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Spencer Ackerman / Forever Wars:
The Only Man Who Could Have Stopped The Iraq War Is Dead  —  Colin Powell chose to sell a war he knew was wrong.  Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were unavailable for comment on his death  —  Buy REIGN OF TERROR: How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
'Don't feel sorry for me,' Powell said as the end approached  —  As death approached, Colin L. Powell was still in fighting form.  —  “I've got multiple myeloma cancer, and I've got Parkinson's disease.  But otherwise I'm fine,” he said in a July interview.  —  And he rejected expressions of sorrow at his condition.
Discussion: WTOP
Devan Cole / CNN:
Colin Powell, first Black US secretary of state, dies of Covid-19 complications amid cancer battle
Politico:
Trump sues Jan. 6 committee, National Archives  —  Donald Trump is suing the Jan. 6 select committee and the National Archives to block the release of his White House's records related to the Capitol attack.  —  The former president's lawyers filed the 26-page suit in D.C. district court on Monday …
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump files lawsuit to block release of Jan. 6 documents  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday sought to block the release of documents related to the Jan. 6 insurrection to the congressional committee investigating the attack, challenging the decision of President Joe Biden.
Select Committee to Investigate …:
Thompson & Cheney Statement on the Former President's Lawsuit
Discussion: Insider
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Laurie McGinley / Washington Post:
FDA to allow ‘mix-and-match’ approach on coronavirus booster vaccines  —  The agency is expected to say people can bolster protection by getting an extra shot, even if it is from another brand  —  The Food and Drug Administration is expected to say this week that people …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Supreme Court will consider fast track appeal of Texas abortion law  — The Supreme Court agreed to a request from abortion-rights advocates and providers to quickly consider taking up their challenge of a restrictive Texas law that bans most abortions after as early as six weeks of pregnancy.
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Kimberly Kindy / Washington Post:   Supreme Court reaffirms police protection by qualified immunity, a legal doctrine targeted in protests
Neil Weare / Slate:   Biden Made a Promise to End Discrimination Against Puerto Ricans. He's About to Break It.
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Dennis Prager Announces He Has COVID After Hugging ‘Thousands’ to Get It  —  The right-wing personality offered dangerous advice to his audience about achieving natural immunity, which can kill a person in the process.  —  Right-wing personality and talk radio host Dennis Prager, who once …
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Dennis Prager Says He Has Covid and Was Trying To Get Infected: ‘I Have Engaged With Strangers, Constantly Hugging Them’
Discussion: TheBlaze
Joe Otterson / Variety:
‘History of the World Part II’ Variety Series Ordered at Hulu, Mel Brooks to Write and Executive Produce (EXCLUSIVE) … “History of the World, Part I” is finally getting a Part II, with Hulu ordering a variety series followup to the classic Mel Brooks comedy film, Variety has learned exclusively.
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
JOE ROGAN DESTROYSSSSSS CNN YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT  —  (We all lose) … The Least Productive Conversation  —  Today, I want to talk about a way that our media ecosystems can take even relatively boring exchanges and turn them into internet chum that helps basically nobody.
Huma Abedin / Vogue:
Huma Abedin on the Moment Her Private Life Went Public  —  To listen to this excerpt, click the play button below: … When I awoke in Buckingham Palace, it was as if I were still in a dream.  I turned my head to the tall, narrow windows, where sunlight was just beginning to peek through the gray clouds.
Chuck Culpepper / Washington Post:
Washington State football coach Nick Rolovich fired after failing to comply with vaccine mandate  —  In perhaps the most striking case to date of a public employee being terminated because of a coronavirus vaccine mandate, Washington State football coach Nick Rolovich was dismissed Monday …
Discussion: USA Today and Fox News
Politico:
State IG launches investigations into end of Afghanistan operations  —  The State Department's inspector general is launching a series of investigations into the end of the Biden administration's diplomatic operations in Afghanistan, according to State Department and congressional officials, as well as documents viewed by POLITICO.
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Ross Ibbetson / Daily Mail:
The Taliban will help America get US citizens and Afghans at risk out of Kabul as evacuation flights are set to resume before the end of the year
Discussion: HotAir and National Review
New York Times:
Jefferson Statue Will Be Removed From N.Y.C. Council Chambers  —  After a debate over Jefferson's legacy and his history as a slaveholder, city officials delayed deciding on where to display the statue.  —  For more than 100 years, a 7-foot-tall statue of Thomas Jefferson has towered …
Seth Hettena / Rolling Stone:
Steve Bannon Thought Jeffrey Epstein Was a Spy  —  The billionaire may have exaggerated his connections to the world of international espionage, but the tales were enough to pull in a top official in Trumpworld  —  In the run-up to the 2016 presidential campaign, Jeffrey Epstein told associates something …
Brian Stieglitz / Daily Mail:
Beginning at 10pm on Tuesday, the mob ran amok through the streets and shattered windows, setting fires, spraying graffiti messages like ‘anarchy means attack,’ ‘riots work,’ and ‘breaking windows is good’  —  The exception to the new law is when the circumstances constitute a riot …
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Jerome Powell Sold More Than a Million Dollars of Stock as the Market Was Tanking  —  Disclosure documents reveal that the spectacle of Fed officials personally trading stocks extended to the chair himself.  —  Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth …
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Special elections show how much the parties have changed  —  IOWA — There is always a bit of unchecked hubris in politics ahead of a big midterm election.  Special elections, at times, lull strategists into believing their party will safely hold on to its majority or snatch it away from the other side.
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
No gold coffins or public funerals for officer Dylan Harrison  —  Alamo, Georgia, police officer Dylan Harrison just had his funeral.  Harrison was ambushed outside the Alamo Police Department on Oct. 8.  Although WGXA streamed the funeral service on Facebook, Harrison did not get a public funeral.
C. Ryan Barber / Insider:
Senate Republicans have put a ‘hold’ on Biden's pick to oversee the January 6 prosecutions  — Senate Republicans have put a “hold” on Biden's pick for US attorney in Washington, DC.  — Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton confirmed the block on the nominee but declined to provide details.
New York Post:
Midnight runs: Biden secretly flying underage migrants into NY in dead of night  —  Planeloads of underage migrants are being flown secretly into suburban New York in an effort by President Biden's administration to quietly resettle them across the region, The Post has learned.
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
Trump goes after Cassidy after saying he wouldn't support him for president in 2024  —  Former President Trump blasted Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Monday after the senator said in an interview he would not vote for the real estate mogul if he ran for president again in 2024.
Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
Fox News Anchor Thoroughly Dragged For Boosting Anti-Vax Talk After Powell's Death  —  No vaccine can cure getting ratio'd on Twitter.  —  On the morning of former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell's death from complications of COVID-19 …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Manchin Hasn't Killed Biden's Climate Agenda (Yet)  —  The cornerstone of Joe Biden's climate agenda looks dead.  —  Last week, Joe Manchin told the White House that he strongly opposes the president's Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), a policy that would require all electric utilities …
Discussion: New York Times, HotAir and Slate
 
 
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Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
University of North Carolina Can Keep Affirmative Action, Judge Rules
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
New York Democratic leader apologizes after comparing Buffalo mayoral nominee India Walton to former KKK leader David Duke
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal REVOLUTION:
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Calls to end Wisconsin Republicans' review of 2020 election grow amid investigator's blunders
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Keller / Law & Crime:
Capitol Siege Defendant Who Admitted Tasing Michael Fanone Files Court Documents Suggesting He Was ‘Acting Upon’ Donald Trump's ‘Authorization’
Discussion: Raw Story
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Treasury Warns That Digital Currencies Could Weaken U.S. Sanctions
Discussion: CoinDesk
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Biden to participate in CNN town hall in Baltimore on Thursday
Discussion: The Hill and Twitchy
Emily Ashton / Bloomberg:
Boris Johnson Sees ‘Extremely Tough’ Global Climate Talks in Glasgow
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
GOP Lawmakers Concerned Biden Admin Delaying Iranian Agent Trial To Appease Iran
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Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal:
World Bank Mishandled Sexual-Harassment Claims, Internal Tribunal Says
Business Wire:
Sinclair Broadcast Group Provides Information On Cybersecurity Incident
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Robert Frank / CNBC:
The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks
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