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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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Public Notice, Politico, NBC News, Crooks and Liars, Mother Jones, ABC7, Townhall, Insider, The Triad, YouTube and Eschaton
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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.
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
Newt Gingrich: If it's close in Virginia, Democrats will steal it
Newt Gingrich: If it's close in Virginia, Democrats will steal it
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Media Matters for America, The American Independent and YouGov
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Carville: Blame Beltway Dems if McAuliffe loses today
Carville: Blame Beltway Dems if McAuliffe loses today
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CNN, The Hill, Townhall and National Review
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Youngkin: I'm Not Going To Be Lectured On Race By A Guy Who Embraces Someone Who Wore Blackface
Youngkin: I'm Not Going To Be Lectured On Race By A Guy Who Embraces Someone Who Wore Blackface
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Steve Bannon admits Youngkin's ties to Trump: 'The policies he's recommending are Trump policies'
Matt Welch / Reason:
Virginia Governor Race Is an Education Policy Wake-Up Call That Democrats (and the Media) Won't Heed
Virginia Governor Race Is an Education Policy Wake-Up Call That Democrats (and the Media) Won't Heed
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RedState, Washington Examiner, Newsbusters, Townhall, HotAir, The Dispatch and Rolling Stone
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 …
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Insider, New York Post and New York Times
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
Photos show QAnon believers gathering in Dallas — where they believe JFK Jr. will reveal he's still alive
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Crooks and Liars
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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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.
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Raw Story
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 …
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Associated Press, Insider, Mediaite and NBC New York
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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The Hill, statements.ufl.edu and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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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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New Republic, National Review and The Texas Tribune
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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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The official website …, Daily Kos and The Hill
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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.
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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.
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Daily Kos, BizPac Review, Political Wire, The Daily Caller and Alternet.org
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.
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The Verge
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
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RedState and The Federalist
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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,” …
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NOQ Report, New York Post and UPI
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.
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!
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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.
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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 …
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Washington Examiner, New York Post, National File and TheBlaze
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.