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Today’s Top Stories from NBC News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2021 Good morning, NBC News readers.
This morning we have exclusive reporting on Michigan Republican efforts to sway the state's independent redistricting process. Plus, drugmaker Pfizer says its Covid-19 antiviral pill is a potential "game-changer." And a 60-day sentence for a Texas real estate agent who tweeted that she had "blond hair white skin" and was "not going to jail" for her participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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EXCLUSIVE 
Michigan Republicans, blocked by voters from being directly involved in redrawing the state’s voting maps, launched a coordinated effort to influence the independent commission tasked with the job, an action documented in a series of recordings obtained by NBC News.
Senior state party officials hosted training sessions, conducting at least two last month, and distributed talking points coaching Republican supporters on how to argue on behalf of map changes that experts say would favor GOP candidates.
"By law, we cannot engage with those commission members directly. We have not and we will not, which is where all of you come in. You get to go talk to them in public hearings and leave messages on the portal," one Republican operative said during a video recording of a Zoom training session on Oct. 19 that was shared with NBC News by a source critical of the effort.
Read the full story from senior NBC News reporter Jane C. Timm here. Friday's Top Stories
The drugmaker said that clinical trials of its experimental Covid-19 pill have been so successful in preventing people from becoming hospitalized or dying from the virus, that it's stopping the studies early in the hope that the general public might benefit. 
While the seating of a nearly all-white jury will likely be discussed by observers during the trial, it does not appear to be in violation of the jury selection process, legal experts following the case said. 
Jenna Ryan admitted to entering the Capitol after a pro-Trump mob attacked it on Jan. 6 and was outspoken in interviews saying she had no regrets about her participation. The judge reportedly told Ryan when handing down the sentence that she has become "one of the faces of January 6" and that her sentence should send a message to others. Also in the News
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Built in 1892 as a place of worship, the Ryman Auditorium has since evolved into a venue that has hosted country music legends from Elvis to Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton. It was also home to the Grand Ole Opry, America’s longest-running radio show.
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