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Bill Maher: Biden Made Smart Move With Cannabis Pardons, Pot Smokers Do Show Up To Vote

“Real Time with Bill Maher" host on Friday, saluted President Joe Biden’s action to pardon those federally incarcerated on simple cannabis possession charges.

Benzinga

Tracker: Article III federal judicial nominations by president by days in office since 2001

Through Oct. 1, 2022, there were 890 authorized federal judicial posts and 85 vacancies. Eighty-three of those were for Article III judgeships. This report is limited to Article III courts, where appointees are confirmed to lifetime judgeships. In the past month:

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The White House is turning to TikTok stars to take its message to a younger audience

A third of young people say they prefer to get their news on social media. The White House is having special briefings for influencers to get its message out to their massive audiences on TikTok.

WEKU

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Loretta Lynn: Country music royalty who had string of award-winning hits

The musician’s candid songs gave voice to the daily struggles of working-class women

The Independent UK

For Round 2, Kanye West assures Tucker Carlson: 'I will eventually be president'

A day after opening up about ex-wife Kim Kardashian and his support for former President Donald Trump, Kanye West gave Tucker Carlson another earful about his worldview in a two-hour conversation that the anchor said was originally scheduled for 30 minutes.

Los Angeles Times

Kanye whines over criticism for Trump support and says 'what's the point in being famous?'

During Donald Trump's presidential term, Kanye West was open about supporting him, even wearing a 'Make America Great Again' cap

Daily Mirror

Help or hindrance? Biden takes a back seat as Trump goes all in on midterms

The president, beset by low poll ratings, has been focusing on fundraising, while his predecessor swoops in for campaign rallies, whether Republican candidates like it or not

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Are Putin’s nuclear threats really likely to lead to Armageddon?

The realities underlying the menacing vocabulary are a grey area – it is far from certain that Putin would be prepared to use nuclear weapons

The Guardian - US

As politicians and CEOs slip off their shoes – are trainers now the smart choice?

We’re used to seeing tech bros in Nikes and even Theresa May wore leopard-print sneakers. It seems how we dress for work is changing

The Guardian - UK

U.S. announces new sanctions on Iran, even as it seeks a new nuclear deal

Thursday's announcement of new U.S. sanctions follows pressure from activists for the U.S. to support the protests, following the death of Mahsa Amini in custody of Iran's so-called morality police.

WEKU

Why does the Nobel Peace Prize often stir controversy?

With winner from 343 candidates set to be announced on Friday, a look at an award won by Obama, Gorbachev and Kissinger.

Al Jazeera

Commentary: The illegitimate attacks on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy

Legitimacy. The word has dominated discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court for years. Some, mostly on the left, claim that the court has lost its legitimacy. The debate on this question even has spread to the court itself, with comments on the matter made by Justices Elena Kagan, John Roberts…

Chicago Tribune

VIEWPOINT 2: Immigration may play a more important role in the midterms than you think

After Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election, many political experts expected increasing immigration would hand Democrats consistent electoral victories in the future.

Tribune News Service

Trump repeats false claim Obama mishandled ‘33 million pages’ of official papers

One-time president also calls FBI secret documents probe a ‘hoax’

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Appeals court rules against program that protects ‘Dreamers’

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled against a decade-old program that protects hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children, paving the way for more court action on the long-disputed policy.

The Texas Tribune

DACA remains intact as appeals court sends case challenging its legality back to lower court in Texas

The latest ruling in the long-running legal fight over the program doesn’t change the status quo for the program, which protects some undocumented immigrants from deportation and gives them work permits.

Tribune News Service

Trump says federal agency packed top-secret documents. Email exchanges suggest otherwise

Former President Donald Trump publicly said that one reason that the FBI found boxes of classified documents improperly stored at his Florida estate was that federal workers had packed up the White House after his 2020 defeat.

The Independent UK

Biden juggles Iran nuke talks as Iranian repression grows

President Joe Biden has hit back at Iran over the government’s brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests and he's signaled that more sanctions may soon be announced

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Appeals court rules against program that protects 'Dreamers' - Roll Call

A federal appeals court ruled against a decade-old program that protects young undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.

Salon

Democrats scored a huge win: Now what?

For more than a decade, Republicans riled up their base with vows to repeal Obamacare. Today, nothing but crickets

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Democrats’ midterm chances are better partly because of one person: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

What a difference six months make. Earlier this year, it was generally conceded that Republicans would sweep to victories in the midterm elections, giving them control of the House and Senate.

The Independent UK

Biden to focus on hurricane victims in Florida, not politics

President Joe Biden is traveling to hurricane-ravaged Florida with a pledge that federal, state and local governments will work as one to help rebuild homes, businesses and lives

Axios

Air Force One log: Obama, Trump outflew Biden in midterms

Two bouts of COVID and underwater poll ratings took tolls on the president's domestic and campaign travel.

Chicago Sun-Times

Maggie Haberman’s new Trump book: How Rod Blagojevich got really lucky

Haberman is the New York Times reporter who, as she writes, spent her career at “news outlets Trump cares most about.”

Tribune News Service

Trump correspondence with Kim Jong Un missing, attorney for National Archives told ex-president's lawyers in May 2021

The top attorney at the National Archives emailed former White House lawyers in May 2021 alerting them that the administration had failed to turn over correspondence between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg.

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