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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
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Townhall, The Daily Signal and Susan B. Anthony List
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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Power Line and The Guardian
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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
Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Arrest illustrates how the Steele dossier was a political dirty trick orchestrated by Hillary Clinton
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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HotAir, Wall Street Journal and National Review
Karen Weintraub / USA Today:
Pfizer antiviral drug could nearly end deaths from COVID-19, company study suggests
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Associated Press, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, Deseret News and National Review
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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CNN:
Exclusive: Inside the Capitol Police intelligence unit overhaul that caused confusion ahead of January 6 — Programming note: A new CNN documentary, “Trumping Democracy: An American Coup,” about former President Donald Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 election, premieres at 9 p.m. ET on Friday, November 5.
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Timeline of the coup: How Trump tried to weaponize the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election
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Alternet.org, WTOP News and Chicks On The Right
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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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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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:
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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The White House, 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
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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
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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Washington Post, Fox News, CNBC and Political Wire
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, CNN, HotAir, East Bay Times, Conservative Brief, Washington Examiner and Washington Free Beacon
Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Texas attorney general sues Biden administration, slams ‘flatly unconstitutional’ federal vaccine mandate — Paxton says the mandate represents ‘federal overreach’ — Dana White explains why he opposes vaccine mandates — Texas' Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit …
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Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal:
States Sue to Stop Biden's Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate
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The Hill and Associated Press
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 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 …
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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Politico and Washington Examiner
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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Insider
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
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
Eugene R. Fidell / Just Security:
The Missing Kabul Drone Strike Report — the Defense Department announced that it had completed its investigation into the Aug. 29, 2021 drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in Kabul. The report itself remains classified. The official single-page fact sheet asserts …
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MSNBC and The Intercept
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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Media Matters for America, Mediaite, Insider and IJR
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