Donald Trump fever may be breaking  —  Jennings: Youngkin gives GOP a blueprint on how to talk to voters again  —  (CNN)In Tuesday's elections, Republican candidates surged in blue states, cities rejected major police reform and suburban voters showed their independence.  The major takeaways?

Reeling From Surprise Losses, Democrats Sound the Alarm for 2022  —  Party officials say the White House and Congress must do more to address the electorate's deep malaise or risk watching voters lurch back toward the G.O.P. by default.  —  WASHINGTON — Reeling from a barrage of unexpected losses …

3 U. of Florida Experts Couldn't Testify on a Voting-Rights Law.  This Professor Had No Trouble.  —  The University of Florida is embroiled in controversy this week following revelations that, in at least four cases, it denied professors' requests to testify in lawsuits that challenged policy set …

Top Trump Allies Set Up A ‘Legal Fund’ For Jan. 6 White House Rally Organizers  —  The fund will defend former Trump aides who were involved in planning his speech that day and have been subpoenaed by the House committee investigating the Capitol attack  —  Top allies of Donald Trump …

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers tests positive for COVID-19, will not play in Week 9 vs. Chiefs  —  The NFL's hottest team will be without its most important player Sunday.  —  Aaron Rodgers tested positive for COVID-19 and is out for Green Bay's showdown with the Kansas City Chiefs, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported.

“Anti-CRT” school board candidates are winning  —  A new PAC focused on electing conservative candidates to public school boards — by raising fears about how racism is taught — won three-fourths of its 58 races across seven states on Tuesday.  —  Why it matters: Those wins for the 1776 Project PAC …

A Renowned Holocaust Historian Testified That Charlottesville Rally Organizers' Messages Were A “Call To Arms”  —  Neo-Nazis Christopher Cantwell and Matthew Heimbach on Wednesday seemed almost to forget for a moment that they were in a court of law and defendants in a civil case …

Here's Why Rapid COVID Tests Are So Expensive and Hard to Find  —  Months-long silences.  Mysterious rejections.  Here's what's behind the shortages of a critical tool for ending the pandemic.  —  Coronavirus  —  The U.S. Response to COVID-19 … A few weeks ago, a ProPublica reporter decided to test his kids for COVID-19.

Internal Emails Show How a Lincoln Project Tiki Torch Stunt Went Wrong  —  When Lauren Windsor, a Democratic operative working with the Lincoln Project, sent five young people dressed in khakis, white shirts, and sunglasses to hold tiki torches in front of Glenn Youngkin's campaign bus …

USA Today snubs Winsome Sears, Jason Miyares from report on ‘candidates of color’ who won historic elections  —  Much of the media have downplayed, ignored the diverse GOP ticket in Virginia  —  Winsome Sears: You're looking at the American Dream  —  USA Today raised eyebrows …

EXCLUSIVE: Fauci Staffers Flagged Potential Gain-Of-Function Research At Wuhan Lab In 2016, Records Reveal  — Two subordinates of Dr. Anthony Fauci raised concerns in May 2016 that taxpayer dollars may be funding gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses at a Wuhan lab …

Global CO2 emissions have been flat for a decade, new data reveals  —  Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement have rebounded by 4.9% this year, new estimates suggest, following a Covid-related dip of 5.4% in 2020.  —  The Global Carbon Project (GCP) …

Philip Murphy Wins Narrowly in N.J. Governor's Race  —  The victory over Jack Ciattarelli, which ended Democrats' 44-year re-election losing streak in the state, was far tighter than polls had predicted.  —  Philip D. Murphy, a New Jersey Democrat whose aggressive approach to controlling …

Biden Administration Delays Contractor Vaccine Mandate Until Jan. 4  —  Defense firms had warned of layoffs and weapons-manufacturing delays.  —  The Biden administration is pushing the COVID-19 vaccination deadline for federal contractors from Dec. 8 to Jan. 4, a move that could prevent thousands …

For Progressives, Michelle Wu Points to a Way Forward  —  As a Boston mayoral candidate, she had plenty of opportunity to pivot away from her more liberal ideas.  She didn't, and it paid off.  —  BOSTON — For progressives, Tuesday's elections brought a litany of bad news and one conspicuous bright spot …

Illegal immigrant who posed as minor while crossing border charged with murder in Florida  —  A 24-year-old Honduran immigrant who's charged with murder in the brutal stabbing death of a Florida man had crossed the US border illegally months earlier while posing as an unaccompanied minor, an investigation by The Post found.

You Damn Karens Are Killing America  —  OOPS, THEY DID IT AGAIN … Democrats aren't going to win over the majority of white women, and they need to stop trying and instead court the diverse coalition that can save this country from itself.  —  As a student of American history and a person of color …

Yacht Full of Climate Scientists Plots Giant Sea Gate to Save Manhattan  —  Aboard a boat sailing the city's coastline, an organization outlines the $30 billion plan to keep the island safe from flooding.  —  Aboard the Manhattan II, a 100-foot yacht with glass walls and mahogany panelling …

Giuliani investigators home in on 2019 plan to advance Ukraine interests in US  —  Prosecutors believe Giuliani and two others may have violated law over agreement that would have seen them win lucrative contracts  —  The high-profile federal criminal investigation of Rudy Giuliani …

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Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan dies after being hit by vehicle  —  ALAMEDA — Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan, 72, a trailblazing Asian American politician, died Wednesday after she was hit by a car on the city's South Shore, authorities said.  —  In a statement from Chan's office …

Why New Yorkers Rejected Ballot Proposals on Voting and Redistricting  —  Republicans worked hard to defeat the measures, which aimed to broaden ballot access and change the redistricting process.  Democrats did little to promote them.  —  In October, the New York's Republican and Conservative Parties went nuclear.

Where have you gone, Scranton Joe?  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With Allie Bice.  —  There are a million different ways to spin the results of Tuesday's elections, all seemingly being laid out in reverse chronological order on Twitter.