Glenn Youngkin's repulsive final push reveals a dark truth for Democrats  —  With Virginia voters set to elect a governor, Republican Glenn Youngkin's final messages are positively overflowing with sunny calls for unity.  One closing ad features footage of African American families smiling …

On the Ground With the QAnon Believers Who Flocked to Dallas for the Grand Return of JFK Jr.  —  Though the Kennedy scion failed to appear at Dealey Plaza this afternoon, some are hopeful he might make an appearance at a Rolling Stones concert later  —  DALLAS — QAnon true believers gathered en masse …

Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System  —  Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users.  —  Facebook plans to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system …

We Staked Out Eric Adams's House in Brooklyn And he came home.  Twice!  —  Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos: Getty Images, Kevin Dugan, Willy Blackmore  —  Where the hell does Eric Adams live?  For anyone trying to get a grip on the notoriously hard-to-pin-down Democratic candidate …

Prominent Conservatives Back Letting States Limit Guns in Public  —  A brief filed in a major gun control case to be heard on Wednesday by the Supreme Court argued that limits on the public carrying of weapons were consistent with the Second Amendment.  —  WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court hears …

Dems aim to squeeze immigration into social spending bill — without path to citizenship  —  Democrats are closing in on a deal that would add immigration reform to their social spending bill before it hits the House floor, but without a long-sought goal: a pathway to citizenship.

The Absurd Twitter Suspension of Quin Hillyer  —  In any ranking of dumb Twitter suspensions, Quin Hillyer's has to land pretty high up there.  Full disclosure, Quin is a former colleague of mine at the Washington Examiner as well as a former National Review author.  He recounts his story:

U. of Florida Doctor Says Administrators Blocked Him From Participating in Lawsuits About Masking  —  A fourth University of Florida professor says administrators rejected his request to testify in litigation against state leaders this year, and denied him the opportunity to share his expertise …

Curtis Sliwa tried to bring his cat to vote.  It got weirder from there.  —  Curtis Sliwa brought a special guest with him to vote on Tuesday: Gizmo, one of the 17 cats he lives with in a studio apartment.  —  But Gizmo was denied entry to the polling site, on Manhattan's Upper West Side …

Trump ally Rudy Giuliani seeks to block feds from getting 3 items of thousands seized under search warrant  — Rudy Giuliani is seeking to prevent prosecutors from seeing just three items out of the more than 2,000 items contained on electronic devices seized from him as part of a criminal probe, a court filing revealed.

Sen. Rounds' wife dead after two-year battle with cancer  —  Rounds was diagnosed with cancer in 2019  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for November 2  —  Jean Rounds, wife of Republican South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, has passed away from cancer at the age of 65.

Hot new idea for Dems' reconciliation bill: A huge tax cut for the very rich; Update: “Beyond unacceptable”  —  They said if Republicans voted for Trump in 2020, America would end up with an administration devoted to lining the pockets of rich people.  —  And they were right!

Poison in the Air  —  Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution … From the urban sprawl of Houston to the riverways of Virginia, air pollution from industrial plants is elevating the cancer risk of an estimated quarter of a million Americans to a level the federal government considers unacceptable.

Galaxy Brain Is Moving!  —  (Not going to the metaverse...yet)  —  Before I get extra self-indulgent, I'll lead with the news.  I'm moving Galaxy Brain from Substack over to The Atlantic.  The newsletter will exist in the same form with the promise of the same amount of editorial freedom.

Sean Parnell's fiction thriller features graphic violence against women  —  Sean Parnell's military thriller “Man of War” contains graphic scenes of violence against female characters, raising additional questions about his attitude toward women in the wake of court testimony that he physically and verbally abused his estranged wife.

A Homeless Man Has Spent 800 Days At Rikers After Stealing Cold Medicine.  Now His Prison Sentence May Be Beginning.  —  Blind in one eye and at risk of losing vision in the other, 58-year-old Reginald Randolph is now on the verge of being sent to state prison to serve out a maximum of four years.

Scoop: FEC lets foreigners finance U.S. ballot fights  —  The Federal Election Commission has ruled foreign donors can finance U.S. referendum campaigns, opening the door to foreign spending on fights over high-profile policy issues, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: Foreign nationals …

INSIGHT-From Boeing to Mercedes, a U.S. worker rebellion swells over vaccine mandates  —  In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according to a union official.

NYC police unions warned vaccine mandates would pull 10,000 officers off streets.  So far, the number is 34.  —  The heads of the five major unions representing members of the New York City Police Department warned that 10,000 unvaccinated police officers were “set to be pulled from [the] …

About 400 D.C. jail inmates will be transferred to a federal penitentiary in Pennsylvania because of unacceptable conditions, officials say  —  The U.S. Marshal's Service plans to move about 400 inmates out of the D.C. jail after a recent surprise inspection found evidence of “systemic” …

Federal Judge Files Recusal Notices in 138 Cases After WSJ Queries  —  Rodney Gilstrap initially argued he didn't violate financial-conflicts law  —  One of America's most prominent federal judges acknowledged in court notices that he may have violated the law in 138 lawsuits identified …

The Threat From the Anti-Woke Right  —  America is confronting two powerful illiberal movements.  Where you stand on their relative threats depends on where you live. … Late last week, my friends Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt published an important piece in the online journal Persuasion that contained a startling statistic.

EXCLUSIVE: It was the woke cover-up that electrified the Virginia governor's race, now on election day the mother of skirt-wearing teen who raped a female classmate in girls' bathroom says he is a troubled boy who identifies as male and just wanted sex  — A judge found the teenage boy wearing …