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Above the Fold

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• Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s Title IX sexual misconduct rule will take effect Friday after legal blocks fail (Politico)

• Budget deficit hits $2.81 trillion in just 10 months and is on track to be far more than double the $1.4 trillion all-time record set in 2009 (UK Daily Mail)

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Politics

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• “I’m the boss,” eh? Far Left melts down after Democrats severely limit AOC’s speaking role at convention (The Daily Wire)

• Kamala Harris flip-flops back under a microscope after VP selection (Fox News)

• “Not a great fit out here”: Republicans say Harris harms Biden in crucial Rust Belt (Washington Examiner)

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Censorship

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• Harris’s former press secretary is the face of Twitter censorship (National Review)

• Facebook’s CCP-linked “fact-checker” is censoring articles about CCP influence in the U.S. elections (The National Pulse)

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Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

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• Murder rate spikes in 20 major American cities (The Daily Caller)

• More homicides than COVID deaths in Kansas City (KCTV)

• Chicago looters smash the doors to Ronald McDonald House while 30 frightened families huddled inside the children’s charity (UK Daily Mail)

• Georgia clothing store called racist for waiving fee for non-white customers (Fox News)

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National Security

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• State Department to require Chinese Confucius Institutes to register as foreign agents (National Review)

• “We’re going to have huge problems”: U.S. general warns of long-term ISIS resurgence (The Washington Times)

• Wrong kind of war: Federally funded nuclear weapons lab made white male employees participate in racial reeducation training (The Washington Free Beacon)

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Heartland

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• NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN show zero results for reports on the five-year-old white child allegedly executed by black 25-year-old neighbor (Washington Examiner)

• DC mayor orders “defund the police” mural removed, the timing of which coincides with the veep of selection of former top cop Kamala Harris (The Post Millennial)

• Nevada governor fines banned church for holding service in opened casino (The Federalist)

• Paul Howard ousted after serving more than two decades as Fulton County DA (Fox 5 Atlanta)

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Other Notables

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• Workers file under a million jobless claims for first time since March (New York Post)

• EPA to peel back Obama methane controls, against wishes of Big Oil companies (Washington Examiner)

• After losing both her in-laws to COVID-19, Janice Dean is calling for an investigation of New York (The Daily Signal)

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Closing Arguments

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• Policy: In a second term, Trump could build on his foreign policy successes (Hudson Institute)

• Policy: First principles on human rights: freedom of speech (The Heritage Foundation)

• Humor: Andrew Cuomo named U-Haul’s top salesman for fifth consecutive year (Genesius Times)

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