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David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
NY-17 Rating Change: DCCC Chair Maloney Moves From Lean Democrat to Toss Up  —  When Republicans' top Super PAC started spending against Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-17) in mid-September, many assumed it was a gambit to troll or distract the DCCC chair.
New York Times:
Math Scores Fell in Nearly Every State, and Reading Dipped on National Exam  —  The results, from what is known as the nation's report card, offer the most definitive picture yet of the pandemic's devastating impact on students.  —  U.S. students in most states and across almost …
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Ben Chapman / Wall Street Journal:
Math Scores Dropped in Every State During Pandemic, Report Card Shows  —  The largest Education Department analysis of test scores since the Covid-19 pandemic began reveals sweeping declines  —  The nation's schools recorded the largest drop in math scores ever this year …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Tucker Carlson lashes out at GOP campaign chief in irate private call  —  An irate Tucker Carlson phoned Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), chairman of the House Republican campaign committee, with an ultimatum on Friday:  — Either reveal which staff member took a swipe at Carlson's son …
James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Ted Cruz Hid in Supply Closet During Jan. 6, New Book Reveals  —  Senator Ted Cruz has revealed he was in a “a supply closet with stacked chairs” during part of the January 6 storming of Congress.  —  On that day in 2021 hundreds of Donald Trump supporters broke into the Capitol Building …
Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
The Trump Tapes: 20 interviews that show why he is an unparalleled danger … In more than 50 years of reporting, I have never disclosed the raw interviews or full transcripts of my work.  But after listening again to the 20 interviews I conducted with President Donald Trump during his last year …
Brad Raffensperger / Georgia Secretary of State:
Georgia Voters Shatter Second Presidential Turnout Record on Saturday  —  (Atlanta) - Georgia voters continued to hit record breaking turnout on the first mandatory Saturday of Early Voting.  As of Sunday morning, approximately 740K Georgia voters have cast their ballot during in-person Early Voting …
New York Times:
Their America Is Vanishing.  Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.  —  The white majority is fading, the economy is changing and there's a pervasive sense of loss in districts where Republicans fought the outcome of the 2020 election.  —  When Representative Troy Nehls of Texas voted …
Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times:
More antisemitic hate seen in L.A. after Kanye West's remarks  —  Fears that antisemitic remarks by Kanye West would spur additional bigotry came to fruition in Los Angeles on Saturday when a well-known hate group held a demonstration in support of the rapper on a 405 Freeway overpass.
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Will ‘Democracy Die in Darkness’ After November?  —  The Democrats will soon chant democracy is dying because they are terrified it is thriving as never before.  —  The Republicans were always going to win big in November, regardless of what biased pundits professed.
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Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Abrams' campaign chair collected millions in legal fees from voting rights organization  —  ATLANTA — The voting rights organization founded by Stacey Abrams spent more than $25 million over two years on legal fees, mostly on a single case, with the largest amount going to the self-described boutique law firm …
Discussion: New York Post
GOV.UK:
Russian war in Ukraine: P3 statement  —  The Foreign Ministers of the UK, USA and France have issued a statement rejecting Russia's transparently false allegations about Ukraine.  —  We, the Foreign Ministers of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, reiterate our steadfast support …
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Ros Krasny / Bloomberg:
Ukraine Latest: Russia Presses Warning of ‘Dirty Bomb’ by Kyiv
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Top Fox lawyer's “big screw up” could reveal Lachlan Murdoch's secrets  —  Ben is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Semafor, coming over from the New York Times.  Max is Semafor's media reporter, and joined us from Politico.  Sign up for their media newsletter, out every Sunday night!
Marist Poll:
The 2022 Elections in Ohio  —  Marist Ohio Poll  —  Vance & Ryan Competitive in Ohio Senate Race... DeWine Outpaces Whaley in Governor's Contest  —  Only one point separates Republican J.D. Vance and Democrat Tim Ryan in the race for U.S. Senate in Ohio among registered voters.
Discussion: The Hill and NBC News
The Daily Beast:
Florida Puts Raging MAGA Moms on Book-Banning Council  —  Florida's Education Department has quietly selected right-wingers for a book-banning council that'll re-train public school librarians. … In the name of “curriculum transparency,” Florida's Republican-controlled state government …
Discussion: Raw Story
Trudy Busch Valentine / Springfield News-Leader:
Missouri's extreme abortion ban is un-American  —  As a nurse, I have helped care for people during the most difficult moments of their lives, including women who had just lost pregnancies.  But no matter whose bedside I was at, I knew that every patient deserved the same fundamental thing …
NBC News:
Florida's Hispanic voters back DeSantis over Crist, support Martha's Vineyard migrant flights  —  Florida's Hispanic voters back Gov. Ron DeSantis over Democrat Charlie Crist, and they even support the Republican's decision to fly migrants to Martha's Vineyard, according to a new Telemundo/LX News poll.
New York Times:
Brazil's Polls Were Wrong.  Now the Right Wants to Criminalize Them.  —  President Jair Bolsonaro and conservative lawmakers in Brazil are trying to make it illegal to publish polls that later do not match the election results.  —  BRASÍLIA — In the first round of Brazil's closely watched elections …
Max Zahn / ABC News:
Potential mass layoffs at Twitter could cripple content moderation, some experts say  —  Prospective owner Elon Musk reportedly wants to cut 75% of its workforce.  —  In this Feb. 10, 2022, file photo, Elon Musk speaks at an event in south Texas.  —  The Washington Post via Getty Images, FILE
Maham Javaid / Washington Post:
A college wrestler fought a bear to save his teammate — and won  —  Kendell Cummings did not think he would fight a bear on a weekend and live to tell the story.  But when a grizzly bear attacked his wrestling teammate Brady Lowry, Cummings leaped in to save him.
Discussion: New York Post and Associated Press
Sam Sokol / Haaretz:
Haaretz Democracy Conference |  Zelenskyy Warns Israel: Putin Will Help Iran Go Nuclear in Exchange for Drones  —  Ukraine's president tells Haaretz Democracy Conference that Tehran's sale of suicide drones to Moscow happened partly because Israel decided to remain neutral in the conflict
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
U.S. economy likely grew a lot last quarter.  Most people didn't notice.  —  Upcoming GDP report is expected to show an economic rebound just before the midterms, though families and businesses continue to struggle with inflation  —  The U.S. economy is expected to have grown robustly …
Guillermo Altares / El País:
Andrew Wylie, ‘The Jackal’ of books: ‘Amazon is like ISIS; it takes no prisoners’  —  The world's leading literary agent speaks about Salman Rushdie, Stephen King, Donald Trump and the e-commerce giant  —  Among the literary giants included under the letter B on Andrew Wylie's endless client list …
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Caitlin Emma / Politico:
House GOP's 2023 forecast: Fiscal warfare  —  As the GOP prepares to take back the House, its right flank is raring to gut spending, upend the federal safety net and make Trump-era tax cuts permanent — ambitions that threaten to give leadership a two-year headache.
Suzanne Downing / Must Read Alaska:
Triangle: Palin joins Murkowski in Peltola love fest  —  The Murkowski-Palin-Peltola political love triangle is a curiosity in the “Only in Alaska” category: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, endorsed hardline Democrat Congresswoman Mary Peltola during Alaska Federation of Natives convention …
Kate Davidson / Politico:
The big recession risk that no one is talking about  —  President Joe Biden is cheering a record plunge in the federal budget deficit, but the numbers belie a troubling trend that could come back to haunt him: The cost of government debt is skyrocketing.  —  The Federal Reserve's relentless campaign …
BBC:
Sunak confirms PM bid as Rees-Mogg says Johnson will run  —  Summary  — Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirms he is in the race to be the next Conservative leader - and prime minister - saying he wants to “fix our economy”  — Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg tells the BBC Boris Johnson …
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Financial Times:
Boris Johnson pulls out of Conservative leadership contest
 
 
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Border Patrol Encountered 98 on Terrorist Watchlist Crossing U.S.-Mexico Border Between Ports of Entry in FY2022
Discussion: jihadwatch.org, HotAir and Alpha News
Allysia Finley / Wall Street Journal:
The CDC Pushes to Vaccinate Toddlers, Again
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
One hug and one selfie at a time, Biden's mission to connect
Discussion: RedState and Twitchy
Jasmine Mithani / The 19th:
States passing abortion bans reflect what only a small minority of their constituents actually want
Discussion: Political Wire
Steve Hendrix / Washington Post:
Netanyahu poised for possible return to power, dividing Israel again
Discussion: Raw Story
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Lawsuit reveals vast censorship scheme by Big Tech and the federal government
Discussion: RedState
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Florida needs workers to rebuild after Ian. Undocumented migrants are stepping in.
Human Rights Watch:
Turkey: Hundreds of Refugees Deported to Syria
Discussion: UPI, MyNorthwest.com and EUobserver
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Kari Ann Lake's Hijacking of Martin Luther King
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Politico
Hayley Dixon / Telegraph:
Most children who think they're transgender are just going through a ‘phase’, says NHS
Monica Alba / NBC News:
Biden to get updated Covid booster shot Tuesday
Discussion: Ray's Newsletter, CNN and The Hill
New York Times:
Trump Organization's Tax Fraud Trial to Begin on Monday
Margot Patrick / Wall Street Journal:
Three New Yorkers Ordered Cocaine From the Same Delivery Service. All Died From Fentanyl.
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
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