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Dyn, Inc. Status:
DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS — Update - Our engineers continue to investigate and mitigate several attacks aimed against the Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. — Oct 21, 17:53 UTC — Update - This DDoS attack may also be impacting Dyn Managed DNS advanced services with possible delays in monitoring.
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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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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
DDoS on Dyn Impacts Twitter, Spotify, Reddit
DDoS on Dyn Impacts Twitter, Spotify, Reddit
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The Atlantic, Gizmodo, CBS Boston, CBS Sacramento and The Week
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, The New Civil Rights Movement and The Week
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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Virgin:
Meeting Donald Trump — After my last trip to the US, I shared my views on the presidential election. Having just completed another visit to Boston, Dallas and Miami, I wanted to share a previous encounter I had with Donald Trump. — Image from Getty Images
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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, Mediaite, RedState, 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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Politico, Occupy Democrats, Mediaite, Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo and The Week
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
Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Amid ‘rigged’ election charges, Russia wants to monitor U.S. vote — Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump's take on rigged elections ‘horrifying.’ USA TODAY — In an apparent move to embarrass the United States over Donald Trump's claims of a “rigged” presidential election …
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RT, Washington Free Beacon and Reuters
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, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Week and Instapundit
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
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
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
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 …
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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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
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Bayh didn't stay overnight in Indiana condo once in 2010 — INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Evan Bayh says that his Indianapolis condominium has long been his home, and that he has spent “lots and lots” of time there since deciding to run for his old Senate seat. But a copy of his schedule shows Bayh …
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Washington Post, Evan Bayh for Senate, Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
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
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.
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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Jezebel, Talking Points Memo, The Week, Raw Story and Occupy Democrats
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
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.
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