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FBI finds emails related to Hillary Clinton's State Department tenure — The FBI has found emails related to Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state on the laptop belonging to the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, according to a U.S. official.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Presidential Election: Any Surprises Left? — The final Friday of the 2016 election cycle caps a frenetic seven-day period since the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, upended the presidential race. — A wave of leaks from the vaunted law enforcement agency has followed Mr. Comey's revelation …
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Political Wire and Althouse
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
'He's got to get control of the ship again': How tensions at the FBI will persist after the election — Deep divisions inside the FBI and the Justice Department over how to handle investigations dealing with Hillary Clinton will probably fester even after Tuesday's presidential election …
New York Times:
Clinton Pushes Minority Turnout as Trump Tries to Rally His Base
Clinton Pushes Minority Turnout as Trump Tries to Rally His Base
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Guardian
New York Times:
Sorting Through the Clinton Email Case and What the F.B.I.'s Options Are
Sorting Through the Clinton Email Case and What the F.B.I.'s Options Are
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Gothamist
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
FBI fear of leaks drove decision on emails linked to Clinton: sources
FBI fear of leaks drove decision on emails linked to Clinton: sources
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The Huffington Post, The Week and Talking Points Memo
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
‘The FBI is Trumpland’: anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say
‘The FBI is Trumpland’: anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say
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Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Obama: Donald Trump Would Tolerate Klan If Elected President
Obama: Donald Trump Would Tolerate Klan If Elected President
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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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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Impeachment Threat — Donald Trump and other embattled Republican candidates are resorting to a particularly bizarre and dangerous tactic in the closing days of the campaign — warning that they may well seek to impeach Hillary Clinton if she wins, or, short of that …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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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
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
America and the Abyss — The most frustrating aspect of the last 12 months has been the notion that we have been in a normal, if truly ugly, election cycle, with one extremely colorful and unpredictable figure leading the Republican Party in an otherwise conventional political struggle over policy.
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.
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Hint of Momentum for Clinton, With Issues a Defining Factor (POLL) — A hint of momentum for Hillary Clinton has produced a 3-point race in the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll results, with wide leads for the Democrat in trust to handle the economy and health care among likely voters focused on those two issues.
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RedState
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Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Clinton up 47-44 in Post-ABC Tracking Poll, despite Trump's 9-point edge on dealing with corruption — Hillary Clinton holds a narrow three-point edge over Donald Trump as supporters of each candidate lock in to their candidate as the best equipped to handle a variety of national issues …
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The New Civil Rights Movement
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Why Clinton's Position Is Worse Than Obama's — There's been a potential breach of Hillary Clinton's electoral firewall. And it's come in New Hampshire, a state that we said a couple of weeks ago could be a good indicator of a Donald Trump comeback because of its large number of swing voters.
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CNNMoney:
Media refutes baseless Fox News report on FBI Clinton Foundation ‘indictment’ — Several of the nation's leading news outlets have rebutted a report from Fox News stating that the FBI is pursuing an indictment of the Clinton Foundation. — On Thursday, NBC News, ABC News and CNN all reported …
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Daily Wire and The Hill, more at Mediagazer »
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Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg:
Payrolls in U.S. Rose by 161,000 in October as Wages Accelerate — U.S. jobs continued to gain at a steady pace in October and wage gains accelerated, signs that the labor market and economy made steady progress at the start of the fourth quarter. — Payrolls climbed by 161,000 …
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Politico and Blog Daily Listings RSS
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Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
U.S. unemployment falls to 4.9% before election
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Democratic insiders: Clinton's ground game will sink Trump — The presidential race may be tightening, but Democrats are convinced they have an Election Day ace-in-the-hole: Hillary Clinton's ground game. They're confident it will withstand Donald Trump's late surge in key battleground states.
Daily Mail:
Melania speaks - and tells how she will battle the online bullies from the White House. Trump's wife makes first campaign speech and reveals her cause will be making social media safe — Melania Trump spoke to supporters today in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, part of the Philadelphia suburbs that Donald Trump needs to win
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The Hill and The American Spectator
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Melania Trump leaves the media scratching its head — again
Melania Trump leaves the media scratching its head — again
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Trump violates federal labor law, refuses to negotiate with his Vegas workers' union — The National Labor Relations Board ruling against Trump comes in the final days of the presidential election. — As Donald Trump makes his final pitch to U.S. voters—calling himself “financially brave” …
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Politico
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
FBI examining fake documents targeting Clinton campaign: sources — The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what U.S. officials believe has been an attempt by Russia …
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RedState, Media Matters for America, alan.com, Mother Jones, Reuters and Balloon Juice
Dr. Harry Wilson / Roanoke College:
Final RC Poll before election shows Clinton with 7 point lead over Trump in Va. — Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds a 7 percentage point lead over Republican nominee Donald Trump among likely voters in Virginia (45%-38%), according to the latest Roanoke College Poll.
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Vox, The Hill and Washington Times
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Mike Huckabee: Trump a ‘car wreck,’ Clinton a ‘drunk driver’ — Washington (CNN)A car wreck vs. a drunk, wrong-way driver: That's Mike Huckabee's take on the election just days before final votes are cast. — The never-shy former Arkansas governor and Donald Trump supporter tweeted Friday …
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Jasmine C. Lee / New York Times:
How States Moved Toward Stricter Voter ID Laws — Thirty-two states — a figure that has been steadily rising — now have some form of voter ID laws, based on a count by the National Conference of State Legislatures. The number of states with the strictest laws is rising as well …
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VoteRiders
BuzzFeed:
How Macedonia Became A Global Hub For Pro-Trump Misinformation — BuzzFeed News identified more than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a single Macedonian town. — BuzzFeed Founding Editor, Canada — “This is the news of the millennium!” said the story on WorldPoliticus.com.
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