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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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Wall Street Journal:
Rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment — Trump's order on birthright citizenship violates the Constitution. — By The Editorial Board — President Trump really, really wants to make the midterm election about immigration, and for a while it looked like he had an edge due to Democratic excess.
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Raw Story
Peter Baker / New York Times:
In Campaign's Homestretch, Trump Tosses Out Ideas to See What Sticks
In Campaign's Homestretch, Trump Tosses Out Ideas to See What Sticks
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ABC News, KRTV-TV, Raw Story, New Republic, Breitbart, Front Page Magazine and Daily Kos
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trump's birthright citizenship comments just made life harder for Republicans in tight races
Power Up: Trump's birthright citizenship comments just made life harder for Republicans in tight races
Alex Daugherty / Tampa Bay Times:
Rick Scott walks away when asked if he supports Trump ending birthright citizenship
Rick Scott walks away when asked if he supports Trump ending birthright citizenship
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National Journal
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
How Trump's ‘birthright’ idea went from the fringe to the Oval Office
How Trump's ‘birthright’ idea went from the fringe to the Oval Office
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, Vox, New York Times and Politico
NBC News:
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
Inside the Crazy Cabal Trying to Smear Robert Mueller
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Plot to Smear Mueller Unravels as F.B.I. Is Asked to Investigate
Plot to Smear Mueller Unravels as F.B.I. Is Asked to Investigate
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The Gateway Pundit and Hill Reporter
Jay Willis / GQ:
MAGA Trolls' Efforts to Take Down Robert Mueller Flame Out in Hilarious and Spectacular Fashion
MAGA Trolls' Efforts to Take Down Robert Mueller Flame Out in Hilarious and Spectacular Fashion
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Informed Comment, twitchy.com and Mediaite
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
A Supreme Marriage Proposal — Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious. So it is with the story of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to a Stanford Law School classmate in the early 1950s.
Dominique Jackson / Raw Story:
WATCH: Trump's motorcade forced to turn around after thousands of protesters flood Pittsburgh streets — On Tuesday, despite many people's wishes, President Donald Trump traveled to Pittsburgh to pay his respects to the lives lost in the synagogue massacre.
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Daily Kos and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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New York Times:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Shape Trump's Pittsburgh Response — WASHINGTON — Amid the storm of criticism over his response to the synagogue killings in Pittsburgh and the accusations that his messaging created the atmosphere that caused them, President Trump has turned to the people he trusts most for advice — his family.
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ThinkProgress
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Pittsburgh mayor: Our priority is funerals, not Trump's visit
Pittsburgh mayor: Our priority is funerals, not Trump's visit
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The Daily Beast, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Associated Press, ABC News, Axios and The Root
David Hudnall / Kansas City Pitch:
Steve Bannon draws crowd of tens to rally for Steve Watkins in Topeka — “Any honeybuns left over from the continental this morning?” — Sherman Smith Twitter — I highly recommend that you take a look at Topeka Capital-Journal managing editor Sherman Smith's Twitter thread about attending …
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The Big Lead
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Pelosi declares victory before Election Day — Nancy Pelosi is declaring victory in the battle for the House. — In public and private, the House minority leader — who wants to make history herself by retaking the speaker's gavel she lost eight years ago — has said Democrats will pick …
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Breitbart
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Nelson W. Cunningham / Politico:
Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President? — Nelson W. Cunningham has served as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York under Rudolph Giuliani, general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee under then-chair Joseph R. Biden, and general counsel of the White House Office of Administration under Bill Clinton.
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Hill Reporter and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Jews assail ‘Christian rabbi’ who appeared with Pence, and so does his own movement — Loren Jacobs, who spoke at a rally with the vice-president, was stripped of his ordination by the Messianic movement in 2003. — The “Messianic rabbi” who outraged many Jews by invoking the name of Jesus …
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Talking Points Memo, HuffPost, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Daily Beast and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Bim Adewunmi / BuzzFeed News:
Oprah Is Going To Georgia To Campaign With Stacey Abrams — Oprah Winfrey, the Oscar-nominated, self-made billionaire and media icon, is heading to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams. — The star will join Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, on Thursday.
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Political Wire, Jezebel, The Week, POLITICUSUSA, Associated Press, The Hill and The Guardian
Kevin Cullen / BostonGlobe.com:
Freddy Geas, suspected killer of Whitey Bulger, didn't like informants — When private investigator Ted McDonough heard that Freddy Geas was suspected by authorities of taking part in the murder of James “Whitey” Bulger, he knew immediately why Geas might have done it.
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New York Post, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, CBS Boston, Daily Mail, Boston Magazine, AOL and The Daily Beast
Mike Allen / Axios:
The midterms' split decision — With less than a week until Election Day, top operators in both parties tell me the events of the past week have helped lock in the split decision they have long seen coming: The House flips to Dems (probably decisively), and Republicans hold the Senate (and perhaps gain two seats).
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New York Times:
Senior Saudi Prince Returns to Kingdom as Royals Confront Khashoggi Crisis — LONDON — A senior member of the Saudi royal family, who had feared returning to the kingdom, flew back to Riyadh from London on Tuesday in the most significant move in the royal family since the killing of the dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
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Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
New polls: Democrats lead marquee Florida races; Arizona Senate, Kansas governor effectively tied — The final pre-election Reuters/Ipsos/University of Virginia Center for Politics state-level polls of this election cycle shows Democratic candidates leading for the Sunshine State's high-profile gubernatorial …
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Florida Politics, NTK Network and The Week
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Launches Operation Midterms Diversion — By early afternoon on Tuesday, Donald Trump's latest piece of political chicanery, Operation Midterms Diversion, could be considered a partial success. After a week in which the media narrative was focussed on pipe bombs …
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New York Post, Sputnik International, National Review, New York Times and Fox News Insider
Diana Stancy Correll / Washington Examiner:
Kellyanne Conway removes White House title from Twitter bio — Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway has removed her White House title from her Twitter bio, leaving her profile blank. — It's uncertain why the title was removed from Conway's account, and the White House declined …
Stephanie Perry / NBC News:
Record turnout? Not for millennials — just a third say they'll vote. — That number has remained steady since August, according the results of a new NBC News/GenForward survey. — About a third of millennials say they will definitely vote in November, according to results …
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Political Wire
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump is alienating Muslim voters. Can Democrats take advantage? — When Michael Avenatti got up to speak Sunday night at a fundraiser for a Muslim American activist group in Northern Virginia, he knew the crowd might be surprised to see him. He also knew his anti-Trump, anti-racism …
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New York Times
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
How an internet meme became a Trump campaign slogan — It used to take a fancy degree and political connections to become a presidential speechwriter. In the era of President Donald Trump, all you need is a tweet. — On a Thursday morning earlier this month, a Twitter user in Georgia …
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Standing ‘Against White Supremacy,’ G.O.P. Campaign Chief Rebukes Steve King — WASHINGTON — As Pittsburgh began burying the victims of Saturday's synagogue massacre, the head of the House Republican campaign arm all but jettisoned Representative Steve King of Iowa from the House Republican Conference …
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Vox, Vanity Fair, HuffPost and Axios
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Americans Are Easy Marks for Russian Trolls, According to New Data — A Daily Beast analysis of Twitter data shows the Kremlin troll farm's English-language propaganda is nine times more effective than its disinformation in Russian. — You don't need to read the federal indictments to spot …
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Raw Story
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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New York Times and The Week
Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Authorities probing immigrant Saudi sisters' mystery deaths — NEW YORK (AP) — Police are investigating the mysterious deaths of two sisters from Saudi Arabia whose bodies, bound together with tape, washed up on New York City's waterfront last week. — The sisters, Tala Farea, 16 …
Molly Ball / TIME:
Inside Scott Walker's Wisconsin Survival Plan — Scott Walker stood behind a fast-food counter recently, wearing two layers of latex gloves so as not to burn his fingers on the hot hamburger patties. The governor of Wisconsin picked them up, one by one, and set them on the waiting buns …
TMZ.com:
Kanye West Breaks From Politics and Says 'I've Been Used' — Breaks From Politics — 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.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP Senate candidate Martha McSally: 'I'm getting my ass kicked' because of vote to repeal Obamacare — Republican Senate candidate Martha McSally (R-AZ) complained in a recent interview that she is getting her “ass kicked” because she voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health care reform law.
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Washington Post and Arizona Republic
Raghu Rau / RealClearMarkets:
We Too Easily Ignore Intellectual Property Theft In the U.S. — America is unique in its tradition of protecting individual ingenuity to spur new technologies and new industries that allow this country to be the cradle of innovation. It is no accident that America was the birthplace …
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Real Clear Politics