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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
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Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
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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Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Rachel Maddow's Shocking New Low — With last night's loony response to the indictment of Igor Danchenko, the MSNBC anchor takes a bold leap off the credibility cliff — Yesterday, Special Counsel John Durham indicted Brookings Institute analyst Igor Danchenko, better known as the primary source …
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Law & Crime and NOQ Report
John Sexton / HotAir:
Eli Lake: The Danchenko indictment shows the Democratic Party manipulated the FBI
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We Love Trump and Bloomberg
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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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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Wall Street Journal, HotAir and National Review
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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Politico:
Trump DOJ official who aided effort to overturn election declines to answer Jan. 6 questions — A top Trump Justice Department official who aided the former president's quest to overturn the 2020 election refused to answer substantive questions in a meeting with congressional investigators on Friday.
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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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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Timeline of the coup: How Trump tried to weaponize the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election
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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.
Politico:
Pelosi tries to rev House Dems after season in the ditch — Democrats got a taste this week of how brutal their midterms could be. Now Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her team are trying to turn things around before it's too late. — House leaders entered the Capitol Friday optimistic …
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New York Times:
October 2021 Jobs Report: Gain of 531,000 Offers Brighter Picture — 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
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job creation roars back in October as payrolls rise by 531,000
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Washington Post, [your]NEWS and Financial Times
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
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 Examiner and Washington Free Beacon
New York Times:
Cuomo Sex-Crime Charge May Be ‘Defective,’ D.A. Says — A judge granted the Albany County district attorney's request for an adjournment, after prosecutors cited potentially “exculpatory” mistakes in the investigation. — The sex-crime case against former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was thrown …
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Fox News, CNBC and Political Wire
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
John Eastman Is Not Good With Computers — The legal scholar who advised Trump on his Jan. 6 strategy is making a lot of mistakes. — John Eastman is having a rough go of it. The 61-year-old attorney, founding director of the Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence …
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 …
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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Slate, Rolling Stone, Jacobin and Raw Story
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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Washington Examiner, Associated Press and New York Times
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
'I Don't Want to Die for It': School Board Members Face Rising Threats — Across the country, parents have threatened board members and vandalized their homes. One board member scans his driveway before walking to his car. — It was only days after Sami Al-Abdrabbuh was re-elected …
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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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Financial Times, CNBC, 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, Mediaite, IJR and The Daily Wire
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.
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 …
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