*** REGIONAL NEWS FROM FRIDAY ***

+ JOLT News: Real estate buyers may be enjoying a not-so-seasonal shift in their favor

+ The Olympian: Need to pay your Thurston County property taxes? Second-half deadline approaches

+ ABC News: Ex-Boeing test pilot indicted for fraud in 737 Max probe

+ JOLT News: TRL’s Picture Book City brings engagement for early readers

+ JOLT News: PORT OF OLYMPIA: Concerns loom over alleged misrepresentation and bad investments

+ The Seattle Times: Washington State Jobless Claims Rise as Claims Nationwide Fall

+ Airways Magazine: Air France reinstates operations at Sea-Tac on December 6th

*** NATIONAL NEWS FROM FRIDAY ***

Daily Kos: Captain Kirk Has Spoken: “We’re at the tipping point, we haven’t got time to wait 30 years..”

Bloomberg: U.S. Economy Loses Its Bounce as Recovery Turns Into a Grind

Daily Kos: ATT sure pissed off some people they shouldn’t have pissed off. Click here for the ad.

CNBC: U.S. to lift travel ban Nov. 8, allowing vaccinated international visitors into the country

Daily Mail (UK): The Queen criticises world leaders who ‘talk but don’t DO’ on climate change

Newsweek: Ron Watkins, Alleged QAnon Founder, Announces Run for Congress

Edward Snowden: Beginning with an increase in paper notes, continuing with the cancellation of the right to exchange them for the more precious coin [1965], and culminating in the debasement of the coin itself, the State finally achieved “sovereign currency:” a handsome napkin.

*** TRUMP NEWS FROM FRIDAY ***

The Washington Post: Trump asserts his dominance inside GOP, pushing Republicans to embrace his false claims of fraud

Reuters: Trump-backed challengers to Republican lawmakers lag in fundraising

Daily Kos: Black ‘American’ flags at right-wing protests, on front porches vow ‘no quarter’ against liberals

Daily Kos: Donald Trump tried to destroy Andrew McCabe. A new settlement undoes some of the damage

Daily Kos: DC judge issuing harsh sentences for Capitol rioters. People are noticing.

Business Insider: Capitol police officer offered to let January 6 rioter stay at his home and arrange a tour of the building ‘legally next time,’ feds say

The Hill: Kushner associate pardoned by Trump now in plea discussions over cyberstalking charges

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow: Judge stomps out Trump’s last Big Lie case, this one in Georgia; triggers Trump tantrum

Business Insider: Subpoenaed Trump loyalist Jeff Clark disappeared from his own legal organization’s website. It’s a mystery even to some group officials.