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NHL Player Suspended 21 Games After Forging Vaccination Card

sports

By Matt Stieb

Evander Kane will forfeit almost $2 million and miss around a quarter of the season after the league found that he submitted a fake vaccination card.

Democratic Boss Uses David Duke in Analogy About India Walton

By Nia Prater

Jay Jacobs was asked about whether he must endorse Buffalo’s socialist candidate for mayor who won the primary.

Are Fears of 2022 Losses Driving House Democrats to Retire?

2022 midterms

By Ed Kilgore

Sometimes senior House members bail in anticipation of their party losing the majority. A wave of 2022 retirements could be a bad sign for Democrats.

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Manchin Hasn’t Killed Biden’s Climate Agenda (Yet)

build back better

By Eric Levitz

Biden’s best green policy looks dead. But there’s still a fair amount Congress can do.

Just How Disastrous Is Manchin’s Climate Obstruction?

intelligencer chats

By Benjamin Hart and David Wallace-Wells

U.S. credibility is on the line, not to mention the fate of the planet.

Is It Time for Democrats to Panic About Virginia — and the Midterms?

By Ed Kilgore

Here’s some reassurance even for Democrats who are worried Glenn Youngkin’s defeat of Terry McAuliffe for governor would foretell a 2022 disaster.

Whistleblower Cop Says Eric Adams’s Sexist Smear Job Ruined Her Life

By Nia Prater

He accused a female officer who exposed a dirty cop of doing it because she was a scorned lover, and showed a photo of her in a bikini.

Colin Powell, First Black Secretary of State, Dies at 84

By Benjamin Hart

The highly distinguished general, who will forever be associated with the war in Iraq, died of complications from COVID-19.

Tim Scott Knows What He’s Doing

republicans

By Zak Cheney-Rice

Why Republican donors are so excited about the South Carolina senator.

Can Anyone Stop the Uberization of the Economy?

uber

By Bryce Covert

How ride-sharing apps are trying to spread the gig-worker model far and wide.

Group of American Missionaries Kidnapped in Haiti: What We Know

international affairs

By Chas Danner

A busload of 17 people, including three children, were allegedly kidnapped by a notorious gang outside Port-au-Prince on Saturday.

China Tested a Nuclear-Capable Hypersonic Missile: Report

nuclear arms race

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

The weapon is harder to track and destroy than a ballistic missile.

Democrats Scramble for Climate Options After Manchin Rejects Clean-Energy Plan

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Manchin’s opposition to a key program has reportedly upended Democrats’ climate-policy plans and forced the White House to seek alternatives.

Why the ‘Big Short’ Guys Think Bitcoin Is a Bubble

the money game

By Michelle Celarier

Are they onto something huge again — or just fighting the last war?

10/16/2021

crime

Robert Durst Has COVID, Is on Ventilator

By Chas Danner

The real-estate heir and convicted murder was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday.

10/16/2021

puerto rico

Fed Up Over Power Outages, Puerto Ricans Took to the Streets

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

Thousands marched on Friday to highlight continuing outages, rising bills, and concerns about the privatization of the power grid on the island.

10/16/2021

past is prologue

Joe Biden Is Not Jimmy Carter, and This Is Not the 1970s

By Ed Kilgore

The right’s facile comparisons of the two presidents miss the vastly different circumstances facing Biden and distort Carter’s record.

British Lawmaker Stabbed to Death During Meeting With Constituents

By Nia Prater

The gruesome attack has been declared a terrorist incident.

Does Trump Want Me to Think He’s Into Golden Showers?

unsolved mysteries

By Margaret Hartmann

I do not want to believe the pee-tape story, so I would appreciate it if Trump would stop offering suspicious denials no one asked for.

Will Ending Gifted and Talented Programs Help Desegregate Schools?

education

By James D. Walsh

Even parents and advocates of the programs acknowledge how much they have disadvantaged Black and brown students.

Can Eric Adams Really Turn 25,000 Hotel Rooms Into Affordable Housing?

assessment

By Kevin T. Dugan

Even after all the past year’s closures, that’s a lot of real estate.

Fully Vaccinated Travelers Can Visit U.S. Starting November 8

tourism

By Paola Rosa-Aquino and Chas Danner

The U.S. will soon allow fully vaccinated visitors from more than 30 countries, including via the borders with Canada and Mexico.

10/15/2021

U.S. will be open to vaccinated international travelers on November 8

Travel restrictions that the U.S. imposed because of the Covid-19 pandemic will be partially lifted for nearly three dozen countries on Nov. 8, the Biden administration announced Friday. White House assistant press secretary Kevin Munoz said in a tweet that the new policy will begin Nov. 8 and will require foreign national travelers from 33 countries to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. … The new policy will apply to a number of European nations — including the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain — as well as China and Iran, among others.

U.S. to ease Covid travel entry rules, require vaccinations for foreign visitors on Nov. 8

—NBC News