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Bloomberg:
Inside the Trump Bunker, With 12 Days to Go — Win or lose, the Republican candidate and his inner circle have built a direct marketing operation that could power a TV network—or finish off the GOP. — Subscribe Reprints — On Oct. 19, as the third and final presidential debate gets …
Washington Post:
Inside ‘Bill Clinton Inc.’: Hacked memo reveals intersection of charity and personal income — When top Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band wrote the memo, he was a central player at the Clinton Foundation and president of his own corporate consulting firm. He made a case that his work had served …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Wiki Wars — NOTABLES —A PEEK INSIDE ‘CLINTON, INC.’: A 12-page memo attached to an email released on Wikileaks Wednesday from a longtime aide to President Bill Clinton seems to provide a step-by-step road-map to how advisers raised millions of dollars for the Clinton Foundation …
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New York Times:
Beneath Cheers at Donald Trump's Rallies, Dark Fears Take Hold — COLORADO SPRINGS — Big crowds still mob Donald J. Trump when he comes to town, with fans waiting in long lines to attend his rallies, where they eagerly jeer his Democratic rival and holler happily at his message.
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Cruz says there's precedent for keeping ninth Supreme Court seat empty — LOVELAND, Colo. — Speaking to reporters after a campaign rally for a Republican U.S. Senate candidate here, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said that there was “precedent” for a Supreme Court with fewer than nine justices …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cruz: GOP may block Supreme Court nominees indefinitely
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Justice Thomas Laments a Washington That's ‘Broken in Some Ways’
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
‘Lyin’ Hillary Doll' With Noose Makes Appearance At Trump Rally In NC — A “Lyin' Hillary Doll” with a noose around its neck appeared Wednesday at a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina, the latest example of violent depictions of the Democratic nominee at Trump's rallies.
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Amanda Sakuma / NBC News:
Trump Supporter Brings Effigy of Clinton With Noose to Rally
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Megyn Kelly Seeks Salary North of $20 Million in Contract Talks With Fox News — ‘The Kelly File’ host is in active negotiations; keeping her at the network is a priority for management, including Rupert Murdoch. 'It's up to her' and others ‘would give their right arm for her spot,’ he says.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Rupert Murdoch speaks out about contract talks with Megyn Kelly — Rupert Murdoch just did something highly unusual: He gave an interview to one of his newspapers about contract negotiations at one of his TV networks. — Murdoch told the Wall Street Journal that he would like to renew …
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Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Clinton leads by 6 points, Post-ABC tracking poll finds — With 12 days to go, Hillary Clinton holds a six-point edge over Donald Trump among an electorate fixated on the campaign and nervous about their candidate losing, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Tracking Poll.
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Stacey Readout / WJXT-TV:
UNF poll: Clinton leads Trump in 4-way race
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CNBC:
Clinton nearly doubles lead over Trump in latest CNBC survey — With only a dozen days to go before the election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has ratcheted up her lead over Republican nominee Donald Trump to 9 points, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey, nearly doubling her advantage from the last poll.
Yashar Ali / The Daily Beast:
Jill Stein's Ideology Says One Thing—Her Investment Portfolio Says Another — Green Party Presidential Nominee Jill Stein has largely based her campaign on her uncompromising positions on the environment, opposition to big banks and Wall Street, defense contractors, and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Raw Story
Matthew Artz / Mercury News:
California poll: Trump's numbers dropping into ‘uncharted territory’ — Less than two weeks before Election Day, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris have commanding leads and propositions to legalize marijuana and levy a $2-per-pack tax on cigarettes appear heading for approval.
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Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
UT/TT Poll: In Texas, Trump holding narrow lead over Clinton — Donald Trump and Mike Pence held a 45-42 lead over Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a three-percentage-point lead …
Zoe Efstathiou / Daily Express:
Fury as German primary school ‘forces’ children to chant ‘Allahu Akbar’ in Muslim prayer — PUPILS at a primary school were forced to chant “Allahu Akhbar” and “there is no God but Allah”, an appalled father has claimed. — The father of the pupil at the girl's primary school …
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BBC:
US liver donor marries woman whose life he saved — When Christopher Dempsey offered to donate half his liver to a complete stranger, he knew it would be a life-changing experience. — What the former marine didn't know was that he would be saving the life of the woman who would become his wife.
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Ben Westcott / CNN:
Sixth mass extinction? Two-thirds of wildlife may be gone by 2020: WWF — (CNN)More than two thirds of the world's wildlife could be gone by the end of the decade if action isn't taken soon, a new report from the World Wildlife Fund revealed on Thursday. — Since 1970, there has already …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Gallup: Support for ban on assault weapons hits all-time low — “All-time” means “in the 20 years they've been measuring this,” but still. In 1996, amid soaring public concern about crime, support for a ban stood at 57/42. Twenty years later, after a long period of stupendous decline …
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Art Swift / Gallup:
In U.S., Support for Assault Weapons Ban at Record Low
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The Federalist, Daily Wire, Hit & Run and The Resurgent
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
State Dept. months late on explaining Clinton aide's missing emails — The State Department is months behind on a request that it explain how a former IT aide's emails appeared to have disappeared, and Republicans are crying foul. — Documents obtained by the Republican National Committee …
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Washington Free Beacon, Daily Wire and Law News
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Mark Halperin Tells Trump What He Wants to Hear in Embarrassing Interview — How do you get Donald Trump to talk to you with less than two weeks to go before Election Day? Tell him exactly what he wants to hear. That's been the approach by Fox News' Sean Hannity and radio host Rush Limbaugh.
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Media Matters for America, Mediaite and Washington Monthly
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Melania Trump Explains How Son Barron Follows His Dad's Presidential Bid — Melania Trump opened up about how the youngest Trump child — the couple's 10-year-old son, Barron — has been following the presidential race from the sidelines. — He asks her about the polls “all the time,” …
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Donald Trump Says He'll Teach Military Expert ‘a Couple of Things’ About Mosul — Donald Trump went on the offensive against a military expert and former dean of the Army War College, Jeff McCausland, who said the Republican nominee's comments this weekend about the battle to reclaim Mosul …
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Business Insider, Daily Kos and New York Magazine
Tws Podcast / Weekly Standard:
Will Republicans Learn All the Wrong Lessons From the Trump Takeover? — Hosted by Michael Graham. — The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with editor William Kristol on the future of the GOP. — This podcast can be downloaded here. Subscribe to THE WEEKLY STANDARD's iTunes podcast feed here.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
Trump blames Clinton for leaked campaign emails appearing to joke about Catholics and evangelicals — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is making his pitch to Catholics, many of whom could serve as important swing voters in states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.
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LifeNews.com
Menzie Chinn / Econbrowser:
The Kansas Economy: Three Pictures — The Philadelphia Fed released coincident indices today. Figure 1 shows state-by-state 3 month trends. Needless to say, the outlook for Kansas — that laboratory for supply side nostrums — is not auspicious. — Source: Philadelphia Fed, accessed 26 Oct 2016.
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The Big Picture
Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Trump-Linked Voter Intimidation Group Releases New Script For ‘Citizen Journalists’ — Vote Protectors wants volunteers to approach voters on Election Day to ask about “election fraud.” — National Political Reporter, The Huffington Post — Vote Protectors, an anti-voter-fraud group loyal …
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Raw Story, Media Matters for America and Talking Points Memo
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Behind the retreat of the Koch brothers' operation — On a drizzly Monday morning in mid-September, about 200 staffers from the Koch brothers' conservative advocacy network were summoned to the fifth floor auditorium of the Charles Koch Institute's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters …
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