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Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It  —  The former Facebook employee says her goal is to help prompt change at the social-media giant  —  The former Facebook Inc. employee who gathered documents that formed the foundation …
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CBS News:
Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation  —  Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.”  Scott Pelley reports.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer: Congress needs to raise debt ceiling by end of the week  —  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Monday that Congress needs to get a bill raising the debt ceiling to President Biden's desk by the end of the week, an ambitious timeline given an entrenched stalemate between Democrats and Republicans.
Discussion: USA Today and Wall Street Journal
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Politico:
McConnell reactivates his connection to Biden — with a sharp debt warning
Discussion: CNN and NBC News
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Dems, independents join GOP to oppose taxes in Biden $3.5T plan
Discussion: Washington Times
David Dayen / American Prospect:
USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program  —  The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card.  —  The United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken the most dramatic step in a half-century to re-establish a postal banking system in America.
Discussion: Popular Information
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Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:   USPS testing paycheck cashing, which could transform how millions access money and pay bills
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid, in Retreat  —  New cases in the U.S. have fallen by more than a third in the past month.  —  Covid-19 is once again in retreat.  —  The reasons remain somewhat unclear, and there is no guarantee that the decline in caseloads will continue.  But the turnaround is now large enough …
Discussion: Reason, Boston.com and The Guardian
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Associated Press:
Ex-U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies  —  Former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, a conservative Missouri Republican whose comment that women's bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape” sunk his bid for the U.S. Senate and became a cautionary tale for other GOP candidates, died late Sunday.
Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times:
Jan. 6 rioters exploited little-known Capitol weak spots: A handful of unreinforced windows  —  Four major access points that Jan. 6 rioters used to break into and overtake the U.S. Capitol had something unusual in common: They were among a dozen or so ground-floor windows and glass-paned doors that had not been recently reinforced.
Discussion: Politico
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 panel braces for collision with Trump
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump, talked out of announcing a 2024 bid for now, settles on a wink-and-nod unofficial candidacy  —  As turmoil in Afghanistan reached a crescendo in August, Donald Trump began talking again with advisers about whether he should announce his 2024 campaign for president right away.
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: House Republican says he's facing federal prosecution  —  The top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee's agriculture panel says he's facing federal prosecution, Axios has learned.  —  Driving the news: In a new fundraising page for his legal expense fund, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry …
Discussion: Raw Story
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Pelosi shows her power  —  If you are betting on politics, here's my advice — put your money on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).  —  Historian Robert Caro famously crowned Lyndon Johnson the “Master of the Senate.”  —  After last week, it's clear Pelosi is his equal in the House.
Discussion: The Dispatch and The National
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Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
For Democrats and the Biden agenda, it's becoming a matter of trust
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Afghan ambassador decries country's “betrayal”  —  Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States, Adela Raz, has lost her country and her faith in the U.S. government — and her life's work of liberating women and girls is in shambles.  She shared her despair with “Axios on HBO” …
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Jennifer Van Laar / RedState:   EXCLUSIVE: Maj Gen Ordered 50+ Evacuees off One of Last Flights out of Kabul to Make Room for Taliban Souvenir
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
New: Whitmer vetoes GOP bills part of ‘calculated misinformation’ about the 2020 election  —  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Sunday vetoed three Republican election bills introduced after former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election as part of a nationwide right-wing effort to restrict voting and change election rules.
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Exclusive: Stephanie Grisham says ‘I regret’ enabling culture of dishonesty in Trump White House  —  The former Trump aide spoke exclusively to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Stephanie Grisham, one of former President Donald Trump's …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
What They Saw in Ozy  —  The story behind the story is about the elite investors who plowed millions into a media dream without much due diligence, persuaded by the charm of Ozy's head, Carlos Watson.  —  There's an irresistible temptation, in this age of scams and hype …
CNN:
Pro-Trump challenger's residency issues catch Murkowski's eye  —  (CNN)Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has not yet said whether she'll run for reelection in 2022 — but she is well aware of potential baggage one of her challengers could be carrying.  —  Murkowski took aim at her would-be GOP challenger …
Discussion: Raw Story
ICIJ:
Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed in unprecedented leak  —  Millions of leaked documents and the biggest journalism partnership in history have uncovered financial secrets of 35 current and former world leaders, more than 330 politicians and public officials …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Sprawling Use of NDAs Now Threatens to Humiliate Him  —  For decades, Donald Trump used the same legal language in Non-Disclosure Agreements to prevent associates from saying anything bad about him.  That's bad news for Trump.  —  For decades, Donald Trump has treasured Non-Disclosure …
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
Dan Hannan / Washington Examiner:
Conservatives everywhere should fear a Canada-like future  —  I have a hideous premonition of the future.  I see Canada's woke politics spreading across the rest of the Anglosphere but divorced from that vast country's redeeming qualities of courtesy, generosity, and humor.
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
Dems Tuck Multibillion-Dollar Handout to Illegal Immigrants Into Reconciliation  —  Biden's $3.5 trillion spending bill gives migrants same child benefits as Americans  —  President Joe Biden's budget includes a provision that provides billions of dollars in cash to illegal aliens with children.
Discussion: Power Line
Andrew Murray / Fox News:
Florida Gov. DeSantis' wife diagnosed with breast cancer  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 4  —  EXCLUSIVE - Casey DeSantis, the wife of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, has been diagnosed with breast cancer.  —  “I am saddened to report that Florida's esteemed First Lady …
Discussion: Metro.co.uk and WBBH-TV
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
One-time presidential candidate Evan McMullin will mount an independent bid to oust Republican Sen. Mike Lee, Robert Gehrke reports  —  A McMullin candidacy challenges the rigid two-party standard, which leaves too many Utahns unrepresented.  —  Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin speaks …
New York Times:
U.S. Signals Little Thaw in Trade Relations With China  —  The Biden administration said it would not immediately remove the Trump administration's tariffs and would require that Beijing uphold its trade commitments.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration offered its strongest signal yet …
 
 
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
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Washington Examiner:
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Jeremy Egner / New York Times:
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Discussion: Variety
Julie Luchetta / Arizona Republic:
Activists ambush Sen. Kyrsten Sinema at ASU over immigration, Build Back Better Act
Telegraph:
The 2,000-year-old airborne disease theory that blinded Covid experts
Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Flynn Secretly Paid $200,000 in Middle East Nuclear Scheme—Report
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Raw Story
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Democratic Voters See Many Losers in Party Schism, and One Winner: Trump
Discussion: Common Dreams and Breitbart
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider:
A Connecticut doctor who gave patients blank, signed COVID-19 exemption forms has surrendered her medical license
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA