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New York Times:
Roger Stone Sold Himself to Trump's Campaign as a WikiLeaks Pipeline. Was He? — WASHINGTON — When the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, appeared on a video link from Europe a month before the 2016 presidential election and vaguely promised to release a flood of purloined documents related to the race …
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Read the Emails: The Trump Campaign and Roger Stone — Newly revealed messages show how the political operative Roger J. Stone Jr. sold himself to Trump campaign advisers as a potential conduit to WikiLeaks, which published thousands of emails in 2016 damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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Roger Stone / The Daily Caller:
The Treachery Of Steve Bannon — The Washington Post reported that former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon testified for the Grand Jury yesterday regarding his communications with me regarding the Wikileaks disclosures in October 2016. — The Special Counsel is reportedly probing whether …
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Washington Post, Axios, KTVQ-TV and Hill Reporter
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Mueller Smear Pushed by Pro-Trump Activists Falls Apart At Press Conference — Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman struggled to explain even basic details of their allegations - like the spelling of the accuser's name. — A press conference intended to publicize sexual assault claims …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Press Conference on Mueller Allegations and Why Americans Hate the Mainstream Media — Attorney-Journalist Jack Burkman and Journalist-Private Investigator Jacob Wohl held a press conference today in Washington DC on the Mueller rape allegations. — Gateway Pundit reporter Cassandra Fairbanks attended …
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Hill Reporter:
Jack Burkman & Jacob Wohl's Story Exposed Through Exclusive Conversations — Individual claiming to be employed by Surefire Intelligence knew of Lorraine Parsons prior to the story going public. — Jack Burkman claimed that Surefire Intelligence's ‘partners have actually worked for Trump’.
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Alicia Powe / The Gateway Pundit:
EXCLUSIVE... Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman: Woman Accusing Mueller of Rape is ‘Credible,’ …
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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Jacob Wohl, 20, far-right conspiracy theorist, gets a moment in spotlight with Mueller plot
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Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Fly Unzipped, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl Make Laughable Smear Claims Against Mueller
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Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Luis Bracamontes, Cop-Killer in Trump's Twitter Video, Actually Came Back to U.S. Under Bush — Trump also failed to mention that Bracamontes used an AR-15, a weapon that Republicans, including the president, don't want to outlaw. — Michael Daly — President Trump tweeted out a video …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump shocks with racist new ad days before midterms — (CNN)In the most racially charged national political ad in 30 years, President Donald Trump and the Republican Party accuse Democrats of plotting to help Central American invaders overrun the nation with cop killers.
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Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
Fact check: Trump's claim that Democrats let cop killer stay in U.S. is false — President Trump's closing argument for the midterm elections includes a tweet featuring convicted cop killer Luis Bracamontes, who killed two Sacramento-area deputies in a 2014 rampage.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Willie Horton is alive, and shame is dead
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Washington Post:
Saudi crown prince described slain journalist as a dangerous Islamist in call with White House — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a dangerous Islamist days after his disappearance in a phone call with President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner …
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Wall Street Journal:
State Department Spokeswoman Expected to Be Nominated U.N. Ambassador — Heather Nauert joined Trump administration last year — WASHINGTON—President Trump is expected to nominate Heather Nauert as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a senior administration official said.
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CNN:
Heather Nauert is Trump's top choice for UN ambassador — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has told advisers that Heather Nauert, the State Department spokeswoman, is his leading choice to become US ambassador to the United Nations and he could offer the post as soon as this week, two sources familiar with his pick told CNN.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Majority blames both Trump and media for dividing country — A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted over the past fractious, violent week shows a majority of voters think that President Donald Trump has done more to divide the country than unite it since he took office last year …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Democrats Need A Systematic Polling Error To Win The Senate — The divide between the House outlook and the Senate outlook continues to widen. Democrats' chances of winning a majority remain at or near their all-time highs in our House forecast — ranging between 78 percent …
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Grace Sparks / CNN:
CNN poll: Close Senate races in Florida and Tennessee before Election Day
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HuffPost:
Someone Paid Thousands Of Foreigners 20 Cents Each To Hide HuffPost's Negative Coverage Of A Democratic PAC — HuffPost's story about End Citizens United dropped to the second page of Google search results from right near the top. — A HuffPost article that critically covered …
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Yemen Girl Who Turned World's Eyes to Famine Is Dead — CAIRO — A haunted look in the eyes of Amal Hussain, an emaciated 7-year-old lying silently on a hospital bed in northern Yemen, seemed to sum up the dire circumstances of her war-torn country. — A searing portrait of the starving girl published …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
GOP Super PAC scales back spending in West Virginia Senate race — A leading Republican super PAC has retreated from the airwaves in West Virginia, as GOP hopes of ousting a Democratic senator in the most pro-Trump state of the 2016 election have faded in the final days of the midterm campaign.
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Ken Dixon / Connecticut Post:
Stefanowski is ahead in new Hearst/SHU Poll — Republican Bob Stefanowski has inched ahead of Democrat Ned Lamont by 2.4 percent in the governor's race, which remains a statistical tie heading into the final weekend before Election Day, the latest Hearst Connecticut Media Group/Sacred Heart University Poll finds.
Rob Port / Say Anything:
North Dakota Democrats Promote Message Telling Hunters They May Lose Their Licenses if They Vote — A reader alerted me to this curious message on Facebook which tells voters they may lose their hunting licenses in other states if they vote: — Facebook keeps a searchable database of the political ads which run on their platform.
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Jesse Hyde / Deseret News:
The last statesman: Can Jon Huntsman Jr. keep the art of diplomacy alive in the time of President Trump? — In a Deseret News exclusive, reporter Jesse Hyde and photojournalist Ravell Call went to Moscow to meet with U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. In a series of conversations …
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New York Times:
Trump's Nationalism Is Breaking Point for Some Suburban Voters, Risking G.O.P. Coalition — HOUSTON — J. Mark Metts, a 60-year-old partner at one of this city's prestigious law firms, had never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate until 2016. Now he and some of his neighbors …
Conor Friedersdorf / Los Angeles Times:
I'm an independent. But I'm casting a party-line vote in the midterm election — Voters who declare themselves independent of partisan affiliation are ascendant in the American electorate. — In 2016, the Pew Research Center found that 34% described themselves as politically independent …
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Live updates: 'This ain't Hollywood.' Pence mocks Oprah as he touts Brian Kemp — Dalton - Vice President Mike Pence is headed to Georgia on Thursday for a trio of events in conservative areas for Brian Kemp. Democrats are countering with a visit by Oprah Winfrey, who will appear with Stacey Abrams for a pair of town hall meetings.
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Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
‘God Is Going to Have to Forgive Me’: Young Evangelicals Speak Out — The role of evangelical Christianity in American politics has been a hotly discussed topic this year, intersecting with front-burner issues like immigration, the Supreme Court and social justice.
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The Cut:
We're the Organizers of the Google Walkout. Here Are Our Demands — Last week, the New York Times published an article about Google's history of harassment, discrimination, support for abusers, and the people whose lives and careers become collateral damage in the process.
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Final Week Fundamentals — The last week of a campaign is the longest week. Most of the polls have been completed. The final ads have been placed. The last lawn signs have been put into the ground (or pulled out by mischievous opponents). Cable TV is filled with inane chatter.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Pro-Trump Activists Blame Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens for Losing Kanye West — ‘They really over-grifted that situation.’ — Pro-Trump activists are fuming after Kanye West's announcement that he's “distancing” himself from politics, with the blame falling on two right-wing personalities …
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United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary:
CIA Gathered Congressional Communications on Whistleblowing; After 4 Years of Pressing, Grassley Gets Notifications Declassified — WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley pressed for more than four years to declassify two Congressional Notifications indicating that …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Black Caucus chairman wants one of their own as speaker or majority leader — In a move that could set off a nasty internal fight, the leader of the Congressional Black Caucus — a key voting bloc among House Democrats — is demanding that an African-American lawmaker hold one of the top …
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Washington Post and KRTV-TV
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump must be held accountable for his troops-to-the-border stunt — If President Trump goes through with his plan to send thousands of troops to the border, a move that appears solely designed to hype the Central American migrants into a national emergency and boost GOP chances in the election …
Chris Dunker / Lincoln Journal Star:
Fortenberry complains about Facebook reaction to vandalized sign; UNL professor says he's bullying — Thumbing through his Facebook feed, Ari Kohen came across the now widely shared photo of a defaced campaign sign for Rep. Jeff Fortenberry. — Shared on the social media platform by Seeing Red Nebraska …
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Observer, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
On a Tiny Finnish Island, a Helipad, 9 Piers — and the Russian Military? — SAKKILUOTO, Finland — Retired to a tiny island in an archipelago between Finland and Sweden, Leo Gastgivar awoke early one morning to visit the outhouse in his bathrobe, only to notice two black speedboats packed …
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Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:
A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada — A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bitcoin. — STOREY COUNTY, Nev. — An enormous plot of land in the Nevada desert …
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
President Trump to address immigration ‘crisis’ in White House remarks — President Donald Trump on Thursday will highlight immigration as a “crisis” facing the nation, making remarks from the Roosevelt Room of the White House before he travels to Columbia, Missouri, for another campaign rally …
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Washington Post:
The election is almost here. That means Mueller's next move is coming soon. — What would happen if the special counsel indicts Roger Stone? — President Trump is fond of asserting that “Collusion is not a crime, but that [it] doesn't matter because there was No Collusion.”
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Mehdi Hasan / New Statesman:
Eight simple steps to fix American democracy — Democrats may soon be handed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fix America's ailing democratic institutions. Here's what they should do with it. — How democratic is the United States? According to a poll released by the bipartisan Democracy Project …
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