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Tallahassee Yoga Shooter Was A Far-Right Misogynist Who Railed Against Women And Minorities Online — Scott Beierle shot two women at a Florida yoga studio on Friday night. He posted a series of videos and songs online and appeared to identify as an “involuntarily celibate.”
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Hollie Silverman / CNN:
Police identify suspected gunman and 2 people killed at hot yoga studio in Tallahassee
Police identify suspected gunman and 2 people killed at hot yoga studio in Tallahassee
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
At DeSantis rally, Perdue says Florida governor's race ‘so cotton-pickin’ important' — TALLAHASSEE — During a Saturday rally for Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis, President Donald Trump's top agriculture official used the term “cotton-pickin'” to describe the importance …
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Breitbart and Political Wire
Janet Reitman / New York Times:
U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don't Know How to Stop It. — For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.
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Hill Reporter, Raw Story, Law & Crime, The Crime Report and The Hill
Washington Post:
Amazon is in advanced talks about putting second headquarters in Northern Virginia, those close to process say — Amazon.com has held advanced discussions about the possibility of opening its highly sought-after second headquarters in Crystal City, including how quickly it would move employees there …
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Boston Business Journal, KTVQ-TV, Mashable, The Verge and WTOP
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Spares Corporate Wrongdoers Billions in Penalties — In the final months of the Obama administration, Walmart was under pressure from federal officials to pay nearly $1 billion and accept a guilty plea to resolve a foreign bribery investigation.
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Just days before election, Iowa Poll shows Fred Hubbell with 2-point lead over Kim Reynolds — Democratic businessman Fred Hubbell heads into Election Day with a narrow lead over Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds among likely voters, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.
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Political Wire, Refinery29 and The Atlantic
Kristen Inbody / USA Today:
Images from Trump Rally in Bozeman, MT … Kevin Crawford of Bozeman and Curtis Roe of Belgrade decided to protest President Donald Trump's visit Saturday to the Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport in grass. — The pair mowed “FU45” on Roe's land under the landing approach Air Force One would make.
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Political Wire
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
NYC Synagogue Vandalism Suspect Is Former City Hall Anti-Hate Crime Intern — The suspect in a synagogue vandalism act that forced the cancellation of a Democratic event is reportedly a former City Hall employee who worked on anti-hate crime issues and is a Democratic activist, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
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Derick Waller / abc7ny.com:
Arrest made after hate graffiti found written inside Brooklyn synagogue
Arrest made after hate graffiti found written inside Brooklyn synagogue
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, TheBlaze, Daily Kos, Raw Story, ThinkProgress and New York Times
Washington Post:
Anxiety high in campaign's final days as voters prepare to render judgment on Trumpism — Two years of political volatility will culminate Tuesday when voters for the first time since the stunning 2016 election render a nationwide judgment on whether Trumpism is a historic anomaly or a reflection of modern-day America.
Dirt Digger / CalDirt:
Not just the Celtics: Devin Nunes used Leadership PAC funds on luxury vacay in his family's native Portugal — Remember that story earlier this year about Rep. Devin Nunes blowing $15,000 in Leadership PAC money to go watch his favorite basketball team, the Boston Celtics, live and in person?
Dan Bongino:
The George Papadopoulos Interview You've Been Waiting For — In this special episode, I interview George Papadopoulos and his answers are explosive. You don't want to miss this.
Washington Post:
U.S. militia groups head to border, stirred by Trump's call to arms — FALFURRIAS, Tex. — Gun-carrying civilian groups and border vigilantes have heard a call to arms in President Trump's warnings about threats to American security posed by caravans of Central American migrants moving through Mexico.
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Raw Story
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
The man in the middle of D.C.'s ugliest political race — D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. is a man caught in the middle of what has turned into the District's most contentious political fight of 2018. — On one side is Dionne Reeder, the independent at-large council candidate …
Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Trump hails ‘beautiful’ barbed wire on southern border in Montana rally speech, slams Tester over VA Secretary saga — In a speech that alternated between appeals to national and local audiences, President Donald Trump urged Montanans to vote out incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester …
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The Guardian:
Arron Banks faces new claims of misleading MPs over Brexit — Leaked messages ‘show undeclared links’; emails ‘contradict statements to MPs’ — The controversial businessman Arron Banks may have misled parliament over links between his pro-Brexit campaign and his insurance business during …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Racist robocall targets Stacey Abrams, Oprah in Georgia governor's race — Washington (CNN)A white supremacist group that targeted Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum with racist robocalls is now targeting Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
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ThinkProgress, BuzzFeed News and Splinter
Paighten Harkins / Salt Lake Tribune:
North Ogden Mayor Brent Taylor killed in Afghanistan in ‘apparent insider attack’ — North Ogden Mayor and Utah National Guardsman Brent Taylor has been killed in an attack in Afghanistan, a friend of the Taylor family confirmed Saturday. — Based on initial reports …
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Daily Caller News Foundation
John Harwood / CNBC:
Republicans are spreading two types of fear ahead of next week's midterm elections — The upstairs-downstairs split within the Republican coalition requires more than hype about imagined threats of “invasion” from a bedraggled immigrant caravan. GOP strategy involves two distinctly different kinds of fear.
Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Anguished by ‘Spiral of Hate,’ Charleston Pastor and Pittsburgh Rabbi Grieve as One — The killings of nine parishioners at a black church in Charleston and 11 congregants at a synagogue in Pittsburgh brought people in those two communities together in an unspeakable grief.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Disabled veteran knocks MSNBC crew for blocking handicapped spots at polling site — A disabled Air Force veteran this week voiced frustration with an MSNBC news crew for blocking handicapped parking spots outside of a polling site in Houston. — “Went to vote, and found this waiting for us …
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Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
With Vice President Mike Pence at his side, Scott Walker urges Republicans to push him over the finish line — HUDSON - Scott Walker could be the second governor in Wisconsin history to be elected to a third four-year term — if only he can get his supporters to the polls …
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
For some, a vibrant US economy complicates voting decision — EXTON, Pennsylvania (AP) — For many voters in America's affluent suburbs, a flourishing economy is forcing a thorny dilemma for the midterm elections. — Do they vote Democratic, in part to protest President Donald Trump …
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Drama builds around Stone in Mueller probe — Robert Mueller continues to zero in on Roger Stone as speculation builds that the special counsel could take a major overt step in his Russia investigation following the midterm elections next week. — Stone, a longtime adviser to President Trump …
Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Gillum intern arrested in Florida for throwing chocolate milk at College Republicans — An intern for Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has been arrested and charged with battery after she threw chocolate milk on a group of College Republicans tabling on campus.
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Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Why Are People Fleeing Central America? A New Breed of Gangs Is Taking Over. — Gangs such as MS-13 and Barrio 18 prey on their own neighborhoods in a violent, chaotic model spreading through the region — APOPA, El Salvador—The Congress of El Salvador agreed in April to extend …
Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
Hawley won't answer questions about private emails; calls Star report ‘absurd’ — COLUMBIA — Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Josh Hawley declined on Saturday to clarify why his government staff used their personal email addresses to organize meetings with campaign consultants …