A Last Word on Virginia  —  Dear Readers: Join us Thursday, Nov. 4 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for our annual American Democracy Conference.  The virtual event will begin with a presentation by Project Home Fire's Larry Schack and Mick McWilliams on our ongoing polling and data analytics project.

Senate candidate Sean Parnell's wife testified that he tried to choke her and hit their children  —  BUTLER, Pa. — The estranged wife of Sean Parnell — the candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania …

NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National Poll: Trust in Elections, Threat to Democracy, Biden Approval, November 2021  —  Americans See a Serious Threat to Democracy; Trust Elections Largely on Partisan Basis  —  A majority of Americans (62%) say they will trust the results of the 2024 election …

Here's how many NYPD cops are on unpaid leave over vax mandate  —  Only a few a dozen NYPD members were placed on unpaid leave Monday after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine — but thousands of unvaccinated employees remain on the job with pending exemption requests, the city's top cop said.

Gun dealers sell parts, ammo using anti-Biden meme 'Let's go, Brandon'  —  It arose from a crowd chant at the NASCAR racetrack in Talladega, Ala.  —  Gun dealers are marketing weapon parts and ammunition using a right-wing slogan widely understood as code for profanity directed at President Joe Biden.

Supreme Court Appears Open to Letting Providers Challenge Texas Abortion Law  —  The Supreme Court heard two challenges on Monday to the law, which bars most abortions in Texas after about six weeks of pregnancy.  The first was brought by abortion providers in Texas, and the second was brought by the Justice Department.

Manchin calls on Democrats to slow down on $1.75 trillion spending package, putting imminent House vote in jeopardy  —  West Virginia Democrat raised concerns about debt and inflation and demanded that House lawmakers approve a separate infrastructure bill.  —  Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) …

BREAKING: Loudoun Official Claimed He Might Not Have Seen Email Informing Him Of Sex Assault — Despite Responding To It  —  Internal Loudoun County School Board emails show a shifting explanation about how much school board members knew about a bathroom sex assault, with one member writing …

China Locks 30,000 Visitors Inside Shanghai Disneyland After One Guest Got Covid-19  —  Guests are required to take coronavirus test to exit after a positive case shuts down the park  —  HONG KONG—Shanghai Disneyland was temporarily shut down from Sunday after a visitor was found to be Covid-19-positive …

Former Google Activist Whittaker Expected to Join FTC as AI Adviser  —  Meredith Whittaker, a former employee activist and artificial intelligence researcher at Google, is expected to be hired full time at the Federal Trade Commission as a policy adviser on AI, according to a person with knowledge of her pending hire.

The Facebook attention gap  —  The Facebook Papers and whistleblower accounts were a public relations nightmare for Facebook, but so far, the company's core stakeholders — advertisers, users and investors — seem unfazed.  —  The big picture: For now, this controversy is mainly of interest to the media and lawmakers.

Trolls will be jailed for ‘psychological harm’  —  Trolls could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes psychological harm under legislation targeting online hate.  —  Ministers will overhaul communication laws by creating new offences …

Greene accrues at least $48K in fines for ignoring House mask mandate  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has been reprimanded by the House sergeant-at-arms at least 20 times this year for refusing to wear a mask in the chamber, which has added up to $48,000 worth of associated fines.

Donald Trump Is Now the Odds-On Favorite to Be President in 2025  —  Be very afraid.  —  So Donald Trump is now the odds-on favorite to be president of the United States in 2025.  —  I know that lede sentence was also the headline, but I wanted you to read it one more time just to let it really settle …

Axios is pleased to report that Twitter will “pre-bunk' climate misinformation,' i.e. any inconvenient truths that hurt preferred climate change narrative  —  Joe Biden's in Glasgow for the UN Climate Change Conference, because the international community needs to come together to fight for climate justice.

CNN's Brian Stelter skips Lincoln Project viral hoax orchestrated to smear Youngkin on media program  —  CNN host has long history of ignoring stories that make Democrats look bad  —  CNN's ratings-challenge media pundit Brian Stelter typically decries disinformation at all costs when he feels it could hurt the liberal agenda.

America Has Lost the Plot on COVID  —  We know how this ends: The coronavirus becomes endemic, and we live with it forever.  But what we don't know—and what the U.S. seems to have no coherent plan for—is how we are supposed to get there.  We've avoided the hard questions whose answers …

Even as Biden Pushes Clean Energy, He Seeks More Oil Production  —  President Biden acknowledged “it seems like an irony” that he is asking energy-rich nations to boost oil production as he implores the world to tackle climate change.  —  GLASGOW — President Biden told a global climate summit …

U. of Florida's Accreditor Will Investigate Denial of Professors' Voting-Rights Testimony  —  The University of Florida's accreditor plans to investigate the flagship campus over the revelation that administrators denied three professors' requests to serve as paid experts in a voting-rights lawsuit.