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New York Times:
Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations — SEATTLE — After conducting a yearlong search for a second home, Amazon has switched gears and is now finalizing plans to have a total of 50,000 employees in two locations, according to people familiar with the decision-making process.
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Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities — Surprise decision is driven by the need to recruit enough tech talent and to support Amazon's growth — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -2.52% plans to split its second headquarters evenly between two locations rather than picking one city for HQ2 …
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Jessica Guynn / USA Today:
Facebook discloses possible election meddling by foreign actors on eve of midterms — SAN FRANCISCO - Acting on a tip from law enforcement, Facebook has removed more than 100 accounts - 30 on Facebook, 85 on Instagram - engaging in coordinated activity in French, English and Russian …
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
In secret chats, trolls struggle to get Twitter disinformation campaigns off the ground — The messages highlight the arms race between trolls and social media companies that are developing systems to stop them. — In a private “strategy chat” with more than 40 far-right trolls …
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New York Post, Mother Jones, Splinter, New York Times and Breitbart
Federal Bureau of Investigation:
Joint Statement on Election Day Preparations — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)—in coordination with federal, state, local …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Rep. Steve King says he hopes Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor and Kagan ‘will elope to Cuba’ — Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Monday that he hopes Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor “will elope to Cuba,” hours before he is set to appear with Iowa's governor in an election-eve rally.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“I'm Very Worried About Don Jr.”: Forget the Midterms—West Wing Insiders Brace for the Mueller Storm — In the run-up to the election, Rudy Giuliani was made to shut up. But now, with Trump making excuses for possibly losing the House, officials are bracing for a legal assault.
Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Michigan Reporter Caught On Tape Saying ‘F**k Could You Imagine John James Winning’ — A reporter for a Michigan newspaper called Michigan Senate Republican candidate John James's campaign looking for an interview and thought she hung up the phone before leaving a voicemail saying “fucking John James ... that would suck.”
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Huron Daily Tribune:
Tribune fires staff writer — UPPER THUMB — The Huron Daily Tribune has issued a statement Monday evening after the newsroom management heard a voicemail left by one of its staff writers to Republican U.S. Sen. Candidate John James. — In the voicemail, Brenda Battel requests an interview with James …
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The Daily Caller
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Our “Unbiased” Media at Work
Katy Tur / NBC News:
Why Barack Obama's rallies feel so different from Donald Trump's — Analysis: NBC's Katy Tur returned to the campaign trail for the first time in two years to see two presidents offering dueling midterm visions. — ATLANTA — The 44th and 45th presidents of the United States flew into Georgia …
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David Freeman / NBC News:
Scientists say mysterious ‘Oumuamua’ object could be an alien spacecraft — Harvard researchers raise the possibility that it may be “a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization.” — Maybe it's an alien spacecraft.
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CNN:
NBC says it will pull Trump campaign's racist ad — after airing it on ‘Sunday Night Football’ — (CNN)The Trump campaign's racist anti-immigration ad will no longer run on NBC or any NBC-owned network. — Following a storm of backlash after it showed the ad on “Sunday Night Football,” …
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Facebook Pulls Racist Trump Ad Following NBC, CNN, and Fox News
Facebook Pulls Racist Trump Ad Following NBC, CNN, and Fox News
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Josh Marshall / Associated Press:
CNN, NBC, FB, Fox Drop Prez Ad for Being Too Racist
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Sean Hannity owns Fox News — Back in the early years of the Obama administration, Fox News host Sean Hannity used his popular program to boost conservative activism. The fiery host was a celebrity at tea party rallies, including one in Georgia in 2009: “If we go through these numbers …
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TVNewser, HuffPost and Talking Points Memo
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Trump calls Fox's Hannity onstage at campaign rally
Trump calls Fox's Hannity onstage at campaign rally
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The Daily Caller
ProPublica:
Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn't Exist — On Sunday morning, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp unleashed a stunning allegation: State Democrats had committed “possible cyber crimes” after a tipster told party officials he had found gaping security holes in the state's voter information website.
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Bad Weather Will Greet Voters From Florida to the Midwest — Storms are expected to hit much of the Eastern United States on Tuesday, which could depress Election Day turnout in some places. — A strong cold front could cause rain and wind anywhere along the Eastern Seaboard …
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Doyle Rice / USA Today:
Election Day weather forecast: Potent storm to blast eastern US, could affect voter turnout
Election Day weather forecast: Potent storm to blast eastern US, could affect voter turnout
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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: Pentagon balked at U.S. border troops building detention facilities - officials — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration discussed using the U.S. military to build facilities to house detained migrants as part of its new mission on the Mexican border but the idea was dropped …
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
Congressional candidate Young Kim, the self-made woman of color the media didn't fall in love with — The Republican candidate for California's 39th Congressional District, Young Kim embodies everything liberals claim to love: She's an immigrant (from Korea), a woman of color at that …
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Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Just One Seat: The High-Octane Fight to Flip New York's Senate
Just One Seat: The High-Octane Fight to Flip New York's Senate
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NY State of Politics
ProPublica:
How Congress Stopped Working — For more than 200 years, Congress operated largely as the country's founders envisioned — forging compromises on the biggest issues of the day while asserting its authority to declare war, spend taxpayer money and keep the presidency in check.
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Washington Post and Political Wire
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Final picks for 2018 — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Sorry, friends, but you are going to have to actually read this one. — Our full list of ratings changes is available here. — Our best guesses for Tuesday — The 2018 midterm has long been a study in contradictory signs.
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Axios
David Alexander / Reuters:
Trump says would prefer softer tone as president but has ‘no choice’ — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump said on Monday he wished he had taken a softer tone in his first two years as U.S. president, even as he continued to bash individual Democrats and fan fears over immigration …
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Brentin Mock / CityLab:
The Strangest Form of White Flight — Less than two miles from the Vulcan Materials rock quarry, where the popular fight scenes from the movie Black Panther were filmed, and near Hawkins Middle School, where the cult-status Netflix series Stranger Things is filmed, sits the castle called Eagle's Landing Country Club.
Henry Olsen / National Review:
Tomorrow the RINOs Will Take Their Revenge — And Republicans are going to take a beating in the House and the governorships. — Conservatives love animals, but there is one species they have long wanted to make extinct: the RINO. Not the horned African rhino, mind you …
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City Journal, The Colorado Independent and Mother Jones
Caroline Zhang / CREW:
Ivanka Trump's Business Wins Approval for 16 New Chinese Trademarks Despite Shutting Down — Presidential adviser Ivanka Trump's fashion brand won first trial approval for 16 new trademarks from the Chinese government in October. These approvals come about three months after Ivanka announced …
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HuffPost, ThinkProgress, Raw Story and Boing Boing
John Harwood / CNBC:
Democrat Beto O'Rourke tries to upend Ted Cruz the way Trump did in 2016 — Democrat Beto O'Rourke's longshot bid against Sen. Ted Cruz in staunchly conservative Texas will be a vivid test of the midterm campaign. — Despite previously holding positions believed to be disqualifying …
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Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
The Five Simple Words that SNL and Pete Davidson Should Learn to Say — Saturday Night Live's skit about retired Navy SEAL and congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw just wasn't funny at all. The joke-if you can call it a joke-felt like someone kicked me in the stomach.
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Ben Popken / NBC News:
Factory of lies: Russia's disinformation playbook exposed — ‘Twenty years ago the Russians had to recruit journalists to find people to disseminate something... nowadays they just have to start a meme.’ — Americans who want to be ready for the next Russian attack can just read an old newspaper.
KSAZ:
Maricopa County election officials: 72 polling places not ready for Election Day — PHOENIX (KSAZ) — FOX 10 has learned that a number of polling places in Maricopa County are not ready for Election Day business, as of 5:45 p.m. Monday. — Election officials spoke with FOX 10's John Hook on the issue.
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