Top of the Fold

• Job creation roars back in October — perhaps only temporarily thanks to the OSHA vax mandate — as payrolls rise by 531,000 (CNBC)

• Flip-flop: White House walks back Joe Biden’s “that’s not gonna happen” comment on migrant payments (The Hill)

Politics

• Gee, what are the odds? Woman who testified against Donald Trump also introduced authors of fake Russian “dossier” to each other (PJ Media)

• Arrest illustrates how the dossier was a political dirty trick orchestrated by Hillary Clinton (New York Post)

• Belly laugh of the week: Nancy Pelosi touts deficit reduction ahead of Friday votes on spending and infrastructure bills (Washington Examiner)

• “Nobody elected him to be FDR”: Abigail Spanberger and Joe Manchin hit leftists for massive reconciliation demands (Fox News)

• Justice Department sues Texas to block portions of new voting integrity law (Austin American-Statesman)

• Senate confirms Thomas Nides as ambassador to Israel (The Hill)

Security

• Border Patrol released 283,000 migrants into the U.S. over the past year; a whopping 95,000 untracked (Washington Examiner)

• Biden administration emulates Trump, approves $650 million in arms sales to Saudi Arabia (Axios)

• “We’re going to stay until we get them all out,” eh? Staggering number of green-card holders (14,000) stranded in Afghanistan (National Review)

• Undercutting U.S. strategy: China upholding Iranian regime with oil purchases (Washington Times)

Health

• Thousands of Border Patrol agents at risk of being fired over vaccine mandates (Washington Times)

• Missouri attorney general to sue Biden administration over vax mandate (Fox 4)

• Florida will likewise sue (Washington Examiner)

Heartland

• Republican Jack Ciattarelli refuses to concede New Jersey governor’s race “until every legal vote is counted” (Washington Examiner)

• Newly elected Virginia attorney general vows to investigate sexual assaults at Loudoun schools (Washington Examiner)

• Conflict of interest: Kenosha mayor has close family ties to lead detective, prosecuting DA in Kyle Rittenhouse case (PM)

Notables

• Good: Supreme Court appears ready to strike down restrictive New York concealed carry law (PJ Media)

• SCOTUS takes on EPA emissions regulation case, offering fossil fuels hope for relief (Washington Examiner)

• Half of Americans burned out by screens, turn to podcasts (Washington Times)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Climate change is not an “existential threat” (Washington Post)

• Policy: The inflation tax is not only real, it’s massive (The Hill)

• Satire: Terry McAuliffe blames loss on low 3 a.m. ballot turnout (Babylon Bee)

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