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5:45 PM ET, November 5, 2021

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New York Times:
People Tied to Project Veritas Scrutinized in Theft of Diary From Biden's Daughter  —  The F.B.I. carried out search warrants in New York as part of a Justice Department investigation into how pages from Ashley Biden's journal came to be published by a right wing website.
Antonio Olivo / Washington Post:
Virginia Gov.-elect Youngkin's underaged son tried to vote in Tuesday's election, elections officials said  —  The 17-year-old son of Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) tried to cast a ballot in Tuesday's gubernatorial election twice despite being too young to vote, Fairfax County officials said in a statement released Friday.
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Scott Clement / Washington Post:
McAuliffe's quote on schools was a clunker, but polls suggest parental backlash didn't swing the election
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Was the FBI Manipulated by the Democratic Party?  —  The latest indictment in the investigation of the bureau's Russia probe shows why the story is still relevant.  —  John Durham, the U.S. attorney appointed in 2019 by then Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins …
Discussion: Power Line and The Guardian
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Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Rachel Maddow's Shocking New Low  —  With last night's loony response to the indictment of Igor Danchenko, the MSNBC anchor takes a bold leap off the credibility cliff  —  Yesterday, Special Counsel John Durham indicted Brookings Institute analyst Igor Danchenko, better known as the primary source …
Discussion: Law & Crime and NOQ Report
John Sexton / HotAir:
Eli Lake: The Danchenko indictment shows the Democratic Party manipulated the FBI
Discussion: We Love Trump and Bloomberg
Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Arrest illustrates how the Steele dossier was a political dirty trick orchestrated by Hillary Clinton
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The media and the Steele dossier
Discussion: Fox News
Pfizer Inc.:
Pfizer's Novel COVID-19 Oral Antiviral Treatment Candidate Reduced Risk of Hospitalization or Death by 89% in Interim Analysis of Phase 2/3 EPIC-HR Study  — PAXLOVID™ (PF-07321332; ritonavir) was found to reduce the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% compared to placebo in non-hospitalized high-risk adults with COVID-19
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Pfizer antiviral pill reduced risk of covid hospitalization and death by 89 percent in high-risk people, company study shows  —  An experimental coronavirus pill reduced the risk of hospitalization and death by 89 percent in high-risk people infected with the virus, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced Friday.
CNN:
Retiring GOP lawmaker warns Trump will try to steal the next election  —  Programming note: A new CNN documentary, “Trumping Democracy: An American Coup,” reported by Jake Tapper about former President Donald Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 election, premieres at 9 p.m. ET on Friday, November 5.
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Mediaite and Raw Story
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CNN:
Exclusive: Inside the Capitol Police intelligence unit overhaul that caused confusion ahead of January 6  —  Programming note: A new CNN documentary, “Trumping Democracy: An American Coup,” about former President Donald Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 election, premieres at 9 p.m. ET on Friday, November 5.
Politico:
Trump DOJ official who aided effort to overturn election declines to answer Jan. 6 questions  —  A top Trump Justice Department official who aided the former president's quest to overturn the 2020 election refused to answer substantive questions in a meeting with congressional investigators on Friday.
Politico:
Pelosi tries to rev House Dems after season in the ditch  —  Democrats got a taste this week of how brutal their midterms could be.  Now Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her team are trying to turn things around before it's too late.  —  House leaders entered the Capitol Friday optimistic …
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
No million-dollar checks: Democratic governors may sit out Florida  —  TALLAHASSEE — The Democratic Governors Association has no plans to give significant financial help to Florida Democrats as they seek to unseat Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022, a major setback that will make it harder for challengers to take on the popular Republican.
New York Times:
October 2021 Jobs Report: Gain of 531,000 Offers Brighter Picture  —  Hiring rose sharply last month.  —  Cumulative change in jobs since before the pandemic  —5 mil.  —  April  —  June  —  Sept.  —  April  —4.2 million jobs since Feb. 2020 +18.2 million since April 2020
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Courtenay Brown / Axios:   U.S. economy adds 531,000 jobs in huge hiring rebound
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job creation roars back in October as payrolls rise by 531,000
Newsweek:
Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, Know What Happened to Pols Who Did What They're Doing  —  It's a core principle of economics that people do what they are incentivized to do.  That may be why Senators Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., haven't hesitated to oppose popular progressive policies …
Discussion: The Daily Poster and Jacobin
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
The Surprising Strategy Behind Youngkin's Stunner  —  Sometimes you want to hear from the strategists rather than the candidate.  —  With all due respect to Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin — who, for a first-timer from the world of high finance, proved to be remarkably disciplined on the stump …
New York Times:
Cuomo Sex-Crime Charge May Be ‘Defective,’ D.A. Says  —  A judge granted the Albany County district attorney's request for an adjournment, after prosecutors cited potentially “exculpatory” mistakes in the investigation.  —  The sex-crime case against former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was thrown …
Discussion: Fox News, CNBC and Political Wire
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
John Eastman Is Not Good With Computers  —  The legal scholar who advised Trump on his Jan. 6 strategy is making a lot of mistakes.  —  John Eastman is having a rough go of it.  The 61-year-old attorney, founding director of the Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence …
Nellie Bowles / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
A Very Exciting Introduction  —  TGIF.  A weekly report from Nellie Bowles.  —  Hello and welcome to the Common Sense weekly news roundup.  I'm Nellie Bowles.  Until a couple weeks ago, I was a reporter at the New York Times.  Funky local paper.  —  During my four years at the Times …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Democratic Aide Irritated with Biden: I'm Almost Ready to Chant 'Let's Go, Brandon'  —  To the extent President Biden commented about the seemingly endless negotiations over the spending bills on Capitol Hill, he has offered generic, optimistic assessments: “I believe that Joe [Manchin] will be there.”
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Politico
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Sinema's raking in cash from MLMs.  They want to kill her party's labor bill.  —  They've been derided as spruced up pyramid schemes: Companies that incentivize their own customers to become salespeople for products.  Now, these so-called multilevel marketing businesses are flexing their political muscle.
Discussion: Slate, Rolling Stone, Jacobin and Raw Story
Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna / Politico:
When the Unstoppable Activists Met Their Match  —  Six months ago, the Sunrise Movement was feeling bullish.  The four-year-old youth climate organization had catapulted a massive legislative blueprint, the Green New Deal, to the forefront of Democratic politics.
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
'I Don't Want to Die for It': School Board Members Face Rising Threats  —  Across the country, parents have threatened board members and vandalized their homes.  One board member scans his driveway before walking to his car.  —  It was only days after Sami Al-Abdrabbuh was re-elected …
Discussion: Insider
Wall Street Journal:
Fed's Powell and Brainard Met With Biden at White House  —  President Biden is expected to decide soon on who will lead Federal Reserve  —  WASHINGTON—President Biden held separate meetings with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Fed governor Lael Brainard at the White House on Thursday …
Andrew Boryga / The Daily Beast:
Travis McMichael's Confederate License Plate Deemed Fair Game in Arbery Trial  —  DENIED  —  As legal teams prepared for opening arguments in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial on Friday, the judge dealt an early blow to the defense, ruling that prosecutors can discuss a vanity Confederate license plate …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A dangerous myth about those big Democratic losses is threatening Biden's agenda  —  Did Democrats take a big drubbing on Tuesday because they are trying to accomplish too much on behalf of our country?  —  To some centrist Democrats and opinionmakers, the answer is yes.
Paul Fanlund / The Cap Times:
The Donald Trump threat is existential, yet Democrats practice politics as usual  —  The nine people in the focus group were from Madison, Eau Claire, Fontana, Green Bay, Evansville, Milwaukee and Brookfield.  Each identified as a political independent and as a Joe Biden voter.
Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal:
States Sue to Stop Biden's Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate  —  Lawsuit alleges requirement is unconstitutional; White House says it has authority to issue rules  —  Attorneys general in 11 states are suing the Biden administration to try to stop new rules that require employers with more than 100 workers …
Discussion: The Hill and Associated Press
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
CNN ratings crash in October without any regular program averaging 1 million viewers  —  Liberal network shed a whopping 76% of its audience since January  —  The only thing spookier than Halloween for CNN is the network's freefalling viewership.  —  During the month of October …
 
 
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Amy Nelson / Fox News:
Dana White says he won't mandate vaccines for fighters: ‘This is a free country, do what you want’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Greg Abbott leads Beto O'Rourke by 9 percentage points in hypothetical matchup, UT/TT Poll finds
Discussion: HotAir
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida begins recount in nearly-tied contest for Alcee Hastings' former seat
Discussion: Washington Post
Brian Naylor / NPR:
Colin Powell is remembered as a down-to-earth statesman and leader at his funeral
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Sarakshi Rai / The Hill:
Greene granted permission to enter ‘patriot wing’ of DC jail to visit Jan. 6 defendants
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Wall Street Journal:
Is Facebook Bad for You? 360 Million Users Say Yes, Company Documents Show
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 Earlier Items: 
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Jayapal: It's worth passing spending plan even if Democrats lose House
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Emily Chang / Bloomberg:
Facebook ‘Knew What It Was Doing,’ Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Says
Discussion: Breitbart and Raw Story
Washington Post:
The rise and fall of the Jack Daniel's committee: How D.C.'s police union lodge made thousands selling whiskey online
Yew Lun Tian / Reuters:
China says it will hold supporters of Taiwan's independence criminally responsible for life
Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash