memeorandum: Abdul Qadeer Khan, Father of Pakistan's Nuclear Program, Dies at 85 (Tim Weiner/New York Times)

1:55 PM ET, October 10, 2021

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Navy nuclear engineer and his wife charged with trying to share submarine secrets with a foreign country — A Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with repeatedly trying to pass secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines to a foreign country, in an alleged espionage plot discovered by the FBI, according to court documents.

Meridith McGraw / Politico:

Trump holds fast to his election lies as the GOP establishment hugs him tighter — DES MOINES, Iowa — Nine months ago, Republicans were questioning Donald Trump's place as the lead fixture of their party. Saturday night provided the clearest evidence yet that they want him right there.

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Tara Palmeri / Politico:

GOP hands Trump the party — DRIVING THE DAY — “Nine months ago, Republicans were questioning DONALD TRUMP's place as the lead fixture of their party. Saturday night provided the clearest evidence yet that they want him right there.” — This morning's must-read piece comes from Meridith McGraw …

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Des Moines Register:
Donald Trump tells thousands at a rally in Iowa, 'We're going to take America back'

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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Trump rallies in Iowa as he eyes 2022 and 2024

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Norm Ornstein / New York Daily News:

Fix the Senate, save America — It is a measure of the shattered state of the American political system that a deal proposed by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell simply to postpone by two months a dangerous confrontation over the debt ceiling — one that could result in a default …

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Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:

Treasury Secretary Yellen warns debt ceiling battle could spell ‘catastrophe’ — “Absolutely imperative we raise the debt ceiling,” Yellen said. — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned on ABC's “This Week” that Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans are playing with …

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Most Senate Republicans don't want to see Trump run again

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Grant Stern / The Dworkin Report:

Reporter reveals Facebook paid Eastern European troll farms and the sinister secrets behind its algorithm — Scott speaks with Karen Hao the senior Artificial Intelligence editor for MIT Technology Review whose groundbreaking work looking into Facebook just got validated in a massive …

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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:

In scramble for votes in Virginia, emotions flare over Trump, covid and race — Bruce Carlson considers himself mainly a Democrat. He voted for Bill Clinton and Barack Obama for president and for Terry McAuliffe for governor back in 2013. But he won't be voting to make McAuliffe Virginia's governor for a second time.

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Marc Caputo / Politico:

Georgia election official takes the fight to Trump — Donald Trump never wastes an opportunity to attack Georgia's top statewide Republican officeholders for failing to help him overturn the 2020 election results in the key swing state. — Brad Raffensperger is the only one who refuses to shut up and take it.

American Greatness:

Garland Just Tipped Over the Dominos — Parents across the country have suddenly woken up to the wokeness haunting their schools and poisoning the minds of their children. — Destruction of the family has always been at the center of the collectivist project.

Matt Schudel / Washington Post:

Raymond T. Odierno, Army general who helped devise Iraq War strategy, dies at 67 — Raymond T. Odierno, a four-star Army general who was a key architect of the “surge” in U.S. forces during the Iraq War that was credited with reducing violence and increasing stability in the country …

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J. David Goodman / New York Times:

A Year After ‘Defund,’ Police Departments Get Their Money Back — The abrupt reversals have come in response to rising levels of crime, the exodus of officers and political pressures. — DALLAS — The demonstrators came at night, chanting and blowing whistles outside the home of Mayor Eric Johnson …

Tim Weiner / New York Times:

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Father of Pakistan's Nuclear Program, Dies at 85 — Starting from scratch in 1976, he acquired the technology and knowledge that allowed Pakistan to detonate its first nuclear device in 1998. — Abdul Qadeer Khan, a metallurgist who became known to Western intelligence services …

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Alex Horton / Washington Post:

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have not yet complied with vaccine mandate as deadlines near — Hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members remain unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Pentagon's first compliance deadlines near …

Matt Bruenig Dot Com:

Popularism and the Child Tax Credit — Ezra Klein did a piece last week about David Shor and so-called “popularism,” which was ultimately defined this way: … I thought Ezra did a good job with the piece and I left the piece mostly unshaken in my views about what messaging wins elections, which are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

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