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Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
Ron DeSantis sends two planes of illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard — Florida governor sends migrants to Martha's Vineyard as part of program ‘to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations’ — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sends planes of illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard
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Brooke Kushwaha / The Vineyard Gazette:
Planeload of Venezuelan Migrants Arrives at Martha's Vineyard Airport … A plane carrying approximately 48 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia landed unexpectedly at Martha's Vineyard Airport Wednesday afternoon. Island officials and emergency management representatives were gathering to deal with the situation.
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New York Times:
Florida Flies 2 Planeloads of Migrants to Martha's Vineyard — The moneyed summer resort became an unlikely arena in the fight over illegal immigration. Republican states have bused thousands of migrants to New York and Washington. — About 50 migrants unexpectedly arrived by plane …
Associated Press:
Biden says a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a strike — President Biden said early Thursday that a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a potentially devastating strike before the pivotal midterm elections.
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Washington Post:
Biden says ‘tentative’ deal reached to avert rail strike — In a statement, the president said the agreement will guarantee “better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs” for the workers — The White House on Thursday morning announced it had reached a …
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Railroad Unions and Companies Reach a Tentative Deal to Avoid a Strike — President Biden announced the agreement after negotiations brokered by the labor secretary lasted deep into the night. — WASHINGTON — Freight rail companies and unions representing tens of thousands of workers reached …
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CNBC and Common Dreams
Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Railroad Strike Averted as Tentative Deal Is Reached
U.S. Railroad Strike Averted as Tentative Deal Is Reached
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National Review
NBC News:
Biden announces tentative deal to avert rail strike that threatened massive disruption
Biden announces tentative deal to avert rail strike that threatened massive disruption
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Common Dreams and Raw Story
CNN:
Exclusive: Mark Meadows complied with DOJ subpoena in January 6 probe — Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has complied with a subpoena from the Justice Department's investigation into events surrounding January 6, 2021, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN …
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Jeffrey Clark told DC Bar that DOJ search of his home linked to false statements, conspiracy, obstruction investigation — The Justice Department is investigating felony violations of false statements, conspiracy and obstruction as part of its January 6, 2021, probe that led to a recent search …
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
Trump told Jordan's king he would give him the West Bank, shocking Abdullah II, book says — President Trump once offered what he considered “a great deal” to Jordan's King Abdullah II: control of the West Bank, whose Palestinian population long sought to topple the monarchy.
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The Times of Israel, Insider, Political Wire and Raw Story
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
'You're blowing this': New book reveals Melania Trump criticized her husband's handling of Covid — Former President Donald Trump's top general feared he would authorize a strike on Iran as his presidency ended. His intelligence chief wonde red what Russia had on him.
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HuffPost, Sputnik News and Insider
David Greenberg / New York Times:
A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House
A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House
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The Guardian and Raw Story
Axios:
McConnell's renegades — Two of the highest-profile Republicans in the Senate are publicly defying Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on high-stakes issues vital to the GOP's chances of retaking the majority next year. … They see the “freelancing” — as one source close to the leader described it …
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Walter Shapiro / New Republic:
Mitch McConnell's Refusal to Seat Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court Is Coming Back to Haunt Him — It's a beguiling fantasy: Mitch McConnell lies bolt awake at 3 o'clock in the morning staring disconsolately at the ceiling. If you listen closely, you can hear him mutter, “Merrick Garland.
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Talking Points Memo, Center for Reproductive Rights and Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Kagan repeats warning that Supreme Court is damaging its legitimacy
Kagan repeats warning that Supreme Court is damaging its legitimacy
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Chicago Sun-Times, Courthouse News Service, Reason and National Review
David Gelles / New York Times:
Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company — A half century after founding the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, the eccentric rock climber who became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given the company away.
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CNBC, Japan Times, CNET, New York Post, Press, CBS News, Tax Person, NPR, Common Dreams, The Hill and Washington Examiner
Politico:
Hidden hand involved in Stewart Rhodes' bid to derail Oath Keepers Jan. 6 trial — A perennial political candidate from Montana who was once denied admission to the bar because of his criminal record and “connections to white supremacy groups” has been playing a behind the scenes role …
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Raw Story
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Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Oath Keepers lawyer and federal judge in screaming match in court over US Capitol riot case
Oath Keepers lawyer and federal judge in screaming match in court over US Capitol riot case
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Raw Story
Twilio Blog:
A Message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson — This is an email that was sent out to all Twilio employees today from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson. — Twilions, — Over the years, we've made lots of changes to the way Twilio operates and is organized, but none harder than what I'm sharing today.
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The Daily Caller and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Rachel Cohen / Air Force Times:
An F-16 pilot died when his ejection seat failed. Was it counterfeit? — An Air Force investigation of a fatal fighter jet crash in 2020 quietly discovered that key components of the pilot's ejection seat may have been counterfeit, Air Force Times has learned.
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RedState
Andrea Bernstein / ProPublica:
For Donald Trump, Information Has Always Been Power — People have wondered why the former president collected classified intel, speculating that he is just a packrat. But he has a long history of gathering and wielding sensitive info to help himself.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden urges Mexico to take migrants under COVID expulsion order he promised to end — As border crossings have soared to record highs, U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is quietly pressing Mexico to accept more migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela under …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Inflation, abortion motivating voter turnout — The generic House ballot test has moved in Democrats' favor — Any Inflation Reduction Act help is ‘years away,’ but midterms are in less than 60 days: Byron York — If the 2022 midterm election is about inflation and crime, that helps the GOP.
New York Times:
In Dramatic Shift, Right-Wing Bloc Wins Slim Majority in Sweden — Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Wednesday that she would resign. Despite the success of the far-right Sweden Democrats, they will influence but are not expected to be formally part of the governing coalition.
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WTOP News, Washington Post, The Guardian, Financial Times, UPI, The Daily Caller and Associated Press
Ben Goggin / NBC News:
Doctored videos exacerbate Fetterman speech issues in viral social media posts — Numerous videos on TikTok and Twitter appeared to be edited to exacerbate the candidate's speech issues after his stroke. They've been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
This Candidate Thinks The 2020 Election Was Illegitimate. But He'd Rather You Didn't Know That. — Roughly 200 Republican candidates running for Senate, House, governor, attorney general or secretary of state have indicated publicly that the 2020 presidential election was illegitimate, despite all the evidence to the contrary.1
Associated Press:
Biden approval rises sharply ahead of midterms: AP-NORC poll — President Joe Biden's popularity improved substantially from his lowest point this summer, but concerns about his handling of the economy persist, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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The Atlantic and Wide World of News
Thomas Curwen / Los Angeles Times:
Henry Fuhrmann, Times editor and ‘word nerd’ who fought for fairness in grammar, dies — No one had really paid too much attention to the hyphen. In matters of race and heritage — as in “African-Americans” or “Italian-Americans” — it was easily overlooked, an innocuous piece of punctuation that seemed to make sense.
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David K. Li / NBC News:
Michigan man who killed his wife went down a ‘rabbit hole’ of conspiracy theories after Trump's 2020 loss, daughter says — Michigan woman ‘shocked’ after ‘radicalized’ father is fatally shot by police after he killed wife — The Michigan man who gunned down his wife …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Jan. 6 panel's subpoena yields “thousands” of Secret Service records — The chair of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack said Wednesday that the panel has received “thousands of exhibits” from Secret Service agents in response to its July subpoena of the agency.
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Bloomberg, The Hill, New York Magazine, Political Wire, Raw Story and Breitbart
Hannah Allam / Washington Post:
Missing people, buried bones at center of Oklahoma mystery — A high-stakes criminal investigation is a window into the often unseen threat of white-supremacist prison gangs — OKLAHOMA CITY — The caller had news but warned LaVonne Harris not to get her hopes up.
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Ostracized by the West, Russia Finds a Partner in Saudi Arabia — The two oil-producing countries have extended their partnership even as the United States and Europe have sought to punish and isolate Russia for invading Ukraine. — As Russia massed troops on its border with Ukraine …
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Mastriano Ally: God Told Me Prince Charles Would Murder Queen Elizabeth — “Prophet” Julie Green also claimed the real Joe Biden is dead and that Obama controls his body double — Doug Mastriano's campaign had her speak at his rally … Consider the case of the royal formerly known as Prince Charles, recently crowned king of England.
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects Orthodox Jewish university's emergency request to deny official recognition to LGBTQ student group — The Supreme Court said Wednesday that an Orthodox Jewish university in New York is required for now to officially recognize an LGBTQ student group in a rare legal defeat for religious rights.
Sam Baker / Axios:
Biden outpacing Trump with blistering pace of judicial confirmations — President Biden has appointed more new federal judges than former President Trump had at the same point in his term, and there are more still to come. … Since its earliest days, the Biden administration has been determined …
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Insider:
Donald Trump's visit to his Virginia golf course was in preparation for 2023 LIV Golf event — The mystery of what Donald Trump was doing at his Northern Virginia golf course earlier this week has been solved: His club is undergoing renovations ahead of a LIV Golf tournament slated for next spring …
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Politico and Washington Examiner