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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
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 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 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
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.
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 …
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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
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?
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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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 …
CBS Los Angeles:
Customers Buy Out Doughnut Shop Early Every Day So Owner Can Be With Sick Wife — SEAL BEACH (CBSLA) — Donut City owner John Chhan just wants more time with his ailing wife, so his customers are helping out, a dozen doughnuts at a time. — Chhan and his wife, Stella, have owned Donut City in Seal Beach for three decades.
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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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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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Breitbart and Political Wire
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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The Daily Caller and New York Times
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Bernie Sanders ripped for shameless promotion after being asked what's his favorite book on Reddit — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was ripped on Reddit for shamelessly promoting his new book after being asked to name his favorite book. — The Democratic Socialist appeared on Reddit's …
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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.
NBC News:
North Korea threatens to resume nuclear development if U.S. doesn't lift sanctions — The U.S. is acting “arrogantly” and sanctions should be lifted before any progress is made in nuclear talks, North Korea said in a statement Friday. — SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has warned …
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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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