Tuesday Executive Summary
Landmark antitrust case, immigration reviews, debate commission malarkey, and more.
Top of the Fold
Justice Department filing landmark antitrust case against evil Google (AP)
Supreme Court to review two of Trump’s major immigration policies — Remain in Mexico, and funding for border barrier (The New York Times)
Election 2020
Debate commission nixes foreign policy as topic in foreign policy debate (The Daily Wire)
Final debate will feature muted mics for two minutes of initial comments on each topic (Washington Examiner)
Predictably, Chief Justice John Roberts sides with Democrats, denies Pennsylvania GOP effort to block extended ballot turn-in period (Fox News)
Rapper 50 Cent endorses Trump after seeing Biden’s tax plan (The Daily Caller)
Trump campaign and RNC unveil $55 million ad buy for final two weeks (Washington Examiner)
Biden campaign pulls ad after military leader says his image was used without permission (The Washington Free Beacon)
Elsewhere in Politics
DNI John Ratcliffe says Hunter Biden emails and laptop “not part of some Russian disinformation campaign” (National Review)
House GOP pushes William Barr for special counsel to investigate Biden revelations (The Washington Times)
Biden’s boosters financed his prodigal son’s entire career (The Federalist)
Twitter and Facebook censored Trump 65 times but leave Biden untouched (NewsBusters)
Around the Nation
House race tests how deeply blue Virginia has gone (Washington Examiner)
Florida edges toward $15 minimum wage (Washington Examiner)
Oregon’s last coal plant closes as primary investor pivots to renewable energy (Washington Examiner)
Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate
Research shows critical race theory is actually making people more racist (The Federalist) | The civil rights legend who opposed CRT (The Daily Signal)
Denver TV station security guard charged with second-degree murder in pro-police demonstrator’s death (AP)
Wikipedia bans users from expressing support of traditional marriage (Disrn)
Stranger Than Fiction
New Yorker suspends Jeffrey Toobin for masturbating on Zoom call (Vice)
ChiCom-supporting Disney adds warnings for “racist” content to classic films (The Daily Wire)
Anti-gun organization prepared to launch national group of gun owners who apparently don’t like guns (NRA-ILA)
Other Notables
Senate GOP eyes October 26 for confirming Barrett to Supreme Court (The Hill)
Is Trump really only a few percentage points away from 270 electoral votes? (National Review)
Conservative icon Rush Limbaugh says cancer has shown progression in the “wrong direction” (NBC News)
Closing Arguments
Policy: The Left’s healthcare “cure” is far worse than the malady (The Daily Signal)
Policy: Biden’s Education Department would be a radical disaster (The Federalist)
Humor: Amy Coney Barrett just adopted a local troubled youngster named Hunter (The Babylon Bee)
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