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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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Washington Times and Breitbart
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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, Conservative News Today, Washington Post, Mediaite, HuffPost, TVNewser and Talking Points Memo
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, more at Mediagazer »
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 »
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Sean Hannity said he wouldn't campaign on stage at Trump's rally. Hours later, he did exactly that
Sean Hannity said he wouldn't campaign on stage at Trump's rally. Hours later, he did exactly that
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Washington Post, Axios, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Conservative News Today, Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and twitchy.com
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Sean Hannity owns Fox News
Sean Hannity owns Fox News
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Salon, HuffPost and The Daily Beast
Jessica Guynn / USA Today:
Facebook discloses possible election meddling by Russia, 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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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 and WPIX 11 New York
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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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Breitbart, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit, twitchy.com, Hot Air, Townhall, Washington Free Beacon and Daily Wire
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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:
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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.
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 …
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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Washington Post:
All the ugliness of the Trump campaign is on display in Georgia — THE REPUBLICAN campaign for governor in Georgia has been marked by dehumanizing immigrant phobia, invidious vote suppression, conspiratorial accusations about Democratic vote tampering, and racism.
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Megan Keller / The Hill:
US soybean sales to China down 94 percent amid Trump tariffs: report — U.S. soybean exports to China are down by 94 percent this year amid President Trump's trade war with Beijing. — The New York Times reported Monday that the latest federal data, which tracked up to mid-October …
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Axios and New York Times
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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
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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Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Roll Call, The Hill, VICE News US, Mediaite, Iowa Starting Line, Law & Crime, HuffPost, Splinter, Joe.My.God., The Week, Axios and Political Wire
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
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.
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
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.
Beto for Senate:
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James Comey / New York Times:
Let's Vote to Uphold Our Nation's Values — The lying, misogyny, racism and attacks on the rule of law from our president are awakening the vast middle of American politics. — Mr. Comey is the former F.B.I. director. — I've been traveling around the United States for six months speaking about ethical leadership.
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 …
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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The Week
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.”
CNN:
Joint Chiefs chair says soldiers will not be involved in denying border entry to migrants — Pentagon rejects border troop request from DHS — Washington (CNN)Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford said Monday that the US military will not be “involved in the actual mission …
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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!”