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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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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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David Smiley / miamiherald:
Extremist website once again runs racist robocalls in campaign for Florida governor
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
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
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Abrams, Kemp spar over voting and immigration in Georgia governor debate
Abrams, Kemp spar over voting and immigration in Georgia governor debate
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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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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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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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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump calls Saudi response to Khashoggi death ‘the worst cover-up ever’ — President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and its aftermath the “worst cover-up ever,” as new information continues to be revealed about the journalist's death at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
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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, Associated Press, Reuters, New York Times, Raw Story, Politico, New Republic, Common Dreams, Hot Air, Political Wire and Middle East Eye, more at Mediagazer »
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, Raw Story and Task & Purpose
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 …
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 …
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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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Raw Story, New York Times and ThinkProgress
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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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
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
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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PVA:
Senator Hietkamp Director Describes Bait and Switch: “If and when she gets elected she's going to be super liberal” — [This post contains video, click to play] — Running Away from Obama: Campaign Staff hides Obama Merch from Press, “doesn't poll well here”
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Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit and Say Anything
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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Bloomberg, Breitbart, Florida Politics, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Talking Points Memo
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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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Yahoo:
Mom with ‘gut feeling’ stops school shooter before planned attack — A suspicious mom who followed her instincts helped prevent a mass — school shooting. — On Wednesday, — Koeberle Bull of Lumberton, N.J., woke up to a — racist message on Facebook from a man in Kentucky.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Amazon executives including Jeff Bezos pump cash into Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner's re-election campaign. But he's not running until 2020 — Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner's re-election campaign was given a boost in the third quarter by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and eight other company representatives.
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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.
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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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 …
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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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
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.
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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MSNBC:
Why You Vote: The women who pushed for voter rights — Watch Ali Velshi and New School professor Maya Wiley discuss the importance of voting and highlight some female heroes who fought for the right to vote as we quickly approach the 2018 midterm elections.