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1:50 PM 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
Discussion: Washington Post
Vine:
Important News about Vine  —  Since 2013, millions of people have turned to Vine to laugh at loops and see creativity unfold.  Today, we are sharing the news that in the coming months we'll be discontinuing the mobile app.  —  Nothing is happening to the apps, website or your Vines today.
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 Tells How Son Barron Follows His Dad's Presidential Bid
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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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Justice Thomas Laments a Washington That's ‘Broken in Some Ways’
Discussion: Politico
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.
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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 …
Discussion: The Week and WKRN-TV
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Damian Carrington / Guardian:
World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns
Discussion: Common Dreams and Towleroad
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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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan has little margin for error in Speaker vote  —  Republican lawmakers who voted against Paul Ryan  —  (R-Wis.) for Speaker aren't saying whether they'll vote for him in a new election next year.  —  Nine House Republicans rejected Ryan in the special election to replace Speaker John Boehner
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Rachael Bade / Politico:   Freedom Caucus divided over Ryan ouster
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: New York Magazine and The Week
Nancyl / Washington Monthly:
The Republican Waterloo  —  A big topic for discussion these days is what happens to the Republican Party post-Trump.  Catherine Rampell has a diagnosis of what when wrong and a prescription for how to fix it. … She makes a good point.  But it's much easier said than done.
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: Politico, Mediaite and LifeNews.com
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 …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
What Top Democrats Really Thought About Hillary's Private Server: “F*****g Insane”  —  Another Wikileaks nugget: in July of last year, Hillary Clinton's top supporters were worried about her primary race against Bernie Sanders, which was unexpectedly close, and how the emerging off-the-books server scandal would impact it.
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
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.
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Clinton faces new challenges on ObamaCare  —  Responding to the uproar over ObamaCare premium hikes, Hillary Clinton  —  on Tuesday promised: “We're going to make changes to fix problems like that.”  —  The question is: What changes could actually get through Congress?
Discussion: Instapundit
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: WJXT-TV and Hot Air
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Donald Trump Offers His Version of ‘New Deal for Black America’  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — With less than two weeks before Election Day, Donald J. Trump returned to a policy-focused message in an address here Wednesday that he billed as “a new deal for black America.”
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Donald J Trump for President:
IN CHARLOTTE, TRUMP PROPOSES URBAN RENEWAL AGENDA FOR AMERICA'S INNER CITIES
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
 
 
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Siena College:
Clinton Ahead of Trump, 46 - 39%
Discussion: New York Times, Politico and Towleroad
Mark Hicks / Detroit News:
3 plead guilty in Detroit teen's slaying
Discussion: The Root and Associated Press
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: October 2016
Discussion: Washington Times, NBC News and CNBC
Jeremy Turnage / WIS-TV:
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS)
Discussion: BuzzFeed and RedState
Michael Barber / Washington Post:
How incumbency, not gerrymandering, may protect the Republican House majority
Discussion: Guardian
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
After Bollywood Event, Trump Tries To Speak Hindi In A New Ad
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter to Cut 9% of Workforce as Revenue Growth Slows
Discussion: Consumerist
 Earlier Items: 
Tws Podcast / Weekly Standard:
Will Republicans Learn All the Wrong Lessons From the Trump Takeover?
Discussion: Hot Air and Raw Story
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
State Dept. months late on explaining Clinton aide's missing emails
Menzie Chinn / Econbrowser:
The Kansas Economy: Three Pictures
Matthew Artz / Mercury News:
California poll: Trump's numbers dropping into ‘uncharted territory’
Discussion: Informed Comment
 

 
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Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Financial Times:
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