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Politics

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• Locked in? Republicans appear to have votes to take up a SCOTUS nominee this year (Washington Examiner)

• Trump vetting five women for Supreme Court (Washington Examiner)

• Joe Biden says he will not release Supreme Court list (National Review)

• Biden on radical idea of packing the Supreme Court: “I’m not going to answer that question” (The Daily Wire)

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg to lie in state in U.S. Capitol on Friday — the first woman to hold that honor (The Daily Caller)

• CNN’s Don Lemon suggests blowing up “entire system” (Fox News)

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Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

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• BLM quietly scrubs anti-American, Marxist language from its website (The Post Millennial)

• Second wounded Los Angeles deputy released from hospital after ambush attack (Fox News)

• “State of emergency” declared by Louisville police ahead of Breonna Taylor decision (LEX 18)

• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proposes new felony charges for violent protesters, harsh penalties for cities that defund police (The Daily Wire)

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Around the Nation

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• Federal judge orders Wisconsin absentee ballots postmarked by November 3 to be counted in 2020 election (Fox News)

• Pennsylvania mail-in ballot ruling could cause 100,000 ballots to be rejected (Forbes)

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Business & Economy

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• Congressional Budget Office: Federal debt nears “unsustainable” levels (The Washington Times)

• U.S. household net worth spikes, surpassing pre-pandemic peak (National Review)

• Anyone notice that the Trump recovery is doing much better than expected? (Issues & Insights)

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National Security

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• CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden agrees to forfeit more than $5 million from book proceeds to the U.S. government (Daily Mail)

• New York City, Portland, and Seattle deemed by DOJ as “anarchist jurisdiction” (WABC)

• Sweeping new sanctions hit Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Mike Pompeo threatens China with sanctions over Iran arms deals (Washington Examiner)

• House Foreign Affairs Committee report says China tried to cover up scope of COVID-19, could have prevented pandemic (The Daily Wire)

• Trump administration invests more than $100 million to fight human trafficking (Disrn)

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Other Notables

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• Beta becomes 9th landfall storm of 2020 in a record-shattering season (NBC News)

• Even with lockdowns, the woke Emmys post lowest ratings ever (The Daily Wire)

• More than half of all Supreme Court justices were confirmed in 45 days or less (The Federalist)

• California wants me to vote, even though I haven’t lived there for over eight years (The Daily Signal)

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Closing Arguments

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• Policy: Too much centralization is turning everything into a political crisis (Mises Institute)

• Policy: America needs a plan to bring key manufacturing home (Issues & Insights)

• Humor: Ninth Circuit Court overturns death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (The Babylon Bee)

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