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3:45 PM ET, November 3, 2016

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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.
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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 …
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:
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.
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Report: Indictment ‘likely’ in FBI's Clinton Foundation probe  —  Two sources within the FBI told Fox News on Wednesday that the investigation of the Clinton Foundation is likely to lead to an indictment.  —  Fox News's Bret Baier said Wednesday that the FBI probe into a possible pay …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Joe Pappalardo / Dallas Observer:
The Dallas IRS Office That's Quietly Determining the Fate of the Clinton Foundation  —  The Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas is an all purpose office complex, a bastion of federal bureaucracy located at 1100 Commerce St. Most people come for a passport or to get business done in front of a federal judge.
Discussion: Instapundit
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
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
Fox News:
FBI's Clinton Foundation investigation now ‘a very high priority,’ sources say
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’
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.
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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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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” …
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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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.
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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
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Beneath a Close Election Contest Lie Deep Rifts Among Groups (POLL)
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.
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 …
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
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 …
Joshua Stewart / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Catholic parish's bulletin says Democratic voters are doomed to hell, Clinton is satanic  —  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Republican nominee Donald Trump and Melania Trump, together at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on Oct. 20 in New York.
Discussion: Joe.My.God., Law News and Raw Story
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
New Trump ad ties Clinton to Weiner to portray her as ‘unfit to serve’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Week
Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Income Isn't Always What He Says It Is, Records Suggest
David Goldman / Associated Press:
Georgia Governor Says He ‘Misspoke’ When He Used The Term ‘Colored People’
Discussion: alan.com
J. Stephen Clark / The Hill:
Should Obama just pardon Hillary?
Discussion: RedState
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Trump's tone resonates in strongman-weary Africa
Discussion: The Week, alicublog and Althouse
 Earlier Items: 
Sunny Hostin / ABC News:
These Texas Women Had Plastic Surgery to Look Like Ivanka Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
And Now For Some Comic Relief  —  Presenting...the Clinton IT Department!
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
How Trump Pushed Millennials Out of the Republican Party
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
A Trump Tower Goes Bust in Canada
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