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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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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.
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The Jawa Report, Jezebel and Law News
New York Times:
Iowa Police Arrest Suspect in ‘Ambush’ Killings of 2 Officers
Iowa Police Arrest Suspect in ‘Ambush’ Killings of 2 Officers
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NPR, Common Dreams and The Root
German Lopez / Vox:
2 police officers ambushed and killed in Des Moines, Iowa: what we know
2 police officers ambushed and killed in Des Moines, Iowa: what we know
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Des Moines Register and Politico
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.
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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
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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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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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Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, 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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Political Wire
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
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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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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 …
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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
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, 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 …
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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 …
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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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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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.
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The Week
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.”
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.
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 Atlantic
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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Althouse
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.
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.
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Clinton Narrowly Beats Trump With Independents in Bloomberg Poll — The Democrat has a four-point advantage in a head-to-head matchup. — McCormickJohn — Hillary Clinton holds a slim advantage with independents, a group Republican Mitt Romney won by five percentage points in 2012 …
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Nephew: George W. Bush may vote for Clinton — George P. Bush said Tuesday that his uncle, former President George W. Bush, may join his grandfather George H.W. Bush in casting his ballots for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, according to the Associated Press.
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Independent Journal Review, TheBlaze, New Century Times and Electoral-vote.com
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—
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Scared Monkeys, LewRockwell, Townhall.com and The Daily Caller
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
How politicians hide their spending from the public — Donald Trump has plastered Facebook with millions of dollars worth of ads in recent months, an all-out effort to lure new donors and supporters. But his campaign filings from August, September and October tell a different story: $0 spent on Facebook.