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11:30 AM ET, October 28, 2019

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New York Times:
Watching the Raid Was Like a Movie, the President Said.  Except There Was No Live Audio.  —  Surveillance video provided a dramatic portrait of action outside the al-Baghdadi compound, but could not show what happened in an underground tunnel where the ISIS leader died.
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Karina Bland / Arizona Republic:
Parents of Kayla Mueller grateful for death of ISIS leader who held their daughter hostage  —  Terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who the president said was killed during a special forces raid in Syria, had reportedly been the captor and rapistof Arizona's Kayla Mueller, who was taken hostage in 2013.
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump says he may release video of al-Baghdadi raid  —  President Trump said Monday that he is considering releasing portions of the video of the U.S. military raid that led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi over the weekend.  —  “We're thinking about it.
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump says he may release footage of Baghdadi raid
Discussion: Raw Story
Ahmed Rasheed / Reuters:   Exclusive: Baghdadi's aide was key to his capture - Iraqi intelligence sources
New York Times:
Trump's Syria Troop Withdrawal Complicated Plans for al-Baghdadi Raid
New York Post:   Rot in Hell, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Scott Boeck / USA Today:
President Donald Trump greeted with boos at Game 5 of World Series  —  SportsPulse: This may be the most energetic World Series we've seen in a long time.  For both teams, their exuberance on and off the field has been propelled by the joy often seen in Latin baseball culture.  —  CONNECT
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Inae Oh / Mother Jones:
Enjoy These Deeply Satisfying Clips of Trump Getting Booed at the World Series  —  On Sunday, President Donald Trump made a rare public appearance at Game 5 of the World Series to root for the home team, the Washington Nationals.  Trump's attendance, his very first Major League Baseball game …
Discussion: Townhall, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Trump met with sustained boos when introduced at Game 5 of the World Series  —  President Trump was booed during Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday night when he made a rare public appearance in a luxury ballpark suite in Democrat-dominated Washington.  —  When the president was announced …
Washington Post:
‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump  —  Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case …
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Washington Post:
Sen. Johnson, ally of Trump and Ukraine, surfaces in crucial episodes in the saga  —  Sen. Ron Johnson met in July with a former Ukrainian diplomat who has circulated unproven claims that Ukrainian officials assisted Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, a previously unreported contact …
Niels Rosenquist / The Bulwark:
The Cowardly Republicans  —  Republicans are afraid to criticize the president.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Rep. Katie Hill to resign amid allegations of inappropriate relationships with staffers  —  Freshman Rep. Katie Hill is resigning from Congress after facing allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with staffers in her office and on her congressional campaign.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What the booing of Trump says about his presidency  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NOBODY OUGHT TO BE SURPRISED that the president was booed at Nats Park, in a city where more than 90% of voters choose his opponent in 2016.  What was striking, though, was that the reaction came …
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Democratic Rep. Katie Hill messed up, but she should not have resigned
Discussion: Washington Post
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
After resigning, Rep. Katie Hill vows to battle revenge porn, which critics blame for her downfall
Discussion: RedState, Raw Story and NBC News
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Bolton deputy faces contempt threat from Dems as he looks to courts to resolve subpoena standoff  —  Charles Kupperman, a former deputy to ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton, is looking to the courts to resolve a new standoff in the impeachment inquiry, as Democrats threaten him with contempt …
Discussion: Associated Press, Politico and The Hill
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New York Times:
Moving Closer to Trump, Impeachment Inquiry Faces Critical Test
Discussion: CBS News
Associated Press:   WH official won't testify in impeachment probe without order
Judd at Popular Information / Popular Information:
Facebook allows prominent right-wing website to break the rules  —  The Daily Wire, the right-wing website founded by pundit Ben Shapiro, is a cesspool of misogyny, bigotry, and misinformation.  Its toxic content is also fantastically successful on Facebook, with each story reaching more people than any other major media outlet.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Reeves Wiedeman / New York Magazine:
What's Left of Condé Nast Two years after Si Newhouse died (and Graydon Carter left), Anna Wintour and a new CEO map out the future they can afford.  —  “It's dreadful,” Anna Wintour said in early October, looking out the south-facing windows of her 25th-floor office in One World Trade Center …
The Daily Beast:
Ukrainian Oligarch Seethed About ‘Overlord’ Biden for Years  —  Dmytro Firtash's lawyers say his team had to investigate Joe Biden to defend their client.  One expert says Biden pushed reforms that cost the oligarch up to $400 million per year.  —  Indicted Ukrainian gas oligarch Dmytro Firtash spent …
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
‘Lock him up’ chant highlights the debate we need about Trump's lawlessness  —  What do we do when the White House's explicit position is that the president may abuse his powers in any way he sees fit, and that no form of accountability of any kind constraining his conduct is legitimate?
Norah O'Donnell / CBS News:
Joe Biden defends his son Hunter's Ukraine dealings, answers for his gaffes in 60 Minutes interview  —  The former vice president also calls on President Trump to release his tax returns, and explains why his children won't have White House offices  —  Joe Biden spent eight years …
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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Biden says Trump is ‘an idiot’ for calling Russian election interference a ‘hoax’
Discussion: Breitbart, Political Wire and The Hill
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Our Bankrupt Nomenklatura  —  Donald Trump is now in the midst of another coup frenzy that has the Left accusing him of being crazy.  But he already took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test.  It was a simple cognitive exam and he aced it, as would most people.
Financial Times:
Brexit: EU agrees extension as Boris Johnson looks to trigger UK election — latest news … Breathing space for Westminster  —  As eyes now turn to Westminster where the debate over when to schedule an election moves centre stage, here is a recap as to what this morning's development means …
Discussion: Politico
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Politico:
France yields on January 31 Brexit extension
 
 
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Chinese Investment Pits Wall Street Against Washington
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Elizabeth Drew / USA Today:
You don't have to break a law to be impeached. Trump's defenders need a better argument.
Alex Swoyer / Washington Times:
‘Crisis of confidence’: John Roberts' impeachment role prompts recusal rumblings
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
President of Major U.S. Union Accused of Sexual Harassment
NBC News:
Here's the price Mitt Romney is paying for standing against Trump
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Most Pressing Issue for Our Next President Isn't Medicare
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Bloomberg:
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Prime Video users will be able to watch local PBS stations and PBS Kids for free in coming months, and two new free PBS channels with ads starting November 26

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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