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11:40 AM ET, October 27, 2016

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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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
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
Discussion: RedState and ABC News
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:   Justice Thomas Laments a Washington That's ‘Broken in Some Ways’
Associated Press:
Cruz Suggests Leaving Vacancy on Supreme Court
Discussion: Politico and alan.com
New York Times:
Some Donald Trump Voters Call for Revolution if Hillary Clinton Wins  —  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.
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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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.
Discussion: alan.com and Raw Story
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Amanda Sakuma / NBC News:
Trump Supporter Brings Effigy of Clinton With Noose to Rally
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: I'll teach military expert ‘a couple of things’  —  says he has lessons for a military expert who criticized his analysis of the battle to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).  —  “I've been hearing about Mosul now for three months,” he told ABC News's George Stephanopoulos Wednesday.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump springs news on Melania that she will give two or three ‘big’ speeches  —  To Melania Trump's apparent surprise, Donald Trump announced Thursday that his wife would be making two or three “big,” “important” speeches.  —  Speaking alongside the Republican presidential nominee during …
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:   Melania Trump Explains How Son Barron Follows His Dad's Presidential Bid
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.
Discussion: Hot Air and AOL
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Stacey Readout / WJXT-TV:
UNF poll: Clinton leads Trump in 4-way race
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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and WND
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Informed Comment
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter to Cut 9% of Workforce as Revenue Growth Slows  —  Report is first since recent takeover interest in the messaging service dried up  —  Twitter Inc. posted another quarter of slowing revenue growth Thursday and said it would slash 9% of its global workforce, in its first report since …
Discussion: Consumerist and NPR
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 …
Discussion: The Week
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
After Bollywood Event, Trump Tries To Speak Hindi In A New Ad  —  Donald Trump is taking his recent proclamation that “we love the Hindus” to the airwaves, as he continues to court Indian-American voters with a new ad.  —  youtube.com  —  Trump, who recently attended an event …
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.
Discussion: LifeNews.com
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 …
Discussion: The Week and WCMH-TV
Michael Barber / Washington Post:
How incumbency, not gerrymandering, may protect the Republican House majority  —  As we enter the final stretch of the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump's struggles have led to speculation about serious consequences for House and Senate Republicans.  Some are even suggesting that control of the House is up for grabs.
Discussion: Guardian
USA Today:
Poll: Clinton builds lead in divided nation worried about Election Day violence  —  WASHINGTON — As the most caustic campaign in modern American history nears its close, Hillary Clinton has built a formidable lead over Donald Trump approaching 10 percentage points, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds.
 
 
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Tws Podcast / Weekly Standard:
Will Republicans Learn All the Wrong Lessons From the Trump Takeover?
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Racial slur in FGCU classroom stirs outrage
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