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6:45 PM ET, October 29, 2018

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Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Had to Persuade President to Explicitly Denounce Anti-Semitism After Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: Report  —  President Donald Trump's statement denouncing anti-Semitism after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Saturday reportedly came at the behest …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
What I learned as an American Jew after the Pittsburgh synagogue attack  —  On this day of all days it needs to be said: America has been a blessing for the Jewish people unlike any other blessing given any other people in the history of the world.  —  One crime — or 29 separate crimes …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's hate and lies are inciting extremists.  Just ask the analyst who warned us.  —  President Trump and Republicans are lashing out at the notion that they bear primary responsibility for the climate of rage and hate that has consumed our politics, now that a man has allegedly gunned …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
President Trump, first lady to visit Pennsylvania on Tuesday to commemorate synagogue mass shooting victims
Rita Katz / Politico:
Inside the Online Cesspool of Anti-Semitism That Housed Robert Bowers
Discussion: Raw Story
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
‘There Is Still So Much Evil’: Growing Anti-Semitism Stuns American Jews
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Guardian
Bend the Arc:
Letter to President Trump from Pittsburgh Jewish Leaders
Wall Street Journal:
Military to Deploy 5,000 Troops to Southern Border, U.S. Officials Say  —  The U.S. military is deploying 5,000 troops to the southern border, U.S. officials say, an increase from the initial estimate of 800.
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Nolan Rappaport / The Hill:   Trump can refuse to accept asylum applications
USA Today:
Where is the caravan?  —  On Monday, the migrants were still …
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Sending 5,200 Troops to the Border in an Election-Season Response to Migrants
Discussion: The Intercept
Margi Murphy / Telegraph:
Twitter to remove ‘like’ tool in a bid to improve the quality of debate  —  Twitter is planning to remove the ability to “like” tweets in a radical move that aims to improve the quality of debate on the social network.  —  Founder Jack Dorsey last week admitted at a Twitter event …
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Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
Twitter Should Kill the Retweet  —  On Monday, Twitter was briefly ablaze after CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly suggested to The Telegraph that the company might eliminate its heart-shaped like button.  The company quickly clarified, tweeting that as part of a “commitment to healthy conversation …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Voter suppression is a crucial story in America, but broadcast news mostly shrugs
P.R. Lockhart / Vox:
Former President Jimmy Carter calls for Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to resign
New York Times:
Trump Persuaded Struggling People to Invest in Scams, Lawsuit Says  —  A new lawsuit accuses President Trump, his company and three of his children of using the Trump name to entice vulnerable people to invest in sham business opportunities.  —  Filed in federal court in Manhattan on Monday …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Enough platitudes: Let's name names  —  President Trump's defenders and even some of his tepid critics on the right seem determined to keep their moral blinders firmly affixed so as to narrow the discussion about the horrible incidents such as the mass murder at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Discussion: New York Times and Althouse
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Ron DeSantis Spread George Soros Fear Days After a Bomb Was Sent to Soros  —  Attacks against the Democratic financier just haven't stopped.  —  Just days after federal authorities discovered a bomb left on George Soros' property, Ron DeSantis, the Republican candidate for governor of Florida …
Patricio G. Balona / Daytona Beach News-Journal:
Republican Party headquarters vandalized by gunfire in Volusia  —  SOUTH DAYTONA — The windows of Volusia County's Republican Party headquarters were found shot out Monday morning and four bullet holes were discovered inside the offices.  —  Police were investigating shattered glass …
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Jack Crowe / National Review:
Shots Fired into GOP Campaign Office in Florida
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
9 hours of ‘Executive Time’: Trump's unstructured days define his presidency  —  President Donald Trump had about three times as much free time planned for last Tuesday as work time, according to his private schedule.  The president was slated for more than nine hours of “Executive Time,” …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump Fan Convicted In Anti-Muslim Terror Plot Asks Judge To Consider Trump's Rhetoric  —  Patrick Stein's attorneys also said he learned about the Quran “from the internet and conservative talk-show hosts such as Sean Hannity and Michael Savage.”  —  WASHINGTON Attorneys …
Emma Platoff / The Texas Tribune:
Ted Cruz leads Beto O'Rourke 51 to 46, Quinnipiac poll finds  —  With just over a week until Election Day, incumbent Ted Cruz continues to lead his Democratic opponent Beto O'Rourke.  —  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, leads El Paso Democrat Beto O'Rourke by 5 percentage points, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Will Fort Worth's Tarrant County remain America's most conservative large county?
Discussion: Off the Kuff
Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed News:
First Came Trump, Then Came Beto: Ted Cruz And The Brutal Politics Of Likability
Discussion: Harper's
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Michael Moore releases footage of mail-bomber suspect Cesar Sayoc at Trump rally  —  Cesar Sayoc stood in the throng of shouting, teeth-gnashing Trump supporters and joined a chant directed at news cameras.  —  “CNN sucks!  CNN sucks!” they screamed.  “Tell the truth!  Tell the truth!”
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Political Wire
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Inside a Trump rally: Stelter's view from the press pen
Discussion: Raw Story
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke Once Supported an El Paso Real Estate Deal.  Barrio Residents Remember.  —  EL PASO — At a special City Council meeting in 2006, a billionaire real estate investor unveiled his vision for redeveloping downtown El Paso.  To replace tenements and boarded-up buildings …
BuzzFeed News:
This Cop Was Accused Of Putting An 11-Year-Old Girl In A Chokehold And Lying About It.  He Kept His Job.  —  Confidential department documents show that then-NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton shut down disciplinary proceedings.  The officer has also shared Facebook posts that denigrate black people and Muslims.
Stavros Agorakis / Vox:
A Financial Times editor calls for a Fox News advertiser boycott  —  Edward Luce said sponsors “bankroll the poison.”  —  The US editor of the Financial Times is calling for a boycott of companies that advertise on Fox in the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the pipe bombs sent to leading Democrats.
David Wolpe / Tablet Magazine:
The Misguided Rabbis of Twitter  —  My synagogue is on the west side of Los Angeles.  On a rough guess, about half of my congregants support Donald Trump.  Many of those who do, but certainly not all, are from the Persian community.  We have had frank discussions.
New York Times:
Mail Bomb Suspect Had a List of 100 Potential Targets, Officials Say  —  MIAMI — Cesar Sayoc Jr., who was accused of sending more than a dozen pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Trump, had a list of roughly 100 possible targets that was discovered after his arrest, law enforcement officials said on Monday.
Nate Nickolai / Variety:
James Cromwell: ‘There Will Be Blood in the Streets’ if Trump Isn't Stopped  —  Though James Cromwell was honored at the fourth annual Carney Awards for his work as a character actor, the industry veteran has worked as a political activist his entire career.
Discussion: Breitbart, twitchy.com and IndieWire
Tim Mak / NPR:
Devin Nunes' Re-Election Tests Whether All Politics Are Now National  —  In 2016, Rep. Devin Nunes coasted to re-election by a double-digit margin.  Now the eight-term Republican is in for the tightest race of his political life — all thanks to his views on the Russia investigations.
YouTube:
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
US Government-Run Network Pulls Segment Calling Soros ‘Multimillionaire Jew’  —  Radio Televisión Martí, a network overseen by the U.S. government that broadcasts to Cuba, pulled a video segment it produced months ago that relied on material from the conservative group Judicial Watch …
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
‘Nothing to Gain,’ Kavanaugh Accuser Raises Nearly $1 Million  —  During the crucible of Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats repeatedly asserted that Christine Blasey Ford had “nothing to gain” by coming forward with her explosive accusation of attempted rape against the Supreme Court nominee.
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
'Trump's deporting your illegal cousins today!' man shouts at mother who was on her way to vote  —  The man's racist rant against a Houston mother was recorded and uploaded to Facebook.  —  A man was caught on video last week spewing hateful rhetoric and obscenities at a Houston mother who said she was on her way to vote.
PRRI:
Partisan Polarization Dominates Trump Era: Findings from the 2018 American Values Survey  —  Voting Priorities  —  When asked to pick the top two most important issues for their vote this election cycle, Americans are more likely to point to the cost of health care than any other issue.
 
 
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Scott Peterson / Christian Science Monitor:
In Iran, US sanctions are being felt, with harsher measures to come
Washington Post:
Once wary, black voters have warmed up to Republican Larry Hogan in Maryland
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Alexandra Valencia / Reuters:
WikiLeaks' Assange says Ecuador seeking to end his asylum
Amina Dunn / Pew Research Center:
Elections in America: Concerns Over Security, Divisions Over Expanding Access to Voting
Associated Press:
Iranian official says president's cellphone was tapped
 Earlier Items: 
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Democrats Blaming Normal Americans for Nuts Will Blow Up In Their Faces at the Ballot Box
Luke Harding / The Guardian:
‘A very different world’ - inside the Czech spying operation on Trump
Discussion: Observer and Sputnik International
Noreen Malone / The Cut:
The Skimm Brains 7 million people wake up to their newsletter, and their voice, every morning.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
However the Midterms Go, the Republican Party Is Going to Get More Extreme
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Althouse
Emily Birnbaum / The Hill:
Hillary Clinton leaves door open for 2020 run: 'I'd like to be president'
 

 
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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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