Top Items:
Des Moines Register:
Last Slide Next Slide — Two metro-area police officers were shot and killed in apparent “ambush style” attacks early Wednesday. — Police from Urbandale and Des Moines departments responded to a report of gunfire at the intersection of 70th Street and Aurora Avenue at about 1:06 a.m.
Discussion:
Townhall.com, Business Insider, Daily Wire, Atlanta Black Star, Mediaite and Vox Popoli
RELATED:
New York Times:
Iowa Police Arrest Suspect in ‘Ambush’ Killings of 2 Officers — Two police officers were shot and killed early Wednesday while sitting in their patrol cars in the Des Moines area, and the authorities later arrested a 46-year-old Iowa man in connection with the “ambush-style attacks.”
Discussion:
NBC News, WHOTV, New York Magazine, Common Dreams and The Root
CNN:
2 Iowa police officers killed, manhunt on for suspect — (CNN)Two Iowa police officers were found fatally shot in their squad vehicles at separate intersections in the Des Moines area early Wednesday, and police are urgently hunting for a man they've named as a suspect in the deaths.
Discussion:
The Jawa Report, Jezebel and Law News
Grant Rodgers / Des Moines Register:
Scott Michael Greene was convicted in combative 2014 encounters
Scott Michael Greene was convicted in combative 2014 encounters
Discussion:
ThinkProgress and NPR
Washington Post:
Two Iowa police officers killed in ‘ambush-style attacks.’ Search for suspect underway in Des Moines area.
Two Iowa police officers killed in ‘ambush-style attacks.’ Search for suspect underway in Des Moines area.
Discussion:
WHOTV, The Week, Heat Street, Independent Journal Review and The Daily Caller
Dan Hendrickson / WHOTV:
Two Metro Police Officers Killed in Apparent Ambush Attacks
Two Metro Police Officers Killed in Apparent Ambush Attacks
Discussion:
Fox 59, Scared Monkeys and RedState
Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Post-ABC Tracking poll finds race tied, as Trump opens up an 8-point edge on honesty — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are tied in the new Washington Post-ABC News Tracking Poll which finds Trump now holds an edge on which candidate is honest and trustworthy.
Discussion:
Daily Wire, Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, Towleroad and The Week
RELATED:
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trump Rated More Honest; Contest Stays a Dead Heat (POLL)
Trump Rated More Honest; Contest Stays a Dead Heat (POLL)
Discussion:
Infowars and Political Wire
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Narrowly Beats Trump With Independents in Bloomberg Poll
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Trump's Women Problem Appears To Have Disappeared: IBD/TIPP Poll
Trump's Women Problem Appears To Have Disappeared: IBD/TIPP Poll
Discussion:
Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Cotton: Clinton Foundation one of world's largest money-laundering schemes — (R-Ark.) tore into the Clinton Foundation on Tuesday, comparing it to an illegal money-laundering operation. — Asked on Hugh Hewitt's radio show about a Wall Street Journal report that four FBI offices …
RELATED:
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Hill Republicans raring to investigate Clinton from Day One — In a rare instance of self-restraint, congressional Republicans deferred to the FBI when it came to investigating Hillary Clinton's emails as the presidential election unfolded. — It's safe to say the past four days have obliterated any vestige of their inhibition.
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, Hullabaloo, Israpundit, Patterico's Pontifications and Raw Story
New York Times:
F.B.I.'s Email Disclosure Broke a Pattern Followed Even This Summer — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. and Justice Department faced a hard decision in two investigations this past summer that had the potential to rock the presidential election. The first case involved Donald J. Trump's campaign chairman …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
White nationalists plot Election Day show of force — Neo-Nazi leader Andrew Anglin plans to muster thousands of poll watchers across all 50 states. His partners at the alt-right website “the Right Stuff” are touting plans to set up hidden cameras at polling places in Philadelphia and hand …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Billy Penn, Daily Kos, Shakesville, Raw Story and The Week
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Video shows Trump with mob figure he denied knowing — A newly uncovered video appears to contradict Donald Trump's claim that he never knew a high-stakes gambler who was banned from New Jersey casinos for alleged ties to organized crime. — The reputed mob figure, Robert LiButti …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Morgan Howard / WDAM-TV:
WATCH LIVE: Greenville officials address church burning, vandalism — GREENVILLE, MS (Mississippi News Now) - — Tuesday night after 11 p.m. authorities responded to a call about a church burning in Greenville. — A local black church, Hopewell M.B. Church, was not only burned …
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Florida poll: 28 percent of GOP early voters picked Clinton — More than a quarter of Republicans who have already voted in Florida cast their ballots for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — , according to a new poll. — A TargetSmart/William & Mary poll released Tuesday showed 28 percent …
Discussion:
RedState
RELATED:
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump to Clinton's early voters: You can change your vote
Trump to Clinton's early voters: You can change your vote
Discussion:
CNN, ABC News and Politicus USA
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
FBI investigating alleged donor scheme tied to Senate candidate — The FBI is investigating an alleged illegal donation scheme involving a wealthy Saudi family that supports Democratic Florida Senate candidate Patrick Murphy. — The Hill has found no evidence that Murphy himself was involved in, or even aware of, the alleged scheme.
Discussion:
RedState, Law News, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air and Naked Politics
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
After another release of documents, FBI finds itself caught in a partisan fray — The surprise tweet from a little-used FBI account came about 1 p.m. Tuesday, announcing that the agency had published on its website 129 pages of internal documents related to a years-old investigation …
Discussion:
CNN, Power Line, Independent Journal Review, The Root, CANNONFIRE, Jezebel, Diane Ravitch's blog, Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg, Heat Street, Raw Story, Politico, RedState and twitchy.com
RELATED:
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
From Roe to Trump — On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a 7-2 majority, discovered a sweeping constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy and struck down abortion laws across the country. Within five years, the number of abortions in America annually climbed above a million …
Discussion:
American Prospect
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Obama calls black vote ‘not as solid as it needs to be’ — President Barack Obama implored black voters to turn out for Hillary Clinton just as they did for him in both of his elections, remarking Wednesday morning that “the African-American vote right now is not as solid as it needs to be.”
Discussion:
The Daily Caller
RELATED:
Zac Bellman / Beloit Daily News:
Johnson: Clinton could be impeached — BELOIT — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Monday he believes Hillary Clinton's actions with her private email server are impeachable offenses should she be elected president. — “She purposefully circumvented it (the law), this was willful concealment and destruction …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, The New Civil Rights Movement, 6, Politico and Guardian
Heather Higgins / The Hill:
If Dems will rig a debate for Clinton, what won't they do to win? — No matter what the election outcome next week, the media will be big losers. This campaign season has seen much of the media rip off their veneer of objectivity, too often acting instead as an unofficial campaign arm working to elect Hillary Clinton
Discussion:
WayneDupree.com
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Fake story about Obamas, Hillary Clinton ensnares Sean Hannity — Sean Hannity on Tuesday embraced a piece of fake news about President Obama deleting endorsements of Hillary Clinton from his Twitter account. — Hannity used the made-up news to claim that President Obama's legacy might be “jail.”
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Jon Stewart tears into Trump at NY event — It's possible Jon Stewart misses his old job — or at least the part where he got to make fun of Donald Trump — The former “Daily Show” host repeatedly mocked the GOP presidential nominee at a Tuesday event, specifically scoffing at his claims …
Tierney McAfee / People.com:
Hillary Clinton Shares Her Secrets for Not Letting Donald Trump ‘In Her Head’ — Hillary Clinton is nothing if not prepared. And part of her preparation for the three presidential debates this year involved anticipating the actions of her “aggressive” and unpredictable opponent — and mastering her “listening woman” face.
Discussion:
The Week
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
FBI DOCUMENTS: Hillary Aide Cheryl Mills Orders Technicians to Delete Emails By Bleachbit — The FBI released edited documents from their Clinton Email Investigation a few weeks ago. — From the FBI website: … The FBI released the documents in four sections, linked below: — Part 1—
Discussion:
Scared Monkeys, LewRockwell, Townhall.com and The Daily Caller
Reuters:
U.S. militia girds for trouble as presidential election nears — Down a Georgia country road, camouflaged members of the Three Percent Security Force have mobilized for rifle practice, hand-to-hand combat training — and an impromptu campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.