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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 …
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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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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:
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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.
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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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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Report: Indictment ‘likely’ in FBI's Clinton Foundation probe
Report: Indictment ‘likely’ in FBI's Clinton Foundation probe
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Media Matters for America:
Bret Baier Is Serving As A Mouthpiece For Unknown Sources On FBI Stories
Bret Baier Is Serving As A Mouthpiece For Unknown Sources On FBI Stories
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Oops: Fox anchor retracts claim of ‘likely’ Clinton indictment after conservatives sites go wild
Oops: Fox anchor retracts claim of ‘likely’ Clinton indictment after conservatives sites go wild
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Breitbart, Daily Kos, Media Matters for America, Infowars and Joe.My.God.
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 …
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.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump has never been closer to the presidency than he is at this moment — If the polls closed right at this moment (which they won't) and if the results in each state perfectly mirrored the current RealClearPolitics average of polls in each state (which they won't) …
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Daily Wire
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Cruz avoids talk of Trump while campaigning with Pence — (R-Texas) on Thursday neglected to mention Donald Trump — by name as he made his first appearance on the campaign trail for the Republican presidential ticket. — While campaigning with Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence
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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Melania Trump Focuses On Family, Cyber-Bullying In First Stump Speech
Melania Trump Focuses On Family, Cyber-Bullying In First Stump Speech
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Cruz to hit campaign trail for Trump
Cruz to hit campaign trail for Trump
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz refuses to say Trump's name as he stumps for him
Cruz refuses to say Trump's name as he stumps for him
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Political Wire
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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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
State releases 350 Clinton emails unearthed by FBI — The State Department on Thursday released 357 of the 15,000 Hillary Clinton — emails uncovered by the FBI during its investigation into the former secretary of State's personal email server. — Many of the documents …
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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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Megan Thee-Brenan / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Still Leads a Tighter Race, Times/CBS News Poll Shows
Hillary Clinton Still Leads a Tighter Race, Times/CBS News Poll Shows
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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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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.
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Vernon Freeman Jr / WTVR-TV:
Virginia principal dresses as Trump, secretary as Clinton in prison garb
Virginia principal dresses as Trump, secretary as Clinton in prison garb
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Income Isn't Always What He Says It Is, Records Suggest — On the financial disclosure forms that Donald J. Trump has pointed to as proof of his tremendous success, no venture looks more gold-plated than his golf resort in Doral, Fla., where he reported revenues of $50 million in 2014.
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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.
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America Rising and Instapundit
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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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 …
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Ken Griffin / ISAF Latest:
Kunduz casualty release (Nov. 3, 2016) — Two U.S. service members died as a result of wounds sustained during operations in Kunduz district, Kunduz province today. Two other U.S. service members were wounded in the operation. — “On behalf of all U.S. Forces - Afghanistan …
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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.