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Quinnipiac University Poll:
More Prefer Republicans To Win Control Of The House And Senate, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 68% Say Higher Prices Are Changing Spending Habits — mail_outline — With Election Day in the rearview mirror and both political parties setting their sights on the 2022 midterm elections …
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Marquette University:
New Marquette Law School Poll finds majority of Republicans across the nation favor a Trump run for president in 2024, while majority of voters overall are opposed — Please note: Complete Poll results and methodology information can be found online at law.marquette.edu/poll
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Democrats, You Have One Job — And most of the country thinks you're failing at it. — Barring some act of God, the Democratic party is going to get crushed in next year's midterms. — Redistricting (aka gerrymandering) has already netted Republicans five new seats …
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Politico:
Dems agonize over tax cuts for rich: ‘Bad policy, bad politics’ — Democrats are struggling with a huge problem that could sink them at the ballot box: They may end up looking more sympathetic to rich people than Republicans. — After spending several election cycles campaigning …
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Politico:
Dems scramble to finish social spending bill as price tag expected Thursday
Dems scramble to finish social spending bill as price tag expected Thursday
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators appalled by ‘ridiculous’ House infighting
GOP senators appalled by ‘ridiculous’ House infighting
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Biden's approval dips to 36 percent in new Quinnipiac poll
Biden's approval dips to 36 percent in new Quinnipiac poll
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Two Iranian Nationals Charged for Cyber-Enabled Disinformation and Threat Campaign Designed to Influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election — An indictment was unsealed in New York today charging two Iranian nationals for their involvement in a cyber-enabled campaign to intimidate …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
U.S. indicts two Iranian hackers over 2020 election misinformation campaign — Two alleged Iranian hackers were indicted by the U.S. Justice Department Thursday and accused of engaging in a hacking and disinformation campaign targeting American voters in the run-up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Feds charge two Iranians with interference in U.S. 2020 election — The Justice Department announced charges Thursday against two Iranians who are accused of helping to orchestrate a cyber-enabled campaign to intimidate and influence American voters in the 2020 election.
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David Brooks / The Atlantic:
The Terrifying Future of the American Right — Rachel Bovard is one of the thousands of smart young Americans who flock to Washington each year to make a difference. She's worked in the House and Senate for Republicans Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, and Mike Lee, was listed among the …
Press Association:
Pennsylvania teen had his hands up when fatally shot by State Police, new videos show — Authorities obscured the last 4 seconds of Christian Hall's life in publicly released videos. New footage shows he had his hands up when troopers killed him. — STROUDSBURG, Pa. …
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David Gura / NPR:
A look into the ugly and incredibly personal fight over Biden's pick to oversee banks — The president's pick to become a top banking regulator doesn't usually attract a lot of interest, but this time is different. — President Biden has nominated Saule Omarova, a law professor at Cornell University …
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Biden bank cop nomination in doubt after fiery hearing
Biden bank cop nomination in doubt after fiery hearing
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Kyle Rittenhouse's Defense Was Strong. It's Also a Threat to the Rule of Law. — In August 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse illegally brought an AR-15 rifle to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the name of law and order. As protests and riots raged in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake …
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Kyle Rittenhouse's Firearm Made Everything Worse
Kyle Rittenhouse's Firearm Made Everything Worse
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Prominent scientist who said lab-leak theory of covid-19 origin should be probed now says evidence points to Wuhan market — Controversy continues amid sketchy data and lack of transparency from Chinese authorities — The location of early coronavirus infections in late 2019 in Wuhan …
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New York Times
Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
Belarus's Lukashenko tried to use migrants as a weapon. That's now turned against him. — MOSCOW — Months after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko unleashed a migrant crisis against the European Union, the gambit has come full circle. — Lukashenko's regime is now struggling …
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Matt Leach / Fox News:
Florida Gov. DeSantis trolls President Biden, will sign bills limiting vaccine mandates in Brandon, FL — DeSantis to sign legislation expanding exemptions to vaccination mandates — Fox News Flash top headlines for November 18 — BRANDON, Fla. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected …
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Florida Curtails Coronavirus Mandates, Reflecting Wishes of Vaccine Skeptics
Florida Curtails Coronavirus Mandates, Reflecting Wishes of Vaccine Skeptics
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ProPublica:
Texts Show Kimberly Guilfoyle Bragged About Raising Millions for Rally That Fueled Capitol Riot — Text messages reviewed by ProPublica represent the strongest indication yet that members of the Trump family inner circle were involved in financing and organizing the Jan. 6 “Save America” …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Murdoch Has the Power If He Wants Trump to Move On — The media mogul can order his properties to stop enabling the former president's falsehoods and conspiracy theories. — Rupert Murdoch told News Corp.'s shareholders that former President Donald Trump needs to get over himself.
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Adela Suliman / Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch says Trump should move on: ‘The past is the past’
Rupert Murdoch says Trump should move on: ‘The past is the past’
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Phill Swagel / CBO Publications:
CBO to Publish a Complete Cost Estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, This Afternoon — The Congressional Budget Office will publish a complete cost estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act (Rules Committee Print 117-18 incorporating a manager's amendment by Congressman Yarmuth), this afternoon.
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Why Vermont's Phil Scott, the Country's Most Popular Governor, May Be Resisting the GOP's Calls to the Senate — Scott's standing is driven by solid support among Democrats and independents — Republican Phil Scott of Vermont has been America's most popular governor throughout 2021 …
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Biden says he is ‘considering’ diplomatic boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics — Biden, Xi hold virtual summit amid rising U.S.-China tensions — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Thursday that his administration was considering a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Biden expected to opt for “diplomatic boycott” of 2022 Winter Olympics
Biden expected to opt for “diplomatic boycott” of 2022 Winter Olympics
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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
The Pattern of GOP Voter Fraud — In case after case from 2020, it turns out that Republicans were the ones misbehaving at the ballot box. — On Tuesday, Donald Kirk Hartle, the CFO of a Nevada company that hosted a September 2020 rally for Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to voting twice …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Why Democrats are so bad at politics — Americans have much more in common than the party's conventional approach allows — The skill at which Donald Trump excels is creating a master narrative and ensuring every American hears it — no consultants needed.
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Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
Anxiety builds waiting for verdicts in the Rittenhouse and McMichael-Bryan trials — Donald Grant finds it difficult to look at the trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery through a single lens. Whether he processes it as a Black man, as the father of a young son or as a mental health professional …
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Politico:
Say goodbye to swing districts. Lawmakers are drawing easy wins in dozens of states. — When most voters go to the polls to elect members of Congress next year, the general election will essentially be meaningless. That's because winners are being determined right now …
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Trump's Bureau of Land Management HQ move reduced Black employees, created mass vacancies, report says — Government Accountability Office report also finds headquarters move to Colorado led to ‘confusion and inefficiency’ at BLM — As Trump officials were moving the headquarters of the Bureau …
Matthew Cantor / The Guardian:
Cryptographers fight to keep ‘crypto’ prefix: ‘We all have hills we are willing to die on’ — Los Angeles' renamed Crypto.com stadium is good news for cryptocurrency fanatics but strikes a blow against cryptographers — he stadium that is home to the Los Angeles Lakers is getting a new name: the Crypto.com Arena.
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Dozens of health groups urge businesses to voluntarily adopt Biden's vaccine rule — Doctors, nurses and other associations say blocked mandate is ‘reasonable and essential’ to fight coronavirus … The American Medical Association and more than 60 other health care associations …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's rage at Georgia Republicans should unsettle us all — Earlier this year, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the most nationally scrutinized “election integrity” bill in the country. The Republican governor hoped this would atone for the sin of being insufficiently corrupt on Donald Trump's behalf …
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oklahoma.gov:
Governor Stitt Commutes Julius Jones' Sentence to Life Without Possibility of Parole — Pursuant to Article 6, Section 10 of the Oklahoma Constitution, Governor Kevin Stitt today issued Executive Order 2021-25 to commute the death sentence of Julius Jones, who was tried and convicted …
Abigail Shrier / The Truth Fairy:
How Activist Teachers Recruit Kids — Leaked Documents and Audio from the California Teachers Association Conference Reveal Efforts to Subvert Parents on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation — Incensed parents now make news almost daily, objecting to radical material taught in their children's public schools.
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