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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
What Does the Future Hold for Kevin McCarthy and Kamala Harris?  —  We are still a year away from the midterm elections and yet much of the talk in DC these days is about 2023 and 2024.  Given the current political moment, it does make some sense.  With President Biden's job approval ratings stuck …
Washington Post:
‘No one tells me what to do’: Sinema praises infrastructure, questions spending and inflation in wide-ranging interview  —  Kyrsten Sinema says she is worried about inflation.  The U.S. senator from Arizona says new tax hikes could harm businesses still struggling in the wake of the pandemic.
Discussion: NBC News
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
House Democrats Roast Kevin McCarthy on Twitter for Marathon Speech: ‘Please Saw Me in Half and Put Me Out of My Misery’  —  Ahead of Thursday night's House vote on the Build Back Better legislation, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) used what's known as a “magic minute” to talk for much, much, much longer than that.
Tara Palmeri / Politico:   POLITICO Playbook: McCarthy filibusters, Biden dithers and Fauci unmasks
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
McCarthy delays swift passage of spending plan with record-breaking floor speech
Discussion: Washington Post
CBO Publications:
Summary of Cost Estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act  —  As Posted on the Website of the House Committee on Rules on November 3, 2021 (Rules Committee Print 117-18), as Amended by Yarmuth Amendment 112  —  37.51 KB  —  CBO estimates that enacting this legislation would result …
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New York Times:
C.B.O. Finds Biden's Spending Bill Not Fully Paid For
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Biden expected to replace Ron Bloom, USPS board chair and key DeJoy ally, on postal board  —  Bloom, a Democrat, has backed the postmaster general as the agency slowed mail delivery standards and raised prices  —  President Biden is expected to announce Friday that he will not renominate Ron Bloom …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wisconsin Republicans Push to Take Over the State's Elections  —  Led by Senator Ron Johnson, G.O.P. officials want to eliminate a bipartisan elections agency — and maybe send its members to jail.  —  Republicans in Wisconsin are engaged in an all-out assault on the state's election infrastructure …
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Fauci's office flooded with attacks over beagle experiments  —  Covid chief's phone line rings 3,600 times in 36 hours after campaign by little-known animal rights group  —  Anthony S. Fauci was swamped by so many angry messages and threats that in late October his assistant quit answering the phone for two weeks.
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Rachel Roubein / Washington Post:
NIH director: ‘Conspiracies are winning here’
Discussion: National Review and CNN
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: FDA authorizes mRNA boosters for all adults  —  A day late, if not a dollar short.  As PIX11 reported this morning, several states had already gotten fed up with the FDA's foot-dragging on the mRNA booster question.  New York became the most recent state to give a green light …
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CNN:
Trump's ire grows as DeSantis' popularity with Republicans takes off  —  People close to both men first noticed the palpable shift in Trump's posture toward DeSantis earlier this year as enthusiasm for the Florida governor swelled among donors and GOP operatives who praised his laissez-faire response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Discussion: CBS News, Raw Story and Insider
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Court bars New York Times from publishing Project Veritas memos in move called ‘unconstitutional’  —  The order is temporary for now, but press freedom advocates say it violates First Amendment principles long upheld by the Supreme Court  —  A New York state judge ruled on Thursday …
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Associated Press:
Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster  —  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets.
Discussion: HotAir
CNN:
Peng Shuai: UN calls for proof of Chinese tennis star's whereabouts; WTA chairman willing to pull out of China  —  Hong Kong (CNN)China is facing pressure from the United Nations over Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai's whereabouts as the organization called for an investigation into her allegations of sexual assault.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Joe Biden's Infrastructure Bill Is a Big Success  —  Joe Biden Is Succeeding  —  Voters may pummel Democrats next year but future generations will be grateful.  —  GUEST ESSAY  —  Europe Has Made a Deadly Bargain With Autocrats  —  The chaos at the Belarus-Poland border is partly of the European Union's making.
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: GOP donors “furious” with McConnell  —  Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told his colleagues this week top party donors were “furious” with the number of Republicans — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill, two sources familiar with his remarks tell Axios' Alayna Treene.
David Freedlander / Politico:
The Bonnie and Clyde of MAGA World  —  Dustin Stockton stood in a throng of thousands of people near the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., nursing an American Spirit cigarette and a Red Bull.  He was talking on the phone ("Don't worry, I'll send you bodies") greeting well-wishers …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Secret Chinese Port Project in Persian Gulf Rattles U.S. Relations With U.A.E.  —  Alarmed U.S. officials warned Emirati government, a Mideast ally, that Chinese military presence could hinder ties; construction has halted  —  WASHINGTON—U. S. intelligence agencies learned this spring …
Discussion: New Republic
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Scoop: Surprise Trump book, ‘Our Journey Together’  —  Former President Donald Trump today shocked the publishing world that has tried to cancel his administration by revealing that he is releasing his first post-White House book in December, titled Our Journey Together.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Biden has a major economic decision to make and he can't seem to pull the trigger  —  The decision would be soon.  Then, it was “imminent.”  At one point, it was slated to come in four days.  Now, it'll be by Thanksgiving.  Maybe.  —  President Joe Biden has been wrestling for weeks …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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Annmarie Hordern / Bloomberg:   Manchin Seeks Meeting With Fed's Brainard, Follow-Up With Powell
New York Post:
Manhattan school to sort kids by race during social justice discussions  —  A Manhattan junior high school plans to racially separate students while discussing identity and social justice topics next week, The Post has learned.  —  The Lower Manhattan Community School will conduct …
Rick Stroud / Tampa Bay Times:
Bucs' Antonio Brown accused of obtaining fake vaccine card  —  A former live-in chef also says Brown, who missed one game this season after testing positive for COVID, owes him $10,000.  —  Updated Earlier today  —  TAMPA — Bucs receiver Antonio Brown obtained a fake COVID-19 vaccination card …
Ed Shanahan / New York Times:
Man Is Spared Prison After Guilty Plea in Sexual Attacks on 4 Teens  —  The judge who sentenced the man, Christopher Belter, said that he had “agonized” over the decision but that incarceration wasn't “appropriate.”  —  The girl was 16 when Christopher Belter raped her, according to court documents.
 
 
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