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Democrats quietly scramble to include immigration provision in social spending bill — Democrats are scrambling intensely behind-the-scenes to address immigration in the framework they are crafting to expand the nation's social safety net, according to people with knowledge of the situation …
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Politico, Bloomberg, ImmigrationProf Blog and CNN
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POLITICO Playbook: Biden's new problem on the left — DRIVING THE DAY — A SIGN OF THE TIMES — ELON MUSK, the wealthiest man in the world, is now worth more than Exxon Mobil, per Bloomberg. — GRUMBLING ON THE LEFT — President JOE BIDEN might be finally homing in on a deal with Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.), the elusive moderate.
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Reuters, Political Wire and WTOP
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Biden and Democrats Push for Budget Deal This Week as Rifts Remain
Biden and Democrats Push for Budget Deal This Week as Rifts Remain
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Washington Times, The Hill, The Hill, CNN and Breitbart
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McAuliffe and Youngkin are in a dead heat with one week to Virginia governor election, poll shows — Phillip M. Bailey David JacksonUSA TODAY — Virginia's bellwether race for governor remains close in the final stretch of a campaign that is testing President Joe Biden's sagging approval numbers going into the 2022 midterms.
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The Daily Beast, CBS News, National Review and Political Wire
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Republican Leaders Could Still Stop Trump. They Just Don't Want To. Trump wants to take over. Republicans just want party unity. — If Terry McAuliffe holds on to defeat Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia governor's race, a large number of Republicans will blame Donald Trump.
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Washington Examiner and Breitbart
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‘This could be the ballgame:’ Biden goes all-in on Virginia — Joe Biden and Democrats know they won't be able to spin a loss in Virginia. So they're raising the stakes of the election instead. — Biden is back stumping for Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday as he tries to hold off Glenn Youngkin …
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CNN, Washington Examiner, New York Times and The Daily Wire
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Terry McAuliffe should not fan the flames of voter suspicion
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Mediaite, IJR and National Review
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Mom Who Wanted To Ban ‘Beloved’ Featured In New Glenn Youngkin Ad
Mom Who Wanted To Ban ‘Beloved’ Featured In New Glenn Youngkin Ad
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God., Fox News and The Hill
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Jan. 6 investigators privately question Bannon associate — Dustin Stockton, a conservative activist linked to Steve Bannon, is fielding questions Monday from congressional investigators scrutinizing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to two sources familiar with the interview.
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Trump is killing American democracy
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Arizona Republic and Chicago Sun-Times
A.B. Stoddard / Real Clear Politics:
GOP Bets Swing Voters Will Downplay the Insurrection Too
GOP Bets Swing Voters Will Downplay the Insurrection Too
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Washington Examiner, New York Magazine and Raw Story
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
In case at center of political firestorm, judge finds teen committed sexual assault in Virginia school bathroom — In a case that has generated a political firestorm, a Virginia juvenile court judge found sufficient evidence during a trial Monday to sustain charges that a teen sexually assaulted …
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HotAir, WTOP, Yahoo News, The Western Journal, WJLA-TV, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook's formula fostered rage and misinformation … Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.”
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Wired and Insider, more at Techmeme »
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Dave Chappelle Willing to Discuss ‘The Closer’ With Trans Community, but Says He's 'Not Bending to Anybody's Demands' … Dave Chappelle has spoken out about the controversy over his Netflix special “The Closer” in a new stand-up video, saying that he is willing to meet with transgender Netflix employees …
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New York Post, CNN, One America News Network, Louder With Crowder, The Daily Caller, Townhall, TheBlaze, Insider, Outside the Beltway, The Wrap, HotAir, Twitchy, Forbes, Decider and IndieWire
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In advance of climate summit, tension among Biden aides on China policy — In the early summer, with less than five months to go before a critical United Nations climate conference in Scotland, John F. Kerry told President Biden that he wouldn't achieve his goal of tackling climate change …
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New York Times, NPR and HotAir
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White House rejects latest Trump claim of executive privilege — The White House is rejecting more claims of executive privilege from former President Trump over documents requested by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, directing the National Archives …
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Immigration arrests fell to lowest level in more than a decade during fiscal 2021, ICE data shows — Immigration arrests in the interior of the United States fell in fiscal 2021 to the lowest level in more than a decade — roughly half the annual totals recorded during the Trump administration …
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Covid Cases Keep Falling — Covid cases have been falling in every region of the U.S., offering hope. — It is time for one of The Morning's occasional updates on the state of the pandemic. Today's is focused on the U.S. and organized around three main points. — 1. Covid's retreat continues
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Texas governor signs bill banning transgender girls from female sports in schools — Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday signed into law a bill banning transgender girls from participating in female sports at public schools, joining a wave of similar measures emerging from Republican-controlled statehouses across the country.
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The Texas Tribune, The Daily Wire and National Review
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Miles donations are providing flights for Afghan refugees — A campaign that began with ordinary people donating frequent-flyer miles has raised enough in two months to provide 40,000 flights for refugees from Afghanistan, and organizers and the White House are looking to nearly double that figure.
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Want to Know More About Critical Race Theory? Look at Virginia's Schools—For More Than 75 Years — Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin was raised on official, state-taught racism. I should know. So was I. — Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin has decided …
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The Moderate Voice
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Amazon strikes deal with UK spy agencies to host top-secret material — Cloud contract for GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 with US tech group aims to speed analysis but likely to ignite sovereignty fears — The UK's three spy agencies have contracted AWS, Amazon's cloud computing arm …
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Weekly Update: #COVID19 case & death rates by county, partisan lean & vaccination rate — Here's the weekly look at the rate of COVID-19 cases & deaths at the county level since the end of June, broken out by partisan lean (i.e, what percent of the vote Donald Trump received in 2020).
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Thanksgiving Food Prices Increase as Supply Chain Costs Rise — Nearly every ingredient, from the turkey to the after-dinner coffee, is expected to cost more, for a host of reasons. — Thanksgiving 2021 could be the most expensive meal in the history of the holiday.
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15 races to watch on Election Day — New York City's mayor. New Jersey's governor. Boston's mayor. And a primary that will surely decide the future of a Democratic stronghold House seat in Florida. — Election Day 2021 is an “off year” across the U.S., and it has mostly drawn attention …
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‘Woke Racism’—A Review — A review of Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter. Portfolio, 224 pages. (October, 2021) — If you had told someone a decade ago—after the election of the first black president, and in anticipation …
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First on CNN: Biden administration expected to name GOP official who challenged Trump's lies to key election security role — Washington (CNN)The Biden administration is expected to name Kim Wyman, a Republican secretary of state who challenged former President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud …
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Associated Press, WPTA21 and The Guardian
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Jury Selection In The “Unite The Right” White Supremacist Trial Involved A Lot Of Arguing Over Antifa — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — Much of the first day of a long-awaited trial to hold two dozen white supremacist figures and groups accountable for the violent “Unite the Right” …
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The Facebook Papers Are a Big Fat Nothingburger — More than a dozen mainstream media organizations published reports today on the so-called Facebook Papers, a trove of internal company documents obtained and released by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen. The headlines promised dramatic revelations and damning indictments.
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Popular Information, Washington Post, Protocol, Axios and HotAir, more at Techmeme »
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Why is Anthony Fauci trying to kill my puppy? — My family recently got a new puppy, a strong-willed and mouthy but ultimately lovable little nipper. We named him Bernie Sanders. — Unfortunately, though, I can't take Bernie out on walks. Here in the capital, we have a puppy killer on the loose …
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Fox News, American Greatness, TMZ.com and The American Spectator
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Why ‘Evangelical’ Is Becoming Another Word for ‘Republican’ — Mr. Burge, an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University and a Baptist pastor, has written extensively about the interaction of religion and politics. — The conventional wisdom about religion …
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Raw Story
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A Scottish Judge Could Expose Donald Trump's Shady Golf Finances — Donald Trump has long seemed to offer conflicting financial pictures to the U.S. and U.K. when it comes to his Scottish golf courses. A judge might be able to offer new insight. — A judge in Scotland will hold …
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Mother Jones and Raw Story
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Joe Manchin's Surefire Strategy to Ensure That Democrats Lose in 2022 — If Democrats appease Manchin and fail to act on the climate crisis, they will lose a vital appeal to the young voters they need to win. — If Joe Manchin gets what he wants in negotiations with the Biden White House …
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New York Magazine