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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 Name Suspect in ‘Ambush-Style’ Deaths 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 were searching for a 46-year-old Iowa man in connection with the “ambush-style attacks.”
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Common Dreams, The Root and Guardian
Dan Hendrickson / WHOTV:
Two Metro Police Officers Killed in Apparent Ambush Attacks
Two Metro Police Officers Killed in Apparent Ambush Attacks
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Fox 59, Scared Monkeys and RedState
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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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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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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Political Wire
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Narrowly Beats Trump With Independents in Bloomberg Poll
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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ABC News, CNN and Politicus USA
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 …
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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Raw Story
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 …
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CNN:
FBI releases docs from 2001 Rich investigation days before election
FBI releases docs from 2001 Rich investigation days before election
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NPR, The Hill, TheBlaze.com, The Week, Independent Journal Review, Balloon Juice and The New Civil Rights Movement
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Odd Timing: FBI Releases Closed Case Files On Bill Clinton Pardon Of Marc Rich
Odd Timing: FBI Releases Closed Case Files On Bill Clinton Pardon Of Marc Rich
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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.”
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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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Hot Air and Naked Politics
Walter E. Williams / Townhall.com:
The Rich and Us — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, having a net worth of $81.8 billion, and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, having a net worth of $70.4 billion, are the nation's two richest men. They are at the top of the Forbes 400 list of America's superrich individuals, people who have net worths of billions of dollars.
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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New York Times:
Trump, Waking a ‘Sleeping Giant,’ Helps Clinton Build an Unlikely Firewall — CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — Since moving to Arizona 15 years ago, Nieves Lorenzo watched as Hispanics grew in numbers but only haltingly asserted themselves as a political force. Then came Donald J. Trump's presidential candidacy.
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, Political Wire, 6, Politico and Guardian
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Hillary's Male Tormentors — Weiner or no Weiner, Hillary Clinton is likely to be our next president. — But she can't seem to escape insatiable men. — She married one — for better, for “bimbo eruptions,” for two terms in the White House, for impeachment.
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New York Times:
Black Turnout Falls 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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Politico, Real Clear Politics, CNN, Independent Journal Review, Washington Post, Old North State Politics, Daily Kos, Vox and RedState
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.
Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
Parents of Ezell Ford, who was fatally shot by LAPD officers, settle lawsuit with city — Ezell Ford's mother, Tritobia Ford, speaks at a 2015 news conference calling for prosecutors to charge two officers in connection with her son's death. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
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The Root
Chris Massie / CNN:
Former DNC chair Ed Rendell: Clinton campaign is making a mistake by attacking FBI director — (CNN)Ed Rendell, the former governor of Pennsylvania and former Democratic National Committee chairman, said Tuesday that Hillary Clinton's campaign was making a mistake by attacking FBI director James Comey …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Buyer's Remorse, Democrats?
Buyer's Remorse, Democrats?
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Jewish World Review, Daily Mail and The Moderate Voice
Jordan Rudner / Dallas Morning News:
Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller blames staffer for tweet that called Hillary Clinton the c-word — WASHINGTON — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller blamed hackers and then an overzealous staffer for a tweet from his campaign account that called Hillary Clinton a “c—.”
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
In home stretch, Sid Miller is Trump's Texas go-to guy
In home stretch, Sid Miller is Trump's Texas go-to guy
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Off the Kuff, The New Civil Rights Movement, New York Magazine and Mediaite