Rogan defend themselves at sold-out N.O. show: ‘These are just jokes’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Diving into ‘woke racism’ with John McWhorter
Discussion: HotAir
 Earlier Items: 
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Inflation notches a fresh 30-year high as measured by the Fed's favorite gauge
Discussion: Reuters and IJR
Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
Pizza Story  —  Analogies Are Hard  —  I wanted a pizza.  A large pizza with mushrooms.
Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
The Fight Between Texas and Wall Street Is About to Get Bigger
Discussion: Raw Story
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Judge Refused To Let Two Capitol Rioters Appear By Video For Sentencing
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
NAACP tells athletes not to sign with Texas teams: “Texas isn't safe for anyone.”
Discussion: Washington Examiner and HuffPost
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

 
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