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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Clinton, Trump brace for Hurricane Matthew  —  Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are at risk of being elbowed out of the news cycle by a powerful hurricane churning toward the Southeast coast and threatening to barrel into two of their most important battlegrounds: Florida and North Carolina.
CNN:
Hurricane Matthew update: Largest evacuation since Sandy  —  Are you affected by Hurricane Matthew?  If it is safe for you to do so, WhatsApp us on *+44 7435 939 154* to share your photos, experiences and video.  Please tag #CNNiReport in your message.  —  (CNN)Hurricane Matthew is pummeling the Bahamas.
Jenny Staletovich / miamiherald:
Florida locks down as powerful Matthew nears  —  Hurricane Matthew, blamed for killing at least 108 in Haiti, began battering Florida Thursday as residents up and down the coast braced for what could be the first strike by a major storm in a decade.  —  At 3 p.m., the storm was roughly parallel …
Daniel Halper / New York Post:
How the Clinton camp is taking advantage of Hurricane Matthew  —  More On:  —  Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign will plunk down $63,000 to run ads on the Weather Channel — just as Hurricane Matthew is about to make landfall in the important swing state of Florida.
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:   Clinton campaign chief to Florida: Extend voter registration because of storm
Associated Press:   Can't Compete With Matthew: Candidates Cut Florida Campaigns
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Dozens of former GOP lawmakers announce opposition to Trump  —  A group of 30 former GOP lawmakers signed a blistering open letter to Republicans on Thursday, warning that Donald Trump  —  lacks the “intelligence” and temperament to be president and urging the party to reject the Republican presidential nominee at the polls on Nov. 8.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Ryan cozies up to Trump
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:   Trump to campaign with Paul Ryan
KSNV:
EXCLUSIVE |  One-on-one with presidential candidate Donald Trump  —  Donald Trump packed the Henderson Pavilion for a rally Wednesday afternoon and fired up his supporters, hoping to win Nevada in just 34 days during the General Election.  —  Just before Trump took the stage …
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
After 10 days of turmoil, Trump signals he will try to focus ahead of Sunday debate
Discussion: Political Wire
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is devouring Fox News  —  Any news outlet wishing to provide solid and comprehensive coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign cannot avoid mentioning Sean Hannity's promotion of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.  “Hannity,” which airs in the prime-time lineup of Fox News …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity Indulge in Testy Public Clash
Rebecca Fishbein / Gothamist:
[Updates] Someone Just Hung A Huge Banner Of Putin On The Manhattan Bridge  —  [UPDATES BELOW] Someone just hung a banner featuring Putin's face and the message, “Peacemaker,” on the Manhattan Bridge.  Go figure.  —  We spotted a banner being unfurled on north side of the bridge at 1:47 p.m …
Discussion: JP Updates
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New York Post:
Putin banner mysteriously appears on Manhattan Bridge … A giant poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin was draped along the side of the Manhattan Bridge on Thursday afternoon.  —  The massive banner featured the Russian leader in a suit and tie against the backdrop of the country's flag along …
CNN:
Obama approval hits new high  —  (CNN)President Barack Obama's approval rating stands at 55% in a new CNN/ORC poll, the highest mark of his second term, and matching his best at any time since his first year in office.  —  The new rating outpaces his previous second-term high …
Richard Deitsch / SI.com:
Joe Buck reveals that hair plug addiction nearly cost him his career  — Buck has said that a virus cost him his voice for part of 2011, but that was a lie.  His loss of speech was a side effect of a hair transplant procedure.  —  Fox Sports announcer Joe Buck feared …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Giuliani's daughter is for Clinton  —  Caroline Giuliani is “With Her.”  —  The daughter of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — a key adviser to Donald Trump and one of his most vocal surrogates — has been “pro-Hillary all along,” she wrote on her Facebook page.
CNN:
30 former GOP lawmakers sign anti-Trump letter  —  Washington (CNN)More than two dozen former Republican members of Congress released a letter Thursday saying they cannot vote for Donald Trump because he “makes a mockery” of their principles.  —  Though the letter makes no mention of Hillary Clinton …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Former GOP congressmen lash out at Trump
Delaware County Times:
Cop Shop: Woman does the right thing after ‘gift’ from ATM  —  After an ATM spit out money that wasn't hers, Kristina Edwards had to take a second and regroup.  —  “Did that really just happen to me?” the 35-year-old Ridley Park woman thought as she sat in her car at the Wells Fargo ATM drive-thru …
Discussion: Associated Press
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Inside Planned Parenthood's $30 Million Ground War to Stop Trump-Pence  —  How an army of thousands could tip the balance in as many as half-a-dozen swing states  —  All Stories »  —  Planned Parenthood is mounting one of the largest door-to-door field campaigns of the 2016 election …
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New York Daily News:
Cops hunt brutish bigot who screamed racist, gay slurs at man before pushing him down in West Village attack  —  A biased brute attacked a 32-year-old man after hurling racial and anti-gay epithets at him in the West Village, officials said Thursday.  —  Police released video surveillance images …
Discussion: Gothamist, Towleroad and The Root
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Trump supporters turn on man who espouses neo-Nazi views at rally  —  Trump: It's pronounced Ne-vahhh-da (it's not)  —  Reno, Nevada (CNN)A man who said he was representing the “alt-right” and embraced the label of “neo-Nazi” was shouted down by Donald Trump supporters at a rally here Wednesday night.
Streiff / RedState:
You Won't Believe What Donald Trump's Own Lawyers Did When Meeting With Him  —  An interesting tidbit has emerged from the depositions in the bankruptcy case concerning Trump Plaza.  Trump Plaza, to refresh your memory, is a Donald Trump property in Atlantic City that was shuttered in 2014 …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Presidential Candidate Evan McMullin Picks Mindy Finn as Running Mate  —  Evan McMullin, the long-shot independent presidential candidate, has chosen his running mate — veteran political and digital strategist Mindy Finn.  —  Finn, 35, has worked for former President George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Twitter and Google.
Discussion: Politico
Campus Reform:
UW students sell anti-police, anti-white hoodies  —  Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are asking people to buy sweatshirts promoting violence against police officers and classifying all white people as racists.  —  “Racism,” claims one hoodie's page, “is a set of systematic …
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
The State of American Jobs  —  How the shifting economic landscape is reshaping work and society and affecting the way people think about the skills and training they need to get ahead  —  Tectonic changes are reshaping U.S. workplaces as the economy moves deeper into the knowledge-focused age.
Discussion: NPR and NBC News
 
 
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