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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Obama's half-brother will be at Vegas debate cheering for Trump — MORE FROM: — President Obama's Kenyan-born, half-brother Malik will be in the audience in Las Vegas Wednesday night when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton square off in their third and final debate.
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New York Times:
At Previous Debates, Melania Trump and Bill Clinton Shook Hands. Not Anymore. — This intensely antagonistic election has shattered another quaint campaign ritual: the handshakes between opposing candidates' family members before a debate. — At previous debates, former President Bill Clinton …
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John Santucci / ABC News:
President Obama's Half-Brother Will Be Donald Trump's Debate Guest — As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton prepare to spar during the third and final presidential debate, Trump has continued his tradition of inviting controversial guests. — As an attack on the sitting president …
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Vox, Little Green Footballs, Politico, RedState, The Hill, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Associated Press
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Has 9-Point Lead as Comeback Obstacles Loom for Trump — Ahead of their final debate, the survey “shows movement toward Clinton with all the right groups it takes to win.” — McCormickJohn — Donald Trump would need to stage a historic comeback to win the White House in 20 days …
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Politico, Washington Times and The Week
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Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Poll: Clinton up 4 points over Trump in Arizona — Hillary Clinton is hanging on to a small lead over Donald Trump in Arizona, according to a new Arizona Republic/Morrison/Cronkite News poll released Wednesday. azcentral.com Wochit — Hillary Clinton is hanging on to a small but widening lead …
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Politico and Political Insider blog
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Clinton tops Trump by 6 points
Fox News Poll: Clinton tops Trump by 6 points
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Politico, Politicus USA and Talking Points Memo
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Exclusive: Rubio: I Won't Talk About Wikileaks, and Neither Should Donald Trump — Sen. Marco Rubio tells ABC News Republicans are making a mistake by jumping on allegedly hacked emails released by Wikileaks to criticize Hillary Clinton. In fact, he says he won't talk about the hacked emails at all.
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Ecuador confirms it cut off Assange's internet over Clinton emails — The Ecuadorian government confirmed Tuesday that it cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's internet connection because of his anti-secrecy platform's publication of emails allegedly stolen from Hillary Clinton
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Hot Air
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Tim Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Ecuador cut off Assange's internet at U.S. request, WikiLeaks says
Ecuador cut off Assange's internet at U.S. request, WikiLeaks says
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The Gateway Pundit and The Last Refuge
CNN:
Condi Rice responds to report Trump called her a ‘bitch’ in 2006 : 'Can't wait until November 9!' — (CNN)Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice responded Tuesday to a resurfaced report from 2006 that Donald Trump called her a “bitch” in a speech, telling CNN's KFile in an email that she “can't wait until November 9!”
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Jezebel
Stephanie Petit / People.com:
PEOPLE Reveals 6 Witnesses Who Corroborate Natasha Stoynoff's Story of Being Attacked by Donald Trump — Six colleagues and close friends who corroborate former PEOPLE writer Natasha Stoynoff's account of being attacked by Donald Trump in 2005 are now coming forward.
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
O'Keefe claims another scalp with new video — A national field director for the left-leaning Americans United for Change was fired on Monday after the release of an undercover video that showed him saying he hired mentally ill people to protest at Donald Trump — events.
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Townhall.com, Patterico's Pontifications, twitchy.com and RedState
New York Daily News:
Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she thought about hitting Antonin Scalia with baseball bat — Sonia Sotomayor said her fellow Supreme Court justice's comments sometimes left her wanting to dispense rough justice with sporting equipment. — “There are things he's said on the bench …
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Business Insider, Daily Wire, The Week and Althouse
Laurel Raymond / ThinkProgress:
Trump's new claim that Obama stole North Carolina in 2008 is bad. His campaign's defense is worse. — Trump co-chair Sam Clovis' defense sounds almost plausible—until you realize it's based on a completely false premise. — In a speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Monday night …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Camp's Latest Rigged Election Myth: Voter Fraud Won Obama NC In '08
Trump Camp's Latest Rigged Election Myth: Voter Fraud Won Obama NC In '08
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Breitbart, Hullabaloo and Mediaite
CNN:
Dem operative ‘stepping back’ after video suggests group incited violence at Trump rallies — In the past, O'Keefe and his Project Veritas Action have been criticized for strategically editing footage — Washington (CNN)A Democratic operative whose organization was helping Hillary …
Reuters:
Czech police arrest Russian in connection with U.S. hacking attacks — Czech police have detained a Russian man wanted in connection with hacking attacks on targets in the United States, the police said, without giving further details. — The arrest was carried out in cooperation …
LESSIG:
On the wikileak-ed emails between Tanden and Podesta re: me — I'm on my way from Iceland to my parents' to see my dad, who's not doing well. Landing in JFK, I found my inbox flooded with questions about the above. Here's a single, and my only, response. — I'm a big believer in leaks for the public interest.
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Washington Post, Vox and New York Magazine
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Student: Jerry Falwell Axed Anti-Trump Story from Liberty University's Student Newspaper — Joel Schmieg doesn't know exactly what he wrote that made Jerry Falwell Jr. cut his article out of the Liberty University school newspaper. He just said that the school's president told his editors …
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Mediaite
National Enquirer:
Hillary Fixer Breaks Ranks: I Arranged Sex Trysts For Her — With Men & WOMEN — Stunning revelations of Clinton bag man! — Hillary Clinton is a secret sex freak who paid fixers to set up illicit romps with both men AND women! — That's the blockbuster revelation from a former Clinton family operative …
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Liberal Values, CANNONFIRE, The Gateway Pundit, Power Line and Instapundit
Elizabeth Warren / Washington Post:
Trump didn't invent the ‘rigged election’ myth. Republicans did. — Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate. — Cratering in the polls, besieged by sexual assault allegations and drowning in his own disgusting rhetoric, Donald Trump has been reduced …
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ThinkProgress, Salon and Hullabaloo
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Call to Monitor Polls Raises Fears of Intimidation — Warning darkly of a stolen election, Donald J. Trump has called on supporters to turn out in droves on Election Day to monitor polling places, telling them they need to be vigilant against widespread voter fraud and a rigged outcome.
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RT, The Verge and Associated Press
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Dumping Trump in Nevada Comes With Risk for GOP Senate Hopes — Senate control hinges on race for Harry Reid's Senate seat — Cortez Masto sees lead in polls after Trump tape sparks exodus — Until 10 days ago, Republicans smelled victory in Nevada, looking to save their endangered Senate majority …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
RNC members agree with Trump: It's rigged — Donald Trump is spending the final weeks of his presidential bid declaring he's the victim of an unprecedented vote-rigging conspiracy meant to elect Hillary Clinton. — Many top Republican Party officials agree.
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Advocate, Hot Air, Washington Post, The Gazette, Political Insider blog, Billings Gazette, New York Magazine and BuzzFeed
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Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR:
5 Reasons (And Then Some) Not To Worry About A ‘Rigged’ Election
5 Reasons (And Then Some) Not To Worry About A ‘Rigged’ Election
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Media Matters for America, Washington Post, CBS Detroit, Right Wing Watch, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Tony Thomas / WSB-TV:
DNC bus dumps raw sewage in Gwinnett County, calls it ‘honest mistake’ — GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga - Authorities are investigating whether a Democratic Party campaign bus illegally dumped raw sewage in Gwinnett County Tuesday morning. — According to the police report, authorities were called …
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The Daily Caller, twitchy.com and The Resurgent
Scott Bland / Politico:
Dems use loophole to pump millions into fight for the House — The Democratic Party is directing millions of extra dollars to its House candidates this fall by way of a legal loophole that has helped them bypass the typical limits on coordinated spending between parties and candidates …
Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Federal GRAND JURY is about to convene to investigate criminal conduct by Anthony Weiner for carrying on a months-long online sexual relationship with a troubled 15-year-old girl — The FBI, the New York Police Department, and US attorneys in New York and North Carolina have all opened investigations last month
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New York Post, The Daily Caller and Jezebel