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CBS News:
Sources: U.S. intel warning of possible al Qaeda attacks in U.S. Monday — NEW YORK — CBS News has learned about a potential terror threat for the day before the election. — Sources told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that U.S. intelligence has alerted joint terrorism task forces …
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Mother Jones:
Exclusive: The Democratic National Committee Has Told the FBI It Found Evidence Its HQ Was Bugged — In an episode reminiscent of Watergate, the Democratic Party recently informed the FBI that it had collected evidence suggesting its Washington headquarters had been bugged …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Law News, The New Civil Rights Movement and Guardian
New Jersey Online:
Bridgegate verdict: Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly guilty on all counts — NEWARK — Two former Christie administration insiders charged in a bizarre scheme of political retaliation against a mayor who refused to endorse the governor for re-election were found guilty Friday on all counts in the long-running Bridgegate saga.
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
2 Ex-Christie Allies Are Convicted in George Washington Bridge Case — NEWARK — A federal jury convicted two former aides to Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey on Friday over a bizarre scheme to close access lanes to the George Washington Bridge as punishment against a mayor who declined to endorse the governor's re-election.
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton — Even at the end of a presidential campaign, polls don't perfectly predict the final margin in the election. Sometimes the final polls are quite accurate. An average of national polls in the week before the 2008 election had Barack Obama winning by 7.6 percentage points.
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twitchy.com and Scripting News
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Why Clinton's Position Is Worse Than Obama's
Election Update: Why Clinton's Position Is Worse Than Obama's
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Business Insider, Hot Air, Liberal Values, New York Magazine, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Reuters, Taylor Marsh, Instapundit, Raw Story, Guardian, Vox and The Week
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission:
Samsung Recalls Top-Load Washing Machines Due to Risk of Impact Injuries — Recall Summary — Name of product: — Samsung top-load washing machines — Hazard: — The washing machine top can unexpectedly detach from the washing machine chassis during use, posing a risk of injury from impact.
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Gerry Wagschal / ABC News:
Samsung, CPSC Recalling 2.8 Million Top-Loading Washing Machines Due to Risk of Explosion
Samsung, CPSC Recalling 2.8 Million Top-Loading Washing Machines Due to Risk of Explosion
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Boing Boing and WATE-TV
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Hillary Clinton sent Chelsea info now deemed classified — Hillary Clinton sent her daughter Chelsea an email message that contains information the State Department now deems classified, a new batch of messages released by State Friday shows. — The email originated with White House Deputy …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The real Clinton email scandal is that a bulls**t story has dominated the campaign — If you agree with her on policy, vote with a clear conscience about the server. — Some time ago, Hillary Clinton and her advisers decided that the best course of action was to apologize for having used …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Atlantic
German Lopez / Vox:
North Carolina Republicans are using one shameful trick after another to keep Democrats from voting — It isn't just one thing. They've tried this again and again. — North Carolina is in the middle of at least three very close elections. Not only do polls suggest the presidential race is nearly tied …
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Ari Berman / The Nation:
There Are 868 Fewer Places to Vote in 2016 Because the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act
There Are 868 Fewer Places to Vote in 2016 Because the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act
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Common Dreams, ThinkProgress, Feeds and The Atlantic
German Lopez / Vox:
Southern states have closed down at least 868 polling places for the 2016 election
Southern states have closed down at least 868 polling places for the 2016 election
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Washington Monthly
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Jury finds reporter, Rolling Stone responsible for defaming U-Va. dean with gang rape story — CHARLOTTESVILLE — A federal court jury decided Friday that a Rolling Stone journalist defamed a former University of Virginia associate dean in a 2014 magazine article about sexual assault on campus …
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Hawes Spencer / New York Times:
Rolling Stone Loses Defamation Case Over Rape Story
Rolling Stone Loses Defamation Case Over Rape Story
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Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine and Althouse
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
ABC News staged crime-scene shot, photograph shows — ABC News correspondent Linsey Davis stood in a field in Woodruff, South Carolina, and relayed the gruesome details of how a 30-year-old woman had been held captive in a storage container allegedly by a registered sex offender.
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Mashable, Associated Press, TVNewser and Mediaite
Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN'S RUSSIA IS BACKING DONALD TRUMP — THE SCOOP VLADIMIR PUTIN DONALD TRUMP — In phone calls, meetings and cables, America's European allies have expressed alarm to one another about Donald Trump's public statements denying Moscow's role in cyberattacks designed to interfere with the U.S. election.
Josh Baugh / MySanAntonio.com:
Officials: SA cop fired for attempting to feed fecal sandwich to homeless person — An officer from the San Antonio Police Department has been fired for allegedly attempting to feed a fecal sandwich to a homeless person, several sources have confirmed. — The City Council was briefed …
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Occupy Democrats, Mediaite, Raw Story, Distractify, WCMH-TV, CBS Pittsburgh and TheBlaze
Eric Heisig / Plain Dealer:
Ohio federal judge orders no voter harassment in Democrats' lawsuit against Donald Trump, Republicans — A federal judge indicated Friday that he would bar any sort of harassing conduct outside polling places. (Plain Dealer file photo) — CLEVELAND, Ohio — A federal judge on Friday …
Jim Kasuba / The News-Herald:
Allen Park man charged for allegedly holding kids at gunpoint over damaged Trump lawn sign — A 56-year-old Allen Park man has been charged with seven felonies after he allegedly pointed a gun at six children he accused of destroying his Donald Trump lawn sign.
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
At Trump rally, former N.H. governor jokes about the Clintons' sex life — ATKINSON, N.H. — Speaking at Donald Trump's rally here on Friday, former New Hampshire governor John H. Sununu joked that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's husband does not want to have sex with her.
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Neil W. McCabe / Breitbart:
Exclusive-Breitbart/Gravis New Hampshire Poll: Trump Takes Lead In Granite State
Exclusive-Breitbart/Gravis New Hampshire Poll: Trump Takes Lead In Granite State
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Vox, Detroit Free Press, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and harperpolling.com
Chris Graham / Telegraph:
Canada investigates mysterious ‘pinging’ sound at bottom of sea in Arctic — Canada's military is investigating a mysterious “pinging” that is emanating from the sea floor in the Arctic. — The sound, which has also been described as a “hum” or a “beep”, has apparently spooked the local wildlife in the Fury and Hecla Strait.
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The Week and Vox Popoli
Media Matters for America:
Even Bret Baier Has Now Abandoned Bret Baier's Anonymously Sourced FBI Report — On November 2, days before the presidential election, Fox host Bret Baier cited two anonymous sources to issue three explosive claims: The FBI is currently engaged in a “very high priority” investigation of …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Who Broke Politics? — As far as anyone can tell, Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House — and the leader of what's left of the Republican establishment — isn't racist or authoritarian. He is, however, doing all he can to make a racist authoritarian the most powerful man in the world. Why?
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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CBS New York:
NYPD Sergeant Shot Dead, Another Wounded In The Bronx After Responding To Home Invasion — NEW YORK - One NYPD sergeant has died, and another is in serious condition, after they were shot in the Bronx Friday afternoon. — Killed in the shooting was NYPD Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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New York Times, Daily Wire, WIS-TV, Independent Journal Review and New York Magazine
Jeet Heer / New Republic:
Stephen Bannon's Long Game — How the Breitbart CEO will keep Trumpism alive long after Election Day. — Stephen Bannon, the CEO of Donald Trump's presidential team, has kept a low public profile, even if his fingerprints are all over Trump's attacks on Bill Clinton's sex scandals and the Clinton Foundation.
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Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog, Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
The Huffington Post:
Why I Can No Longer Support Hillary Clinton — Writer, director, advocate, strategist, cultural critic. Founder of upliftt.com. — It took me a long time to write this. I had to dig deep into my being to come up with these words. I'm recanting my endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the presidency.
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Vox Popoli, mrctv.org/videos and BizPac Review
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump has huge ad buy - 2 minutes long — Donald Trump is trying something unconventional in the final stretch: a two-minute-long TV ad. — The campaign says it is spending $4 million to buy time for the ad in nine battleground states and on nationally televised shows.
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Hot Air
Stacey Barchenger / Tennessean.com:
Brandon Vandenburg sentenced to 17 years in Vanderbilt rape case … A Nashville judge ruled Friday that Brandon Vandenburg will spend 17 years in prison for his role in the rape of an unconscious woman in his Vanderbilt University dorm room more than three years ago.
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New York Magazine, Jezebel and Law News
David Zucchino / New York Times:
A Militia Gets Battle Ready for a ‘Gun-Grabbing’ Clinton Presidency — At a militia training camp in Georgia it was clear that no issue motivates members more than guns — and the enduring belief that Hillary Clinton is plotting to take them away. — JACKSON, Ga. — “Put the guns down!”
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Daily Kos