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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Trump will sink Pence in VP debate — ‘Is it just me or are the two VP candidates infinitely more appealing than their running mates?’ said a Pennsylvania Republican. — Tim Kaine isn't Mike Pence's only opponent Tuesday night in the only debate between the vice-presidential hopefuls …
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Trump to live-tweet VP debate — announced that he will be live-tweeting the vice presidential debate between Democrat Tim Kaine — on Tuesday evening. — The Republican nominee on Tuesday tweeted that he will be “watching the great Governor @Mike_Pence and live tweeting the VP debate tonight starting at 8:30pm est!”
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Tuesday's VP debate will shed light on something incredibly important
Tuesday's VP debate will shed light on something incredibly important
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CNBC and Liberty Unyielding
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's humiliation of Mike Pence has made tonight's VP debate very strange
Donald Trump's humiliation of Mike Pence has made tonight's VP debate very strange
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MSNBC
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Vice-Presidential Debate: Before the Face-Off, Clinton Extends Lead in Pennsylvania
Vice-Presidential Debate: Before the Face-Off, Clinton Extends Lead in Pennsylvania
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RedState, Vox, Towleroad, BuzzFeed, TheStreet.com, Houston Public Media, USA Today, Guardian, ImmigrationProf Blog, The Week and 89.3 KPCC
GUCCIFER 2.0:
Guccifer 2.0 Hacked Clinton Foundation — Many of you have been waiting for this, some even asked me to do it. — So, this is the moment. I hacked the Clinton Foundation server and downloaded hundreds of thousands of docs and donors' databases. — Hillary Clinton and her staff don't even bother about the information security.
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Eric Geller / Politico:
Clinton Foundation refutes new claim that hacker stole files
Clinton Foundation refutes new claim that hacker stole files
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The Hill, Townhall.com, The Gateway Pundit and Joe.My.God.
Barack Obama / The Huffington Post:
Republican Obstruction Is Undermining The Supreme Court, Enough Is Enough — This week, the Supreme Court returns to work. The Justices will hear important cases on issues ranging from the separation of church and state to intellectual property to Congressional redistricting to the death penalty.
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Mediaite and Business Insider
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP senator: ‘Nobody really believes’ next president should fill Supreme Court vacancy — is knocking his party's Supreme Court strategy, arguing the opposition to taking up President Obama's nominee boils down to politics. — The Arizona Republican, who is a member of the Judiciary Committee …
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RedState, The Daily Beast and Talking Points Memo
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Trump backers realize they've been played as WikiLeaks fails to deliver October surprise — LONDON — The expectations were breathless. — For weeks, backers of Republican nominee Donald Trump have hyped the tantalizing possibility that the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks was on the verge …
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Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Promises Raft of Revelations
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Promises Raft of Revelations
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TheStreet.com and New York Magazine
Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today:
WikiLeaks' Assange promises election leaks
WikiLeaks' Assange promises election leaks
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Daily Mail, Breitbart, Daily Wire, Washington Post, Infowars, National Review and Guardian
Naomi Lim / CNN:
Bill Clinton calls Obamacare ‘the craziest thing in the world’ — Clinton said Obamacare had caused premiums to rise for Americans who did not have access to subsidies — He also touted his wife proposal to allow people without access to subsidies to buy into Medicare and Medicaid
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Bill Clinton slams ObamaCare: 'It's the craziest thing in the world' — steamrolled President Obama's signature healthcare law at a rally, calling it “the craziest thing in the world.” — Speaking Monday in Flint, Mich., Clinton blasted the core principles of ObamaCare as unworkable …
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Politico, Townhall.com, ABC News, Fox News, The Federalist, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Hot Air
Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute — Pennsylvania — Clinton Maintains Lead; Senate Race All Tied Up — West Long Branch, NJ - Pennsylvania is looking good for Hillary Clinton, driven by gains among white women voters, according to the Monmouth University Poll .
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CBS Philly, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, The Week, Billy Penn, Politicus USA and Politico
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Rebecca Berg / Real Clear Politics:
Trump Used Foundation Funds for 2016 Run, Filings Suggest — As Donald Trump began making noise about a possible bid for president in 2011, South Carolina conservative activist Oran Smith caught the celebrity businessman's eye as a particularly vocal and potentially influential critic.
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Mother Jones, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly, The Week, Talking Points Memo, Right Wing Watch and RedState
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Vice President Biden's powerful rebuke of Donald Trump's PTSD comments — Vice President Biden, who delivered the toughest denunciation of Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention in July, just did it again. — And it was, yet again, the kind of rebuke that perhaps only Biden could deliver.
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Hollywood Reporter, Hit & Run, ThinkProgress, New Urban Legends and ABC News
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Paul Ryan, So Handsome, So Sad
Paul Ryan, So Handsome, So Sad
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Daily Kos, Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Caller, New York Times and Balloon Juice
Graydon Carter / Vanity Fair:
Donald Trump: The Ugly American* — Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has spent more than 30 years observing Donald Trump's orange-tinted antics. With a month left to go before the election, he reports on some memorable lessons learned along the way. — In 1987, Michael Kelly …
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The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, Gothamist, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and The Week
Pew Research Center:
1. Public views on climate change and climate scientists — There is a host of ways Americans' opinions about climate issues divide. The divisions start with views about the causes of global climate change. Nearly half of U.S. adults say climate change is due to human activity …
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CNSNews, Liberty Unyielding, The Daily Caller and Grist
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Tatiana Schlossberg / New York Times:
Poll Finds Deep Split on Climate Change. Party Allegiance Is a Big Factor.
Poll Finds Deep Split on Climate Change. Party Allegiance Is a Big Factor.
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Pew Research Center, Gothamist, CityLab and Political Wire
Ed Klein / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Obama was so worried about Hillary's health he set up a secret medical check-up for her at Walter Reed - but she refused, fearing her LEAKING HEART VALVE and arrhythmia would be exposed — Ed Klein - one of Hillary Clinton's fiercest critics - revealed new details …
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The Point, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and BizPac Review
Tom McKee / WCPO:
Parade float-maker apologizes (sort of) for depicting Trump executing Clinton in electric chair — Frank Linkmeyer says he's spoofed people for years — AURORA, Ind. - The creator of a controversial float in the Aurora Farmer's Fair parade depicting Donald Trump killing Hillary Clinton is apologizing.
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Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten's blog:
What Just Happened in Colombia? — By a razor-thin margin of less than half a percentage point, Colombian voters narrowly rejected a proposed peace plan that would have formally ended the longest-running war in the Western Hemisphere. — Almost everyone thought the referendum would pass …
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Latino USA, Washington Post and neo-neocon
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Charlie Sykes / RTWI:
Time For A New Chapter — No, this is not good bye. I intend to continue to be an active and independent voice. But I just won't be setting the alarm at 4:15 a.m. every morning. — This morning, I announced that I am stepping down from my daily radio show on WTMJ at the end of this year:
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Business Insider, Politico and WBAY-TV
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Sandy Rios: Conservatives Will Be Put In ‘Reeducation Camps’ If Clinton Wins — Today, American Family Association officials Sandy Rios and Tim Wildmon urged conservatives wary of supporting Donald Trump to come aboard the Trump train, warning of dire consequences if Hillary Clinton is elected president.
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Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Chris Summers / Daily Mail:
The WHITE ghettos that blight South Africa: 20 years after the fall of apartheid, how it is now white people who live in squalid camps — There are 42,000 white South Africans living in poverty, a figure which has grown in last 20 years — Munsieville is a squatter camp west …
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Vox Popoli
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
GOP struggles to find women to lead House committees — (N.C.) is the only Republican woman in the House officially in the running to chair a committee, underlining how the GOP has made little progress in diversifying its slate of committee leaders. — The only woman currently atop a House panel …
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