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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘Full Trumpism’: The president's apocalyptic attacks reach a new level of falsity — CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — President Trump is painting an astonishingly apocalyptic vision of America under Democratic control in the campaign's final days, unleashing a torrent of falsehoods and portraying …
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Althouse and POLITICUSUSA
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Nic Robertson / CNN:
Exclusive: Khashoggi sons issue emotional appeal for the return of their father's body — Sons of slain Saudi journalist speak to CNN — Washington (CNN)The sons of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi issued an emotional appeal for the return of their father's body, in their first interview since …
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AOL, The Week, Politico and Fox News, more at Mediagazer »
Jackie Wattles / CNN:
George Soros rep says he wants to go on Fox News. But they won't book him — New York (CNN)Fox News talks about billionaire philanthropist George Soros a lot. He is a favorite bogeyman of the right, so Fox's conservative talk shows blame him for all sorts of ills, sometimes even pushing into conspiracy theory territory.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Defensive, caravan-fixated and Trump-obsessed, the media blow it again. Just not as badly. — On election night 2016, I described the news media's campaign performance as “an epic fail.” — You might remember what happened: the sense of inevitability about Hillary Clinton's rise …
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New York Times, The Week and Boing Boing
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Brian Kemp Just Engaged in a Last-Minute Act of Banana-Republic Level Voter Manipulation in Georgia — In perhaps the most outrageous example of election administration partisanship in the modern era, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is running for governor while simultaneously …
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USA Today, WhoWhatWhy, VICE News US, Hill Reporter, Outside the Beltway, CNN, Washington Post, HuffPost, Breitbart, The Root, politics.myajc, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Vox, more at Techmeme »
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Racist ‘magical Negro’ robo-call from ‘Oprah’ targets Stacey Abrams in Georgia governor's race — For years, Oprah Winfrey's campaign rally appearances and political endorsements have posed a difficult question for anyone who happens to be advocating for the candidate on the other side …
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ABC News, The Daily Beast, The Hill and Hill Reporter
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Midterms test whether Republicans not named Trump can win by stoking racial animosity
Midterms test whether Republicans not named Trump can win by stoking racial animosity
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ABC News, Daily Wire and The Week
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Another Trump Scoop, a Giddy Reaction and a Reporter Under Fire — WASHINGTON — Jonathan Swan could not sleep. — It was 4 a.m. last Wednesday, and Mr. Swan, the star White House correspondent for the upstart news outlet Axios, was tapping out a Slack message to his colleagues.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A fast-rising journalist hits a speed bump with his latest scoop about Trump — Jonathan Swan landed a big scoop about President Trump last week, another in a series of big scoops the young reporter has landed since Trump took office. — The reaction? Brutal.
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Axios
Elana Schor / Politico:
‘Trump has hijacked the election’: House Republicans in panic mode — House Speaker Paul Ryan got President Donald Trump on the phone Sunday for one final plea on behalf of anxious Republicans: Please, please talk up the booming economy in the final hours before Election Day.
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Talking Points Memo, CBS News, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, The Week and Washington Monthly
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Did Beto Blow It? — In March 2017, a little-known Democratic congressman named Beto O'Rourke proposed something unusual to Will Hurd, a Republican colleague from a neighboring district: that they rent a car and embark on a 24-hour, 1,600-mile road trip from San Antonio to Washington.
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The Week and The Daily Beast
Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today:
Exclusive: Iran open to talks with US if Trump changes ‘approach’ to nuclear deal, top diplomat says — In an interview with USA TODAY, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif talked about U.S.-Iran relations and the Iran nuclear deal — ANTALYA, Turkey - As Iranians braced …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: In final days, Democrats maintain advantage — WASHINGTON (CNN)On the eve of the midterm elections, Democrats continue to hold a double-digit lead over Republicans in a generic Congressional ballot among likely voters, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
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Political Wire, Politico, The Week, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post and NBC News
Gabriel Pogrund / Washington Post:
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto leads his city through its darkest days — PITTSBURGH — Mayor Bill Peduto had told his team not to call on Saturday morning unless it was urgent. He was planning to sleep in, a rarity, which meant certain protocols applied, including that he would answer his phone only if it rang twice.
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Mediaite
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
NBC Runs Immigration Trump Ad Deemed Too Racist by CNN — In the middle of a highly anticipated “Sunday Night Football” broadcast, NBC aired an immigration-themed advertisement, approved by President Trump, that CNN publicly declared to be too racist to accept as a paid ad.
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Their Soybeans Piling Up, Farmers Hope Trade War Ends Before Beans Rot — North Dakota's soybean crops are flourishing. But China has stopped buying. — ARTHUR, N.D. — This is harvest season in the rich farmlands of the eastern Dakotas, the time of year Kevin Karel checks his computer …
Benjamin Kerstein / Algemeiner.com:
Report: Notorious Antisemite Louis Farrakhan Leads ‘Death to America’ Chant on Solidarity Trip to Iran — Nation of Islam leader and prominent antisemite Louis Farrakhan chanted “Death to America” and claimed that “America has never been a democracy” on Sunday during a solidarity trip to Iran …
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Jerusalem Post, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Trump ally Kris Kobach accepted donations from white nationalists — The Republican candidate for governor of Kansas has accepted thousand of dollars in donations, and has for over a decade been affiliated with groups espousing white supremacist views — The Republican candidate for governor …
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Political Wire, Raw Story and Blue Virginia
New York Times:
Tracing a Meme From the Internet's Fringe to a Republican Slogan — Since President Trump's election, his loyalists online have provided him with a steady stream of provocative posts and shareable memes, often filtered up from platforms like Reddit through media channels like Fox News.
Washington Post:
Trump administration prepares for massive shake-up after midterms — The Trump administration is bracing for a massive staff shake-up in the weeks following the midterm elections, as the fates of a number of Cabinet secretaries and top White House aides are increasingly uncertain heading …
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Political Wire
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Missouri Senate race is a margin-of-error contest — Democrat Claire McCaskill gets support from 50 percent of likely voters compared with 47 percent for Republican Josh Hawley. — Nearing the finish line of the 2018 election cycle, Democrat Claire McCaskill and Republican Josh Hawley …
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Political Wire
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Morning Joe Reveals Trump Once Admitted He Plays Race Card: 'I Know It's Bad But It Works' — Morning Joe took a critical view of some of the GOP campaign strategies on Monday, the day before the 2018 midterm elections, and took a harsh view of what they called blatant racist tactics by Republican candidates in a number of local races.
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
'He's not that kind of fighter.' Can play-by-the-rules Chuck Schumer win on Trump's turf? — One July evening in 1980, Chuck Schumer went to the see the Brooklyn Philharmonic play — and started a fight backstage. — According to reports at the time, Schumer, who was then a 29-year-old assemblyman running …
New York Times:
Two Capitals, One Russian Oligarch: How Oleg Deripaska Is Trying to Escape U.S. Sanctions — This spring, a British lord with deep ties to the governing Conservative Party and a reputation as a do-gooder environmentalist arrived in Washington on an unlikely mission: to save the business empire …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Michael Bloomberg to air $5 million in ads before midterm elections to tout Democrats — and himself — Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City who is considering a 2020 presidential campaign, took another step closer to that possibility Sunday …
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Breitbart, CNN, Splinter, Conservative News Today and Political Wire
Axios:
On climate change, Trump disavows his own scientists, government — When “Axios on HBO” interviewed President Trump last week, one goal was to get him to reckon with his own government's scientific findings, which unequivocally state that global warming is nearly entirely caused by humans.
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The Daily Caller
Philly.com:
Bishop Robert Finn wasn't going anywhere. — He never alerted authorities about photos of young girls' genitals stashed on a pastor's laptop. He kept parishioners in the dark, letting the priest mingle with children and families. Even after a judge found the bishop guilty of failing …
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The Catholic Thing
Mike Levine / ABC News:
‘No Blame’? ABC News finds 17 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats or alleged assaults — President Donald Trump has repeatedly refused to accept any responsibility for inciting violence in American communities, dismissing critics who have pointed to his rhetoric …
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Mediaite