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Spotsylvania School Board orders libraries to remove ‘sexually explicit’ books — The Spotsylvania County School Board has directed staff to begin removing books that contain “sexually explicit” material from library shelves and report on the number of books that have been removed at a special called meeting next week.
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Suzanne Perez / KMUW:
Goddard school district orders 29 books removed from circulation — WICHITA, Kansas — The Goddard school district has removed more than two dozen books from circulation in the district's school libraries, citing national attention and challenges to the books elsewhere.
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Daily Kos and Mock Paper Scissors
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
As Kyle Rittenhouse trial nears end, judge's decisions from the bench come under scrutiny — Regardless of how he is viewed, Judge Bruce E. Schroeder is indisputably a man with fixed rules for how trials in his Kenosha County courtroom will be run. Some are basic, some unorthodox …
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Caroline Downey / National Review:
Trial Explodes: Defense Seeks Mistrial as Kyle Rittenhouse Cries on Stand, Judge Berates Prosecutor
Trial Explodes: Defense Seeks Mistrial as Kyle Rittenhouse Cries on Stand, Judge Berates Prosecutor
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Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
Does silence mean you're guilty? A uniquely American feature of Kyle Rittenhouse's trial
Does silence mean you're guilty? A uniquely American feature of Kyle Rittenhouse's trial
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Townhall and National Review
Jordan Williams / Associated Press:
Judge admonishes prosecutor in Rittenhouse trial
Judge admonishes prosecutor in Rittenhouse trial
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The Hill, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, IJR and CBS Chicago
CNN:
US Capitol rioter who assaulted police officer gets 41 months in prison — (CNN)A New Jersey gym owner and former MMA fighter who punched a police officer during the January 6 riot was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Wednesday, becoming the first rioter sentenced for violence against the police during the attack.
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Crying Pro-Trump Capitol Rioter Who Assaulted Cop Sentenced To 41 Months In Prison — Scott Fairlamb, whose brother is in the U.S. Secret Service, was the first Jan. 6 defendant sentenced in connection with an assault on cops. — A Donald Trump supporter from New Jersey …
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CNBC and Walter Einenkel
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Prosecutors seek 4+ years in prison for ‘QAnon Shaman’ in attempt to set example
Prosecutors seek 4+ years in prison for ‘QAnon Shaman’ in attempt to set example
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Wall Street Journal, Insider, Bipartisan Report, Politico, Raw Story, Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller, NBC News, Law & Crime and Political Wire
Joe Atmonavage / New Jersey Online:
N.J. man who punched cop during Capitol riot has raised over $30K since his arrest
N.J. man who punched cop during Capitol riot has raised over $30K since his arrest
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Law & Crime
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Post-Trump GOP doctrine — Republicans — reshaped, controlled and defined by Donald Trump since 2015 — are slowly but surely charting a post-Trump ideology and platform. — Why it matters: Other than conservative courts, toughness on immigration and hostility toward modern liberalism …
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Insider, No More Mister Nice Blog and ABC News
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Washington Post:
Prices climbed 6.2 percent in October compared to last year, the largest increase in 30 years, as inflation strains economy — It's unclear when supply chains will clear, especially given how vulnerable the economy remain to the pandemic — Prices rose 6.2 percent in October compared with a year ago …
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RedState, The Hill, HotAir, The Intercept, New York Times and Al Jazeera
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The White House:
Statement by President Biden on Today's Economic News
Statement by President Biden on Today's Economic News
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Insider, CNN, Alaska Public Media, The Daily Caller, CBS Boston, TheBlaze and IJR
Gwynn Guilford / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Inflation Likely Reached 30-Year High in October
U.S. Inflation Likely Reached 30-Year High in October
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National Review, CNBC, Human Events, The Right Scoop, IJR and The Daily Caller
NBC News:
GOP recruitment struggles give Democrats hope in 2022 Senate fight — WASHINGTON — They lost the governor's race in Virginia. They had a bad scare in New Jersey. They're the clear underdogs in the battle for the U.S. House. But Democrats saw glimmers of hope in the fight for the Senate …
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CNN, POLITICUSUSA, Daily Kos, Raw Story and New Republic
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
How the media missed a New Jersey senate candidate's racist social media posts — until he'd already won. — Edward Durr was such a long-shot candidate in his New Jersey state senate race that no one seemed to notice something rather striking about him: He had a history of posting bigoted …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Updating The Verge's background policy — On ‘on background’ — The main way this happens is that big companies take advantage of a particular agreement in the media called “background.” Being “on background” means that they tell things to reporters, but those reporters agree …
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Brian Flood / Fox News:
Washington Post fact-check admits it was wrong for ‘knee jerked’ defense of Buttigieg's racist bridge comments — ‘We should be more careful to double-check on the latest views of historians,’ Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler wrote — The Washington Post admitted Wednesday …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Robert Moses and the saga of the racist parkway bridges
Robert Moses and the saga of the racist parkway bridges
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Townhall, Power Line, National Review, The Daily Caller and Insider
Zoe Richards / The Daily Beast:
Robocallers Took $3.5M From Trump and Clinton Donors. They Donated $19, Prosecutors Say. — Investigators say a crew of alleged serial fraudsters pocketed millions of dollars in the runup to the 2016 election. — A trio of alleged fraudsters who used robocalls to fool unwitting donors …
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FiveThirtyEight:
Why Racist White Voters Often Favor Black Republicans — Can white voters who back a Black candidate still hold racist beliefs and views? — That question has come to the fore in the wake of Glenn Youngkin's gubernatorial victory in the blueish state of Virginia.
Charlotte Bennett / NY State Attorney General:
Transcripts and Exhibits from Independent Investigation into Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Former Governor Andrew Cuomo — These are transcripts and corresponding exhibits from the independent investigation and resulting report into sexual harassment allegations against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
The political war around daylight saving time takes a nasty turn — When the clocks turned back on Sunday morning to end daylight saving time, hungover college kids cheered and parents of young kids lamented their fates. But for Jay Pea and Scott Yates, it was yet another volley …
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POLITICUSUSA
Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Biden's Plans More Popular Than President — Message may matter more than substance in the end — West Long Branch, NJ - President Joe Biden's big spending plans on infrastructure, support programs, and climate change remain broadly popular even though he personally does not.
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Insider, Washington Post and Political Wire
Los Angeles Times:
USC gave Rep. Karen Bass a full scholarship worth $95,000 while she served in Congress — During Rep. Karen Bass' first year in Congress in 2011, she contacted government ethics officials with a request: Could she accept a full scholarship for a graduate degree at USC.
Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Manchin, already a Biden spending plan skeptic, raises inflation fears — Sen. Joe Manchin isn't exactly giving hope to proponents of President Joe Biden's costly social spending proposal that he'll support it any time soon. — Following a Labor Department report that found the highest rate …
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Bloomberg, NBC News, The Hill, New Republic, The Daily Wire, New York Post, The Western Journal, BizPac Review, Breitbart, The Daily Caller and POLITICUSUSA
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Eddie Burkhalter / Alabama Political Reporter:
Britt Campaign Internal Polling Puts Her Ahead Of Mo Brooks In Senate Race — After hearing more information about candidates, Brooks dropped to third, according to the polling company. — Katie Britt's campaign on Tuesday said an internal poll puts Britt ahead of U.S. Rep Mo Brooks …
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Washington Examiner
Ruy Teixeira / The Liberal Patriot:
Revisiting the Fox News Fallacy — It Seems To Be Alive and Well — Three months ago, I wrote a piece on the Fox News Fallacy. As I explained in that piece: … In light of the Democrats' dreadful performance in last week's election, I thought it would be useful to revisit this analysis and see if it still applies.
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Eduwonk
Kavya Balaraman / Utility Dive:
California should revisit shutting down Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, Stanford, MIT analysis finds — Dive Brief: — California could reduce its power sector emissions by more than 10% from 2017 levels, save $2.6 billion in power system costs and improve system reliability by delaying …
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
To highlight his success, Biden will point to... Baltimore? — It would appear that somebody on Team Biden has finally noticed that the President's approval numbers have continued to tank and are not showing any signs of rebounding. With that in mind, now that Uncle Joe …
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CNN, YouTube, CBS Baltimore, Denver Post, abc7NY and Washington Examiner
Ko Bragg / Columbia Journalism Review:
The lie of the storm — Katrina, Ida, and resisting the “looting” myth — On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeastern Louisiana. In New Orleans, dozens of levees and floodwalls failed, and water poured into the city, plunging eighty percent of it underwater.
David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
States challenge Biden's vaccine mandate for health workers — JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A coalition of 10 states sued the federal government on Wednesday to try to block a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers, marking a new front in the resistance by Republican-led states …
Ellie Silverman / Washington Post:
White supremacists find a new platform to spread hate: A federal courtroom in Charlottesville — Defendants are using a trial about the 2017 Unite the Right rally as an opportunity to spew the hate they've been banned from some social media platforms for expressing
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