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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
More women are tuning out politics — a danger sign for Democrats in Virginia and beyond  —  Democrats are sweating the Virginia governor's race, which is turning out to be tighter than expected.  But while President Biden's sagging poll numbers have become a drag on the Democratic nominee …
New York Times:
The U.S. will open the Canada and Mexico borders for fully vaccinated travelers.  —  WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will lift travel restrictions at the land borders with Canada and Mexico starting in November for fully vaccinated travelers, reopening the door of the United States …
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Justice News:   U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest Of Iranian Large-Scale Heroin Trafficker
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Focuses on Procedure in Kentucky Abortion Case  —  After the state's political landscape shifted in 2019, the Democratic governor and the Republican attorney general disagreed on defending the law.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments in an abortion case on Tuesday …
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Shams Charania / The Athletic:
Kyrie Irving and his vaccine stance clarified: Why the Nets star has made a decision that will sideline him  —  Kyrie Irving believes he is fighting for something bigger than basketball — and the unintended consequences are that his mission is conflicting with his career and his franchise, the Brooklyn Nets.
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Marine who criticized U.S. handling of Afghanistan withdrawal will plead guilty, seek favorable discharge  —  A Marine officer whose viral videos criticizing senior officials for how they withdrew from Afghanistan created a political uproar will plead guilty to several charges and seek …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Fox News
Axios:
Unruly customers threaten economic recovery  —  The pace of the economic recovery hinges in part on workers returning to jobs that involve dealing with an unpredictable public.  But many of those workers say increasingly combative customers — angry about everything from long wait times to mask mandates — have prompted them to quit.
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Jesse O'Neill / New York Post:
Walgreens closes five more San Francisco locations, citing ‘organized retail crime’  —  Walgreens is closing five more San Francisco locations as drug stores from the Bay Area to the Big Apple are besieged by rampant shoplifting and lax enforcement.  —  San Fran shoplifters have been emboldened …
Discussion: SFGATE, Fox Business and Townhall
Will Marshall / The Hill:
Democrats need a win — now  —  In politics, success tends to beget success.  That truism apparently eluded leftwing Democrats on Sept. 30 when they refused to vote for President Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.  —  Instead of basking in accolades for having passed …
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Jayapal fundraising off Pelosi comments about smaller spending package
Discussion: Political Wire
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
President Biden to meet with port heads ahead of expected Christmas supply crunch  —  Holiday delays could prove politically problematic for the president.  —  With global supply chain bottlenecks threatening the Christmas shopping season, President Joe Biden will highlight his administration's work …
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Mitchell Prothero / VICE:
Bashar Assad's Playboy Cousin Spotted Driving $300K Ferrari in Beverly Hills  —  Ali Makhlouf, whose one-time billionaire father is on multiple U.S. sanctions list for financing the Syrian regime, told “what do you do for a living” Instagram star Daniel Mac he was doing an internship.  —  MP
Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
Southwest, American airlines workers will have to get vaccinated, despite Texas order  —  Southwest Airlines and American Airlines, both based in Texas, said Tuesday that they will continue plans to require employees to get vaccinated, despite an edict issued by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott …
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American Greatness:   A Southwest Pilot Explains What Happened over the Weekend
Elizabeth Howe / Defense One:
Catholic Troops Can Refuse COVID Vaccine, Archbishop Declares  —  “No one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience,” Broglio wrote.  —  Catholic U.S. troops should be allowed to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine based solely …
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Trump-Era Pentagon Official Sues as Suspension Reaches 5 Months  — Katie Arrington says her due process rights were violated  — Official was ‘left dangling’ without explanation, lawsuit says  —  The Pentagon official who led a new cybersecurity initiative for defense contractors sued …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court considers Boston Marathon bomber death sentence as Biden halts executions  —  The DOJ wants the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev despite the moratorium.  —  The Justice Department on Wednesday will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the death sentence …
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and NBC News
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Pro-Trump PAC fined over foreign money offer  —  A pro-Trump political group has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle allegations it illegally solicited $2 million from reporters posing as intermediaries for a Chinese national.  —  Why it matters: A key player in the scheme, a veteran Republican operative …
Abigail Constantino / WTOP:
Buses replace trains on 3 Blue Line stations as Metro investigates derailment  —  There will be no rail service between Rosslyn and Pentagon Metro stations on the Blue Line Wednesday, as Metro continues to investigate a derailment that left several riders stranded during the Tuesday afternoon rush.
Discussion: NBC4 Washington and DCist
Mollie Hemingway / Fox News:
What happened during the 2020 election must be investigated and discussed  —  The last time Democrats fully accepted the legitimacy of a presidential election they lost was in 1988  —  Mollie Hemingway calls for ‘accountability’ after the Afghanistan exit  —  Editor's note …
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Past Pandemics Remind Us Covid Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades  —  The skeletons move across a barren landscape toward the few helpless and terrified people still living.  The scene, imagined in a mid-16th-century painting, “The Triumph of Death” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, illuminated the psychic impact of the bubonic plague.
Max Boot / Washington Post:
25 years of Fox ‘News’ is nothing to celebrate.  No company has done more to inflame partisanship and the pandemic.  —  Last week, Fox “News” Channel celebrated 25 years since its launch.  More than 700,000 victims of covid-19 were not available for comment.
Discussion: HuffPost and The Guardian
Amber Athey / spectatorworld.com:
Jon Gruden exposes the NFL's woke hypocrisy  —  Former head coach John Gruden of the Las Vegas Raiders (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)  —  Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned Monday after insensitive emails he'd sent a decade ago were leaked to the media, gifting us the latest example of woke mob hypocrisy.
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Drew Magary / SFGATE:
ESPN didn't care and doesn't care about now-former Raiders coach Jon Gruden's bigotry
Emily Anthes / New York Times:
What the Future May Hold for the Coronavirus and Us  —  Viral evolution is a long game.  Here's where scientists think we could be headed.  —  On Jan. 9, 2020, about a week after the world first learned of a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in central China, authorities announced …
Discussion: HotAir and The Indian Express
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Hundreds of Police Officers Have Died From Covid.  Vaccines Remain a Hard Sell.  —  Far more law enforcement officers in the U.S. have died from Covid-19 than from any other work-related cause in 2020 and 2021.  Even so, police unions are fighting vaccine mandates.
Discussion: Metro.co.uk
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
How Not to De-Trumpify the GOP  —  Jonah Goldberg's plan to create a conservative third party would likely exacerbate the problems it's meant to solve.  —  In the Los Angeles Times, Jonah Goldberg proposes that the best way to fix the now-terminally “Trumpified” GOP is to establish …
Discussion: The Bulwark and The Dispatch
Parents Defending Education:
State School Board Associations' Responses to the NSBA Letter  —  On October 11, Parents Defending Education emailed 47 state school board associations for comment on the NSBA's September 29 letter (Hawaii and Washington DC are not members of NSBA, and Virginia & Louisiana had already made public statements).
Alec MacGillis / New York Times:
An Ocean Away, I Found Some Common Sense on Mask Wearing  —  Mr. MacGillis is a reporter for ProPublica and a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.  —  BERLIN — You see it everywhere here in Germany, day in and day out: People taking the subway or bus or train put masks on as they prepare to board.
 
 
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The ‘New York Times of the right’ is ... the New York Times
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Will Georgia voting laws reduce turnout? Maybe not, studies show
Discussion: The Dispatch
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
White House tells states to prepare for Covid vaccinations in young children
Discussion: NBC Chicago and Political Wire
Joseph Cox / VICE:
CIA Funding Arm Gave Encrypted App Wickr $1.6 Million
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Biden administration orders halt to ICE raids at worksites
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Afghan interpreter who helped rescue Biden in 2008 is evacuated from Afghanistan
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Democrats scrutinize Pennsylvania congressman's efforts to help Trump overturn 2020 election
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State Department watchdog investigating missing Trump gifts meant for foreign dignitaries
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Dirk VanderHart / opb:
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof forms committee for Oregon gubernatorial run
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Leaked Docs: Prestigious DC School Poised To Crack Down on ‘Harmful’ Humor
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