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Dyn, Inc. Status:
DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS — Update - This DDoS attack may also be impacting Dyn Managed DNS advanced services with possible delays in monitoring. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue. — Oct 21, 16:48 UTC — Investigating - As of 15:52 UTC …
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William Turton / Gizmodo:
This Is Probably Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today — Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up this morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host.
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CNBC, CBS Los Angeles, NBC News, Engadget, Refinery29 and Shakesville, more at Mediagazer »
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
At charity roast, Donald Trump delivered what might as well be a campaign eulogy — NEW YORK — It was supposed to be his opening joke, but it landed with such heavy bitterness that it prompted scattered, uncomfortable laughter. — “A special hello to all of you in this room who have known and loved me for many, many years.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
GOP congressman on Clinton: 'A lady needs to be told when she's being nasty' — (CNN)Republican Rep. Brian Babin on Thursday defended Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton “a nasty woman” at the final presidential debate, saying “sometimes a lady needs to be told when she's being nasty.”
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Alan Colmes Show / FOX News Radio:
Rep. Babin: Sometimes A Lady Needs To Be Told When She's Nasty
Rep. Babin: Sometimes A Lady Needs To Be Told When She's Nasty
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alan.com, Slate, Politicus USA and The New Civil Rights Movement
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
AJC poll: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are deadlocked in Georgia — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are deadlocked in Georgia with less than three weeks until Election Day, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll. — The poll released Friday shows Trump leading Clinton …
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Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, utahpolicy.com, RedState, Mediaite, Washington Times, Politico and The Resurgent
Alice Miranda Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
North Carolina slashed their early voting hours and now this is what the lines look like — The state could decide both the presidential election and control of the Senate. — Early voting kicked off on Thursday in the key swing state of North Carolina, and voters turned out to the polls in droves.
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The Charlotte Observer, WFAE, WSOC-TV, Daily Kos and The Last Refuge
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Former Republican Party Chairman Says He Won't Vote For Trump — Steele at a debate last year. — Ethan Miller / Getty Images — Michael Steele, who led the Republican Party from 2009 to 2011, became the latest senior Republican figure to say he would not vote for Donald Trump.
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, Politico, Political Wire and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Is in Advanced Talks to Acquire Time Warner — Deal could happen as early as this weekend — AT&T Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire Time Warner Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that would create a new hallmark in the rapidly converging realms of media, communications and the internet.
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Engadget, TVNewser and Stocks to Watch, more at Mediagazer »
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Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
Trump's incredible shrinking map — In June, POLITICO identified 11 key battleground states — totaling 146 electoral votes — that would effectively decide the presidential election in November. A new examination of polling data and strategic campaign ad buys indicates that six of those 11 …
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Mother Jones and Suffolk University
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The mechanics of Donald Trump's rejection of November's results just got a little more fleshed out — 1. Reject polling as inaccurate. The guy who spent five minutes in every speech from July 2015 to March 2016 talking about his poll numbers has recently begun disparaging what the same pollsters see now.
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ThinkProgress, Billy Penn, Daily Wire and Guardian
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
WikiLeaks poisons Hillary's relationship with left — LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump is pointing to a stream of hacked emails as proof that Hillary Clinton would be a compromised president, but a surprising number of progressives are drawing similar conclusions — albeit for totally different reasons.
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The Daily Caller, The Week, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Instapundit
Nancy French / Washington Post:
What it's like to experience the 2016 election as both a conservative and a sex abuse survivor — “Should we pick him up?” The preacher pointed to the side of the road to a hitchhiker. — “No!” I shrieked, but the idea was intoxicating. I'd lived in a one-festival town my whole life.
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Daily Wire
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump national political director ‘steps back’ from campaign — Jim Murphy, Donald Trump's national political director, is no longer playing an active role on the campaign, according to three sources briefed on the move - a troubling development for the Republican nominee coming just 19 days before the election.
David Brooks / New York Times:
How to Repair Moral Capital — Hillary Clinton, who has been in politics all her adult life, seems to have learned something from Michelle Obama, who has never run for public office. Clinton gave three masterful answers in the debate Wednesday night that were tonally different from her normal clichés.
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Universal Journal Review
Bob Dylan Newsletter / The Official Bob Dylan Site:
The Lyrics: 1961-2012 — A beautiful, comprehensive volume of Dylan's lyrics, from the beginning of his career through the present day—with the songwriter's edits to dozens of songs, appearing here for the first time. — Bob Dylan is one of the most important songwriters of our time …
New York Daily News:
Who I'm voting for, and why: We are enduring a campaign of seemingly boundless cynicism — The case against Hillary Clinton could have been written before the recent WikiLeaks and FBI disclosures. But these documents do provide hard textual backup. — The most sensational disclosure …
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The Resurgent and Universal Journal Review
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Jake Tapper hammers Think Progress for publishing story it knew was false — One of the things that has become clear in the wake of Wikileaks dump of Podesta emails is that a lot of journalists have a very cozy—one could even say sycophantic— relationship with Democrats.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The best conversation I've had about the election, with Molly Ball — “I feel like that's been one of my learning experiences — that elections were, maybe, never about ideas.” — “It feels in a lot of ways like America is having a nervous breakdown,” says the Atlantic's Molly Ball …
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Mother Jones
Belinda Luscombe / TIME:
Gretchen Carlson's Next Fight — Belinda Luscombe is an editor-at-large of TIME — The former Fox News star is taking on sexual harassment. And she likes to win. — When Gretchen Carlson was a cub reporter in Virginia in the early '90s, she was returning from a shoot in the TV production truck …
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Talking Points Memo, TVNewser and The Week
The Independent:
A woman was arrested on Monday after allegedly smearing peanut butter on 30 cars parked outside what she believed was a pro-Donald Trump rally. — Christina Ferguson was arrested in Amherst Junction, Wisconsin after interrupting what turned out to be a meeting of a local environmental organisation, Tomorrow River Conservation Club.
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New York Magazine
Rachel Bishop / Mirror.co.uk:
Could mysterious hexagonal clouds in Bermuda Triangle caused by 170mph ‘air bombs’ be behind centuries of bizarre disappearances? — It is believed these deadly blasts of air that can flip over ships and bring planes crashing into the ocean could be behind the vanishing of at least 75 planes and hundreds of ships
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Daily Mail
Bryan Lowry / Wichita Eagle:
Kansas House leader calls Hitler's words ‘profound’ in Facebook post … A Kansas House leader said Thursday that her intent was to criticize Planned Parenthood when she called Adolf Hitler's words profound in a Facebook post. — “Great quote from Hitler in the video,” Speaker Pro Tem Peggy Mast …
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, Raw Story and Occupy Democrats
Patrick J. Buchanan / WND:
An establishment in panic — Pat Buchanan: Ruling class fears the people won't accept its political legitimacy — Pat Buchanan was twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the Reform Party's candidate in 2000. He is also a founder and editor of The American Conservative.
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Vox Popoli
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Trump spent massive amounts in September just before donors grew jittery — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump in September spent more than twice what he had in any month prior, parting with $70 million just before his campaign hit its rockiest patch yet, which has unnerved a significant amount of donors, including Sheldon Adelson.
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Talking Points Memo, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Fox Business
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
First Post-Debate Poll: Clinton Wins Third Debate, Keeps Trump at a Distance — Hillary Clinton maintains her lead over Donald Trump after completing her sweep Wednesday, with a healthy plurality of voters naming her the winner of the third and final presidential debate.
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Washington Times and electionlawblog.org
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Fact-Checking the Debate Fact-Checkers on Abortion — Yes, Hillary Clinton is a late-term-abortion radical. — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump clashed Monday night about partial-birth and late-term abortion. Judging by the media coverage of that exchange, there seems to be a fair amount of confusion about these subjects.
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Daily Wire, Hit & Run, The Federalist, Dr. Jen Gunter, RedState, The Daily Caller, Motherboard, ThinkProgress, NPR and Mother Jones