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2:00 PM ET, November 3, 2016

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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:
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.
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.
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 …
Wayne Barrett / The Daily Beast:
Meet Donald Trump's Top FBI Fanboy  —  Two days before FBI director James Comey rocked the world last week, Rudy Giuliani was on Fox, where he volunteered, un-prodded by any question: “I think he's [Donald Trump] got a surprise or two that you're going to hear about in the next few days.
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 …
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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Bloomberg.com:   Jill Stein: Hillary Clinton Is ‘Queen of Corruption’
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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Griff Witte / Washington Post:
British court delivers blow to E.U. exit plan, insists Parliament has a say
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” …
Associated Press:
Obama worries black vote is not solid enough for Clinton  —  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama twice rode a historic wave of African-American support to win the White House, but worries now the black vote “is not as solid as it needs to be” for Hillary Clinton.
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Julia Harte / Reuters:
Emails show how Republicans lobbied to limit voting hours in North Carolina
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Obama rallies students in Florida for Clinton, labels Trump ‘uniquely unqualified’ for presidency
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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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)
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 …
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
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 …
Manu Raju / CNN:
First on CNN: McConnell super PAC to drop $12 million to save majority, includes Florida, Wisconsin  —  ‘Inside Politics’ forecast: Democrats' Deja vu  — The Senate Leadership Fund is putting additional resources in Florida, Wisconsin, Missouri and others
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.
Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
‘Voter fraud’?  California man finds dozens of ballots stacked outside home  —  Two stacks of ballots that were found outside Jerry Mosna's home in San Pedro, Calif. (FoxNews.com)  —  Jerry Mosna was gardening outside his San Pedro, Calif., home Saturday when he noticed something odd: Two stacks of 2016 ballots on his mailbox.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: College-educated white women are Hillary Clinton's firewall  —  THE BIG IDEA: One in five voters in 2012 were college-educated white women.  Mitt Romney won them by 6 points, according to exit polls.  —  Our fresh Washington Post-ABC News Tracking Poll …
 
 
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