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Wall Street Journal:
Secret Recordings Fueled FBI Feud in Clinton Probe — Agents thought they had enough material to merit aggressively pursuing investigation into Clinton Foundation — Secret recordings of a suspect talking about the Clinton Foundation fueled an internal battle between FBI agents who wanted …
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Bret Baier: FBI Sources Believe Clinton Foundation Case Moving Towards “Likely an Indictment” — Fox News Channel's Bret Baier reports the latest news about the Clinton Foundation investigation from two sources inside the FBI. He reveals five important new pieces of information in these two short clips:
Fox News:
FBI's Clinton Foundation investigation now ‘a very high priority,’ sources say — The FBI's investigation into the Clinton Foundation that has been going on for more than a year has now taken a “very high priority,” separate sources with intimate knowledge of the probe tell Fox News.
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Washington Post:
Senior FBI officials were told of new emails in early October but wanted more information before renewing Clinton probe — Senior FBI officials were informed about the discovery of new emails potentially relevant to the investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server at least two weeks …
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RedState, BizPac Review, The Week and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
CBS News:
Five days to go: The presidential race tightens - CBS/NYT poll — Where the Race Stands — The race for president has tightened since mid-October: Hillary Clinton now leads Donald Trump by three points nationally. Just over two weeks ago, after the second debate and amid accusations …
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and CBS New York
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Megan Thee-Brenan / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Still Leads a Tighter Race, Times/CBS News Poll Shows — Heading into the final days of the presidential campaign, the race has settled back into a tight contest, with Hillary Clinton holding an edge over Donald J. Trump after a month of tumult.
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The New Civil Rights Movement, Politico, The Week and Business Insider
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump gives himself advice aloud: ‘Stay on point Donald, stay on point’
Trump gives himself advice aloud: ‘Stay on point Donald, stay on point’
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ABC News
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
British court delivers blow to E.U. exit plan, insists Parliament has a say — LONDON — A senior British court on Thursday dealt a severe blow to Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to begin the process of exiting the European Union early next year, ruling she must get Parliament's approval before she acts.
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Independent Journal Review and Clayton Cramer
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BBC:
Brexit court defeat for UK government — Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled. — This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - beginning formal exit negotiations with the EU - on its own.
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New York Times, Deadline, Vox Popoli and NPR
Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Clinton inches ahead, with enthusiasm back on par with Trump, Post-ABC Tracking poll finds — Hillary Clinton has recovered from a brief dip in enthusiasm this weekend, and now holds a narrow two percentage-point edge over Donald Trump in the latest Washington Post-ABC News Tracking Poll.
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Beneath a Close Election Contest Lie Deep Rifts Among Groups (POLL)
Beneath a Close Election Contest Lie Deep Rifts Among Groups (POLL)
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Political Wire
Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Ex-KKK leader David Duke gets into shouting match at debate, says Hillary Clinton ‘should be getting the electric chair’ — Candidates vying for a Louisiana US Senate seat met on the debate stage in New Orleans on Wednesday night. — Among the candidates — which included Republican …
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Media Matters for America, alan.com, AOL and Washington Post
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Is Accused Of Raping A 13-Year-Old. Why Haven't The Media Covered It? — There are two big reasons. — Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post — If you've been anywhere near Facebook or Twitter in the past several months, you're probably aware that there is a case working …
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Timothy Noah / Politico:
Trump teen rape accuser abruptly calls off news conference
Trump teen rape accuser abruptly calls off news conference
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Political Insider blog and Towleroad
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Trump child rape accuser calls off news conference over threats
Trump child rape accuser calls off news conference over threats
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RT:
Assange: WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt (JOHN PILGER EXCLUSIVE) … In a John Pilger Special, to be exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday courtesy of Dartmouth Films, whistleblower Julian Assange categorically denied that the troves of US Democratic Party …
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Politico and The Gateway Pundit
Kyle Dropp / Morning Consult:
How We Conducted Our ‘Shy Trumper’ Study — Are there “shy Trump” voters? It's a question that many have asked since Morning Consult released a blockbuster study during the primaries that showed GOP voters were less likely to ... read more — Polling — OPINION — Michael Bloomberg and the Global War on ... Soda
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Nick Kalman / Fox News:
Casting notice goes out for new ‘up-and-coming’ conservative news network — Donald Trump denies he is interested in launching a new conservative news venture, but somebody sure is. — What's being billed as an “up-and-coming conservative media network currently in development” …
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RedState, Mediaite, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Anthony Brooks / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Trump Edges Ahead Of Clinton In N.H. — A new WBUR poll of likely voters in New Hampshire finds that Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are now in a dead heat with just five days to go before Election Day. — The survey also finds Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte leading …
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Talking Points Memo, CNN, WTVR-TV, CNBC, Washington Times, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and CANNONFIRE
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Cruz to hit campaign trail for Trump — will appear with Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence — at two events Thursday, his first appearance on the campaign trail for Donald Trump — Pence's spokesman, Marc Lotter, confirmed reports of the joint appearance on Twitter Thursday afternoon …
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RedState, CNN, BizPac Review and The Gateway Pundit
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Is Clinton Slipping? — There are more signs of erosion, but her floodgates appear to be holding — Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley, UVA Center for Politics November 3rd, 2016 — Hillary Clinton has picked an awful time to hit one of the rough patches that has plagued her throughout the campaign.
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
And Now For Some Comic Relief — Presenting...the Clinton IT Department! — This has not been an especially ennobling election. Or a rewarding one. Or even entertaining. Pretty much everything about 2016 has been boorish and grotesque. But finally it is time to laugh.
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Clayton Cramer
Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago Cubs win World Series championship with 8-7 victory over Cleveland Indians — Photos from Game 7 of the World Series at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, on Nov. 2, 2016. — Chicago Tribune — Finally. — The most epic drought in sports history is over, and the Cubs are world champions.
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Jeffrey Young / The Huffington Post:
Uninsured Rate At All-Time Low — Thanks, Obamacare: More than 90 percent of Americans have health insurance. — WASHINGTON The share of Americans who don't have health coverage fell below 9 percent during the first half of this year, the lowest percentage ever recorded …
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Political Wire and Media Matters for America
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
How Trump Pushed Millennials Out of the Republican Party — MIAMI—Enrique Sepulveda, an ebullient second-year student at the kaleidoscopically diverse Miami Dade College here, usually thinks of himself as a Republican. But whenever Donald Trump says he plans to “make America great again …
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
A Trump Tower Goes Bust in Canada — The 65-story Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto has all the glitz and ambition of the luxury-brand businessman with his name in giant letters near its spire. It's the tallest residential skyscraper in Canada, and probably the fanciest.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump Is an Existential Threat — There are only a handful of days until Election Day and an end to this phase of a nation's — and the world's — ebb and flow of anxiety. The day after the votes are cast and counted that anxiety will either dissipate or become a fixed feature.
Jonathan D. Silver / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Police say woman sent text messages and images while she smothered children, killing one — Allegheny County Police Superintendent Coleman McDonough, left, and McKeesport police Chief Bryan Washowich speak at a news conference Wednesday at the county police headquarters in Homewood …
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John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
EmailGate Has Destroyed Clinton, Inc. — No matter what happens on November 8, Hillary's email antics have irreversibly sabotaged a political dynasty — With our presidential election less than a week away, Hillary Clinton is playing defense, blaming everyone but herself for the political disaster that is enveloping her campaign.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and CNN
Adam Beam / Yahoo:
McConnell gives strongest statement yet in favor of Trump — FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made his strongest statement yet on his party's presidential nominee, telling a rally in his home state Wednesday that “we need a new president, Donald Trump, to be the most powerful Republican in America.”
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Jim Messina / New York Times:
The Election Polls That Matter — With just days left in the 2016 presidential election, Americans are wondering if polling is accurate or if we'll see a Brexit-style shock. — It's not just voters who ask these types of questions. On the eve of Election Day in 2012 …