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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 …
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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.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Ex-Miss Finland: Trump groped me — The 2006 Miss Finland says Donald Trump — groped her the same year she won the beauty pageant, according to a new report. — Ninni Laaksonen, now 30, is the 12th woman to recently accuse the GOP presidential nominee of sexual misconduct before Election Day, The Telegraph said Thursday.
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Telegraph:
Former Miss Finland becomes 12th woman to accuse Trump of sexual assault — A former Miss Finland has become the twelfth woman to come forward and accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault, with two weeks to go until the US election. — Ninni Laaksonen, now 30, was crowned Miss Finland in 2006.
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Obama grants 98 more commutations, setting single-year clemency record — WASHINGTON — President Obama granted 98 more commutations to federal inmates Thursday, bringing the total for this year to 688 — the most commutations ever granted by a president in a single year.
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Neil Eggleston / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
President Obama Grants Another 98 Commutations in the Month of October
President Obama Grants Another 98 Commutations in the Month of October
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New York Times:
Some Donald Trump Voters Warn of 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.
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Lawyer Alleges Justice Thomas Groped Her When She Was A Young Scholar — A 41-year-old lawyer has accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of groping her in 1999 when she was a young foundation fellow in Washington, D.C., National Law Journal reported Thursday.
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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Justice Clarence Thomas: Nation's capital is ‘broken’
Justice Clarence Thomas: Nation's capital is ‘broken’
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Justice Thomas Laments a Washington That's ‘Broken in Some Ways’
Justice Thomas Laments a Washington That's ‘Broken in Some Ways’
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Washington Post, Politico and AOL
Yalerecord / The Yale Record:
The Yale Record Does Not Endorse Hillary Clinton — In its 144-year history, The Yale Record has never endorsed a Democratic candidate for president. In fact, we have never endorsed any candidate for president. This is, in part, due to our strong commitment to being a tax-exempt 501(c) …
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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 Tells How Son Barron Follows His Dad's Presidential Bid
Joe Klein / TIME:
The Ultimate Insider Who Could Still Change the Game In the Oval Office — There haven't been many exhilarating moments in Hillary Clinton's long slog to the presidency, but this may have been one of them: a gorgeous late-October afternoon in New Hampshire, an outdoor rally amid the falling leaves …
S.e. Cupp / New York Times:
The Lonely Life of a Republican Woman — As has become typical in an election marked by its often unpleasant surprises, I awoke to a storm of outrage on Twitter on Wednesday morning. Newt Gingrich had told Fox's Megyn Kelly that she was “fascinated with sex” and didn't “care about public policy.”
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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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New York Magazine, Grist and The Week
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Leads by 7 Points in Pennsylvania Poll — Strongest for Clinton Strongest for Trump — Erie — Allentown — Pittsburgh — Philadelphia — Erie — Allentown — Pittsburgh — Philadelphia — Erie — Allentown — Pittsburgh — Erie — Allentown
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Damian Carrington / Guardian:
World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns — Living Planet Index shows vertebrate populations are set to decline by 67% on 1970 levels unless urgent action is taken to reduce humanity's impact — The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall …
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Ben Westcott / CNN:
Sixth mass extinction? Two-thirds of wildlife may be gone by 2020: WWF
Sixth mass extinction? Two-thirds of wildlife may be gone by 2020: WWF
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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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ABC News:
Donald Trump Dismisses Michelle Obama's Barbs as Part of ‘the Game’ — Coming up in the next {{countdown}} {{countdownlbl}} — Coming up next: — {{nextVideo.title}} — {{nextVideo.description}} — Skip to this video now — Related Extras Related Videos Video Transcript
Alex Berezow / acsh.org:
Is Modern Feminism Incompatible With Science? — Ideology is a double-edged sword. Dedication to a set of beliefs can be admirable, but when it leads to inflexibility and obstinance in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it is a dangerous thing.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: ‘We should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump’ — Donald Trump suggested canceling the election Thursday and granting himself the presidency. — “What a difference. You know, what a difference this is,” Trump said during a rally in Toledo, Ohio, after comparing his tax plan with Hillary Clinton's.
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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Hillary Clinton Hints at a Health Care Takeover to Keep Obamacare Alive — This week, the White House finally admitted what had become obvious for months: premiums within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges will skyrocket in 2017. Unfortunately, neither the administration nor …
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Guardian:
Gary Johnson erupts when asked about his tax policy and the success of his rival — He lashed out at Evan McMullin, the independent presidential candidate who surpassed Johnson in Utah and is almost tied with Trump and Clinton there — The Libertarian candidate for president, Gary Johnson …
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Independent Journal Review, The Resurgent and Talking Points Memo
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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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.
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Media Matters for America:
James O'Keefe, Roger Stone Appear Together On Alex Jones, Promote Rigged Election Conspiracy — ALEX JONES (HOST): What happens if they steal it in front of God and country? James and then Roger. — JAMES O'KEEFE: I think what happens is the people will revolt.
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Raw Story
Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Clinton headlined fundraiser for campaign group which gave $500,000 to wife of FBI boss who investigated her emails - and it's closely linked to Hillary's bid for power — DailyMail.com reveals just how closely linked Clinton is to PAC which gave massive donation to Virginia politician married to FBI deputy director
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Independent Journal Review, WND, Daily Wire and twitchy.com
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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Nell Greenfieldboyce / NPR:
Researchers Say They've Found A Bit Of Fossilized Dinosaur Brain — A rusty-brown rock found on a beach by a fossil hunter might contain a bit of preserved dinosaur brain. — If so, it would be the first time scientists have ever found fossilized brain tissue from a dinosaur.
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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