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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.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Gothamist and Media Matters for America

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 …

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:

Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:

‘The FBI is Trumpland’: anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaks, sources say — Highly unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton intensified after James Comey's decision not to recommend an indictment over her use of a private email server — Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, France 24, Media Matters for America, Althouse, Daily Wire and Fox News Insider

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Law News, Vox, Mediaite, Engadget, The Verge, The Week, TheBlaze and Independent Journal Review

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.

Discussion: Media Matters for America, The Federalist, The Daily Caller, The Geller Report, Instapundit, BarbWire.com, USA Today and Townhall.com

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, Talking Points Memo and AOL

Washington Post:
Senior FBI officials were told of new emails in early October but wanted more information before renewing Clinton probe

Discussion: RedState, Hot Air, BizPac Review, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Week

Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Report: Indictment ‘likely’ in FBI's Clinton Foundation probe

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite

Joe Pappalardo / Dallas Observer:
The Dallas IRS Office That's Quietly Determining the Fate of the Clinton Foundation

Discussion: Instapundit

Fox News:
FBI's Clinton Foundation investigation now ‘a very high priority,’ sources say

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Fox News Insider, National Review, Mediaite, Scared Monkeys, Washington Times, Independent Journal Review, America Rising, TheBlaze and Power Line

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 …

Discussion: Politico, Gothamist, Law News, Business Insider, New York Magazine, Mediaite, The Week, Jezebel, Independent Journal Review and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: Denver Post, New York Magazine, Hot Air, CBS New York, Talking Points Memo and Politico

Megan Thee-Brenan / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Still Leads a Tighter Race, Times/CBS News Poll Shows

Discussion: Politico, RedState, The New Civil Rights Movement and The Week

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.

Discussion: New York Times, Bloomberg, Guardian, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, Deadline, Vox Popoli and NPR

Guardian:
Brexit plans in disarray as high court rules parliament must have its say

Discussion: Financial Times, Common Dreams, The Week and Washington Free Beacon

Griff Witte / Washington Post:
British court delivers blow to E.U. exit plan, insists Parliament has a say

Discussion: Independent Journal Review and Clayton Cramer

David Macanally / WALV-TV:

Cubs fan shares World Series with late father at Greenwood cemetery — GREENWOOD, Ind. (WTHR) - A North Carolina man drove back home to Indiana to keep a decades-old promise to his father. — Wayne Williams drove in for the Game 7 of the World Series. — “The gate was open,” he says as he drives in.

Discussion: Independent Journal Review, Slate, USA Today, NPR, Towleroad, WIS-TV, AOL, Mashable and WCMH-TV

Paul Sullivan / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago Cubs win World Series championship with 8-7 victory over Cleveland Indians

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, Outside the Beltway, CBS Philly, Hullabaloo, Towleroad, alan.com and Joe.My.God.

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

Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Yes, There Are Shy Trump Voters. No, They Won't Swing the Election.

Discussion: Vox and Washington Post

Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: ‘Shy Trump’ voters are a mirage

Discussion: New York Magazine and The Week

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” …

Discussion: The Hill, Political Wire, Mediaite, Mashable, Joe.My.God., Raw Story, TheBlaze and RedState, more at Mediagazer »

Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:

David Duke Rails Against Jews, Hillary Clinton During Louisiana Senate Debate — Former Ku Klux Klan leader and Louisiana Senate candidate David Duke railed against Jews and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during a Wednesday night debate at a historically black college.

Discussion: The Hill, Jezebel, Occupy Democrats, Daily Kos and Mediaite

Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Ex-KKK leader David Duke gets into shouting match at debate, says Hillary Clinton ‘should be getting the electric chair’

Discussion: Media Matters for America, The American Spectator and AOL

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

Gary Langer / ABC News:
Beneath a Close Election Contest Lie Deep Rifts Among Groups (POLL)

Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Daily Caller

Andrew Prokop / Vox:

Hillary Clinton just got some scary-looking polls in New Hampshire — As of yesterday, it appeared that though polls in the presidential race were tightening, Hillary Clinton was still holding on to a comfortable lead in the six “firewall” swing states that would protect her electoral vote majority.

Discussion: Suffolk University, Talking Points Memo and Politico

Anthony Brooks / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Trump Edges Ahead Of Clinton In N.H.

Discussion: CNN, WTVR-TV, Scared Monkeys, Talking Points Memo, CNBC, Hot Air, CANNONFIRE, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Times

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 …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Politico and WayneDupree.com

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.

Discussion: twitchy.com

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.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Politico

Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson is getting a nightly show on Fox News Channel — Tucker Carlson, seen here in 2004, is getting the 7 p.m. ET time slot on Fox News. (For the Times) — Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson is getting his own nightly program on Fox News Channel starting Nov. 14 …

Discussion: AOL, Mediaite, Business Insider and TVNewser

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 …