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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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Alex Daugherty / Tampa Bay Times:
Rick Scott walks away when asked if he supports Trump ending birthright citizenship
Discussion: National Journal
Politico:
How Trump's ‘birthright’ idea went from the fringe to the Oval Office
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
George Conway breaks with wife, calls revoking birthright citizenship ‘unconstitutional’
Discussion: IJR, 24Ahead and Front Page Magazine
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.
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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Laura Bassett / HuffPost:
Georgia Domestic Workers Mobilize For Stacey Abrams In The Birthplace Of Their Movement  —  Long erased from the popular narrative of the civil rights and labor movements, household workers are at the heart of a historic bid for governor.  —  ATLANTA Gwinnett County, Georgia …
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
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.
Washington Post:
Turkish prosecutor says Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered in Saudi Consulate  —  ISTANBUL — Turkey's public prosecutor said Wednesday that Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered upon arrival at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul earlier this month as part of “advance plans” …
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Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered four weeks ago. We're still waiting for answers.
New York Times:
Senior Saudi Prince Returns to Kingdom as Royals Confront Khashoggi Crisis
Discussion: ABC News
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 …
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 …
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Our descent into vitriol began long before Trump — and Democrats are culpable too  —  After a deranged Democrat living in his van nearly assassinated Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) firing more than 70 rounds at House Republicans practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game …
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Pelosi declares victory before Election Day
Discussion: Breitbart
Daniel Strauss / Politico:   Democrats make late bid for governorships in deep-red Great Plains
Miranda Green / The Hill:
Interior watchdog referred Zinke probe to Justice days before move to replace agency IG  —  The Interior Department's internal watchdog referred its investigation of Secretary Ryan Zinke to the Department of Justice (DOJ) more than two weeks ago, just days before it was announced that Interior …
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HuffPost:
Confederate-Friendly Ryan Zinke Likens Robert E. Lee To Martin Luther King Jr.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Jezebel and AOL
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 …
Jill Palermo / Fauquier Times:
Former Sen. John Warner, longtime dean of Virginia's GOP, says he supports Cockburn  —  Former Sen. John Warner, who spent 30 years representing Virginia as a Republican, is lending his support to Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat and former investigative journalist vying to represent the 5th District in the U.S. House.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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 …
Discussion: WhoWhatWhy and The Guardian
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Not Much Change IN CD07  —  Higher Dem enthusiasm helps challenger maintain edge  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Democrat Tom Malinowski maintains a narrow lead over Republican Leonard Lance in the race for New Jersey's 7th Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Shape Trump's Pittsburgh Response … The guns used in the synagogue attack were purchased legally by the suspect, an investigation found.  —  WHITEY BULGER  —  Whitey Bulger, Boston Mobster and Informant, Is Dead at 89 … A Mobster of Many Enemies, Bulger May Have Been Killed in a Hit
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Moving day’: White House staffers set to split for 2020 campaign  —  The White House is poised for a wave of post-midterm departures as staffers leave for President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, an indication that the administration is shifting its focus to 2020.
New York Times:
The Faces of Change in the Midterm Elections … The efforts of these candidates and others like them point to a major shift in the kinds of Americans choosing to pursue public service through elected office.  Their candidacies are likely to have long-lasting impacts on political representation …
Brad Heath / USA Today:
How a lie about George Soros and the migrant caravan multiplied online  —  This is the life of a lie.  —  Three weeks ago, a caravan of Hondurans began walking nearly 2,000 miles to the United States.  Their ranks grew as they inched north and, along with them, falsehoods grew, too.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone:
Andrew Gillum Is Ready.  Is Florida?  —  The man hoping to be Florida's first black governor just wants to get to work  —  The street is blocked off south of Bethel A.M.E. Church.  Young marching-band members clog the road, reviewing their formations.  Majorettes take their final stretches …
Discussion: The Root
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 …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, HuffPost, Splinter, Vox and Axios
Tyler Estep / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge declines Kemp's request to pause absentee ballot injunction  —  A federal judge has declined to pause an injunction she ordered that changes how Georgia elections officials evaluate certain absentee ballots.  —  Secretary of State Brian Kemp had requested that U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin …
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Sen. Joe Donnelly says he has black and Indian American staffers, ‘but’ they're terrific  —  Sen. Joe Donnelly (Ind.), a conservative Democrat in one of the tightest reelection battles in the country, made a cringeworthy and puzzling statement about some minorities on his staff during a debate Tuesday night.
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.
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 …
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Des Moines Register:
Letters: We can no longer be silent about King's white supremacist views  —  No longer silent about Steve King's supremacist views  —  We are writing from the depths of our grief, in horror at the news of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh.  We feel we must speak …
Discussion: The Intercept
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 …
Lindsey McPherson / Roll Call:
As House Republicans Brace for Losses, Freedom Caucus Prepares for Growth  —  At a time when most House Republican factions are preparing to see their ranks shrink regardless of whether their party loses its majority next week, one caucus is expecting its membership to grow.
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
A Mandarin Duck Mysteriously Appears in Central Park, to Birders' Delight  —  On the crescent-shaped pond in the southeast corner of Central Park, a spectacularly colorful duck floats on the surface with an air of majesty.  —  His head looks like a punk rocker's multicolored mohawk.
 
 
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Storm Gifford / New York Daily News:
Milo Yiannopoulous' NYU appearance a no-go
William Saletan / Slate:
How Dare People Accuse Trump of Fomenting Hatred and Violence With His Rhetoric!
New York Times:
The Business of Internet Outrage
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Trump Administration to Revise Birth Control Exemptions in Hopes of Saving Them
Discussion: CNN
Molly Ball / TIME:
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Diana Stancy Correll / Washington Examiner:
Kellyanne Conway removes White House title from Twitter bio
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Internet Will Be the Death of Us
Discussion: Mother Jones
Mike Allen / Axios:
The midterms' split decision
Discussion: Reuters
John Solomon / The Hill:
Silence of ‘the lambs’: The deafening quietude of the FISA court and John Roberts
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Stephanie K. Baer / BuzzFeed News:
Three Men Convicted Of Plotting To Bomb Somali Refugees Say They Were Encouraged By Trump's Rhetoric
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
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