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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.
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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.”
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NBC News, WHOTV, New York Magazine, Common Dreams, The Root and The Daily Caller
Grant Rodgers / Des Moines Register:
Scott Michael Greene was convicted in combative 2014 encounters … Scott Michael Greene, the 46-year-old suspect in the killings of two police officers early Wednesday, apparently had previous encounters with Urbandale police officers, according to court records about a man with the same name and date of birth as the suspect.
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ThinkProgress, NPR, Washington Post and Occupy Democrats
Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today:
Ambush-style killings of police up 300% in first half of year — There has been a massive increase in the number of police officers killed in the United States as a result of ambush-style attacks — a jump of more than 300% in the first half of 2016, according to a report published …
CNN:
2 Iowa police officers killed, manhunt on for suspect
2 Iowa police officers killed, manhunt on for suspect
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The Jawa Report, Jezebel and Law News
CNN:
Obama on FBI: We don't operate on innuendo — FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to members of Congress related to Hillary Clinton's emails — (CNN)President Barack Obama made his first public comments about the FBI decision to disclose its new review into emails …
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Business Insider, Daily Kos and Daily Wire
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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 …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Hill Republicans raring to investigate Clinton from Day One
Hill Republicans raring to investigate Clinton from Day One
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Jezebel, The Daily Caller, Hullabaloo, Israpundit and Patterico's Pontifications
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama weighs in on FBI: 'We don't operate on innuendo'
Obama weighs in on FBI: 'We don't operate on innuendo'
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Patterico's Pontifications, Independent Journal Review and Mediaite
New York Times:
Black Turnout Soft in Early Voting, Boding Ill for Hillary Clinton — African-Americans are failing to vote at the robust levels they did four years ago in several states that could help decide the presidential election, creating a vexing problem for Hillary Clinton as she clings …
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Power Line, RealClearPolitics, Business Insider, Scared Monkeys, CNN, Daily Wire, Washington Post, Independent Journal Review and Daily Kos
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Early Voting a Poor Predictor of Final Results
Early Voting a Poor Predictor of Final Results
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New York Magazine, Old North State Politics, FiveThirtyEight and Vox
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Obama calls black vote ‘not as solid as it needs to be’
Obama calls black vote ‘not as solid as it needs to be’
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The Daily Caller
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.
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Daily Wire, Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, twitchy.com, Towleroad and The Week
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trump Rated More Honest; Contest Stays a Dead Heat (POLL)
Trump Rated More Honest; Contest Stays a Dead Heat (POLL)
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Infowars
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Narrowly Beats Trump With Independents in Bloomberg Poll
Clinton Narrowly Beats Trump With Independents in Bloomberg Poll
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Talking Points Memo
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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
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 …
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Washington Post, Mashable, Billy Penn, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Shakesville and The Week
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 …
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 …
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The Hill, The Clarion Ledger, AOL, Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, Law News and The Root
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 …
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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
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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.
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RedState, Post On Politics, TheBlaze, Law News, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air and Naked Politics
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Republicans and Russian hackers have made Hillary Clinton the most transparent candidate in history — And Donald Trump is the least. — Hillary Clinton — by law, by circumstance, by accident, and by dint of Russian hackers — is the most transparent presidential candidate in modern history.
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Mother Jones
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
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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 …
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American Prospect
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 …
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Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, The New Civil Rights Movement, 6, Politico and Guardian
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 …