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ABC News:
Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest advisers, tests positive for coronavirus, president to quarantine  —  Hicks traveled with the president to and from Tuesday's first debate.  —  Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.  —  Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump's closest advisers …
William Mansell / ABC News:
President Trump, first lady test positive for COVID-19  —  The news comes after an adviser, Hope Hicks, tested positive.  —  LIVE NOW  —  President Trump, first lady test positive for COVID-19: ABC News Live  —  Nightline  —  Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Will Quarantine After Aide Falls Ill With Virus  — Hope Hicks traveled with Trump to debate and Minnesota rally  — President and first lady are awaiting results of virus tests  —  President Donald Trump said that he would begin self-quarantine while waiting …
Washington Post:
Trump begins quarantine as close aide Hope Hicks tests positive for coronavirus
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle's Departure from Fox  —  As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, he trails Joe Biden by thirty percentage points among female voters.
WSB-TV:
Following rocky debate, Biden takes lead over Trump in latest exclusive Channel 2 poll  —  ATLANTA — We are seeing how the first presidential debate changed Georgia voters' opinions.  —  For the first time, former Vice President Joe Biden is leading our exclusive Channel 2 Action News/Landmark Communications poll.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Biden is still leading in the polls, and voters say he won his first debate against Trump  — Democrat Joe Biden came into the first debate ahead of President Trump in the national polls.  — The first scientific polls to ask who won the debate Tuesday night show Biden coming out on top.
Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Trump sees approval rating increase, majority expect him to beat Biden: poll
Discussion: Gallup, New York Post and IJR
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany's first post-debate briefing goes off the rails  —  For the second time in a week, the United States bore witness to an animated and interruption-filled political discussion.  The first one was Tuesday's debate, but Thursday's White House briefing wasn't that different.
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Politico:
Trump blames low-income people, minorities for ‘ruining’ suburbia
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Leader of ‘white supremacist’ Proud Boys is state director of unofficial support group called Latinos for Trump and has ties to Republicans including …
Discussion: CNN
SOM - State of Michigan:
AG Nessel Files Felony Charges Against Jack Burkman, Jacob Wohl in Voter-Suppression Robocalls Investigation  —  LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed charges today against two political operatives for allegedly orchestrating a series of robocalls aimed at suppressing the vote in the November general election.
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Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
Michigan AG charges two GOP operatives with multiple voter suppression felonies
Discussion: Forbes
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Conservative hoaxers face charges over false voter robocalls
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told friends he was under federal investigation just days before meltdown … - Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told campaign staff and friends that he was under federal investigation, just days before police detained him, Trump advisers tell Insider.
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
Abbott orders counties to close multiple ballot dropoff sites  —  Gov. Greg Abbott issued an order Thursday requiring counties to close multiple locations where voters can drop off completed mail-in ballots.  —  As an election security measure, counties will be limited to one dropoff site …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Facing Grim Polls, Trump Leans Into Playing the Victim  —  Be it congressional Democrats, the news media, the standards enforcers at Twitter or, now, the debate commission, President Trump has repeatedly blamed others for problems and self-inflicted wounds.  —  On Thursday afternoon …
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Trump is winning the voter registration battle against Biden in key states  —  In the last few weeks, Joe Biden has led President Donald Trump by a fairly consistent 8-point average in national polls and has maintained leads in more than enough battleground states to win the Electoral College …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Biden poised to launch in-person canvassing in key states
USA Today:
1,600 former Justice Department lawyers accuse Barr of using DOJ to help Trump in election … WASHINGTON - Former Justice Department attorneys expressed concerns Thursday that Attorney General William Barr is using the power of the agency to help President Donald Trump win reelection …
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Los Angeles Times:
Trump Supreme Court pick already ruled on pending Obamacare case — in a moot exercise  —  Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, has already weighed in on one of the most significant and controversial cases it is scheduled to consider this fall — albeit in a mock exercise.
Discussion: CNN, The Hill, WAVY-TV and Breitbart
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Heidi Przybyla / NBC News:
Barrett's participation in 2006 ad calling for overturn of Roe v. Wade was not included in Senate disclosures
New York Daily News:
To keep Barrett off the Supreme Court, Schumer must fight like a defense attorney with a client on death row
Discussion: New York Times
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Trump's plans for rally in western Wisconsin up in the air  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump appears to have canceled a planned appearance in western Wisconsin amid calls from the city's mayor and the state's governor, both Democrats, that he not hold a rally amid a surge in coronavirus cases.
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Wisconsin Is Frazzled by Surging Virus Cases and Growing Campaign Frenzy
Discussion: Raw Story
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
McMaster, Mostly Silent Until Now, Says Trump Is 'Aiding and Abetting Putin's Efforts'  —  “This sustained campaign of disruption, disinformation, and denial, is aided by any leader who doesn't acknowledge it,” President Trump's former national security adviser said.
Discussion: MSNBC
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump's ex-national security adviser says president is ‘aiding and abetting’ Putin
Discussion: Reuters and The Daily Caller
Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
Obama touts LeBron's ‘More Than a Vote’ campaign as it surpasses 10,000 poll volunteers  —  Obama thanked the volunteers in a surprise address to a virtual crowd at the NBA Finals.  — Flipboard  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 1  —  Former President Barack Obama praised participants …
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Bobby Burack / OutKick:   NBA Finals Ratings Sink to All-Time Lows
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Pete Wilson endorses Trump, says president has ‘very good judgment’  —  OAKLAND — Former California Gov. Pete Wilson joined a list Thursday of prominent former Republican leaders who endorsed Donald Trump for reelection, arguing in an interview that the president has “brought a badly needed realism to American security policy.”
Discussion: Political Wire and The Hill
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
GOP challenger fundraising tops South Carolina's Cunningham  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Republican seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham has outraised the freshman Democrat in the final fundraising quarter before their general election matchup, as both candidates ratchet up their rhetoric in the campaign's closing weeks.
Michael Lewis / Bloomberg:
Inside a California Covid Revolt  —  Residents of Shasta County have taken resistance to Covid-19 restrictions to another level: “full-on anarchy.”  —  Some people who are good in a crisis need a crisis to be good.  They're better wired for hot zones than for ordinary life and so they do whatever …
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
American cyclist suspended over pro-Trump tweet  —  A rising American cycling star has been suspended after expressing support for President Trump in a Twitter feud with a Dutch journalist.  —  Quinn Simmons, the reining junior road race world champion and the junior U.S. road race champion …
 
 
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump May ‘Denounce’ White Supremacists, But He Is Never Angry
Discussion: HillReporter.com
Aaron Davis / Washington Post:
How Trump amassed a red-state army in the nation's capital — and could do so again
Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
The most essential books of the Trump era are barely about Trump at all
Teen Vogue:
Why Vote in 2020? The Election Is Not Just About Trump vs. Biden
Discussion: New York Times
Alayna Treene / Axios:
House passes revised $2.2 trillion stimulus bill
Discussion: Washington Times and Reuters
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Biden continually interrupts Ryan in a way I find incredibly annoying.”
Discussion: The Guardian and Refinery29
West Nova News:
LCPS proposal would punish teachers who criticize critical theory
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Biden breaks the $365 million fund-raising record that he set in August.
Discussion: Newsweek and Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
It's not ‘chaos’: Trump revealed a clear blueprint for crushing American democracy
Discussion: Washington Post
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EXCLUSIVE: Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman, one of the most successful female founders, is fighting to save her company
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Doomsday has arrived for tens of thousands of workers
Discussion: New York Times and NBC News
Emily Green / VICE:
Border Patrol Snipers Were Authorized to Use Deadly Force at George Floyd's Burial
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Judge rules federal law enforcement commission violates law, orders work stopped as attorney general prepares to issue report
Regina Ip / New York Times:
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