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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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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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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 — The spot was too controversial for TV. And, now, the biggest social media platform has pulled it too. — Facebook on Monday pulled down advertisements from President Donald Trump's reelection campaign that sought to fire …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Facebook pulls Trump campaign's racist anti-immigration ad
Facebook pulls Trump campaign's racist anti-immigration ad
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Can a Facebook Ad Really Sway Your Vote? MoveOn Thinks So
Can a Facebook Ad Really Sway Your Vote? MoveOn Thinks So
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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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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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Washington Post:
Trump ends campaign hoping to defeat Democrats in states he won
Trump ends campaign hoping to defeat Democrats in states he won
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Washington Post:
Justice Department will monitor voting on Election Day — and also ‘fraud in the voting process’
Justice Department will monitor voting on Election Day — and also ‘fraud in the voting process’
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Melanie Schmitz / ThinkProgress:
Pence: Don't associate political violence with politics
Pence: Don't associate political violence with politics
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Amanda Macias / CNBC:
Trump's border deployments could cost $220 million as Pentagon sees no threat from migrant caravan
Trump's border deployments could cost $220 million as Pentagon sees no threat from migrant caravan
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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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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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Kelly Cohen / Washington Examiner:
Democrats closing gap in key Senate races as late polls defy forecasts
Democrats closing gap in key Senate races as late polls defy forecasts
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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.
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.
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Why So Many Kentuckians Are Barred From Voting on Tuesday, and for Life — Kentucky, Iowa and Florida impose lifetime voting bans for people with felony records. A ballot measure in Florida could restore some voting rights. — You ‘Approved This Message’? Seriously?
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Their Soybeans Piling Up, Farmers Hope Trade War Ends Before Beans Rot
Their Soybeans Piling Up, Farmers Hope Trade War Ends Before Beans Rot
Kevin Miller / Press Herald:
LePage says he's moving to Florida and may take a teaching job — The two-term governor wouldn't say where he might teach, but he indicated he would become a Florida resident because the state has no income tax and low property taxes. — AUGUSTA - Gov. Paul LePage said Monday that he plans …
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WJLA-TV:
Trump says he regrets the tone he used during first 2 years in office — WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - President Donald Trump said he regrets the tone he has used during his first two years in office during an exclusive interview with Sinclair Broadcast Group.
Doyle Rice / USA Today:
Election Day weather forecast: Potent storm to blast eastern US, could affect voter turnout — Unless you're a political junkie, it's not easy keeping track of the seats up for election. Here's why midterm elections and chamber control matters. — CONNECT
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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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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Midterms MAGA: LinkedIn Is Now Home To Hyperpartisan Political Content, False Memes, And Troll Battles — “Facebook banned me, they hate me. But that's all good — I started posting on LinkedIn and everybody is following me,” said one Trump supporter. — They have American flags and …
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Something's Happening in Texas — This year, I voted in Texas for the first time. It was complicated. — Registering to vote was simple enough. The post office had a form I could print out with my personal information and change of address. Because I don't own a car …
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Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal:
Under Armour's #MeToo Moment: No More Strip Clubs on Company Dime — ‘We can and will do better,’ says chairman and chief executive of sports-apparel company — Under Armour Inc. UAA 1.31% employees received an email earlier this year that upended a longstanding company practice …
Roger Angell / New Yorker:
Get Up and Go Vote — Back in 1992, I published a piece about voting at the Y on Lexington Avenue. “At the Y, nothing has changed,” I wrote: … I went on to say that I'd fallen “a long way from the hot certainties of my twenties and thirties, when I would argue politics with my friends …
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Duncan Hunter Is Running the Most Anti-Muslim Campaign in the Country — SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Congressman Duncan Hunter had a problem. — The California Republican was supposed to coast to reelection this year. A square-jawed ex-marine who inherited his father's House seat in 2008 …
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Miranda Green / The Hill:
EPA official says agency has ‘no tolerance for racism’ after offensive messages found at headquarters — Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson on Monday told employees that the EPA “has no tolerance for racism” and will investigate recent incidents of offensive words scrawled …
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