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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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The Capitolist
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, Mashable, KTVQ-TV, The Verge and WTOP
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Osita Nwanevu / New Yorker:
If Jeff Bezos Makes Washington the Second Headquarters of Amazon — On October 21, 2016, an entity called the Cherry Revocable Trust purchased two adjacent buildings in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C., for twenty-three million dollars. The buildings, which previously had housed …
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, The Crime Report, Raw Story and Law & Crime
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
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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RedState, Daily Wire, Liberty Unyielding, twitchy.com, KTVQ-TV, Geller Report, Talking Points Memo, CBS New York, abc7ny.com and New York Times
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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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TheBlaze, Daily Kos, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, ThinkProgress, Raw Story and New York Times
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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Political Wire
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
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Judge rules against Brian Kemp over Georgia voting restrictions days before gubernatorial election
Judge rules against Brian Kemp over Georgia voting restrictions days before gubernatorial election
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NPR, USA Today, Daily Caller News Foundation, The Guardian, theGrio and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Emily Jashinsky / The Federalist:
5 Excerpts From Democrat Stacey Abrams's Hilarious Romance Novels
5 Excerpts From Democrat Stacey Abrams's Hilarious Romance Novels
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The Daily Caller
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?
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.
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.
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 …
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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.
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
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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Political Wire and Breitbart
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
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.
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 …
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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The Gateway Pundit and Hullabaloo
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 …
Jared Malsin / Wall Street Journal:
Egypt Arrests Human-Rights Lawyers as Crackdown on Critics Intensifies — The detentions are striking because of their scale and the prominence of those arrested — CAIRO—Egyptian security forces arrested at least 19 human-rights lawyers and activists this week in raids that reflect …
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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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP super PAC rushes to save Alaska's Don Young from defeat — A super PAC aligned with House Republican leadership is mounting a surprise final-weekend effort to save Alaska Rep. Don Young from defeat on Tuesday. — On Saturday, Congressional Leadership Fund will launch a phone-based …
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Raw Story
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
'We're going to win the House,' top Democratic campaign official predicts — The top executive of the Democratic Party committee charged with winning control of the House predicted victory in Tuesday's midterm elections, projecting confidence as President Trump and other Republican leaders try …
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Associated Press
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump stumps in cities that don't look that much like US — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is in the final stretch of a 44-city blitz for the midterm elections, but the America he's glimpsed from the airport arrivals and his armored limousine is hardly a reflection of the nation as a whole.
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