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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: McCarthy filibusters, Biden dithers and Fauci unmasks
Discussion: Fox News, The Daily Wire and CNN
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
What Does the Future Hold for Kevin McCarthy and Kamala Harris?
Politico:
Pennsylvania Republicans baffled by celebrity doctor's Senate bid
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Hinkel / New York Times:
Reconstructing the Rittenhouse Shootings: How Kenosha Echoed America's Polarization  —  A police officer in Kenosha, Wis., shoots a Black man named Jacob Blake seven times from behind, leaving him partially paralyzed.  [gunshots] “Black lives matter!”  Crowd: “Black lives matter!”
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Nathan Layne / Washington Free Beacon:
Kyle Rittenhouse Acquitted of All Charges  —  KENOSHA, Wis. (Reuters) — A jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on Friday on charges that he murdered two men and attempted to kill a third with his semi-automatic rifle during chaotic 2020 racial justice protests in Wisconsin, determining that the teenager acted in self-defense.
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
What Disarray?  Democrats Are Getting Stuff Done  —  House approval of the party's big climate and spending bill shows that the messy public squabbling over its particulars has actually been constructive negotiation.  —  The House of Representatives finally voted Friday morning to approve the …
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Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
Kamala Harris makes history, again, as first woman with presidential power — for 85 minutes
USA Today:
Biden to undergo ‘routine annual physical’ at Walter Reed Friday morning
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Biden expected to replace Ron Bloom, USPS board chair and key DeJoy ally, on postal board  —  Bloom, a Democrat, has backed the postmaster general as the agency slowed mail delivery standards and raised prices  —  President Biden is expected to announce Friday that he will not renominate Ron Bloom …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wisconsin Republicans Push to Take Over the State's Elections  —  Led by Senator Ron Johnson, G.O.P. officials want to eliminate a bipartisan elections agency — and maybe send its members to jail.  —  Republicans in Wisconsin are engaged in an all-out assault on the state's election infrastructure …
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Washington Post:
Fauci's office flooded with attacks over beagle experiments  —  Covid chief's phone line rings 3,600 times in 36 hours after campaign by little-known animal rights group  —  Anthony S. Fauci was swamped by so many angry messages and threats that in late October his assistant quit answering the phone for two weeks.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Rachel Roubein / Washington Post:
NIH director: ‘Conspiracies are winning here’
Discussion: National Review
CNN:
Peng Shuai: UN calls for proof of Chinese tennis star's whereabouts; WTA chairman willing to pull out of China  —  Hong Kong (CNN)China is facing pressure from the United Nations over Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai's whereabouts as the organization called for an investigation into her allegations of sexual assault.
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CNN:
Trump's ire grows as DeSantis' popularity with Republicans takes off  —  People close to both men first noticed the palpable shift in Trump's posture toward DeSantis earlier this year as enthusiasm for the Florida governor swelled among donors and GOP operatives who praised his laissez-faire response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
‘Typical Bullsh*t’: Fox News Host Melts Down When Mediaite Asks About Fox's Vaccine Policy and Whether Trump Lost in 2020  —  Fox News host Pete Hegseth was my guest on this week's episode of The Interview.  Hegseth is the co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend and a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
‘Tiger mother’ Amy Chua: ‘Boldness is my downfall’ … Owing to my forgetfulness, my lunch with Amy Chua starts awkwardly before it even begins.  On the train to New Haven, home of Yale University where Chua has been a tenured professor for 20 years, I realise that I forgot to reserve …
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:
Facebook Sent Me Down a Centrist Rabbit Hole  —  In 2019, a researcher at Facebook conducted an experiment to see whether the platform really has a tendency to send users down a rabbit hole of extreme and conspiratorial content.  The employee set up a pair of fake profiles—for Trump-supporting …
Christina Wyman / NBC News:
Schools face parents who want to ban critical race theory — and don't get how teaching works  —  An educator's top goal is to teach students to think.  Parents who dictate curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies and biases hinder that goal.  —  CRT outrage & the VA governor's race
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Court bars New York Times from publishing Project Veritas memos in move called ‘unconstitutional’  —  The order is temporary for now, but press freedom advocates say it violates First Amendment principles long upheld by the Supreme Court  —  A New York state judge ruled on Thursday …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Scoop: Surprise Trump book, ‘Our Journey Together’  —  Former President Donald Trump today shocked the publishing world that has tried to cancel his administration by revealing that he is releasing his first post-White House book in December, titled Our Journey Together.
Joe Sneve / Argus Leader:
Gov. Kristi Noem losing another chief of staff, taps attorney Mark Miller to assume position  —  An attorney advising Gov. Kristi Noem for the last 13 months is taking on a larger role in her administration.  —  High-ranking state officials and staff in the South Dakota governor's office …
 
 
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
The Ugly New Charges Against Jan. 6 Rioter ‘Baked Alaska’
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The Bonnie and Clyde of MAGA World
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Terror in the Capitol Tunnel
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Biden has a major economic decision to make and he can't seem to pull the trigger
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Joe Biden's Infrastructure Bill Is a Big Success
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Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

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