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New York Times:
Raiders Coach Resigns After Homophobic and Misogynistic Emails  —  A trove of emails in a separate workplace misconduct case shows Raiders Coach Jon Gruden went beyond previously disclosed racist comments to issue broad tirades.  —  Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach …
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Ryan Gaydos / Fox News:
Jon Gruden resigns as Raiders head coach after homophobic, misogynistic emails revealed  —  The bombshell report detailed Jon Gruden's email exchanges with former WFT leader Bruce Allen  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 11  —  Jon Gruden's time in the NFL is over.
Jeremy Schwartz / ProPublica:
Trump Won the County in a Landslide.  His Supporters Still Hounded the Elections Administrator Until She Resigned.  —  Co-published with The Texas Tribune … An elections administrator in North Texas submitted her resignation Friday, following a monthslong effort by residents and officials loyal …
Aliya Uteuova / The Guardian:
What sea level rise will do to famous American sites, visualized  —  New images show what areas of the world can be saved or lost if carbon emissions aren't curbed  —  The land on which 10% of the world's population lives could be lost to sea level rise if carbon emission trends continue, new maps and visualizations show.
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Kerrin Jeromin / Washington Post:
Already, 18 weather disasters costing at least $1 billion each have hit the U.S. this year
Discussion: NBC News and Insider
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Close to a Deal to Sell Marquee Washington, D.C., Hotel  —  Miami-based CGI Merchant Group in talks to pay ex-president's family company around $370 million for property in former Old Post Office  —  Former President Donald Trump's family company is in advanced discussions to sell …
Discussion: Insider
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The GOP alliance with Europe's far-right deepens  —  You're reading an excerpt from the Today's WorldView newsletter.  Sign up to get the rest, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday.  —  Toward the end of last month …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Dear Democrats: Only 10% of People Even Know What You Are Fighting For  —  Even if Democrats can pass their big bill, they won't be able to sell it.  —  (PHOTOS: GETTYIMAGES / SHUTTERSTOCK)  —  Quick: What is in the Democrats' $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better,” “Human Infrastructure,” …
Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Prompted by Abbott primary challenger, Texas agency removed webpage with suicide hotline, other resources for LGBTQ youth  —  In late August, one of Gov. Greg Abbott's primary challengers, Don Huffines, accused Texas' child welfare agency of “promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth” …
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says  —  On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Election Workers in Georgia Are Fired for Shredding Voter Registration Forms  —  A previous investigation of the Fulton County office could eventually replace the elections board with a temporary superintendent with sweeping powers to oversee the vote.  —  The elections office …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama to campaign for Virginia Democrats ahead of off-year elections  —  Terry McAuliffe to Democrats: Get it done, do your job  —  (CNN)Former President Barack Obama will campaign for Terry McAuliffe and Virginia Democrats ahead of the November elections, the gubernatorial nominee announced on Tuesday.
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Biden's ‘tough month’ looms over Democratic campaigns in 2021
Discussion: Fox News and New York Times
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Texas Gov. Abbott issues order banning Covid vaccination mandates in rebuke of Biden  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday prohibiting any entity, including private businesses, from imposing Covid-19 vaccination requirements on employees or customers.
Jan Hoffman / New York Times:
Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots  —  The number of eligible people still weighing whether to get a Covid vaccine has sharply dwindled, leaving an unvaccinated population that is mostly hard-core refusers.  —  Vaccinated people have been burning …
John Nichols / The Nation:
Trump's Coup Attempt Is Far From Finished  —  Trump's preparing to run in 2024, but a new Senate report detailing his sedition gives officials the evidence they need to disqualify him from completing the coup.  —  “Subverting Justice,” the 394-page report released last week …
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
I'm no Democrat — but I'm voting exclusively for Democrats to save our democracy
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House to vote on two-month debt ceiling increase to avert default  —  Lawmakers reach short-term deal on debt limit  —  WASHINGTON — The House is scheduled to pass a short-term increase in the debt ceiling Tuesday to enable the Treasury to continue borrowing money to pay the bills for two months.
Jan Egeland / New York Times:
Afghanistan Is in Economic Freefall.  It Needs Aid.  —  Mr. Egeland is secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council and has 30 years experience working as a humanitarian.  —  Traveling around Kabul a few weeks ago, the city felt worlds apart from my last visit in 2019 — and not just because a 20-year war had finally ended.
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Wall Street Journal:   Strange Quiet Arrives in Afghanistan After Decades of War
MSNBC:
Biden's policies impact millions of Americans who don't know it  —  New polling shows a majority of people don't know who's responsible for the financial aid that came from President Biden's American Rescue Plan - legislation that received zero Republican support.
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Kamala Harris's NASA video featured child actors  —  The first installment of Vice President Kamala Harris's YouTube Originals space series featured child actors who auditioned for their roles in the project.  —  Trevor Bernardino, a 13-year-old actor from Carmel, California …
New York Times:
Clear Differences Remain Between France and U.S., French Minister Says  —  Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says the two countries remain at odds over China and various security issues, even if they had effectively cooperated on overhauling the international tax system.
Discussion: Deseret News
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The Trump nightmare looms again  —  It is increasingly evident that the nightmare prospect of American politics — unified Republican control of the federal government in the hands of a reelected, empowered Donald Trump in 2025 — is also the likely outcome.  —  Why this is a nightmare should be clear enough.
Miami Herald:
Miami manager moves to fire police chief  —  City Manager Art Noriega moved to fire embattled Police Chief Art Acevedo Monday night, ending weeks of speculation and tumult at City Hall and after a pair of circus-like public hearings in which commissioners lashed out at the chief for everything …
Discussion: UPI and New York Post
Washington Examiner:
Restoring America  —  America is going wrong.  That is the stark but necessary starting point for this editorial.  Many people know it to be true; they can feel our politics and culture turning ever more sour, taste the bitter reality of national decline.  —  But fewer people acknowledge it …
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Another Facebook whistleblower says she is willing to testify before Congress  —  San Francisco (CNN Business)Sophie Zhang, who said she felt like she had “blood on her hands” after working at Facebook, is willing to testify before Congress about her former employer, she told CNN Sunday.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The next legislative pile-up is coming  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WHAT WE'RE WATCHING — With the exception of today — when the House briefly returns to clear the Senate-passed, short-term debt ceiling stopgap — Congress is out on recess this week after lawmakers kicked the can on their entire legislative to-do list.
Discussion: The Hill and UPI
Aaron Schaffer / Washington Post:
U.S. and Russian candidates both want to lead the U.N.'s telecom arm  —  Good morning and welcome to The Cybersecurity 202!  Read to the bottom for an important cybersecurity warning from The Post's own TikTok Guy.  —  Below: Hackers went after companies using Microsoft Office 365 software …
Michael Doran / Wall Street Journal:
Azerbaijan's Defiant Message to Iran  —  Washington should take note of its alliance with Israel.  —  A picture is worth a thousand policy briefs.  On Oct. 4, Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, mugged for the cameras.  Beaming before reporters, he stroked, patted …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
John Eastman's employer tries to whitewash his road map for overturning Trump's loss  —  John Eastman, it seems, is the victim of one big misunderstanding.  —  The conservative Claremont Institute, which employs the lawyer who provided a road map for then-President Donald Trump …
Saeed Jones / GQ:
Dave Chappelle's Betrayal  —  Poet Saeed Jones used to consider himself a longtime fan of the comedian.  But Chappelle's new Netflix special “The Closer,” which fixates on gay and trans people, feels like a stab in the back.  —  You ever hear the one about the famous Black comedian …
Discussion: Twitchy
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
‘Hiding the Ball’: Hunter Biden Complicates White House Anti-Corruption Push
Discussion: CNN
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
Racial Bias Skewed Small-Business Relief Lending, Study Says
Cortney O'Brien / Fox News:
Samantha Bee admits she didn't want to challenge ‘hero’ narrative about Andrew Cuomo last year
Discussion: New York Times
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Women wield the power
Washington Post:
In search for covid origins, Hubei caves and wildlife farms draw new scrutiny
Discussion: Breitbart and Fox News
Nonzero Newsletter:
Toward a Unified Theory of Blob-dom
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
January 6 Was No Hoax  —  Trump abused the trust of his supporters, and the result was a disgrace.
Discussion: HotAir
 Earlier Items: 
Rachel Poser / New Yorker:
Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties for Fake Crimes
New York Times:
Biden's Proposal to Empower I.R.S. Rattles Banks and Their Customers
Discussion: Political Wire
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show
Simon Miles / Globe and Mail:
KGB archives show how Chrystia Freeland drew the ire (and respect) of Soviet intelligence services
Niara Savage / Yahoo News:
Texas Boogaloo Boy Admits In Court He Traveled to Minneapolis After George Floyd Died, Fired 13 Shots In Police Precinct Building to Sow Chaos
Associated Press:
Fiona Hill, a nobody to Trump and Putin, saw into them both
Ellie Rushing / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
FBI raids home of Philadelphia Proud Boys' vice president to gather info about Capitol attack plans
Discussion: Raw Story
Maya Yang / The Guardian:
Outcry after federal agents kill eight wolf cubs adopted by Idaho school
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
 

 
From Techmeme:

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram from its App Store in China, after orders from the country's regulators citing national security concerns

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that can create a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU may accept Apple's proposal to open its NFC payments tech to rivals, and may close its antitrust probe in May, letting Apple avoid hefty fines

 
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