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Edmund H. Mahony / Hartford Courant:
Nora Dannehy, top aide to John Durham's Trump-Russia investigation, quietly resigns amid concern about pressure from Attorney General William Barr  —  Federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy, a top aide to U.S. Attorney John H. Durham in his Russia investigation, has quietly resigned …
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Prosecutor Quits Trump's Law Enforcement Commission, Saying The Fix Is In  —  John Choi is worried the group is intent on “providing cover” for a predetermined law-and-order agenda that “will only widen the divisions in our nation.”  —  An elected prosecutor who took a role …
New York Times:
Top Aide in Review of Russia Inquiry Resigns From Justice Dept.  —  The resignation came amid increasing expectations that the department may disclose partial results from the review before it is completed but ahead of the presidential election.  —  WASHINGTON — A top aide …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Durham aide quits amid pressure on Russiagate probe  —  A top aide to Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is conducting a politically sensitive investigation into the origins of the federal investigation into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, has resigned …
Tara Subramaniam / CNN:
Fact-checking William Barr: Is your vote no longer secret with mail-in ballots?  —  AG Barr: Mail-in voting is ‘playing with fire’  —  Washington (CNN)Attorney General William Barr has become one of the staunchest supporters of the President's campaign against mail-in voting.
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Johnson seeks IG probe of wiped Mueller team phones  —  Senate Homeland Security Chair Ron Johnson is asking a Justice Department watchdog to probe recently revealed documents that suggest members of special counsel Robert Mueller's team wiped records from their official phones.
Associated Press:   Prosecutor looking into the origins of Russia probe resigns
Reuters:
Key aide to prosecutor reviewing origins of Trump-Russia probe resigns
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
BuzzFeed News:
Peter Thiel Met With The Racist Fringe As He Went All In On Trump  —  The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency.  Now what does he have to show for it?  —  Copy  —  Four years ago, billionaire venture capitalist and Facebook board member Peter Thiel …
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Associated Press:
Dozens missing as firefighters battle two large Oregon fires  —  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters battled two large wildfires Friday that threatened to merge near the most populated part of Oregon, including the suburbs of Portland, and the governor said dozens of people are missing in other parts of the state.
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Trump falls 10 points behind Biden amid reports he misled Americans about COVID-19 and disparaged U.S. soldiers  —  Donald Trump has fallen further behind Joe Biden following bombshell reports that the president knowingly misled Americans about the dangers of COVID-19 …
Discussion: Breitbart, CNN and FiveThirtyEight
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Democrat Van Ausdal abruptly bows out of race against Marjorie Taylor Greene  —  Democrat Kevin Van Ausdal abruptly ended his longshot campaign for Congress on Friday against Marjorie Taylor Greene, a move that gave the controversial Republican an even clearer shot at a seat in the U.S. House.
Discussion: NBC News, Axios, The Hill, Roll Call and Slate
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Ben Nadler / Associated Press:
Challenger to QAnon supporter bows out of race in Georgia
Discussion: Fox News, Politico and Reuters
Clare Malone / New York Magazine:
Starting Trouble With Times Media Columnist Ben Smith “I like asking weird, awkward questions that don't necessarily make me seem like a good person.”  —  Puckish chaos agent" is how Charlie Warzel describes his former BuzzFeed News boss and current New York Times colleague Ben Smith. "
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
College students admitted to police they had COVID-19.  They threw a house party anyway.  —  More than 1,100 students at Miami University in Ohio have tested positive for coronavirus since mid-August.  But even after testing positive, a group of students was caught on camera hosting …
Discussion: Mediaite
The Daily Beast:
Has Any American Killed More Americans Than Donald Trump?  —  In this episode of The New Abnormal, Rick and Molly discuss Trump's COVID complicity and chat with a Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter about Bill Barr's motives.  —  So Donald Trump copped to it.
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and Breitbart
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Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
‘Be a Good Boy’: Lawsuit Graphically Accuses Fox News Star Andrew Napolitano of Sexual Assault  —  Warning: details included in this story are graphic.  —  Former judge and current Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano was sued for sexual assault, battery and intentional infliction …
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Soldier receives Medal of Honor after helping save 70 captives from execution by Islamic State  —  The team of elite U.S. Army soldiers had already freed dozens of captives at the Islamic State compound when an urgent plea crackled over the radio: Another team nearby on the roof of a burning building …
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Donald Trump / NBC News:
Trump awards Medal of Honor to Sgt. Major Thomas Payne
Discussion: Fox News and Breitbart
The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani and His Ukraine Ally Sprint Away from Their ‘Russian Agent’ Pal  —  Rudy Guiliani and Andriy Telizhenko try to distance themselves from a key compatriot in their push to gin up a Biden “scandal” now that he has been tagged as Russian agent.  —  President Donald Trump's personal lawyer …
Discussion: The Daily Signal
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Jeff Cohen / wnpr.org:
After Social Media Post Raises Questions, GOP State Senator Defends QAnon Conspiracy Theory  —  A Republican state senator in Connecticut is facing questions after a photo posted on social media showed his vehicle with a sticker that is a nod to the QAnon conspiracy theory movement.
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Court sides with Florida in ex-felon voting rights dispute  —  The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that Florida can order ex-felons to pay court fines and fees before they can register to vote.  —  Why it matters: The decision comes less than eight weeks before the November elections …
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Lori Rozsa / Washington Post:   Federal appeals court blocks hundreds of thousands of felons in Florida who still owe fines and fees from registering to vote
William Turton / Bloomberg:
QAnon Website Shuts Down After N.J. Man Identified as Operator  — Popular aggregator site received millions of monthly visitors  — Qmap.pub's creator is known online only as ‘QAppAnon’  —  A popular website for posts about the conspiracy group QAnon abruptly shut …
Discussion: logically.ai
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“He Had a Twisted Umbilical Cord to Trump”: Michael Cohen's Daughter Reflects On His Time With the President, and Becoming Trumpworld “Collateral Damage”  —  Samantha Cohen never liked Donald Trump—especially after her dad paid the price for spending years by his side.
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
ICE flew detainees to Virginia so the planes could transport agents to D.C. protests.  A huge coronavirus outbreak followed.  —  The Trump administration flew immigrant detainees to Virginia this summer to facilitate the rapid deployment of Homeland Security tactical teams to quell protests in Washington …
Discussion: Reason, Blue Virginia and Daily Kos
Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
The people freaking out about ‘Cuties’ should try it.  They might find a lot to like.  —  If I had the power to issue a single dictatorial edict, it would be this: If you want to talk nonsense about a movie on the Internet, you have to prove that you've actually seen it.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Democratic insiders set up a ‘war room’ to quickly kill the filibuster  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic insiders are assembling a coalition behind the scenes to wage an all-out war on the Senate filibuster in bullish anticipation of sweeping the 2020 election and passing an ambitious progressive agenda.
Discussion: Political Wire
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's dubious tax gambit fizzles, as even red states balk  —  For weeks, President Trump has waited in vain as Congress has failed to reach a deal on coronavirus relief that he hoped would include a payroll tax cut.  —  So he resorted to what critics derided as a gimmick …
Patty Coller / fox8.com:
Ohio high court says no to Kanye West's ballot request  —  West filed an emergency lawsuit in August asking the high court to hear the case  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (WKBN) - The Ohio Supreme Court sided with Secretary of State Frank LaRose's decision to deny Kanye West a place on the November general election ballot.
Kate Sheehy / New York Post:
Jimmy Carter admits son smoked pot with Willie Nelson on White House roof  —  Former President Carter admits in a new documentary that one of his sons smoked pot with Willie Nelson on the roof of the White House.  —  Carter, 95, was asked about the legendary country crooner's previous accounts …
Discussion: Washingtonian and Althouse
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Trump isn't talking about the wildfires in Oregon, California and Washington  —  A look at a few possible reasons why this crisis doesn't make his radar.  —  Over the past 24 hours on his Twitter feed, President Trump has attacked Democrats and racial injustice protesters nearly a dozen times …
David French / The Dispatch:
This Is What We Mean When We Say ‘Character Is Destiny’  —  At a key moment, with hundreds of thousands of lives at stake, the president lied.  —  1 hr  —  There are many, many strange things about the Republican political reaction to the Donald Trump presidency, but one of the strangest …
Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
U.S. judge urged to stop Justice Department's ‘corrupt’ reversal in Flynn case  —  (Reuters) - A retired judge, appointed by the court to make arguments, on Friday said the U.S. Department of Justice should not be allowed to drop its criminal case against President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Call on Justice Department To Take Legal Action Against Netflix For Sexualizing Children  —  Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and Indiana Rep. Jim Banks have called on the Department of Justice to bring legal action against Netflix for releasing the film “Cuties” in an exclusive statement to the Daily Caller.
Discussion: Townhall, The Wrap and The Federalist
 
 
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall:
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
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Wall Street Journal:
In Worst-Hit Covid State, New York's Cuomo Called All the Shots
Quint Forgey / Politico:
'We'll put them down very quickly': Trump threatens to quash election night riots
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USA Today:
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