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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative October 2021 news and viewsNote: Excerpts are from the authors' words except for subheads and occasional "Editor's notes" such as this.
Oct. 16
Top Headlines
Washington Post, Biden: Justice Department should prosecute those who refuse Jan. 6 committee’s subpoenas- Washington Post, Publix heiress, funder of Jan. 6 rally, gave $150,000 to GOP attorneys general association, Beth Reinhard, Jacqueline Alemany and Tom Hamburger
- ABC News, US Capitol Police officer charged with obstruction related to Jan. 6 attack
- Washington Post, Some of nation’s largest hospitals say vaccine mandates are working
- Washington Post, U.S. prepares to restore ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy along border
New York Times, Italy Puts in Force Tough New Law Requiring Workers to Test or Vaccinate
Virus Victims, Responses
New York Times, F.D.A. Panel Recommends Johnson & Johnson Boosters- New York Times, They Resisted Getting Vaccinated. Here’s Why They Changed Their Minds, Joseph Goldstein
- Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals: U.S. Deaths: 743,880
Washington Post, 218 million U.S. vaccinated
Inside DC
- New York Times, Key Part of Biden’s Climate Agenda Likely to Be Cut From Budget Bill
- Washington Post, Manchin slams Sanders after newspaper opinion piece that urged him to support spending package
- New York Times, Opinion: Pramila Jayapal Won’t Let the Biden Presidency Fail, Michelle Goldberg
- New York Times, Funding Fight Threatens Plan to Pump Billions Into Affordable Housing
Daily Beast, Assistant House Sergeant at Arms Arrested on Child Porn Charges- Daily Beast, Jeffrey Epstein Bragged Bill Barr was in Charge, Not Trump, Lachlan Cartwright
U.S. Elections, Politics, Governance
- New York Times, Illinois Democrats’ Map Aims to Grab 2 G.O.P. Seats in Congress
- New York Times, Democrats Weigh Carbon Tax After Manchin Rejects Key Climate Provision
- Washington Post, For Virginia’s governor race, big donations from national groups push McAuliffe ahead of Youngkin in September fundraising
U.S. Courts, Law, Military, Rights
Washington Post, Robert Durst, real estate heir and murder convict, placed on ventilator after positive coronavirus test- Washington Post, A missing Alabama woman was found dead inside a police van. Her family wants answers
- New York Times, Ex-Student to Plead Guilty to Parkland School Shooting
- Palmer Report, Opinion: The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein is coming back to haunt Donald Trump, Bill Palmer
World Conflict, Corruption
- New York Times, U.S. Pledges to Pay Family of Those Killed in Botched Kabul Drone Strike
- New York Times, With Lawmaker’s Killing, the U.K. Confronts a New Episode of Terrorism
- Washington Post, Kenyan police called a suspected serial child killer a ‘vampire.’ A mob beat him to death after his escape
- New York Times, American Missionaries Kidnapped in Haiti, Officials Say,
Media, Academic News
Washington Post, Apple fires employee who raised awareness of workplace misconduct allegations at the company
Top Stories
Shown above at center is a policeman battered to the ground defending the U.S. Capitol by the pro-Trump mob of insurrectionists on Jan. 6 seeking to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election and thereby allowing the Biden Presidency to proceed.
Washington Post, Biden: Justice Department should prosecute those who refuse Jan. 6 committee’s subpoenas, Amy B Wang, Oct. 16, 2021 (print ed.). President Biden said Friday that the Justice Department should prosecute those who defy subpoenas from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, the most he has weighed in on possible consequences for aides of former president Donald Trump who have refused to comply with the panel’s demands.“I hope the committee goes after them and holds them accountable,” Biden told reporters Friday evening, when asked what should happen to those who defy subpoenas from the congressional committee.
The bipartisan panel is investigating the storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob trying to stop the certification of Biden’s electoral college win, an attack that resulted in five deaths and left some 140 members of law enforcement injured.The committee has subpoenaed records and testimony about activities related to the Jan. 6 insurrection from several former Trump advisers, including Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, Dan Scavino and Stephen K. Bannon. Through an attorney, Trump has instructed those advisers not to comply, arguing that such records are protected by “executive and other privileges.”
Washington Post, Publix heiress, funder of Jan. 6 rally, gave $150,000 to GOP attorneys general association, Beth Reinhard, Jacqueline Alemany and Tom Hamburger, Oct. 16, 2021. A wealthy Trump donor who helped finance the rally in Washington on Jan. 6 also gave $150,000 to the nonprofit arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association, records show, funds that a person familiar with the contribution said were intended in part to promote the rally. The nonprofit organization paid for a robocall touting a march that afternoon to the U.S. Capitol to “call on Congress to stop the steal.”
On Dec. 29, Julie Jenkins Fancelli, daughter of the founder of the Publix grocery store chain, gave the previously undisclosed contribution to RAGA’s nonprofit Rule of Law Defense Fund, or RLDF, records reviewed by the Washington Post show. On the same day, the records show that Fancelli gave $300,000 to Women for America First, the “Stop the Steal” group that obtained a permit for the rally featuring former president Donald Trump.
Funding for the events in Washington that day is a focus of the House select committee investigating the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol that followed the rally. The panel is also interested in the role state officials, including attorneys general, played in encouraging people to go to Washington on Jan. 6 and in supporting Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, according to people familiar with the committee’s work.The leaders of Women for America First have been subpoenaed by the committee, as has Caroline Wren, a Republican fundraiser who was listed on that group’s permit as a “VIP ADVISOR.” Both of Fancelli’s donations were arranged by Wren, according to the records and the person with knowledge of the contributions, who like some others interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
“We have many questions about coordination and funding, and we are actively seeking records and testimony that will answer those questions,” said committee spokesman Tim Mulvey. “Many witnesses are already engaging with the committee, and we expect cooperation to help us get the answers we’re seeking.”
The documents sought by the subpoenas sent to rally organizers were due Wednesday.
Fancelli, who is not involved in Publix business operations, did not respond to multiple requests seeking comment, and it is unclear if she knew about the robocall ahead of time. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, which reported in January that Fancelli had given approximately $300,000 to support the rally, she said: “I am a proud conservative and have real concerns associated with election integrity, yet I would never support any violence, particularly the tragic and horrific events that unfolded on January 6th.”
Alex Jones, left, a far-right talk show host and conspiracy theorist who was involved in the Jan. 6 rally, has said that it cost “close to half a million dollars.” He has also said a donor he did not identify paid for 80 percent of the rally.In a statement to The Post, Wren’s lawyer said: “Ms. Wren, in her role as an event planner, assisted many others in providing and arranging for a professionally produced and completely peaceful event at the White House Ellipse with hundreds of thousands of Americans who were in D.C. to lawfully exercise their first amendment rights, a primary pillar of American democracy. Ms. Wren was not present at the United States Capitol or the Capitol Grounds on January 6th.”
Related Stories:
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- Washington Post, Georgia judge dismisses lawsuit alleging voter fraud in 2020 election
- Washington Post, Jan. 6 committee preparing to aggressively enforce subpoenas
Washington Post, Some of nation’s largest hospitals say vaccine mandates are working, Meryl Kornfield and Annabelle Timsit, Oct. 16, 2021. The controversy surrounding fired hospital employees, lawsuits and protests obscured a simple fact: The vaccine mandates worked, administrators say.Most health-care systems that require vaccination have touted widespread compliance. In interviews, administrators at some of the nation’s largest hospital systems said the mandates worked: Officials said that they have very high vaccination rates they attributed to the requirement and that they have seen coronavirus infections — and sick leaves — noticeably drop.
At Novant Health, a 35,000-employee health-care system in four Southeast states, more than 99 percent of workers have complied with a vaccine mandate, spokeswoman Caryn Klebba wrote in an email.
“Without a vaccine mandate for team members, we faced the ...
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