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8:05 AM ET, November 1, 2017

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Bloomberg:
Papadopoulos Claimed Trump Campaign Approved Russia Meeting  —  Former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos made a significant claim in an email: Top Trump campaign officials agreed to a pre-election meeting with representatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Bloomberg News reports.
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NBC News:
Top Trump Campaign Aide Clovis Spoke to Mueller Team, Grand Jury  —  WASHINGTON — Sam Clovis, the former top Trump campaign official who supervised a man now cooperating with the FBI's Russia investigation, was questioned last week by special counsel Robert Mueller's team and testified …
New York Times:
Trump Foreign Policy Advisers Were Brought On to Solve a Political Problem.  Now They Are One.  —  WASHINGTON — One lasted only 24 days as President Trump's national security adviser, done in by his lack of candor about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador.
Diana Stancy Correll / Washington Examiner:
FBI affidavit: George Papadopoulos said Trump campaign OK'd meeting with Russians  —  George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, reportedly said in an email that a pre-election meeting with Russian officials had been agreed to by the Trump campaign.
Discussion: Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:   First charges against former Trump aides reveal an aggressive strategy by Mueller
New York Times:
Manhattan Terror Attack Kills 8 and Injures 11  —  A driver plowed a pickup truck down a crowded bike path along the Hudson River in Manhattan on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring 11 before being shot by a police officer in what officials are calling the deadliest terrorist attack on New York City since Sept. 11, 2001.
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NorthJersey.com:
NYC terror attack: Suspect lives in Paterson, sources say
Discussion: Fox News and 105.9 FM and AM 630
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post:
Terror suspect was a ‘very friendly’ Uzbek immigrant who drove for Uber
Discussion: NPR and The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Truck attack in Manhattan being investigated as terrorism, sources say
Erin Banco / New Jersey Online:
New York terrorist attack: Alleged killer Sayfullo Saipov has N.J. ties
Larry Celona / New York Post:
TERROR ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK
Discussion: Fox News, IJR and TheBlaze
Aaron Lorenzo / Politico:
House GOP delays tax bill rollout  —  House Republicans postponed the much-anticipated rollout of their tax reform proposal Tuesday night, an ominous sign for a direly needed legislative accomplishment for President Donald Trump and his party.  —  House Ways and Means Committee members spent …
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Tax Plan Won't Cut Rate for Highest Earners  —  Proposal also drops the corporate tax rate to 20%, and it delays a planned repeal of the estate tax  —  WASHINGTON—The House Republican tax plan will preserve a top individual tax rate of 39.6%, according to people familiar with the matter …
Vox:   The real cost of the Republican tax cuts
Associated Press:
GOP tax writers delay rollout as Trump sets rapid timetable
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
New York Times:
Republicans Delay Releasing Tax Bill, Signaling Trouble for Party
Discussion: The Week
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Release of GOP tax bill to be delayed until Thursday
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Special counsel: Manafort's stated wealth fluctuated wildly; he keeps 3 passports  —  Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort leaves federal court, October 30 (Keith Lane/Getty Images)  —  Onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort keeps three U.S. passports with different identification numbers …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Manafort has 3 passports, traveled to China with phone registered under fake name
Discussion: The Hill and WRIC-TV
Julie Bort / Business Insider:
Paul Manafort, accused of being an unregistered foreign agent, used ‘bond007’ as his password, experts say
Discussion: Washington Post
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Mueller schedules interview with Hope Hicks  —  The White House communications director is due to speak with prosecutors in the Russia probe after Trump returns from his Asia trip.  —  President Donald Trump's longtime aide and current communications director, Hope Hicks …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House signals Trump will stay out of Mueller's way
Discussion: Mother Jones and Shareblue Media
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump resists mounting pressure from Bannon and others to fight Mueller
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
‘I want to quit’: Fox News employees say their network's Russia coverage was ‘an embarrassment’  —  Some employees at Fox News were left embarrassed and humiliated by their network's coverage of the latest revelations in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling …
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:   ‘An embarrassment’: Disgruntled Fox News employees lash out at network's ‘absurd’ Trump-Russia coverage
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Sarah Sanders Claims John Kelly Learned Civil War Nonsense From Ken Burns.  She's Probably Right.  —  Last night, in an interview with right-wing talk-show host Laura Ingraham, White House chief of staff John Kelly expressed his view that the Civil War was the tragic result of …
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:   The real John Kelly slowly revealing himself at White House
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Polling techniques may account for erratic predictions in Virginia  —  At first blush, polling in Virginia's closely watched race for governor looks all over the map, from a 17-point lead for Democrat Ralph Northam to an 8-point advantage for Republican Ed Gillespie.
Discussion: The Hill and Hot Air
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Washington Post:
A week before Election Day, new poll finds tightening race for Va. governor
Discussion: NewsBusters
New York Times:
Manafort's Spending Fails to Impress in Wealthy Enclaves  —  WASHINGTON — Look closely enough, and the document charging Paul Manafort with money laundering, tax evasion and foreign lobbying reads less like a 12-count federal indictment and more like the ultimate spendthrift whodunit.
Discussion: New Yorker
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NPR's top editor placed on leave after accusations of sexual harassment  —  NPR is investigating allegations by two women who said the head of its news department made unwanted physical contact with them while he was employed by another news organization nearly two decades ago.
Natasha Bach / Fortune:
Billionaire Tom Steyer's Petition to Impeach Trump Has Collected Over 1 Million Signatures  —  California billionaire and political activist Tom Steyer has put some serious money behind impeaching Trump—and it looks like his efforts might be paying off, at least in terms of signatures.
Discussion: RedState and MichelleMalkin.com
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Mark Halperin's ‘Game Change’ Partner Says He Was Unaware  —  For the political journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, work on the third installment of their popular “Game Change” book series — set to be an insiders' account of the final two months of the 2016 presidential race …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Trump Hotels and Ivanka Trump rank near bottom in brand survey  —  YouGov will announce today that out of all 1,600+ brands for which it conducts daily consumer perception surveys, both the Trump Hotels and Ivanka Trump brands fall in the bottom 10.  —  YouGov BrandIndex began tracking …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
 
 
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Paul Starr / American Prospect:
An American Way for America Now  —  Many of the efforts promoting …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Pro-Trump group plans 8-figure ad campaign for tax cuts
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Rebecca / Hollywood Reporter:
Half of Latino Immigrant Characters on TV Are Portrayed as Criminals, Study Finds (Exclusive)
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
John McCain's Unapologetic Message to the Naval Academy
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Emma Dumain / The State:
Georgia man arrested for sending death threats to Sen. Tim Scott
Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC News/WSJ Poll: More Would Blame Trump, GOP for Higher Health Care Costs
Discussion: Political Wire
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
Farage: ‘Jewish lobby’ has disproportionate power in the US
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox's Ingraham wins ratings race in debut
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Press Gazette Media:
Suspect in downtown Green Bay shooting incident charged with hate crime
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‘House Of Cards’: Production On Netflix Series Suspended Indefinitely Following Kevin Spacey Allegations
 

 
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Prime Video users will be able to watch local PBS stations and PBS Kids for free in coming months, and two new free PBS channels with ads starting November 26

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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