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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Disgustingly Racist Robocall Goes Out Against Andrew Gillum In Florida — A neo-Nazi group in Idaho is behind the calls, and it's gone after the Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate before. — A white supremacist website in Idaho is sending out an extremely racist robocall …
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Orlando Sentinel, The Week, The Root, Raw Story, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Right Wing Watch and Daily Kos
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Lawrence Mower / Tampa Bay Times:
Records show FBI agents gave Andrew Gillum tickets to ‘Hamilton’ in 2016 — The records, released by former lobbyist Adam Corey today, appear to refute what his campaign has said about the trip. — Undercover FBI agents were the ones who gave Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum a ticket …
NBC News:
Gillum targeted by new racist robocall in Florida governor race — Florida voters who receive the call — audio of which was obtained by NBC News — hear a man speaking in a minstrel dialect who identifies himself as Gillum. — A racist robocall that refers to Andrew Gillum as a “negro” …
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NPR, Joe.My.God. and POLITICUSUSA
Politico:
Undercover FBI agent got Gillum ‘Hamilton’ tickets, texts show
Undercover FBI agent got Gillum ‘Hamilton’ tickets, texts show
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Washington Post, Breitbart and Florida Politics
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Text Messages Raise New Questions Over Andrew Gillum's Lobbyist Connections
Jack Crowe / National Review:
Records: Andrew Gillum Lied about Favor from Undercover FBI Agents
Records: Andrew Gillum Lied about Favor from Undercover FBI Agents
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CNN, Townhall and twitchy.com
Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone:
Exclusive: In Leaked Audio, Brian Kemp Expresses Concern Over Georgians Exercising Their Right to Vote — The Republican gubernatorial candidate spoke to donors about the growing threat of the Stacey Abrams campaign as the midterm elections approach — Brian Kemp, Georgia Secretary of State …
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Dale Russell / WAGA-TV:
Brian Kemp owes more than $800,000 in insider loans to bank he helped start — ATLANTA - Sometimes it feels who owes what has become the central theme of the Governor's race. Political Attack ads and counter-attack ads about debt have flooded the airwaves
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
“The Idea That He's Racist Is Absurd” — That Yale professor who knows “the real reason” liberals hate Trump defends his op-ed, the president, and birtherism. — In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, titled “The Real Reason They Hate Trump,” David Gelernter, a professor …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Rush Limbaugh Show and No More Mister Nice Blog
Haaretz:
Report: Saudi Journalist Khashoggi's Remains Found — Sky News reports that his body had been cut up and his face ‘disfigured’ — The remains of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi have been found, Sky News reported on Tuesday, with one source saying remains were found in the garden of the Saudi consul general's home.
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twitchy.com and Axios
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump calls Saudi response to Khashoggi death ‘the worst cover-up ever’
Trump calls Saudi response to Khashoggi death ‘the worst cover-up ever’
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The Hill, One America News Network, Breitbart, The Daily Beast and New Republic, more at Mediagazer »
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Saudi Crown Prince Gets Standing Ovation Despite Inquiries Into Khashoggi
Saudi Crown Prince Gets Standing Ovation Despite Inquiries Into Khashoggi
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The Guardian, Shakesville and Politico
Alex Crawford / Sky News:
Sky sources: Jamal Khashoggi's body parts found
Sky sources: Jamal Khashoggi's body parts found
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The Intercept, New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Raw Story, Politico, New Republic, Common Dreams, Hot Air, Political Wire and Middle East Eye, more at Mediagazer »
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Trump says Erdogan ‘pretty rough’ on Saudis over Khashoggi
Trump says Erdogan ‘pretty rough’ on Saudis over Khashoggi
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CNN, HuffPost, Washington Post and Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Steps Up Attacks on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell — President says central banker 'almost looks like he's happy raising interest rates' — WASHINGTON—President Trump escalated his attacks on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, blaming him for threatening U.S. economic growth …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Paul Volcker, at 91, Sees ‘a Hell of a Mess in Every Direction’
Paul Volcker, at 91, Sees ‘a Hell of a Mess in Every Direction’
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Talal Ansari / BuzzFeed News:
White Nationalist Richard Spencer's Wife Says In Divorce Filings That He Physically and Emotionally Abused Her — “The only language women understand is violence,” Nina Kroupiianova said Spencer told her. Spencer said, “I dispute many of her assertions.” — The wife of Richard Spencer …
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ThinkProgress, New Republic, Raw Story, Jezebel, MilneNews and Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
‘In the service of whim’: Officials scramble to make Trump's false assertions real — The great election-eve middle-class tax cut began not as a factual proposal, but as a false promise. — When President Trump abruptly told reporters over the weekend that middle-income Americans would receive …
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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Latches Onto Vague Trump Tax Statement as Campaign Nears End
GOP Latches Onto Vague Trump Tax Statement as Campaign Nears End
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Mother Jones and Jamie Dupree - AJC
John Solomon / The Hill:
A convenient omission? Trump campaign adviser denied collusion to FBI source early on — Just weeks after the FBI opened a dramatic counterintelligence probe into Donald Trump and Russia, one of his presidential campaign advisers emphatically told an undercover bureau source …
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
‘I thought it was very nice’: VA official showcased portrait of KKK's first grand wizard — A senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs is under fire for displaying a portrait in his Washington, D.C., office of the Ku Klux Klan's first grand wizard.
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Talking Points Memo, Boing Boing, Splinter, Discourse.net, Task & Purpose and Raw Story
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
The Ripple Effect of a Trump Tweetstorm — When President Trump began tweeting warnings and threats about a caravan of migrants headed for the border, his own government could not explain what he meant. — President Trump, the first president to rely on social media as a primary means …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Daily Beast, CNN and Fox News
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Same as It Ever Was... Let's say that I put you on a desert island the day after the 2016 elections (don't worry, it would be one with wonderful amenities, just no contact with the outside world). Then, let's say that the first piece of 2018 news I gave you was the latest polling …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Democrats, beware: Overzealous investigations will come back to bite you — When it comes to wielding Congress's formidable investigatory power, it is hard to think of anyone in modern history who has done it as effectively as former representative Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.).
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
Ten Rating Changes as Democrats' Enthusiasm Edge Narrows and Fundraising Advantage Widens — Two weeks out, district-level polls reflect a House battleground gradually polarizing along the lines of the 2016 presidential race. Democrats are maintaining leads over GOP opponents in upscale …
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Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
Cook shifts 8 House races toward Dems
Cook shifts 8 House races toward Dems
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Washington Post, Breitbart and The Rush Limbaugh Show
Dr. Jason Adkins / MSU Billings:
MSUB releases 2018 Montana Poll — Contacts: — University Relations and Communications, 657-2266 — MSU BILLINGS NEWS—With the U.S. Senate race drawing national attention this election cycle, incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester appears to be pulling away, according to the results …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro Scolded by Sitting Judge in Defamation Lawsuit — “You'd think she would know better,” said a New York judge at a hearing Tuesday in a case brought by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson. — “Should there be consequences to those people who promote falsehoods?”
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Law & Crime
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
GOP Sen. Jeff Flake: 'I Don't Know if I Believed' Brett Kavanaugh — The senator admitted to ‘The View’ that Christine Blasey Ford's testimony was ‘very compelling’ and that he's not sure he believed Kavanaugh's denials. — Several weeks after delaying the confirmation …
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IJR and Boing Boing
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump used a word he's ‘not supposed to.’ Here's why. — (CNN)At a rally in Houston Monday night for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, President Donald Trump said this: … Yeah. That happened. — On its face, Trump seemed to simply be saying that while past presidents — and politicians …
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Power Line, Washington Post, Right Wing Watch and The Root
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
White House anti-socialism report inadvertently makes a case for single-payer — The Trump administration says this chart is a case against single-payer. Actually, it's a case for it. — Earlier today, the White House released a paper titled “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism.”
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Own Team Knows His Caravan Claims Are Bullshit — Asked for evidence supporting the president's claims about the caravan, a senior administration official told reporters to ask ‘the Mexican authorities.’ — Donald Trump and his political allies have embarked on an aggressive …
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New York Times and ThinkProgress
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Trump officials aggressively bypass appeals process to get issues before conservative Supreme Court — To a far greater degree than its predecessors, the Trump administration has sought to bypass adverse lower-court rulings on some of its signature issues by seeking extraordinary relief from a refortified conservative Supreme Court.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Ebola was incredibly important to TV news until Republicans decided it shouldn't be — The hack gap in action. — The large, ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not attracting much coverage on American television news because TV news producers believe …
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Mother Jones
Lauren Huff / Hollywood Reporter:
Megyn Kelly Apologizes to Colleagues for Blackface Comments — The NBC host sent an internal email shortly after she faced intense backlash for her comments on air. — Megyn Kelly is apologizing for comments she made on Tuesday's Megyn Kelly Today in which she seemingly defended blackface Halloween costumes.
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The Root, Daily Wire, Chicago Sun-Times, Talking Points Memo and The Week
Justin Doom / ABC News:
Man accused of groping woman on flight: Trump 'says it's OK to grab women by their private parts' — A man arrested for allegedly touching a woman's breast on an airplane, according to court documents, told authorities “the president of the United States says it's OK to grab women by their private parts.”
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FOX2now.com, POLITICUSUSA, Hullabaloo and The Hill
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
Older People Are Worse Than Young People at Telling Fact from Opinion — Americans over 50 are worse than younger people at telling facts from opinions, according to a new study by Pew Research Center. — Given 10 statements, five each of fact and opinion, younger Americans correctly identified …
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Pew Research Center and IJR
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Rosenstein meeting with House leaders postponed — House leaders have postponed their highly anticipated questioning of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein just a day before they were to hold a closed-door interview of the No. 2 Justice Department official about claims that he disparaged President Donald Trump.
William March / Tampa Bay Times:
Steve Bannon tickets now going for zero dollars — Friday's dinner is now free at the Hillsborough County Republican Party dinner. — The Hillsborough County Republican Party's dinner with former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon is now free. — Party vice chairman Jeff Lukens sent …
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RedState
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections — WASHINGTON — The United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation to interfere in elections, telling them that American operatives …
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Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
Sandra Day O'Connor announces likely Alzheimer's diagnosis — WASHINGTON (AP) — Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, announced Tuesday that she has the beginning stages of dementia, “probably Alzheimer's disease.” — The 88-year-old said in a public letter …
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New York Times, BuzzFeed News, CNN and SCOTUSblog
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Caravan Is a Challenge to the Integrity of U.S. Borders — Short of an election-eve exoneration by Robert Mueller, it would be hard to imagine a nicer October surprise for Donald Trump than an attempt by thousands of unauthorized immigrants to force the borders of the United States.
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Hot Air and ImmigrationProf Blog
Claire Newell / Telegraph:
The British #MeToo scandal which cannot be revealed — A leading businessman has been granted an injunction against The Telegraph to prevent this newspaper revealing alleged sexual harassment and racial abuse of staff. — The accusations against the businessman, who cannot be identified …