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6:45 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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Youngkin's crowds dwarf McAuliffe's on election eve  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TERRY MCAULIFFE wanted GLENN YOUNGKIN and DONALD TRUMP to campaign together so badly that when it didn't happen, McAuliffe simply invented a Youngkin-Trump event that didn't exist.
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Carville: Blame Beltway Dems if McAuliffe loses today
Discussion: CNN, Townhall, National Review and The Hill
Cliff Owen / ABC News:
Virginia's 2021 gubernatorial election results
Axios:
New GOP brand: Trump Light
Discussion: New Republic
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 …
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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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
Patrick Hauf / Washington Free Beacon:
Supreme Court Orders Review of New York Abortion Mandate  —  The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to review the legality of a New York mandate that requires religious organizations to cover abortion in their insurance plans.  —  A coalition of religious groups petitioned the Court …
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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: Raw Story
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Sen. Rounds' wife dead after two-year battle with cancer  —  Rounds was diagnosed with cancer in 2019  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for November 2  —  Jean Rounds, wife of Republican South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, has passed away from cancer at the age of 65.
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Argus Leader:
Jean Rounds, South Dakota's former first lady, dies from cancer
Discussion: The Hill
Annabelle Timsit / Washington Post:
NYC police unions warned vaccine mandates would pull 10,000 officers off streets.  So far, the number is 34.  —  The heads of the five major unions representing members of the New York City Police Department warned that 10,000 unvaccinated police officers were “set to be pulled from [the] …
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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
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
Galaxy Brain Is Moving!  —  (Not going to the metaverse...yet)  —  Before I get extra self-indulgent, I'll lead with the news.  I'm moving Galaxy Brain from Substack over to The Atlantic.  The newsletter will exist in the same form with the promise of the same amount of editorial freedom.
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” …
ProPublica:
Poison in the Air  —  Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution … From the urban sprawl of Houston to the riverways of Virginia, air pollution from industrial plants is elevating the cancer risk of an estimated quarter of a million Americans to a level the federal government considers unacceptable.
Discussion: The Verge
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.
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Actor Kristy Swanson, Who Spread Virus Misinformation, Is Hospitalized With COVID-19  —  The pro-Trump actor, best known for her titular role in “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” said she's developed pneumonia.  —  Actor Kristy Swanson, the original “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” …
Discussion: NOQ Report, New York Post and UPI
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: It was the woke cover-up that electrified the Virginia governor's race, now on election day the mother of skirt-wearing teen who raped a female classmate in girls' bathroom says he is a troubled boy who identifies as male and just wanted sex  — A judge found the teenage boy wearing …
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg / The Appeal:
A Homeless Man Has Spent 800 Days At Rikers After Stealing Cold Medicine.  Now His Prison Sentence May Be Beginning.  —  Blind in one eye and at risk of losing vision in the other, 58-year-old Reginald Randolph is now on the verge of being sent to state prison to serve out a maximum of four years.
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
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Rick Santorum Continues Fall From Disgrace, Lands at Newsmax  —  HE'S BACK  —  Newsmax announced on Tuesday that former Sen. Rick Santorum will join the MAGA cable outlet as a senior political analyst.  Earlier this year, CNN fired the one-time GOP presidential candidate-turned-pundit …
Jeff Amy / Associated Press:
Georgia official: Trump call to ‘find’ votes was a threat  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump was threatening Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger when he asked him to help “find” enough votes to overturn his loss in Georgia to Democratic President Joe Biden, Raffensperger writes in a new book.
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
DOJ misses deadline to provide Senate info on basis for school board memo  —  Attorney General Merrick Garland had claimed that a letter from the National School Boards Association was not the only reason for the memo  —  Republicans grill Attorney General Garland over threats to investigate school board hearings
Discussion: RedState and The Federalist
 
 
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John Sexton / HotAir:
NY Times on ‘backlash and bewilderment’ over the left's wokespeak (and Times' commenters weigh in)
Discussion: Instapundit and New York Times
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Democrats ask reporters to do better job selling Build Back Better: We ‘rely on all of you’
Discussion: RedState
Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
GOP blasts Schumer for ‘dereliction of duty’ as defense spending package sits in Senate
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Mike Carter / The Seattle Times:
Lawsuit filed by mother of man killed during CHOP anti-police protests dismissed by judge
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Trump leads in hypothetical 2024 GOP primary: poll
Discussion: Florida Politics
Giffords:
Giffords Sues the National Rifle Association for Violating Campaign Finance Laws
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
 Earlier Items: 
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Bosnia is in danger of breaking up, warns top international official
Discussion: Politico and WTOP
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin didn't sign off on framework, no ‘rush’ to get deal
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Shutting Down Historical Debate, China Makes It a Crime to Mock Heroes
Tim Mak / Rolling Stone:
The NRA's ‘First Lady’ Thought Donald Trump Owed Her a Favor. Here's How That Went
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Edwards / Greenwich Time:
Sen. Josh Hawley says liberals' attacks on manhood are driving men to pornography and video games
Discussion: The Hill
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Yale Law Diversity Director at Center of ‘Traphouse’ Controversy Got an Anti-Semite Invited to the Yale Law Journal
Discussion: Power Line, Law & Liberty and Reason
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump, the billionaire family and the bull semen baron who divides them
Discussion: Raw Story