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Cuba agrees to accept U.S. deportation flights as border crossings rise

Cuba has agreed for the first time since the pandemic to accept U.S. deportation flights carrying Cubans caught at the U.S.-Mexico border, three U.S. officials told Reuters, giving U.S. authorities a new but limited tool to deter record numbers of Cuban border crossers.

Reuters

Obama presidential library construction halted after noose found on site

‘We have zero tolerance for any form of bias or hate,’ company says and offers $100,000 reward to help find who was responsible

The Guardian - US

Justices cheered at conservative group's anniversary dinner

Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion showed up at the conservative Federalist Society’s black-tie dinner marking its 40th anniversary

The Independent UK

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What scares me about Moore's election

I consider Wes a friend and a mentor. I know how much he has meant to Baltimore's marginalized communities

Salon

Zachary Quinto: ‘I have lost a certain faith in America’s system’

The Star Trek actor is making his West End debut in a play about the 1968 US TV political debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley. But he fears the pair’s fiery exchanges may be partly to blame for today’s polarised politics

The Guardian - UK

Course Corrections: The Return of Prison Education

Federal grants are rebooting higher education behind bars, but the benefits aren't evenly distributed to all of the incarcerated.

Texas Observer

The ‘armed and gay’ Senate hopeful who helped force Georgia’s runoff

Libertarian Chase Oliver, 37, managed 81,000 votes despite raising just $8,000

The Guardian - US

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Noose found at construction site of Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

Lakeside Alliance, a partnership of Black-owned construction firms, said it reported the incident to police

Evening Standard

Construction of Obama presidential library halted after noose found in ‘act of hate’

Reward of $100,000 has been offered to identify those responsible for planting noose

The Independent UK

Work halted at Obama Presidential Center in Chicago after noose is found

CHICAGO — Foundation officials are condemning a “shameless act of cowardice and hate” at the site of former President Barack Obama’s presidential center in Chicago's Jackson Park neighborhood on Thursday morning.

Chicago Tribune

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COVID hospitalizations are rising in kids under 6 months, CDC Director Walensky says

Tribune News Service

Michelle Obama says her goal is no longer having ‘Michelle Obama arms’ as she opens up about menopause

The former first lady says ‘there is not a lot of conversation about menopause’

The Independent UK

Michelle Obama’s new book reveals personal stories of coping

In the book, Obama tells how she steadies herself during these anxious times and how she works at overcoming her lifelong fear of change and doubts about herself.

Chicago Sun-Times

Michelle Obama shares personal stories of coping in new book

Michelle Obama says she wrote another book because everyone from her daughters to her girlfriends to strangers who wrote her letters wanted to know how to cope in these anxious times

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

What a relief I’ve been denied my favourite election day hobby – hating fellow Americans

When things going less badly than planned is a small win, the lack of a revival of Trump-backed candidates is cheering , says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Financial Times

How the unlikeliest World Cup ever came to be

Was realising the dream of the Middle East’s first World Cup worth it? Qatar is about to find out

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Red rave: Expect Trump Republicans to lie about election defeats and exaggerate victories

As surely as right-wing politicians and personalities were preemptively deploying disinformation to cast doubt on any losses in Tuesday’s midterm election, they can be counted on to overstate the implications of any victories. So it’s worth warding off the inevitable fiction about the developing congressional results with some factual context.

Newsroom.co.nz

The fixation on a PM’s COP-out

Should we care Jacinda Ardern has skipped every UN climate summit?

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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s victory speech spurs presidential speculation

CHICAGO — When Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker claimed victory Tuesday night over a vanquished Republican Darren Bailey for a second term as Illinois governor, he also presented himself as a possible 2024 candidate for the White House if President Joe Biden opts not to seek a second term.

The Independent UK

Morning Joe celebrates Trump ‘losing’ America: ‘Desantis is GOP leader now’

“It would appear this morning this is Ron Desantis’s party and not Donald Trump’s,” Willie Geist says

Evening Standard

Bear Grylls led secret Everest search for body of Spencer Matthews’ brother Michael

The TV adventurer embarked on the expedition earlier this year to find the late mountaineering champ

Asharq Al-Awsat

Election Takeaways: No Sweep for the Republicans after All

For weeks, Republicans predicted a “red wave” would carry them to power in Congress, as voters repudiated majority Democrats for failing to tame skyrocketing inflation and address worries about rising crime. The reality appeared far different early Wednesday. Rather than a wholesale rejection of President Joe Biden and his party,…

Evening Standard

Who is Maxwell Frost? First Gen Zer elected to Congress

The 25-year-old Floridian Democrat became involved in politics after a series of mass shootings

Tribune News Service

Past is present in Peniel Joseph’s ‘The Third Reconstruction’

"The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-first Century" by Peniel Joseph; Basic Books (288 pages, $27)

Los Angeles Times

In a race marked by trolling and drama, Fetterman defeats Oz for Pennsylvania Senate seat

After an extraordinary race marked by vitriolic social media feuding, Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeated his Republican opponent, celebrity television physician Dr. Mehmet Oz, in Pennsylvania’s Senate contest five months after suffering a debilitating stroke.

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