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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Karoli Kuns / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
As Hurricane Matthew Bears Down On Florida, Drudge Suggests Government Lying About Its Force
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New York Times:
Hurricane Matthew Approaches Florida; Governor Urges 1.5 Million to Flee
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The Weather Channel:
Potentially Catastrophic Hurricane Strike With ‘Sandy-Like’ Storm Surge For Parts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
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Curtis Houck / NewsBusters:
What?? NBC's Ron Allen Thinks Climate Deal Is ‘Designed to Stop’ Storms Like Hurricane Matthew
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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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Ben Weyl / Politico:
Ryan plans to steamroll Democrats with budget tool — If Donald Trump is elected president and Republicans hold onto Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan is bluntly promising to ram a partisan agenda through Capitol Hill next year, with Obamacare repeal and trillion-dollar tax cuts likely at the top of the list.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Former GOP congressmen lash out at Trump
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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 — Donald J. Trump's rise has created deep rifts at some of the country's most powerful political institutions. The latest casualty: Fox News. — In an extraordinary public display of rancor between top-tier news personalities …
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William Cummings / USA Today:
Fox fight: Sean Hannity calls Megyn Kelly a Clinton supporter
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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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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton debate prep is focused on what happens once the debate is done — Sen. Tim Kaine may have awakened Wednesday to poor reviews after the first and only vice-presidential debate, but his acerbic performance in Farmville, Va., revealed that the Clinton campaign's strategy for these debates extends far beyond the stage.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
Phil Villarreal / KNXV:
‘Clown Lives Matter’ march planned for Oct. 15 in Tucson — TUCSON - Organizers are planning a “Clown Lives Matter” march for October 15 in Tucson in reaction to the recent spate of frightening incidents — both real and imagined — spread in the news and on social media.
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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 …
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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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Emily Crockett / Vox:
Donald Trump insults women. Mike Pence puts them in danger.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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.
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Monica Crowley / Washington Times:
Trump's secret weapon for Debate No. 2 — Now that the Donald has shown restraint, Americans expect him to open fire — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — One of the biggest ironies of the first presidential debate is that Donald Trump's reluctance to aggressively attack Hillary Clinton has now given him the license to fully do so.
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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Poll: Clinton retakes 11-point lead over Trump in Michigan — WASHINGTON — Three weeks after it looked like Donald Trump could challenge Hillary Clinton in Michigan, it now appears the Republican nominee may have squandered that chance with a poor debate performance, revelations about his taxes …
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