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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.
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Trump Closes Out a Campaign Built on Fear, Anger and Division — CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — President Trump on Monday closed out an us-against-them midterm election campaign that was built on dark themes of fear, nationalism and racial animosity in an effort to salvage Republican control of Congress for the remaining two years of his term.
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Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Raw Story, Mediaite, HuffPost, Talking Points Memo and The Week
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Trump calls Fox's Hannity onstage at campaign rally — NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Hannity spoke from the stage of President Donald Trump's last midterm election rally on Monday, after Fox News Channel and its most popular personality had insisted all day that he wouldn't.
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The Daily Caller and Talking Points Memo
The Hill:
Fox News hosts join Trump on stage at Missouri campaign rally
Fox News hosts join Trump on stage at Missouri campaign rally
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Politico, The Week, The Moderate Voice, CNN, Breitbart and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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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CANNONFIRE
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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 …
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Axios
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, New York Times, Splinter and Breitbart
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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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Randall D. Eliason / Washington Post:
Buckle up. The Mueller investigation may once again take center stage.
David Alexander / Reuters:
Trump says would prefer softer tone as president but has ‘no choice’
Trump says would prefer softer tone as president but has ‘no choice’
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Political Wire
New York Times:
Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations — The surprise change would allow the tech giant to tap into the talent pools of two different regions. — Amazon's arrival in Long Island City could finally establish New York as a tech hub on par with West Coast rivals.
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CBS Miami
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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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Huron Daily Tribune:
Tribune fires staff writer
Tribune fires staff writer
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The Daily Caller and Conservative News Today
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Our “Unbiased” Media at Work
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.
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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Breitbart
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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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New York Times, The Root, The Verge, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Hill Reporter, Shareblue Media and VICE News US, more at Techmeme »
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Austin Ramzy / New York Times:
China Grants Ivanka Trump Initial Approval for New Trademarks — HONG KONG — China granted initial approval for 16 new trademarks to Ivanka Trump, the president's elder daughter and senior adviser, renewing questions about the Trump family's intermingling of official roles and international business interests.
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Caroline Zhang / CREW:
Ivanka Trump's Business Wins Approval for 16 New Chinese Trademarks Despite Shutting Down
Ivanka Trump's Business Wins Approval for 16 New Chinese Trademarks Despite Shutting Down
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The Week, AOL, Boing Boing, ThinkProgress and Raw Story
Megan Keller / The Hill:
US soybean sales to China down 94 percent amid Trump tariffs: report
US soybean sales to China down 94 percent amid Trump tariffs: report
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Axios and New York Times
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Republicans attack Jewish candidates across the U.S. with an age-old caricature: Fistfuls of cash — Scott Kendall, the chief of staff to Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I), said the week after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was not easy for him. — A Jewish Republican, Kendall had just spoken …
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KTOO
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP's looming spin about the 2018 election is a fallacy — We don't know what's going to happen in the election, but we've got a pretty good idea how it's likely to be spun. With Republicans probably losing the House, they (and President Trump, in particular) have focused on the Senate.
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Wall Street Journal and Fox News Insider
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Dark Certainty of the 2018 Midterms — Ever since 2:29 a.m. on November 9, 2016, America has been waiting for this Tuesday, when a new set of elections would start to bring more clarity to how we should think about the stunning upset that made Donald Trump President.
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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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Hill, Law & Crime, Iowa Starting Line, HuffPost, Splinter, Joe.My.God., The Week, Axios and Political Wire
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Foxconn Considers Bringing Chinese Personnel to Wisconsin as U.S. Labor Market Tightens — The Taiwanese supplier to Apple must meet hiring, wage and investment targets by various dates to receive tax and other ‘performance-based’ benefits — MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis.— Foxconn Technology 2354 .15% Group …
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Raw Story
Beto for Senate:
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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 …
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
One Legacy of Merkel? Angry East German Men Fueling the Far Right — EBERSBACH-NEUGERSDORF, Germany — Frank Dehmel was on the streets of East Germany in 1989. Every Monday, he marched against the Communist regime, demanding freedom and democracy and chanting with the crowds: “We are the people!”
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Surprising Support for the Term ‘Feminist’ on the Campaign Trail — Polling shows a level of backing that would have been unthinkable even in recent elections, scholars say. — Asked whether she was a feminist, Amy McGrath, the former Marine fighter pilot running for Congress in Kentucky, was emphatic: “Hell yeah, I'm a feminist.”
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
6 Types of Misinformation to Beware Of on Election Day. (And What to Do if You Spot Them.) — Be careful of rumors and hoaxes about the voting and polling places. Here are some tips for spotting and avoiding false information. — False stories, misleading ads and suspicious mailers …
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emptywheel and News Blog, Riverfront Times
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
This state will be the clearest test of Trump's dire immigration rhetoric — With Election Day finally upon us, look to Arizona for the clearest test of President Trump's tactical decision to mount a closing argument that stokes xenophobia, fear and racism.