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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: National Review, CNN, Townhall and The Hill
David Edwards / Raw Story:   Steve Bannon admits Youngkin's ties to Trump: 'The policies he's recommending are Trump policies'
Cliff Owen / ABC News:
Virginia's 2021 gubernatorial election results
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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
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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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: Insider and New York Post
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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Politico:
Dems aim to squeeze immigration into social spending bill — without path to citizenship  —  There's still a distinct possibility the Senate rules referee will strike down the reform attempt Democrats are pushing into their $1.75 trillion bill.  —  The plan from Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) …
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Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Reach Deal on Prescription Drug Pricing, Schumer Says
Discussion: The Daily Wire
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
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 …
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 …
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
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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
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] …
Gaby Galvin / Morning Consult:
Democrats Dropped Medicare Dental and Vision Coverage From Their Social Spending Bill.  Voters Say It's Their Top Priority  —  Health care measures are the most popular among 18 provisions that were considered for the Build Back Better plan  —  Congressional Democrats are scrambling …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin didn't sign off on framework, no ‘rush’ to get deal
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 …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Joe Manchin's former aides lobbied Congress for oil, gas and pharma while he fought to shrink Biden's economic plans  — Sen. Joe Manchin has been working to shrink or eliminate key elements of President Joe Biden's social spending and climate proposal as several of his former advisors lobby Congress.
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 …
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” …
 
 
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Election Day Live Updates: Polls Close in Virginia; Result Is Expected to Signal Nation's Mood
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
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
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Rick Santorum Continues Fall From Disgrace, Lands at Newsmax
Giffords:
Giffords Sues the National Rifle Association for Violating Campaign Finance Laws
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
 Earlier Items: 
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
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump, the billionaire family and the bull semen baron who divides them
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
BBC Chair Samir Shah calls for UK's “outdated” regulatory regime to be improved to let public service broadcasters compete with US streaming giants for viewers

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

 
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