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11:35 AM ET, October 20, 2022

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Katherine Faulders / Associated Press:
Jan. 6 committee has yet to find a Trump lawyer who'll accept service of subpoena, sources say  —  The panel voted to subpoena the former president last week.  —  Former President Donald Trump pauses while speaking at a rally at the Minden Tahoe Airport in Minden, Nev., on Oct. 8, 2022.
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Sorry, Ron DeSantis, You Are No Donald Trump  —  In the two years since Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, the political-media industrial complex has been busy trying to answer an urgent question: Who is the next Trump?  —  Business has been surprisingly brisk …
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Texts from Loeffler's phone shed light on activities ahead of Jan. 6 and 2021 runoff  —  Tricia Raffensperger's text message, six days after the 2020 elections, was as blistering as it was direct.  —  Hours after Kelly Loeffler, then Georgia's junior U.S. senator, called for her husband …
The Times:
Liz Truss resigns as prime minister — follow latest … Liz Truss has announced she is resigning after 44 days in office, becoming the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.  —  She announced that she would stand down after losing the confidence of Tory MPs and cabinet ministers.
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives  —  The conservative project has failed, and conservatives need to forge a new political identity that reflects our revolutionary moment.  —  Given the state of America in 2022, conservatives should stop calling themselves conservatives.  —  Why?
Discussion: American Prospect
Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
‘A Category 2 or 3 Hurricane Headed Democrats’ Way'  —  With less than three weeks to go before the midterms, the GOP appears to be gaining momentum, as inflation and the economy dominate voters' concerns.  And while the Senate outlook still remains plausibly optimistic for Democrats, the House presents a darker picture.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Associated Press:
Election deniers could make deep changes to Arizona voting  —  Gathered at a table in the state Capitol a little less than two years ago, two Republicans and a Democrat took part in a ceremony proscribed in state law that made official Joe Biden's 10,500-vote victory in Arizona's 2020 presidential contest.
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Arit John / Los Angeles Times:
Two democracies are forming in the U.S. Zip code determines which one you're in
Tom LoBianco / Yahoo News:
Vote for Trump in 2024? Pence says ‘there might be somebody else I prefer.’
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April Corbin Girnus / Nevada Current:
Adam Laxalt, Trumpism and the Big Lie: An (updated) chronology
Discussion: HuffPost and Associated Press
Washington Post:
U.S. has viewed wreckage of kamikaze drones Russia used in Ukraine  —  Such information could prove crucial in helping the United States and its Ukrainian allies better identify and ultimately defeat the unmanned craft  —  The U.S. government has examined the wreckage of Iranian-made drones shot …
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United States Department of State:
On Russia's Acquisition of UAVs from Iran
Discussion: CBS News, The Hill and UPI
Steve Schmidt / The Warning:
Kevin McCarthy's betrayal of the United States of America  —  Kevin McCarthy was my friend.  He betrayed the United States of America and his duty and obligations to the Constitutional Oath that he took.  —  His conduct over the Trump era has been abhorrent.
Discussion: MSNBC
U.S. Department of Justice:
Columbia County Man Indicted For Threatening The President, A Congressman And A Federal Judge  —  SCRANTON- The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Maverick Vargo, age 25, of Berwick, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury …
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Associated Press:
Prison escapee accused of sending threatening letter containing powder to Jan. 6 committee chair
Discussion: Raw Story
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Anti-Woke Superhero Movie Blown Up in $1 Million Con  —  The film was a Confederacy-themed superhero comic book character created by a right-wing blogger.  But then the money disappeared.  —  An attempt to make a right-wing superhero movie has ended in disaster, with $1 million missing …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Judge Says Trump Signed Statement With Data His Lawyers Told Him Was False  —  The determination came in a decision by a federal judge that John Eastman, a lawyer for the former president, had to turn more of his emails over to the House Jan. 6 committee.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump signed …
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Steve Liesman / CNBC:
GOP holds big leads on key economic issues ahead of the November elections, CNBC survey shows  —  The third-quarter CNBC All-America Economic Survey finds some modest improvements in economic attitudes and in President Joe Biden's approval ratings across the country, but Americans still harbor …
Discussion: The Hill
John Besche / Eater DC:
Tryst Is Suddenly D.C.'s Newest Cop Cafe, and Some People Are Pissed  —  Despite internet backlash, the Adams Morgan anchor welcomes community-wide conversation about crime starting this week  —  Washingtonians know Tryst as a longtime hub for the artsy, the under-caffeinated, and the first-date unimaginative.
Politico:
Biden world privately thinks McCarthy could fold on Ukraine aid  —  The GOP's internal rift over how long to keep U.S. aid flowing to war-ravaged Ukraine is spilling into public view weeks before a midterm election that could hand the party full control of Congress.
Ian Dunt / The i Paper:
The corpse of the Tory party has woken up again - only to find ingenious new ways to murder itself  —  Liz Truss's government is now piece of performance art on national humiliation  —  All she needed to do was not mess up.  That was all that was required of her.  Liz Truss had secured a brief moment of calm.
New York Times:
With Crucial Elections Looming, Biden Breaks Tradition of Big Campaign Rallies  —  President Biden's low profile on the campaign trail reflects a low approval rating that makes him unwelcome in some congressional districts and states at a pivotal moment before the midterms.
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Will McDuffie / ABC News:
Sellers of Dr. Oz's new home in Pennsylvania say they ‘insisted on’ adding an unusual wrinkle  —  The GOP Senate nominee has pointed to the property amid criticism of his roots.  —  Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz hosts a safer streets community discussion at Galdos Catering …
New York Times:
Times Square May Get One of the Few Spectacles It Lacks: A Casino  —  The battle to win a New York City casino license has heated up in Manhattan, with real estate and gambling giants offering competing proposals for Times Square and Hudson Yards.  —  Times Square, New York City's famed Crossroads …
Washington Post:
False claim that CDC would require covid vaccines for kids goes viral  —  ‘This is an all new level of dangerous misinformation,’ says former top health official  —  On Tuesday morning, a Fox News contributor claimed on Twitter that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was set …
Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Truss faces clamor to quit amid UK government chaos  —  U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss was hanging on to power by a thread on Thursday, after a senior minister quit her government with a barrage of criticism and a vote in the House of Commons descended into chaos and acrimony.
Associated Press:
Afghan couple accuse US Marine of abducting their baby  —  The young Afghan couple raced to the airport in Kabul, clutching their baby girl close amid the chaotic withdrawal of American troops last year.  —  The baby had been rescued two years earlier from the rubble of a U.S. Special Forces raid …
The Economist:
Welcome to Britaly  —  A country of political instability, low growth and subordination to the bond markets  —  In 2012 liz truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, two of the authors of a pamphlet called “Britannia Unchained”, used Italy as a warning.  Bloated public services, low growth, poor productivity …
Discussion: Insider
 
 
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork, with Chris Geidner:
The attacks on LGBTQ people — especially trans people — aren't stopping
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Vladimir Putin's Place in the Culture Wars
Jessica Chasmar / Fox News:
State Department funding ‘drag theater performances’ in Ecuador to ‘promote diversity and inclusion’
Corey DeAngelis / Wall Street Journal:
Another Democrat Flips on School Choice
Discussion: Fox News
United States Capitol Police:
USCP Clear Suspicious Van, Arrest Driver for Bringing Guns to Capitol Grounds
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Jonathan Lambert / Grid News:
An exclusive Harris-Grid poll finds Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to have gotten the flu shot this year
Discussion: Chris Waldburger, Quartz and WWLP-TV
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Pence warns of ‘unprincipled populists,’ ‘Putin apologists’
 

 
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