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The Cook Political Report:
New Electoral College Ratings: Texas and North Carolina Shift in Clinton's Favor — Less than two weeks before the election, Trump continues to struggle to lock down traditionally Republican states — even Texas and Utah — and lags behind Clinton in key battleground states he would need to win.
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Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Clinton lead shrinks, even as nearly 6 in 10 expect her to win, Post-ABC tracking poll finds — Donald Trump has gained on Hillary Clinton during the past week, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll, solidifying support among core Republican groups as well as political independents.
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Breitbart, Independent Journal Review, Scared Monkeys, CNBC, Politicus USA, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Americans are tuning out Trump's ugly lies. This new poll proves it. — THE MORNING PLUM: — Donald Trump actually said this on the campaign trail late yesterday: … Whether or not Trump was joking, his supporters greeted that remark with lusty cheers.
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alan.com and Associated Press
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Clinton's Lead Narrows to 4 Points, Wider Majority Expects Her to Win (POLL)
Clinton's Lead Narrows to 4 Points, Wider Majority Expects Her to Win (POLL)
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Investor's Business Daily and The Daily Caller
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Oregon standoff defendants found not guilty in ‘unbelievable, truly astonishing’ verdict — A jury Thursday delivered a stunning across-the-board acquittal to the leaders and participants in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation and a remarkable blow to the federal government …
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The Seattle Times, Common Dreams, The Hayride, Vox Popoli and The Crime Report
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Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Bundy Brothers Acquitted in Takeover of Oregon Wildlife Refuge — PORTLAND, Ore. — Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five of their followers, charged in the armed takeover of a federally owned Oregon wildlife sanctuary in January, were acquitted Thursday of federal conspiracy and weapons charges.
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Juror 4: Oregon standoff prosecutors failed to prove ‘intent’ to impede federal workers
Juror 4: Oregon standoff prosecutors failed to prove ‘intent’ to impede federal workers
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Elkhorn Media Group and Raw Story
Mother Jones:
Nobody Puts Tammy Duckworth in a Corner — Her opponent in her race for Congress, Rep. Joe Walsh, calls Obama a “tyrant” and belittles her military service. Bring it on. — ADAM WEINSTEIN SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 ISSUE — WHEN I FIRST MEET TAMMY DUCKWORTH in her suburban Chicago campaign office …
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Booman Tribune and Slate
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MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
GOP Senator Mark Kirk Under Fire for Jab at Opponent's Asian Heritage
GOP Senator Mark Kirk Under Fire for Jab at Opponent's Asian Heritage
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The Hill, Politico and New York Times
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Sen. Kirk Mocks Mixed-Race Heritage Of Dem Opponent Duckworth (VIDEO)
GOP Sen. Kirk Mocks Mixed-Race Heritage Of Dem Opponent Duckworth (VIDEO)
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ThinkProgress, Vox, Politicus USA, WGN-TV and Mediaite
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Clinton eyes Biden for secretary of state — Joe Biden is at the top of the internal short list Hillary Clinton's transition team is preparing for her pick to be secretary of state, a source familiar with the planning tells POLITICO. — This would be the first major Cabinet candidate …
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Paul Joseph Watson / Infowars:
Wikileaks Email: Hillary Campaign Struggles to Reach “F**king Dumb” Young People — “That's the crap that young people pay attention to” — A new email released by Wikileaks as part of the Podesta dump features Hillary ally Wendy Bronfein advising Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta on how to reach “f**king dumb” young people.
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RT, The Gateway Pundit, Sputnik International, twitchy.com and WND
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
FBI Director Says Congressional Investigation Into Hillary Clinton Emails Back On
FBI Director Says Congressional Investigation Into Hillary Clinton Emails Back On
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
FBI to conduct new investigation of emails from Clinton's private server
FBI to conduct new investigation of emails from Clinton's private server
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NBC News, Political Insider blog and House Judiciary Committee
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Trump will win the election and is more popular than Obama in 2008, AI system finds — Trump on course to win the election, AI system finds — The polls that put Hillary Clinton ahead Donald Trump are wrong... that's according to an AI system that's managed to predict the last three presidential elections correctly.
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Independent Journal Review, The Gateway Pundit, Gothamist and Vox Popoli
New York Post:
Bill and Hillary's sleazy road to riches — If there were still any doubt, the latest WikiLeaks disclosure makes it undeniable: Everything we've heard about Bill and Hillary Clinton's sleazy drive to enrich themselves is true. — In a way, we have daughter Chelsea to thank for the revelation.
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Zero Hedge, Wall Street Journal and Power Line
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Man at the Center of ‘Bill Clinton Inc.’
The Man at the Center of ‘Bill Clinton Inc.’
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America Rising and Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Adds $10 Million of His Own Money for Advertising — Cash infusion to buy $25 million in TV ads in key battleground states — Donald Trump, seeking to boost momentum in the last days of the presidential election, wired $10 million of his own money into his presidential campaign Friday morning, two advisers said.
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Washington Post, Mother Jones, Political Wire and Business Insider
Julia Ioffe / Politico:
‘We Are in for a Pretty Long Civil War’ — As the country geared up for the third and final presidential debate last week, the fellows of the storied conservative Hoover Institution gathered in Palo Alto to present their research to the think tank's wealthy patrons.
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New York Magazine and Hullabaloo
Peter W. Stevenson / Washington Post:
Professor who's predicted 30 years of presidential elections correctly is doubling down on a Trump win — Last month, the man who's tried to turn vote prediction into a science predicted a Trump win. — Allan J. Lichtman, distinguished professor of history at American University …
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Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Even Trump's Kids Haven't Donated to His Campaign — With less than two weeks until the election, Donald Trump has amassed an impressive army of small donors, fueling his bid with individual contributions of $200 or less. But noticeably absent from the list of contributors is basically anyone …
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RedState, AOL, New York Magazine, Heat Street, The Week and Daily Kos
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Man Arrested For Wearing ‘Basket Of Deplorables’ Shirt At Texas Polling Place — A Texas man was arrested Monday for electioneering after refusing to hide his “Basket of Deplorables” T-shirt. — “He wanted to take a stand,” Bulverde Police Chief Gary Haecker told the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung …
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KSAT-TV, Washington Post, New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung and Fox News
National Geographic:
Exclusive: Christ's Burial Place Exposed for First Time in Centuries — Restorers working in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Israel uncover stone slab venerated as the resting place of Jesus Christ. — View Images — For the first time in centuries, scientists have exposed …
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The Daily Caller, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, RealClearLife, ScienceAlert, USA Today, Sputnik International, Associated Press, AOL and The Week
ProPublica:
Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race — Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. — That's basically what Facebook is doing nowadays. — The ubiquitous social network …
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The Atlantic, ThinkProgress, Consumerist, New York Magazine, Washington Free Beacon and Mashable
The Huffington Post:
Trump's Campaign Might Not be Winning, But His Hotels Sure Are — New campaign filings show big payments to Trump properties in New York, Las Vegas and Washington. — S.V. Date — WASHINGTON Donald Trump's campaign may not be winning the presidential race, but it did a fine job this month of providing business to his hotels.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Levin: Megyn Kelly ‘auditioning’ to leave Fox News — Conservative talk show host Mark Levin on Thursday tore into Fox News's Megyn Kelly over her contentious interview this week with Newt Gingrich. — Levin, who railed against GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump
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RedState
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Gun store runs ad saying it won't sell to Muslims, Clinton supporters — “I don't feel safe arming them.” — Paul Chandler, the owner of Altra Firearms in rural Jackson Center, Pennsylvania, says he turns customers away at his door who are Muslim or who are supporting Hillary Clinton for president.
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Democracy Now:
Developing: 100+ Militarized Police Raiding #NoDAPL Resistance Camp Blocking Pipeline's Path — This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. — In Cannonball, North Dakota, over 100 police with military equipment are advancing on a resistance camp established …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Conservative Intellectual Crisis — I feel very lucky to have entered the conservative movement when I did, back in the 1980s and 1990s. I was working at National Review, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal's editorial page. The role models in front of us were people like Bill Buckley …
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Vox and bradford-delong.com
Andrew McGill / The Atlantic:
We Built a Fake Web Toaster, and It Was Hacked in an Hour — Last week, a massive chain of hacked computers simultaneously dropped what they were doing and blasted terabytes of junk data to a set of key servers, temporarily shutting down access to popular sites in the eastern U.S. and beyond.
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Boing Boing
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
The Strangest of Bedfellows — Why did social conservatives hook up with Trump? — Last week, Buzzfeed's Katherine Miller observed that the most interesting thing about Donald Trump is what he reveals about other people. This depressing truth has been on display for the better part …
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The Resurgent
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
NYT executive editor: CNN and Fox News are ‘bad for democracy’ — New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet took aim at CNN and Fox News for their coverage of the presidential race, calling the cable news channels' coverage of this election cycle “ridiculous” and “bad for democracy and those institutions.”
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: ‘We should just cancel the election’ and declare me the winner — Toledo, Ohio (CNN)Donald Trump, trailing his opponent in key battleground states polls less than two weeks from Election Day, said Thursday he'd like to “cancel the election” and be declared the winner.