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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:
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
The FBI Wants to Make America Great Again  —  Maybe it's just me, but I think the FBI is trying to send a message about next week's election.  —  It's not just that FBI Director James Comey informed Congress that there may be things on Anthony Weiner's computer pertinent to his investigation of Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
FBI launches internal investigation into its own Twitter account  —  An FBI tweet may have crossed the line.  —  The FBI has launched an internal investigation into one of its own Twitter accounts.  —  The account at issue, @FBIRecordsVault, had been dormant for more than a year.
Fox News:
Sources: 99 percent chance foreign intel agencies breached Clinton server  —  Authorities now believe there is about a 99 percent chance that up to five foreign intelligence agencies may have accessed and taken emails from Hillary Clinton's private server, two separate sources with intimate knowledge …
Discussion: RedState and Talking Points Memo
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 …
Sharon Churcher / RADAR:
Megyn Kelly Gone Rogue!  Fox News Star Claims Perv Boss Roger Ailes Harassed Her Too!  —  The network's prize anchor drops a bombshell amid contract talks.  Is she ready to go?  —  Fox News star Megyn Kelly has unveiled explosive new charges against the network's founder, Roger Ailes …
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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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
‘Brexit’ Will Require a Vote in Parliament, U.K. Court Rules
Discussion: Mother Jones and Althouse
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
British court delivers blow to E.U. exit plan, insists Parliament has a say
Guardian:
Brexit plans in disarray as high court rules parliament must have its say
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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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 say they support Donald Trump to a live interviewer than via a self-administered interview online.
Discussion: Politicus USA
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: ‘Shy Trump’ voters are a mirage
Discussion: The Week
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Yes, There Are Shy Trump Voters. No, They Won't Swing the Election.
Discussion: Washington Post
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” …
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.
Discussion: Power Line and Guardian
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Beneath a Close Election Contest Lie Deep Rifts Among Groups (POLL)
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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.
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
After Podesta Said Emails Should Be Dumped, Bleachbit Was Used to Wipe Hillary's Subpoenaed Server
Discussion: Daily Wire
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 …
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 …
Tim Alberta / National Review:
Life on the Inside: Mike Pence's Turbulent Trip with Donald Trump  —  The vice-presidential nominee reflects on a whirlwind campaign in its final days.  —  LaGuardia Airport, N.Y. — We struck the runway with a thud and felt the wheels clawing for traction on the rain-blanketed tarmac, but it hardly seemed an emergency.
WHSV-TV:
Valley school employees criticized following political Halloween costumes  —  STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) — The principal at Robert E. Lee High School in Staunton dressed as Donald Trump, and a school secretary dressed as Hillary Clinton in an inmate's outfit for Halloween.  Trump is the Republican presidential candidate for 2016.
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Trump's tone resonates in strongman-weary Africa  —  's presidential campaign has­­ had surprising resonance in parts of Africa where people are weary of the political establishment and see the real estate mogul as a global force for change.  —  Despite famously pushing an …
Discussion: alicublog, The Week and Althouse
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 …
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.
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
J. Stephen Clark / The Hill:
Should Obama just pardon Hillary?  —  “Lock her up!” has become a perpetual chant at Donald Trump  —  rallies.  At the same time, aggressive elements within the FBI are apparently resisting career prosecutors, who have determined that evidence does not warrant new criminal investigations of Hillary Clinton
Discussion: RedState
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 …
Sunny Hostin / ABC News:
These Texas Women Had Plastic Surgery to Look Like Ivanka Trump  —  Tiffany Taylor is a country girl at heart and the 33-year-old mom of three is a Texan through and through, with a surprisingly cosmopolitan role model.  —  For the past year, Taylor, an aspiring socialite who works in the oil …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
 
 
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Obama rallies students in Florida for Clinton, labels Trump ‘uniquely unqualified’ for presidency
Mariah Carey Meltdown / RADAR:
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New York Times:
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Chart of the Day: Voting Intentions Are Probably Set In Stone By Now
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Cruz to hit campaign trail for Trump
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Trump Is an Existential Threat
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Is Clinton Slipping?
Julia Harte / Reuters:
Emails show how Republicans lobbied to limit voting hours in North Carolina
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump transition team pulls out the stops
John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
EmailGate Has Destroyed Clinton, Inc.
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Is Accused Of Raping A 13-Year-Old. Why Haven't The Media Covered It?
 

 
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