Archive for November, 2011

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• Polio detected in NYC's sewage, suggesting virus circulating (Associated Press)
  Associated Press: Polio detected in NYC's sewage, suggesting virus circulating  —  The virus that causes polio has been found in New York City's wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn't been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday.
• FBI Recovered Eleven Sets of Classified Documents in Trump Search, Inventory Shows (Wall Street Journal)
  Wall Street Journal: FBI Recovered Eleven Sets of Classified Documents in Trump Search, Inventory Shows  —  Trump allies claim the former president declassified the documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago  —  Justice Department Asks Judge to Unseal Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant  —  Created with sketchtool. … 1x
• DePerno wants Nessel impeached after requesting special prosecutor to probe alleged election tampering (Allison R. Donahue/Michigan Advance)
  Allison R. Donahue / Michigan Advance: DePerno wants Nessel impeached after requesting special prosecutor to probe alleged election tampering  —  Matt DePerno, the presumptive GOP attorney general nominee, said Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel “should be impeached” for her office investigating allegations that DePerno tampered with election tabulators […]
• China's Xi Jinping Plans to Meet With Biden in First Foreign Trip in Nearly Three Years (Keith Zhai/Wall Street Journal)
  Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: China's Xi Jinping Plans to Meet With Biden in First Foreign Trip in Nearly Three Years  —  The Chinese leader, who has remained at home during the pandemic, is organizing a visit to Southeast Asia, say people familiar with the matter  —  Chinese officials are making plans for Xi Jinping …
• FBI attacker was prolific contributor to Trump's Truth Social website (Washington Post)
  Washington Post: FBI attacker was prolific contributor to Trump's Truth Social website  —  Civil war and violence in support of the former president were frequent topics on an account opened in April and bearing the shooter's name and photo  —  In the minutes after an armed man in body armor tried to breach …
• GOP contorts itself in defense of Trump as new FBI search details emerge (Andrew Desiderio/Politico)
  Andrew Desiderio / Politico: GOP contorts itself in defense of Trump as new FBI search details emerge  —  Republicans who days ago united in preemptive defense of Donald Trump are struggling to stay on the same page following new questions about documents that the former president was holding at his Florida residence.
• The White House is making a point of staying quiet about the F.B.I. search of Mar-a-Lago. (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)
  Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times: The White House is making a point of staying quiet about the F.B.I. search of Mar-a-Lago.  —  In the days since the F.B.I. searched Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald J. Trump's private club and home in Florida, the White House has made a point of staying quiet.
• How the Trump White House misled the world about its family separation policy (Terry Gross/NPR)
  Terry Gross / NPR: How the Trump White House misled the world about its family separation policy  —  The Atlantic's Caitlin Dickerson spent 18 months filing lawsuits for documents to put together the story of the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the border.  —  TERRY GROSS, HOST:
• CBO: New IRS Audits Will Grab at Least $20B from Lower- & Middle-Income Families (Lauren Camp/Ways and Means Republicans)
  Lauren Camp / Ways and Means Republicans: CBO: New IRS Audits Will Grab at Least $20B from Lower- & Middle-Income Families  —  Key Point: At least $20 billion of the revenue Democrats hope to collect from taxpayers with a supercharged IRS would come from lower- and middle-income earners and small businesses, according to a new analysis …
• Will This Be An Asterisk* Election? - *It takes something unusual for the president's party to do well in the midterms. (Nate Silver/FiveThirtyEight)
  Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight: Will This Be An Asterisk* Election?  —  *It takes something unusual for the president's party to do well in the midterms.  —  By Nate Silver  —  Aug. 12, 2022, at 8:18 AM  —  In 2020, we took pains to emphasize that, although he was a significant underdog in our forecast …