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11:20 PM ET, November 2, 2021

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Glenn Youngkin's repulsive final push reveals a dark truth for Democrats  —  With Virginia voters set to elect a governor, Republican Glenn Youngkin's final messages are positively overflowing with sunny calls for unity.  One closing ad features footage of African American families smiling …
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New York Times:
Virginia Election Results  —  Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime fixture in the national Democratic Party, is seeking a new term in a race widely viewed as a bellwether for the midterm elections.  His opponent, Glenn Youngkin, a former private equity executive, has made hot-button cultural issues central to his campaign.
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Election Day Live Updates: Polls Close in Virginia; Result Is Expected to Signal Nation's Mood  —  Voters are deciding governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey, several key mayor's races across the country and a referendum on policing in Minneapolis.  Follow along for the latest results and analysis.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump gloats as Virginia results come in  —  Former President Trump is gloating over Republican Glenn Youngkin's lead in the Virginia governor's race as results continue to trickle in.  —  In a statement Tuesday night, Trump said he didn't even have to rally for Youngkin in the Virginia governor's race …
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Carville: Blame Beltway Dems if McAuliffe loses today
Discussion: National Review, CNN, Townhall and The Hill
Rolling Stone:
On the Ground With the QAnon Believers Who Flocked to Dallas for the Grand Return of JFK Jr.  —  Though the Kennedy scion failed to appear at Dealey Plaza this afternoon, some are hopeful he might make an appearance at a Rolling Stones concert later  —  DALLAS — QAnon true believers gathered en masse …
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Dallas Morning News:
QAnon supporters gather in downtown Dallas expecting JFK Jr. to reappear  —  Some believe the reappearance of John F. Kennedy's son, who died in a plane crash in 1999, will bring about the reinstatement of Donald Trump as president.  —  Scores of QAnon believers gathered Tuesday afternoon …
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Photos show QAnon believers gathering in Dallas — where they believe JFK Jr. will reveal he's still alive
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Curtis Sliwa tried to bring his cat to vote.  It got weirder from there.  —  Curtis Sliwa brought a special guest with him to vote on Tuesday: Gizmo, one of the 17 cats he lives with in a studio apartment.  —  But Gizmo was denied entry to the polling site, on Manhattan's Upper West Side …
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Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
NYC mayoral election: Democrat Eric Adams soundly defeats Republican Curtis Sliwa  —  Adams, the current Brooklyn borough president, was overwhelmingly favored to win the election  —  We aren't as vigilant as we should be: Curtis Sliwa  —  Democratic candidate Eric Adams won …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Prominent Conservatives Back Letting States Limit Guns in Public  —  A brief filed in a major gun control case to be heard on Wednesday by the Supreme Court argued that limits on the public carrying of weapons were consistent with the Second Amendment.  —  WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court hears …
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Ellena Erskine / SCOTUSblog:
We read all the amicus briefs in New York State Rifle so you don't have to
Discussion: Alternet.org and UPI
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Constitutional law professor: SCOTUS “pretty blatant”, will allow abortion clinics to challenge SB 8
Kevin T. Dugan / Curbed:
We Staked Out Eric Adams's House in Brooklyn And he came home.  Twice!  —  Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty Images, Kevin Dugan, Willy Blackmore  —  Where the hell does Eric Adams live?  For anyone trying to get a grip on the notoriously hard-to-pin-down Democratic candidate …
Discussion: New York Post and Insider
David French / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
The Threat From the Anti-Woke Right  —  America is confronting two powerful illiberal movements.  Where you stand on their relative threats depends on where you live. … Late last week, my friends Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt published an important piece in the online journal Persuasion that contained a startling statistic.
Discussion: The Dispatch
Lindsay Ellis / Chronicle of Higher Education:
U. of Florida Doctor Says Administrators Blocked Him From Participating in Lawsuits About Masking  —  A fourth University of Florida professor says administrators rejected his request to testify in litigation against state leaders this year, and denied him the opportunity to share his expertise …
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Miami Herald:   UF restricted five more professors in cases against the state
New York Times:
Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System  —  Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users.  —  Facebook plans to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system …
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Philip Klein / National Review:
The Absurd Twitter Suspension of Quin Hillyer  —  In any ranking of dumb Twitter suspensions, Quin Hillyer's has to land pretty high up there.  Full disclosure, Quin is a former colleague of mine at the Washington Examiner as well as a former National Review author.  He recounts his story:
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Reach Deal on Prescription Drug Pricing, Schumer Says  —  Provision was left out of White House's $1.85 trillion framework on spending and climate plan  —  WASHINGTON—Democrats reached an agreement on provisions designed to lower the price of some prescription drugs …
Discussion: New York Post, Slate and The Daily Wire
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CNBC:
Trump ally Rudy Giuliani seeks to block feds from getting 3 items of thousands seized under search warrant  — Rudy Giuliani is seeking to prevent prosecutors from seeing just three items out of the more than 2,000 items contained on electronic devices seized from him as part of a criminal probe, a court filing revealed.
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
The Virginia Public Access Project:
Election Results … 2021 General Election
Washington Post:
About 400 D.C. jail inmates will be transferred to a federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania because of unacceptable conditions, officials say  —  The U.S. Marshal's Service plans to move about 400 inmates out of the D.C. jail after a recent surprise inspection found evidence of “systemic” …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and WTOP
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump urges judge to slow down Jan. 6 investigators' access to records  —  Former President Donald Trump is pleading with a federal judge in Washington to slow down the Jan. 6 committee's effort to obtain his White House records, instead asking her to order a document-by-document review that could take months.
Discussion: Insider, CNN, Alternet.org and Lawfare
Argus Leader:
Jean Rounds, South Dakota's former first lady, dies from cancer  —  Jonathan Ellis Joe SneveSioux Falls Argus Leader  —  The wife of U.S. Senator and former South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds has passed away.  —  Jean Rounds, 65, succumbed to sarcomacancer in her Fort Pierre home Tuesday morning …
Discussion: The Hill
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Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Sen. Rounds' wife dead after two-year battle with cancer
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Hot new idea for Dems' reconciliation bill: A huge tax cut for the very rich; Update: “Beyond unacceptable”  —  They said if Republicans voted for Trump in 2020, America would end up with an administration devoted to lining the pockets of rich people.  —  And they were right!
Ryan Mills / National Review:
Minneapolis Voters Reject Plan to Disband City's Police Department  —  Minneapolis voters on Tuesday rejected a progressive plan to do away with the city's police department and to replace it with a vaguely defined “Department of Public Safety,” which would not have been required to employ any actual police officers.
Reuters:
INSIGHT-From Boeing to Mercedes, a U.S. worker rebellion swells over vaccine mandates  —  In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according to a union official.
Discussion: Breitbart
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Sean Parnell's fiction thriller features graphic violence against women  —  Sean Parnell's military thriller “Man of War” contains graphic scenes of violence against female characters, raising additional questions about his attitude toward women in the wake of court testimony that he physically and verbally abused his estranged wife.
Wall Street Journal:
Federal Judge Files Recusal Notices in 138 Cases After WSJ Queries  —  Rodney Gilstrap initially argued he didn't violate financial-conflicts law  —  One of America's most prominent federal judges acknowledged in court notices that he may have violated the law in 138 lawsuits identified …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Josh Hawley blocks confirmation of several State Dept. nominees  —  Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday blocked swift confirmation of several State Department nominees, in a continuation of the unprecedented GOP-led campaign to slow-walk most of President Joe Biden's picks for top foreign policy posts.
Discussion: Raw Story
John Sexton / HotAir:
NY Times on ‘backlash and bewilderment’ over the left's wokespeak (and Times' commenters weigh in)  —  Yesterday the NY Times published a piece on the left's focus on changing the language to suit their outlook.  The Times piece isn't hostile to the new language or the people who enforce usage …
Discussion: Instapundit and New York Times
 
 
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Farnoush Amiri / Associated Press:
Lawmakers demand apology for border detention of Iranians
Discussion: The Hill
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