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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Mueller Wants the FBI to Look at a Scheme to Discredit Him — A company that appears to be run by a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist offered to pay women to make false claims against Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the days leading up to the midterm elections—and the special counsel's office has asked the FBI to weigh in.
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Mueller refers sex assault scheme targeting him to FBI for investigation — “We immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” said Peter Carr, spokesperson for the special counsel. — Special counsel Robert Mueller last week asked the FBI to investigate a possible scam …
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The Daily Beast:
Inside the Crazy Cabal Trying to Smear Robert Mueller — A Seth Rich conspiracy pusher and fringe online figures appear to be working behind the scenes. — One of the shadier characters in politics, along with a number of fringe internet figures, appears to be behind an attempt to pay women …
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Aric Toler / bellingcat:
The Unintelligent Design of SureFire Intelligence — On October 30th, the far-right site Gateway Pundit published documents alleging that Robert Mueller, who is heading up the investigation into foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, sexually assaulted a woman in 2010.
Ed Krassenstein / Hill Reporter:
Special Counsel Alerts FBI Of Scheme To Pay Women To Accuse Mueller Of Sexual Assault — Peter Carr, spokesman for the Special Counsel's office to Hill Reporter: “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller accuses opponents of offering women money to make ‘false claims’ about him
Special counsel Robert Mueller accuses opponents of offering women money to make ‘false claims’ about him
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Axios:
Exclusive: Trump targeting birthright citizenship with executive order — President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil, he said yesterday in an exclusive interview for …
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Washington Post:
Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional — George T. Conway III is of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Neal Katyal is a partner at Hogan Lovells and former acting U.S. solicitor general in the Obama administration. — Sometimes the Constitution's text …
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Libby Watson / Splinter:
Jonathan Swan Is a Bootlicker — You might have woken up this morning, as I did, to the Axios headline: “Exclusive: Trump to terminate birthright citizenship.” In your bleary-eyed, pre-java state, you would struggle toward the thought: What... the fuck? Can he do that?
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Speaker Ryan: ‘You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order’
Speaker Ryan: ‘You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order’
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Wants to End Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order
Trump Wants to End Birthright Citizenship With Executive Order
Dara Lind / Vox:
Birthright citizenship, explained
Birthright citizenship, explained
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship is too much for even the judiciary's right-wingers
Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship is too much for even the judiciary's right-wingers
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Washington Post, New York Times, The Week and Hullabaloo
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Pittsburgh mayor: Our priority is funerals, not Trump's visit — The mayor of Pittsburgh suggested that President Trump choose a different time to visit the city rather than the day of the first of 11 funerals for the victims of Saturday's synagogue shooting.
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Washington Post:
Shooting victim's family, top officials shun Trump in Pittsburgh: ‘He was blaming the community’
Shooting victim's family, top officials shun Trump in Pittsburgh: ‘He was blaming the community’
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
'I'm Dr. Cohen': The powerful humanity of the Jewish hospital staff that treated Robert Bowers
'I'm Dr. Cohen': The powerful humanity of the Jewish hospital staff that treated Robert Bowers
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The American Conservative, Mashable and IJR
WPXI-TV:
LIVE UPDATES: President Trump on way to Pittsburgh to ‘pay respects’
LIVE UPDATES: President Trump on way to Pittsburgh to ‘pay respects’
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Poll: Blackburn edges ahead of Bredesen in tight Tennessee Senate contest — Among likely voters, Blackburn leads 51 percent to 46 percent. — WASHINGTON — Republican Marsha Blackburn is now narrowly edging Democrat Phil Bredesen in Tennessee's closely-watched Senate race despite Bredesen's …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Sinema leads McSally in Arizona Senate race — Democrat Kyrsten Sinema holds a 6-point lead over Republican Martha McSally, fueled by leads among Latinos, Independents and women. — WASHINGTON — Fueled by advantages among Latinos, Independents and women, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema holds …
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Dems regain momentum in final days of battle for House
Dems regain momentum in final days of battle for House
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Washington Post:
Zinke's own agency watchdog just referred him to the Justice Department — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has come under scrutiny on multiple fronts — The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General has referred one of its ongoing probes into the conduct of Secretary Ryan Zinke …
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CNN:
Sources: Justice Department investigating Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke — Washington (CNN)The Justice Department is investigating Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for possibly using his office for personal gain, following a referral from Interior's inspector general, two sources familiar with the investigation say.
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New York Magazine:
12 Young People on Why They Probably Won't Vote — As told to , Rachel Bashein, Zak Cheney-Rice, Amelia Schonbek, and Emma Whitford — More than half of American adults plan to cast ballots in November, but only a third of people ages 18 to 29 say they will. Here, 12 young adults on why they probably won't vote.
Washington Post:
Mueller probes Roger Stone's interactions with Trump campaign and timing of WikiLeaks release of Podesta emails — The special counsel investigation into President Trump's longtime ally Roger Stone is pressing witnesses about Stone's private interactions with senior campaign officials …
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
As special counsel closes in, Roger Stone suits up for legal battle — Longtime Republican political operative Roger Stone is gearing up for battle with special counsel Robert Mueller after a parade of witnesses has appeared before a grand jury to be grilled about their relationship …
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Bloomberg:
Land O'Lakes, Purina Pull Support for Iowa Congressman Steve King Over Racial Remarks — Dairy giant Land O'Lakes announced on Tuesday that it will no longer make financial contributions to Representative Steve King of Iowa after a gun-fueled massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue brought …
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Des Moines Register:
Land O'Lakes ag co-op, facing boycott threats, pulls support for U.S. Rep. Steve King
Land O'Lakes ag co-op, facing boycott threats, pulls support for U.S. Rep. Steve King
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
New poll shows anti-immigration firebrand Steve King up by just one point
New poll shows anti-immigration firebrand Steve King up by just one point
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Megyn Kelly Character Cut From Showtime's Roger Ailes Series (Exclusive) — The cabler's planned Fox News limited series is writing off a character based on the star anchor, but Lionsgate's competing Ailes film is already shooting (and sticking to the script).
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Kelly Magsamen / Defense One:
Secretary Mattis, Defend This or Resign — If Defense Secretary Mattis believes the migrant caravan is a not threat requiring 5,000 active troops deploying to the border, he should say so and quit. — Let's put this into perspective. Secretary of Defense James Mattis authorized …
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Elizabeth McLaughlin / ABC News:
Top general anticipates more than 5,200 troops might deploy to border
Top general anticipates more than 5,200 troops might deploy to border
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CNN:
The radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist — Woman warned Twitter about bomb suspect — New York (CNN)Cesar Sayoc's social media accounts read like a blueprint for the radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist. — A CNN KFile analysis of thousands of tweets sent …
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VICE News US:
We posed as 100 senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them. — One of Facebook's major efforts to add transparency to political advertisements is a required “Paid for by” disclosure at the top of each ad supposedly telling users who is paying for political ads that show up in their news feeds.
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TMZ.com:
Kanye West Breaks From Politics and Says 'I've Been Used' — 4:15 PM PT — Kanye contacted us to make it clear he did not mention Donald Trump in his tweets, and he's getting out of politics altogether. — As for being “used” ... he says he was specifically referencing Blexit, and that's it.
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
At a Pittsburgh Crime Scene, Jewish Volunteers Guard the ‘Bodies of Holy Martyrs’ — All night long, Jewish volunteers stood solemnly in the rain outside the Tree of Life synagogue, where 11 dead bodies lay inside, sealed off with yellow crime-scene tape. The deceased were not supposed …
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
In North Dakota, Native Americans Try to Turn an ID Law to Their Advantage — FORT YATES, N.D. — Nobody in the squat yellow house serving as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's get-out-the-vote headquarters knew its address. — It was on Red Tail Hawk Avenue; they knew that much.
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Kathy Gannon / Military Times:
5 freed from Gitmo in exchange for Bergdahl join insurgents in Qatar, Taliban says — KABUL, Afghanistan — Five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured American Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined …
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WAGA-TV:
New FOX 5 Poll: Abrams edging Kemp in dead heat — ATLANTA - A new poll conducted for FOX 5 Atlanta shows Stacey Abrams with a slight lead over Brian Kemp in a statistical dead heat in the race for Georgia Governor. — The new Opinion Savvy poll for FOX 5 shows Democrat Abrams at 48.1% and Republican Kemp at 47.2%.
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