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New York Times:
People Tied to Project Veritas Scrutinized in Theft of Diary From Biden's Daughter — The F.B.I. carried out search warrants in New York as part of a Justice Department investigation into how pages from Ashley Biden's journal came to be published by a right wing website.
Antonio Olivo / Washington Post:
Virginia Gov.-elect Youngkin's underaged son tried to vote in Tuesday's election, elections officials said — The 17-year-old son of Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) tried to cast a ballot in Tuesday's gubernatorial election twice despite being too young to vote, Fairfax County officials said in a statement released Friday.
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Scott Clement / Washington Post:
McAuliffe's quote on schools was a clunker, but polls suggest parental backlash didn't swing the election — What exit polling shows about how education issues mattered in Youngkin's win. — Polling director — Education became a surprisingly important factor in the final month …
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Townhall, Susan B. Anthony List and The Daily Signal
Seth Hettena / Rolling Stone:
Glenn Youngkin's Underage Son Attempted to Vote on Election Day, Was Turned Away — Thomas Youngkin was turned away because he was ineligible due to his age, according to a statement from a local election official — A 17-year-old son of Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin tried twice …
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Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Pfizer Inc.:
Pfizer's Novel COVID-19 Oral Antiviral Treatment Candidate Reduced Risk of Hospitalization or Death by 89% in Interim Analysis of Phase 2/3 EPIC-HR Study — PAXLOVID™ (PF-07321332; ritonavir) was found to reduce the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% compared to placebo in non-hospitalized high-risk adults with COVID-19
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New York Times, The Daily Caller, Deseret News, ScienceAlert, Washington Examiner, UPI, New York Post, Reason and CBS San Francisco
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Pfizer antiviral pill reduced risk of covid hospitalization and death by 89 percent in high-risk people, company study shows — An experimental coronavirus pill reduced the risk of hospitalization and death by 89 percent in high-risk people infected with the virus, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced Friday.
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HotAir
Karen Weintraub / USA Today:
Pfizer antiviral drug could nearly end deaths from COVID-19, company study suggests — A new drug being developed by Pfizer offers the possibility of nearly putting an end to deaths from COVID-19. — When given within five days of the onset of symptoms, the antiviral therapy called Paxlovid …
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Associated Press, Mediaite, UPI, The Verge and National Review
Jared S. Hopkins / Wall Street Journal:
Pfizer Says Covid-19 Pill Is 89% Effective in Preliminary Assessment
Pfizer Says Covid-19 Pill Is 89% Effective in Preliminary Assessment
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Human Events, National Review and NPR
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Was the FBI Manipulated by the Democratic Party? — The latest indictment in the investigation of the bureau's Russia probe shows why the story is still relevant. — John Durham, the U.S. attorney appointed in 2019 by then Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins …
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Power Line and The Guardian
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John Sexton / HotAir:
Eli Lake: The Danchenko indictment shows the Democratic Party manipulated the FBI — Ed wrote yesterday about the indictment of Igor Danchenko, Christopher Steele's primary source for the infamous dossier alleging collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. At the time Ed wrote about it …
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We Love Trump and Bloomberg
Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Arrest illustrates how the Steele dossier was a political dirty trick orchestrated by Hillary Clinton
Arrest illustrates how the Steele dossier was a political dirty trick orchestrated by Hillary Clinton
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Louder With Crowder, Reuters, Breitbart, CNBC, Washington Free Beacon, Associated Press, National Review and The Gateway Pundit
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Durham and the Clinton Dossier
Durham and the Clinton Dossier
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Washington Examiner, [your]NEWS, NOQ Report, New York Post, Twitchy, The Western Journal and Election Law Blog
CNN:
Retiring GOP lawmaker warns Trump will try to steal the next election — Programming note: A new CNN documentary, “Trumping Democracy: An American Coup,” reported by Jake Tapper about former President Donald Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 election, premieres at 9 p.m. ET on Friday, November 5.
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Vanity Fair and Raw Story
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Timeline of the coup: How Trump tried to weaponize the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election
Timeline of the coup: How Trump tried to weaponize the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election
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WTOP News and Chicks On The Right
Matt Dixon / Politico:
No million-dollar checks: Democratic governors may sit out Florida — TALLAHASSEE — The Democratic Governors Association has no plans to give significant financial help to Florida Democrats as they seek to unseat Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022, a major setback that will make it harder for challengers to take on the popular Republican.
New York Times:
The U.S. economy added 531,000 jobs in October. — Hiring rose sharply last month. — Cumulative change in jobs since before the pandemic —5 mil. — April — June — Sept. — April —4.2 million jobs since Feb. 2020 +18.2 million since April 2020 — +531,000 — in October
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HotAir, CBS News and Independent Women's Forum
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job creation roars back in October as payrolls rise by 531,000
Job creation roars back in October as payrolls rise by 531,000
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Washington Post, [your]NEWS and Financial Times
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
U.S. economy adds 531,000 jobs in huge hiring rebound
Politico:
Letter: Former Trump DOJ official declines to answer Jan. 6 questions — A top Trump Justice Department official who aided the former president's quest to overturn the 2020 election met Friday with congressional investigators probing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — accompanied by a lawyer …
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Alternet.org, CNN, Raw Story, WTOP News and One America News Network
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
The Surprising Strategy Behind Youngkin's Stunner — Sometimes you want to hear from the strategists rather than the candidate. — With all due respect to Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin — who, for a first-timer from the world of high finance, proved to be remarkably disciplined on the stump …
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American Greatness, HotAir, CNN, East Bay Times, Conservative Brief, Washington Free Beacon and Washington Examiner
Newsweek:
Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Know What Happened to Pols Who Did What They're Doing — It's a core principle of economics that people do what they are incentivized to do. That may be why Senators Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., haven't hesitated to oppose popular progressive policies …
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The Daily Poster and Jacobin
Nellie Bowles / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
A Very Exciting Introduction — TGIF. A weekly report from Nellie Bowles. — Hello and welcome to the Common Sense weekly news roundup. I'm Nellie Bowles. Until a couple weeks ago, I was a reporter at the New York Times. Funky local paper. — During my four years at the Times …
Jessica Wehrman / Roll Call:
Moderates not ready to back budget bill without CBO score — House Democratic leaders were struggling Friday morning to muster the final few votes needed to pass their sweeping $2 trillion budget reconciliation package over cost concerns from moderates. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi huddled …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Fox News and New York Post
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Democratic Aide Irritated with Biden: I'm Almost Ready to Chant 'Let's Go, Brandon' — To the extent President Biden commented about the seemingly endless negotiations over the spending bills on Capitol Hill, he has offered generic, optimistic assessments: “I believe that Joe [Manchin] will be there.”
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Washington Examiner and Politico
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Sinema's raking in cash from MLMs. They want to kill her party's labor bill. — They've been derided as spruced up pyramid schemes: Companies that incentivize their own customers to become salespeople for products. Now, these so-called multilevel marketing businesses are flexing their political muscle.
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Raw Story, Rolling Stone and Jacobin
Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna / Politico:
When the Unstoppable Activists Met Their Match — Six months ago, the Sunrise Movement was feeling bullish. The four-year-old youth climate organization had catapulted a massive legislative blueprint, the Green New Deal, to the forefront of Democratic politics.
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Associated Press
Wall Street Journal:
Fed's Powell and Brainard Met With Biden at White House — President Biden is expected to decide soon on who will lead Federal Reserve — WASHINGTON—President Biden held separate meetings with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Fed governor Lael Brainard at the White House on Thursday …
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CNBC, Financial Times, The Daily Caller, Political Wire and Washington Post
Andrew Boryga / The Daily Beast:
Travis McMichael's Confederate License Plate Deemed Fair Game in Arbery Trial — DENIED — As legal teams prepared for opening arguments in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial on Friday, the judge dealt an early blow to the defense, ruling that prosecutors can discuss a vanity Confederate license plate …
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Alternet.org, The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A dangerous myth about those big Democratic losses is threatening Biden's agenda — Did Democrats take a big drubbing on Tuesday because they are trying to accomplish too much on behalf of our country? — To some centrist Democrats and opinionmakers, the answer is yes.
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Insider, New York Times and Mediaite
Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash — Proposed guidelines in the state would de-emphasize calculus, reject the idea that some children are naturally gifted and build a connection to social justice. Critics say math shouldn't be political.
Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal:
States Sue to Stop Biden's Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate — Lawsuit alleges requirement is unconstitutional; White House says it has authority to issue rules — Attorneys general in 11 states are suing the Biden administration to try to stop new rules that require employers with more than 100 workers …
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The Hill and Associated Press
Yew Lun Tian / Reuters:
China says it will hold supporters of Taiwan's independence criminally responsible for life — China will make people who support Taiwan independence criminally liable for life, a spokeswoman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office said on Friday. — This is the first time that China has spelt …
Wall Street Journal:
Is Facebook Bad for You? 360 Million Users Say Yes, Company Documents Show — The app hurts sleep, work, relationships or parenting for about 12.5% of users, who reported they felt Facebook was more of a problem than other social media — Facebook researchers have found that 1 in 8 …
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CNN:
Deposition video shows Trump allies under oath discussing debunked election fraud claims — Washington (CNN)Allies of former President Donald Trump testified under oath that they had done little to verify debunked claims of fraud in the 2020 election before spreading them on the national stage …
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Alternet.org, Rolling Stone, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Mediaite
Paul Fanlund / The Cap Times:
The Donald Trump threat is existential, yet Democrats practice politics as usual — The nine people in the focus group were from Madison, Eau Claire, Fontana, Green Bay, Evansville, Milwaukee and Brookfield. Each identified as a political independent and as a Joe Biden voter.