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6:55 PM ET, October 6, 2016

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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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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 …
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.
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
‘This storm will kill you’: Hurricane Matthew intensifies to Category 4 as it approaches Florida
Associated Press:
Can't Compete With Matthew: Candidates Cut Florida Campaigns
Discussion: Politico
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.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Former GOP congressmen lash out at Trump
CNN:
30 former GOP lawmakers sign anti-Trump letter
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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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 …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Pence debate advice to Trump: Be yourself
Discussion: ABC News, The Week and RedState
ABC News:
The Note: Deconstructing the Debate
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Politico and Daily Wire
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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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 …
William Cummings / USA Today:
Fox fight: Sean Hannity calls Megyn Kelly a Clinton supporter
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Associated Press
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
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
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.
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:
Obama reducing 102 inmates' sentences  —  (CNN)Another 102 prison inmates learned Thursday their sentences are being reduced by a stroke of President Barack Obama's pen, the latest batch in a record-setting effort by the White House to reverse harsh sentences for mostly nonviolent drug offenders.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
From the Mouths of Babes=> Trump Visits School - 6 Year-Old Fan Calls Hillary a Criminal (VIDEO)  —  You've got to love the honesty of the innocent children.  —  Trump visited a primary school in Las Vegas on Wednesday.  —  A six year-old says Hillary is bad and steals.
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
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Report faults top Pentagon aide's behavior  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon investigation has concluded that Defense Secretary Ash Carter's former senior military aide used his government credit card at strip clubs or gentlemen's clubs in Rome and Seoul, drank in excess and had …
Chicago Tribune:
Aldermen want Trump stripped of his honorary Chicago plaza  —  Ald.  Brendan Reilly, 42nd, introduced an ordinance Oct. 5, 2016, that would strip Donald Trump's name from the small plaza in front of his River North hotel on Wabash Avenue.  Oct. 5, 2016.  (CBS Chicago)  —  Privacy Policy
Barack Obama / Economist:
The way ahead  —  America's president writes for us about four crucial areas of unfinished business in economic policy that his successor will have to tackle  —  WHEREVER I go these days, at home or abroad, people ask me the same question: what is happening in the American political system?
 
 
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Campus Reform:
UW students sell anti-police, anti-white hoodies
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Islamic State Positions Tracked by U.S. Satellites as a Bonus
Discussion: The Geller Report
Tennessean.com:
U.S. Attorney: Fort Campbell soldiers sold stolen Army gear to buyers overseas
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Sought Pentagon,State Department Contracts for Chelsea's Friend
Discussion: Power Line and The Daily Caller
Campaign Legal Center:
FEC Must Investigate Unprecedented Violations of Campaign Finance Laws by Clinton, Trump
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Clinton, Kaine airbrush out inconvenient details about U.S. troop departure from Iraq
Discussion: Hot Air
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Sam Kashner / Vanity Fair:
Six Decades In, Warren Beatty Is Still Seducing Hollywood
Discussion: ABC News and Althouse
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Texas's Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook
Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Is Now Going Full On Pickup Artist
Discussion: AOL and ThinkProgress
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Trump: I won't mention Bill Clinton's past at next debate
Discussion: AOL and Daily Kos
Virginia Heffernan / Politico:
How Howard Stern Owned Donald Trump
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
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Porter Anderson / Publishing Perspectives:
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